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Wimbledon officials on Wednesday said they would bar Russian and Belarusian players from entering this year’s tournament because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Belarus’s support of the war. Wimbledon became the first Grand Slam tennis event to restrict individual Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing. In a statement, Wimbledon…

As coronavirus cases rise again, fueled by BA.2, the highly contagious Omicron subvariant, New York City is on the cusp of moving to a yellow, or medium, risk level from a green or low risk level. But what does that mean for the city’s residents and what precautions should they…

Wimbledon officials on Wednesday said they would bar Russian and Belarusian players from entering this year’s tournament because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Belarus’s support of the war. Wimbledon became the first Grand Slam tennis event to restrict individual Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing. In a statement, Wimbledon…

Elon Musk is the latest rich guy to have fallen for the trap of Twitter. For nearly its entire 16-year life, Twitter has had the reputation that it hasn’t fulfilled its potential and could be so much more. Twitter’s conundrum is that it’s widely known but not that widely used,…

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II turns 96 on Thursday, a milestone she will mark out of sight at her country estate, Sandringham. But the birthday has not arrived without a dollop of drama from her self-exiled grandson, Prince Harry, who said this week he wanted to make sure the aging…

Florida Republicans are poised to adopt one of the nation’s most aggressive congressional maps, pressing forward with a proposal from Gov. Ron DeSantis that would most likely add four congressional districts for the party while eliminating three held by Democrats. The map, which the Florida Senate approved by a party-line…

DURBAN, South Africa — In 2009, as officials in the port city of Durban prepared to host the next year’s World Cup of soccer, they moved hundreds of residents from their tin shacks near the city center to a flood-prone field south of town. The new settlement, a tight cluster…