Author: NY TIMES

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced nearly 300 new sanctions on international suppliers of military equipment technology that the administration said have been helping Russia restock its arsenal as it carries out the war in Ukraine.The sanctions represent a broadening of U.S. efforts to disrupt Russia’s military industrial complex supply chain. They include more than a dozen targets based in China, which the United States says has increasingly been helping Russia arm itself. The Biden administration has expressed growing alarm about the weapons technology alliance between China and Russia. Top U.S. officials have voiced those concerns to their Chinese counterparts…

“Planning an elaborate bachelor or bachelorette party may not be feasible for every person, whether it’s the time away from work, time away from their family or the financial commitment of those types of gatherings,” Ms. Nichols said.Those asked to join a wedding party should be upfront. “Saying something like, ‘I really appreciate you asking me, I’m honored and grateful and I’d like to chat more about what this will entail before I give you my response, just to make it fair for both of us,’ can be a great starting point,” said Jen Glantz, the founder of Bridesmaid for…

Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday that it would ask tens of thousands of people suing the company over claims that its talcum powder products caused their cancer to approve a new $6.5 billion settlement, its third attempt to resolve the lawsuits.The proposal would settle nearly all current and future claims that its talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer, the company said. Like the previous two efforts — in 2021 and 2023 — the new deal will try to use an element of the bankruptcy system to settle the claims.Judges have rejected the two previous attempts, on the grounds that…

Recent revelations about a data analytics firm’s role in determining medical payments have heightened concerns about possible price fixing in health care and led to a call for a federal investigation.In a letter this week, Senator Amy Klobuchar asked federal regulators to examine whether algorithms used by the firm, MultiPlan, have helped major health insurers conspire to cut payments to doctors and leave patients with large bills. She cited a New York Times investigation last month into MultiPlan’s dominance of the lucrative business of pricing out-of-network medical claims.“Algorithms should be used to make decisions more accurate, appropriate and efficient, not…

In the small Bombay theater that showed big films, his father brought him — over and over again — to see the biggest of them all.With every one of his 18 viewings of “Mughal-e-Azam,” a hit 1960 musical about a forbidden romance between a prince and a courtesan, the young boy fell more in love. The rays of light, beamed in black and white, opened to him a world at once majestic and lost. The dialogue, crisp and poetic, lingered in his thoughts. The music swept him to places that only later in life would he fully understand.Bombay would eventually…

LOS ANGELES — David Zwirner will open its new flagship Los Angeles gallery on May 23 with a 30th-anniversary exhibition featuring works by all of the gallery’s 80 artists. Zwirner’s decision to plant a flag in a third new space on North Western Avenue represents a powerful vote of confidence in the West Coast art market as well as in the Melrose Hill neighborhood, which has recently exploded with galleries.“I’ve been a bit of a holdout with Los Angeles just because there is this traditional thinking that Los Angeles collectors like to buy in New York,” Zwirner said in a…

In a tense Senate hearing on Wednesday, lawmakers sharply criticized UnitedHealth Group’s handling of the cyberattack that paralyzed the U.S. health care system, citing the failure of its security systems and the potential disclosure of sensitive medical information of millions of Americans.Democratic and Republican senators questioned whether the cyberattack of Change Healthcare, which manages a third of all U.S. patient records and some 15 billion transactions a year, was so vast because UnitedHealth is too deeply embedded in nearly every aspect of the nation’s medical care. UnitedHealth Group is not only the parent of Change but also the parent of…

Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of May’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)New to Amazon Prime Video‘The Idea of You’Starts streaming: May 2Anne Hathaway plays a middle-age woman on a wild, globe-hopping adventure with a new lover in this romantic dramedy, based on Robinne Lee’s best-selling novel. Hathaway stars as Solène, who accompanies her teenage daughter to Coachella, where she meets and discovers an instant rapport…

Nearly a year and a half after police and intelligence officers in Germany uncovered a plot to overthrow the country’s government and replace its chancellor, the first of three trials in the sprawling case began on Monday in Stuttgart.Most of the would-be insurrectionists were arrested in December 2022, when heavily armed German police officers stormed houses, apartments, offices and a remote royal hunting lodge and made dozens of arrests. Those eventually charged included a dentist, a clairvoyant, an amateur pilot and a man running a large QAnon social media group. The German authorities contend that their figurehead was Prince Heinrich…

His team was tied 1-1 at the time. The game was reaching its final stages and under the floodlights they missed the opportunity to take the lead.That’s when Sheffield United fan Tony lost his temper and shouted something at Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Matt Turner that he could never take back.”We just missed a shot. The goalkeeper picked the ball up from behind the goal and made a little gesture to the visiting fans. Nothing bad, nothing that should upset me, but I lost my cool for ten seconds. I Start yelling: “Go on, you bastard. “”That was 10 stupid seconds.…