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World
U.K. Conservatives Suffer Sharp Setbacks in Early Results of Local Elections
The governing Conservative Party trails badly in national opinion polls. The municipal races offer a clue to its fate in…
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World
‘Dead Poets Society’ Has Some Distinctly Australian Relevance
Brought to life by the Australian director Peter Weir, the movie’s conflict reflects a collective cultural trait his fellow citizens…
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World
Jury in Federal Lawsuit Deadlocks on Abu Ghraib Torture Allegations
Three Iraqi men sued a Virginia contractor that supplied interrogators to the U.S. military after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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World
Woman Who Sold Misbranded Ozempic on TikTok Faces Smuggling Charge
Federal prosecutors said the woman from Shirley, N.Y., was not licensed to administer medication and was selling drugs brought from…
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World
Trump’s Team Paints Stormy Daniels’s Ex-Lawyer as a Shakedown Artist
During his testimony in the former president’s criminal trial, Keith Davidson described a lucrative legal niche keeping embarrassing stories out…
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World
Former Police Officer Who Protected Sex Traffickers Gets 3-Year Sentence
Wayne Peiffer, who was an officer in Brewster, N.Y., warned a sex trafficking organization about law enforcement activity in exchange…
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News
Robert Oxnam, China Scholar Beset by Multiple Personalities, Dies at 81
Through psychotherapy, recounted in a memoir, he learned that he had 11 personalities, or fractured parts of his identity. One…
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World
Court Says Italy Is Rightful Owner of Bronze Held by Getty Museum
The European Court of Human Rights has found that Italy’s claims to a contested Greek statue are legitimate. But the…
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News
Peggy Mellon Hitchcock, Who Helped Timothy Leary Turn On, Dies at 90
She was an enthusiastic supporter of the counterculture. And when she suggested that her brothers rent Mr. Leary a mansion,…
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Finance
Can a ‘Not Charlotte’ Recipe Revive a Region?
Scott Kidd didn’t expect a terribly busy job when he became the town manager of Liberty, N.C., a onetime furniture…