G.M. and Other Automakers Will Build 30,000 Electric Vehicle Chargers
Seven major automakers announced a plan on Wednesday to nearly double the number of fast chargers in the United States in an effort to address one of the main reasons…
Russia’s Online Censorship Has Surged During Ukraine War
What’s the difference between Russia’s internet before and after the invasion of Ukraine? The answer: a thirtyfold increase in censorship. That was the finding of a report published on Wednesday…
Kevin Spacey Found Not Guilty of Sexual Assault
Kevin Spacey, the two-time Oscar-winning actor known for his movie and TV roles including “House of Cards,” was on Wednesday found not guilty by a jury in Britain of nine…
Israel’s Supreme Court to Hear Case Against Netanyahu’s Judicial Overhaul
Israel’s Supreme Court said Wednesday that it would hear petitions by the opposition in September to strike down the first part of the government’s contentious plan to weaken the country’s…
Giuliani Admits to False Statements About Georgia Election Workers
Rudolph W. Giuliani has admitted that while acting as a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump, he made false statements in asserting that two Georgia election workers had mishandled…
Hunter Biden to Be Arraigned in Delaware Federal Court
Hunter Biden, President Biden’s troubled son and the target of long-running Republican efforts to cast the first family as corrupt, is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday in federal court…
What Are Legacy Admissions and Why Do Universities Use Them?
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling gutting race-conscious admissions last month placed a spotlight on legacy preferences in higher education, a practice that mostly helps white and wealthy students. That focus…
Do Legacy Admissions Policies Have a Future?
Legacy admissions in the cross hairs In opening a civil rights investigation into Harvard’s legacy admissions policy — in which relatives of alumni and donors are given preference — the…
Rise of Far Right Leaves Germany’s Conservatives at a Crossroads
Mario Voigt, a leader of Germany’s mainstream conservative party, has watched with concern the slow but steady string of victories notched by the far-right Alternative for Germany, known as the…
52 Whales Die After Mass Stranding in Western Australia
The pod of pilot whales huddled together for nearly a full day in the shallow waters off a remote beach in Western Australia. At times it made the shape of…
The Wind, the Water, the Islands: Exploring Stockholm’s Archipelago
The moment the motor turned off, I was hooked. It was 20 minutes into my first Swedish sailing trip on a blazingly sunny morning in late June. I’d set sail…
The Covid Origins Debate – The New York Times
Did Covid jump from an animal to a person at a food market in Wuhan, China — or leak from a research lab there? That question remains the pandemic’s central…
34 Killed in Algerian Wildfires as Heat Waves Parch Mediterranean Region
Wildfires devouring swaths of Algeria’s Mediterranean coast have killed 34 people over two days, the Algerian authorities said on Tuesday, as an extreme heat wave sears North Africa, Southern Europe…
Photos: Wildfires in Greece, Italy, Tunisia and Algeria
The crackling flames have left charred forests, drawing in thousands of firefighters to stop their hungry march. Residents are filling buckets of water to douse blazes in their hometowns. And…