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LONDON — Month after stressful month, the problems mounted inside Chelsea F.C. Almost a dozen employees of the club’s marketing department said they had come to expect being berated by their boss in front of colleagues. Others said they had faced his wrath in more humiliating ways, ordered to stand…

PARIS — Twenty men were convicted on Wednesday for their roles in the worst Islamist terrorist attack in French history, a coordinated spree of shootings and bombings in November 2015 that killed 130 people in and near Paris and injured more than 500, leaving lasting scars on the nation’s psyche….

“It is possible to work with brands and still remain fact-based and science-based,” she said, but she acknowledged that “part of it is necessity — because debunking was taking up so many of my hours.” Ms. Wong quit her job in 2019 to devote herself full-time to Lab Muffin Beauty…

Bob Chapek took over from Robert A. Iger in February 2020, just before the pandemic caused Disney to shut down most of its businesses. Credit…Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Chris Pizzello/Invision/Ap For months, Hollywood has been engaged in a guessing game about Bob Chapek’s future as Disney’s chief executive, with detractors contending…

For more than a decade, he was a feared presence in Iran, presiding over a vast intelligence apparatus. He crushed domestic dissent and political rivals, and expanded covert operations beyond Iran’s borders to target dissidents and enemies abroad. Hossein Taeb, a 59-year-old cleric and chief of intelligence for the powerful…

PARIS — The four young lawyers took the floor at a prestigious speech contest a few days after 130 people were killed in terrorist attacks across Paris in November 2015. Competing in the final round, they struggled to clear their minds from the shocking images of the massacre they had…

That district, the Second Congressional District, is more than 60 percent Black and snakes along the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Much of it is surrounded by the Sixth District, which is one-third Black. Judge Shelly D. Dick of the Federal District Court in Baton Rouge found…

Nearly 100 years after a Black couple’s beachfront property was taken away by a Southern California city, Los Angeles County voted unanimously on Tuesday to return the land to the family in what officials described as an effort to “right the wrongs of the past.” In an emotional meeting, the…

WASHINGTON — As Democrats and reproductive rights advocates clamored for President Biden to forcefully counter the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, his health secretary, Xavier Becerra, stepped up to a lectern here on Tuesday to list the steps his department would take to preserve and expand access to…

A Texas judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked an immediate prohibition on abortions in that state, allowing procedures to resume, though the state’s recent ban at about six weeks of pregnancy still applies. The Texas ruling was the latest in a series of state-by-state legal actions aimed at protecting reproductive rights…