Author: Bruce Killigang
![How love, Warriors basketball and poetry brought Tom Meschery back How love, Warriors basketball and poetry brought Tom Meschery back](https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2024/03/05173148/0306_MescheryFeature_Lede.png)
How love, Warriors basketball and poetry brought Tom Meschery back
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The poet has been upstairs in his office, tapping at the keyboard on various projects. Most of his mornings begin this way…
![BMW Is a Surprise Winner in Electric Vehicles BMW Is a Surprise Winner in Electric Vehicles](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/13/multimedia/00bmw-electric-01-mhtc/00bmw-electric-01-mhtc-facebookJumbo.jpg)
BMW Is a Surprise Winner in Electric Vehicles
As BMW car bodies glided down an assembly line in Munich recently, showered by sparks from robotic welders, it was hard to tell which vehicles…
![How Trump’s Justice Dept. Derailed an Investigation of a Major Company How Trump’s Justice Dept. Derailed an Investigation of a Major Company](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/29/multimedia/00Caterpillar-tbcm/00Caterpillar-tbcm-facebookJumbo.jpg)
How Trump’s Justice Dept. Derailed an Investigation of a Major Company
In December 2018, a team of federal law enforcement agents flew to Amsterdam to interview a witness in a yearslong criminal investigation into Caterpillar, which…
![A Call to End Gambling Ads as Athletes and Celebrities Are Shut Out of Them A Call to End Gambling Ads as Athletes and Celebrities Are Shut Out of Them](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/09/multimedia/09canadaletter-gretzky-cqjh/09canadaletter-gretzky-cqjh-facebookJumbo.jpg)
A Call to End Gambling Ads as Athletes and Celebrities Are Shut Out of Them
With the hockey season winding down, many Canadians have two things on their minds: their teams’ playoff chances and a barrage of television ads for…
![Top US Senators Urge Stores to Stop Sellng Illicit Vapes Top US Senators Urge Stores to Stop Sellng Illicit Vapes](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/07/multimedia/07VAPING-01-gwbl/07VAPING-01-gwbl-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Top US Senators Urge Stores to Stop Sellng Illicit Vapes
The chairmen of five key Senate committees on Thursday warned the chief executives of major convenience stores and wholesalers to stop sales of illicit flavored…
![Amid tragedy, one high school basketball team shows the power of sports Amid tragedy, one high school basketball team shows the power of sports](https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2024/03/05163117/8B41A85E-DBE3-4FCD-A16C-AFB5387B8118-scaled.jpg)
Amid tragedy, one high school basketball team shows the power of sports
GRETNA, Neb. — This is not a story about high school basketball. It’s not about a treasured coach who died midway through a season. It’s…
![Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/07/multimedia/07openai-board-mira-vzgf/07openai-board-mira-vzgf-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster
More than three months after OpenAI’s board of directors briefly ousted Sam Altman, the chief executive of the high-profile artificial intelligence company, questions remain about…
![Off the Board Game, Onto the Digital Canvas Off the Board Game, Onto the Digital Canvas](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/08/multimedia/00simon-denny-notebook-vjwm/00simon-denny-notebook-vjwm-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Off the Board Game, Onto the Digital Canvas
The capricious churn of internet-charged culture is producing more main characters, apocrypha and relics than we can handle. Remember when the Canadian musician known as…
![Prison Escapees Are Charged With Murder of American Couple in Grenada Prison Escapees Are Charged With Murder of American Couple in Grenada](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/07/multimedia/07xp-grenada-klgw/07xp-grenada-klgw-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Prison Escapees Are Charged With Murder of American Couple in Grenada
Three men who had escaped from a prison in Grenada and were accused of hijacking an American couple’s yacht to flee have been charged with…
![Cyberattack Paralyzes the Largest US Health Care Payment System Cyberattack Paralyzes the Largest US Health Care Payment System](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/05/multimedia/05UHC-CYBERATTACK-01-wvkb/05UHC-CYBERATTACK-01-wvkb-facebookJumbo.jpg)
Cyberattack Paralyzes the Largest US Health Care Payment System
An urgent care chain in Ohio may be forced to stop paying rent and other bills to cover salaries. In Florida, a cancer center is…