Ketel Marte’s walk-off homer, which gave the Arizona Diamondbacks a split of their home series with the Los Angeles Dodgers in early June, was one of the most dramatic moments of the Diamondbacks’ season, and perfectly encapsulated why team officials refuse to give up on him. (Instagram via dbacks) By KEN ROSENTHAL / THE ATHLETIC Ketel Marte turned toward the Arizona Diamondbacks’ dugout, flipped his bat and shook his head with the tiniest of smiles, as if to say, “Don’t mess

A view of Lake Ontario and the skyline of Toronto, Canada on April 4, 2024. Mapping and navigation companies face a new dilemma after Donald Trump ordered Lake Ontario to be renamed Lake America. (Eugen Sakhnenko/The New York Times) By VICTOR MATHER Three map apps, three responses so far to President Donald Trump’s order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America amid an escalating trade war with Canada. Google changed the lake’s name on its Maps application two days after the Au

By THE STAR STAFF The advertising agency Veintinueve de Febrero Inc. is poised to earn more than $5 million in just 90 days under a revised contract the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico approved earlier this week — but only after imposing strict conditions tied to procurement transparency and fiscal compliance. In a letter sent electronically to Treasury Secretary Ángel Pantoja Rodríguez on Monday, the oversight board confirmed that the Treasury Depart

Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 5, 2026. A week before Canada is set to impose retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of American imports, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, that the Trump administration must stop insulting his country if there was to be any hope of renewing trade talks. (Ian Austen/The New York Times) By IAN AUSTEN A week before Canada is set to impose retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion worth of U.S. i

By ERICA L. GREEN As the on-again, off-again war in Iran flares up again, President Donald Trump seems bogged down in a conflict that he cannot control or move past, despite his declarations of total victory. On Tuesday night, after the latest exchange of fire over control of the Strait of Hormuz, Trump called on the Iranian people to rise up — something he did at the outset of the war six months ago, before he backed off and acknowledged that his command was easier said than

Farming equipment and buildings heavily damaged by Russian strikes and previous occupation in Ukraine’s southern region of Mykolvaiv, on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. Strikes by both Moscow and Kyiv on shipping in the Black Sea leave farmers facing ruin and could cause another worldwide food shock. (Jedrzej Nowicki/The New York Times) By CARLOTTA GALL and KAMILA HRABCHUK It was a bumper harvest this year and barns in southern Ukraine are filled with great golden mounds of grain. Ye

Wall Street advanced on Wednesday, notching a partial rebound from a three-day losing streak as investors searched for deals among stocks and sectors that might have been oversold amid recent ‌risk-off moves. All three major U.S. stock indexes gained ground, with the small-cap Russell 2000 outperforming its larger-cap peers, rising 1.1%. On the ‌sector level, airlines, gold and silver miners and regional banks were the frontrunners, while software and services, seen as potent

“Exorcist II: The Heretic” (1977) (Warner Bros.) By ROBERT ITO John Boorman, the celebrated director of “Deliverance” and “Hope and Glory,” is one of David Kittredge’s favorite filmmakers. But when Kittredge, a Los Angeles director and writer, got the idea for a documentary about his hero, he didn’t want to focus on either of those Oscar-nominated movies or on the times Boorman won best director at Cannes. No, Kittredge wanted to look at Boorman’s “Exorcist II: The Heretic.”

La experiencia acumulada, combinada con nuevas competencias, puede convertirse en una ventaja para reinventarse profesionalmente. Durante mucho tiempo se pensó que una persona elegía una profesión al terminar la escuela, estudiaba una carrera y permanecía en ella durante gran parte de su vida laboral. Ese modelo está cambiando. La transformación tecnológica, la inteligencia artificial y las nuevas necesidades de las organizaciones están haciendo que aprender durante toda la v

Visitors outside of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, June 27, 2026. Facing an intense backlash, the influential fashion designer John Galliano has taken the unprecedented step of withdrawing from a planned exhibition in his honor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Ryan Murphy/The New York Times) By BRET STEPHENS In principle, and as often as possible in practice, it’s best to separate judgments about an artist from judgments about the art. Roald Dahl was an unabas