In a judgment that could help to shape how transparent the European Union must be on matters of public interest, judges on Wednesday said the bloc should not have denied a journalist’s request for a key set of text messages exchanged as the bloc negotiated for a coronavirus vaccine. The ruling was issued by the … Read more
In his sharpest rebuke of the world’s richest man, a distinction he once held, Bill Gates accused Elon Musk at least twice in the past week of “killing” children in the world’s poorest countries by cutting foreign aid under the Trump administration. Mr. Gates, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, assailed Mr. Musk for the … Read more
The actor Justin Baldoni filed a defamation lawsuit against the Hollywood stars Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds on Thursday, claiming that they tried to destroy him by accusing him of sexual harassment against the actress and then retaliation against her through a smear campaign. The lawsuit is the latest legal action in a feud tied … Read more
FILE — A family physician in Hermitage, Pa., uses artificial intelligence to produce a summary of a patient visit on June 13, 2012. Soon, AI could be used to diagnose illnesses. (Maddie McGarvey/The New York Times)… The patient was a 39-year-old woman who had come to the emergency department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center … Read more
The New York Times is getting rid of its sports department and will instead rely on sports coverage from its website The Athletic going forward, according to a report on the media company’s website. | Photo Credit: AP The New York Times is disbanding its sports department and will rely on coverage from The Athletic, … Read more
The government reported Friday that consumer prices climbed 8.6% over the year through May, the fastest rate of increase in four decades. Americans are confronting more expensive food, fuel and housing, and some are grasping for answers about what is causing the price burst, how long it might last and what can be done to … Read more
Feb. 22, 2022 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has only published a fraction of the data it collected about the COVID-19 pandemic, The New York Times reported, citing several people familiar with the data. The CDC published information about the effectiveness of boosters for people under 65 two weeks ago but didn’t … Read more
Credit Suisse was plunged into a dirty money scandal on Monday after media outlets reported the Swiss bank had managed accounts for human rights abusers, fraudsters and businessmen who had been placed under sanctions. One person leaked information on the accounts, which were held in decades ranging from the 1940s to 2010s, to Germany’s Sueddeutsche … Read more
Facebook debuted a newsletter subscription service Tuesday, an attempt to court influential writers to its platform as more creators branch out from traditional publications and go independent. To jump-start the service, called Bulletin, Facebook spent months recruiting dozens of writers across different categories — including sports, entertainment, science and health — paying them upfront to … Read more
In the last weeks of the Trump administration and continuing under President Biden, the Justice Department fought a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of four New York Times reporters in a hunt for their sources, a top lawyer for the newspaper said on Friday night. While the Trump administration never informed The … Read more