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A Judge Voided a Visa Ban Covering 75 Countries. The Refusals Go With It.

NEW YORK, Aug. 29 -- They had sat for the interview. They had produced the sponsor's tax returns, the affidavit of support, the bank letters. In the State Department's own phrasing, they had supplied ... Read More


NFL Roster Cuts 2026: J.J. McCarthy Trade Rumors, OBJ's Audition and the Ashton Jeanty Scare

NEW YORK, Aug. 29 -- Sunday's 6 p.m. deadline is forty-eight hours away, and the NFL's preseason final act has already broken three storylines that will shape how the 2026 season begins. The cutdown ... Read More


Gigi Hadid Says Bradley Cooper Is 'the Right Person' as Paris Rings Ignite Talk

PARIS, Aug. 29 -- When Gigi Hadid sat down with Vogue France this week, she chose an unusual approach to a fashion magazine interview: she talked about love. Not in the abstract sense that celebritie... Read More


HUL's Margin Shrinks Even as FMCG Volumes Grow, as Rural India Pulls in Two Directions

New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- Hindustan Unilever's quarterly result contained a number that its management preferred to frame as a transition rather than a problem: gross margin contracted 80 basis points to ... Read More


Brazil's Congress Moves to Ban Casino Games From the Betting Market It Built Two Years Ago

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 29 -- Two years after Brazil legalized sports betting and casino-style games in a sweeping statute, the Workers' Party has introduced legislation that would either gut the law or ... Read More


Bitcoin Reclaimed $80,000. Short Sellers Paid for a Lot of It.

NEW YORK, Aug. 29 -- The traders who spent July betting against bitcoin were right for about four weeks. Then roughly $4 billion of their positions were closed for them, at prices they did not choose.... Read More


The Clause Keeping Europe's Border Queues Down Expires on September 6

BRUSSELS, Aug. 29 -- For most of this summer, the thing standing between a Schengen arrivals hall and a four-hour queue has been a clause. Regulation (EU) 2025/1534 lets a border post stop capturing f... Read More


Lavrov Called Brazil. The Readout Is the Entire Content.

MOSCOW, Aug. 29 -- The statement runs to two sentences and manages to say nothing that could be checked. Sergey Lavrov spoke by telephone with Mauro Vieira, Brazil's foreign minister, the Russian for... Read More


Kremlin Aide Calls Upcoming SCO Summit Center of Emerging Multipolar World

BISHKEK, Aug. 29 -- The upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek is "a center of the emerging multipolar world," Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said Friday, framing Russia's participati... Read More


Nepal Braces for Second Flood as Barrier Lake at China Border Begins to Overflow

KATHMANDU, Aug. 29 -- Rescue workers searching for more than 1,500 people still missing across Nepal's shattered northern valleys confronted a new emergency Friday: the debris lake that formed at the ... Read More