Trump Raises Using Military or Economic Force to Take Greenland and the Panama Canal

President-elect Donald J. Trump said Tuesday that he would not rule out the use of military or economic coercion to force Panama to give up control of the canal America built more than a century ago and to force Denmark to sell Greenland to the United States. In a rambling, hourlong news conference, Mr. Trump […]

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U.S. Says Sudan’s R.S.F. Committed Genocide and Sanctions Its Leader

The United States declared on Tuesday that a genocide took place in Sudan, drawing fresh attention to the scale of atrocities in Africa’s largest war and singling out one side in the conflict as the perpetrators of some of the worst violence. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary […]

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Nvidia Bets Big on Robots and More

Nvidia’s next target Heading into 2025, Nvidia was facing tough questions about whether the chipmaker central to the artificial intelligence boom could sustain its astronomical market run. Based on the company’s presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday — which featured fresh offerings for robotics and autos, and a new overriding vision for the […]

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NFL QB stock report: Josh Allen reigns supreme; Aaron Rodgers plummets in final rankings

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen closed out the best season of his career with six consecutive weeks at No. 1 in The Athletic’s QB stock report, maintaining his lead over Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson after his own six-week run up top. As we entered the season with a maiden voyage in this quarterback project, […]

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Trump Asks Appeals Court to Freeze His New York Criminal Sentencing

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday intensified a last-minute effort to avoid his criminal sentencing in New York, urging an appeals court to intervene and halt the proceeding. In a filing with the First Department of the state’s Appellate Division, Mr. Trump’s lawyers sought an emergency stay of the sentencing, which is scheduled for Friday, […]

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Meta Turns to Community Notes, Mirroring X

Social media companies are increasingly relying on fact-checks written by their users, allowing companies to step back from politically loaded decisions about what content to take down. Elon Musk’s X, which stopped using employees to fact-check posts, relies heavily on its users to police its site for misinformation in a program called Community Notes. YouTube […]

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What is TGL? Explaining Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s new simulator golf league

If you were to recreate the sport of golf for the year 2025, what would it look like? TGL believes it has that all figured out: A prime-time golf league featuring PGA Tour players competing on teams hitting shots against a giant screen and finishing their holes on a shape-shifting putting green in a stadium […]

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Judge Cannon Blocks Release of Jack Smith’s Report on Trump Documents Investigation

The federal judge who handled President-elect Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case temporarily barred the special counsel, Jack Smith, on Tuesday from releasing his final report on the investigation to the public. In a brief ruling, Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee who dismissed the documents case in its entirety this summer, enjoined Mr. […]

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Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary Bridged Folk-Pop Eras

Near the end of “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic that centers on his move into rock in 1965, an earnest, slim, bearded, clearly nervous M.C. struggles to pacify a wildly divided crowd that has just heard Dylan sing three plugged-in songs at the Newport Folk Festival. Boomers will immediately recognize that M.C. as […]

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