Dzień: 2024-04-01

As Disney Fights Nelson Peltz, Small Shareholders Loom Large

Individuals hold as much as 40 percent of the company’s shares, and they may decide a proxy battle that is one of the most expensive in history.

How I Learned to Love the Rerun Election

Have you got the Biden-Trump blues?

Person Infected With Bird Flu in Texas After Contact With Cattle

The case adds another worrying wrinkle to a global outbreak that has devastated bird and marine mammal populations, and recently appeared in cattle herds.

Can We Engineer Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?

Blocking solar rays. Sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Ideas that sound like science fiction are now starting to become reality, raising concerns about safety.

Trump Media Stock Slumps as Early Fervor in Truth Social Owner Fades

A rapid fall in price erased billions of dollars in the market value of the parent company of Truth Social, eating into some of the gains made in the volatile stock’s public debut.

Netanyahu Says Israel Will Shut Down Al Jazeera in Israel

The move came after Israeli lawmakers passed a new law that allows the government to temporarily shutter foreign media outlets deemed to be a risk to national security.

LSU’s Kim Mulkey Courts Controversy in Style

Inside the coach’s winning fashion playbook.

Once Upon a Time, the World of Picture Books Came to Life

The tale behind a new museum of children’s literature is equal parts imagination, chutzpah and “The Little Engine That Could.”

How One Tech Skeptic Decided AI Might Benefit the Middle Class

David Autor, an M.I.T. economist and tech contrarian, argues that A.I. is fundamentally different from past waves of computerization.

Johnson Outlines Plan for Ukraine Aid; House Could Act Within Weeks

The G.O.P. speaker’s proposed conditions for sending a fresh infusion of military assistance to Kyiv are the strongest sign to date that he plans to defy critics in his own party and push through the aid package.

Will A.I. Boost Productivity? Companies Sure Hope So.

Economists doubt that artificial intelligence is already visible in productivity data. Big companies, however, talk often about adopting it to improve efficiency.

You Can Bet on Caitlin Clark Making Threes. The N.C.A.A. Isn’t Happy.

Americans will wager $2.7 billion on the N.C.A.A. basketball tournaments this year, raising concerns about what happens to sports when people bet on the performances of student athletes.

2 Men Charged With Supplying Drugs That Killed Cecilia Gentili

Ms. Gentili, a transgender activist and actress, died in February after buying fentanyl-laced heroin, prosecutors said.

Trump’s Call for Israel to ‘Finish Up’ War Alarms Conservatives

Recent remarks he made urging an end to the Gaza conflict, with no insistence on freeing Israeli hostages first, were another departure from conservatives’ support for Benjamin Netanyahu.

April Fools’ Day Is Coming to a Political System Near You

April Fools’ Day is coming to a political system near you.

What the Francis Scott Key Bridge Meant to Baltimore

The victims, the history, the void. Residents reflect on their collective pain, and the city’s strength.

Outside Israel’s Parliament, Protesters Explain Why Netanyahu Must Go

A tent camp is a temporary home for some of the thousands of Israelis who are mounting a four-day protest calling for early elections to oust the Israeli prime minister.

Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou to Visit China

A rare visit to mainland China by Ma Ying-jeou, who’s now in the opposition, is a chance for political messaging on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Turkey’s Opposition Strikes Elections Blow to Erdogan’s Party

A raft of local election victories by rivals of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s governing party could serve as a check on his power.

Protesters Call for Netanyahu to Leave Office

The demonstrators filled the streets outside of the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, amid growing calls for early elections.

Baltimore Traffic Reporter on Congestion After Bridge Collapse

Tony Thornton looks ahead to years of crowded tunnels and highways with the loss of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

What Happened When This Italian Province Invested in Babies

The area around Bolzano has a thick network of family support provided by the government. That means a steady birthrate in a country facing a demographic plunge.

How the Renovation of a House Rocked a Famous Church

Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and one of its most well-known members have been ensnared in a seven-year saga, after a deacon hired to renovate another member’s house didn’t finish the job.

Hospitals Must Get Written Patient Consent for Pelvic Exams, H.H.S. Says

In a letter to teaching hospitals, the federal health agency said that institutions could lose Medicare funding if they didn’t comply.

Why Civil Cases Have Been More Successful Against Donald Trump

Why civil litigation against Trump has been more successful and might be a less fraught way to pursue accountability for the country.

Did Prosecutors’ Sex Shaming Help Send Brenda Andrew to Death Row?

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear an appeal in her case, which, as one judge put it, “focused from start to finish on Ms. Andrew’s sex life.”