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The United States recently carried out a cyberattack against an Iranian military vessel that the Pentagon says was gathering intelligence on merchant ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and relaying that information to Houthi fighters, a U.S. military official said on Thursday.The cyberattack happened as part of the Biden administration’s retaliation on Feb. 2 to a drone attack last month by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq that killed three American soldiers at a remote outpost in Jordan and injured dozens of others, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.U.S. analysts had…

About two-thirds of the way through, Navalny is relaxing between interviews with Roher when a woman asks if he’s getting annoyed by the questions about his past. No, Navalny tells her, in Russian: Roher can ask whatever he wants. She says that’s fine, but that he seems agitated.Navalny stops and explains: “It’s just that I realize that he’s filming it all for the movie he’s going to release if I get whacked.”He wasn’t exactly correct. A few months after its premiere, “Navalny” made its U.S. streaming debut, where it continued to garner attention. Meanwhile, alive but in prison, Navalny stayed…

Twenty years ago, after blowing a crucial playoff lead to the Minnesota Twins, Juan Rincón described the feeling with baseball’s all-time blunder: “Nobody wants to be in my pants right now. . ”No one seems to want to wear any pair of baseball pants these days. Major league players reported to spring training this week that they can no longer order their pants and that their new style jerseys (designed by Nike and manufactured by Fanatics) do not meet major league standards.as Athletic team Stephen J. Nesbitt wrote that players across the league “criticized the jerseys for their poor fit,…

Maybe you noticed it on runways at New York Fashion Week. Maybe you glimpsed it on the heads of some “Swans.” Or maybe you saw it at the Grammy Awards, on Miley Cyrus, who paired all five of her outfits with a leonine mane.Big hair, it seems, is back. Models in the recent Marc Jacobs show were each wreathed in a nimbus of spun-sugar hair, and on the runway at Christian Cowan, they were given artfully back-combed updos. For Mr. Cowan, it was a winking homage to ladies who lunch — a caste that figures prominently in the TV mini-series…

Last June, 10 people were shot during celebrations on the night the Denver Nuggets won the National Basketball Association title. In 2019, four people were shot at the N.B.A. championship rally for the Toronto Raptors. Two men were shot and killed in a Los Angeles suburb during a celebration of the Dodgers’ World Series victory in 2020.This week brought the latest example of violence marring a celebratory sports moment. On Wednesday, shots rang out at the end of a Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City, Mo., leaving one woman dead and at least 22 people injured. The bloodshed led…

At one point during “This is Me … Now: A Love Story,” a character observes that watching Jennifer Lopez’s love life is like bingeing “Vanderpump Rules” — eventually you stop judging the people you’re seeing and start judging yourself. But in the case of this self-financed multimedia project, you might also question what exactly it is that you have watched. Is it a movie, a collection of music videos, a simple vanity project? Is it a therapy session, or a new genre entirely — the therapy musical? Lopez, who co-wrote and produced this 65-minute spectacle, which is now available on…

Israel carried out covert attacks on two major gas pipelines inside Iran this week, disrupting the flow of heat and cooking gas to provinces with millions of people, according to two Western officials and a military strategist affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps.The strikes represent a notable shift in the shadow war that Israel and Iran have been waging by air, land, sea and cyberattack for years. Israel has long targeted military and nuclear sites inside Iran — and assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists and commanders — both inside and outside of the country. Israel has also waged cyberattacks to disable…

Sitting in the warren of rooms in a hipster brick Moscow office building where Aleksei A. Navalny ran both his political movement and his anti-corruption organization, I asked him about running for president in 2024.There had been a series of small but widespread protests across Russia against corruption that spring of 2017, prompted by his investigation that revealed the vast wealth amassed by Dmitri A. Medvedev, the prime minister and former president. Although his supporters hoped Mr. Navalny could run for president in 2018, one told me he thought 2024 was more likely.Mr. Navalny shook his head. “When I hear…

U.S. women’s national team captain Lindsay Horan spoke to reporters about the reaction to her comments about U.S. fans’ soccer knowledge. Competitor Released earlier this month.”First of all, I want to apologize to our fans,” Horan said during a virtual live broadcast ahead of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. “Some of my comments were poorly delivered and that was a huge lesson for me.”in her interview CompetitorHoran shared her displeasure with how game spectators took the comments at face value, then joked that her mother did the same while watching the U.S. Women’s National Team play. On Thursday, she took the…

Sephora made headlines this week after a video went viral showing three girls wearing apparent blackface at one of the chain’s Boston locations. The company said in a statement to the news media that it had asked the shoppers to “leave the premises,” adding, “Under no circumstance is this type of behavior tolerated at Sephora.” But two witnesses have a different account of what took place.The 24-second video, which was posted on TikTok, was taken Feb. 8 at the Sephora store at the Prudential Center in Boston. It shows a blond woman confronting a second woman, who appears to be…