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Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, is raising salaries and benefits for store managers as it looks for ways to retain them.Walmart said on Monday that managers of its U.S. stores would be eligible for grants of up to $20,000 in company stock every year. The stock will vest over a three-year period, with a percentage vested each quarter.The announcement came a few weeks after Walmart said it would increase the average salary for store managers to $128,000, up from $117,000. The big-box retailer also said bonuses for store managers could reach up to 200 percent of base salary, with…

Most post-nomination Oscar chatter focuses on surprises and snubs connected to the fiction nominees. But I’m a nonfiction nerd, so for me the documentaries are where it’s at, and in recent years, the picks have grown delightfully unpredictable. This year, two seeming slam dunks were left off the list: “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie” and “American Symphony,” about the musician Jon Batiste. Both are artful, and their nominations had seemed assured because, at least in the past, well-made portraits tended to get eyeballs and thus votes.But here we are, in a strange new world. Biographical documentaries are still hugely…

The United States struck two Houthi anti-ship missiles in Yemen, the military’s Central Command said on Tuesday, resuming what U.S. officials said were short-notice attacks against the Iran-backed militia’s imminent threats to merchant vessels, as well as Navy ships in the Red Sea and nearby waters.The U.S. strikes — the ninth in two weeks — came a day after the United States and Britain carried out much larger military salvos against nine sites in Yemen controlled by the Houthis. Those strikes against multiple targets at each location hit radars, as well as drone and missile sites, and underground weapons storage…

A panel of three arbitrators for the top court in sports on Monday ruled that Kamila Valieva, the teenage Russian Olympian whose positive doping test upended the figure skating competition at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, issued her with a four year ban.The punishment, announced by a three-member panel empowered by the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport, will be retroactive to Dec. 25, 2021. That is the date Valieva, who was 15 at the time, provided a tainted sample at a competition only months before the Olympics. The ban will end in 2025, just in time for her to…

Neither of them dated anyone else as they developed Preferabli together. She often traveled for work, staying in Airbnbs for months at a time, while he stayed in New York. When the coronavirus pandemic hit and airline travel was halted, Ms. Dillon became stranded in New York.“The world looked bleak with Covid, and I was scared,” she said. “I asked Stephen if I could move in with him. He said yes.”In late 2020, while strolling through Central Park, Ms. Dillon shared her worries that Preferabli might not survive the pandemic. But Mr. Dillon made her feel secure. “He said we…

After nearly two years of false starts, last-ditch proposals and pleas for more time, China Evergrande, a massive property company, has been ordered to dismantle itself. It’s a big moment. Evergrande’s collapse in 2021 sent China’s housing market into a tailspin. The worries in real estate, where most households put their savings, helped tip the economy into a downturn.The scale of Evergrande’s empire is enormous: Its developments cover hundreds of cities. It controls dozens of business and is more than $300 billion in debt — a sum far greater than most believe its assets are worth. The company’s liquidation puts…

I wasn’t expecting to cry as much as I did at “Godzilla Minus One.” The strong word-of-mouth made it sound like an awesome spectacle with cool action courtesy of the scaly title creature. And while there were awe-inducing showdowns with the monster, the Toho International production, written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, is largely a meditation on sorrow and survival in the wake of World War II.The specter of trauma has long hung over Godzilla, a creature unearthed from slumber by H-bomb testing in the 1954 original. But “Godzilla Minus One” (a black-and-white version is reaching theaters on Friday) further…

Three U.S. service members were killed in Jordan on Sunday and at least 34 others were injured in what the Biden administration said was a drone attack from an Iran-backed militia, the first known American military fatalities from hostile fire in the turmoil spilling over from Israel’s war with Hamas.The attack happened at a remote logistics outpost in northeast Jordan called Tower 22 where the borders of Syria, Iraq and Jordan converge. The one-way attack drone hit near the outpost’s living quarters, causing injuries that ranged from minor cuts to brain trauma, a U.S. military official said.But the deaths of…

Catherine, the Princess of Wales and the wife of Prince William, has returned home from a London hospital almost two weeks after undergoing abdominal surgery, Kensington Palace said in a statement on Monday.She will convalesce at home for two to three months, according to her office at the palace, and will not return to official duties until after Easter, which falls on March 31 this year.“The Princess of Wales has returned home to Windsor to continue her recovery from surgery. She is making good progress,” Kensington Palace said in the statement.It added: “The Prince and Princess wish to say a…

Daniella Greenbaum Davis, a television producer and a former editor at Commentary, the neoconservative, pro-Israel magazine, said that she “grew up in a Holocaust home” — one of her grandmothers is a survivor — in which her family often averred that the “best revenge” against antisemitism was to “be Jewish, proud, and repopulate.” Ms. Davis, who is modern Orthodox, said that the events of Oct. 7 had strengthened her conviction to have another child soon. (She already has two.)Young lives have taken on a terrible significance in the war between Israel and Hamas, where each side has stressed the brutality…