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On U.S. Foreign Policy, Biden Acts a Lot Like Trump
WASHINGTON — A fist bump and meeting with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Tariffs and export controls on China. Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. American troops out of Afghanistan. More than a year and a half into the tenure of President Biden, his administration’s approach to strategic priorities is surprisingly consistent with the…
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At Least 17 Migrants Die After Boat Capsizes Off Bahamas
NASSAU, the Bahamas — At least 17 Haitians, including a child, died Sunday after their boat capsized off the Bahamas on its way to Florida, the latest tragedy amid a spike in the number of migrants trying to reach the United States by sea. The local authorities said they had rescued 25 passengers from the…
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Pope Francis Will Travel to Canada to Apologize to Indigenous Community
OTTAWA — Pope Francis is traveling to Canada this week to apologize to Indigenous communities for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the country’s notorious residential school system, where thousands of Indigenous children died, and countless others were sexually and physically abused. The visit comes after years of pleas from Indigenous leaders and leading politicians…
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MLB Union Short on Latino Voices Ahead of International Draft Deadline
“There were a lot of meetings and they heard us,” Cruz, 42, who is from the Dominican Republic, said of the union. “A lot of Latino players were involved.” Read More on Organized Labor in the U.S. M.L.B. has said it has wants to overhaul the international free-agent system, in which children as young as…
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Random Virus Testing Restarts for International Travelers in Major Canadian Airports
Mandatory coronavirus testing of randomly chosen international passengers arriving in Canada will resume at the country’s four major airports, government officials announced on Thursday. The move comes as Canadian airports are grappling with the same kind of problems afflicting air travel around the world, including staff shortages, cancellations, delays and frustrated passengers. Random testing will…
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The Times’s Theater Critic Reviews Stratford’s New Theater
Jesse Green, the chief theater critic for The New York Times, has just returned from the Stratford Festival in Ontario, where the 2022 season started with the opening of a new theater. Leaving aside the plays themselves, the most dramatic presences at the new Tom Patterson Theater may in fact be absences. The usual whir…
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What to See, Eat and Do in Toronto
Canada’s biggest city and North America’s fourth-largest metropolis, Toronto received more than 27.5 million visitors annually before the pandemic, making it Canada’s top tourism destination, according to Destination Toronto, the city’s tourism-marketing arm. As travel rebounds, Canadian tourists are predominating, with traffic from the United States just starting to return and overseas visitors still scant,…
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Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, Close Ally of Pope Francis, Dies at 87
He is survived by his sisters, Irene Maria, Lurdes, Dulce, Alaíde and Marlene, and his brothers, Inacio and Artêmio. Auri Hummes entered religious training at 9, became a Franciscan friar at 22 and was ordained a priest just days before his 24th birthday, taking Cláudio as his religious name. He went to Rome to study…
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Does Soccer Still Need Headers?
It would be futile to predict when, precisely, it will come. It is not possible, from the vantage point of now, of here, to identify a specific point, or an exact date, or even a broad time frame. All that can be said is that it will come, sooner or later. The days of heading…
