To the Editor: Contrary to “The Death of Hong Kong as We Know It?,” by Ray Wong Toi-yeung (Op-Ed, nytimes.com, June 4), the Hong Kong government’s proposed amendments to extradition laws seek to enable us to effectively combat serious crimes by sealing the legal vacuum in our existing mechanism for surrendering fugitive offenders. They do […]

Editors’ note: This is the third installment in a new series, “Op-Eds From the Future,” in which science fiction authors, futurists, philosophers and scientists write Op-Eds that they imagine we might read 10, 20 or even 100 years from now. The challenges they predict are imaginary — for now — but their arguments illuminate the […]

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said Caixa Econômica Federal will sell a stake worth 7.2 billion reais ($1.86 billion) in the company based on the shares’ June 7 closing price, according to a securities filing on Monday. Petrobras, as the oil company is known, had delayed the Brazilian and […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese fintech company Ant Financial Services has formed a joint venture with a Shanghai unit of U.S.-based asset management firm The Vanguard Group, government records showed. The venture marks a high-profile partnership of Jack Ma-controlled Ant Financial with an overseas asset management company. The online national registry for businesses listed an entity […]

In 1983, when I was sworn in as a police officer, many of the routine tasks of the trade would have seemed more familiar to a cop from my grandfather’s day than to a new police academy graduate today. I took ink fingerprints on paper cards and used a Polaroid camera for mug shots. Reports […]

It was, in the end, the Trump trip most of us had secretly hoped for. Probably we disapprove of him, nobody has been digging up ancestors or naming plazas after him, Michael D spoke out against him and the Baby Blimp was cheered by the crowds when it made its appearance in the Garden of […]

To the Editor: Re “Diversity Fades at Elite Schools in City: ‘What Has Happened?’” (front page, June 4): The abysmally low enrollment of minority students in the selective high schools is a serious problem. As a school neuropsychologist who has evaluated thousands of students and observed dozens of classrooms, I have seen educational inequality directly. […]

I’d like to make an important announcement to New York retailers: NEW JERSEY HAS AGREED TO IMMEDIATELY BEGIN BUYING LARGE QUANTITIES OF WHITEFISH SALAD FROM OUR GREAT PATRIOT GOURMET MARKETS. What’s that you say? There was no such agreement? New Jersey doesn’t even have any kind of centralized purchasing mechanism for food products? I say […]

The following is an extract from ‘Enda the Road: Nine Days That Toppled a Taoiseach’ by Gavan Reilly, which is an account of a nine-day political hurricane that brought down the former Taoiseach. Prelude to the extract: On February 15, 2017, Fine Gael TDs and senators attended their weekly meeting of the parliamentary party. It […]

You are at your daughter’s recital and you get a call that your elderly patient’s son needs to talk to you urgently. A colleague has a family emergency and the hospital needs you to work a double shift. Your patient’s M.R.I. isn’t covered and the only option is for you to call the insurance company […]