To the Editor: Re “Flurry of Voting Laws Signifies a Party’s Comeback in Albany” (front page, Jan. 15): Albany should get two cheers for finally enacting early voting and taking the first step to amend our state Constitution to permit same-day registration and unrestricted mail-in voting — reforms that dozens of other states have had […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Aramco is seeking advisers to arrange debt financing needed for the acquisition of a stake in Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) 2010.SE, banking sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The Saudi oil giant could borrow as much as $50 billion from international investors to fund the acquisition, sources […]

To the Editor: Re “Russell Baker, 1925-2019: ‘Observer’ With Pulitzer-Grade Wit and Whimsy” (front page, Jan. 23): Having just finished reading one of Russell Baker’s columns mentioned in his obituary, I am happy — and not at all surprised — that I found them as wry and exquisitely observational as they were when I first […]

As fate would have it, word of Russell Baker’s death came the same day as a Manhattan screening of a new HBO documentary, “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists.” Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill were archetypes of a New York brand of columnizing that they all but invented more than half a century ago. They came […]

(Reuters) – William “Bill” Thompson will be re-joining Pacific Investment Management Co in an advisory capacity in the role of chairman emeritus, the firm said on Wednesday. Thompson served as Pimco’s chief executive from 1993-2009. In his new role, Thompson will be a strategic adviser to Pimco Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel Roman, Group Chief Investment […]

Sang-Hun Mun came to Toronto from Korea in 2004 and began a carpentry apprenticeship. The following year, he fell off a roof onto the concrete ground below. “I broke my right foot…I got injured, my neck and shoulder and back,” he said. Mun still feels the effects of that injury today. He says he takes […]

The Taoiseach’s motto these days seems to be: “If it’s ‘in’, count me in.” So desperate is he to jump on every modish bandwagon, Leo Varadkar is rapidly becoming indistinguishable from RTE satirist Oliver Callan’s blistering mickey-take of him. Varadkar’s latest attempt to crash the Zeitgeist is by cutting down on eating meat – or […]

President Trump remains bullish that the North Korea nuclear threat can be contained. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, the president praised the “incredible meeting” he had the day before with a top representative of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, trumpeting the “tremendous progress” the two sides had made. The optimistic view is that the […]

Ulster Rugby’s swift conclusion of the investigation into the racist abuse directed at Irish international Simon Zebo demands commendation. So too the collective will of those supporters who witnessed the abuse, whose shame and abhorrence determinedly combined with the efficient CEO, Jonny Petrie, who would not have been thankful that one of his first major […]

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that the Trump administration could reinstate its policy barring most transgender people from serving in the military while several cases challenging the policy are being decided. The decision was both a devastating blow to me personally, and a disturbing sign of what is to come for transgender people […]