The FTX founder’s uphill court battle starts Tuesday, after he has come to symbolize everything that went wrong with the cryptocurrency industry. A year ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was a fixture…
The moon is a magnet, and it is pulling us back. Half a century ago, the astronauts of Apollo 17 spent three days on that pockmarked orb, whose gravitational pull…
Laphonza Butler will fill the Senate vacancy left by the death of Dianne Feinstein, the governor announced Sunday. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California announced on Sunday night that he has…
There is a memorable scene in “Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster film about the building of the atomic bomb, in which Luis Alvarez, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, is…
The physiology or medicine prize for Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman recognized work that led to the development of vaccines that were administered to billions around the world. Video Katalin…
Visual evidence from a remote base in the Arctic shows launch preparations mirroring those that preceded earlier tests. Satellite imagery and aviation data suggest that Russia may be preparing to…
Russian spy agencies and new technologies could be used to push conspiracy theories, U.S. officials say. Russia’s strategy to win the war in Ukraine is to outlast the West. But…
Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, is the government’s biggest-name witness in its landmark antitrust case against Google. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, testified on Monday that Google’s power…
The former president is making the case to his supporters that he is being wrongfully targeted. And it might bring him more support. Follow our live coverage of Trump’s fraud…
Rohit Chopra became one of the most powerful financial regulators by pairing bark with bite. As director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he has attacked — often with a…
After surrendering a homer that ended the Red Sox run in 2003, he played a critical role in the team’s World Series victory a year later. Tim Wakefield, a right-handed…
In August, a group of 18 Syrian asylum seekers crossing into Europe found themselves trapped between Greek police and a wildfire. “The fire has reached us,” one of the men…
The justices will explore the scope of the Second Amendment, the fate of the administrative state and limits on free speech on the internet. When the Supreme Court returns to…
The front-runner in the parliamentary vote has pledged “not to send a single cartridge” to neighboring Ukraine, a sign of the flagging European support for a victim of Russian aggression.…
‘We’re getting no support on this national crisis,’ Mayor Eric Adams said in September at a town-hall-style gathering on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He was talking about the influx of…
Michael Bock was still on his way into work for his shift as a private security guard when he came upon his first emergency of the day. He drove into…
Russia has quietly been distributing its own flags throughout West Africa, where they are now considered “so cool.” Young people in West African capitals wave the flags at protests or…
In much of Europe, the election was seen as a bellwether of mainstream support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. But voters seemed most concerned with pocketbook issues. A…
The Russian position was marked with the blue flag of Moscow’s elite airborne units but the fabric looked almost translucent through the Ukrainian sniper’s scope. The flag, atop a Russian-occupied…
After emigrating to New Jersey from Egypt, Wael Hana faced a string of business and legal problems. Then his friend started dating a powerful U.S. senator. Just five years ago,…
