Alexandra JacobsWell, BIG novels really bonked me on the head this year, in the best possible way. I am always fretting that the internet has permanently destroyed authors’ (and readers’) attention spans. And we were all sobered by the news that over the last two decades, 40 percent fewer people are reading for fun.But surely what...

This article is part of our special section on the DealBook Summit that included business and policy leaders from around the world.It is a tough time to be a college president. Campus leaders are grappling with declining public trust in the value of a college degree, a society-changing technology in artificial intelligence and, for...

This article is part of our special section on the DealBook Summit that included business and policy leaders from around the world.“Is this the new normal?”I was sitting across from Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, on the main stage of the 2025 DealBook Summit last week when I popped that question.I wasn’t asking about market...

Video illustration by Nico Krijno Is America stuck?Our crumbling highways and public housing projects date back to the days of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Robert Moses. We need millions more affordable homes, where peo...

ImageImageInvestors are increasingly linking the futures of Oracle, led by Larry Ellison, center, and SoftBank, helmed by Masa Son, left, with OpenAI, Sam Altman’s A.I. giant.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York TimesIn today's newsletter:The OpenAI questionIs the Fed done cutting? The Trump gold card takes shapeAndrew here. Here...

We’re living in a strange moment. According to the columnist Thomas L. Friedman, it’s a completely new era, called the Polycene — one in which everything moves faster and science, technology and politics are more connected than ever. The columnist David Brooks sits down with Friedman to make sense of what the modern world’s cascadi...

Hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey NewtonProduced by Rachel Cohn and Whitney JonesEdited by Jen PoyantEngineered by Katie McMurranOriginal music by Dan PowellMarion Lozano and Rowan NiemistoThis week, Australia implemented the most aggressive social media ban in a democracy to date, kicking children under 16 off 10 of the most popular...

SpaceX, the rocket and satellite maker run by Elon Musk, told employees on Friday that it would buy insider shares in a deal that would value it at around $800 billion, and said that it was preparing for a potential initial public offering next year.In a letter to employees and other shareholders, Bret Johnsen, SpaceX’s chief finan...

In today’s A.I. newsletter, the last in our five-part series, I look at where artificial intelligence may be headed in the years to come. In early March, I visited OpenAI’s San Francisco offices for an early look at GPT-4, a new version of the technology that underpins its ChatGPT chatbot. The most eye-popping moment arrived when G...

VideoCreditCredit...Sam WoodI sat in on a ChatGPT workshop this month for teachers at Walla Walla High School, about 270 miles southeast of Seattle. As a reporter who covers education technology, I have closely followed how generative artificial intelligence has upended education.Now that the first full school year of the A.I. chat...

President Trump’s announcement that the American chip maker Nvidia would be able to sell semiconductors to China appeared to roll back years of policies aimed at blocking the country’s access to advanced technologies.At stake, officials in Washington have argued, is China’s ability to use American technology to gain military and ec...

The stock market has broken multiple records this year, brushing past tariffs and signs of a strained American consumer, and recovering from a recent dip, largely because of the promise of artificial intelligence.Share prices of some A.I. companies have risen dramatically in a short time, and tech companies are spending billions to...

Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to workfriend@nytimes.com. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited.The Vindictive BossI work in a very small office where there is only one manager (the owner) who also serves as H.R. Up until recently, it has been...

As Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the chip making giant Nvidia, traveled to Asia to meet with President Trump on Wednesday, his company’s value topped $5 trillion. It was a show of wealth that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.But that was before the ChatGPT chatbot ignited an artificial intelligence boom that is re...

Chinese state-sponsored hackers used Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology to conduct a largely automated cyberattack against a group of technology companies and government agencies, the company said on Thursday.Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up, claimed that the large-scale online espionage campaign in Septem...

Just three weeks ago, Nvidia became the first publicly traded company to be worth more than $5 trillion thanks to the cutting-edge computer chips it makes for artificial intelligence.On Wednesday, Nvidia provided a reminder of just how much the world craves those chips. The company said that in its most recent quarter, its profit w...

At the end of a class in mid-September, as everyone was gathering their things, a student named Tyler approached me. “Can we talk sometime about how we can ask the questions on our own?” he said. “We always have you to ask the questions and set up how we’re going to discuss and analyze, but I’d like to know how to do that for mysel...

The beaver who would one day be named June was simply doing what beavers do. But her dams, built around her lodge in Utah’s Bear River Mountains, ran afoul of a rancher. He said the flooding caused his sheep to get stuck in the mud.That landed the furry engineer in the unfortunate category of “nuisance beaver.” In most places aroun...

Fayetteville, Ark., has proudly worn colorful descriptors over the years.Crunchy. Funky. “Kind of a granola, hippie environment,” said Jeff Pummill, who chairs the city’s environmental action committee.Set in the Ozark Mountains in the northwest corner of the state, a region of lush, rolling hills crisscrossed by rivers and creeks,...

A group of young activists, who in 2023 won a landmark climate change case against their home state of Montana, are asking the state’s top court to prevent legislators from undermining their victory.The original case, Held v. Montana, took issue with a law that barred the state from considering the effects of climate change when ap...

A leading proponent of election fraud conspiracy theories is set to oversee federal disaster response as the Trump administration prepares to drastically reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to a person familiar with the decision.The appointee, Gregg Phillips, will take over the agency’s Office of Response and...

Call an Uber in Austin or Atlanta, and you might be offered a vehicle without a driver. Waymo, the self-driving taxi service owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is expanding rapidly and partnering with ride-hailing companies.Waymo operated 14 million trips across five U.S. cities this year and is expanding to Dallas, Housto...

A task force that President Trump created to explore an overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Thursday abruptly postponed a meeting where it had been scheduled to vote on recommendations to reshape the agency.Less than an hour before the meeting’s scheduled 1 p.m. start, members of the panel, known as the FEMA Revi...

A federal lawsuit filed Thursday challenges an oil company’s new permit to explore for oil in a remote region of the Arctic in Alaska, arguing that such activity threatens the tundra’s ecosystem and the caribou herds that Native communities rely on for sustenance.Last month, the Bureau of Land Management approved the permit for Con...

The executives dining at the White House to celebrate President Trump’s $300 million ballroom — and their role in financing it — were a who’s who of American industry. Many hailed from companies that are household names, like Microsoft, OpenAI and Comcast.Seated among them was Harold G. Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecropper...

The United States’ seizure of a tanker on Wednesday off the coast of Venezuela was clearly meant to rattle that country’s autocratic government.The move will most likely make it more difficult for Venezuela to export oil, squeezing a crucial source of revenue for the government of President Nicolás Maduro.“It will affect all vessel...

OpeningStarsThe city is spilling over with wine bars, but anticipation has been running high for months for this one from Chase Sinzer and the chef Joshua Pinsky, who brought the American bistro, Claud, and the upstairs seafood counter, Penny, to the edge of Greenwich Village. The U-shaped zinc bar in a compact cedar-wrapped space...

The thing about Michael Chernus is that you’ve seen that guy somewhere. It could be on several episodes of “Orange Is the New Black” or opposite Rachel Weisz in “Dead Ringers.” Or, more recently, as John Wayne Gacy in the 2025 Peacock series “Devil in Disguise” and as Ricken Hale on “Severance.” (No, he doesn’t know when they’ll st...

Good morning! Today we have for you:Five-star miso mushroom and leek pastaA zesty chicken dish with a pickle-y cabbage saladAnd circling back to miso, Ali Slagle’s spicy miso lentil soupImageYasmin Fahr’s miso mushroom and leek pasta.Credit...David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.There was a freeze last w...

Good morning! Today we have for you:Tender turkey meatballs in tomato sauceA nutty, lemony, peppery wild rice saladAnd my go-to thing to bring to any holiday party (besides my sparkling wit)ImageMelissa Clark’s turkey meatballs in tomato sauce.Credit...Craig Lee for The New York TimesI’ll come out and say it: Ground turkey is great...

ImageCarolina Gelen’s pickle latkes.Credit...Ryan Liebe for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. Prop Stylist: Megan Hedgpeth.Shredding a bunch of root vegetables on a box grater is the sort of kitchen task I find wildly soothing. I was reminded of this over the weekend, as I grated radish after radish for a butter...

As a food writer, I always pay attention to how political candidates eat, but it was impossible not to hang on every word during Zohran Mamdani’s run: At every step of the way, he centered food.There was one moment in particular that made me sit up straight. In an interview with The New Yorker, Mamdani was asked about his favorite...

ImageImageWhat’s old is new (and delicious).Credit...New York Times CookingAside from her incredible garden and freezer full of homemade peach ice cream (and, ahem, grandchildren), my Nannie’s collection of Department 56 Snow Village figurines was her greatest source of pride. My grandpa built a three-tiered table as an altar for t...

Good morning! Today we have for you:A lacquered roast chicken that feels so festive and fancyLemony roasted mushroom pastaAnd five-star vegan chocolate cupcakes that are “easy, reliable, scrumptious” (your words)ImageGenevieve Ko’s roasted orange chicken.Credit...Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andre...

If you make one thing this weekendHere is a direct quote from Emily Weinstein, our editor in chief: “Latkes can, in fact, be dinner, especially with smoked salmon and sour cream.” Not that I need encouragement to make Melissa Clark’s crispy-edged, soft-centered classic potato latkes, but I appreciate that, should I find myself lean...

OpeningKIMMITheir Tiger Lily Kitchen was a victim of the demolition and redevelopment of an East Village block, but Michelle Morgan and John O’Brien, who have kept TLK going for takeout and delivery, now have this new spot on the edge of Chinatown. The menu they developed with their chef, Javier Medina, is broadly Asian-influenced...

It’s always a bit of a thrill delving into cold-weather ingredients, as easy to love as warm-weather ones, and in some ways even more satisfying.Radicchio and other chicories like ruby Treviso, speckled Castelfranco and pale green curly endive are best grown at cool temperatures. Their slight bitterness pairs and plays well with wi...

Sometimes it’s just a crackle: a shatter so crisp, you can feel it in the back of your head. Sometimes it’s a brash commitment to butter, or an unexpected tenderness. What makes a dish memorable can be as faint as a trace of smoke or as forceful as a fistful of chiles, or as profound as knowing how much time, labor and quiet virtuo...

New York is where the algorithm dies. Ours is a city supremely confident in its status as the center of the universe. It is singular, as are its often prickly inhabitants, scrappers and squabblers whose biggest secret may be that we’re actually kind (if not necessarily nice), who’ll give a fumbling stranger a swipe on the subway wi...

This year, the New York Times Food staff continued its tireless (and happy) travels, visiting 33 states and eating more than 200 meals in search of the best restaurants in the country. That’s a lot of dishes. But we did have our favorites — nationally and in New York City. We couldn’t stop talking about tostadas, knife-cut noodles...

The New York Times Food staff is made up of dessert people. No restaurant meal is complete without a request for a few spoons, or a sly “I’ll just have one bite.” As we ventured across the country for months of scouting trips to find the best restaurants of the year, we didn’t neglect sweet treats. Here are our favorite desserts of...

“Pork shoulder is so easy, it’s almost like cheating,” my friend Zoe said on a recent winter afternoon.We were discussing possible meaty mains for an upcoming holiday party, looking for something impressive but low-stress and economical enough for a crowd. Finding that balance can be tricky.Recipe: Braised Pork With Lemon, Olives a...

For 364 days, a 13-inch foam cone sits atop my refrigerator like a dunce cap, a constant reminder of hedonistic foolishness.ImageFor your own shrimp tree, curly kale is forgiving and especially good at recreating the bushy contours of a balsam fir, but other greens can be just as fun to experiment with.Credit...Marissa Alper for Th...

Of the many bottles I open over the course of a year, I never know which ones will speak most clearly to me. The best wines are not necessarily the oldest or the most profound, but the ones that touch your emotions.That’s odd to think about a subject that is so often considered academic, but great wines are not those that tick off...

Forget those bland treats of yore: These tips make holiday cookies delicious and foolproof for anyone.

Set up a table of stunning pies, cakes and pastries for the most wonderful time of year.

Russia’s Central Bank has filed a lawsuit against Belgian financial institution Euroclear, the Brussels-based clearing house that holds most of Moscow’s frozen assets in Europe, the bank said Friday.It wasn’t immediately clear what the lawsuit could achieve since it was filed in Moscow.The E...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A warning to stay out of forests close to one of the Netherlands’ biggest cities was withdrawn Friday after DNA tests confirmed that a wolf shot last week was an animal that had menaced visitors to the area near Utrecht that is popular with walkers, runners and...

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has been “deeply touched” by the response to his update on his cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace said Saturday, adding that the monarch is pleased to have highlighted the value of screening programs for the disease.Medics and health charities have praised the...

LONDON (AP) — In the past year, tens of thousands hostile to immigrants marched through London, chanting “send them home!” A British lawmaker complained of seeing too many non-white faces on TV. And senior politicians advocated the deportation of longtime U.K. residents born abroad.The overt...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s president will start consultations with parliamentary groups next week on forming a new cabinet following the collapse of the government in nationwide anti-corruption protests. Rosen Zhelyazkov’s minority government had survived six no-confidence votes since...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Friday indefinitely froze Russia’s assets in Europe to ensure that Hungary and Slovakia, both with Moscow-friendly governments, can’t prevent the billions of euros from being used to support Ukraine.Using a special procedure meant for economic emergencie...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ‘s main challenger on Saturday led tens of thousands of demonstrators through the streets of Budapest in a protest over alleged child abuse in state-run juvenile institutions, an issue that has already shaken Orbán’s government f...

Moscow pounded Ukrainian power infrastructure with drone and missile strikes on Saturday and Kyiv launched a deadly strike of its own on southwestern Russia, a day before talks involving senior European and U.S. officials aimed at ending the war were set to resume.Ukrainian President Volodym...

DOUANKARA, Mauritania (AP) — Multiple women have told The Associated Press they survived or witnessed alleged rapes and other sexual assaults committed by a new Russian military unit in Mali, where it is assisting the military in hunting down extremists.Men, women and children have been sexu...

DOUANKARA, Mauritania (AP) — The girl lay in a makeshift health clinic, her eyes glazed over and her mouth open, flies resting on her lips. Her chest barely moved. Drops of fevered sweat trickled down her forehead as medical workers hurried around her, attaching an IV drip.It was the last mo...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Saturday freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and Viktar Babaryka, as part of a deal with Washington that lifted U.S. sanctions on the country’s vital fertili...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Belarus freed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova and dozens of other political prisoners on Saturday, capping two days of talks with Washington aimed at improving ties and getting crippling U.S. sanctions lifted on a...

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III said Friday that early diagnosis and treatment will allow doctors to reduce his cancer treatment in the new year as he encouraged others to take advantage of screening programs that can detect the disease early when it is easiest to treat.Charles, 77, revealed...

The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.TOP 20 GLOBAL CONCERT TOURS1Chris Brown$7...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The death of a 32-year-old man after riding a high-speed roller coaster at the Universal Epic Universe theme park was accidental, and an investigation has been closed, according to a Florida sheriff’s office report released this week.Meanwhile, a medical examiner’s repor...

NEW YORK (AP) — It seems all but unthinkable today: A major TV network hires a famous composer to write an original opera and broadcasts it live in prime time on Christmas Eve.But it was a different world in the early days of television back in 1951 when Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the N...

New York (AP) — Jelly Roll is catching his breath. It’s not a metaphor. He’s running up a hill in South Texas when he answers The Associated Press’ phone call, part of his ongoing health transformation journey. “Endorphins are flying. I feel great,” he cheers. “It’s time to win a (expletive)...

LONDON (AP) — British writer Joanna Trollope, whose bestselling novels charted domestic and romantic travails in well-heeled rural England, has died, her family said Friday. She was 82.Trollope’s daughters, Antonia and Louise, said the writer died peacefully at her home in Oxfordshire, south...

Christine Choy, a trailblazer for Asian Americans in independent film and whose documentary on the fatal beating of Vincent Chin was nominated for an Academy Award, has died. She was 73.Choy died Sunday, according to a statement from JT Takagi, executive director of Third World Newsreel, a f...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Owen Cooper hasn’t had thoughts of EGOT. He’s hardly had time to develop that kind of ambition in his short time as an actor. But, presented with the idea, he’s intrigued. And amused.“Is that the Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar and the Tony?” he asks, with a laugh....

Actor Hailee Steinfeld and her husband, Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, are expecting their first baby together.Steinfeld, known for her roles in “Hawkeye,” “Sinners” and the “Pitch Perfect” franchise, announced her pregnancy Friday in her Substack newsletter as part of a list of her f...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paramount on Monday launched a hostile takeover offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, initiating a potentially bruising battle with rival bidder Netflix to buy the company behind HBO, CNN and a famed movie studio along with the power to reshape much of the nation’s entertainment...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Golden Globes this year introduced a best podcast category and, predictably, the nominees announced Monday will get people talking.The six nominees for the inaugural best podcast award are “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard,” “Call Her Daddy,” “Good Hang with Amy Poehler,”...

The maker of an iPhone app that flagged sightings of U.S. immigration agents sued the Trump administration for free speech violations on Monday, alleging that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi used her “state power” to force Apple to remove the app. Apple in October removed ICEBlock and other...

The Michigan Public Service Commission declined to take up DTE Energy’s power contracts for the Oracle and Open AI data center in Saline Township Friday, despite the utility’s statement that the project could be canceled if not approved by Dec. 5.“When cases before the Commission are ripe fo...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsWednesday, December 10COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)8 p.m.Eastern Michigan at Purdue Fort Wayne — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsNHL HOCKEY8:30 p.m.Detroit at Calgary — FDSN Detroit, ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsThe Associated...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A fire ripped through an office building in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, on Tuesday, killing at least 22 people, including a pregnant woman, police said.Flames engulfed the seven-story building, sending thick black smoke billowing into the sky and causing panic amo...

STOWE, Vt. (AP) — A rescue team that covers Vermont’s tallest mountain has seen a rise in calls from inexperienced skiers who end up getting lost and in dangerous locations after being influenced by videos on social media.After seeing footage online of skiers chasing fresh powder tracks in t...

LONDON (AP) — Britain announced sanctions against Russian media and ideas outlets on Tuesday as the U.K’s top diplomat warned Western nations must raise their game to combat information warfare from “malign foreign states.”Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the U.K. was imposing sanctions...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The former head of a California company that produced true crime TV shows has been added to the FBI’s Most Wanted list, years after being charged with portraying herself as an heiress to get millions of dollars from lenders.Mary Carole McDonnell, 73, is believed to b...

San Jose, the symbolic capital of Silicon Valley, is now ground zero in California’s battle over how to govern the rise of data centers used to power artificial intelligence.The county seat of Santa Clara is touting its partnership with Pacific Gas & Electric, claiming the city is “the West...

The youngest is 16. The oldest are 40. Two are newly minted Emmy winners. Two had dreams of professional soccer. Two count Tom Cruise as a pivotal co-star. And two changed career tracks in college. But there’s one thing all five have in common: a banner 2025.The Associated Press has inducted...

Efforts to expand high-speed internet across rural northern Michigan will get a $920 million boost from a federal grant, which over the next four years is expected to make broadband available to an additional 200,000 homes and businesses.Combined with $550 million in matching funds from prov...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Self-driving Waymo taxis have gone viral for negative reasons involving the death of a beloved San Francisco bodega cat and pulling an illegal U-turn in front of police who were unable to issue a ticket to a nonexistent driver. But this week, the self-driving taxis are t...

In the northwest corner of Sioux Falls, an 80-acre campus opened its first building this year dedicated entirely to expanding the state’s life science and biotechnology research industry.After nearly 30 years of planning and development, the University of South Dakota Discovery District now...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said this week that it was working fine before it went behind the red planet. When it reappeared, t...

DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. has stepped up technology in its popular F-150 pickup to combat the ever-evolving techniques car thieves have at their disposal.It is the latest cat-and-mouse move that the automaker hopes will help customers avoid the costly and frustrating process that occurs...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsSunday, December 14COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)12 p.m.St. Francis (PA) at Temple — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)1 p.m.St. Francis (PA) at Xavier — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo Sports2 p.m.Pittsburgh a...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany summoned Russia’s ambassador Friday following accusations of sabotage, cyberattacks and election interference, an official said.The German government has also accused Moscow of perpetrating disinformation campaigns.“The goal of these Russian cyber and disinformation att...

Police body cameras equipped with artificial intelligence have been trained to detect the faces of about 7,000 people on a “high risk” watch list in the Canadian city of Edmonton, a live test of whether facial recognition technology shunned as too intrusive could have a place in policing thr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he would allow Nvidia to sell an advanced type of computer chip used in the development of artificial intelligence to “approved customers” in China.There have been concerns about allowing advanced computer chips to be sold to China as...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI said Tuesday it has picked Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue, a message to wary investors that the ChatGPT maker is serious about making a profit from its artificial intelligence technology.OpenAI said Dresser will oversee global revenue strat...

The “Architects of AI” were named Time’s person of the year Thursday, with the magazine citing 2025 as when the potential of artificial intelligence “roared into view” with no turning back.“For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the pr...

For a long time, when the world of contemporary art commanded greater cultural cachet, Art Basel Miami Beach was the country’s premier appointment for buying new art, meeting colleagues from around the world, and drinking as much brand-sponsored tequila as early December allowed.It was a delightful oxymoron: a wild-child American s...

A California collector, facing arrest on criminal possession of stolen property charges, has surrendered to New York investigators a 2,000-year-old bronze statue of a Roman emperor thought looted from an ancient site in Turkey.The collector, Aaron Mendelsohn,74, of Santa Monica, a philanthropist and former medical technology ventur...

MoMA PS1, the contemporary art museum in Long Island City, Queens, known for spotlighting rising talent, will be free to all visitors beginning in January, the museum announced on Tuesday.The move, which removes admission fees for the next three years, was made possible by a $900,000 gift from Sonya Yu, a multidisciplinary creative...

This is one cool cat. He is laid-back, literally — lying on his stomach, with a book, like a teenager on vacation, feet kicked into the air. He seems fully relaxed and enjoying the ride.Tommii Lim, a Los Angeles street artist who has spray-painted his share of buildings, created this character to appear on another public surface: t...

The stunning mountain views in northern New Mexico that inspired some of Georgia O’Keeffe’s most famous landscape paintings, like “My Front Yard, Summer, 1941,” will be preserved through a new conservation plan, officials announced on Tuesday.A foundation for Ghost Ranch, where O’Keeffe had a summer house and seven acres of land, a...

Inside Casa Costanza, the Swiss summer home of the Surrealist artist Meret Oppenheim, handwritten notes are everywhere. Some are explanatory: A tiny scroll stuffed inside a dragon-shaped bronze ink pot informs the reader that the object once belonged to the grandfather of Oppenheim’s husband, the businessman Wolfgang La Roche. Othe...

In T’s column 1 Piece, 10 Budgets, we share 10 perfect versions of an item in a range of prices. This time, we’re looking at coffee tables, those horizontal holders of art books, drinks and besocked feet that can set the aesthetic tone of an entire room. Here are T design editor Tom Delavan’s favorites.ImageCredit...Courtesy of the...

Dance‘Times Four’Wally Cardona’s reconstruction of this David Gordon duet from 1975 was both an act of devotion to, and evocation of, the ghosts of New York past — not just of Gordon and his wife and duet partner, Valda Setterfield, its original dancers; but to the whole ethos of downtown dance in its 1970s heyday, with its intimat...

Marina Yee, an artist and fashion designer who was one of the Antwerp Six, a group of singular young designers who for a brief moment in the 1980s turned Belgium’s second largest city into a fashion capital, died on Nov. 1 in Antwerp. She was 67.The cause of death, in a hospital, was pancreatic cancer, Rafael Adriaensens, Ms. Yee’s...

This week in Newly Reviewed, Andrew Russeth covers Jeff Koons’s big-budget baubles, Park Hyunki’s artificial boulder, Joseph Geagan’s demimonde and a group show of photos on fridges.CHELSEAJeff KoonsThrough Feb. 28. Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street; 212-741-1111, gagosian.com.ImageTwo “Kissing Lovers” (2016-25), dressed for a Fragona...

Nnena Kalu, an artist who uses videotape, plastic sheeting and cardboard tubes to make brightly colored cocoon-like sculptures, on Tuesday won the Turner Prize, one of the art world’s most prestigious awards.Alex Farquharson, the director of the Tate Britain art museum in London and chair of this year’s prize jury, said in an inter...

Tokyo contradiction No. 1: This city is very old, with roots in a thousand-year-old fishing village, yet successive cycles of destruction and renewal have left it with relatively few historical landmarks. Tokyo contradiction No. 2: This city is very large, still near the tippy-top of the world’s population rankings, and yet its zon...

For a museum exhibition about the Little Saigon neighborhood in Denver, a local artist was commissioned to paint a portrait of a Vietnamese immigrant and her daughter, with chrysanthemums, dried squid snacks and Lunar New Year lanterns in the background.The final version included images of people detained or deported by Immigration...

As part of its pledge to remove illicit holdings from its collection, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Asian Art said on Thursday that it would return three objects to Cambodia that were likely looted more than 50 years ago during that country’s era of civil upheaval.The artworks, “Head of Harihara,” a composite of...

It’s the odd vintage postcard you could never resist at a thrift store.In a field by a lake in some Alpine valley, a little crowd lolls about in period costume. Five men are in the blue smocks of 19th-century artists; four women are in that era’s frocks, shawls and bonnets. A final detail that’s vital: Breaking the chronology — poi...

Maria Balshaw, the director of the Tate group, which includes some of the world’s most visited art museums, will step down next spring after nine years in the role, Tate said on Friday.Roland Rudd, Tate’s chair of trustees, described her as “a trailblazer” and said in a news release that Balshaw had diversified the artists shown at...

By 1966, the artist Jay DeFeo had labored obsessively over “The Rose,” the monumental work for which she’s best known, for eight years. It was 2,000 pounds of encrusted oil paint when it was excised from her apartment via forklift, and likely would have been more were she not being evicted. Psychically depleted, she dropped out of...

It was a bright and dark year for art. A mold-breaking New York City museum debuted an awesome new home; two others expanded and refreshed themselves. In large and small shows under-the-radar artists surfaced and were hot. At the same time, the arrival of a new political order firing off anti-diversity mandates cast a pall over bot...

MADRID (AP) — Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare on Friday said it had restored services following an outage that took place in the morning and brought down several global websites including LinkedIn, Zoom and others, the second such crash to affect the company in less than three wee...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Riley Allen, a 15-year-old schoolboy living on an Outback sheep ranch, doesn’t know how he’ll keep in touch with his circle of far-flung friends once Australia’s world-first social media ban takes effect on Wednesday.Riley’s family lives 5 kilometers (3 miles) fro...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 that took effect Wednesday as families taking back power from tech giants but warned the implementation would be difficult.Many children posted farewell...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian authorities on Thursday demanded some of the world’s biggest social media platforms report how many accounts they have deactivated since a ban on accounts for children younger than 16 became law.Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikT...

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least two of several agreements aimed at ending global conflicts that President Donald Trump has hailed as evidence of his negotiating prowess are in trouble and at risk of collapsing. Less than a week after Congo and Rwanda signed a deal in Trump’s presence in Washingto...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Southeast Asia is a bright spot for the embattled offshore wind industry as it reels from U.S. President Donald Trump’s push against renewable energy.The White House’s policy pivot has thrown billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. offshore wind projectsinto turmoil. Industr...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials have gathered to discuss preparations for the ruling party’s first full congress in five years, state media reported Wednesday. The top-level meeting will set new priorities as the U.S. and South Korea seek a r...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will require advertisers to label their ads made with artificial intelligence technologies from next year as it seeks to curb a surge of deceptive promotions featuring fabricated experts or deep-faked celebrities endorsing food or pharmaceutical products...

SURIN, Thailand (AP) — Renewed border fighting between Thailand and Cambodia showed no signs of abating Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of displaced people in strained conditions as more flooded into temporary shelters.Associated Press reporters on the Thai side of the border heard out...

SURIN, Thailand (AP) — Amnat Meephew had just enough time to pack up his clothes and flee his home in Thailand a couple of kilometers (miles) from the border with Cambodia, the second time in four months hundreds of thousands of people like him have had to escape fighting between the Southea...

TOKYO (AP) — The American playwright and actor Jeremy O. Harris has been released from detention in Japan three weeks after he was taken into custody on suspicion of smuggling the psychedelic drug ecstasy.The 36-year-old Harris, known for his Tony-nominated “ Slave Play,” was freed from poli...

BANGKOK (AP) — Opponents of military rule in Myanmar staged a joint protest on Wednesday calling on people to stay indoors to show they are boycotting elections scheduled for late this month.They defied harsh legal penalties for attempting to disrupt the polls. The military government has an...

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Ocean temperatures warmed by human-caused climate change fed the intense rainfall that triggered deadly floods and landslides across Asia in recent weeks, according to an analysis released Wednesday.The rapid study by World Weather Attribution focused on heavy rainfal...

CALACA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines is testing a new type of carbon credit aimed at encouraging companies to cut their climate warming emissions by creating funds that can be used to turn coal-fired power plants into renewable energy facilities.Called transition credits, they are mean...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s former acting leader Choi Sang-mok was indicted Thursday on charges related to the brief imposition of martial law in December 2024 by then-President Yoon Suk Yeol, becoming the latest high-profile figure embroiled in legal troubles over the case.Choi...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A library under construction in South Korea collapsed on Thursday, leaving one worker dead and three others trapped under the rubble, officials said.Four workers were initially buried in the collapse in the southern city of Gwangju.One of them was pulled out but lat...

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. strategic bombers joined a fleet of Japanese fighter jets in a joint military exercise meant to demonstrate their military cooperation around Japan’s airspace, defense officials said Thursday, as tensions with China escalate.The exercise showcasing joint Japanese-U.S. air p...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s next national elections will be held on Feb. 12, the chief election commissioner said Thursday, setting the timetable for a vote to be held 18 months after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted.In a televised address to the nation, chief electio...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The United States is using its economic power to “assert its will” and threaten military force against friend and foe alike, a Danish intelligence agency said in a new report.The Danish Defense Intelligence Service, in its latest annual assessment, said Washington’...

TOKYO (AP) — “Black Box Diaries,” a documentary in which Japanese journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault case and the barriers she faced in pursuing justice, has been screened widely abroad since its 2024 festival debut and earned an Oscar nomination early this year. It fi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that Thai and Cambodian leaders had agreed to renew a truce after days of deadly clashes, even as Thai and Cambodian officials suggested there is still work to do to get the ceasefire that the U.S. administration had helped broker earlier...

KOLKATA, India (AP) — Lionel Messi’s much-hyped tour of India got off to a rocky start Saturday with angry fans throwing bottles and attempting to vandalize a stadium after many of them failed to get more than just a glimpse of their hero.The Times of India reported that many ticket-holders...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian accident investigators on Thursday released dramatic images of a skydiver’s parachute becoming entangled on an airplane’s tail, leaving him dangling at 4,500 meters (15,000 feet.)The skydiver, Adrian Ferguson, used a hook knife to cut himself free and s...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military on Saturday acknowledged there was an airstrike on a hospital in the western state of Rakhine, which a local rescuer and media reports said killed more than 30 people, including patients, medical workers and children.In a statement published by the state-run...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Chinese coast guard ships used powerful water cannons and blocking maneuvers against 20 Philippine fishing boats off a disputed South China Sea shoal, injuring three Filipinos and damaging two of their boats in a life-threatening assault, the Philippine coast guard...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what’s now northern Australia, among the sea monsters of the Cretaceous period.Researchers studying huge vertebrae discovered on a beach...

SURIN, Thailand (AP) — Fighting that has flared along the Thai-Cambodian border has sent hundreds of thousands of Thai villagers fleeing from their homes close to the frontier since Monday. Their once-bustling communities have fallen largely silent except for the distant rumble of firing acr...

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court will deliver its verdict on Monday in the trial of former pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, who’s charged with conspiracies to commit sedition and collusion with foreign forces in a case that marks how much the semi-autonomous Chinese city has changed si...

SURIN, Thailand (AP) — Fighting raged Saturday morning along the border of Thailand and Cambodia, even after U.S. President Donald Trump, acting as a mediator, declared that he had won agreement from both countries for a new ceasefire.Thai officials said they did not agree to a ceasefire. Ca...

Comedy icon Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, reaching his century of life some six decades after singing and dancing with Julie Andrews in "Mary Poppins" and starring in her eponymous comedy."The funny thing is, it's not enough. One hundred years is not enough. You wa...

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal appeals court blocked the immediate release of hundreds of migrants detained during a Chicago-area raid in a split decision Thursday, which also allowed the extension of a consent decree outlining how federal immigration agents can make warrantless arrests.The U.S. C...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra.In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication.”...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things the Very Rev. Andreas Blom encourages them to do is give up the thing that brought them there. “You discovered Orthodoxy online. You learned about it online. Now you’re here, the...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, honestly,” says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in artificial intelligence has lit a spark under long-simmering visions...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois residents with terminal illnesses may choose to end their lives on their own terms under a law Gov. JB Pritzker signed Friday.Legalized medically assisted suicide takes effect in September 2026 to give the Illinois Department of Public Health and other medic...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Loons are on the mend in Maine, filling more of the state’s lakes and ponds with their haunting calls, although conservationists say the birds aren’t out of the woods yet.Maine is home to a few thousand of the distinctive black-and-white waterbirds — the East Coast’s l...

They are snippets in time, unforgettable snapshots that gloriously capture the soaring euphoria and gut-wrenching agony of the games we love, not to mention the randomness of a moment that might’ve gone unnoticed otherwise.There are the Kansas City Chiefs, dunking head coach Andy Reid with a...

HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese demand for foreign luxury cars is waning as customers opt for more affordable Chinese brand models, often sold at big discounts, catering to their taste for fancy electronics and comfort.That is bad news for European carmakers like Porsche, Aston Martin, Mercedes-Ben...

NEW YORK (AP) — Are you feeling overwhelmed by the pressure to spend money on gifts, parties, and travel this holiday season? The job market is tough, student loan and credit card debt are rising, and prices for many items remain high due to inflation. If you’re feeling financially strained,...

A Los Angeles jury awarded $40 million on Friday to two women who claimed that talcum powder made by Johnson & Johnson caused their ovarian cancer.The giant health care company said it would appeal the jury’s liability verdict and compensatory damages.The verdict is the latest development in...

NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Greene, a character actor best known for his role as the iconic villain Zed in “Pulp Fiction,” has died. He was 60.He died in his home in New York City, his manager, Gregg Edwards confirmed on Friday. His cause of death was not immediately released.“He was just a terrif...

Comedian Amy Schumer says she and her husband, chef Chris Fischer, have decided to end their marriage.Schumer, an actress, author and writer, announced the planned split in a social media post on Friday. “Blah blah blah Chris and I have made the difficult decision to end our marriage after 7...

Comedy icon Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, hitting the century mark some six decades after he sang and danced with Julie Andrews in “Mary Poppins” and starred in his self-titled sitcom.“The funniest thing is, it’s not enough,” Van Dyke said in an interview with ABC...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The law firm hired by the University of Michigan to investigate former football coach Sherrone Moore’s relationship with a staffer will continue its probe of the program and is prepared to expand its inquiry throughout the athletic department, according to two people...

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) — Lindsey Vonn nearly did it again.The 41-year-old American finished second in a World Cup downhill on Saturday, a day after becoming the oldest winner in the circuit’s history.After winning the season’s opening downhill by nearly a full second on Friday, Vonn wa...

▶ Get the AP Top 25 college football poll delivered straight to your inbox every week with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. NEW YORK (AP) — Fernando Mendoza, the enthusiastic quarterback of No. 1 Indiana, won the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, becoming the first Hoosie...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department violated the constitutional rights of a close friend of James Comey and must return to him computer files that prosecutors had hoped to use for a potential criminal case against the former FBI director, a federal judge said Friday.The ruling from U.S....

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump’s top law enforcement officials were firing and forcing out waves of Justice Department veterans, Sen. Chuck Grassley denounced a “political infection” that had poisoned FBI leadership.The Iowa Republican was not criticizing FBI Director Kash Patel...

NEW YORK (AP) — For one Wisconsin couple, the loss of government-sponsored health subsidies next year means choosing a lower-quality insurance plan with a higher deductible. For a Michigan family, it means going without insurance altogether.For a single mom in Nevada, the spiking costs mean...

MAYETTA, Kan. (AP) — The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, whose ancestors were uprooted by the U.S. from the Great Lakes region in the 1830s, are facing outrage from fellow Native Americans over plans to profit from another forced removal: President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. A...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus, authorities said, and police were searching for the suspect.University President Christina Paxson said she was to...

PARIS (AP) — A French supermarket’s humble Christmas advert is doing something most global brands can only dream of: connecting deeply with millions of people around the world, without a single frame of generative AI.The two-and-a-half-minute film, “Unloved” (Le mal aimé), made for Intermarc...

MADRID (AP) — With most European leaders talking tougher about immigration amid a rise in far-right populism and Trump administration warnings that they could face “civilizational erasure” unless they tighten their borders, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez stands apart.The Iberian nation...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that “there will be very serious retaliation” after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group. “This was an ISIS attack against the...

NEW YORK (AP) — It may feel like you are surrounded by sniffles and coughs, but flu season activity is still low in many parts of the U.S.New government data posted Friday shows that as of last week, flu activity was high in four states — Colorado, Louisiana, New Jersey and New York — and minimal or low in most others. Severity ind...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As he shook President Barack Obama’s hand and pulled him in for what he thought was a private aside, Vice President Joe Biden delivered an explicit message: “This is a big f——— deal.” The remark, overheard on live microphones at a 2010 ceremony for the Affordable Care Act, caused a sensation because open profanity...

LONDON (AP) — Iceland’s national broadcaster said Wednesday it will boycott next year’s Eurovision Song Contest because of discord over Israel’s participation, joining four other countries in a walkout of the pan-continental music competition.Broadcasters in Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Slovenia told contest organizer the Eu...

Jennifer Shah, a former star on “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” has been moved from a federal prison into a community confinement program after serving less than half of her sentence for defrauding thousands of people.A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson confirmed that Shah was transferred Wednesday morning from the Federal Pr...

NEW YORK (AP) — USA Today’s editor in chief, Caren Bohan, is out after a little more than a year leading the flagship newspaper of the Gannett chain.Her exit was confirmed on Wednesday by Monica Richardson, senior vice president of USA Today. No reason was given. Bohan became the newspaper’s top editor in September 2024 after a lon...

In what figures to be a score for refined palates, the famous 1976 wine tasting in which California selections stunningly triumphed over older French vineyards will be portrayed in the opera “The Judgment of Paris” by composer Jake Heggie.A rare comedy by Heggie, known best for turning Sister Helen Prejean’s “Dead Man Walking” and...

The New York Times, attacked by President Donald Trump for reporting about his physical condition, said on Wednesday that it wouldn’t be deterred by “false and inflammatory language” that distorts the role of a free press.The president had posted on his Truth Social platform that he believed it was “seditious, perhaps even treasono...

NEW YORK (AP) — Behind the Wizard of Oz in the two-part “Wicked” movies were people actually pulling the strings. They set the table for the hit double-punch movies long before the cameras ever rolled out: The casting directors, helped pick who made it to Oz.“Our job is to know the actors that are out there or know how to find the...

The painting that introduced “Star Wars” to the world nearly 50 years ago — and was reproduced in an iconic movie poster — sold at auction on Wednesday for $3.875 million.The acrylic and airbrush painting by the artist and movie poster designer Tom Jung first appeared in newspaper advertisements on May 13, 1977, a little less than...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers shed the “Yuccaneers” label decades ago.They went from 0-26 to two-time Super Bowl champions and currently are four-time defending NFC South champs. They’re tied for first place entering a game against the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday night when they’ll be wearing their original creamsicle...

LONDON (AP) — More than 600 artifacts relating to the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth have been stolen from the collection of Bristol Museum, police said Thursday as they released images of four suspects.The Avon and Somerset Police force said the items with “significant cultural value” were taken from a storage buil...

Owen Cooper emphatically announced himself to the world in 2025. The “Adolescence” star became the youngest male acting winner at the Emmy Awards. He was just 15. It was his first professional job.The young English actor’s rocket-fueled arrival was just one of several notable career turns that got the world of entertainment talking...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three years ago, Arden Cho was ready to walk away from acting. She’d landed her first lead role in the Netflix series “Partner Track,” only to see it canceled after one season. She was heartbroken.Her agent wouldn’t let her go. “She refused to say ‘You’re done.’ She just kept sending me things,” Cho said. “She ju...

CBS News appointed Tony Dokoupil as anchor of the “CBS Evening News” on Wednesday, charging him with taking on ABC’s dominant David Muir on one of the flagship shows for broadcast television.Dokoupil, who has been part of the “CBS Mornings” team since 2019, will start his new job on Jan. 5. He replaces the anchor team of John Dicke...

Even though Joe Buck is more widely known these days as the voice of ESPN’s “Monday Night Football,” his broadcast career is rooted in baseball, including calling the most World Series games on television.On Wednesday, Buck received a call that he thought was at least a few years down the line when he found out he received the Ford...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday presented the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees with their medals during a ceremony in the Oval Office, hailing the slate of artists he was deeply involved in choosing as “perhaps the most accomplished and renowned class” ever assembled. This year’s recipients are actor Sylvester Stal...