AUGUSTA, Ga. — Scottie Scheffler has declared himself the No. 1 player in the world for three years. On Sunday, Scheffler declared the dominant force of his era.Scheffler, 27, won the Masters by four strokes against a star-studded field for his second green jacket in three years. He becomes the fourth youngest golfer to win the Masters twice, following Jack Nicklaus, Seve Ballesteros and Tiger Woods. He joins Nicklaus and Woods as the only three players with two Players Championship wins and two green jackets.For a while, on a perfect Sunday afternoon at Augusta National, it looked like an all-time…
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Iran’s long-awaited retaliation for Israel’s killing of senior military leaders has sparked a fiery aerial display in the skies over Israel and the West Bank.But in important ways, military analysts say, it was just that: a choreographed extravaganza.The more than 300 drones and missiles launched into Iraqi and Jordanian airspace Saturday night before being shot down appeared designed to create maximum drama while causing minimal damage, defense officials and military experts say. Just as they did in 2020 when they retaliated for the US killing of General Qasem Soleimani, Iranian leaders this weekend warned several times that they were striking…
A new Pentagon review of the events leading up to the August 2021 bombing that killed 13 U.S. soldiers at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, confirmed earlier findings that U.S. troops could not have prevented the deadly violence.The review’s conclusions focus on the final days and hours at Abbey Gate before the attack, which also killed up to 170 civilians. The review provides new details about the Islamic State bomber who carried out the suicide mission, including how he slipped through crowds trying to evacuate the capital’s airport moments before detonating explosives.Some Marines at the gate said they recognized the…
The 75-foot-long brontosaurus at the reopened Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Conn., is the same dinosaur that the natural history museum has exhibited since 1931. But it looks different. A fresh pose. New front sides. The head is repositioned at a more odd angle. The museum’s four-year renovation not only renewed the nearly 100-year-old building, but also included an overhaul of the fossils that research proved to be inaccurate.The Peabody’s update — 15,000 square feet were added, creating more spacious galleries and dynamic displays — was a long time coming. Like other Yale museums, it is now free, offers…
An American foundation is sponsoring an exhibition by a Chinese artist in collaboration with a Japanese architect in a centuries-old Venetian building.This is the kind of distant constellation that can only be encountered during the Venice Biennale, when the historic Italian lagoon city turns into the biggest stage of modern art. While the Biennale itself is famous for its national pavilions, there are many side exhibitions, some organized independently, on the rise.One of this year’s most stellar independent collaborations brings together two masters of the form: Zeng Fanzhi, 60, the Beijing-based painter best known for his masterful, monumental canvases that…
The Biden administration will give up to $6.4 billion in grants to Samsung, one of the world’s largest chipmakers, the latest in a series of awards aimed at boosting domestic production of cutting-edge semiconductors.The money will help Samsung, the South Korean company, finance its new chip manufacturing hub in Taylor, Texas, and expand an existing site in nearby Austin. Samsung will now build an additional manufacturing plant and upgrade an under-construction facility in Taylor. It will increase its investment in Texas to about $45 billion, up from the $17 billion it announced more than two years ago, administration officials said…
In the view of Jim VandeHei, CEO of Axios, AI will “eviscerate the weak, the ordinary, the unprepared in media.”The rapid rise of genetic artificial intelligence — and its implications for how people will discover and consume news — has many media executives upset. Like them, Mr. VandeHei has spent the past year or so pondering how to respond.Now he’s becoming one of the first news executives to adapt their company’s strategy because of artificial intelligenceMr VandeHei says the only way for media companies to survive is to focus on providing journalistic expertise, credible content and a personal human connection.…
Moments after Israel and its allies shot down a fleet of Iranian missiles and drones this weekend, many began to wonder what the latest exchange between Israel and Iran would mean for the war in the Gaza Strip.The Iranian attack was in retaliation for what was widely believed to be an Israeli strike this month on an embassy building in Damascus that killed seven Iranian officials, including three top commanders of Iran’s armed forces. But it happened in the context of the war in Gaza, where Israel is fighting Hamas, a militant group funded and armed by Iran.Israeli military analysts…
Cholera vaccine doses are being given to patients as fast as they are produced, and the global supply has been completely depleted as deadly cases of the disease continue to spread.This comes as no shock to anyone in the field of emergency response because vaccine stocks have been precariously low for years.The surprise — the good news, which is surprising in itself, since “cholera” and “good news” are rarely used together — is that three new vaccine makers are setting up production lines and joining the effort to replenish the stockpile.And a fourth company, the only one currently making the…
Arab countries, from the United Arab Emirates and Oman to Jordan and Egypt, have tried for months to contain the conflict between Israel and Hamas, especially after it widened to include armed groups backed by Iran and deeply embedded in the Arab people. Some of them, like the Houthis, also threaten Arab governments.But the drone and missile attack on Israel over the weekend, which put the entire region on alert, made the new reality inescapable: Unlike previous Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, even those involving Israel and Lebanon or Syria , it continues to expand.”Part of why these wars have been contained is…