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NASHVILLE — In 1976 I left a small Catholic grammar school, where we prayed aloud four times a day, to attend a large public high school where we didn’t pray aloud at all. The United States Supreme Court had banned school-sponsored prayer in 1962, but nobody was keeping me from praying. I prayed for help […]

In the video Op-Ed above, a former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, argues that world leaders are weak, shortsighted and mediocre, and no longer willing or able to defend human rights. Abuses used to be called out and stopped, and human rights offenders had something to fear. Today, they are […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning, We’re covering President Trump’s threat of more tariffs on China, a weekend of violence between Gaza and Israel, and a contentious decision at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. A hitch in U.S.-China talks President Trump has threatened to impose more tariffs on Chinese […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Telecoms and cable company Altice Europe will save more than 110 million euros ($123 million) annually after refinancing debt in a deal that it said would strengthen its financial position. The company, whose brands include SFR in France, said it had successfully priced and allocated 2.8 billion euros ($3.1 billion) worth of […]

It may be one of the oldest Chinese temples in Singapore, dating back to the pre-colonial era when the Hakkas first built a shrine to the deity Tua Pek Kong more than two centuries earlier. But the actual Fook Tet Soo Khek temple in Palmer Road, which was built in 1844, has no official protection […]

Americans can be forgiven if they struggle to find any coherence in the Trump administration’s foreign policy. It zigs and zags, with senior administration officials saying one thing and President Trump contradicting them without warning the next day. It punishes our allies and coddles our adversaries; it privileges demagogy over democracy. Mr. Trump’s approach appears […]

To the Editor: Re “The Case for Doing Nothing,” by Olga Mecking (Smarter Living, nytimes.com, April 29), about “the benefits of idleness”: There are times, during the college classes I teach and when working as a psychotherapist, that I ask people to sit still for three minutes and focus on their breath. I often don’t […]

The community of Harvest Hills in northeast Calgary looks much different now than it did two and half years ago. That’s when the city gave the green light to build over 700 homes on the former Harvest Hills golf course. “It’s too bad that city hall ignored the views of the residents of this area,” […]

To Waterford, to give a talk titled ‘Reflections of a Revisionist’, which turned into a two-day tour of the literally wonderful Waterford Museum of Treasures. Literally wonderful because the three interlinked museums of the Viking Triangle (Reginald’s Tower, the Medieval Museum and the Bishop’s Palace) are filled with treasures that take the breath away. Dr […]