Watch: Vast shelf cloud crawls over Newfoundland
A Canadian captured a timelapse of a shelf cloud formation slowly moving over Newfoundland.
Dramatic video shows Alberta firefighters running
The Canadian province of Alberta saw 91 active wildfires on Saturday. The smokes from the fires has spread to multiple provinces and US states, including Minnesota, Nebraska, Illinois, Wisconsin, Wyoming,…
Ice jams cause massive flooding in Alaska
Snowmelt has brought waves of ice down the Yukon and Kuskokwin rivers.
A Kurdish Turkish Writer on the Tensions Between Politics and Art
The momentous Turkish presidential election, whose second round will take place on Sunday, has more than just geopolitical consequences; it is a watershed for culture as well. Since 2016, after…
Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer
This spring, at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, I stood again in front of “The Milkmaid,” returning 33 years after that day in Lagos to her humility, her solidity and the…
How a ‘Blue Wall’ Inside N.Y. State Prisons Protects Abusive Guards
The way the prison guards described it in their paperwork, there was a minor disturbance the day they took Chad Stanbro to a dental clinic at a regional hospital. Mr.…
Opinion | Israel’s Unfinished Exodus Story
JERUSALEM — When Sigal Kanotopsky was a child, her family left their mountain-ringed Jewish village in northern Ethiopia to make a five-and-a-half-week trek to Sudan. They traveled only at night…
Opinion | The Case Against Student Debt Relief Barely Even Pretends to Make Sense
The Biden administration’s plan to cancel up to $20,000 of debt for tens of millions of Americans has faced endless pressure. Just this week the House of Representatives voted to…
Opinion | Why TV Finales Matter (And Why They Are So Hard to Get Right)
The ending of “Succession” is upon us. So how to end this bitter masterpiece? Do they shoot forward in time, stealing a page from the legendary finale of “Six Feet…
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon deposed over bank’s Jeffrey Epstein ties
Court proceedings in the case have been moving rapidly. In addition to questioning Mr Dimon, Virgin Islands attorneys have issued dozens of subpoenas, including such high-profile names as Twitter CEO…