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ALBANY — In the last days of the 2022 legislative session, as the State Capitol was abuzz with frenzied pushes to strengthen gun control, abortion rights and environmental regulations, New York lawmakers received a jolting email. Gov. Kathy Hochul was asking them to fast-track legislation authorizing billions of dollars in…

The embattled president of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who hasn’t been seen or heard from publicly since protesters overran his official residence this weekend, has reconfirmed his plan to step down, the country’s prime minister said on Monday. The president told the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, that he would resign,…

By January of this year Britain had become the first country in Europe to pass 150,000 deaths from Covid — per capita one of the worst death rates in the world. And, as you’re no doubt tired of reading, as people died, Conservatives partied. The revelation that 10 Downing Street,…

A team of executives from an American military contractor quietly visited Israel numerous times in recent months to try to carry out a bold but risky plan: purchasing NSO Group, the cyber hacking firm that is as notorious as it is technologically accomplished. The impediments were substantial for the team…

WASHINGTON — With his criminal trial for contempt of Congress approaching, Stephen K. Bannon, an ally of former President Donald J. Trump’s who was involved in his plans to overturn the 2020 election, has informed the House committee investigating the Capitol attack that he is now willing to testify, according…

To the Editor: When I practiced law, I always believed that the Supreme Court, as the highest court in the land, provided a safety net to protect the basic rights of the poor and the downtrodden in our society. Many of the recent opinions of the court have turned the…

On Tuesday morning, NASA will show off the first pictures and data from the new James Webb Space Telescope. That will bring to an end some 30 years and $10 billion of planning, building, testing and innovating, followed by 6 months of terror, tension and anticipation. The pictures constitute a…

To fight disinformation, California lawmakers are advancing a bill that would force social media companies to divulge their process for removing false, hateful or extremist material from their platforms. Texas lawmakers, by contrast, want to ban the largest of the companies — Facebook, Twitter and YouTube — from removing posts…

Latino voters have recently shifted toward the Republican Party. Most still vote for Democrats, but the margin has shrunk. One sign of the shift is in Texas’ majority-Latino 34th Congressional District, which recently elected Mayra Flores, a conservative Republican, to serve out the remaining term of a Democrat who resigned…

They did flips into the pool. They lounged on canopied beds. And on wide-screen televisions, they watched cricket and news footage of their fellow protesters, who had massed in Sri Lanka’s capital and joined them in storming the presidential residence and secretariat. After months of growing economic deprivation, of fuel…