Author: Newsday

PARIS — Sunday is the final day for the Paris Olympics. The day will end with the closing ceremony at Stade de France, but 14 gold medals will be decided first. It begins with the women’s marathon in the morning and continues with the men’s handball final between Denmark and Germany. The women’s volleyball final…

GENEVA — The U.N. human rights office issued a report Wednesday saying Palestinians detained by Israeli authorities since the Oct. 7 attacks faced waterboarding, sleep deprivation, electric shocks, the release of dogs, and other forms of torture and mistreatment. The report said Israel’s prison service held more than 9,400 “security detainees” as of the end…

SEOUL, South Korea — Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur’s signing of South Korean teenager Yang Min-hyuk was the latest in a number of East Asian players to move to England in 2024 as clubs look for the next Son Heung-min. The European exploits of Son, captain of Tottenham and South Korea’s national team, over the…

Frustrated jobseekers who suspect their online applications may be going nowhere may be right, as a recent nationwide survey suggests that nearly 40% of employers posted a fake job ad over the past year. Of the nearly 650 hiring managers polled in May, the survey found that 39% said their employers had posted a fake ad in the…

WASHINGTON — Ukraine is on an “irreversible” path to NATO membership, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday, advancing American assurances that the country will be allowed to join the Western military alliance but only after its war with Russia ends. A joint communique from all 32 NATO allies meeting in Washington is expected…

SAN FRANCISCO — Willie Mays received final military honors for his time served in the U.S. Army during a special presentation of an American flag to son Michael and taps was sounded at a public memorial service Monday for the late Hall of Famer. Baseball dignitaries past and present, including godson and home run king…

As America’s oldest flour company, King Arthur Baking Co. has seen a lot. It opened in 1790, when George Washington was president. But little could have prepared it for the start of the coronavirus pandemic, when demand for King Arthur’s products jumped six-fold almost overnight. The company, based in Norwich, Vermont, scrambled to manage supply…

TOKYO — Rescheduled for 2g Friday Tokyo elects a new governor this weekend, but residents say personal publicity stunts have overtaken serious campaigning to a degree never seen before, with nearly nude women in suggestive poses, pets, an AI character and a man practicing his golf swing. It’s impossible to ignore. With internet campaigning still…

Ryan Garcia was expelled by the World Boxing Council on Thursday after he repeatedly used racial slurs against Black people and disparaged Muslims in comments livestreamed on social media. WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman announced the penalty against Garcia on the social media platform X. “Exercising my authority as president of the WBC, I am hereby…

CARACAS, Venezuela — For the first time in decades, Venezuela’s self-described socialist government is facing a serious electoral challenge in a presidential election. President Nicolás Maduro, now in his 11th year in office, is being challenged by former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia at the head of a resurgent opposition, as well as a field of…