For D.I.Y. enthusiasts, Matt Blashaw is a familiar face, judging bathroom remodels or planning surprise home makeovers on popular cable television shows. Mr. Blashaw also has an unusually strong opinion about how Americans should heat their homes: by burning propane, or liquid petroleum gas. “When I think of winter, I think of being inside. I […]
Month: January 2023
Russia Reports 2022 Deficit of $47 Billion
Strained by the need to finance its war machine, the Russian government said on Tuesday that it posted a $47 billion budget deficit in 2022, which is the second-highest since the break up of the Soviet Union. The budget gap reached 3.3 trillion rubles in 2022, or 2.3 percent of the size of the Russian […]
George Pell, Cardinal Whose Abuse Conviction Was Overturned, Dies at 81
Cardinal George Pell, an Australian cleric and adviser to Pope Francis who became the most senior Roman Catholic prelate sent to prison for child sexual abuse, before later being acquitted of all charges, died on Tuesday in Rome. He was 81. The cause of death was complications from hip replacement surgery, according to Peter Comensoli, […]
Britain Is Considering Sending Tanks to Ukraine
Britain is weighing whether to send a small number of tanks to Ukraine, potentially reversing the West’s nearly yearlong resistance to deploying some of its mightiest firepower against Russia. No decision has yet been made on whether the Challenger II tanks — reportedly as few as 10 — will be donated to Ukraine. But such […]
Wagner Group Shapes Russia’s Battle for a City in Ukraine: Live Updates
From left, Charles Michel, the president of the European Council; Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of NATO; and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in Brussels on Tuesday.Credit…Stephanie Lecocq/EPA, via Shutterstock BRUSSELS — NATO and the European Union, in their first joint declaration on security cooperation since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, underscored […]
Russia-Ukraine War: Battle Rages Near Bakhmut, as Ukraine Fights to Hold Off Russian Forces
Smoke rising after shelling in Soledar, the site of heavy battles with Russian forces in the Donetsk region, on Sunday.Credit…Roman Chop/Associated Press Fierce fighting was raging on Monday around the heavily contested city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian and Russian officials said, with competing claims swirling about potential Russian advances on the key battlefront in eastern Ukraine. […]
In Mexico, Biden Looks for Help With Migrants and Stronger Partnership
MEXICO CITY — President Biden was under growing political pressure Monday to confront the surge of undocumented migrants at the southern border as he began two days of diplomacy in Mexico City intended to secure more help from Mexico to stem the tide of people fleeing toward the United States. Mr. Biden is also looking […]
Adolfo Kaminsky Dies at 97; His Forgeries Saved Thousands of Jews
Adolfo Kaminsky was born on Oct. 1, 1925, in Buenos Aires. His parents, Salomon and Anna (Kinoël) Kaminsky, were Russian Jews who met in Paris in 1916. His mother had fled the pogroms in Russia; his father was a journalist for a Jewish Marxist newspaper. When the Bolsheviks overthrew the czarist government, France expelled sympathizers […]
Mass Arrests in Brazil After Bolsonaro Supporters Storm the Capital: Latest News
A defeated president claims, falsely, that an election was rigged. After months of baseless claims of fraud, an angry mob of his supporters storms Congress. They overwhelm police and vandalize the seat of national government, threatening the country’s democratic institutions. Similarities between Sunday’s mob violence in Brazil and the attack on the U.S. Capitol on […]
Bolsonaro Supporters Lay Siege to Brazil’s Capital
Thousands of supporters of Brazil’s ousted former president, Jair Bolsonaro, stormed Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court and presidential offices on Sunday to protest what they falsely claim was a stolen election, the violent culmination of years of conspiracy theories advanced by Mr. Bolsonaro and his right-wing allies. In scenes reminiscent of the Jan. 6 storming of […]