Delivery riders are already some of the most vulnerable workers of booming gig economies. During successive heat waves this summer in Italy, it got complicated.
Noh was once the entertainment of medieval warriors. Today, remote Sado Islanders embrace one of the world’s oldest surviving types of drama.
Shinobu Kamiyama, center, playing the tormented ghost of a famously beautiful woman in the play “Tamakazura” at Ushio Shrine on Sado Island, Japan. Noh dramas often center on supernatural visitations.
President Trump faced withering bipartisan criticism in his first term for a similar idea that would have mixed foreign diplomacy with his personal business interests.
The latest job report shows that unemployment remains steady, but it’s not telling the full story. Lydia DePillis, economy reporter for The New York Times, explains how low job growth is being offset by the Trump administration’s deportation campaign.
A government initiative to create a Swedish “cultural canon” concerned many in the country’s cultural world. The final list has sparked debate over the choices.
As he signed an order recognizing the Defense Department as the “Department of War,” President Trump said that the country “could have won every war, but we really chose to be very politically correct.”
“The Department of War sends a signal,” President Trump said on Friday. The change, he added, was a “much more appropriate name, especially in light of where the world is right now.”
“Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday morning, as he posted a photo of the three nations’ leaders meeting in China.
Joseph D. Emerson, an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot, was sitting in an extra seat in the cockpit during a flight on Oct. 22, 2023, when he tried to cut fuel to the engines, the authorities said.
The families of “Heaven’s 27,” the children and counselors lost at Camp Mystic, pressed the Legislature to toughen flood rules over the objections of some Hill Country camp operators.
An American Eagle ad featuring the actress Sydney Sweeney in New York in August. Critics accused the campaign for appearing to champion white beauty standards.
A court had ruled that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia could not be sent back to his homeland, but now the administration sees a loophole. On Friday, Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers were told that he would be sent to the small African nation of Eswatini.
The upcoming U.S. Dietary Guidelines will instead be influenced by a competing study, favored by industry, which found that moderate alcohol consumption was healthy.
The report that has been sidelined is one of several that have upended a long-dominant narrative about alcohol that suggested that moderate drinking was not harmful and might even have health benefits.