Simone Biles wins gold in all-around gymnastics at 2024 Olympics

David Autor seems an unlikely A.I. optimist. The labor economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is best known for his in-depth studies showing how much technology and trade have eroded the incomes of millions of American workers over the years. But Mr. Autor is now making the case that…

Swimming is not allowed at Manhattan’s newest beach. And yet. The water is oddly tantalizing. Yes, it’s the notoriously murky Hudson River, with Con Ed effluvia in it. But there’s no barrier between you and the waves, so I stood on the sloped concrete landing and allowed cool splashes of…

Modern nations can’t — practically or politically — have open borders, which allow anyone who chooses to immigrate. The good news is that America doesn’t have open borders, and there is no significant faction in our politics saying we should. In fact, immigrating to the United States legally is fairly…

In recent years, L.G.B.T.Q. people in Russia have lived under increasing fear as the Kremlin has ratcheted up measures curtailing gay and transgender rights in tandem with the repressive search for “internal enemies” during the war in Ukraine. In the latest threat, Russia’s Supreme Court, acting on Thursday on a…

Officials in Barbados said on Monday that the island had been spared the worst of Beryl. The prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, told a nationwide broadcast from the island’s emergency operations center that as many as 20 fishing boats, including two popular cruisers, had possibly sunk. Still, she added,…