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Why It Matters: The eurozone economy has regained its footing — for now. Just a few months ago, governments across Europe were braced for the possibility of an outright downturn, as Europe pivoted away from Russian natural gas and energy and food bills skyrocketed. But countries swiftly stockpiled energy reserves,…

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday announced that she and state lawmakers had reached an agreement on a roughly $229 billion state budget that would change the state’s bail laws, increase the minimum wage and provide urgently needed funding for New York City’s transit system. The deal capped…

Stew Leonard Sr., a folkloric retailer who expanded his namesake stores into merchandising meccas replete with petting zoos and mechanical singing farm animals, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 93. The cause was complications of pneumonia, his son Stewart Jr. said. Mr. Leonard opened his original…

A petite, attractive, dark-haired young woman, Carolyn won two high school beauty pageants. In 1951, at 16, she left school to elope with Mr. Bryant, a 20-year-old Army infantryman she had met at a party two years before. “According to other family members I’ve talked to, Carolyn was a little…

Ed Sheeran testified with a guitar on Thursday at a closely watched copyright trial, defending his hit ballad “Thinking Out Loud” against an accusation that he had copied it from Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” Cradling his acoustic instrument in a federal courtroom in Manhattan, Mr. Sheeran demonstrated the…

In advance of Mr. Trump’s New York indictment, his former adviser Roger Stone reminded people to keep their protests “civil” and “legal.” Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would “be pointing at people to be arrested if they’re being violent.” Many (but not all) of the Trump-backed candidates who lost…

It stands to reason that Woodrow Wilson would be the president to bring us Army bases named for traitors who waged war on this country with the goal of preserving slavery. He took office in 1913 with a team of white supremacists who announced themselves by requiring separate white and…

After the long, gray winter, outside is where I want to be more and more. And somehow all I want to eat is vegetables, perhaps as a kind of tonic. If your climate allows, this light, sunny menu is really more of a daylight meal, relaxed and best eaten outdoors…

“Salt gave us work and salt gave us life,” said Ruslan, a salt miner turned soldier. Ruslan, 45, was working 1,000 feet below the earth in one of Europe’s largest salt mines when the Russians launched their full-scale invasion. Almost a year later, he was fighting near the ruined city…

The White House invited more than 180 guests to the state dinner hosted by President Biden for President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea on Wednesday night, including government officials, athletes, business leaders and prominent Asian Americans. Here is the full list of those invited as provided by the White…