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World
U.K. Conservatives Suffer Sharp Setbacks in Early Results of Local Elections
The governing Conservative Party trails badly in national opinion polls. The municipal races offer a clue to its fate in an upcoming general election.
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World
‘Dead Poets Society’ Has Some Distinctly Australian Relevance
Brought to life by the Australian director Peter Weir, the movie’s conflict reflects a collective cultural trait his fellow citizens can relate to.
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US
Jury in Federal Lawsuit Deadlocks on Abu Ghraib Torture Allegations
Three Iraqi men sued a Virginia contractor that supplied interrogators to the U.S. military after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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World
Woman Who Sold Misbranded Ozempic on TikTok Faces Smuggling Charge
Federal prosecutors said the woman from Shirley, N.Y., was not licensed to administer medication and was selling drugs brought from abroad that were not authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Newyork
Trump’s Team Paints Stormy Daniels’s Ex-Lawyer as a Shakedown Artist
During his testimony in the former president’s criminal trial, Keith Davidson described a lucrative legal niche keeping embarrassing stories out of print.
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Newyork
Former Police Officer Who Protected Sex Traffickers Gets 3-Year Sentence
Wayne Peiffer, who was an officer in Brewster, N.Y., warned a sex trafficking organization about law enforcement activity in exchange for sexual services, federal prosecutors said.
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Newyork
Robert Oxnam, China Scholar Beset by Multiple Personalities, Dies at 81
Through psychotherapy, recounted in a memoir, he learned that he had 11 personalities, or fractured parts of his identity. One of them told of childhood abuse.
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Newyork
Peggy Mellon Hitchcock, Who Helped Timothy Leary Turn On, Dies at 90
She was an enthusiastic supporter of the counterculture. And when she suggested that her brothers rent Mr. Leary a mansion, she made psychedelic history.
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News
Can a ‘Not Charlotte’ Recipe Revive a Region?
Scott Kidd didn’t expect a terribly busy job when he became the town manager of Liberty, N.C., a onetime furniture and textile hub whose rhythms more recently centered on a yearly antiques festival. Those quiet times, less than three years ago, soon ...
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Books
One Year After Scandoval, an Expanded Vanderpump Universe
The biggest reality television story of 2023 launched spinoffs, a Broadway run and side projects that may cause a halt in production.