The case could reshape the rules of how other businesses can make money on the Android operating system.

Google Loses Antitrust Court Battle With Makers of Fortnite Video Game

Top Israeli officials hinted at a powerful response to attacks by Hezbollah across the northern border with Lebanon, as to the south Israeli troops wage street battles against Hamas in Gaza.

As Fighting Rages in Gaza, Israel Issues Warnings on Another Front

Li Ying used social media to help tell the world about last year’s protests. Now in exile, he has been threatened and lost his livelihood for his defiance.

‘I Have No Future’: China’s Rebel Influencer Is Still Paying a Price

Volkswagen is shifting more operations to China, tapping the country’s electric vehicle capacity and building factories.

Why Volkswagen Is Building a Team of 3,000 Engineers in China

More than 60 percent of French speakers now live in Africa. Despite growing resentment at France, Africans are contributing to the evolution and spread of the French language.

How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time

Many Black women report feeling ignored or dismissed by doctors. The consequences can be deadly for mothers and babies.

How Unconscious Bias in Health Care Puts Pregnant Black Women at Higher Risk

Can doppelgängers of the Dutch painter help museums generate new interest and income? A.I. Vincent fields our questions (and makes some mistakes).

Dream of Talking to Vincent van Gogh? A.I. Tries to Resurrect the Artist.

Consumer prices rose 3.1 percent in the year through November, and a closely watched core index was roughly the same rate as the previous month.

Inflation Holds Roughly Steady Ahead of Fed Meeting

Harvard’s governing body said it stood firmly behind Claudine Gay as the university’s president, a stance both praised and condemned by students, faculty and alumni.

Harvard’s Board Unites Behind Its President, but Its Campus Remains Splintered

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine traveled to Washington to make a last-ditch appeal for more help to fight Russia. But Republicans said they wouldn’t act without a border deal.

Biden Says Russia Is Celebrating U.S. Divisions Over Providing Aid to Ukraine

Free-ranging cats hunt or scavenge more than 2,000 species, some of them imperiled, according to a new study.

What’s on the Menu When Your Cat Goes Out? Probably More Than You Think.

As an art project, Isabelle Brourman joined the courtroom sketch artists at the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial and now the trial of the former president.

At Trump’s Fraud Trial, a Courtroom Artist With a Different View

The president’s words exposed a widening rift between his administration and that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as casualties rise in Gaza.

Biden Warns Israel It Is ‘Losing Support’ Over War

The ruling could allow Democrats to tilt anywhere from two to six G.O.P.-held seats leftward. Republicans vowed to challenge any gerrymandered map.

Top Court Clears Path for Democrats to Redraw House Map in New York

A trio of antitrust cases on the docket threaten to reshape Google’s business and sap its profits.

Google’s Antitrust Loss to Epic Could Preview Its Legal Fate in 2024

An exquisite revival of Brian Friel’s 1980 play at the Irish Repertory Theater is the first of three there by the Irish author.

Review: In ‘Translations,’ What’s Lost When Language Is Looted

Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, December 12, 2023.

Quotation of the Day: Maine Gunman’s Brain May Have Been Damaged in the Army

For this year’s United Nations climate summit, the reporter David Gelles flew to the United Arab Emirates to discuss the world’s environmental future with industry leaders.

COP28 Comes at a ‘Moment of Both Hope and Peril’

Scientists captured new imagery of atmospheric phenomena that occur during some lightning storms, offering clues into how they form.

Hunting Ghosts in the Sky and Finding What Makes Their Colors

Cait Corrain, a debut fantasy author, admitted to creating fake accounts on Goodreads to bolster her own book and tank the ratings of others.

She ‘Review Bombed’ Other Writers. Then Her Book Got Pulled.

The public health researcher Abigail Echo-Hawk is a leading voice in a movement to empower Indigenous people, wielding data as a tool for racial equity.

The Unapologetic ‘Auntie’ of Indigenous Data

A bipartisan report recommended stripping China of the low tariffs the United States granted it two decades ago, among other actions.

Lawmakers Call for Raising Tariffs and Severing Economic Ties With China

Parts of some missing objects have probably been sold to scrap metal merchants, museum administrators say.

British Museum Details Extent of Stolen and Damaged Items

The filmmakers’ attention to detail draws praise, but the question of perspective and who gets to tell the story is also at issue.

In Indigenous Communities, a Divided Reaction to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

The “Appropriate” playwright has teamed up with the actors Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll and the director Lila Neugebauer for the play’s Broadway debut. “Everybody onstage is a political statement,” he says.

December 12, 2023

Headlines from December 12, 2023

Google Loses Antitrust Court Battle With Makers of Fortnite Video Game

As Fighting Rages in Gaza, Israel Issues Warnings on Another Front

‘I Have No Future’: China’s Rebel Influencer Is Still Paying a Price

Why Volkswagen Is Building a Team of 3,000 Engineers in China

How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time

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1989 (Taylor's Version)

For All The Dogs

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One Thing At A Time

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Historical Context for December 12, 2023