How a Moldovan Fraudster Leveraged Tensions Over Ukraine War

The war in Ukraine is intensifying longstanding frictions in a region of Moldova called Gagauzia. A Moldovan convicted of plundering his country’s banking system sees an opportunity.

Senator Bob Menendez Is Indicted in Brazen Bribery Plot

The governor of New Jersey called on Senator Robert Menendez to resign. The senator stepped down from his chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee.

In his U.N. speech, President Biden called for collective action on Ukraine and other major crises.

Jann Wenner’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Reign Ended in 20 Minutes

The day after the Rolling Stone co-founder made remarks widely criticized as racist and sexist in a Times interview, the Hall of Fame called an emergency vote and ousted him.

Mahsa Amini Profile: Her Family Remembers Her a Year After Her Death in Iran

A year after Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody ignited fierce anti-government protests, her family reminisces about the young woman they called Jina.

How Do We Feel About Global Warming? It’s Called Eco-Anxiety.

After a summer of intense heat, raging fires and catastrophic floods, a term for pervading dread about climate change and other environmental crises is having its moment.

Tech Fears Are Showing Up on Picket Lines

What’s being called the “summer of strikes” comes at a time when workers increasingly fear new technologies will threaten their jobs.

Sam Heughan’s 5 Favorite Places in Glasgow

The star of ‘Outlander,’ which is halfway through its seventh season, recommends five spots in the Scottish city that he has called home for a decade.

Are We Finally Ready to Take Tammy Wynette Seriously?

The unsung godmother of so-called “sad girl” music — and one of pop’s most wrenching chroniclers of feminized pain — has long been misunderstood.

Not Everything We Call Cancer Should Be Called Cancer

Calling something cancer can lead to aggressive treatment even if the cancer in question is unlikely to cause problems.

Ukrainian Commander Urges More Defenses in the Northeast

In an apparent break with Pentagon advice, Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s top general in the east, called for “all measures” to defend an area where Russia was threatening to take more territory.

Zelensky Called Him a Criminal. Now Ukraine Calls Him for Guns and Ammo.

In its hunt for weapons, Ukraine has rolled back anticorruption rules and turned to people once seen as relics of an anything-goes era.

Muon Discovery Moves Physicists One Step Closer to a Theoretical Showdown

The deviance of a tiny particle called the muon might prove that one of the most well-tested theories in physics is incomplete.

Russia Is Making Copies of Iranian Drones to Attack Ukraine

Called the Geran-2, the drones are a Russian-made version of the Shahed-136, which explodes on impact, researchers say.

Ian Fishback, U.S. Soldier Who Called Out Torture in Iraq, Is Buried in Arlington

Ian Fishback, who left the Army with the rank of major, was a dissident-in-uniform who died at the age of 42 after entering a dizzying mental health spiral.

With No Date Set, Musk and Zuckerberg Trade Barbs on ‘Cage Match’

Elon Musk, in an early-morning post, said he planned to livestream the event on his own platform. Mark Zuckerberg called for a “more reliable” platform, adding, “I’m ready today.”

A Tiny Cabin, a Little Island and a Big Change: ‘Am I Crazy?’

A New Jersey woman now lives alone part of the year on a remote island in Maine that Stephen King called ‘a novel here, just waiting to be written.’

White House Condemns Fox News Over Greg Gutfeld’s Holocaust Comments

In a debate over Florida’s African American history curriculum, Greg Gutfeld said Jews in Nazi concentration camps “had to be useful” to survive, remarks that the White House called “an obscenity.”

Extreme Heat Grips 3 Continents as Climate Change Warms Earth

Across North America, Europe and Asia, hundreds of millions of people endured blistering conditions. The U.S. special envoy for climate change called it “a threat to all of humankind.”

Iowa Republicans Advance Six-Week Abortion Limit in Special Session

After being thwarted in the courts, Gov. Kim Reynolds called the Legislature back to Des Moines to consider sweeping new restrictions on abortion.