Bin Laden Aide Convicted of Conspiracy in 1998 East Africa Bombings
A Saudi who was accused of being one of Osama bin Laden’s earliest and most trusted lieutenants was convicted on Thursday of joining a global conspiracy to kill Americans that…
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U.N. Official Seeks Havens for Syrians
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations high commissioner for refugees said on Thursday that European countries must accept more Syrian refugees to dissuade them from boarding overcrowded boats for a…
Amid Veteran Rhetoric, Alex Rodriguez Returns to His Old Routine
On Baseball By TYLER KEPNER TAMPA, Fla. — If you never knew about the lies and the lawsuits, never knew all the ways Alex Rodriguez turned himself into one of…
‘Sniper’ Case Is Headed to Appeal, Lawyers Say
HOUSTON — Lawyers for Eddie Ray Routh, the former Marine sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for murdering Chris Kyle, the Navy SEAL marksman whose autobiography inspired the movie…
‘Jihadi John,’ Executioner in ISIS Videos, Had Early Encounter With British Intelligence
LONDON — Mohammed Emwazi was 6 when his parents moved to West London from his birthplace in Kuwait, and he seems to have lived a normal life, studying hard and…
Review: ‘The Hunting Ground’ Documentary, a Searing Look at Campus Rape
“The Hunting Ground,” a documentary shocker about rape on American college campuses, goes right for the gut. A blunt instrument of a movie, it derives its power largely from the…
U.S. Envoy to United Nations and Obama Security Adviser Will Speak at American-Israeli Conference
WASHINGTON — President Obama will send Susan E. Rice, his national security adviser, and Samantha Power, his envoy to the United Nations, to speak to the American Israel Public Affairs…
Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories
BOSTON — The hallway in the Brooklyn warehouse was dark, the space cramped. But soon there was a flashlight beam, and I was staring at one of the most sought-after…
Fatality Rate in West Africa Ebola Clinics Is Dropping
SEATTLE — As the Ebola epidemic in West Africa wanes, physicians from Doctors Without Borders are confronting a mystery: More of their patients are surviving. They do not know why….
China Bans Import of Ivory Carvings for One Year
BEIJING — In a move aimed at countering international criticism of skyrocketing Chinese demand for ivory that is decimating African elephant populations, China announced on Thursday a one-year moratorium on…
F.B.I. Warrant in Insider Trading Cases Is Unsealed
The scene sent a chill through Wall Street and fueled some of the biggest insider trading convictions in a generation: F.B.I. agents marched into hedge fund offices in Manhattan, Connecticut…
In Net Neutrality Victory, F.C.C. Classifies Broadband Internet Service as a Public Utility
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility, a milestone in regulating high-speed Internet service into American homes. The new rules,…
Jill Abramson, Former Top Times Editor, Signs Book Deal
The book will explore the challenges that traditional media organizations are facing as they seek to survive and flourish in the digital age, and how online media companies are changing…
La Morada in the South Bronx
La Morada’s married owners, Natalia Mendez and Antonio Saavedra, were once farmers in the village of San Miguel Ahuehuetitlán in northwestern Oaxaca, where their children learned to speak Mixtec, the…
California Convicts Are Out of Prison After Third Strike, and Staying Out
LOS ANGELES — William Taylor III, once a lifer in state prison for two robbery convictions and the intent to sell a small packet of heroin, was savoring a moment…
Ukraine Says It Will Pull Artillery From Separatist Territory
KIEV — Ukraine’s military announced on Thursday that it would begin withdrawing some heavy artillery from separatist-held territory in the country’s southeast under a cease-fire agreement negotiated this month. The…
Argentine Judge Rejects Criminal Case Against President
BUENOS AIRES — An Argentine judge on Thursday dismissed the criminal allegations against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner that had been brought by Alberto Nisman, a prosecutor who had accused…
Financial Aid for Undocumented Students No Longer Discussed in Hushed Tones
For years, it was information shared only in whispers. An undocumented student, bright and educated, wanted to go to college, and a precious few universities were willing, very quietly, to…
Argentine Judge Rejects Criminal Case Against President
BUENOS AIRES — An Argentine judge has dismissed the criminal allegations against President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner that had been brought by Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor who had accused her…
More Assyrian Christians Captured as ISIS Attacks Villages in Syria
ISTANBUL — Continuing its assaults on a string of Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria, the Islamic State militant group has seized scores more residents over the past two days,…
For Brooklyn Men, Plans to Aid ISIS Were Recorded Online and in Private
Like countless 19-year-olds, Akhror Saidakhmetov lived much of his life online. But it was some of the darkest corners of the Internet that most compelled him, according to the authorities….
South Korea Strikes Down Adultery Law
South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a 62-year-old law that made adultery an offense punishable by up to two years in prison, citing the country’s changing sexual mores…
On ‘Downton Abbey,’ Beware the Fish Mousse
London — Soufflés were on the menu at Downton Abbey, and Lisa Heathcote was standing in a tent in a windy parking lot, making one after another in two makeshift…
Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
Cross Cuts By A. O. SCOTT “A man watches a movie, and the critic must acknowledge that he is that man.” So wrote Robert Warshow, almost exactly 60 years ago,…
Building the First Slavery Museum in America
Louisiana’s River Road runs northwest from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, its two lanes snaking some 100 miles along the Mississippi and through a contradictory stretch of America. Flat and…
Man Known as ‘Jihadi John’ Is Identified as Mohammed Emwazi
LONDON — The man in the black balaclava who has seemed to have beheaded several foreign hostages in Islamic State videos has been identified by British security services as Mohammed…
Blasts in Cairo Kill 1 and Wound at Least 7, Egypt Says
CAIRO — A series of blasts in Cairo on Thursday killed one person and wounded at least seven, Egyptian security officials said, the latest in a wave of attacks using…
Deadly Attacks in Xinjiang Go Unreported in China
Had these incidents taken place in the United States or Europe, they would have dominated the news for days, if not weeks, and prompted extensive nationwide discussions about how, and…
In China, Civic Groups’ Freedom, and Followers, Are Vanishing
BEIJING — First, the police took away the think tank’s former graphic designer, then the young man who organized seminars, and eventually its founder. Another employee fled China’s capital, fearing…
At the Very End, a Bad Night Turns Awful for Arsenal
LONDON — What next for England in the Champions League? The Premier League attracts players from all over the world, and the television revenue it receives makes other national leagues…