PHOTO USA Today Sports Images No team has successfully defended their World Series championship since the New York Yankees won three straight titles from 1998 to 2000. Since then, the 2009 Phillies are the only team to reach the World Series a year after winning it all, but the Phillies fell to the Yankees in…
source: AP Former President Donald Trump had a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania interrupted when a gunman opened fire from a roof. Trump had his ear pierced as he hit the ground and an innocent bystander in the crowd was killed. Trump’s secret service detail was able to escort him quickly off the stage while he…
A few years ago, Khaled Khaled was envisioning a new world order for renters: “I started telling everyone, ‘No one is going to sign apartment leases anymore.’” He made this bold claim at the outset of a 12-month journey that took him around the world, from one apartment to the next — before he arrived…
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. To many fashionable women in the mid-20th century, no hat was worth wearing unless it was made by Otto Lucas. A London-based milliner, Lucas designed chic turbans, berets and cloches, often made…
When five men died on June 18, 2023, in the implosion of the Titan submersible during a dive to the Titanic’s resting place, the knowledge of Paul-Henri Nargeolet was lost too. It was Nargeolet’s 38th dive to the sunken liner. Known as Mr. Titanic, he helped retrieve thousands of artifacts that have been displayed in…
Grape growers and wine producers have long sought certifications testifying to their sustainable farming methods or their commitment to protecting the environment. They have taken great satisfaction in displaying their organic or biodynamic credentials. No less would be expected in a field that prides itself on offering a natural, agricultural product. Far less attention has…
Countries around the globe are have failed to reach consensus on the terms of a treaty that would unify the world in a strategy against the inevitable next pandemic, trumping the nationalist ethos that emerged during Covid-19. The deliberations, which were scheduled to be a central item at the weeklong meeting of the World Health…
In May and June, Matthew Barney, the visionary artist behind the epic “Cremaster Cycle” film series (1994-2002) and “River of Fundament” (2014), will be showing his newest body of work, “Secondary,” at four galleries: Gladstone Gallery in New York; Sadie Coles HQ in London; Regen Projects in Los Angeles; and Galerie Max Hetzler in Paris….
Minutes after it became clear that Javier Milei had been elected president of South America’s second-largest nation in November, Elon Musk posted on X: “Prosperity is ahead for Argentina.” Since then, Mr. Musk has continued to use X, the social network he owns, to boost Mr. Milei. The billionaire has shared videos of the Argentine…
It’s a classic Trinidadian dessert — a chocolate cake soaked in overproof rum and topped with swoops of ultrapasteurized whipped cream. But wait: It’s also a signature Pakistani cake, saturated with cherry brandy essence. And a Chilean cake, festooned with locally grown cherries. And a Lebanese cake — not too sweet, with little to no…
