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Sports
After Competing Without a Hijab, a Top Iranian Chess Player Heads for Spain
Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, ranked No. 17 among women in the world, will not return to Iran after forgoing a head scarf…
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Sports
Georgia and Ohio State Know All About No. 4 Seeds Making Title Runs
Top-seeded teams have been more likely to win College Football Playoff semifinals. But teams ranked fourth — including Ohio State…
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Sports
Pelé Set Soccer’s Gold Standard. It Can’t Be Matched.
The debate over the game’s greatest player always begins with comparison to the Brazilian master. But Pelé’s on-field artistry was…
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World
In Battered Ukrainian City, Workers Battle Winter, Not the Russians
Firefighters in Lyman, in Ukraine’s east, contend with land mines, freezing temperatures, damaged buildings, awful cell service and a lack…
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World
Andrew Tate Is Detained in Romania in Human Trafficking Investigation
Mr. Tate, an online personality known for making misogynistic comments about women, was being held for 24 hours, the authorities…
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News
Once an Open Sewer, New York Harbor Now Teems With Life. Thank the Clean Water Act.
Fifty years ago, Congress voted to override President Richard Nixon’s veto of the Clean Water Act. It has proved to…
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News
Creating the Exiled Sea Creature of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
Payakan, the estranged young tulkun, exemplifies the director James Cameron’s obsessive attention to the biomechanics of every entity that inhabits…
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Sports
Tributes Pour In as Brazil Readies for Pelé’s Funeral
Pelé’s body will lie at midfield at the Estádio Urbano Caldeira, his former club’s stadium, for 24 hours.
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Sports
When Pelé Took New York by Storm
In August 1967, it was hard to imagine that Americans might get interested in soccer. Then Pelé played at Yankee…
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News
Giancarlo Esposito Plays Other People So He Can Know Himself
Giancarlo Esposito is thinking about robbery. “Have you ever walked into a bank and thought, ‘There’s all this money here’?”…