Author: NY TIMES

With President Biden in France rallying support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia, ammunition and weaponry from an aid package approved by Congress this spring is arriving at the front in quantities sufficient to help stabilize defenses, soldiers and commanders said in interviews.Russia, though, still holds an artillery advantage, which has been key in the war in Ukraine.Lt. Denys Yaroslavsky, a commander in northeastern Ukraine, where Russian forces attacked across the border last month and threatened to advance toward Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, said on Thursday that Ukrainian artillery crews could now fire more frequently at Russian forces.The Russian advance has…

Yannick Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz have been the future of men’s tennis for some time.They met for the first time in October 2021 at the Paris Masters, giving a glimpse of the exciting tennis the two played on the same court.The following year there was a very exciting match in the last 16 at Wimbledon that captured the attention of the casual tennis audience, followed by an entertaining final in Umag, Croatia, and then a late night/early morning The US Open has announced their tennis brand as the next great thing at the top of the sport. Next up is…

[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora]El año pasado, Ben Affleck saltó a los titulares por dar la impresión de que estaba de mal humor. Después de abrir la puerta de un coche a su esposa, Jennifer Lopez, la cerró con lo que los espectadores consideraron más fuerza de la estrictamente necesaria.Muchos dijeron que también parecía enfadado mientras estaba sentado junto a su esposa en los premios Grammy 2023. (Después, Affleck explicó que su expresión tuvo más que ver con un acto improvisado del presentador del evento, Trevor Noah).A principios de mayo, Affleck apareció sin compañía en el homenaje de…

Frank Stronach, the 91-year-old billionaire founder of one of the world’s largest auto parts companies, was arrested and charged on Friday in connection with a sexual assault investigation.In a brief news release, the police force for Peel Region, outside Toronto, said that the time frame of crimes Mr. Stronach was alleged to have committed spanned from the 1980s until last year. Mr. Stronach, the Austrian-born founder of Magna International, was charged with offenses that includedindecent assault, sexual assault and forcible confinement. He was released after being charged and will appear later at a court in Brampton, Ontario.Brian Greenspan, Mr. Stronach’s…

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube4. Erykah Badu: “Window Seat”Dallas’s own Erykah Badu shot the controversial music video for this slow jam, the first single from her 2010 album “New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh),” in Dealey Plaza.▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube5. Donna Summer: “I Feel Love”The city of Boston hosts an annual Donna Summer Disco Party in honor of Dorchester’s favorite dance music legend. This year’s celebration is on June 27 — and according to its website coincides with “the highly anticipated return of roller skating on City Plaza.” As Donna would…

The United Nations will add Israel, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to a list of countries and armed groups that harm children when it releases its annual report on children and armed conflict, citing the heavy toll the war in Gaza has taken on minors, including killing, maiming and starvation, U.N. officials said.Stéphane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said the body’s chief of staff called the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, on Friday to inform him that Israel would be listed this year. “The call was a courtesy afforded to countries that are newly listed,” Mr. Dujarric said,…

In the sunlight of Normandy, before the surviving American veterans who eight decades ago helped turn the tide of the war against Hitler, President Emmanuel Macron of France spoke this past week of the “bond of blood shed for liberty” that ties his country to the United States.It is a bond that goes all the way back to the founding of the United States in 1776 and the decisive French support for American independence against the British. Tempestuous, often strained as France bristles at American postwar leadership in Europe, the ties between Paris and Washington are nonetheless resilient.President Biden’s five-day…

When is a fashion show not just a fashion show? When it is a vehicle for cultural diplomacy.At least this appears to be the case with the cruise (or resort or pre-spring or whatever you want to call them) destination extravaganzas that have taken place over the last month. These events increasingly serve to position the big five brands that hold them less as mere fashion houses and more as national ambassadors to the world: billion-euro avatars of influence on unofficial state visits.Once upon a time, back when this interstitial season was invented to bridge the gap between the fall…

President Biden’s immigration policies are a frequent target of conservative and liberal media outlets, often mirroring criticisms from Republican and Democratic elected officials. The reaction to his executive order on Tuesday, which limits asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, was no different.Conservative media outlets criticized the policy as being too lenient and accused Mr. Biden of being slow to address what they see as a crisis. Some made misleading claims about the order.Liberal outlets gave less attention to the news. Those that did give it significant coverage repeated a long-held frustration among progressives with Mr. Biden’s approach to the Southern border,…

Last month, Meta announced that it was going to expand its artificial intelligence services around the world, and the company let users in Europe know that it would use their public information to train its A.I. services starting on June 26.The notifications sent to users of Facebook and Instagram in Europe, letting them know that their public posts could be used to train the A.I. services, including Meta’s chatbot, prompted privacy concerns and backlash as users wondered where the policy change would next be in effect.But for those living in the United States, where online privacy laws are not as…