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Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, was scheduled to hold a second day of meetings on Tuesday with top Biden administration officials in Washington, as friction ratcheted up between the two allies over the U.S. decision to allow the passage of a U.N. resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.Mr. Gallant is expected to meet with his U.S. counterpart, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin, and the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, who was in Doha, Qatar, last week to partake in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas.Before his trip, Mr. Gallant said that the meetings would be centered on preserving…

The High Court in London ruled on Tuesday that Julian Assange, the embattled WikiLeaks founder, cannot be immediately extradited to the United States, saying American authorities must offer assurances about his treatment first, including over his First Amendment rights and protection from the death penalty.The decision had been highly anticipated as the moment the court would decide if Mr. Assange had exhausted his challenges within British courts. Instead, in a nuanced ruling, two judges determined that clarity on his fate would again be on hold.The two High Court judges said that the court “will grant leave to appeal” on narrow…

Follow live coverage of England vs Belgium in today’s international friendlyThe United States men’s national team won its third consecutive CONCACAF Nations League final, defeating Mexico 2-0 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.Tyler Adams opened the scoring for the U.S. with a long-range thunderbolt just before halftime, making his first start for the U.S. in about a year and a half, while Gio Reyna scored in the semifinals He provided two assists against Jamaica and scored the second goal for the US team.The game was halted twice later as discriminatory chants were heard.Here are our key takeaways…How to follow the…

“I love how, collectively, the internet — especially TikTok — will just make insane situations funny somehow,” Ms. Iascofano said. “Like, it kind of does comfort me that we’re all almost dealing with, like, this traumatic news.”Zarinah Williams, the writer of a weekly newsletter about pop culture, politics, beauty and travel, has also shared her thoughts on the Boeing fiasco on TikTok, where she joked that “the B in Boeing stands for ‘borrowed time.’”“There’s a lot of dark humor,” Ms. Williams, 38, said.Though she doesn’t watch any of the videos herself, Helen Lee Bouygues, president of the Reboot Foundation, a…

BlackRock’s chief wants to rethink a fiscal time bombAs the chairman and C.E.O. of the asset management giant BlackRock, Larry Fink commands attention from companies and governments, helping spearhead movements like socially driven business and the need for companies to fight climate change.In his latest letter to investors, published on Tuesday, Fink weighs in on a new topic: a looming global retirement crisis, and what can be done to address it.The way retirement is handled around the world needs to change, Fink writes. Many countries will hit an aging tipping point within the next 20 years, according to his letter,…

The Food and Drug Administration has greenlit a new medicine to protect some of the people most at risk from Covid.The agency granted emergency use authorization for Pemgarda, a monoclonal antibody infusion, in immunocompromised people ages 12 and older. The drug is intended to protect against Covid for people who are not likely to mount an adequate immune response after vaccination. This includes those who have received stem cell or organ transplants and cancer patients taking medications that suppress the immune system.“It’s going to be for a very small section of Americans,” said Dr. Michael Mina, a former Harvard epidemiologist…

Federal agents raided homes in Los Angeles and the Miami area on Monday that are connected to the hip-hop mogul Sean Combs, a person with knowledge of the case said.Homeland Security Investigations carried out the raids but did not provide details about the case, including whether Mr. Combs was a target or which criminal charges were being investigated. Mr. Combs, who is also known as Puff Daddy or Diddy, has been accused of sexual assault and sex trafficking in multiple civil lawsuits over the last several months.A spokesperson for Mr. Combs did not respond to a request for comment.The criminal…

The Israeli military pressed on with its bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, signaling that the passing of a United Nations resolution calling for a cease-fire for the holy month of Ramadan on Monday had not shaken Israel’s determination to keep fighting.The military said its fighter jets had struck “over 60 targets” in Gaza over the previous day. It added that its forces were also operating in central Gaza, where it said they had killed “a number of terrorists.” Wafa, the Palestinian Authority’s news agency, said Tuesday that the Israeli military has struck residential homes and buildings and that…

For the increasingly tense U.S.-Israel relationship, the fallout from passage of the U.N. cease-fire resolution was immediate, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that he would not send a planned high-level delegation to Washington for meetings with U.S. officials.President Biden had requested the meetings to discuss alternatives to a planned Israeli offensive into Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than a million people have sought refuge, an offensive that American officials have said would create an humanitarian disaster.The United States had vetoed three previous U.N. Security Council resolutions calling for an end to the war in Gaza between…

When The New York Times heard from 81 men who responded to a survey about off-the-rack suits they had bought since 2021, the style that came up the most was introduced around the time Barack Obama was first elected president: J. Crew’s Ludlow suit.The Ludlow suit, which has been offered in various colors and fabrics, has a slim fit and starts at $298. After its introduction in 2008, the Ludlow became “instantly omnipresent,” according to GQ. The Wall Street Journal said the suit “changed the way we dressed.” Guy Trebay, the men’s fashion critic at The Times, wrote that the…