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Readers discuss the contrasts between the United States and Canada, and the renaming of Lake Ontario as Lake America. Also: Conquering “digital territory.”
At the height of tomato season, for every perfectly ripe, taut and juicy specimen there’s an overripe, oozing counterpart not far away. The Tuscan bread salad called panzanella is the perfect place to use those sad, soft tomatoes that are still rich in flavor.
The fierce retaliation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to the new restrictions is a reflection of his tough re-election fight, analysts say.
Ov-staking: Ruben Brekelmans, fractievoorzitter van de VVD, was in zijn Binnenhoflezing kritisch op de stakende vakbonden die niet willen onderhandelen. Maar D66, VVD en CDA zijn het zelf ook oneens, ...
Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador was set to expire on Wednesday. The Trump administration said it would make an announcement about the program’s future at the “appropriate time.”
At the company’s annual September product event, Apple also demonstrated its work on artificial intelligence and other new devices.
The industry’s rapid expansion has scrambled traditional political alliances and forced G.O.P. leaders to respond to a backlash from some of their most reliable rural voters.
The president will speak on both nights of a gathering in Dallas billed as a midterm convention. But with his approval ratings sagging, it’s unclear whether the event will help Republicans in tough ra...
This is about keeping Judge healthy and getting him back to peak form — not the AL East title. The Yankees can’t afford to lose him again.
When a respected biographer tried to use a Mapplethorpe photograph of Roy Cohn for a book cover, worries about the wrath of Mr. Cohn’s protégé, President Trump, intervened.
John McConnell on his memories of working in the White House on September 11, 2001. Plus: American Pastoral by Philip Roth.
Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana offers concerts in surroundings that make you feel as if you’re listening inside the land rather than around it.
A hunter-gatherer who lived in Indonesia as early as 25,000 years ago may have regularly sucked on betel nuts to release their psychoactive properties.
Images from this year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year competition, presented by Oceanographic Magazine and Blancpain, featuring some of the best coastal, drone, and underwater photographs selected from more than 15,000 entries
Their warnings echo concerns that other artificial intelligence experts have voiced in recent months, as calls increase for a slowdown in the pace of development.
A worsening trade war and a spike in oil prices could create new economic risks as the president prepares to rally Republicans for the midterms.
Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP coin began as a troll. Then traders did what they have done with short-lived internet jokes in this era of speculative boom and bust: send the token up before inevitably sending...
The lawsuit, the first of its kind since revelations against the union leader emerged this year, accuses two foundations of failing to prevent “abusive, rogue and inappropriate” behavior.
The New York Knicks star will kick off the 52nd season of “Saturday Night Live” on Sept. 26. Other hosts include Shane Gillis and Dakota Johnson.
With Maxx Crosby remaining with the Raiders (for now), could he become the big story of the NFL trade deadline?
It's advantage England as Pakistan, put into bat, were dismissed cheaply at Edgbaston with Emilio Gay scoring his third Test 50 in reply
What connects a favorite Aimee Mann song, a classic memoir and a Vermeer painting in the Frick Collection? The answer was there all along.
The ferocity of the response to Jon Ossoff reveals something deeper about the world of Trump supporters.
Three-fourths of Americans oppose data centers. Why?
A judge in Miami declined to release Andrew and Tristan Tate from custody while they fight extradition to Britain.
Recently, while picking up a banh mi in my neighborhood, I found myself transfixed by a TV in the restaurant showing what I assumed was a nature documentary. At first the footage soothed: Gentle humpback whales sailing through hazy blue waters and killer whales gliding in packs under glacial ice. But the longer I waited…
Maybe you have heard of Roko’s Basilisk. This is a thought experiment, for lack of a better term, popular among a certain set: hyper-rationalists, futurists, effective altruists. Tech-industry guys. Y...
Player contracts are a significant portion of LIV’s liabilities, and bankruptcy allows the tour to reject those it sees as unfavourable.
An even exchange: they gawk at my breasts while I examine their crotches
The plan, which two dozen states have challenged as unconstitutional, puts in place new requirements about who can receive mail ballots.
Red flags transgender clients should watch for in therapy
This season is rich with sharp productions, like Bess Wohl’s and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Pulitzer winners, Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary!” and the hip-hop musical “Mexodus.”
On New York stages this season come the new musicals “Galileo” and “Wanted,” a “Shuffle Along” reunion with Audra McDonald, and Tom Hiddleston in “Much Ado About Nothing.”
The Brooklyn garage’s rooftop was a flat, empty surface. Then Julie Farris made it bloom.
Plots involving some kind of artificial intelligence are even part of soap operas. Here’s how they’ve evolved over the decades.
Former NFL linebacker Chris Borland wrestled with adapting to change and starting anew. Then he read a book that changed his thinking.
The Knicks are NBA champions for the first time in five decades. How does that impact this season's last Power Rankings?
He challenged tobacco companies as well as the opioid industry, securing multibillion-dollar settlements that also benefited public health.
For generations, the newspaper has served American military families without interference from the government. That work must continue. And it must remain editorially independent.
Voters and some Republican lawmakers are growing weary of President Trump’s trade battles and the economic fallout from fighting in the Middle East.
City officials erected barricades, mapped out street closures and coordinated with federal agencies as protesters planned anti-Trump marches and demonstrations near the convention venue.
“The Fantasticks” ran for decades in Greenwich Village. Now, in time for its Broadway debut, it gets a gender makeover.
Politiek: In de Eerste Kamer probeert GroenLinks-PvdA de naam te veranderen in Pro. De manier waarop noemt de PVV „een list”. Niettemin is er een meerderheid voor een voorstel dat ervoor zorgt dat Pro...
The US tactic of striking Iranian tankers in reprisal for attacks on American warships faces a key obstacle: Tehran likely values putting a hole in an American destroyer more than losing an empty carg...
Reviewing the kawaii career of an artist who continues to deliver the most eclectic and positive expressions of Pop Art
At an unusual gathering in Dallas, some of the party’s top candidates will be forced to decide just how tightly to tether themselves to an unpopular president.
Washington entered the eighth inning up 4-1 before another unraveling in a 5-4 loss.
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