USA Update

The lyricist Ira Gershwin once suggested his epitaph should be “Words Failed Me”: a joke tinged with ineffable sadness. Bespectacled and diminutive of stature, he was and will be forever overshadowed by his younger brother and collaborator George, the glamorous genius composer who died at 38 of a brain tumor many in his circle had […]

Demonstrations have rocked Bolivia for more than two months. A longstanding political rivalry has boiled over, with supporters of the president and his chief opponent clashing in the streets. Protests have blocked the movement of goods, exacerbating fuel shortages. Some Bolivians lined up for days to buy gas. The upheaval is part of a broad […]

His wife was spiraling into insomnia, and his children were afraid to go to school, so Jaime Cachua sought out the person he trusted most in a crisis. He sat at his kitchen table in rural Georgia across from his father-in-law, Sky Atkins, the family patriarch. Jaime, 33, hadn’t seen his own father since he […]

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Karla Cobreiro, a 33-year-old vice president at global PR firm Quinn who purchased a home on her own in 2022. The National Association of Realtors found that from July 2023 to June 2024, single female buyers made up 20% of all homebuyers, outpacing single male buyers, […]

Everyone knows that a dog is for life, not just for Christmas. But as the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) estimates that 3.1 million dogs end up in shelters every year, there are plenty in need of a loving home. A shelter is no place to spend the holidays and […]

Steve Smith clambered out of his form slump with a drought-breaking century and Travis Head smashed another big century as Australia posted a commanding 405 for seven on day two of the third Test against India in Brisbane. Smith batted away questions about his place in the team with a hard-earned 101, while Head marched […]

At least 11 people have been killed on the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, French authorities said on Sunday, as the storm headed towards the East African nation of Mozambique. Cleanup is now underway in Mayotte, which is a French overseas territory. “For the death toll, it’s going to be complicated, because Mayotte is a […]

A Las Vegas judge has sentenced a Texas man to 100 years in prison for his role in a two-state shooting on Thanksgiving 2020 in which he killed a man in Nevada and engaged in a shootout with law enforcement in Arizona. Christopher McDonnell, 32, of Tyler, Texas, pleaded guilty in October to more than […]

Back during the COVID-19 pandemic, buy-now-pay-later provider Affirm decided to commit fully to being a remote-first company. “We debate it all the time,” chief operating officer Michael Linford told Business Insider. The company had “not looked back,” he said, and it “would be very difficult for us to go back on that.” “We think it […]

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s opposition leader offered Sunday to work with the government to ease the as officials sought to reassure allies and markets, a day after the opposition-controlled parliament voted to conservative President over a short-lived attempt to impose martial law. Liberal Democratic Party leader whose party holds a majority in the […]