The New York Times Opinion

12 hours ago | nytimes.com | Mark Landler

Grosvenor Square is being recast for a new era, with the former U.S. Embassy transformed into a Qatari-owned luxury hotel and F.D.R.'s square into a haven of biodiversity. A statue of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was wrapped in tarp to protect it during construction in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square in London this past week. Credit...

14 hours ago | nytimes.com | Ralph Russo |Evan Drellich

Bryan Seeley, a high-ranking executive at Major League Baseball and former assistant U.S. attorney, will be hired by the Power conferences to lead their newly formed college sports enforcement body, a spokesperson for those conferences told The Athletic. The College Sports Commission will oversee rules related to the new revenue-sharing system coming to NCAA Division I athletics as part of the $2.8 billion antitrust lawsuit settlement that was approved by a federal judge on Friday, June 6.

16 hours ago | nytimes.com | Asli Pelit |Emily Olsen

Washington Spirit head coach Jonatan Giraldéz on Friday began his first press conference since the news of his midseason departure to lead OL Lyonnes by admitting the situation was "not ideal."As he gets set to coach his final three games in NWSL before moving to France, he encouraged fans and players "keep working, keep supporting the team in the way that they were" last season when the Spirit made it to the NWSL Championship. "I am part of the group.

17 hours ago | nytimes.com | Eric Lipton |Kenneth Chang

The president could tighten federal oversight of the tech titan's businesses, even if heavy reliance by the Pentagon and NASA on them makes terminating Mr. Musk's contracts less feasible. After the relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk exploded into warfare Thursday, Mr. Trump suggested that he might eliminate the tech titan's federal contracts. "The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts.

19 hours ago | nytimes.com | Eric Lipton |David Yaffe-Bellany |Michael Forsythe |Devon Lum |Jiawei Wang

The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president's digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration's views toward visitors from China. He Tianying outside the White House on May 23. Mr. He is a member of an advisory body that seeks to broaden the Communist Party's influence and solicit support from influential people in Chinese society. Credit...