Miscellaneous

After an unceremonious exit from the Angels, Albert Pujols got back to the postseason in a surprising role: joyful mentor.

The outage disrupted the digital lives of small-business owners, politicians, aid workers and others. But for some, it was a welcome reprieve.

When apps used by billions of people worldwide blinked out, lives were disrupted, businesses were cut off from customers — and some Facebook employees were locked out of their offices.

Executives sit in jail, tech companies are being reined in and the biggest developer is teetering. It’s the beginning of a new era for China’s economy.

Global markets showed signs of stabilizing, and Wall Street was expected to open modestly higher on Tuesday. Here’s the latest economic news.

No commercial district in Manhattan may have been hit harder by the financial havoc caused by the pandemic.

Victims’ families should be paid about $671 each, the country’s Supreme Court said. Australia and New Zealand inched toward full reopenings. Here’s the latest.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, has a long record of tying debt ceiling increases to policy demands. But with a catastrophic default two weeks away, he has yet to make any.

Nobody seems to know how it will be resolved.

An independent commission set up at the request of the Roman Catholic Church in the country found that the abuse was more pervasive and systematic than previously thought.