A century after the original golden era of railroads, trains are once again the talk of travel. In Europe, especially, train travel is surging as an environmental alternative to short-haul flights, with more night trains, high-speed routes and transnational collaboration between rail companies. Political ties between European countries may be jittery, but the cities are…
As President Trump addressed Congress last week, he veered off script to attack a sensitive topic, the CHIPS Act, a bipartisan law aimed at making the United States less reliant on Asia for semiconductors. Republican lawmakers had sought and received reassurances over the past few months that the Trump administration would support the program Congress…
A day after landing on the moon, the robotic Athena spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines of Houston is dead. In an update on its website on Friday, the company confirmed that Athena had tipped onto its side — the same fate that befell its first lunar lander, Odysseus, last year. With its solar panels unable…
When the Minnesota boys’ high school state hockey tournament wraps up each year, John King retreats to his basement in White Bear Lake, Minn., so he can pore through footage of mullets, bleached mops and caterpillarlike mustaches. The resulting video montage — his “All Hockey Hair Team” — was released on Sunday, taking its annual…
Online trading platform Robinhood has agreed to pay $29.75 million to settle several probes from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) related to the company’s supervision and compliance practices. The settlement figure consisted of a $26 million civil fine and $3.75 million restitution to customers, FINRA said on March 7. Robinhood failed to “respond to…
Mar 9, 2025; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray (27) passes around Oklahoma City Thunder forward Chet Holmgren (7) during the second quarter at Paycom Center. Mandatory Credit: Alonzo Adams-Imagn Images Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 40 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to their seventh consecutive victory, a 127-103 rout over the…
There was theater at Dior on Day 1 of Paris Fashion Week. Powerful glamour at Alaïa. But for real-life dressing drama, nothing compared to the fashion show that took place in front of the luminous glass pyramid of the Louvre on the opening evening of the collections, as guests arrived for the museum’s gala Grand…
Five years — and hundreds of millions of cases — after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 pandemic, scientists are getting a clearer picture of how the virus can affect the body long after an infection seems to pass. Some of Covid’s effects became apparent soon after the virus began spreading. We quickly understood…
Figma, a cloud-based design platform, has met with investment banks in recent weeks to discuss an initial public offering that could come as soon as this year, two people with knowledge of the matter said. In 2023, European and U.S. regulators stymied an effort by the software giant Adobe to buy Figma for $20 billion….
Hang around the fashion industry for all of, oh, five minutes, and you’ll start to hear the term “classics with a twist.” Designers say it, writers use it, marketing execs cite it. What they mean, typically, is something familiar, bent just enough to feel fresh — stylistically, and, of course, commercially. Is it trite? Certainly….