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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Clay Risen |Christopher Schuetze
A likely focus of talks between the two leaders will be military aid and whether Germany will provide Ukraine with the Taurus cruise missile. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is expected to travel to Berlin on Wednesday in his first visit to Germany since Chancellor Friedrich Merz took office earlier this month. The visit comes at a crucial moment in the German-Ukrainian relationship.
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1 week ago | 
seattletimes.com | Christopher Schuetze |Clay Risen |Eve Sampson
At least 17 people were injured in a knife attack at the central train station in the German city of Hamburg on Friday evening, according to the local fire department. Four of the victims are in critical condition, a spokesperson from the fire department said, adding that all the victims had been hospitalized. Hamburg police said they believed that a 39-year-old woman had acted alone in carrying out the attack, but the investigation was ongoing.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Eve Sampson |Christopher Schuetze |Clay Risen
Four of the victims are in critical condition. The police say they believe a 39-year-old woman carried out the attack, for which no motive has yet been given. At least 17 people were injured in a knife attack at the central train station in the German city of Hamburg on Friday evening, according to the local fire department. Four of the victims are in critical condition, a spokesperson from the fire department said, adding that all the victims were hospitalized.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Clay Risen
Bielefeld dispatchThe small city of Bielefeld was once the butt of jokes for its blandness. Now it embodies the kind of stability Germans long for. The main shopping street in Bielefeld, Germany, this week. Credit... Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times Bielefeld, Germany, a modest city of 338,000 people, is in every way typical of a well-off German town, with an opera house, a castle and a tidy historic district.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Clay Risen
1 day agoI have a friend who insists that had Status Quo hailed from Düsseldorf rather than Catford, they would nowadays be as critically revered as Can, Faust, Neu! and those other hallowed Teutonic pioneers of unyielding rhythm from the 1970s. Maybe so. Very probably not. Canned Heat and ZZ Top seem more …
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4 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Clay Risen
Chancellor Friedrich Merz's coalition is weighing how to confront the Alternative for Germany party, which has been rising in the polls. Ever since the German Parliament building reopened in Berlin in 1999, its second-largest meeting room has been occupied by what had often been Germany's second-largest party, the Social Democrats. Even the room's name, the Otto Wels Hall, bears the party's imprint: Wels led the Social Democrats from 1919 until the Nazis drove him to exile.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Clay Risen
Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Republican of Maine, addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington on April 18, 1964.ASSOCIATED PRESS/Associated PressOn the morning of May 26, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican from Maine, set out from Washington for the long drive home, where she planned to give a string of speeches over the Memorial Day weekend. With her was her top aide, Bill Lewis.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Clay Risen
An admirer of Nat King Cole, he began as a child performer and as part of a family trio before emerging as a master of the American Songbook. Andy Bey, a jazz singer, pianist and composer whose silky, rich bass-baritone and four-octave vocal range placed him among the greatest interpreters of the American Songbook since Nat King Cole, his role model, died on Saturday in Englewood, N.J. He was 85. His nephew, Darius de Haas, confirmed the death, at a retirement home.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Clay Risen
Small investors in Britain and Ireland have fallen prey to companies selling casks that turn out to be untraceable or nonexistent. Some 48,000 barrels of whisky are aging in Martin Armstrong's warehouse in Scotland. Last year he realized that some may have been part of a scam to defraud investors. Credit... Emily Macinnes for The New York Times There are some 48,000 barrels of Scotch whisky quietly aging in Martin Armstrong's warehouses in southwestern Scotland.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Clay Risen
Her documentaries, one of which received an Oscar nomination, explored subjects like punk-rock dads and Barbie dolls. Andrea Nevins, a documentary filmmaker who brought sensitivity and depth to seemingly lighthearted stories about underdogs and unlikely heroes, including punk-rock dads and Barbie dolls, died on April 12 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 63. Her daughter, Clara, said the cause was breast cancer.
