City officials confirmed to the BBC that somebody applied for street closure permits in the area, but did not reveal whom. But the city is not likely to have shut down Manhattan’s busiest corridor on a holiday weekend for just…

VANCOUVER — Breel Embolo and Dan Ndoye both scored and Switzerland advanced to the round of 16 at the World Cup with a 2-0 victory over Algeria on Thursday night.  Switzerland will play the winner of Friday’s match between Colombia and Ghana…

The research stops short of naming any government that may have used Pegasus against Kouloglou, noting in particular that it found no indication of Greek government involvement. But Citizen Lab does say it found overlaps between the attacks on Kouloglou’s…