| Kenyan police uncovered dozens of bodies from graves, many of the victims connected to a Christian pastor, who is being investigated on allegations that he directed his congregants to starve themselves to death.China moved quickly yesterday to limit damage to its relations with Europe, after the Chinese ambassador to France questioned the sovereignty of post-Soviet nations like Ukraine.Prosecutors in the U.S. will seek the death penalty for the man who is accused of killing 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in October 2018. |
| The editor of the German magazine Die Aktuelle was fired over an interview with the retired Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher that had responses generated by artificial intelligence. |
| Other Big Stories |
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| At least 60 people were killed in northern Burkina Faso last week by men wearing the uniforms of the national military, according to the authorities.Clients withdrew nearly $69 billion from Credit Suisse in the first quarter, underscoring the bank’s spiraling troubles.Donald Trump’s civil trial, in which he stands accused of rape nearly 25 years ago, begins today in Federal District Court in Manhattan.Fox News dismissed Tucker Carlson, its most popular prime-time host, days after the network settled a high-profile defamation lawsuit. And at CNN, Don Lemon, a star anchor, was ousted. He had been under scrutiny after making remarks widely perceived to be sexist. |
| What Else Is Happening |
| A major study on remote work showed that employees, particularly young workers and women, may miss out on feedback, compared with those in the office.European regulators destroyed thousands of cans of Miller High Life, saying its slogan, “the Champagne of Beers,” violated E.U. rules concerning the word “Champagne.”Bright blue marks were found on a centuries-old statue at a conservation site in England after crayons were handed out to children at the property, officials said. |
| A Morning Read |
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| Why is everyone suddenly playing chess? Casual observers may attribute the trend to pandemic lockdown and boredom. But quietly a grandmaster plan was also unfolding, carefully crafted by Chess.com to broaden the appeal of the game and turn millennials and Gen Z into chess-playing pawns. |
| SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC |
| The impact of Leah Williamson’s absence: After Williamson suffered a season-ending ACL injury, the Lionesses will be a much weaker outfit without her. |
| Arsenal may be without a key player in the title race: Arsenal face Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday in a potentially defining match for the Premier League title race. And William Saliba looks set to miss out. |
| Has a dominant car created a more patient Max Verstappen?: The reigning champion’s wheel-to-wheel fights with Lewis Hamilton don’t show the same urgency. Instead, Verstappen’s playing the long game. |
| UNBUTTONED |
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| The reinvention of Taylor Swift |
| So many clothes, so little time: The logistics alone of Taylor Swift’s wardrobe on her current Eras Tour are daunting. How do you change that much, and that fast, while in the middle of a performance? |
| Each musical era revisited in the show had — and has — its own look, all 10 or so of them. To watch her go through them in succession is to see not just fabulous clothes worn with purpose but also the hamster wheel of constant reinvention that has been the model for contemporary female pop stars since Madonna set the tone in the 1980s. |
| Are these Swiftian ensembles — from designers including Oscar de la Renta, Versace, Christian Louboutin and many, many others — simply a celebration of fashion? Or could they, as our critic Vanessa Friedman writes in this column, be something more sophisticated? |
| “It’s possible that they are, actually, not just a tour down memory lane but a more pointed piece of meta-commentary on the expectation that female pop stars unveil new versions of themselves for our viewing pleasure, one-upping their old image with new wardrobes ad infinitum,” Vanessa writes. “And a message that Ms. Swift is, perhaps, calling time on the whole thing.” |
