Pressure is mounting on companies to condemn the country’s human rights violations, but executives say the Games should not be politicized.

For Olympic Sponsors, ‘China Is an Exception’

Ms. Lightfoot has shown herself to be a blunt orator and unflinching negotiator.

Lori Lightfoot Promised to Change Chicago. Crises Keep Piling Up.

The stories of those who died in custody offer an intimate, firsthand look at the crisis gripping the New York City jail system.

16 Men Died in New York City Jails Last Year. Who Were They?

The European Union’s two largest economies diverged in the final quarter of 2021.

France’s economy bounces back, while Germany’s falters under the strain of Omicron.

The S&P 500 rose 2.4 percent, its biggest one-day jump since June 2020. But some analysts cautioned against reading too much into a single day’s bounce.

Stocks rally, erasing losses from a turbulent week.

Navigating the pandemic and a shift in leadership, the Center Theater Group is trying to get back its old audience, and find a new one, while rethinking its mission and programming.

Los Angeles Is Changing. Can a Flagship Theater Keep Up?

Prices are rising rapidly, wages are growing and consumers are glum as a fraught economic moment poses big challenges for policymakers.

Inflation Continued to Run Hot and Consumer Spending Fell in December

The $188 million resale of a duplex is the second-highest price paid for a home in New York City, and leads a busy month for residential sales.

Another Resale at 220 Central Park South Lands in the Record Book

Getting to the bottom of a modern mystery.

How Trump Coins Became an Internet Sensation

At least 10 people sustained non-life-threatening injuries, officials said. According to an analysis, addressing the structural issues of Pittsburgh’s nearly 450 bridges would cost $458 million.

Pittsburgh Bridge Collapses Hours Before Biden Infrastructure Visit

Some dancers recoiled at the prospect of volunteering their services at this year’s Super Bowl halftime show: “You can’t make a living off of exposure.”

What Do Dancers Bring to a Halftime Show? They Complete the Picture.

Justin Peck’s “Partita,” set to Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer-Prize winning composition, opened New York City Ballet’s winter season at Lincoln Center.

Review: At City Ballet, Giving Voice to the Body, With Sneakers

This year’s festival featured lots of scares, a parade of bodies (and body parts) and a haunted, haunting postcolonial tale set in New York.

A Sundance With Brains and Guts, Disemboweled and Otherwise

The comic and commentator discusses his new documentary, “We Need to Talk About Cosby,” and what Cosby’s story reveals about the “two runaway forces of oppression in America.”

Kamau Bell: Bill Cosby Is Key to Understanding America

While Ukraine’s president complained about “acute and burning” warnings from Washington, the Pentagon issued a dire new appraisal asserting Russia has amassed enough troops to invade his entire country.

White House Warnings Over Russia Strain Ukraine-U.S. Partnership

The president believed pressuring the court’s oldest justice to retire might backfire. A chorus of liberals took a different approach.

As Breyer Pondered Retirement, Biden Bet on a Hands-Off Strategy

In an interview, the Times book critic discusses how she picks what to recommend and describes her reading life at home.

Molly Young Is Thinking About Buying a Wheelbarrow

Everywhere Steven Strogatz goes in the city, he sees math.

How a Mathematician Spends His Sundays

International bodies and nations appear to have either forgiven, forgotten or chosen to ignore the reasons Syria was cast out from their community. 

We Syrians Are Not Surprised by This Betrayal

In Monday’s puzzle, “Nye” was the answer to the clue “Bill known as the ‘Science Guy.’”

The Way We Talk About Climate Change Matters, Bill Nye Says

Anthony Roth Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond brought their gleeful opera-cabaret show “Only an Octave Apart” to the New York Philharmonic.

Review: Philip Glass and the Bangles, Mashed at the Symphony

Ahead of a major five-city show, the artist reflects on the evolution of her practice and her distrust of Amazon.

Rochelle Feinstein Makes Work That Is Purposefully Hard to Define

Quotation of the Day for Friday, January 28, 2022.

Quotation of the Day: If G.D.P. Is Up, Why Do VotersFeel So Down?

Settlements, upkeep and lawyers have whittled his $600 million estate to about $185 million. A civil fraud suit in the Virgin Islands could wipe out more.

Where Is Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Going?

To address New York City’s rising gun violence, Eric Adams called on “all of us” to make the streets safer.

January 28, 2022

Headlines from January 28, 2022

For Olympic Sponsors, ‘China Is an Exception’

Lori Lightfoot Promised to Change Chicago. Crises Keep Piling Up.

16 Men Died in New York City Jails Last Year. Who Were They?

France’s economy bounces back, while Germany’s falters under the strain of Omicron.

Stocks rally, erasing losses from a turbulent week.

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