Simone Biles Set to Compete for First Time Since Tokyo Olympics
Simone Biles, who over the past decade has revolutionized what is possible in gymnastics, is set to compete Saturday for the first time since 2021, when she won two medals…
The Chip Titan Whose Life’s Work Is at the Center of a Tech Cold War
In a wood-paneled office overlooking Taipei and the jungle-covered mountains that surround the Taiwanese capital, Morris Chang recently pulled out an old book stamped with technicolor patterns. It was titled…
Las Vegas Suffers as Nevada Economy Droops, Costing Jobs
Pedro Alvarez never imagined his high school job delivering filet mignon and sautéed lobster tail to rooms at the Tropicana Las Vegas would turn into a longtime career. But in…
TSMC Chairman Mark Liu Says Company Will Keep Its Roots in Taiwan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which is manufacturing the world’s most advanced microchips, conducts business on the island of Taiwan, dead center in one of the most geopolitically volatile places on…
Pence Reaches Fork in Road of 2024 Campaign With New Trump Indictment
Through four years as Donald J. Trump’s vice president, or perhaps three years and 350 days, Mike Pence brandished a peerless talent: insisting that all was going smoothly amid plain…
Inside U.S. Team, a Campaign to Avert Disaster Gets Personal
In the days since the United States team narrowly avoided an embarrassing early elimination from the Women’s World Cup, Lindsey Horan, its co-captain, has been working the room. Horan wants…
Opinion | Is the Supreme Court Conservative? Yes. Is It MAGA? No.
If you ask folks on the left to describe the contemporary Supreme Court, you may hear one or more common words used to describe it: “rogue” or “extremist” or “illegitimate”…
Opinion | Anti-Abortion Republicans Don’t Want You to Notice Ohio’s Issue 1
Most voters, as we’ve seen repeatedly, want abortion to be legal. Last August, a Kansas measure declaring that abortion isn’t protected by the state’s Constitution was defeated by an overwhelming…
Opinion | Donald Trump’s Way of Speaking Defies All Logic
It is precisely this behavior, unconcerned with guardrails or rules, unmindful of cause and effect, all according to his momentary whim — an overwhelming, almost anarchic instinct to try to…
Opinion | This Is the Most Frightening Part of the Trump Indictment
Trump won fewer votes, but the system, in its wisdom, said he won his first election anyway. Is it any wonder, then, that in 2020 when a majority of the…
Seiichi Morimura, 90, Who Exposed Japanese Wartime Atrocities, Dies
Seiichi Morimura, who wrote a searing exposé of the Japanese Army’s secret biological warfare program in occupied China, describing how it forcibly infected thousands of prisoners with deadly pathogens, died…
Verdict Expected in Latest Trial of Russian Opposition Leader Navalny
A Russian court is expected to issue a verdict on Friday in a trial of Aleksei A. Navalny, the jailed opposition leader, on charges of supporting “extremism,” a ruling that…
Trump’s Arraignment and Court Appearance: Key Takeaways
Former President Donald J. Trump appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Washington on Thursday, the third time in four months he has stood to face criminal charges. He pleaded…
Trump’s Court Day: An Encounter With Jack Smith and a Different Swearing In
Former President Donald J. Trump returned to Washington on Thursday, rose to full height, lifted his right hand and swore an oath. This time it was not to assume power,…