Don Nelson with his dog Lucky in Oakland, Calif., in 2006. Nelson, who won five NBA championship rings as a player with the Boston Celtics and went on to become an innovative and freethinking Hall of Fame head coach and one of the winningest in league history, has died. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) By GLENN RIFKIN Don Nelson, who won five NBA championship rings as a player with the Boston Celtics and went on to become an innovative and freethinking Hall of Fame head coach

Jassel Pérez (24) scored 16 points to help the Vaqueros of Bayamón defeat the Santeros of Aguada and take a 1-0 lead in the National Superior Basketball League Finals on Sunday night. Game 2 is Wednesday night in Aguada. By THE STAR STAFF The Vaqueros of Bayamón defeated the Santeros of Aguada 91-75 in Game 1 of the National Superior Basketball (BSN by its initials in Spanish) Finals at Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum in Bayamón on Sunday night. The hosts set the pace from the star

The solar eclipse seen from Indianapolis, April 8, 2024. A total solar eclipse, the first that mainland Europe has seen in nearly 30 years, is happening on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times) By KATRINA MILLER A total solar eclipse, the first that mainland Europe has seen in nearly 30 years, is happening Wednesday. The moon will swallow the sun whole, casting a shadow hundreds of thousands of miles long onto Earth and plunging part of our world in

While the Fed didn’t raise rates, the bond market did. That means hardship for home buyers and higher hurdles for artificial intelligence data centers and the stock market. But it’s also a boon for retirees. (Thomas Fuchs/The New York Times) By JEFF SOMMER The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady in its latest meeting. But another important power in the financial world raised them. That’s the bond market, where thousands of traders make moment-by-moment decisions that c

A group of volunteers called “trenzando sonrisas,” or “braiding smiles,” braids the hair of young girls at a temporary shelter in La Guaira, Venezuela, July 14, 2026. More than a month after the earthquakes, the coastal region of La Guaira — once Venezuela’s main gateway — is completely unrecognizable. (Fabiola Ferrero/The New York Times) By EMMA BUBOLA There was a billboard on the seaside road along Venezuela’s northern coast with a gigantic photograph of a smiling Nicolás M

The heavily damaged Iranian space research center, one of the sites struck during the war, in Tehran on July 6, 2026. Iran said Monday that any deal with Oman on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz would not lead to the waterway being fully reopened and that the route would remain closed until the United States agreed to demands including lifting a naval blockade. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times) By AURELIEN BREEDEN Iran said Monday that any deal with Oman on shipping in the Str

By GENEVIEVE GLATSKY and JULIE TURKEWITZ A powerful earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday morning, rattling much of the country, killing more than 100 people and sending residents fleeing from swaying and crumbling buildings in multiple major cities. As rescuers searched the rubble of damaged buildings and officials warned of possible aftershocks, the death toll appeared likely to rise. The 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurred at 7:34 a.m. local time, according to the U.S

A group of financial firms, including Apollo Global ​and Blackstone, is working with Nvidia to put together ‌a $500 billion funding package ‌for AI infrastructure development, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. Nvidia’s shares fell ​over 3% in afternoon trading. The tie-up highlights Nvidia’s efforts to raise capital for the chips, power ​generation and data centers underpinning the AI boom. Big Tech companies have signaled that spending ​on AI would no

By ERIK PIEPENBURG A mousetrap to the foot, a skillet to the face, a drill to the ear, a plush rabbit down the throat. That’s the order in which one character gets slaughtered in Eli Roth’s latest gross-out horror comedy, “Ice Cream Man.” While not a remake of Paul Norman’s deliciously nutty “Ice Cream Man” (1995), Roth’s sicko romp does share DNA with that and other films — “Mr. Ice Cream Man” (1996) and “The Ice Cream Truck” (2017) — that constitute one of horror’s dippier

The four main characters of “The Last House” are aided by a conspicuous lack of friction. By BEN KENIGSBERG In a roundabout, meta sort of way, “The Last House” puts a genuinely terrifying question to its viewers. How long would you last? How long would you hold out if you tried to leave your home one day but found that all the doors wouldn’t open? That the cracks in any window you tried to break would immediately repair themselves? That there was no Wi-Fi or phone service, so