In Britain, inflation is near a four-decade high, food prices are rising, and, according to some forecasts, the economy is already entering a recession. Still, the country is grappling with an additional, unusual problem: a smaller work force. Britain’s labor market shrank during the pandemic, but unlike most other advanced economies, it hasn’t rebounded. Since early […]
A special grand jury that investigated election interference by former President Donald J. Trump and his allies in Georgia recommended indictments of multiple people on a range of charges in its report, most of which remains sealed, the forewoman of the jury said in an interview today. “It is not a short list,” the forewoman, […]
Genaro García Luna, once the architect and public face of Mexico’s bloody war on its powerful criminal groups, was convicted on Tuesday in a New York courtroom of betraying his country and colleagues by taking millions of dollars in bribes from the violent drug cartels he was meant to be pursuing. The guilty verdict, which […]
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday ordered the operator of a train carrying hazardous chemicals that derailed in eastern Ohio to clean up any resulting contamination and pay all the costs. The operator, Norfolk Southern, will not only be compelled to identify and clean contaminated soil and water, but also must reimburse the E.P.A. for […]
WALTERBORO, S.C. — Alex Murdaugh, the prominent South Carolina lawyer charged with murdering his wife and younger son, was “destroyed” and “heartbroken” after the killings, his surviving son testified on Tuesday. The son, Buster Murdaugh, also told jurors that his father sounded “normal” when he spoke with him earlier on the night of June 7, […]
In the operations center of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on a recent Wednesday, a large dashboard showed that 39 people had died unexpectedly across the city — at home, or accidentally, or violently — over the last 24 hours. That was more than on Sunday, but fewer than the 45 deaths on […]
An auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was fatally shot at his home on Saturday afternoon, the police said. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies responding to an emergency medical call found the bishop, David O’Connell, at his home with a gunshot wound around 1 p.m., the department said. He was pronounced dead […]
The 911 call came just before 10 p.m. on Jan. 18, a Wednesday. A woman had found her sister lying face down on the floor of her Upper West Side apartment, her hands and feet bound behind her with yellow and black rope. The police said that the victim, Maria Hernandez, 74, who lived in […]
Food shortages triggered by Venezuela’s economic collapse pushed Victor Rojas onto a bus and across the border to Colombia. But soon after arriving, he was in a state of shock. He had quickly gone from studying music at a university in Caracas and performing in orchestras to playing violin for tips on the streets of […]
The body of an 11-week-old boy was found in a submerged vehicle in Pax, W.Va., on Friday after heavy rains poured across the state this week and caused dangerous flooding in some rural parts, the authorities said. On Friday morning, after up to three inches fell in some areas over two days, the Fayette County […]