By Katie J.M. BakerOne morning in April 2020, Ranawaka Perera cooked fried eggs and tomatoes for his wife, Li-Meng Yan. When she said she wasn’t hungry, he pressed her to eat anyway. Lately, Dr. Yan had been so anxious that at times she felt she could barely breathe, and Dr. Perera was worried about her health.Listen to this articl...

Millions of Americans are confronting the highest health insurance costs in years. For those enrolling in Obamacare for next year, the plans will cover a considerably smaller fraction of their medical bills.More and more people are discovering that their deductibles are rising significantly, worsening fears that they will no longer...

A study of nearly 200,000 California schoolchildren found that their mental health had improved significantly after schools reopened for in-person learning in 2021, evidence that its authors said shows that the risks of prolonged shutdowns were greater than policymakers understood at the time.The study, published on Monday in the j...

The Food and Drug Administration has expanded its investigation of deaths possibly linked to the Covid vaccine to include adults as well as children, according to a Trump administration official.The inquiry began in September, spurred by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s repeated claims that the coronavirus vaccine is danger...

A federal appeals court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to continue withholding funding from Planned Parenthood as mandated in the tax and domestic policy bill President Trump signed in July.The provision requires the government to stop making Medicaid reimbursements to a subset of the nation’s largest abortion providers...

You know menopause can cause hot flashes. But did you know it can also lead to a dry mouth, heart palpitations or recurring urinary tract infections?Though only a handful of them get much attention, there are more than two dozen known symptoms of menopause and perimenopause, the time leading up to and immediately following your las...

For the past four ski seasons, Americans have broken attendance records at resorts across the U.S., with the last season racking up 61.5 million skier visits. If you were among them, you’re familiar with the feeling of exhausted quads after a day on the slopes. But how good of a workout is skiing, really?Only a handful of high-qual...

When Marjorie Isaacson first started taking medication for depression in her late 20s, she considered it lifesaving.At the time, she had been dealing with a rocky marriage and struggling to eat. The drug, she found, helped her gain equilibrium. “I was really grateful just to be able to function,” she said.But recently, Ms. Isaacson...

More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.The outbreak comes during what has already been one of the worst years for the virus since it was declared el...

I’m heading to Chicago to visit my father-in-law for the holidays, and looking forward to it: We have an easy, jokey relationship.While many people, like me, are devoted to their in-laws, this column is for everybody else — those who endure their in-laws, whether they’re brothers or sisters, mothers or fathers.Relationships with in...

In her house in Ypsilanti, Mich., Barbara Meade said, “there are walkers and wheelchairs and oxygen and cannulas all over the place.”Ms. Meade, 82, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so a portable oxygen tank accompanies her everywhere. Spinal stenosis limits her mobility, necessitating the walkers and wheelchairs and consi...

The statistics are incontrovertible: Since 1992, the diagnoses of eight cancers has doubled in the United States in patients under age 50, including cancers in the thyroid, anus, kidney, small intestine, colorectum, endometrium and pancreas, as well as the blood cancer myeloma. Other types, including breast cancer, also are on the...

More and more countries are legalizing medically assisted death. But even as the concept gains acceptance, there are difficult, unresolved questions about who should be eligible.

Micah Nerio had known since his early 30s that he wanted to be a father, even if he did not have a partner. He spent a decade saving up to pursue surrogacy, an expensive process where he would create embryos with his sperm and a donor’s eggs to transfer to a woman who would carry the pregnancy.Eventually, Mr. Nerio, now 40, selecte...

Lost Science is an ongoing series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. The conversations have been edited for clarity and length. Here’s why we’re doing this.Interview by Alexa Robles-GilJenny Carlson Donnelly: I have been to many countries — Ethiopia, Burundi, Ugan...

People with obesity and arthritis taking an experimental obesity drug made by Eli Lilly lost more weight than with any drug now on the market, and they reported relief from their arthritis symptoms, the company announced on Thursday.The drug, retatrutide, is a next-generation obesity and diabetes medication from Eli Lilly, which al...

Covid vaccines administered last fall sharply decreased the risk of emergency department and urgent care visits in children, according to new data released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The data, published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the agency’s premier publication provided a strik...

To treat their pain, anxiety and sleep problems, millions of Americans turn to cannabis, which is now legal in 40 states for medical use. But a new review of 15 years of research concludes that the evidence of its benefits is often weak or inconclusive, and that nearly 30 percent of medical cannabis patients meet criteria for canna...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved two new antibiotics for the treatment of gonorrhea, giving health care providers powerful new weapons against a sexually transmitted disease that has become increasingly hard to treat.Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, is a wily nemesis that has outsmarted every...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and the current recommendation is for all women of average risk to have a mammogram every year, starting at 40. But what if there were an alternative to the one-size-fits-most approach — one that matched the frequency of screening to the woman’s individual risk for developing cancer...

In 2010, the French director Olivier Py was rehearsing an opera in Amsterdam when another show caught his eye. Playing across the street was a Dutch production of “La Cage aux Folles,” the 1983 Broadway musical about a same-sex couple who work in a drag cabaret. Py immediately got a ticket, and the performance left him “overwhelmed...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Elisabeth Vincentelli, a contributing writer for the Culture section at The New York Times, never considered herself an expert on holiday films. She grew up in France, where Christmas just wasn’t as big a...

The authorities in Japan said on Thursday that Jeremy O. Harris, the Tony-nominated playwright and actor, was arrested last month on suspicion of attempting to smuggle in illegal drugs.Mr. Harris, 36, has been in custody in Japan since Nov. 16, when he flew into Okinawa, the southern Japanese island, and customs officers at Naha Ai...

Chloé Zhao had always thought of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Hamlet” as a revenge play.But her understanding of the work was upended when she began working on a movie chronicling events that shaped the play’s creation — adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 historical fiction novel “Hamnet,” which follows Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes,...

D.L. Coburn, whose play “The Gin Game,” about two prickly residents of a retirement home baring their souls over hands of cards, won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for drama, ran for 517 performances on Broadway and has been performed around the world — but who struggled ever after to have new plays reach the stage — died on Dec. 3 in Dal...

“Little Bear Ridge Road,” a new and well-reviewed American family drama starring Laurie Metcalf as a tough Idaho nurse whose determined isolation is punctured when an estranged nephew comes to town, will close on Dec. 21, eight weeks earlier than scheduled.The play is notable as the first produced by Scott Rudin since he stepped aw...

There are no happy endings in life — only endless confusion, regret and recrimination. This take-home message from Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1986 musical, “Into the Woods,” doesn’t exactly scream festive cheer.But the method of delivery is too delightfully silly to resist, and a new revival of “Into the Woods,” at the Bri...

On an afternoon last month at La Jolla Playhouse, the director Christopher Ashley was everywhere — at the lip of the stage, on the stage, then at a desk balanced across a row of seats in the darkened auditorium, then crowded around a piano in a rehearsal room, helping an actress learn a new version of a song. He whispered with acto...

In some ways, Jack Thorne’s version of “A Christmas Carol” feels like its own Ghost of Christmas Past. It first played in New York on Broadway — having premiered at London’s Old Vic Theater — in late 2019, just before Covid led to an 18-month shutdown of Broadway. That production was praised for restoring the story’s social conscie...

Long before he became an unlikely political force, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was just another 20-something trying to squeeze a laugh out of his Saturday improv class in Manhattan.“I went to Magnet Theater for Improv Level One,” Mamdani said of that winter in 2017, when his eight-week course at the Chelsea theater ended in a studen...

The Japanese authorities said on Tuesday that Jeremy O. Harris, the Tony-nominated playwright and actor, had been released after spending three weeks in custody on suspicion of attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into the country.Mr. Harris, 36, was arrested and taken into custody on Nov. 16 when he flew into Okinawa, the southern...

Juan Quiroz believes that nearly any dog can be a circus dog. “Dogs, they are smart,” he said. “They find a way.” Not every dog can do every trick, and breeding matters. The short-legged, long-bodied dachshund, for example, will never execute a backflip. But a good trainer, like Quiroz believes himself to be, can teach most any dog...

Not much has changed about “Marjorie Prime” since its Off Broadway run in 2015. Yes, the play’s Broadway premiere — it opened Monday night in a Second Stage Theater production at the Helen Hayes Theater — has a new cast, now headed by June Squibb instead of Lois Smith. But the playwright Jordan Harrison made only light tweaks to hi...

It sounds so charming: Benedict Nightingale, the esteemed London theater critic, trying to make a Christmas Eve tradition of reading Charles Dickens’s ghostly novella “A Christmas Carol” to his small children by the fire. The only trouble being, his son Christopher said, that the tradition, several decades ago, didn’t catch on.“It...

Some of this year’s most inspired moments fit nicely into a few themes: once-overlooked actors given bigger spotlights, acclaimed stars impressing us anew, and directorial flourishes that heighten our experiences. Here, we revisit some of the stage moments that especially stood out.— Nicole HerringtonLaura Collins-HughesA Charge in...

“Five Nights at Freddy’s” has powered up the box office once again. The sequel opened in 3,412 theaters in the U.S. and Canada this weekend and far surpassed expectations with $63 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.Seemingly immune to widely negative reviews, “Five...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Nominees for the 2026 Golden Globe Awards have been announced and “One Battle After Another” is this year’s leading nominee.Here’s the list of who’s nominated for this year’s awards, which will be held Jan. 11 at the Beverly Hilton. Nikki Glaser will host the cer...

Perhaps the “Wicked” team should have called on Madame Morrible to enact some dark magic on Golden Globe voters before nominations were announced Monday. “Wicked: For Good” wasn’t nominated for best picture or best director, one of several surprising exclusions. Snubs at the Golden Globes se...

The Golden Globes nominees have been announced — as always, an eclectic and high-powered group of the biggest names from film and television.In the lead was Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” with nine nominations, adding to the Oscar favorite’s momentum and handing Warner Bro...

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal appeals court blocked the immediate release of hundreds of immigrants detained during a Chicago area immigration crackdown in a split decision Thursday that also allowed the extension of a consent decree outlining how federal immigration agents can make warrantless a...

When high school students in the West Hartford Public Schools district study World War II in the coming year, they will learn about more than just the typical hallmarks like Japanese American detention camps. They will also hear about Sadao Munemori, a soldier who died protecting comrades fr...

WINOOSKI, Vt. (AP) — A small school district in Vermont was hit with racist and threatening calls and messages after a Somali flag was put up a week ago in response to President Donald Trump referring to Minnesota’s Somali community as “ garbage.” The Winooski School District began to d...

President Donald Trump was sued on Friday by preservationists asking a federal court to halt his White House ballroom project until it goes through multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded group, is asking...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson asked the U.S. Department of Justice this week to investigate allegations made by a former attorney for President Donald Trump in Wisconsin that a judge overseeing his felony case is guilty of misconduct and must step aside.The judge on T...

The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public,” part of a lawsuit seeking to require the White...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department asked an appeals court Friday to block a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.The department also is seeking Chief Judge James Boasberg’s removal from...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a spate of deadly accidents that have claimed the lives of 20 service members in the past four years, a Navy report acknowledges that the military failed to address a growing series of issues with the V-22 Osprey aircraft since it took flight almost 20 years ago.“The...

The U.S. Justice Department is suing four more states as part of its effort to collect detailed voting data and other election information across the country. The department filed federal lawsuits against Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Nevada on Thursday for “failing to produce statewid...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee threatened Friday to begin contempt of Congress proceedings against former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton if they refuse to appear for depositions as part of the committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein...

If Indiana Republican senators had any doubt about what to do with President Donald Trump’s redistricting proposal, he helped them make up their minds the night before this week’s vote. In a social media screed, Trump accused the state’s top senator of being “a bad guy, or a very stupid one....

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats released a selection of photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, including some of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and the former Prince Andrew.The dozens of photos initially released by Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee were a sma...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A group of Syrian-American Jews have registered a nongovernmental organization in Syria in a bid to restore Jewish heritage in a country where the once-sizable religious minority has shrunk to almost nothing.“Jewish Syrians are an integral part of the Syrian fabric,” S...

TEL AVIV (AP) — New footage of six Israeli hostages shows them celebrating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah while being held captive in a tunnel in Gaza, several months before they were killed.Israel said all six were killed last August by Hamas, shortly before Israeli troops arrived.The video...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, her supporters said Friday.A foundation in her name said she was detained in Mashhad, some 680 kilometers (420 miles) northeast of the capital, Tehran, while attending a memorial for a human rig...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Saturday said it killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza after an explosive device detonated and wounded two soldiers in the territory’s south.Hamas in a statement did not confirm the death of Raed Saad. It said a civilian vehicle had been struck outside Gaza City and...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The first giant panda cub born in Indonesia is noisy, nursing well and showing other signs of good health, the conservation park where he was born said Sunday.Indonesian Safari Park released video and photos showing the fuzzy newborn in an incubator and squirming an...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A new conservation agreement will preserve land with breathtaking desert vistas that inspired the work of 20th century painter Georgia O’Keeffe and ensure visitors access to an adjacent educational retreat, several partners to the pact announced Tuesday.Initial phases o...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s time for one of the strongest meteor showers of the year.The Geminids peak this weekend and are visible through mid-December, according to the American Meteor Society. The meteors tend to be yellow in color and can be seen across the globe, but the best viewing happens i...

NUSEIRAT, Gaza Strip (AP) — Sitting in her wheelchair, Haneen al-Mabhouh dreams of rebuilding her family, of cradling a new baby. She dreams of walking again. But with her leg gone, her life in Gaza is on hold, she says, as she waits to go abroad for further treatment.An Israeli airstrike in...

AMBLER, Alaska (AP) — In Northwest Alaska, a proposed mining road has become a flashpoint in a region already stressed by climate change. The 211-mile (340-kilometer) Ambler Access Road would cut through Gates of the Arctic National Park and cross 11 major rivers and thousands of streams rel...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Declaring Las Vegas a “cowboy town,” dozens of riders on horseback have traditionally kicked off the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo by galloping into the arena and then lining up their horses side by side as the riders tip their hats to cheers. But an equine virus outbreak t...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has delayed a decision on whether to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies indefinitely despite years of warnings from conservationists that populations are shrinking.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced during...

PURACE, Colombia (AP) — Oliverio Quira often goes to check on his cattle on a plot of land he owns less than a mile from the Purace volcano in southwestern Colombia. There he sits and watches the billowing ash column rising from the crater.Despite a recent alert indicating that an eruption i...

We’re in the thick of the holiday shopping season, and U.S. residents are expected to shatter the spending record again this year. The National Retail Federation forecasts that 2025 will be the first time we collectively spend more than $1 trillion on year-end gifts.A lot of materials, energ...

AKUAK, South Sudan (AP) — Standing in waist-deep water, Ayen Deng Duot uses a machete to break up the thick roots of a papyrus plant and throws the pieces onto a spongy mix of plants and clay soil. This human-made shore, once compacted and sun-dried, will expand the island where the South Su...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” scored a leading nine nominations to the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on Monday, adding to the Oscar favorite’s momentum and handing Warner Bros. a victory amid Netflix’s acquisition deal.In nominations announced from Beverly Hills, California, “...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Detroit Lions’ 44-30 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Dec. 4 averaged 19.39 million viewers, making it the most-watched “Thursday Night Football” broadcast in Amazon Prime Video’s four seasons streaming those games.The previous mark for a Thursday game on the streami...

To Frances Merrill, there’s nothing quite as charming as a historic house in Los Angeles.When Ms. Merrill, the founder of the interiors firm Reath Design, was house hunting for her family of four in 2022, her only criteria were that the property had to have been lived in for at least 40 years and have nice windows. So when she foun...

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As part of a little-known Department of Sanitation program, New York City buildings with at least 10 units can request an indoor textile recycling bin. Since the program debuted in 2011, the number of buildings with bins has grown each year, reaching 2,460 in 2024.“Textiles are the next frontier for diversion and reuse,” said Joshu...

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Seeking a ‘self-contained, low-maintenance house,’ a couple headed west for a new chapter in the California sun. Here’s what they found.

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As partners in life and work, the architects Tom Morbitzer and Goil Amornvivat have faced many challenges together. But every December, the founders of the New York-based firm Ammor Architecture find themselves mulling over one question: How should they decorate for the holidays?ImageMr. Morbitzer, left, and Mr. Amornvivat at their...

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Evan JosephEvan JosephEvan JosephEvan JosephEvan JosephManhattan | 125 Greenwich Street, No. 71AFinancial District Condo$1.94 millionThis one-bedroom, one-bath, 880-square-foot apartment has an entry foyer, marble countertops, a vented range, a large bedroom, radiant-heat bathroom floors, pocket doors, a washer/dryer, central heat...

For Fey Sandoval, the Covid-19 pandemic created a sense of restlessness. She was in her late 20s, still living in Dallas where she’d grown up, still in her parents’ house, working a corporate marketing job from the kitchen table.“I had this appetite to just leave all that behind and do something completely out of the ordinary,” she...

Q: My mother recently passed away. She lived in a condo in Salem, Mass., and faithfully paid her mortgage. But it turns out the condo has an outstanding “zombie mortgage” held by the previous owners, who didn’t disclose it during the sale. That mortgage owner tried to foreclose on the previous owners’ loan. Fortunately, my mother h...

Q: Almost daily we are inundated with phone calls and mail from companies wanting to buy my elderly father’s home. They claim they will buy the house in cash “as is,” with no closing costs and no listing. I’ve also seen television advertisements for these companies. At some point I will need to sell the house and I wonder if these...

Q. I am on the board of directors of an Upper West Side condominium. A member of the board is a residential real estate broker who leases and sells apartments in the building — including apartments he’s bought for himself that were substantially below market. As a board member, he has access to privileged resident information, incl...

Q: I live with my partner in a co-op apartment in New York City, which I bought outright three years ago. Since it was a sponsor apartment, I did not need board approval for the purchase. Now I’m writing my will and would like to leave the apartment to my partner, for him to live in or to sell. But in order for him to assume owners...

For dingy walls and rooms without a view, there’s a simple fix: wallpaper.Homeowners have long faked assets like marble and elaborate millwork in a technique known as trompe-l’oeil (French for “deceive the eye”). The French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly coined the phrase to describe a painting he exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1800....

Q: I live in a co-op in Lower Manhattan. Recently, the board issued a letter requiring a shareholder to add the co-op as an “additional insured” to their homeowner’s insurance policy. The management company also sent an email saying that it needed to be added as an “additional insured.” The insurance company that I’ve had my policy...

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Sea Ranch, a planned community built on a sheep ranch in Sonoma County, Calif., in the late 1960s, has become known as a modernist utopia where cedar-clad homes with shed roofs tuck into the grassy bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It has been a beacon for Northern California creative types seeking the idealism of architecture...

I found the curiosity pictured above at my local Goodwill a few weeks ago. At first glance, I thought it was make-believe — someone’s fantasy of what Olde Tyme furniture should look like. But soon, three things became clear.One, it was expertly made with fine materials. Two, it was part of a tradition: As a bit of Googling revealed...

When he was working at Microsoft in the aughts, Dan Wheeler had a photo taped to the edge of his computer monitor: an image of a tiny modernist cabin in the woods, crafted from weathering steel.“It was the coolest,” said Mr. Wheeler, 47, who was as smitten with the idea of living in the wild landscape of rural Washington State as h...

From the soaring Norway spruce at New York City’s Rockefeller Center to the concolor fir displayed inside the White House, there is no single exemplary Christmas tree. Historically, the requirement has been a conifer that looks nice come winter.ImageThe advent of tree farming and shipping means shoppers can choose from a variety of...

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Frank Gehry is largely remembered as an architect of grand scale, known for his playful designs of some of the world’s most celebrated buildings: the Vitra Museum in Germany, the Guggenheim in Spain, the Disney Hall in Los Angeles. Gehry, who died last week at age 96, pioneered a style of swooping forms collaged together in ways th...

Though we simply jot down “green beans” or “tomatoes” on our shopping list, the words only hint at what we’d really like. Italian-style Romano beans, with their big flattened pods, would be better suited than your average string bean to the ragù we might wish to simmer up slowly alongside some big, meaty Amish Paste tomatoes. If on...

Steel beams crisscross the gutted interior of the 1930s building in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood; they are there to temporarily brace the shell of the structure until new floors are poured inside.But not because the redbrick architecture is rarefied in the usual sense. On the contrary.This was until recently a no-nonsense...

Despite the proliferation of coffee shops, more Americans are buying coffee makers and brewing at home, according to a recent study by the National Coffee Association, an industry group. Nearly every style has become more popular since 2020, from simple drip machines to brewers that grind beans and brew to order. Ownership of count...

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Fed up with rent increases, a former dancer wasn’t sure if he could afford a two-bedroom apartment. His partner and a dedicated broker helped him find the way.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government has sued Luma Energy in the first legal step to cancel its multimillion-dollar contract with the private power company as the U.S. territory battles chronic outages, increases in power bills and the slow reconstruction of a grid razed by...

ROME (AP) — A national strike called on Friday by Italy’s largest trade union in protest against the government’s budget plans widely disrupted transportation, health and school services across the country.The protest, which targets the 2026 budget bill proposed by the conservative governmen...

PETIT GOÂVE, Haiti (AP) — Amizia Renotte sat on a broken piece of concrete and pointed to a large pile of dirt where her house once stood before the outer bands of Hurricane Melissa crumpled it as the storm lashed Haiti’s southern region.The Atlantic hurricane season may be over, but thousan...

NEW YORK (AP) — A California woman changing her infant daughter’s diaper in the bathroom of the Macy’s Herald Square store in New York City was stabbed and injured by another woman in an unprovoked attack, police said.The attack occurred Thursday afternoon at the store in Manhattan. The 38-y...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department is targeting businesses that people use to wire money to family members abroad as the Trump administration rachets up investigations into fraud within Minnesota’s Somali community, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday.President Donald Trum...

After two years of renovations, the first and second floors of George and Martha Washington’s mansion at Mount Vernon have reopened to visitors.The $40 million preservation project at the first president’s home included designing and installing a new HVAC system, major infrastructure repairs...

Four years ago, James and Mary Robinson put the last Christmas tree they would ever plant in the ground.“Once you plant the tree, it takes four years to harvest it,” James said. “But once you plant your last tree, it takes four years to get out of the business.”On Sunday, they sold their las...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States accused Rwanda on Friday of violating a U.S.-brokered peace agreement by backing a deadly new rebel offensive in the mineral-rich eastern Congo, and warned that the Trump administration will take action against “spoilers” of the deal.The remarks by U.S...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico tax incentives that have lured thousands of rich Americans to the U.S. territory for over a decade are under scrutiny after federal legislators released a new report on Friday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.The report found that the isla...

Revised final 2024 payrolls for the 30 major league teams for purposes of the luxury tax, as defined by baseball’s collective bargaining agreement and sent to clubs by the commissioner’s office.Kansas City has been revised to $165,062,995 from $160,062,995 and Washington to $140,571,758 from...

The Transportation Security Administration is renewing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s push to end a collective bargaining agreement with airport screening officers — the second such attempt this year, coming just a month after the longest government shutdown on record.The agency s...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran introduced a new pricing tier Saturday for its nationally subsidized gasoline, attempting to rein in spiraling costs for the first time since a price hike in 2019 that sparked nationwide protests and a crackdown that reportedly killed over 300 people.Cheap gasoline h...

NEW YORK (AP) — The holiday season means time with family and new memories, but it can also mean lots of spending — sometimes too much.From gifts to travel plans to grocery shopping, costs can pile up and become overwhelming, especially in a difficult economic environment. Holiday shopping c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — This holiday season isn’t quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feeling like the overall economy is stuck in a rut under President Donald Trump, a new AP-NORC poll finds.The vast majority of U.S. adults say...

A Caribbean vacation has always carried a certain cinematic quality — sunlight shining on turquoise water, whitewashed verandas, cocktails accompanied by the sound of steel drums and surf. But what gives the region its enduring allure isn’t just its beauty; it’s the way it redefines time. For those of us accustomed to structure and...

Killington, the sprawling ski resort in central Vermont, has many claims to fame: Its 4,229-foot main peak is Vermont’s second highest mountain; it has 73 miles of ski trails and a vertical drop of over 3,000 feet; about 800,000 people ski there every year.But it has never been known for a fancy base area.Great Gulf, a Toronto-base...

Everyone has different priorities when it comes to traveling: Some people just want to relax. Others want to spend a few hours in a museum or fill up their suitcase in the shopping district. And some of us care most about eating, and eating well.Out of all of those options, figuring out where to dine can feel like a tougher task: T...

Boeing said on Monday that it had closed a $4.7 billion deal to buy Spirit AeroSystems, a major supplier that builds the body of the aerospace company’s 737 Max jet.The deal was nearly two years in the making and is an important element of Boeing’s efforts to improve manufacturing quality after a January 2024 flight in which part o...

An environmental group on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging the National Park Service’s plan to emblazon President Trump’s face on some annual passes to national parks starting Jan. 1.The suit, filed in federal court in the District of Columbia by the Center for Biological Diversity, argued that it would violate federal law to...

Across the Alps, a new crop of small, intimate mountain lodges have opened in recent years, promising to redefine the European ski experience. Old-guard luxury hotels — with their capacious dining rooms and cigar lounges draped in faux furs — still cater to European families who come year after year, and tend to spend all day on th...

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The Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials, substantially expanding its use of data sharing to expel people under deportation orders.Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs...

A flight bound for Tokyo safely returned to Washington Dulles International Airport shortly after takeoff on Saturday after part of an engine cover broke off and caught fire, sending debris to the ground that ignited a small brush fire near a runway, officials said.The flight, United Airlines 803, landed at the airport about 1:20 p...

They just keep coming: “air rage” incidents, like the fist fight videos on planes that go viral every few months. Just this year, a passenger spit on a woman, another threatened to crash a plane midflight and Ryanair instituted a fine — 500 pounds (about $675) in Britain, 500 euros (about $583) in Europe — for those offloaded from...

History never feels out of reach in the capital of Saxony, lush with avant-garde art, restored Baroque architecture and one of Europe’s oldest Christmas markets.

Imagine you’re preparing to board an international flight at a U.S. airport. Instead of juggling your belongings as you pull out your passport for the gate agent, you barely break your stride as you head onto the jetway. The agent reviews your identity on a computer screen.This swift identity-confirmation process, powered by facial...

The National Park Service will cut Martin Luther King’s Birthday and Juneteenth, two holidays honoring Black history, from its list of free entrance days next year.Visitors will instead get free entry on June 14, which is both Flag Day and President Trump’s birthday.The changes follow previous moves by the Trump administration to t...

Radhika’s thick black hair falls in artfully imperfect waves below her shoulders, the misty hills of northeastern India providing the backdrop to her series of Instagram posts. The young influencer, whose skin looks impossibly flawless, perches at a wooden table at a cafe showing off her lunch, a bowl of saffron-colored noodles, to...

Hours after Michael Virgil, 35, boarded a three-night cruise with his family last December, he was dead.Last week, his fiancée, Connie Aguilar, filed a maritime wrongful-death complaint against the Royal Caribbean cruise line, which said that he was served 33 drinks and became agitated before he was forcibly restrained by crew memb...

Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program...

Inside Cedric et la Chocolaterie, the new Paris chocolate shop from the celebrity pastry chef Cedric Grolet — a tattooed 40-year-old with boutiques from St.-Tropez to Singapore — a wall of molten chocolate sluices downward, dazzling the fans who line up daily to enter the hallowed space.ImageCedric et la Chocolaterie is just one of...

The riverside, red-brick city in southwestern France, already a hub for aerospace technology, is undergoing a cultural rebirth with the reopening of several top art museums.

Dear Readers,Let’s end 2025 with a hypothetical tale of terrible travel luck.On your way from New York to London and Paris with your partner, someone swipes your bag from the overhead bin. The airline says sorry, but it takes no responsibility for carry-ons. You shrug it off and end up having so much fun in England that you extend...

Unprecedented minimum wages for thousands of workers in Minnesota nursing homes had been set to go into effect Jan. 1. But adoption of this new law is indefinitely delayed. The reason is that the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) has not yet filed paperwork with the federal govern...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man who was shot by police after he fired a gun at a contractor outside his former Jewish school in Memphis in 2023 pleaded guilty on Friday and was sentenced to eight years’ probation.Joel Bowman, 35, entered guilty pleas to aggravated assault and aggravate...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A U.S. Army soldier accused of shooting five people at a Georgia base in August will stand trial in a military court on charges including attempting murder, Army prosecutors said Friday.Charges against Sgt. Quornelius Radford are being referred to a general court-martial...

Montana’s attorney general went too far in revising the language for a proposed ballot initiative calling for nonpartisan court races, the state’s high court ruled Thursday.For the second time in a month, Montana Supreme Court justices ruled that Attorney General Austin Knudsen, a Republican...

ATLANTA (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday announced it would send $350 million in funding to localities and electric cooperatives for relief efforts following Hurricane Helene and Tropical Storm Debby. The announcement comes two months after Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphae...

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials are plowing ahead with a proposal to roll back certain vaccine mandates for the state’s schoolchildren, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis called for the state to become the first in the nation to eliminate all school vaccination requirements....

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The last inmate caught after an audacious New Orleans jailbreak was sentenced Friday to two life sentences over a 2018 double murder, with the Louisiana judge rebuking him for the disruption caused by his five months on the run.Derrick Groves, 28, wore shackles and an oran...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The treason trial of South Sudan’s suspended vice president is further eroding a 2018 peace agreement he signed with President Salva Kiir, U.N. experts warned in a new report.As Riek Machar’s trial is taking place in the capital, Juba, the experts said forces from both...

Juvenile coho salmon have been documented in a tributary of the Russian River in Mendocino County for the first time since 1991, state officials announced Thursday. According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Pinoleville Pomo Nation Water Resource Specialist and Yurok tribal...

One of Michigan’s most enduring sagas in the Upper Peninsula — the grounding of a Russian cargo jet marooned near Marquette for 16 years — may soon come to an end after years of lawsuits, police investigations and feuding over ownership.The tale that touches Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Pakistan and...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A man who spent more than a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a woman at an Ohio hotel had his case dismissed Friday by prosecutors.Elwood Jones has been free since shortly after a judge granted him a new trial in December 2022, concluding that pros...

Darlene Mayo, 52, died on a sidewalk near a Koa Pancake House in Wahiawa of severe anemia likely due to a chronic lice infestation. Aris Garcia died of methamphetamine intoxication on a canal embankment behind a public transit hub in Kalihi. He was 79.Nichole Seymour, 40, died of pneumonia a...

A West Virginia National Guard member who was shot last month in the nation’s capital is being transitioned from hospital acute care to in-patient rehabilitation, a doctor said Friday.Staff. Sgt. Andrew Wolfe was airlifted to MedStar Washington Hospital Center with a critical gunshot wound t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it’s the House’s turn to show what it can do. Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a Republican alternative late Friday, a last-minute sprint as his party refuses to extend the enhanced tax subsidies for tho...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia woman has been hospitalized with severe burns after someone poured a corrosive chemical onto her head while she was walking at a public park in Savannah, the victim’s son and a close friend said Friday.Savannah police confirmed they are searching for a suspect...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The president of the Los Angeles Angels baseball team testified Friday in a wrongful death lawsuit that the fatal overdose of pitcher Tyler Skaggs was tough for the club and he wished he had known sooner about drug use by the player and one of the team’s employees.Jo...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has repealed a collective bargaining ban passed earlier this year that prevented labor unions serving teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees from negotiating on behalf of their workers.Republican Gov. Spencer Cox on Thursday approved the repeal o...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A lawsuit over the death of an 11-year-old California girl who was allegedly tortured and starved by her adoptive family reached a settlement Friday totaling $31.5 million from the city and county of San Diego as well as other groups.The suit was brought on behalf of the two...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, the last Democrat to hold statewide office in Alabama, kicked off his campaign for governor Friday, saying voters deserve a choice and a leader who will put aside divisions to address the state’s pressing needs. “With your help we can fini...

DULLES, Va. (AP) — A United Airlines flight experienced an engine failure during takeoff from Dulles International Airport on Saturday before safely returning to the airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.The FAA said United flight 803 was traveling to Tokyo when the engin...

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Surging floodwaters turned farmland into vast pools, washed out bridges and stranded people Thursday, with evacuation orders issued for tens of thousands of Washington state residents and authorities hoping levees prevent far worse damage.“The flooding levels we’re...

BURLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — When Eddie Wicks and his wife went to bed in their house next to the Snoqualmie River on a Washington state farm known for its sunflower mazes and Christmas trees, they weren’t too worried about the flooding heading their way.After 30 years living in the city of Duva...

The federal government’s crackdown on commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants has found problems in eight states so far in the wake of several deadly crashes.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has publicly threatened to withhold millions in federal money from California, Pennsylvania, M...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation helped galvanize opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, was released from immigration detention on Thursday, and a judge has temporarily blocked any further efforts to detain him. Abrego Garcia currently...

New York is the eighth state found to routinely issue commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants that are valid long after they are no longer legally authorized to be in the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday, and he threatened to withhold $73 million in highway fu...

MONROE, Wash. (AP) — A blast of arctic air swept south from Canada and spread into parts of the northern U.S. on Saturday, while residents of the Pacific Northwest braced for possible mudslides and levee failures from floodwaters that are expected to be slow to recede.The catastrophic floodi...

A shooting Saturday at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, left two people dead and at least eight other critically injured. Authorities were still searching for a suspect in the hours afterward.The shooting occurred on a Saturday afternoon in a campus building with final exams und...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police in Rhode Island said early Sunday that they had a person of interest in custody after a shooting that rocked the Brown University campus during final exams, leaving two people dead and nine others wounded.Col. Oscar Perez, chief of the Providence police, confir...

The royal treatment is not what it used to be for Juan Carlos I of Spain.A half century ago, as a young king, he renounced the absolute powers that the dictator Francisco Franco had bestowed upon him as his successor. He set the country on the path to democracy, installing himself as the guarantor of a parliamentary monarchy that h...

Sometimes I want to spend time with characters I can root for, ordinary people vaulted into extraordinary situations. Other times I want to savor every sentence and have all of my senses challenged. Or maybe I just want to be swept away by a breakneck plot. For me, these 10 crime novels were the pinnacle of pleasure reading this ye...

In an email interview, the author of four previous memoirs talked about why he prefers books that reach him emotionally — and how recent books by Charlie Sheen and Matthew Perry did just that. SCOTT HELLERWhat kind of reader were you as a child?I was always an avid reader, though very rarely books on the class reading list. I had a...

At the end of each year, we make a lot of lists: 100 Notable Books, the 10 Best Books, the most memorable genre novels. And while we stand wholeheartedly behind those recommendations, inevitably each of us has that one unforgettable read that doesn’t quite make the cut — but is no less worthy of your attention. Here are a few of th...

Every week, the critics and editors at the New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from literary fiction and serious nonfiction to thrillers, romance novels, mysteries and everything in between.You can save the books you’re most excited to read on a personal reading list, and find even more re...

This was the best year for new comics I can remember, and so I throw myself on the mercy of the court: This Top 10 list has 11 entries. There were so many good books that I forgot how to count, your honor.A quality I love about comics is that they are as individual as painting or sculpture, but their mass production makes them avai...

After binge-reading “Best American Poetry” volumes earlier this year, I vowed never again to open one of my columns with hand-wringing over the meaning of “best,” a word that troubled that series’ editors much more than either “American” or “poetry.” I used to want to distance myself from it too, what Louise Glück called “the tyran...

Joanna Trollope, who wrote popular British novels that grappled with adultery and the complexities of family life, died on Thursday at her home in Oxfordshire, England. She was 82.Her death was announced by her literary agency, Felicity Bryan Associates, which did not provide a cause of death.Ms. Trollope had multiple best sellers,...

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | SpotifyHere we are in mid-December, which means that along with all of the other year-end lists we produce and avidly consume at this time each year, The Times’s staff book critics are also looking back on everything they read in 2025, and toasting the books that have stayed with them.On this episode, th...

PICTURE BOOKImageThe Boy Who Became a Parrotby Wolverton Hill; illustrated by Laura CarlinIn this joy of a book, Hill tells the story of Edward Lear’s life with a playfulness that echoes his subject’s own writings. Carlin’s seamless mix of illustrations and sketchy doodles, her art and Lear’s, is not only exquisite but as exuberant...

TROUBLEMAKER: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford, by Carla KaplanAmong many other remarkable qualities, Jessica Mitford was a poster girl for collaboration: the creative kind, not the Nazi-nuzzling so notoriously practiced by her sister Unity.Working on her first memoir, “Hons and Rebels” (1960), about her escape from an ec...

FLAGRANT, SELF-DESTRUCTIVE GESTURES: A Biography of Denis Johnson, by Ted GeltnerWhen Denis Johnson told his parents he wanted to be a writer, they supported the idea. His father, a diplomat who’d taken his family to live in Tokyo and Manila, was an acquaintance of the poet Stanley Plumly. He asked Plumly what Denis should do. Plum...

TELEVISION, by Lauren RotheryWhat a disservice to compare the young writer Lauren Rothery, as some publicity materials have, to Joan Didion. (Besides which, if one more person gets compared to Didion this decade I’m going to zip on a Big Bird suit and run screaming into traffic on the 101.)Rothery’s first novel, “Television,” is se...

THE COMPLETE NOTEBOOKS, by Albert Camus; translated by Ryan BloomThe first volume of Albert Camus’s notebooks appeared in 1963, three years after his death in a car accident at the age of 46. The book, with entries from 1935 to 1942, received two especially notable English-language reviews, from two strikingly different writers.The...

Though the books on this year’s list are a varied group, with wildly different approaches to plot, tone and style, they’re all surprising in the best possible way: They keep the reader off-balance and guessing until the very end.ImageThe Doormanby Chris PavoneThis hyperkinetic state-of-the-city mystery unfolds over a single tumultu...

Whether you’re looking to escape our chaotic present or dive into its roots in the past, this year’s historical novels will amply satisfy. Here are my choices for the 10 best, in alphabetical order.ImageThe Antidoteby Karen RussellMerging impeccable period detail with lyrical flights of fantasy, Russell’s novel is set in a fictiona...

Our lives are made of the stories we tell. And whether characters are returning to their small hometown and a long-lost love, or swapping book recommendations and illegal kisses in a bookstore in New York in 1968, the romances that moved me this year stood out for their refusal to settle for life’s first draft.ImageAfter Hours at D...

The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of books and meeting regularly to bicker — er, converse — about their merits and flaws, the editors of the Book Review have chosen the 10 Best Books of 2025.In novels that transport us from the battlefields of World War I to contemporary Swedish dance clubs to the halls...

Matt Dinniman knew things were getting out of hand when people started asking him to sign their feet.They were rabid fans of “Dungeon Crawler Carl,” his sci-fi book series about a cranky Everyman who survives an alien invasion only to find he’s become a contestant on the deadly set of the galaxy’s most popular reality game show. In...

Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück.