The nonprofit news outlet The Marshall Project on Tuesday named Katrice Hardy as its next chief executive. Ms. Hardy, 51, is the executive editor and vice president of The Dallas Morning News, a role she started in 2021. She will lead the business and newsroom sides of The Marshall Project, which has been overseen by […]
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The Trump administration has revoked an extension of deportation protections that President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had granted to more than 600,000 Venezuelans already in the United States, according to a copy of the decision obtained by The New York Times. On Tuesday, Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, decided to revoke the 18-month […]
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Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitions as a Washington power player have led him to another corner of the capital’s hobnobbing scene: the Business Roundtable. In September, the Meta chief executive quietly joined the organization that lobbies on behalf of large U.S. companies after reaching out about doing so months earlier, Andy Stone, a Meta spokesman, told The […]
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In a post on X on Tuesday evening, Elon Musk said President Trump had asked his rocket company SpaceX to bring home “as soon as possible” two NASA astronauts who have been on the International Space Station since June. SpaceX, in fact, is already scheduled to bring those two astronauts home, but no earlier than […]
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Many people were feared to have been killed early Wednesday after millions of Hindu pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, a huge festival in the Indian city of Prayagraj, rushed to bathe in holy river waters on what is considered one of the most auspicious dates in the Hindu calendar. As pilgrims rushed to the […]
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Jay Mazur, a blunt-speaking, Bronx-born labor leader who was president of American garment workers’ unions in the 1980s and ’90s, a tumultuous time when clothing makers led the flight of American factories overseas and garment unions hemorrhaged members, died on Jan. 14 at his home in Manhattan. He was 92. The cause was congestive heart […]
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Star Wars is back, with an executive order from President Trump that the White House said “directs the building of the Iron Dome missile defense shield for America.” The order, issued on Monday night, didn’t quite do that. It was more a vaguely worded set of instructions to accelerate current programs or explore new approaches […]
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For decades, Caroline Kennedy kept silent. Ms. Kennedy, 67, the only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy, has been a model of two of the family’s prized values: discretion and stoicism. Handed no shortage of tragedy and scandal, she has kept quiet and largely stayed on the sidelines. In recent years, that has meant […]
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The chief executive of Sony Corp., Kenichiro Yoshida, who oversaw the company’s transformation from a consumer electronics brand into a global entertainment company, will step down after seven years in the role, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Hiroki Totoki, a top Sony executive who has long been seen as next in line for […]
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The Trump administration on Tuesday issued a waiver for lifesaving medicines and medical services, offering a reprieve for a worldwide H.I.V. treatment program that was halted last week. The waiver, announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, seemed to allow for the distribution of H.I.V. medications, but whether the waiver extended to preventive drugs or […]
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