VideoFormer Supreme Court correspondent Linda Greenhouse remembers why the Citizens United case in 2010 led Justice John Paul Stevens to step down from the Supreme Court.CreditCreditDoug Mills/The New York TimesJohn Paul Stevens, whose 35 years on the United States Supreme Court transformed him, improbably, from a Republican antitrust lawyer to the outspoken leader of the…
The European Union's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, is expected to launch a formal investigation into Amazon within days, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Last year, Vestager confirmed that her team was exploring how Amazon used the data from third-party sellers. She made clear, however, that the work was at a preliminary stage.Amazon's role as both a platform…
THE VIALS are small and twisted, resembling worms or caterpillars; inside them, a liquid glows pink. It is a “lentivirus vector, hybridised with vesicular stomatitis and a plasmid containing genes for red fluorescent protein and oxytocin expression”—in other words, a love potion. In theory, if you were to smash open a vial and drink it,…
ImageMigrants were driven to a processing center after they were taken into custody by Border Patrol agents earlier this month.CreditCreditJohn Moore/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Long before a surge of migrants from Central America overwhelmed the southwestern border, the Trump administration was already waging a broad assault on the rules determining who can seek asylum in the…
Facebook is about to get slapped with a $5 billion fine by the Federal Trade Commission because of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where data from over 50 million users was used without permission. In a surprising twist, Facebook's stock value actually rose by 1% on Friday following the news of the FTC's landmark fine —…
FOR A brief moment, the presidential aspirant Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten may no longer be the most talked-about gay couple in Indiana. At least as much attention is going to two male teachers at Catholic high schools in Indianapolis, who ran into trouble with the local archbishop after it emerged that they were…
ImageMargaret Lee, whose house flooded when the Amite River overtopped its banks in 2016, looks out from Fred’s on the River, a restaurant in Prairieville, La., on Sunday.CreditCreditTamir Kalifa for The New York TimesBATON ROUGE, La. — Tropical Storm Barry’s second day on land brought waves of both relief and worry on Sunday. The slow-moving…
President Donald Trump tweeted about the "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen" Sunday morning, asking them to "go back" to their "corrupt" and "broken and crime infested" countries before "telling the people of the United States [...] how our government is to be run." Trump also tweeted that he was "sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy…
New York|Power Outage on Manhattan’s West Side Affects 42,000 CustomersDEVELOPINGVideoCon Edison said about 42,000 people were without power on the West Side of Manhattan.CreditCreditMaria Caspani/ReutersA power failure struck the West Side of Manhattan on Saturday evening, plunging subway stations into darkness, stalling trains, stranding people in elevators and for a time leaving parts of Times…
Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on July 6 on suspicion of sex trafficking minors in his Manhattan and Florida homes from 2002 to 2005. The arrest comes over a decade after Epstein pleaded guilty to solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution and served 13 months in prison. Epstein's real-estate portfolio has played a…
