25 articles tagged "new-york-times"
On her way to making her second Olympic team, Simone Biles ran into doubts. Sometime during night two of U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials Sunday, they found a way into her head. Could she be as spectacular as everyon
Hollywood is hoping so as Universal Pictures reports that the ninth installment of the Fast and Furious franchise, “F9: The Fast Saga,†is expected to earn $68 million on 4,179 screens — the largest theater count
By now, Rick Owens has “corrupted,†as he puts it, several iconic shoe brands, breathing his weirdness into the safe and reliable designs of Birkenstock, Dr. Martens, Adidas and Converse. But one man’s corruption
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, under pressure to aggressively address the global coronavirus vaccine shortage, will announce as early as Thursday that his administration will buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer-Bi
PARIS — Serena Williams’ tennis dress was green and billowed in the breeze. The tape on her right thigh was white and tight. It was a fashion clash, surely not what Williams had in mind when she approved this F
Mask mandates have eased, a welcome milestone in the battle against COVID-19. But for the two dozen domestic companies that jumped into the mask-making business last year, the good news comes with a downside: a calamito
LOS ANGELES — It was not an especially pleasant night of basketball for Anthony Davis. Productive? Yes. Pleasant? No. The Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday were playing in front of a home playoff crowd for the first
For the last few months, scenes from Lake Como in Italy, where Ridley Scott is filming of “The House of Gucci,†the movie about the murder-for-hire of Maurizio Gucci by his wife, have trended on social media. Viewe
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Riad Ishkontana had promised his children that their building on Al Wahida Street was safe, though for Zein, his 2-year-old son, the thunder of the airstrikes spoke louder than his reassurances
A sudden loosening this past week of federal health guidance on masks has handed Americans a new calculation to make. And it is not just one calculation, but a maze of many. As people walked through their days, hour by
With the announcement Wednesday that she will end her long-running talk show next year, Ellen DeGeneres is stepping away from her biggest platform in a career that started in a New Orleans comedy club, led her to more t
Retail sales were flat last month after a buoyant March, the Commerce Department said Friday, as Americans continued spending their latest round of government stimulus checks. The pace for April was a slowdown from
NEW YORK — A fight among several men in Times Square Saturday led at least one of them to pull out a gun and open fire, injuring two women and a 4-year-old girl, police said. The girl, who was toy shopping with her f
Two brothers, age 8 and 5, were removed from their Oklahoma elementary school classrooms this past week and made to wait out the school day in a front office for wearing T-shirts that read “Black Lives Matter,†acco
NEW DELHI — His COVID-19 task force didn’t meet for months. His health minister assured the public in March that India had reached the pandemic’s “endgame.†A few weeks before that, Prime Minister Narendra Mod
Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast ever, has signed an agreement to represent women’s clothing brand Athleta and is leaving Nike, her longtime sponsor, just three months before the Summer Olympics begin in Tokyo
Saddam Sekh used to be a floor supervisor at a steamy Indian workshop in Mumbai that produced orders for an exporter working with some of the biggest names in luxury fashion, including Dior and Gucci. Day and night, he
Five people have been arrested and charged in connection with a violent attack in February in which a man who was walking Lady Gaga’s French bulldogs in Hollywood was shot and two of the dogs were stolen, the Los Ange
On the outside, Apple’s new AirTag looks like a ho-hum product that we have all seen before. It’s a disc-shaped tracking gadget that can be attached to items like house keys to help you find them. But inside, t
Under pressure from vaccine makers in India who say they need supplies to combat a surge in coronavirus cases, the Biden administration said Sunday that it had partially lifted a ban against the export of raw materials
