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Good evening. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday. 1. The flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet sank amid conflicting claims of the cause. Ukraine said it had hit the vessel, the Moskva, with a missile. Russia said it had been damaged by a fire and that it later…

Once you’ve overcome your shyness, there’s the question of how best to frame constructive criticism. Some of the things you’ve heard may not actually be helpful — like the often-recommended “sandwich” method, which involves sandwiching criticism between two layers of praise. This approach “is not supported by evidence, and research…

“I had just gotten done with the cocktail training and the other bartender was like, ‘Oh, Tyler, go downstairs and get some beer and I’ll show you where we restock it’,” Mx. Glenn said. It was while Mx. Glenn was downstairs that, according to the prosecutors’ narrative of events, Mr….

Her remains were first exhumed in 2015, the authorities said. In February 2021 they sent the remains to Othram, a forensic laboratory that specializes in using forensic genetic genealogy to help solve older crimes. By September, they had successfully obtained enough DNA to begin building a profile and search for…

A Republican state senator in Nebraska said on Thursday that she had been groped three years ago by a fellow Republican who is now a leading candidate in the party’s primary election for governor next month. The candidate, Charles Herbster, denied the allegations from the state senator, Julie Slama, calling…

“A simple personality conflict, it does not disqualify an offer,” Mr. Pascarella said. “But if they are tying Elon’s personality traits to the likelihood of the deal happening — can you come up with the cash, and will the deal actually close — then that can very much be taken…

I recently wrote about how international trade has made some Western nations — Germany in particular — unwilling to confront autocracy. Germany hasn’t just been weak-kneed in its response to Vladimir Putin; it and other European nations have stood by and even continued to provide economic aid to Hungary while…

Ed Buck, a one-time Democratic donor and activist, was sentenced by a federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday to 30 years in prison for giving two men fatal doses of methamphetamine at his West Hollywood apartment, prosecutors said. The sentencing concludes Mr. Buck’s extraordinary turn from a prominent activist…

Questioning himself is something I have never seen Musk do (and do not expect him to start now). He likes to shoot the moon, as they say, even though this purchase stretches his own finances. But he has access to even more capital and also has a gaggle of rich…

Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. Credit…Laura Morton for The New York Times Twitter’s board is considering a defensive move known as a poison pill that would severely limit Elon Musk’s ability to acquire the social media giant, two people with knowledge of the situation said. The board met on Thursday to…