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