Wisconsin Republicans Vote to Oust Top Elections Official
Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted on Thursday to remove the state’s elections chief, escalating a fight over who can determine the leader of a group that will supervise the…
‘Poor Things’ Takes Top Prize at Venice Film Festival
“Poor Things,” directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, was awarded the Golden Lion for best film at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on Saturday by a competition jury led by Damien…
Top 10 Hardest and Easiest Spelling Bee Words, Sept. 2-8
Here are the meanings of the 10 hardest words that have also been used in Times articles. 1. tortoni — an ice cream made with heavy cream, maraschino cherries, almonds…
Fourth Top FTX Executive Pleads Guilty Ahead of Sam Bankman-Fried Trial
Ryan Salame, a former top executive at the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, pleaded guilty on Thursday to criminal charges linked to the sweeping fraud case against FTX’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, a…
Former Top Deputy Says Ken Paxton Took Unusual Actions to Help Donor
The second day of the impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas on Wednesday featured the heart of the case against him: how his interventions on behalf of…
Carlos Alcaraz and Other Top Tennis Pros Rely On Drop Shots
I thought I had seen it all on a tennis court until I watched Carlos Alcaraz at the U.S. Open on Monday. No, I’m not talking about the speed and…
Top 10 Hardest and Easiest Spelling Bee Words, Aug. 26-Sept. 1
Here are the meanings of the least-found words that were used in (mostly) recent Times articles. 1. abbacy — the office of the leader of a monastery: Before its destruction…
How Montana’s Attorney General Made Banning TikTok a Top Priority
On a recent summer day, Austin Knudsen, Montana’s attorney general, drove his red Buick from Helena, the state’s capital, to Boulder, a tiny town about a half-hour away whose main…
China’s Economic Outlook: Pep Talks Up Top, Gloom on the Ground
To the residents and business owners of Chedun, a working-class neighborhood in the southwestern outskirts of Shanghai, the signs of an anemic economy are all around. The factories that once…
Top 10 Hardest and Easiest Spelling Bee Words, Aug. 19-25
Here are the meanings of the least-found words that were used in (mostly) recent Times articles. 1. hamartia — a protagonist’s tragic error: Thompson told me that Shakespeare shows you…