Jul 26, 2024; Blaine, Minnesota, USA; Stewart Cink hits his tee shot on the eighteenth hole during the second round of the 3M Open golf tournament. Mandatory Credit: Matt Krohn-USA TODAY Sports Stewart Cink got his Saturday off to a rousing start with an eagle on the par-5 first, then put together a flawless rest…
Aug 4, 2024; Bronx, New York, USA; New York Yankees left fielder Aaron Judge (99) singles during the third inning against the Toronto Blue Jays at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports Aaron Judge is producing numbers similar to 2022 when he broke the American League single-season home run record, and the New…
A federal judge on Wednesday backed an initial legal challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements, which is scheduled to take effect in September. Judge Ada Brown granted an injunction requested by several plaintiffs, saying the ban cannot be enforced against them pending a final ruling. But while the ruling is preliminary,…
The Supreme Court handed the Biden administration a major practical victory on Wednesday, rejecting a challenge to its contacts with social media platforms to combat what administration officials said was misinformation. The court ruled that the states and users who had challenged the contacts had not suffered the sort of direct injury that gave them…
This is the final day of the 5-Day Friendship Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. The friendship experts I interviewed for this challenge all mentioned, in one form or another, how important vulnerability is to forming close connections. If you want big, deep platonic love in your life, you must be willing to…
This is Day 4 of the 5-Day Friendship Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. If you’re like me, you have a staggering number of photos saved to your phone. Does that speak to an unhealthy tendency to obsessively document even the most mundane moments? Perhaps. But today’s objective is to put your photo…
This is Day 3 of the 5-Day Friendship Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. One of my favorite running middle-aged jokes on TikTok and Instagram involves two busy parent friends trying to make plans. You know the script: “Are you free next week?” one mom shouts into her earbuds while driving car pool….
This is Day 2 of the 5-Day Friendship Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. We’ve all got them: work friends, college buddies, playground dads. Whatever you call them, they’re the discrete groups of friends from different facets of our lives. Even our “weak ties” seem to exist only in certain settings, like the…
I’m Catherine Pearson, and I cover families and relationships for The New York Times. Today, I’m making the case for something many of us have a love-hate relationship with: texting. Recently, I was having a lousy day. My husband was out of town, and the kids were fighting nonstop. Just as I was about to…
For four years, the computer scientist Trieu Trinh has been consumed with something of a meta-math problem: how to build an A.I. model that solves geometry problems from the International Mathematical Olympiad, the annual competition for the world’s most mathematically attuned high-school students. Last week Dr. Trinh successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on this topic…
