| Weeks into the fighting in Sudan, one urgent question is at the heart of the crisis: Did the U.S. miscalculate how difficult it would be to introduce democracy there?More than 120 people were killed in devastating floods and landslides caused by heavy rains in Rwanda.Leaders of the displaced Bikini Atoll community in the Marshall Islands have blown through a U.S. trust fund once worth $59 million. Six years later, just $100,000 remains.A grisly trial in Serbia has raised questions about connections between the country’s top leadership and its violent drug gangs.The police in Brazil raided the home of former President Jair Bolsonaro as part of an investigation into forged Covid vaccine records. |
| Other Big Stories |
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| Astronomers captured the first direct glimpse of a star devouring a large planet.Donald Trump’s lawyers will call no witnesses in the trial over whether he raped the writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s.HSBC’s biggest shareholder, the giant Chinese insurer Ping An, wants the Britain-based bank to spin off its profitable Asian operation.The U.S. Federal Reserve raised rates again to a range of 5 percent to 5.25 percent, but officials opened the door to a pause in the increases.Ajay Banga, a former chief executive of Mastercard, was confirmed to lead the World Bank. |
| What Else Is Happening |
| U.S. regulators approved the first vaccine for R.S.V., a potentially deadly respiratory illness.Once quiet, the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey now has plenty to say about Elon Musk, his successor as head of the company.Forecasters say the climate pattern known as El Niño is likely to arrive by the end of summer, driving up global temperatures. |
| A Morning Read |
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| As in so many other places in Britain, devotion to the monarchy in Bristol, where the average age is around 34, runs hot and cold. |
| “The royal family, when I was a young girl, they were everything, and now it’s different,” one 82-year-old resident said. She added: “I don’t think we have so many people excited about the coronation now. There is that feeling of being a bit more removed.” |
| SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC |
| Lionel Messi’s run at P.S.G. ends here. It’s the right call: There is surely no way back now that Paris St.-Germain has suspended its superstar for two weeks. It could be an inspired move. |
| This soccer team outspent its rivals. Now it’s the worst in the Premier League: When not winning trophies, Chelsea has taken great relish in shattering the dreams of its rivals. Not anymore. |
| From The Times: Tori Bowie, a sprinter who won three medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the next year won the world championship in the 100-meter dash with a stunning comeback, has died at 32. |
| ARTS AND IDEAS |
| An evolving Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
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| What do Kate Bush, Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow and Rage Against the Machine have in common? |
| Along with George Michael and the 1970s soul group the Spinners, these acts are this year’s genre-spanning inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, voted in by more than 1,000 artists, historians and music industry professionals. |
| None of these musicians fit neatly into the most narrow strictures of what constitutes rock. But the genre and the institution have proved increasingly open to honoring rappers, pop singers and country artists like Dolly Parton, who attempted to remove herself from consideration last year but was voted in anyway. |
