This year’s boom includes the most spent on global deal-making in a six-month period in a decade. But questions persist about whether it can continue.The frenzy has heavily favored large companies, with 44 deals announced in the first six months of this year that were larger than $10 billion.
While shoppers may get better deals on some items, it’s unlikely their overall grocery bill will fall.Consumers are making fewer trips to traditional grocery stores in favor of discount chains like Aldi, which opened a store in Westlake, Fla., last year as part of its U.S. expansion.
A lawyer for Charlie Kirk’s family said disclosure would help quell conspiracy theories, but the judge ruled that not all evidence would be shown in the courtroom or on a livestream.Erika Kirk has become the object of conspiracy theories.
The state Democratic Party has said it will pick a replacement through a nominating convention before a July 27 deadline. Candidates are already lining up.Graham Platner and Troy Jackson at a joint campaign rally at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus in May.
Graham Platner’s bid for the Senate inspired progressive Democrats. But the campaign, which he suspended Wednesday, was messy, disorganized and ultimately doomed by a steady drip of scandal.
Graham Platner is one of just a handful of candidates in recent decades who have withdrawn from a Senate race after securing a major party nomination.Alan Keyes, right, was a replacement Senate nominee in Illinois in 2004 after the winner of the Republican primary withdrew amid scandal. He lost to B
Iran’s history shows it is willing to dig in, even when it may suffer big losses.Vessels on the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday. Traffic last weekend was about one-third of the prewar level of more than 100 ships daily, split evenly between the Iranian and Omani sides of the waterway.
Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.“I don’t think of myself as a hoarder,” Mendel Uminer said, “but I guess my building did.”
President Trump said the United States would license Ukraine to produce Patriots, which can intercept ballistic missiles. But it could be months or years before those are ready.President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine meeting with President Trump on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey,
Two American allies, Germany and Japan, already have permission to build the American interceptors, a license that President Trump says he will also grant to Kyiv.Japan’s defense minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, second right, inspecting a Patriot missile interceptor unit in Tokyo in December.
While President Trump insulted allies and demanded loyalty, the military alliance moved quietly closer to accepting more European responsibility for defense.President Trump and the leaders of other NATO countries in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday.
The Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas militant but was aware of reports that “uninvolved civilians” were harmed.Mourners carrying the body of Mohammed al-Waheidi, an aid worker killed in an Israeli strike on Tuesday, during his funeral, in Gaza City, on Wednesday.
Analysts expressed skepticism that the vote would take place as planned. In 2021, Mahmoud Abbas, the authority’s leader, scheduled and then canceled a similar election.Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority speaking during a conference in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Ban
Midtown, with its high-rise office buildings and tourist hotels, isn’t hip, but it has become the site of a series of dramatic spectacles this year.Midtown Manhattan is in the heart of the borough, but many New Yorkers prefer to avoid it.
State actors in China, Russia and Iran have sought to exploit the U.S. public debate over the effects of the technology.OpenAI released this cartoon as an example of one generated with ChatGPT by people in China whom the company believed were affiliated with a regional government. It is not clear wh
The data center boom has roiled communities across the country, but on Native land, a Big Tech push for quick approvals has pitted the need for development against a history of exploitation.“True wealth is the well-being of our families,” Chebon Kernell, a tribal council member for the Seminole Nati
As a young woman in the 1960s, she wasn’t allowed to become a NASA astronaut. She finally realized her long-held dream of flying in space as an octogenarian.Wally Funk in 2021, after returning from a roughly 10-minute spaceflight aboard a rocket built by the company Blue Origin. “I loved every minut
The classic story (and recent culture-war object) remains wholesome but makes room for people who called the prairie home before the Ingalls family.
A Netflix adaptation of the beloved tale empowers Ma and adds new Black and Native characters to challenge prejudices. The creators know criticism is coming.Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie” was filmed in Winnipeg. The new Ingalls family includes Skywalker Hughes as Mary, left, and Alice Halse
The real Ingalls family built their “little house on the prairie” on Osage land and evinced racist attitudes. A new TV adaptation tries to reckon with this while preserving the story’s heart.From left, Xander Cole and Corvin Mack on horseback filming a new adaptation of “Little House on the Prairie”
How much have the rules of politics changed?
“It may not be Hitler 2.0. It may not be Stalin 2.0. It might be something all American, but it’s not going to be what we’re used to,” the author Rod Dreher argues.
With a voice both weathered and operatic, she minted 1980s pop anthems like “Total Eclipse” and “Holding Out for a Hero.”Bonnie Tyler in 1983. Her biggest hit, “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” became a cultural mainstay that has 1.1 billion streams on Spotify and 1.3 billion views on YouTube.
