Junior Caminero, the Tampa Bay Rays’ star third baseman and MVP candidate, posted 42 home runs, 101 RBIs and 100 runs scored during the regular season. His defense, in particular, holds significance for the Rays. (X via MLB) By WILL SAMMON / THE ATHLETIC Who says the Tampa Bay Rays’ fundamental style of small ball is boring? Consider these three scenes from their 3-1 win over the Cleveland Guardians in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series. Freddy Peralta, who tur

Stock and bond fund returns for the quarter were bad nearly everywhere you looked, our columnist says. Energy stocks, lifted by the war with Iran, were an exception. (Giulio Bonasera/The New York Times) By JEFF SOMMER At the beginning of the year, if I’d had to guess what sector of the stock market would outperform all others, the easy answer would have been technology. Yet that’s not what happened for fund investors in the three months through September. Tech stock funds tra

“Transcending Dimensions” By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI In this month’s picks: killer A.I., mysterious cults, alien horror, postapocalyptic survival and zany dimensions. ‘C.O.G.’ Kaya (Piper Curda), a former hacker who has sort of gone legit, works for Ethan (Noel Fisher), a grinning, amoral tech tycoon. Kaya believes in artificial intelligence’s potential to solve the world’s problems, but even she is horrified when Ethan decides to fast-track the company’s new AI chatbot, CognAI

A traditional Latin Mass at the Vatican on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. In the event of the pope’s temporary hospitalization, the Vatican’s sprawling administration runs on its own. (Elisabetta Povoledo/The New York Times) By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO For at least 90 minutes on Tuesday, Pope Leo XIV was unconscious under general anesthetic, raising the question of what happens when a pope is incapacitated and cannot lead the Catholic Church. The short answer is nothing. The church has

President Donald Trump hosts leaders of a dozen Latin American nations at the newly created Shield of the Americas Summit in Miami on Saturday, March 7, 2026. The United States is sending several hundred Army soldiers to train and conduct exercises with local forces in Latin America as the Pentagon expands its campaign to combat drug trafficking in the region, according to U.S. military officials. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By ERIC SCHMITT, GREG JAFFE and ANNIE COR

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2026. Mace’s former fiancé and two of his business associates were charged on Wednesday, Oct. 14, with a number of sex crimes in connection with an episode she described at length last year in a speech on the House floor, according to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By MARK WALKER and ISHANI DESAI U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace’s former fiance and two of his bu

By TYLER PAGER and JOHN ISMAY President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled the Pentagon’s planned livestream of the execution of the Army officer who was convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting. Pentagon officials said last week that the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people and wounded 32 others at Fort Hood, Texas, would be broadcast via livestream. But Trump said Thursday that only immediate families of Hasan’s victims would be able to watch the ex

Students on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, N.Y., Oct. 7, 2026. A day after the Cornell University president tried to calm students and parents by banning parties at fraternity houses, he faced a largely hostile faculty senate on Wednesday, Oct. 14, that was considering a vote of no confidence against his administration. (Lauren Petracca/The New York Times) By MACK LIEDERMAN, ZANE IRWIN and SHARON OTTERMAN A day after the Cornell University president tried to calm st

POR EL STAR STAFF CAYEY – El alcalde de Cayey, Rolando Ortiz Velázquez, felicitó a los participantes de la iniciación del Club de Identidad y Cultura de la Escuela Benigno Fernández García. “Esta es una una gran iniciativa que reafirma el compromiso de nuestros jóvenes con la historia, las tradiciones y el patrimonio que nos da a conocer como cayeyanos y puertorriqueños”. La Casa Histórica de la Música en Cayey, frente a la plaza pública Ramón Frade León, fue el escenario don

POR EL STAR STAFF CAGUAS – Más de 1,000 estudiantes tendrán la oportunidad de experimentar de primera mano procesos y técnicas utilizadas en el campo de la biotecnología como parte del nuevo Laboratorio de Biotecnología del C3Tec, un espacio educativo permanente creado por el Centro Criollo de Ciencia y Tecnología del Caribe (C3Tec) para ampliar el acceso de niños y jóvenes a experiencias científicas prácticas. La Fundación Amgen contribuye con la iniciativa otorgando los fon