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Israel-Hamas War: Houthis Launch More Missiles Toward U.S. Ships
The U.S. military said the Iranian-backed Houthi militia struck an American-owned container ship, a day after a missile aimed at a Navy destroyer was shot down. No injuries were reported aboard the cargo ship.
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They Thought They Knew Death, but That Didn’t Prepare Them for Oct. 7
Volunteers with ZAKA, an Israeli group that recovers dead bodies, were among the first to reach the victims of the Hamas-led attacks. The trauma of what they witnessed may last a lifetime.
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Taiwan Loses Ally Nauru After Electing President Beijing Loathes
The tiny Pacific island of Nauru severed relations with Taiwan, a move that boosts China’s regional sway and was seemingly timed to Taiwan’s contentious recent election.
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Iran Adds Prison Time for Narges Mohammadi and Frees 2 Journalists
Narges Mohammadi, the jailed human rights activist, was sentenced to additional prison time, while journalists who reported on the death of Mahsa Amini were freed for now.
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Iceland Faces ‘New Chapter’ of Seismic Activity as Lava Menaces Town
The country has many earthquakes and eruptions, but now, “a daunting period of upheaval has begun” in the southwest, the president said.
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A Museum Director Gets a Second Act: Village Barkeep
At the Francis Kite Club, a collectively-built space for artists people debate culture and politics over cocktails.
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Death and Other Details Wastes Potential on Neverending Cruise
One of the biggest problems of the “my TV show is really just a long movie” era of television is that it has created a common problem wherein a script’s worth of plotting is stretched out to the length of a TV season. Especially since the mid-budget movie died and so many of those projects…
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We’re So Short on Time: John Sayles on Lone Star
John Sayles’ films are indicated by the quality of his listening. His scripts are dialogue-dense and populated by people of character and intelligence, representing every social strata, every race, every creed. He puts them in conversation with one another, and then he listens and we listen with him. A child of educators, Sayles earned a…
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The Crochet Coral Reef Keeps Spawning, Hyperbolically
The long-running project, sometimes described as the environmental version of the AIDS quilt, thrives on convoluted math and a sea of volunteers.
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New U.S. Solar and Electric Car Factories Face Familiar Challenge: China
Worries are growing in Washington that a flood of Chinese products could put new American investments in clean energy and high-tech factories at risk.