Photo Kevin Spacey at an awards show on Friday. He apologized on Sunday to Anthony Rapp, an actor who accused him of making a sexual advance when Mr. Rapp was 14. Credit Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press Kevin Spacey, a two-time Oscar winner, apologized Sunday night for what he said “would have been deeply inappropriate…
Bitcoin is spiking to a record after CME Group Inc. said it’s planning to launch bitcoin futures as the move could open the floodgates of investors who have been standing on the sidelines as bitcoin soared over 500 percent this year.The cryptocurrency jumped as much as 5.2 percent to $6,416.39 after the CME said it…
The first charges unsealed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of the presidential election suggest a sweeping investigation, but one focus is clear: He’s building a case that Donald Trump’s campaign was in close touch with Russian officials who aimed to defeat Hillary Clinton.That hypothesis begins with a cooperating witness, George Papadopoulos, a 30-year-old junior foreign-policy…
TUAM, Ireland Behold a child. A slight girl all of 6, she leaves the modest family farm, where the father minds the livestock and the mother keeps a painful secret, and walks out to the main road. Off she goes to primary school, off to the Sisters of Mercy. Her auburn hair in ringlets, this…
Manfred then met with Gurriel, who is 33, on Saturday and said the player was contrite. Still, Manfred said Major League Baseball needed to act and send a message. Photo Yu Darvish warmed up on Saturday before Game 4 of the World Series in Houston. Credit Matt Slocum/Associated Press “Notwithstanding Mr. Gurriel’s remorse, there needs…
The ousted Catalan government dismissed Madrid’s direct administrative control of the region, defiantly reaffirming its proclamation of independence, even as thousands of pro-unity demonstrators gathered in Barcelona.Pro-unity demonstration in Barcelona on Sunday, Oct. 29.Photographer: Pierre-Phillip Marcou/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Catalan Republic has been declared and Carles Puigdemont is still the president, ousted Vice President Oriol Junqueras said…
A few years ago, private equity managers were growing tired of sitting on the sidelines, watching Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway make landmark investments in Kraft Heinz and BNSF Railway. They wanted to get in the game.To play, they would need to give themselves lots of time—decades, in fact—and as near-to-permanent capital as they could muster.…
Immigration agents have, however, detained some teenagers who are suspected of membership in gangs like MS-13, a gang rooted in Los Angeles and El Salvador that President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have repeatedly condemned. As a general matter, the Trump administration has hardened immigration enforcement across the country, lifting guidelines established under President…
The Reader Center is a newsroom initiative that is helping The Times build deeper ties with our audience. Christine McMorrow, one of The New York Times’s most faithful and prolific commenters (almost 10,000 posts and counting), created a stir among the site’s commentariat today, while trying to post to a story about the Republican Party’s…
President Donald Trump is leaning toward appointing Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Fed, according to three people familiar with the matter.The decision isn’t yet final, the people cautioned, and Trump could change his mind at any time. Yet his preference for Powell dims current Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s…
