Sports Briefing | Baseball: Memorial Service for Ernie Banks

Fans and friends paid tribute to the Chicago Cubs slugger Ernie Banks on Saturday, recalling how he helped break baseball’s color barrier during a Hall of Fame career in which he won over his teammates and a city with the unwavering optimism he brought to the game and life.

Child Health and Poverty

Sandra G. Hassink, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, responds to an online column by Charles M. Blow.

Sports Briefing | Baseball: Blue Jays Pursued Executive

Dan Duquette, the Baltimore Orioles’ president for baseball operations, acknowledged that “there was substance” to reports that the Toronto Blue Jays were in pursuit of him this off-season to be their club president.

Our Loud, Proud Left

What is fueling the cultural activism of the later Obama years?

First Draft Focus: Week in Political Pictures

A look back at the week in politics.

Tribal Loyalties Drive Jordan’s Effort to Free Pilot

A Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State is a member of a politically influential tribe, part of a crucial base of tribal support for the king.

Shifting Gears, Incrementally

Going from schoolmates to roommates to life mates.

Top Sundance Prizes Go to 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl'

The whimsical tearjerker that rode a crescendo of buzz after screening in Park City last week claimed top prizes at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival awards on Saturday night.

Forty Years of Servitude, and Counting

A federal judge’s decision on the labeling of aides for the elderly and disabled “companions” means an even longer wait for labor protections.

A School Crisis? Yes

Eva Moskowitz, the founder of Success Academy Charter Schools, responds to a news article about New York schools.

Does Censorship Make Us Safer?

Readers react to an Op-Ed essay that said publications promoting terrorism are not protected by the First Amendment.

Bits Blog: Microsoft Brings Outlook to iPhone, Other Mobile Devices

Outlook, Microsoft’s workhorse email application, has finally arrived on mobile devices, including iPhones and iPads.

At 32, Phoenix Open Leader Seems Ancient

After 54 holes, the top 16, led by Martin Laird, includes a cluster of young players who grew up idolizing Tiger Woods, 39, who missed the cut for the tournament.

Michel Nischan

The chef on the Dalai Lama, Alaskan reality TV shows and playing pétanque with Jacques Pépin.

Serena Williams Wins Australian Open With Coughs, Guts and Aces

Williams won her 19th Grand Slam singles title on Saturday, defeating Sharapova, 6-3, 7-6 (5) to become the oldest woman to win the singles title in the Open era.

City Room: Seven-Alarm Brooklyn Warehouse Fire Burns Official Records

The fire, visible from miles away, was fed by boxes of documents, including court and hospital records, and burned for much of the day.

White House Seeks to Limit Health Law’s Tax Troubles

Obama administration officials say they worry that the tax-filing season will generate new anger as uninsured consumers learn that they must pay tax penalties.