Author: NY TIMES

“It’s not my cello,” Rosie O’Donnell said over a video call, sitting on a gray love seat in a gray hoodie and a pair of chic brown glasses.In New York, it was a Thursday morning. In Dublin, where the actress, comedian and former talk show host has been staying since mid-January, afternoon light streamed through a nearby window. The cello came with the rental.Lots of celebrities talked during the 2016, 2020 and 2024 elections about moving abroad if Donald J. Trump won — among them, Barbra Streisand, Cher, and Amy Schumer.Ms. O’Donnell actually went through with it.“I never thought he…

The Memphis Grizzlies star found a new way to commemorate the three-pointer after the NBA fined JA Morant $75,000 last week for holding a finger gesture celebration.On Thursday night, the Grizzlies lost 141-125 to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Morant imitated the dowel, threw a grenade, threw a grenade and covered his ears 3. This is Morant’s second straight match, making the grenade pose the grenade pose, unveiled in the Charlotte game in Memphis on Tuesday.”It’s my celebration and I’ll find another one until someone else has a problem with it,” Morant said after Thursday’s shooting.The NBA fined $75,000 on April 4,…

A federal appeals panel on Friday halted parts of a district court judge’s injunction blocking the Trump administration’s effort to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, allowing officials to move ahead with firing some agency employees.Russell T. Vought, the White House budget office director, was named the consumer bureau’s acting director in February and immediately began gutting the agency. He closed its headquarters and sought to terminate its lease, canceled contracts essential to the bureau’s operations, terminated hundreds of employees and sought to lay off nearly all of the rest.In a lawsuit brought by the bureau’s staff union and other…

The biggest technology companies and their chief executives donated millions to President Trump’s inauguration, hosted black-tie parties and dinners in his honor, and allowed him to announce and take credit for new multibillion-dollar manufacturing projects.But less than three months into the president’s second term, Mr. Trump has hardly returned their lavish gestures with favors.The sweeping tariffs he imposed last week will squeeze Apple’s iPhone supply chain and make it much more expensive for Amazon, Meta, Google and Microsoft to build supercomputers to power artificial intelligence. The president has slashed federal funding for research into emerging technologies like A.I. and quantum…

In a speech broadcast to the Food and Drug Administration’s Maryland campus on Friday morning, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced himself as the nation’s health secretary with a meandering speech touching on everything from birds of prey to pollution in Lake Erie to the C.I.A.Mr. Kennedy told the agency staff members, in the throes of losing 20 percent of their work force under his overhaul of the Health and Human Services Department, to boldly avoid the impulse to protect the corporations they regulate.The layoffs, voluntary departures and cutbacks in funding have already decimated divisions that govern oversight of tobacco, the…

Michael Hurley, a singer and songwriter whose music — an idiosyncratic kind of folk mixed with a variety of other styles — made him a revered elder to younger artists like Cat Power, Devendra Banhart and the band Yo La Tengo, died on April 1 in Portland, Ore. He was 83.Mr. Hurley’s family announced the death but did not specify the cause.Mr. Hurley was visibly ill during his final shows — two on March 28 and 29 in Knoxville, Tenn., as part of the Big Ears Festival, and the third on March 31 in Asheville, N.C. — before flying back…

It was a closely held, urgent meeting.Iran was pondering a response to President Trump’s letter seeking nuclear negotiations. So the country’s president, as well as the heads of the judiciary and Parliament huddled with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, last month, according to two senior Iranian officials familiar with the meeting.Mr. Khamenei had publicly and repeatedly banned engaging with Washington, calling it unwise and idiotic. The senior officials, in an unusual coordinated effort, urged him to change course, said the two officials, who asked not to be named to discuss sensitive issues.The message to Mr. Khamenei was blunt: Allow…

If you’ve recently found yourself Googling complex medical terminology, fighting the urge to rewatch the 1990s drama “E.R.” or nurturing a budding crush on the actor Noah Wyle, you may be “Pitt”-pilled.The new Max show “The Pitt,” which follows Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch (played by Mr. Wyle) and a motley cast of medical workers during one chaotic 15-hour shift in a Pittsburgh emergency department as it unfolds hour by hour, has become a somewhat unexpected hit. With its first season ending on Thursday, fans are already hankering for more episodes, even though the second season — which will take place…

Andrew Tate, the online influencer known for his misogynistic views, has been accused of raping two women and threatening one of them with a gun, in a claim filed in Britain’s High Court.The accusations are part of a civil suit filed by the two women, and two others, last June against Mr. Tate. The Times obtained details of their claims from the court ahead of a hearing on the case in London on April 15.The four British women are suing Mr. Tate for alleged abuse relating to a period when he was living in England, between 2013 and 2015. All…

The crash is frightening.In the 2018 Indycar race, Robert Wickens’ wheels cut the wheels of Ryan Hunter-Reay’s car, pushing Wichis airmen toward the fence around the Pocono Raceway. The injuries that Wicks suffered include thoracic vertebrae fractures, neck fractures in both legs, tibia and fibula, hands fractures, four fractured ribs and lung contusions. He also suffered spinal cord injuries, paralyzing him from the waist.At that time, Wickens was the cusp of the stars in the main series of Motorsports. That year, he finished seven top five in 14 games, ranked ninth in the Indianapolis 500 and won Indycar Rookie of…