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Gibson, what happened? There’s been talk of bankruptcy swirling around Gibson, the venerated Nashville-based guitar company, which takes in more than $1.2 billion in annual revenue but is more than $500 million in debt. Buzzards are circling. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the private equity giant, is a bondholder. Blackstone is also a major lender. Gibson’s problems […]

The galvanization of women, whether as candidates for political office or as voices speaking up as part of the #metoo movement, has challenged yet another traditionally sacred practice: the airbrushing of beauty images into unachievable perfection. This week, CVS, the American pharmaceutical giant, has pledged to stop “materially altering” all of the imagery associated with […]

Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) It’s the prettiest time of year in California’s Central Valley. Along country roads, fragrant trees burst with white, pink and red flowers that normally bear a bounty of fruit in the summer. But a cold snap that gripped the state last week may […]

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Lari Lehtonen, an Olympic cross-country skier from Finland, pulled his two sons out of kindergarten a month ago. They were not allowed to attend birthday parties. They were prohibited from crowded indoor spaces. They could have play dates, but only after a call to the friend’s parents. This may sound like […]

Jake Silverstein, editor in chief: “For this story we wanted a very straightforward and immediate cover. So we used a simple image and abandoned the typical conventions of display language — headline and subhead — for a more direct, conversational approach.” Read the cover story, “Why Are Our Most Important Teachers Paid the Least?” See […]

When I was growing up in Gonaives, Haiti, we didn’t have a toilet. We had a latrine, an outhouse in the back of our yard where we went to the bathroom. A literal “shithole.” By Western standards of modernity, you could say the same of Haiti. Our roads aren’t great. Our politicians are corrupt. The […]

Rochelle Youner, who lives at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, a nursing home in the Bronx, walked up to a kiosk in a common area of the home’s first floor and pressed a button below a small icon depicting a baseball glove. “That’s the real stuff — that’s a mitt, all right,” Ms. Youner, 80, […]

WASHINGTON — They stood not 10 feet apart in a V.I.P. box: the 58-year-old vice president of the United States and the 30-year-old sister of North Korea’s reclusive dictator, representatives of two countries locked in a stubborn, ever more perilous nuclear standoff. But Mike Pence and Kim Yo-jong stared fixedly ahead during the chilly, blustery […]

A New York City police sergeant was acquitted Thursday of murder in the fatal 2016 shooting of a bat-wielding, mentally ill 66-year-old woman in the bedroom of her Bronx apartment. The death of the woman, Deborah Danner, became a flash point in the national, racially charged debate over whether police officers are too quick to […]

New TV shows, museum openings, film releases and concerts — it’s a lot to keep track of. Let us help you. For the week of Feb. 11, seven events in New York and elsewhere not to be missed: Pop: Romeo Santos at the Garden Feb. 15-17; msg.com. Any discussion of the most influential New York […]