The first time I heard the word “chhaupadi,” I was standing on a rooftop in Surkhet, Nepal, in November 2017, surrounded by teenage girls. They were students at the Kopila Valley School, where my husband, Brian Lindstrom, and I had spent the previous week leading workshops in writing and filmmaking. Some of the girls had […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – German industrial gases group Linde has agreed to sell its South Korean subsidiary to local private equity firm IMM for 1.3 trillion won ($1.15 billion), two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. The move is seen part of Linde’s efforts to divest assets in South Korea and elsewhere to […]

The boxer is on the ropes, the overrun team are being punished in extra time, the competitor is down and receiving some swift boots to the stomach – at what point do we call stop? I personally made that call about 100 times last Sunday night, but it seems that yelling at a TV screen […]

As New York City has finally begun to exercise oversight over ultra-Orthodox yeshivas that have graduated students without a basic education, some of those Jewish schools have defied city health department scrutiny and helped to feed a measles outbreak. Forty children have contracted measles in recent months, all of the cases linked to a single […]

To the Editor: Re “Questions For and About Jared Kushner” (editorial, March 7): Missing from the editorial was mention of perhaps the most damning evidence of Mr. Kushner’s unsuitability for security clearance: his (apparently) failed attempt, during the transition period before President Trump took office, to establish a secret back channel with Russian contacts that […]

Republicans hate deficits. Or at least that’s what they claim. Republicans in Congress spent the entire Obama administration inveighing against budget deficits, warning incessantly that we were going to have a Greek-style fiscal crisis any day now. Donald Trump, on the other hand, focused his ire mainly on trade deficits, insisting that “our jobs and […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. 47 months. That was the sentence meted out to Paul Manafort for financial fraud at a federal court in Alexandria, Va., in a hearing that stretched past 7 p.m. Eastern. The judge, T.S. Ellis III, said that 19 to […]

To the Editor: “Braving Heat and Coyotes to Be Raped at the Border” (front page, March 4) rightly shines a spotlight on this underrecognized issue. As the article details, some sexual violence at the border is committed by private actors, like smugglers, but some is committed by federal actors, like Border Patrol agents. One of […]

A wayward bird went for a “wild ride” this week after getting sucked down California’s famed “glory hole,” a large funnel-like spillway in Napa. Tori Fowler posted a video on social media on Monday showing what appears to a cormorant minding its own business, floating on Lake Berryessa in Napa County. Unfortunately, the bird was […]

On Monday, Google announced something unusual: After its annual pay equity analysis, it gave most of the raises to adjust for unequal practices to men. The company says that it was about to make changes this year that would have compensated many men less than women in a certain job category, so it headed off […]