When the young Oracle heir entered the entertainment industry, no one expected much. Instead, he’s built the rarest of businesses — a thriving, all-audiences, independent studio.

Dumb Money No More: How David Ellison Became a Hollywood High Flier

With new opportunities and a different perspective as the pandemic eases, workers are choosing to leave their jobs in record numbers.

How Do They Say Economic Recovery? ‘I Quit.’

Shut out from mainstream medicine, some immigrants are buying expensive, unproven Covid therapies from “wellness” clinics or turning to the black market.

Desperate for Covid Care, Undocumented Immigrants Resort to Unproven Drugs

San Francisco’s dynastic threesome of Buster Posey, Brandon Crawford and Brandon Belt is enjoying every second (and every hug) of what could be its final ride together.

‘Here We Are, Again’: The Giants Stick to a Formula That Works

The city’s prosperity is heavily dependent on patterns of work and travel that may be irreversibly altered.

New York Faces Lasting Economic Toll Even as Pandemic Passes

An ambitious news site, The New Bedford Light, has sprung up in an old New England whaling town to fill a void in coverage.

When the Local Paper Shrank, These Journalists Started an Alternative

The country’s most significant collection of Shaker objects, out of public view for a decade, will relocate to an $18 million museum complex designed by Annabelle Selldorf.

The Shakers Are Movers, Too

Dick Cheney always saw doomsday threats from America’s enemies. His daughter is in a lonely battle against what both see as a danger to American democracy: Donald J. Trump.

Liz Cheney’s Unlikely Journey From G.O.P. Royalty to Republican Outcast

Phoenix is facing a double heat and housing crisis that is falling hardest on people who have to suffer the sun.

Scorching Hot in Phoenix: What It’s Like to Work in 115 Degrees

A vote by the U.S. bishops was the most dramatic example of the conservative Catholic movement’s reach since Joseph R. Biden was elected. But the contingent had been gaining strength throughout the Trump era.

In Rift With Biden, a Dramatic Show of Force by a Conservative Catholic Movement

 One of big tech’s top critics is now in charge of its regulation at the F.T.C.

The Week in Business: Here Come the Trustbusters

Boxers have had trouble with qualifying events being canceled because of the coronavirus. That led to some abrupt rule changes that left many athletes with no ability to adjust.

The Pandemic Has Some of the Best Boxers Watching the Olympics From Afar

This stylish exorcism procedural by Michelle and Robert King moves to Paramount+ for its next 13-episode run.

Review: ‘Evil’ Is Good and It’s Back for a Second Satanic Season

Quotation of the Day for Sunday, June 20, 2021.

Quotation of the Day: Worried by Dirty Money, U.S. Examines the Secrecy of Art Sales

The Irish entertainer is known for his freewheeling talk show, but in his novel “Home Stretch” he explores what it’s like for a gay man to return to his home and find both it and himself wholly transformed.

Graham Norton Comes Around

The stakes couldn’t be higher for participating athletes. Finishing in the top three — provided you have hit the time standard — means you’re headed to Tokyo. One misstep or miscalculation and you’re out.

The Making of Team U.S.A. Track and Field

Injuries kept the Nets from knowing what they could really look like once their stars — Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden — were playing well together.

‘It Hurts’: Season Is Over Before Nets See How Good Big Three Can Be

French soccer teams could face economic disaster after a television partner said it would refuse to honor its contract. Transfers, salaries and budgets hang in the balance.

As France Chases Title at Euros, Its League Faces a $400 Million Hole

The accident and a subsequent cover-up have renewed relevance as scientists search for the origins of Covid-19.

Soviets Once Denied a Deadly Anthrax Lab Leak. U.S. Scientists Backed the Story.

Raja Feather Kelly’s “The Kill One Race” and “This American Wife” exist in a realm between, changing our relationship with what we witness.

Theater, Reality TV and What Is Stranger Than Fiction

Talk of “gain-of-function” research, a muddy category at best, brings up deep questions about how scientists should study viruses and other pathogens.

Fight Over Covid’s Origins Renews Debate on Risks of Lab Work

A professional athlete raping a reporter is a story about power in our society, and how men wield it against women.

I Am Breaking My Silence About the Baseball Player Who Raped Me

The deadly disease has sickened former coronavirus patients across the country. Doctors believe that hospitals desperate to keep Covid patients alive made choices that left them vulnerable.

In the Wake of India’s Covid Crisis, a ‘Black Fungus’ Epidemic Follows

A venturesome millionaire, he forged an only-in-America career in fields ranging from craft beer to free speech activism to scientific research.

George Stranahan, Benefactor of Physicists and Bar Flies, Dies at 89

A conservative leader who fought corruption and pushed for economic progress, Mr. Bolaños believed that his country was in a time of crisis.

June 20, 2021

Headlines from June 20, 2021

Dumb Money No More: How David Ellison Became a Hollywood High Flier

How Do They Say Economic Recovery? ‘I Quit.’

Desperate for Covid Care, Undocumented Immigrants Resort to Unproven Drugs

‘Here We Are, Again’: The Giants Stick to a Formula That Works

New York Faces Lasting Economic Toll Even as Pandemic Passes

Billboard 200

The Voice Of The Heroes

Sour

Dangerous: The Double Album

The Off-Season

The Chaos Chapter : FREEZE

Historical Context for June 20, 2021