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Pope Francis has a message for the high-powered participants at the economic forum in Davos, Switzerland: people, not profit, should be at the core of public policy January 21, 2020, 11:40 AM 3 min read DAVOS, Switzerland — The Latest on the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (all times local): 12:40 p.m. Pope Francis […]

Gary Keith Starkweather was born on Jan. 9, 1938, in Lansing, Mich., the only son of Richard and Crystal Starkweather. His father owned a local dairy; his mother was a homemaker. Their home was near a junk shop, where Gary would bargain for old radios, washing machines and car parts that he could tinker with

On the windy flanks of Mount Aragats, a biblical-sounding massif in Armenia, an old man — a cook — shuffles through a sprawling array of oddly shaped, empty buildings. The place is a symbol of what Yulia Grigoryants, an Armenian photographer, calls Cosmic Solitude. Once upon a time, it was one of the bustling centers

Of course, there are shows on other services I want to watch, too. When “Game of Thrones” was on, I signed up for HBO Now so I could watch it live. I briefly signed up for CBS All Access to watch the new “Twilight Zone,” though that didn’t last as long. Most services are $10

First, I went to Clearview’s website, but it was a bare-bones landing page with a “Request Access” button. (I requested access but never got it.) The website listed an office address, a few blocks from The Times building in Midtown Manhattan. I walked over, but the address didn’t exist. (The company later told me it

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — She has passed her days painting flowers, conferring with her lawyers, reading books and improving her English, ensconced in two different multimillion dollar mansions in exclusive sections of Vancouver. But on Friday, after the city had experienced a rare snowstorm, Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei chief financial officer detained in Vancouver and

Dozens of people have gathered for a protest in Sarajevo because of dangerously high levels of air pollution in the Bosnian capital in the past few weeks By ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press January 20, 2020, 3:48 PM 2 min read SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Dozens of people on Monday gathered for a protest in Sarajevo because

For at least 10 years, which is how long I’ve been reporting on privacy, people have worried about a facial recognition app that could end anonymity. I joined The New York Times as a technology reporter in July, but back in 2011, when I was reporting for Forbes Magazine, I attended a workshop at the

Spacewalking astronauts are wrapping up battery improvements outside the International Space Station By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer January 20, 2020, 12:55 PM 2 min read CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A pair of spacewalking astronauts tackled one last round of battery improvements outside the International Space Station on Monday. NASA’s Jessica Meir and Christina Koch

After a Boeing 737 crashed near Amsterdam more than a decade ago, the Dutch investigators focused blame on the pilots for failing to react properly when an automated system malfunctioned and caused the plane to plummet into a field, killing nine people. The fault was hardly the crew’s alone, however. Decisions by Boeing, including risky