Adidas said Wednesday that it had sold its last pair of Yeezys, a wildly popular and profitable sneaker brand it developed with the rapper and designer Ye, as it tried to move past the publicity nightmare that followed after Ye’s antisemitic comments. The sportswear giant severed ties with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, in … Read more
The C.I.A. director John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday that intelligence sharing with Ukraine had been paused alongside military aid to pressure its government to cooperate with the Trump administration’s plans to end the country’s war with Russia. Speaking on Fox Business, Mr. Ratcliffe applauded the Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky’s statement on Tuesday praising President Trump … Read more
“The Greatest Showman,” a hit 2017 film about the circus impresario P.T. Barnum, is being adapted for the stage by Disney Theatrical Group and will have an initial production in early 2026 in Bristol, England. The project is Disney’s first stage adaptation of a 20th Century Fox film since the Walt Disney Company acquired Fox’s … Read more
Tesla’s sales in Germany plunged in February, part of a wider slump across Europe that has undercut the company’s share price and highlighted anger at the political activities of Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive. Sales of Tesla cars in Germany, Europe’s largest market for electric vehicles, dove 76 percent in February compared with a … Read more
Ronald Chammah, who owns a pair of small cinemas on the Left Bank of Paris, remembers well the grim days in 2022, when he wondered whether the French passion for moviegoing — a pastime that France invented 130 years ago — had been irreparably diminished by pandemic lockdowns. But that was then. On a recent … Read more
The alarms about Joël Le Scouarnec’s sexual desire for children had been ringing for years, well before he was charged with raping or sexually assaulting 299 people, most of them children under his care when he was a surgeon. His wife’s sister said she expressed concerns to her sister after she thought she had witnessed … Read more
Without billions of dollars in American-made weapons, it may be only a matter of time before Ukraine’s forces falter against Russia. How much time, however, depends on how quickly Europe and Ukraine can make up for the artillery, missiles, air-defense systems and other arms that Trump administration officials said on Monday were being put on … Read more
King Charles III flew by helicopter to the H.M.S. Prince of Wales in the English Channel on Tuesday, where he mingled with sailors and watched as fighter jets took off from the deck of the ship, a Royal Navy aircraft carrier. It might have been a welcome getaway from his suddenly complicated social life. In … Read more
In the days immediately preceding his address to Congress on Tuesday night, President Trump took a chain saw to government agencies, initiated a trade war, cut off arms to Ukraine and sided with a brutal authoritarian, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. But a visitor arriving from a distant planet who listened to Mr. Trump’s … Read more
