Author: NY TIMES

The actor Alec Baldwin appeared Monday in a Santa Fe courthouse as his lawyers sparred with prosecutors over what evidence could be shown to the jury when he goes on trial this week for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the film “Rust.”Wearing a suit with a gray striped tie and glasses with thick dark frames, Mr. Baldwin, who is facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter, appeared to pay close attention to the proceedings, taking notes and leaning over to speak with a lawyer.Mr. Baldwin was indicted by a grand jury for his role in the…

Support for left-wing parties surged unexpectedly in nationwide legislative elections on Sunday, pushing the nationalist, anti-immigration National Rally into third place.The electoral map showed enduring divisions — with Paris and its suburbs voting for the left and center, and the regions in the far north and south along the Mediterranean voting for the far right.The country’s political outlook appeared more muddled than before, with three large political blocs, each with a vastly different vision and plan for the country.The biggest surprise on Sunday was the triumph of the New Popular Front, a coalition of left-wing parties that is now the…

We need to talk about Harry Kane.England reached the semi-finals of another major tournament. But their captain, leader, talisman, forward and greatest goalscorer of all time looked as flexible as an arthritic scarecrow.OK Too harsh. He has scored two goals in five games at the Euros so far, with his contributions generally ranging from mediocre to non-existent, and it looks like he is struggling for fitness. But there are clearly some questions to be asked here.Questions like: How is his health? What does he bring to the team so far? Is he now England’s Cristiano Ronaldo?In previous years, that last…

“I don’t know who came up with that,” says Caroline Sunvold, a former D.C.C., in the series. “That’s what kind of rips up people’s hips.” She should know. Ms Sunvold, still in her 20s, has undergone hip and knee surgery, and in some scenes, relies on a walker as she recovers.Yet she misses the team sorely, and seems a bit lost in her post-cheering life. “It’s like D.C.C. land is this mythical, magical world,” she says. “And once you start sipping that Gatorade, you do not want to come out.” Ms. Sunvold even offers D.C.C. audition coaching to her younger…

The collapse of Archegos Capital Management in spring 2021, which caused billions in losses for a handful of Wall Street banks, was the result of “lies and manipulation” by Bill Hwang, the firm’s founder, a federal prosecutor told a jury in Manhattan on Monday.During closing arguments, Andrew Thomas, the prosecutor, said that Mr. Hwang had defrauded the banks and other traders in the market by artificially inflating stock prices to pump up the size of Archegos.Barry Berke, a lawyer for Mr. Hwang, said the government was criminalizing his client’s high-risk trading only because it caused losses for the banks that…

An expert on Parkinson’s disease from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, including at least once for a meeting with President Biden’s physician, according to official visitor logs.The expert, Dr. Kevin Cannard, is a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders and recently published a paper on Parkinson’s. The logs, released by the White House, document visits from July 2023 through March of this year. More recent visits, if there have been any, would not be released until later under the White House’s voluntary disclosure policy.It…

The winding prosecution of Alec Baldwin over the fatal shooting on the “Rust” film set is set to arrive at a trial this week in New Mexico, where a jury will be asked to decide whether his role in the death of the movie’s cinematographer amounts to involuntary manslaughter.The case revolves around the events of Oct. 21, 2021, when the gun Mr. Baldwin was rehearsing with discharged a live bullet that killed the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, and wounded the movie’s director. The weapon was supposed to have been loaded with inert rounds that could not fire.The initial announcement that prosecutors…

A Russian military court found a playwright and a theater director guilty of “justifying terrorism” on Monday, sentencing them to six years in prison each in a case that critics say is the latest chilling example of the crackdown on free speech since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.The playwright, Svetlana Petriychuk, 44, and the director, Yevgenia Berkovich, 39, are both acclaimed members of the Russian theater world and have been in custody since May 2023. In addition to the six-year sentences, exactly the time frame requested by prosecutors, both women will be banned from “administering websites” for three years…

Look, I know how these people feel. here at Field events, A handful of writers have been selected to wax poetic about this year’s superstar players selected to the All-Star team. The rest of us were left out, ruthlessly ignored from our rightful spots on the roster due to some bizarre, overly complicated selection process.We are the snubs. We are all in this together.So, here’s our non-All-Star team, the most valuable players at each position, who didn’t hear their names called on Sunday night and, at least so far, haven’t been selected to the Midsummer Classic .Note: The starting position…

For as long as students at colleges across the United States have protested the war in Gaza, they’ve drawn the fury of some of the financial world’s mightiest figures — investors, lawyers and bankers — who have flexed their financial power over universities, toppling school leaders in the process.It didn’t stop the students. The protests intensified this year until campuses emptied out for the summer.Now, a prominent Wall Street law firm is taking a more direct approach with protesters. Sullivan & Cromwell, a 145-year-old firm that has counted Goldman Sachs and Amazon among its clients, says that, for job applicants,…