Netflix show earns its Saudi creator plaudits, and a prison sentence
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — From the outside, the past few years looked like the peak of Abdulaziz Almuzaini’s career.
Why a new conservative brain trust is resettling across America
The Claremont Institute has been located in Southern California since its founding in the late 1970s. From its perch in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, it has become a leading intellectual center of the pro-Trump right.
Harris emerges from sidelines as Democrats rethink the ticket
By early this year, around the time a prosecutor called President Joe Biden a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Vice President Kamala Harris already knew something had to change.
The best documentaries of 2024, so far
Now that 2024 is half over, I’ve started collecting candidates for my list of the year’s best films — and that, of course, includes documentaries. I’ve written about many great nonfiction films already this year (including some favorites like “Songs of Earth,” “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus” and “Art Talent Show”). Yet plenty fly under the radar, so I wanted to highlight three documentaries I haven’t written about that are worth your time.
Trump advisers call for US Nuclear weapons testing if he is elected
Allies of Donald Trump are proposing that the United States restart the testing of nuclear weapons in underground detonations should the former president be reelected in November. A number of nuclear experts reject such a resumption as unnecessary and say it would threaten to end a testing moratorium that the world’s major atomic powers have honored for decades.
Hot dog eating contest crowns new men’s champion
NEW YORK — It was the Fourth of July in New York City, and for some, that meant only one thing. It was time for the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island.
Our planet is about to reach its greatest distance from the Sun
It’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere. But while you indulge in long, balmy days at the beach or elsewhere in nature, you may be surprised to learn that our planet is creeping toward its greatest distance from the sun, a point known as aphelion.
Major Democratic Donors Devise Plans to Pressure Biden to Step Aside
After several days of quiet griping and hoping that President Joe Biden would abandon his reelection campaign on his own, many wealthy Democratic donors are trying to take matters into their own hands.
On small islands off Canada’s coast, a big shift in power
HAIDA GWAII, British Columbia — The Raven, the story goes, alighted on the beach and heard sounds coming from a giant clamshell. He found creatures cowering inside, but, ever the trickster, he cajoled them out into the world. Liberated, they became the first people of the islands of Haida Gwaii.
Buzz for Kamala Harris grows after Biden’s debate stumble
Imagine a presidency that could be, unburdened by what has been.
US allies see a worrisome turn in presidential immunity ruling
TOKYO — Allies of the United States had already been looking at the country’s upcoming election with anxiety. Now, with the U.S. Supreme Court granting an unprecedented expansion of executive power by giving presidents legal immunity, analysts in some of those countries are even more concerned about the reliability of American power.
Biden tells governors that he is staying in the race
President Joe Biden told a group of Democratic governors on Wednesday that he was staying in the 2024 campaign, as the group peppered the president with questions about the path forward after Biden’s disastrous debate performance last week.
Study finds Alaskan ice field melting at an ‘incredibly worrying’ pace
One of North America’s largest areas of interconnected glaciers is melting twice as quickly as it did before 2010, a team of scientists said Tuesday, in what they called an “incredibly worrying” sign that land ice in many places could disappear even sooner than previously thought.
New drug approved for early Alzheimer’s slows decline but carries risks
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, the latest in a novel class of treatments that has been greeted with hope, disappointment and skepticism.
Judge delays Trump’s sentencing until Sept. 18 after immunity claim
NEW YORK — The judge in Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal case delayed his sentencing until Sept. 18 to weigh whether a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling might imperil the former president’s conviction, the judge said Tuesday in a letter to prosecutors and defense lawyers.
Biden’s lapses are increasingly common, according to some of those in the room
In the weeks and months before President Joe Biden’s politically devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta, several current and former officials and others who encountered him behind closed doors noticed that he increasingly appeared confused or listless, or would lose the thread of conversations.
Top Biden officials seek to calm donors: ‘Breathe through the nose’
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s top campaign brass Monday tried to tamp down the panic that had captured his financial base in the campaign’s most formal outreach yet to its wealthiest supporters after last week’s damaging debate.
Supreme Court says Trump is partly shielded from prosecution
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump is entitled to substantial immunity from prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the last election, a blockbuster decision in the heat of the 2024 campaign that vastly expanded presidential power.
Trump moves to overturn Manhattan conviction, citing immunity decision
Donald Trump began an effort Monday to throw out his recent criminal conviction in New York City and postpone his upcoming sentencing, citing a new Supreme Court ruling that granted him broad immunity from prosecution for official actions he took as president, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
What the mood is like in France after the far right won big
PARIS — For many, France feels like a very different place on Monday.
