In proposing his judicial overhaul, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has said he was restoring the balance of power between elected lawmakers and unelected judges. “It is not the end of democracy, it is the strengthening of democracy,” Mr. Netanyahu said last week, before a huge wave of protest and civil unrest forced him […]
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When Howard Schultz of Starbucks testifies before a Senate committee on Wednesday about the company’s labor policies, he will no longer be its chief executive. But his presence will underscore his continuing sway over a company he has run on and off since the 1980s. The Capitol Hill appearance, which Mr. Schultz had resisted until […]
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Lyft’s co-founders said on Monday that they would step down from their day-to-day responsibilities at the company, which has struggled through layoffs and disappointing financial results even as Uber, its biggest rival, has strengthened. The founders — Logan Green, Lyft’s chief executive, and John Zimmer, its president — are resigning after more than a decade […]
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Since he was elected to Japan’s Parliament in July, Yoshikazu Higashitani has spread celebrity gossip on his YouTube channel, explored the sights of Dubai and handed out snacks to children displaced by an earthquake in Turkey. One thing he has not done is show up for work. On Wednesday, he was expelled from Japan’s upper […]
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The Republican Party in New York, fresh off one of its best elections in two decades, is somehow entangled in turmoil. With its chairman, Representative Nick Langworthy, set to resign this month, the party has been immersed in a fraught battle over who will replace him — baring familiar fault lines between upstate and downstate, […]
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WASHINGTON — In the battle to become the country’s most senior military commander — a position inhabited at the moment by one of the most voluble of men and a frequent target of the right — it has come down to a choice between the fighter pilot and the Marine infantryman. Gen. Mark A. Milley’s term […]
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President Biden on Tuesday announced his intention to nominate Julie Su, the deputy labor secretary, to succeed Labor Secretary Martin J. Walsh, who has said he plans to leave the department in March. Ms. Su has helped oversee a department that put forth a series of rules meant to benefit workers, including rules designed to […]
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Earlier this month at the Grammys, Pharrell Williams hit the red carpet in a striking look: an Ernest W. Baker quilted red leather tracksuit under a faux fur jacket, pointy black boots and diamond-rimmed teardrop-shaped glasses by Tiffany. It was both rigid and a little sleazy, speedy and yet unhurried. More crucially, it felt like […]
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She also nodded to other improvements under her leadership, including creating a more inclusive workplace environment. Ms. Dubuc joined Vice shortly after investigations into the company’s culture, including by The Times, revealed incidents of sexual harassment against women who worked for the company. “I know you are among the most resilient, creative and determined talent […]
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BENGALURU, India — The Biden administration nominated Ajay Banga, the former longtime chief executive of Mastercard, to be the next president of the World Bank, a selection that is likely to drastically reshape the global development institution and broaden its ambitions to combat climate change. The nomination will initiate a monthslong confirmation process before a […]
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President Biden’s economic team is turning over. Brian Deese, the top adviser in the West Wing, left his job this week, and Cecilia Rouse, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, will soon return to her faculty post at Princeton. I want to use the transition to think about Biden’s biggest economic successes and […]
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Ms. Psaki said she hoped to invite Republicans onto her program, and NBC representatives, seeking to emphasize her independence, pointed to her occasional on-air quibbles with the Biden administration. In September, she said on “Meet the Press” that Democrats “will lose” the 2022 elections if voters perceived the midterms as “a referendum on the president.” […]
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When Ray Dalio, the multibillionaire founder of the world’s biggest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, announced his retirement in October, both he and the firm he founded more than four decades ago treated the moment as celebratory. Mr. Dalio, 73, told his millions of followers on LinkedIn that he felt “great about the people” to whom […]
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It has recently cited six Amazon warehouses for creating work environments that have high risk for musculoskeletal injuries among workers. Amazon has said the accusations don’t reflect the steps it takes to ensure worker safety. How Times reporters cover politics. We rely on our journalists to be independent observers. So while Times staff members may vote, […]
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The impending departure of Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s longest-serving first minister, who said on Wednesday that she would step down, has roiled the nation’s political establishment. One of Britain’s most powerful politicians and a fierce champion for Scottish independence, Ms. Sturgeon cited exhaustion and said that she had become too polarizing a figure to continue after […]
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ALBANY, N.Y. — The State Senate’s extraordinary rejection of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s nominee to head New York’s highest court on Wednesday has placed the state’s leaders in uncharted territory, clouding Ms. Hochul’s first full term in power. The uncertainty stemmed from the unprecedented rejection; the Senate’s vote against Justice Hector D. LaSalle to lead the […]
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One of the hardest-to-find items in retail right now is a chief executive. A number of high-profile companies — including Gap, Diesel, and the parent of the North Face and Vans — are operating without a permanent chief executive officer. And thanks to a contraction of management training throughout the industry and the need for […]
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The fight over Justice LaSalle has devolved into the most contentious battle in recent memory over a nominee for chief judge, who besides sitting on the Court of Appeals is also tasked with overseeing the state’s complex court system, which has thousands of judges and staff. The governor in December selected Justice LaSalle, who would […]
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“To presume this ‘pinky promise’ pledge has lasting impact, one must assume it somehow lasts 10 years, outlives multiple agency heads and does not change overnight without any recourse or accountability,” Senator Michael D. Crapo of Idaho, the top Republican on the committee, wrote in The Washington Examiner this week. “Neither the Treasury Department nor […]
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The fashion and entertainment industries, which have long been intertwined, converged even further on Tuesday when Louis Vuitton named Pharrell Williams, the American rapper and producer, as its new creative director for men’s wear. The French luxury brand announced on Instagram that it had hired Mr. Williams about 16 months after the sudden death of […]
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The decisions could ripple across policymaking at the White House and the Fed. Ms. Brainard is seen as the most liberal top official at the central bank and a potential brake on the Fed’s ongoing campaign to raise interest rates to tame inflation. Liberal groups have increasingly warned that continued rate increases could undercut economic […]
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Over the last several months, many people were mentioned as possible replacements for Haruhiko Kuroda, the long-serving governor of the Bank of Japan, who has captained the country’s decade-long experiment with ultra-easy money and rock-bottom interest rates. Kazuo Ueda, the man officially nominated for the job on Tuesday, was not among them. But it is […]
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WASHINGTON — President Biden on Monday fired J. Brett Blanton, the federal official responsible for the maintenance and operation of the Capitol complex, amid bipartisan calls for his resignation, after an investigative report accusing him of misusing his position and revelations that he avoided the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Mr. Blanton, who […]
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TORONTO — Toronto’s mayor resigned unexpectedly on Friday night after admitting to a relationship with a staff member. John Tory made the announcement at a news conference several hours after receiving questions from The Toronto Star, which broke the story, about the relationship with a woman the newspaper said was a former employee of his […]
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LOS ANGELES — For more than 13 years, Gustavo Dudamel has been the public face of an orchestra that became the envy of the nation and the pride of this city. He began his tenure as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director in 2009 with a free concert at the Hollywood Bowl, followed by a […]
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Dudamel, who has been the music director of the Paris Opera since 2021, and of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela since 1999, was a favorite for the podium in New York as soon as it became vacant. In the fall of 2021, van Zweden announced that he would step down at the end […]
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LONDON — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tried to recharge Britain’s beleaguered government on Tuesday, shuffling cabinet ministers and creating new departments to focus on science, technology and energy policy. But even as he moves forward, Mr. Sunak is haunted by his two ousted predecessors, Liz Truss and Boris Johnson, both of whom are mounting noisy […]
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Last February, Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, abruptly decided to block a nomination for a federal judgeship, though Mr. Johnson actually recommended the nominee just eight months before. Why the reversal? It was never very clear. Mr. Johnson said it was because the candidate, Judge William Pocan of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, didn’t […]
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