On a stormy day more than 34,000 feet above Paris, Air France Flight 1205 prepared to make its descent. Flight attendants began checking seat backs and tray tables, and passengers groggily emerged from naps. Then a voice from the cockpit came over the intercom, offering an update on the weather (cloudy and 54 degrees) and […]
Continue Reading
This article was updated on January 9 to reflect the ball being used in Sunday’s FA Cup third round game between Arsenal and Manchester United. Mikel Arteta was in no doubt. Arsenal’s manager was dissecting a painful 2-0 home defeat against Newcastle United in Tuesday’s Carabao Cup semi-final first leg when — unprompted by any […]
Continue Reading
The five living presidents are making a rare simultaneous appearance on Thursday at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral. It is unusual for five living presidents to be together in one place. Before 1991, there was only one other period in United States history, around 1861, when more than five presidents were even alive at the […]
Continue Reading
Pierre Poilievre, the man who is the favorite to become Canada’s next leader, has painted his country as “broken” and ridden with “crime and chaos.” He has derided Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “wacko” and his ministers as “crazy,’’ “disastrous,’’ “incompetent and discredited.’’ In Parliament, he called a leftist opposition leader and former Trudeau […]
Continue Reading
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday implored representatives from roughly 50 nations to maintain their military support for Ukraine’s nearly three-year long war with Russia, saying it would “be crazy to drop the ball now.” “It’s clear that the new chapter starts for Europe and the entire world just 11 days from now, at a time […]
Continue Reading
“This is my fourth fire and the only time we’ve ever left,” said Muffie Alejandro, 74, the owner of a manufacturing company who has lived near Eaton Canyon since 1989. On Tuesday, she evacuated to a hotel with her husband, Jan, and her dogs, Mingus and Clinton. “This is the worst I’ve ever seen,” she […]
Continue Reading
When art works fetch spectacular auction prices, like the record $450.3 million for Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” in 2017, the world’s focus turns for a moment to the arcane goings-on of the international art trade. But with the market in a downturn for the last two years, there have been few attention-grabbing sales at […]
Continue Reading
Elon Musk is not just dabbling in German politics. He is attempting to break a political blockade that has kept the nation’s most prominent far-right party out of government even as it has gained strength with voters. Mr. Musk will be the host of a live interview on Thursday with Alice Weidel, who is the […]
Continue Reading
A devastating toll More of the Los Angeles area is ablaze on Thursday, after a new wildfire in the Hollywood Hills broke out as firefighters sought to contain others, including the 17,200-acre Palisades fire. Critical fire conditions are expected to continue for at least another day. The blazes are already the most destructive in Los […]
Continue Reading
Just weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian troops began running out of ammunition for their aging Soviet-era artillery. The United States was soon scouring foreign arsenals around the globe for the right kinds of shells as part of its pledge to support Kyiv against its much better equipped adversary. But the Pentagon […]
Continue Reading
