What to know about the Chinese hackers who targeted the 2024 campaigns
A sophisticated breach of U.S. telecommunications systems has extended to the presidential campaigns, raising questions about the group behind the attack and the extent of its efforts at collecting intelligence.
How 7 friends testing a metal detector made Britain’s most valuable treasure find
LONDON — The group huddled together in the farmer’s field, staring at the dozen or so medieval silver coins. They had found one, then two, and a third — Adam Staples knew, then, this was something special.
Seeking ‘warmth and personality’ in the world of high-priced pens
LONDON — When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone by hand? As we entrust our laptops and phones with more and more of our lives, the once-ubiquitous art of handwriting is seemingly in danger of going extinct. But at a London hotel on a recent Sunday morning, thousands of people turned up to demonstrate that the humble pen may be far from meeting the fate of the dinosaurs.
Phil Lesh, bassist who anchored the Grateful Dead, dies at 84
Phil Lesh, whose expansive approach to the bass as a charter member of the Grateful Dead made him one of the first performers on that instrument in a rock band to play a lead role rather than a supporting one, died Friday. He was 84.
Israel bombards Iran with airstrikes, retaliating for Oct. 1 attack
JERUSALEM — Israel launched a series of airstrikes against Iran on Saturday, fulfilling its vow to retaliate for an earlier Iranian attack and raising fears that the intertwined conflicts in the Middle East could escalate into an all-out war between the region’s two most powerful militaries.
Biden administration floats student loan relief for borrowers facing hardship
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has proposed another student debt relief plan for 8 million people who cannot repay their loans because of “financially devastating hardships,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Friday.
Harris has been a voice on race and gender. She doesn’t broadcast it.
Paging through intelligence reports just weeks after she was sworn in as vice president, Kamala Harris was struck by the way two female foreign leaders were described. The reports used adjectives that, in her view, were rarely used to describe male leaders.
Chinese hackers are said to have targeted phones used by Trump and Vance
Chinese hackers targeted data from phones used by former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, as part of what appears to be a wide-ranging intelligence-collection effort, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
Election officials face torrent of threats as Nov. 5 looms
WASHINGTON — With less than two weeks until Election Day, law enforcement officials are confronting a rising wave of threats to election workers and political activists in a presidential contest hurtling toward a bitterly contentious coda and a potentially unsettled aftermath.
History, money and glamour define a New York vs. Los Angeles World Series
If you asked a Hollywood director or a New York writer to come up with a riveting World Series script for 2024, they would probably conjure the one we have.
Watch parties, clinics and Guinness: How the NFL builds a fan base in Ireland
DUBLIN — Shane De Lappe and Stephen Murphy arrived at Dublin’s Croke Park last month about an hour before the stadium gates opened. They weren’t going to see Gaelic football or hurling. Instead, the 30-something dads were there for a sold-out watch party hosted by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Changing the DNA of living things to fight climate change
HAZELWOOD, Mo. — With the push of a red button, a milky-colored liquid sprayed onto a load of corn seed at a warehouse in central Missouri. It was a hint of a revolution underway in U.S. agriculture, driven by a desire to combat climate change while still feeding and fueling the world.
Trump flirts with the ultimate tax cut: No taxes at all
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump has spent much of the presidential campaign brainstorming new, and sometimes untested, ways to cut taxes. In the election’s final stretch, he raised the possibility of going even further: eliminating income taxes entirely.
Biden to apologize for Indian boarding schools where hundreds of children died
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will formally apologize Friday for the role of the federal government in running boarding schools where thousands of Native American children faced abuse, neglect and the erasure of their tribal identities.
District attorney will ask court to resentence Menendez brothers
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County district attorney said Thursday that he would request the resentencing of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who killed their parents in 1989, a step that could lead to their release from prison.
Teens to Hollywood: Enough sex, already
LOS ANGELES — Movies and television shows about rich people are the last thing we want to watch. And skip the sex: We prefer content that focuses on platonic relationships. (There’s enough porn online as it is.) We do like fantasy as a genre, increasingly so. But please, pretty please, fix how you incorporate social media into storylines. It’s cringe.
Harris calls Trump’s reported remarks on Hitler and Nazis ‘deeply troubling’
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump’s reported comments praising Nazi generals offered “a window into who Donald Trump really is,” calling it “deeply troubling” that her Republican rival had apparently invoked Adolf Hitler in conversations with one of his former chiefs of staff, John Kelly.
As election looms, disinformation has ‘never been worse’
The Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee has been falsely accused of sexually molesting students. The claims have been spread by a former deputy sheriff from Florida, now openly working in Moscow for Russia’s propaganda apparatus, on dozens of social media platforms and fake news outlets.
Man charged in attempted Trump assassination seeks judge’s recusal
Defense lawyers for the Hawaii man charged with trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his golf course in Florida renewed their efforts Wednesday to get the Trump-appointed judge who is handling the case to step down, citing a recent news article saying she is under consideration for a top legal position if Trump wins the election.
What another year of hoping for the Mets gave to me
If you’re a sports fan, maybe you can relate: All my life, I’ve had a team. All my life, I’ve followed the New York Mets. I read Mets blogs, follow Mets social media. I obsessively follow Mets games. My team gives my life drama without consequences — a swelling sense of well-being when they are good, the glorious highs of a comeback win, the occasional moments of crushing despair and, because they are the Mets, long decades of languishing mediocrity.
