Baltimore Orioles superstar Gunnar Henderson swings the bat. PHOTO USA Today Sports Images Like volcanoes rising from the ocean, the newest crop of baseball superstars are so good that they are drawing attention to areas with less attention than in recent years. These days, games in Baltimore, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Seattle and Cincinnati have…
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday barred an online service for the first time from serving users under the age of 18, saying the app had violated child privacy and consumer protection laws and had harmed children and teenagers. The F.T.C. said it had reached a settlement with the maker of the anonymous messaging app…
In a field on the outskirts of Kyiv, the founders of Vyriy, a Ukrainian drone company, were recently at work on a weapon of the future. To demonstrate it, Oleksii Babenko, 25, Vyriy’s chief executive, hopped on his motorcycle and rode down a dirt path. Behind him, a drone followed, as a colleague tracked the…
For about 15 years, Paula Span has dedicated much of her journalism career to covering one subject: aging, and the challenges that come with it. Ms. Span writes The New Old Age, a twice-monthly column for the Health section at The New York Times about issues affecting older Americans. Among the topics she has recently…
On July 29, 2022, when Beyoncé released “Renaissance,” the first of what she’s envisioned as a three-act magnum opus (act two, “Cowboy Carter,” was released this March), the public was exhausted after two and a half years of pandemic restrictions and unprecedented change to their daily routines. They were stir-crazy and impatient for the dance…
It’s Oscars Week, which feels like as good a time as any to draw up the NBA storylines and characters which could double as Oscar nominees. Whining or Wine-ing? James Harden vs Daryl Morey | Agree to Disagree No NBA executive has a more interesting relationship with arcs than Philadelphia 76ers president Daryl Morey. Friday…
Hearing loss can sneak up on us — so gradually that many of us don’t notice the change. You might think: Wow, was that restaurant noisy? I couldn’t hear a thing. My TV must be breaking down. I keep having to turn up the volume. But it might not be the TV or the restaurant;…
The French writer Hervé Le Tellier’s entertaining novel “The Anomaly” (2020) dramatizes the real-life implications of confronting one’s double, even as a cottage industry of recent nonfiction titles such as “How to Be Multiple” by Helena de Bres (with illustrations by her twin sister, Julia) and William Viney’s “Twinkind” explore the cultural, social and philosophical significance…
The men had Kyrie Irving, Jayson Tatum, Zion Williamson, and Anthony Davis. The women should have had Paige Bueckers then, and JuJu Watkins now. But, according to the rules, they can’t. Who will take down #1 South Carolina in the NCAA tournament? Due to the WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement, American players have to be 22…
King Charles III will have a procedure to address an enlarged prostate at a hospital next week. The 75-year-old British monarch’s diagnosis is common among men his age, and experts say that typical treatments are not dangerous. An enlarged prostate, known also as benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH, is a noncancerous condition that occurs frequently…
