Corrections: March 11, 2025
An article on Sunday about the 41 hostages who have been killed since being taken captive by Hamas and its allies during their Oct. 7 attack on Israel misstated when Israel's military concluded that an airstrike had killed hostages. It was in March 2024, not March 2023.
An article on Saturday about a South Korean court ordering the release from jail of the country's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol misstated the timing of the indictment. It was in January, not last month.
An article on Sunday about the introduction of price controls by Croatia's government to rein in inflation misidentified the name of the research institute where John H. Cochrane works. It is the Hoover Institution, not the Hoover Institute.
An article on Saturday about the robotic Athena moon lander spacecraft's inability to charge its batteries after ending up on its side misstated how far the craft was from its targeted landing site. It was about 800 feet, not 150 meters.
A column by The Athletic on Sunday about whether Pete Rose should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame referred incorrectly to his World Series history. Rose played on championship teams for the Cincinnati Reds in 1975 and 1976 and for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1980; he did not play on three World Series winners during the days of Cincinnati's Big Red Machine.
An article on Monday about the video game designer Josef Fares misspelled the given name of a video game composer. He is Gustaf Grefberg, not Gustav. It also erroneously included a game in his credits; he did not write the score for Wolfenstein: The New Order.
Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so some errors noted here may not have appeared in all editions.
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