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Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York embarked Wednesday on an impromptu trip to Israel that she acknowledged would have no geopolitical impact on an escalating war 5,700 miles away from the state she leads.The point of her whirlwind excursion to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Ms. Hochul said, would be purely and powerfully symbolic, a bold gesture of support by the leader of a state that is home to the largest population of Jews outside of Israel.“There is a deep, direct connection between New York State and Israel that has always been there, a bond steeled over decades,” the governor, a Democrat, said in an interview at Kennedy Airport shortly before boarding a 10-hour commercial flight. “And it’s easy to go when the sun is shining and everything is fine.”“The community feels, in Israel and in New York...

The proposed sale of the Premier League soccer team Everton F.C. to a Miami-based holding company has stalled because the firm, 777 Partners, has failed to provide audited financial statements to a British government regulator that must approve the deal.The regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, delivered its request to 777 Partners this month, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the approval process, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. If the company does not provide the requested financials or an acceptable explanation, its proposed takeover of Everton — a deal involving hundreds of millions of dollars in assumed debt and a coveted place in the world’s richest soccer league — could fall apart.The missing ...

On a campus already bitterly divided, the statement poured acid all over Harvard Yard.A coalition of more than 30 student groups posted an open letter on the night of the Hamas attack, saying that Israel was “entirely responsible” for the violence that ended up leaving more than 1,400 dead, most of them civilians.The letter, posted on social media before the extent of the killings was known, did not include the names of individual students.But within days, students affiliated with those groups were being doxxed, their personal information posted online. Siblings back home were threatened. Wall Street executives demanded a list of student names to ban their hiring. And a truck with a digital billboard — paid for by a conservative group — circled Harvard Square, flashing student photos and n...

Days after Mat Ishbia reached a deal in December to buy majority stakes in the N.B.A.’s Phoenix Suns and the Phoenix Mercury of the W.N.B.A., he met with top executives to learn more about the teams’ business operations, including how local fans were able to watch their games on TV.The executives detailed three possibilities going forward, including sticking with Diamond Sports Group, which owned the regional sports network that for more than a decade had held the rights to show the teams’ games. Diamond Sports was saddled with $8 billion in debts — it would file for bankruptcy protection in March — but it still wrote big checks worth millions of dollars a year.Mr. Ishbia, though, gravitated to the riskiest of the three options: ditching the regional sports network model that most teams fo...