Business Trips

WASHINGTON —  A federal judge in Texas delivered a major blow to reproductive rights advocates Friday, ordering a hold on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of mifepristone, an abortion medication used in the United States since 2000. The ruling, which does not go into effect for seven days and is certain to be quickly appealed, could effectively prohibit use […]

Getting into the horse racing business and hoping to make it big requires a lot of faith, plenty of luck and a sense of optimism that will test the biggest of dreamers. So, Pierre and Leslie Amestoy, veterans of the sport, had eyes wide open when they plunked down a very modest $230,000 for a colt they would name Practical […]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistán —  Una emisora de radio del noreste de Afganistán, dirigida por mujeres, reanudó sus transmisiones luego de que las autoridades la cerraran durante una semana por poner música durante el mes sagrado del ramadán, señalaron un funcionario talibán y la directora del medio el viernes. Sadai Banowan, que significa “voz de las mujeres” en dari, se creó hace 10 […]

Unos 200 bomberos trabajaron durante varias horas para controlar un gran incendio registrado el jueves en el principal mercado mayorista de alimentos de la Ciudad de México, que no causó lesionados, anunciaron las autoridades. El fuego en la llamada Central de Abasto “se encuentra extinguido en un 90%” y se sigue combatiendo en algunos puntos, dijeron los bomberos de la […]

“I’ve got a story for you.” If you spend more than five minutes with Bernard Kinsey, 79, you’re guaranteed to hear this refrain, because he has thousands of stories. For five decades, the gregarious collector and his wife, Shirley, 77, have amassed the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection, one of the world’s largest private collections of Black art […]

A dockworker shortage at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports stretched into its second day on Friday, halting cargo traffic at the massive shipping complex while disrupting the local economy and the global supply chain. The shortage comes several months into protracted labor negotiations between the union that represents West Coast dockworkers and the industry group representing maritime shippers, […]

Four Democrats in Congress have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to review the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, alleging the deal is responsible for “hollowing out an iconic American studio.” In a letter Friday to Atty Gen. Merrick Garland and Assistant Atty. Gen. Jonathan Kanter, the lawmakers cited “harm” caused by last year’s union of the two media companies, which […]

You might have thought that, more than a dozen years after its enactment, the Affordable Care Act was finally safe from interference by right-wing judges carrying water for religious fanatics and anti-government activists. Unfortunately, a ruling from a one-horse federal courtroom in Texas reminds us that there’s almost an endless supply of those litigants and the judges who run with […]

At a time when many filmmakers are paranoically spoiler-phobic, director Daniel Goldhaber doesn’t mind if audiences know the outcome of his new movie going in. “It’s called ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline,’” he said. “I think the spoiler’s in the title.” Paced like a gripping heist procedural, the film, adapted by Goldhaber, Jordan Sjol and Ariela Barer from the […]

FRIDLEY, Minn. —  President Biden’s motorcade rolled into the Cummins Power Generation Facility outside of Minneapolis on Monday, part of a nationwide tour to sell his administration’s initiatives to rebuild the nation’s road, bridges and other infrastructure. But as Biden touted his administration’s rollout of nearly $1 trillion in improvements nationwide, attention focused instead on former President Trump as he made […]