Paul Tagliabue, the National Football League commissioner, speaks during a news conference ahead of the Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 4, 2005. Tagliabue, who presided over an era of labor peace, soaring revenues and expansion for the NFL in his 17 years as commissioner while facing rising concerns over a lack of minority hiring, the effects of concussions and the use of drugs, died on Sunday at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 84. (Vincent Laforet/The New York Tim

Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega in a 1990 mugshot taken after his capture by U.S. forces. (Wikipedia) By MICHAEL CROWLEY It is a story Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro surely knows well. A Latin American strongman was in hiding, surrounded by U.S. troops, heavy metal blaring through the night. In December 1989, Gen. Manuel Noriega’s run as dictator of Panama was reaching a humiliating end. U.S. troops had invaded the country, with orders to capture Noriega and bring

A man in Kotmaira, India, inspects the wreckage of his home following a Pakistani shelling attack in the Indian-controlled part of the Jammu region on May 13, 2025. Bombings in the capital cities of India and Pakistan earlier this week came at a moment of simmering tensions between the South Asian rivals just months after their previous military conflict alarmed the world. (Atul Loke/The New York Times) By MUJIB MASHAL and ELIAN PELTIER The bombings in the capital cities of I

Wall Street’s main indexes were mixed on Wednesday, with the Dow hitting a record high and the Nasdaq losing ground as investors rotated out of technology stocks while focusing on a likely end to a historic U.S. government shutdown. The House of Representatives was set to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, with a vote on a stopgap funding package to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers and revive a hobbled air traff

By MANOHLA DARGIS You don’t expect a meet-cute in a “Predator” movie, but that’s just one of the surprises in this latest edition. Space is the place in “Predator: Badlands,” specifically a planet where an android researcher, Thia (a delightful Elle Fanning), meets Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), a Predator who’s on the hunt. He’s tall, has fearsome mandibles and a face to match. She’s bubbly, talkative and has been severed in two, leaving her upper half stuck in a nes

POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – La organización Madres contra la Guerra marcó a principios de esta semana, este martes la conmemoración del Día del Veterano, con un llamado de atención sobre las condiciones que enfrentan soldados y exmilitares puertorriqueños, al denunciar “discrimen, abusos y deficiencias” en los servicios de salud que reciben. “Honramos la calidad humana de los veteranos y denunciamos los abusos a los que se enfrentan los soldados en la milicia”, expresó la portav

Tucker Carlson, the internet personality and former Fox News host, speaks at a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, at Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 27, 2024. “Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, the Hitler fanboy with a sizable social-media following, [...] has at last forced conservatives to reckon with the sewer pipe of antisemitism bursting through their walls,” columnist Bret Stephens writes. (Hiroko Masu