Saudi Arabia Wants Tourists. It Didn’t Expect Christians.
The caravan of five Toyota Land Cruisers raced across Saudi Arabia’s rocky desert, weaving onto a highway so new it was not on the map. At the cleft of sea…
Tiny Bundles of Hope: Critically Endangered Turtles Hatch in Myanmar
This past October, the community members and conservationists identified five turtle nests with about 20 eggs each and fenced them off, but they didn’t know the species of the eggs’…
This City Had Quietly Celebrated Pride Before. In 2023, That Was Not an Option.
As dozens of cars snaked their way onto the grounds of a refurbished horse farm on a sweltering June afternoon in Franklin, Tenn., a few volunteers stood at the entrance,…
‘The Impossible Became Possible’: The Women Celebrating a Year Without Roe
It has been exactly a year since Bethany Bomberger gathered in an impromptu huddle outside a hotel ballroom with fellow anti-abortion activists, overcome with gratitude and optimism as news broke…
TikTok Is Our DJ Now. It’s Playing a Lot of Meghan Trainor.
Meghan Trainor, the pop star, is sitting in an empty marble bathtub, fully clothed and flanked by two of her friends. The three of them begin soulfully crooning an a…
Biden Warns That Republicans Are Not Finished on Abortion
Minutes after the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade last summer, a group of West Wing aides raced to the Oval Office to brief President Biden on the…
The Race to Prevent ‘the Worst Case Scenario for Machine Learning’
Dave Willner has had a front-row seat to the evolution of the worst things on the internet. He started working at Facebook in 2008, back when social media companies were…
Scientists Debut Lab Models of Human Embryos
In its first week, a fertilized human egg develops into a hollow ball of 200 cells and then implants itself on the wall of the uterus. Over the next three…
Five Things to Know One Year After the Dobbs Decision
In the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some of the results of the decision have been unsurprising — more than a dozen Republican-led states have moved…
Putin strikes a tough tone in his first address since the uprising started.
Russian generals late on Friday accused Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the outspoken mercenary tycoon, of trying to mount a coup against President Vladimir V. Putin, as the Russian authorities opened an…