Hong Kong’s national security police have a new target in their sights: gamers. In a stern warning issued Tuesday, they effectively banned a Taiwanese video game they described as “advocating armed revolution,”…
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Opinion | Trump Wants to Be a Strongman, but He’s Actually a Weak Man
(Here it should be said that a few years earlier, in 1990, Trump praised the Chinese government for its handling of the protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989: “When the students poured…
Austria Mourns After a Deadly School Shooting
Even though school is out for at least a week, students kept coming on Wednesday morning, the day after a deadly school shooting in Austria stunned the country. Instead of going into…
Musk Expresses ‘Regret’ Over His Criticisms of Trump
Elon Musk said in a social media post early Wednesday that he regretted some of his posts and comments about President Trump last week, which had led the president to disparage Mr….
Did Kylie Jenner Get Plastic Surgery? She Did, and She’ll Tell You Exactly How.
In Ovid’s “Pygmalion” an artist creates an ivory sculpture of a woman so beautiful that he falls in love with it. He kisses his statue, adorns it with jewels and finery, and…
Yosemite Bans Large Flags From El Capitan, Criminalizing Protests
It is one of America’s most majestic and recognizable landmarks, having beckoned Teddy Roosevelt, Ansel Adams and, more recently, protesters. From the granite walls of El Capitan in California’s Yosemite National Park,…
Trump Says Army Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names
President Trump, during a speech at Fort Bragg, N.C., said on Tuesday that he would restore the names of all Army bases that were named for Confederate generals but were ordered changed…
John L. Young, 89, Dies; Pioneered Posting Classified Documents Online
John L. Young, who used his experience as a computer-savvy architect to help build Cryptome, a vast library of sensitive documents that both preceded WikiLeaks and in some ways outdid it in…
Germany Embraces LNG as It Weans Itself Off Russian Gas
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Germany realized that its dependency on natural gas piped from Russia had endangered its energy security. It had no ports to bring in alternative energy sources…
With Trump’s Help, Jack Ciattarelli Wins G.O.P. Nomination for Governor
Jack Ciattarelli, a Republican endorsed last month by President Trump, easily won his party’s nomination on Tuesday to run for governor of New Jersey in November. With about 90 percent of the…