Adidas Has Sold Its Last Yeezy Sneaker

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

C.I.A. Director Says U.S. Has Paused Intelligence Sharing With Ukraine

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

French Cinema Celebrates Its Covid Recovery

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

How Soon Could Ukraine’s Forces ‘Start to Buckle’ Without U.S. Weapons?

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