Carlos Ghosn arrived at Nissan in 1999, and was credited with saving the company from financial collapse.Credit...Eric Piermont/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images TOKYO — Carlos Ghosn, who created an alliance between Nissan and Renault that made it effectively the world’s largest carmaker, was arrested by the authorities in Japan on Monday in a remarkable tumble for one of the industry’s most pow

Serena Williams arguing with officials after she received a game penalty in the second set.Credit...Ben Solomon for The New York Times Osaka soundly defeated her childhood idol, Serena Williams, 6-2, 6-4, in the women’s final of the United States Open on Saturday, blocking Williams from winning a record-tying 24th major singles title. But the match will long be remembered for a series of confronta

transcript Remembering Aretha FranklinIn a musical career of more than five decades, Aretha Franklin had more than 100 singles on the Billboard charts. But more important, says Jon Pareles, chief popular music critic for The New York Times, she freed other singers to let their voices fly. “Testing, can you hear me?” [playing piano] “I don’t want nobody.” The simple thing about Aretha Franklin is s

Twitter plans to start removing questionable accounts from users’ follower numbers on Thursday, reducing the total follower count on the platform by about 6 percent.Credit...Jeff Chiu/Associated Press Twitter will begin removing tens of millions of suspicious accounts from users’ followers on Thursday, signaling a major new effort to restore trust on the popular but embattled platform. The reform

An update Apple is planning for its iPhone software would close a technological loophole that law enforcement agencies have exploited to gain access to information on those devices.Credit...Elizabeth D. Herman for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has long positioned the iPhone as a secure device that only its owner can open. That has led to battles with law enforcement officials who want t

Facebook’s logo at an internet conference in Beijing in April. The social network has struck data-sharing partnerships with at least four companies in China.Credit...Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant that has a close relationship with China’s government, the social media compan

President Trump has 52 million followers on Twitter. Several Twitter users said they had been blocked by the @realDonaldTrump account after they criticized the president.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Apart from the man himself, perhaps nothing has defined President Trump’s political persona more than Twitter. But on Wednesday, one of Mr. Trump’s Twitter habits — his practice of blocking c

James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, used his interview on the ABC News program “20/20” to amplify many of the disclosures in his tell-all memoir.Credit...Ralph Alswang/ABC News WASHINGTON — If there was any chance that President Trump and James B. Comey could have avoided all-out war, it ended Sunday night. That was when ABC News aired an interview with Mr. Comey, the president’s fired F.B

Christopher Wylie, who helped found the data firm Cambridge Analytica and worked there until 2014, has described the company as an “arsenal of weapons” in a culture war.Credit...Andrew Testa for The New York Times (After this story was published, Facebook came under harsh criticism from lawmakers in the United States and Britain. Read the latest.) LONDON — As the upstart voter-profiling company Ca