GÜSTROW, Germany — The plan sounded frighteningly concrete. The group would round up political enemies and those defending migrants and refugees, put them on trucks and drive them to a secret location. Then they would kill them. One member had already bought 30 body bags. More body bags were on an order list, investigators say,
SHEFFIELD, England — The 2020 world snooker championship, which began on Friday, had a familiar feel. The stage of the intimate Crucible Theatre, the event’s home for more than 40 years, was bathed in klieg lights, the green cloth of the snooker tables and the red carpeting so brightly illuminated it was like stepping inside
The Shawnee neighborhood in Louisville, Ky., is a paradox: The houses are affordable, but they can be difficult to buy. The prices are so low that most banks and lenders will not bother writing mortgages for them. That was the problem facing Christopher T. Smith when he moved back to Shawnee, a historically Black neighborhood
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s love affair with melodrama was over. After decades of reigning supreme over prime time slots, telenovelas, the country’s iconic soap operas, were losing viewers. Industry executives declared them obsolete, too corny and simplistic to compete with higher-brow, higher-budget shows. Now, thanks partly to the pandemic, the telenovela is roaring back. Confined
KHABAROVSK, Russia — Valentin Kvashnikov, a construction worker and recovering heroin addict, lives near the railway depot in a wooden shack, with a plastic trash can in the corner that serves as his toilet. But he has risen from obscurity into a celebrity in far eastern Russia by helping to energize the antigovernment demonstrations that
WASHINGTON — Russian intelligence services have been spreading disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, according to newly declassified intelligence, material that demonstrates how Moscow is continuing to try to influence Americans as the election draws closer. Russian military intelligence, known as the G.R.U., has used its ties with a Russian government information center, InfoRos, and other
WASHINGTON — After lawmakers collected hundreds of hours of interviews and obtained more than 1.3 million documents about Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, their chief executives will testify before Congress on Wednesday to defend their powerful businesses from the hammer of government. The captains of the New Gilded Age — Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington has put an exhibition by the Canadian digital media artist Jon Rafman on hold after several women have accused him of sexual misconduct. “The Hirshhorn is aware of the allegations and has made the decision not to move forward with the proposed exhibition at this time,” a
BEIJING — Two weeks ago, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, pleaded with the United States to step back from the brink and find ways to work together. Just days later, he complained to his Russian counterpart that the United States had “lost its mind, morals and credibility.” The question now is what China can do
LONDON — For the past three weeks, the attention of movie fans has been focused on one place: London’s grand, neo-Gothic Royal Courts of Justice. Not because of a shoot. Almost every day since July 7, Johnny Depp has walked into Court 13 here, where he is suing the owners of The Sun, a British