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How a Typo Can Bar Your Claim Against the Government
A police dog bites an innocent bystander. The victim files his notice of claim, as required by Arizona law, but lists the settlement amount as “one hundred thousand dollars ($250,000).” That seemingly innocuous typo surely could not be enough to kill the bystander’s claims, right? That typo worked its way up to Arizona’s highest court,…
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Release of Suspects in U.K. Prompts New Questions Over Possible Terror Plot at RAF Fairford Base
The British counterterrorism police said the five British nationals arrested near R.A.F. Fairford on Sunday were being released on bail but remained under investigation.
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3 Egyptian Officials Convicted of Kidnapping Slain Italian Student
The verdict followed a decade-long effort in Italy to account for the killing of Giulio Regeni, an Italian researcher who disappeared in Cairo in 2016.
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Over 800 Killed in Renewed Houthi-Saudi War in Yemen, W.H.O. Says
The fighting between the Iran-backed Houthi militia and Saudi-backed government forces has exacerbated one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, the World Health Organization said.
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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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German Town Votes to Stop Adding Memorials Outside Homes of Slain Jews
Councilors in an eastern German town voted to stop installing memorial plaques outside homes of Holocaust victims, saying they would instead build a memorial at a cemetery.
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After a Career Reshaping the Museum of Modern Art, Its Influential Curator Steps Down
Ann Temkin, head of MoMA’s painting and sculpture department, will transition to a new role for the museum’s 100th anniversary.
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Kehinde Wiley Wants to Buy His Embassy Painting Back From Trump
Administration officials mocked his work, then removed it from the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic, suggesting they would auction it. Wiley offered to buy it back.
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HBO’s “War” Bares Its Teeth, But Lacks a Considerable Bite
Created by George Kay, HBO’s new series “War” follows tech billionaire Morgan Henderson (Dominic West) and his movie-star wife, Carla Duval (Sienna Miller), whose marriage is colder than the dreary London weather. When we first meet him, he sleeps with a young woman who is clearly not his wife, but the morning after their tryst,…
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Adult Swim’s “Get Jiro” Serves Up Bloody, Sloppy Culinary Revenge
It’s funny, looking back on 2026, that we’ll have gotten two televisual glimpses into the mind of the late, great chef and food writer Anthony Bourdain. One, Matt Johnson’s wry, tender biopic “Tony,” gives us a glimpse of the man’s larval form, the insecure, manipulative boy before he became the Tony we all knew and…
