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
Methodology Data for 2016 were collected by Edison Research for the National Election Pool, a consortium of ABC News, The Associated Press, CBSNews, CNN, Fox News and NBC News. The voter survey is based on questionnaires completed by 24,537 voters leaving 350 voting places throughout the United States on Election Day including 4,398 telephone interviews with early and absentee voters. In 2012, 200
Paul Simon, 74, in Vienna, Va. “Showbiz doesn’t hold any interest for me,” he said. “None.”Credit...T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times VIENNA, Va. — Paul Simon says he is ready to give up making and playing music, 61 years after he started as a 13-year-old. “You’re coming towards the end,” he said in an interview this week, discussing the mysterious epiphanies that delivered some of his great
President Obama spoke after a wreath-laying ceremony with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on Friday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times The following is a transcript of President Obama’s speech in Hiroshima, Japan, as recorded by The New York Times. Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash
transcript At Fukushima, Five Years LaterThe head of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tepco, decomissioning and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan spoke about the task of radioactive containment at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. THE HEAD OF DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING OF FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR PLANT, NAOHIRO MASUDA, SAYING: “Regarding to reactor No.1, No.2 and No.3, to be honest, w
The King and I The varied manifestations of love: Ken Watanabe as the King and Kelli O’Hara as Anna in this revival of the musical at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times A big, scrupulously detailed 19th-century ship glides toward the audience in the opening moments of Bartlett Sher’s resplendent production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The King
The brewing of sake at the Asahi Shuzo brewery in Japan. Overseas shipments of the drink are headed for a fourth annual gain.Credit...Akio Kon/Bloomberg News NIHONMATSU, Japan — As Japan confronts troubling economic data and memories of its stagnant “lost generation,” the country’s government is offering a little something to take the edge off: a bottle or two of sake. Around the country at intern
The scores for Adelina Sotnikova and Kim Yu-na were close for most of their long program elements. But Sotnikova took a significant lead in a few areas. Adam Leib, a coach and national technical specialist for U.S. Figure Skating, analyzes the performances. Sotnikova’s combination had a much higher base value because she chose to do the most difficult double jump, the double axel. She received hig
After a world record-setting short program performance, Yuzuru Hanyu, a teenager from Japan, fell twice in his free skate but still prevailed. Hanyu fell on the quadruple salchow. Composite image by The New York Times Yuzuru Hanyu Total score: 280.09 Hanyu became the first skater to break 100 points in a short program after receiving high marks for all his jumps, including a quadruple toe loop. Bu
In Promoting His City for 2020 Games, Tokyo’s Bid Chairman Tweaks Others With less than five months to go before the International Olympic Committee chooses a city to host the 2020 Summer Games, the three remaining bidders — Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo — are increasing their efforts to win over delegates and the public. The Olympic committee’s rules prohibit bid committee members from directly crit
Mountain View, Calif. IN early 2009, statisticians inside the Googleplex here embarked on a plan code-named Project Oxygen. Their mission was to devise something far more important to the future of Google Inc. than its next search algorithm or app. They wanted to build better bosses. So, as only a data-mining giant like Google can do, it began analyzing performance reviews, feedback surveys and no
Beate Gordon, Long-Unsung Heroine of Japanese Women’s Rights, Dies at 89 Beate Sirota Gordon, the daughter of Russian Jewish parents who at 22 almost single-handedly wrote women’s rights into the Constitution of modern Japan, and then kept silent about it for decades, only to become a feminist heroine there in recent years, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 89. The cause was pancrea
Ronan Sato, a student at Oxford, said he wanted experience at a Japanese company, “but they seemed cautious.”Credit...Hazel Thompson for The New York Times TOKYO — Ronan Sato, a graduate student in applied statistics at Oxford, has always been keen to work in his native Japan. But at a careers fair for overseas Japanese students, he found that corporate Japan did not return his enthusiasm. In meet
Nora Ephron on the set of her 2009 film, “Julie & Julia,” starring Ms. Streep, seated.Credit...Jonathan Wenk/Columbia Pictures Nora Ephron, the essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold (only smarter and funnier, some said) who became one of her era’s most successful screenwriters and filmmakers, making romantic comedy hits like “Sleepless in Seattle” and “When Harry Met Sally...,” died on
Japan spent $1 billion to rebuild and fortify the island of Okushiri after an earthquake and tsunami struck in 1993, killing nearly 200 people.Credit...Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times OKUSHIRI, Japan — On the night of July 12, 1993, the remote island of Okushiri was ripped apart by a huge earthquake and tsunami that now seem an eerie harbinger of the much larger disaster that struck northeaste
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