Serena Williams Returns to Wimbledon
Joint walked in front of her. Joint’s shoulders were tense, her thin cheeks flushed. Her eyes beneath her bright-white visor darted from left to right, right to left, as if she did not want...
The Supreme Court Upheld Birthright Citizenship—but the Fight May Not Be Over
The question, after all, had seemed settled. The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, holds that “persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United...
The Supreme Court’s Check on Trump’s Power Was Too Close for Comfort
If anything, this term served to reinforce the dominance of the conservative majority, its willingness to overturn precedents, and the ideological chasm between the Court’s liberal and conservative wings. It saw a doubling, compared...
Searching for Survivors After Venezuela’s Historic Earthquakes
These buildings are among the world’s foremost landmarks of mid-century modernism, though the country’s more recent socioeconomic isolation has meant that they went largely unnoticed outside Venezuela. As I leaned out of the van,...
Trump Admin Deported Migrants To Venezuela. Now More Than 100 Are Missing.
MIAMI (AP) — More than 1srcsrc people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in...
An Ecuadorian Fishing Boat Disappears Amid Trump’s Strikes in the Pacific
Juan Carlos Valencia spent the afternoon of January 13th with his father, Johnny, loading ice into the hold of the Fiorella, a small longline-fishing boat. That night, Valencia, the vessel’s captain, set out with...
The Joyful Pointlessness of World Cup Sticker Books
For the past two weeks, my nine-year-old daughter and her friends have been obsessing over Panini’s World Cup sticker books. The tradition, which started in 197src, after a few Italian brothers who ran a...
Are Humanoid Robots Ready to Be Deployed?
On a recent sunny day in Silicon Valley, I visited the industrial headquarters of 1X Technologies. Security was tight, so I had to put a sticker over my cellphone’s camera and talk my way...
Iran And U.S. Agree To Halt Attacks And Renew Talks, U.S. Official Says
WASHINGTON/CAIRO, June 28 (Reuters) - Iran and the United States agreed to halt recent hostilities in the Gulf and renew talks regarding their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said on...
Death Toll From Venezuela Earthquakes Climbs To 1,450
CARACAS, June 28 (Reuters) - Rescue teams raced on Sunday to find more survivors of the two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela this week, with signs of life bringing occasional relief to a grim...