(Reuters) – Mobile games developer Huuuge Inc’s initial public offering is now expected to be higher at about $442 million as shares are indicated to be priced at the upper end of an anticipated range, bookrunners organising the floatation said on Tuesday. The company last week set the maximum price in its Warsaw IPO at […]

General Motors’ announcement last week that it will stop making gas-powered cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles by 2035 and become carbon neutral by 2040 is even bolder than it sounds: The repercussions will ripple broadly across the economy, accelerating the transition to a broader electric future powered by renewable energy. The pledge by the […]

Myanmar’s decade-long experiment in conditional democracy just ended in a textbook example of a coup — a coup that was a pre-emptive strike. In the early hours of Monday, as the new national Parliament was scheduled to convene for its first session, the military, known as the Tatmadaw, announced that it was taking over, alleging […]

New York’s vaccination program is struggling. Several weeks in, the state still needs significant help from the federal government — millions more vaccine doses, but also money to set up distribution sites, help staff them and other basic infrastructure. Those people currently eligible for vaccines — New Yorkers 65 and older and certain essential workers […]

In May 2014, when retired U.S. Army Medical Service Corps Officer Nuwanna Franklin moved on from the Department of Defense to an administrative position at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Dublin, Ga., she envisioned a few years of rewarding work, and then retirement. In her new role, Ms. Franklin received formal V.A. plaudits, thank-you notes […]

Last month, Arnold Schwarzenegger and I separately got our first Covid-19 vaccinations on camera, with the hope that we would encourage people who were fearful of the vaccines to reconsider. We are both 73 years old (though I clearly look much younger) and have underlying health conditions, so we didn’t use our celebrity status to […]

Readers reflect on what Catholicism means to the president, and to society. To the Editor: Re “Joe Biden’s Catholic Moment,” by Ross Douthat (column, Jan. 24): Joe Biden is only our second Roman Catholic president. I’m old enough to remember the controversy over John F. Kennedy’s Catholic faith when he ran for office in 1960. […]

This week, the San Francisco School Board of Education voted 6 to 1 to proceed with a plan to rename 44 of the city’s currently shuttered schools, wiping away notables like Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Paul Revere, Robert Louis Stevenson and even Dianne Feinstein, California’s senior senator, for various forms of cooperation with white supremacy […]

Readers discuss whether to eliminate the filibuster, selling the Democratic agenda to the public, statehood for D.C. and more. To the Editor: Re “Democrats, Here’s How to Lose in 2022,” by Ezra Klein (Sunday Review, Jan. 24): I have great respect for Mr. Klein, but can we end the circular firing squad? Reflection and keen […]

Stephanie Abney says she knows who killed her 20-year-old son, Fabian, last August. But she is still waiting for the New York Police Department to solve the case — another unsolved murder in a city grappling with a surge of gun violence amid the pandemic. As the months wear on since Fabian’s murder, Ms. Abney […]