What to Know About mRNA Vaccines
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19. Scientists with funding from the National Institutes of Health were advised to scrub their…
U.S. Trade Deal Could Lift UK Economy, but Won’t Transform It
The British government made faster economic growth its No. 1 mission. But efforts to kick-start it have been repeatedly knocked off course by a global economy lurching from one crisis…
Bill Gates Explains His Plans to Close the Gates Foundation in 2045
Donald Trump is the face of these cuts, but the cruelty of his administration is not the only story. After leaping upward in the 2000s, global giving for health grew…
What to Know About Bill Gates’s Plans to Shut Down the Gates Foundation
In the next 20 years, Gates believes, progress will be ‘incredible.’ “This is a miraculous time,” he told me, with the most exciting work the foundation has ever done sitting…
What’s at Stake in the Conclave? The Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven.
The fresco is on the north wall of the Sistine Chapel, up and to the right as the cardinals enter to choose their successor. It depicts a scene from the…
Russia’s Military Show of Strength Masks Economic and Diplomatic Cracks
Russia will celebrate the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat on Friday with visiting heads of state and a show of armed might in Red Square, staged as a display…
A Salacious Saga Engulfs the Virginia G.O.P. and Weakens Youngkin
When Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia found out that Republican research had linked the G.O.P.’s nominee for lieutenant governor to a blog featuring photos of naked men, he tried to…
‘Poker Face’ Returns With New Mysteries and Old Friends
Natasha Lyonne has been acting since childhood, but she is not a “nepo baby.” (She wanted to be one, she joked, but “they’re telling me it’s too late, and that’s…
How India Is Trying to Squeeze Pakistan Far From the Battlefield
Even as India was gearing up to use its military to strike at Pakistan this week, calling it revenge for a terrorist strike in Kashmir last month, the government was…
OpenAI Hires Instacart Chief Fidji Simo to Run Business and Operations
OpenAI said late Wednesday that it hired Fidji Simo, the chief executive of Instacart, to take on a new role running the artificial intelligence company’s business and operations teams. In…