For a few seconds during a marathon hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, one of the most drama-averse and self-controlled figures in official…
By the time Matvey Nikelshparg was 13, he was obsessed with parasitoid wasps, tiny insects that lay their eggs on or inside other bugs. Under a microscope in a lab…
Negotiations between the Hollywood writers’ union and the major entertainment companies resumed on Wednesday after a month, with top executives joining the talks for the first time. The day ended…
When Aaron and Anna Schiller began thinking about building a new home in Brooklyn where they could start a family, Mr. Schiller knew he could use his training as an…
Twenty years ago, the Republican Party started what may have been the most lifesaving government initiative in modern history. It turned the tide of AIDS around the world and has…
Donald Trump claims to be the best, most or first in countless laughable ways, but there’s one endeavor at which he really is peerless: Nobody dishes out humiliation in such…
A Pew Research Center report released this week called Americans’ views of our politics “dismal.” That might be too kind a word. On metric after metric, the report ticked through…
The owner of the luxury car was pulling into his garage when two robbers attacked him.
Isolated from the world and pulled closer into Beijing’s orbit over the past three years, Hong Kong is finding that its fortunes are tied more than ever to China. The…
The news he had dreaded arrived a few minutes before midnight. For weeks, Bahaadin Adam had heard nothing from family members stuck in the fighting that convulsed Nyala, the capital…