Author: NY TIMES

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invoked “emergency authorities” to bypass Congress and send $4 billion in weapons to Israel, the second time in a month that the Trump administration has skirted the process of congressional approval for sending arms to the country.Mr. Rubio did not explain in a statement announcing the decision on Saturday why he was using an emergency authority. He said only that the Trump administration would “continue to use all available tools to fulfill America’s longstanding commitment to Israel’s security, including means to counter security threats.”State Department officials told the two congressional committees in the House…

Four or five summers from now on, the Connor Bedard’s name will likely be etched on the Stanley Cup.Of course, he will win the Connecticut Trophy, and of course, Artyom Levshunov plays 30 minutes of hero games every night in the back end after a truly ridiculous playoff run by Michael Misa and Frank Nazar. Kevin Korchinski will increase points as his top-to-couple, and Sam Rinzel will also illuminate it. Alex Vlasic’s work as a closing guard will be a legend. The second line of Nick Lardis, Sacha Boisvert and Oliver Moore will put those Blackhawks matchups, forcing opposing coaches…

Israel on Sunday announced that it would stop all goods and humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, a draconian move that disrupted the existing, agreed-upon framework for negotiating a permanent end to the war.The decision came a day after the end of the first phase of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. Here’s what to know:What has Israel said?Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel announced the halt to the flow of humanitarian assistance and goods hours after his government proposed a seven-week extension of the temporary cease-fire, at the start of which it said that Hamas would have to release…

At the United States Agency for International Development, thousands of workers have been fired or put on administrative leave and many of its projects addressing global issues like health, hunger and education have been halted.Now, a former Goldman Sachs analyst and son of a private equity billionaire has ambitions to control some of U.S.A.I.D.’s roughly $40 billion budget and apply more of a “pro-market” approach to supporting development in other countries.Benjamin Black, 40, has been nominated by President Trump to run the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, a little-known agency that invests and lends billions each year to companies and…

In 2010, a woman in Sakura, Japan, posted photos of her well-manicured Shiba Inu to her digital journal. The dog, Kabosu, shot her owner a wide-eyed glance, a comic image that quickly jumped from Tumblr to Twitter to Facebook and to the rest of the internet.A meme legend was born. Someone on Reddit called the dog “DOGE,” a nonsensical nickname that stuck. Another minted a cryptocurrency in DOGE’s name.Now, 15 years later, in the fast churn of internet culture, DOGE is considered very old. But try telling that to Elon Musk, who has co-opted “DOGE” for the name of his…

The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw foreign aid and dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development is likely to cause enormous human suffering, according to estimates by the agency itself. Among them:up to 18 million additional cases of malaria per year, and as many as 166,000 additional deaths;200,000 children paralyzed with polio annually, and hundreds of millions of infections;one million children not treated for severe acute malnutrition, which is often fatal, each year;more than 28,000 new cases of such infectious diseases as Ebola and Marburg every year.Those stark projections were laid out in a series of memos by Nicholas Enrich,…

Angie Stone, a hip-hop pioneer in the late 1970s with the Sequence, one of the first all-female rap groups, who later switched gears as a solo R&B star with hits like “No More Rain (In This Cloud)” and “Wish I Didn’t Miss You,” died on Saturday in Montgomery, Ala. She was 63.Her agent, Deborah Champagne, said she died in a hospital after being involved in a car crash following a performance.Alongside musicians like Erykah Badu, Macy Gray and Lauryn Hill, Ms. Stone was part of the neo-soul movement of the late 1990s and 2000s, which blended traditional soul with contemporary…

Syrian security forces were deployed across a predominately Druse town on the outskirts of Damascus, the capital, early Sunday, two days after a gunfight between government officers and armed men from a local neighborhood left one person dead and several others wounded.A tense calm has returned to the town, Jaramana, after the deadly clash Friday night between the security forces of Syria’s new government and the Druse, a religious minority. The person killed was a security officer, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which added that nine other people were wounded.Druse spiritual leaders blamed the killing on “an…

There was really no way around it: A show celebrating 100 years of Fendi was always going to mean celebrating fur.The brand, after all, began as a handbag and fur workshop. And according to Silvia Venturini Fendi, the designer behind the centenary collection and the lone remaining family member involved in the business (now owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton), when she began thinking about what that might look like, she thought of her first Fendi memory. Which happened to be of herself in 1966, age 6, walking in her first Fendi show and wearing a child-size fur equestrian…

Indianapolis – Arch Manning has been at least one year since the NFL Scout Federation asked questions. Still, his former Texas teammate is totally hoping that the sophomore quarterback will eventually join the highest level.”I think he can,” said receiver Matthew Golden on Friday. “He has his heart. The Arch appears every day and he goes to work. He acts like a walk. He has a story. He is trying to name himself.”Last year, Manning started two games as a redshirt freshman while filling in the game for injured starter Quinn Ewers. Manning, 6-foot-4 and weighs 225 pounds, ended with…