January 2020

The Week in Tech: A Tech Mogul’s Phone and the Saudi Crown Prince

Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Hello, Davey Alba here. I’m a fairly new member of the tech reporting team, and I cover online disinformation and the harm it does around the world. I’m here to give you the tech news highlights of […]

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Coco Gauff Asks ‘What Is My Life?’ After Beating Defending Champ Naomi Osaka

Coco Gauff defeated defending champion Naomi Osaka in a highly anticipated match at the Australian Open on Friday. The 15-year-old was still processing her win when she was asked in a post-match interview, “Where did that performance come from?” “Oh, my gosh, I don’t even know,” Gauff responded. “From the crowd, I guess, honestly … honestly … what

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A look at the Republicans who might break with the party to vote for new witnesses.

Senator Mitt Romeny, Republican of Utah, on his way out of the Capitol on Thursday night via its subway.Credit…Calla Kessler/The New York Times Republican moderates are in the spotlight on Friday as House managers conclude their oral arguments and senators turn to the question of whether to call witnesses and seek new documents in the

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Tougher Huawei Restrictions Stall After Defense Department Objects

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has put on hold a proposed rule change that would further restrict American sales to Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant, after some officials in the Department of Defense and other agencies argued that the measure, which was intended to protect national security, could backfire and actually harm it, according to

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A Major Fear for Democrats: Will the Party Come Together by November?

The lack of consensus among Democratic voters, 10 days before the presidential nominating primary begins with Iowa caucuses, has led some party leaders to make unusually fervent and early pleas for unity. On Monday alone, a pair of influential Democratic congressmen issued strikingly similar warnings to very different audiences in very different states. “We get

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Baby Harry Richford’s Margate hospital death ‘wholly avoidable’

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionHarry, seen with his parents Sarah and Tom Richford, died aged just seven days The death of a baby seven days after his emergency delivery was “wholly avoidable”, a coroner has ruled. Harry Richford died a week after he was born at Margate’s Queen Elizabeth the Queen

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