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This is the first in a six-part series looking at some of the most innovative new managers in European football.Thiago Motta knows a thing or two about success.When your resume includes two La Liga titles, one Serie A title, five Ligue 1 titles and two Champions League winners’ medals, you tend to gain instant respect in the dressing room.That said, few need to be reminded that a successful playing career does not directly translate into a successful coaching career – so what about head coach Thiago Motta?The 41-year-old transformed Bologna from Serie A strugglers into one of Italy’s best-looking teams.…

The United States imposed sanctions on Monday on Chinese hackers and accused them of working as a front for Beijing’s top spy agency, part of a broad effort to place malware in American electric grids, water systems and other critical infrastructure.The sanctions were a major escalation of what has become an increasingly heated contest between the Biden administration and Beijing.While there have been no cases so far in which the Chinese government has turned off essential services, American intelligence agencies have warned in recent months that the malware appeared to be intended for use if the United States were coming…

A federal judge in California on Monday dismissed X’s lawsuit against a nonprofit organization that studies hate speech online, ruling that the social media company’s case was designed to punish researchers for speaking freely about the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.X sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate in July in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after the organization published several articles that claimed its researchers had discovered a rise in hate speech on the platform following Elon Musk’s takeover. X said that the group’s research was harming its business by scaring away advertisers,…

In the week after he appeared as a presenter at the Oscars, the comic Ramy Youssef, a creator and director of the Hulu series “Ramy” and Emma Stone’s co-star in “Poor Things,” was taking meetings in Hollywood on what’s known as a water-bottle tour — “except without the water bottle,” he said. He is fasting for Ramadan.Youssef, who will turn 33 this month, has been a rapidly rising star since the 2019 debut of “Ramy,” a semi-autobiographical award-winning show in which he plays the son of Egyptian immigrants in suburban New Jersey — as he is in real life —…

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…

On Feb. 8, Brazil’s federal police confiscated former President Jair Bolsonaro’s passport and arrested a pair of his former aides on accusations that they had plotted a coup after Mr. Bolsonaro lost the 2022 presidential election.Four days later, Mr. Bolsonaro was at the entrance to the Hungarian Embassy in Brazil, waiting to be let in, according to the embassy’s security-camera footage, which was obtained by The New York Times.The former president appeared to stay at the embassy for the next two days, the footage showed, accompanied by two security guards and waited on by the Hungarian ambassador and staff members.…

For the second straight NCAA Tournament game, the Stanford Cardinal fell behind in the fourth quarter at home in the second round, reducing the possibility of an upset.When Pac-12 Player of the Year Cameron Brinker was in foul trouble all night against No. 7 Iowa State, the No. 2 Cardinal turned Another of their twin towers brings them home. Kiki Iriafen went scoreless in 5 minutes in the 2023 loss to Mississippi State, but scored 41 in a single game in the NCAA Tournament points, tied for ninth all-time, and contributed 16 rebounds and 4 assists, leading Stanford to 87…

In his main job, Ryan Raftery works in the New York offices of LVMH, doing talent recruitment.In his second, he croons and twerks at Joe’s Pub, the Public Theater’s downtown nightspot, while starring in three different musicals about three famous women: Anna Wintour, the longtime editor of Vogue; Kris Jenner, the Machiavellian matriarch of the world’s best known reality show clan; and Martha Stewart, a domestic diva known both for her popovers and her 2004-5 prison stint.Call it “Torch Song Trilogy, Media Divas Edition.”“I’m like Persephone,” Mr. Raftery said on a recent evening after a performance as Ms. Wintour. “Once…

Raised stakes in a firearms takeover contest A battle over Vista Outdoor, the company behind top ammunition brands like Remington and Camelbak water bottles, is escalating — and national security is becoming a bigger factor in the fight.The investment firm MNC Capital on Monday raised its bid for the company to $3 billion, DealBook is first to report, hoping that a more generous offer — and further uncertainty that a rival bidder, the Czechoslovak Group, can pass a U.S. national security review — will win over Vista’s shareholders.MNC is offering $37.50 a share for all of Vista, up from a…

As a Tunisian human rights activist in the 2000s, Amira Yahyaoui staged protests and blogged about government corruption. In interviews, she described being beaten by police. When she was 18, she said, she was kidnapped from the street, dropped off at the Algerian border and placed in exile for several years.Ms. Yahyaoui’s compelling background helped her stand out among entrepreneurs when she moved in 2018 to San Francisco, where she founded a student aid start-up called Mos. The app hit the top of Apple’s App Store and Ms. Yahyaoui raised $56 million from high-profile investors, including Sequoia Capital, John Doerr…