Another Wayward Container Ship Shows World Trade’s Fragility
Even before an enormous container ship rammed a bridge in Baltimore in the early hours…
Even before an enormous container ship rammed a bridge in Baltimore in the early hours of Tuesday, sending the span hurtling into the Patapsco River, and halting cargo traffic at a major American port, there was ample reason to worry about the troubles dogging the global supply chain. Between swirling geopolitical winds, the variables of…
A day before the U.S. embassy in Moscow put out a rare public alert this month about a possible extremist attack at a Russian concert venue, the local C.I.A. station delivered a private warning to Russian officials that included at least one additional detail: The plot in question involved an offshoot of the Islamic State…
More than 40 members of Ukraine’s national-team party were spread around the centre circle of Wroclaw’s Tarczynski Arena. Players, coaches and backroom staff locked their gaze on the 30,000 spectators sporting blue and yellow as they revved up their version of the Viking thunderclap. Iceland, the architects of that celebration during the 2016 European Championship,…
Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut’s four-term United States senator and Vice President Al Gore’s Democratic running mate in the 2000 presidential election, which was won by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when the Supreme Court halted a Florida ballot recount, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 82. His family said in a statement that…
“I love how, collectively, the internet — especially TikTok — will just make insane situations funny somehow,” Ms. Iacofano said. “Like, it kind of does comfort me that we’re all almost dealing with, like, this traumatic news.” Zarinah Williams, the writer of a weekly newsletter about pop culture, politics, beauty and travel, has also shared…