At an event in San Francisco in November, Sam Altman, the chief executive of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, was asked what surprises the field would bring in 2024. Online…
On the outskirts of Austin, Texas, what began as a fringe experiment has quickly become central to the city’s efforts to reduce homelessness. To Justin Tyler Jr., it is home.…
There is a famous story by the French writer Jean Giono about a man who plants trees in a barren valley. “For three years he had been planting trees in…
Karen Johnson went to her Lutheran church so regularly as a child that she won a perfect attendance award. As an adult, she taught Sunday school. But these days, Ms.…
When the Florida Legislature begins its annual session on Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis will be on hand — fleetingly. After giving his State of the State address, he will leave…
Russia launched a large-scale air attack against Ukraine on Monday morning, Ukrainian officials said, pounding several regions with missiles that killed at least two people, wounded at least 33 others…
A brand-new rocket lifted off early Monday morning from Cape Canaveral, Fla., sending a robotic spacecraft toward the surface of the moon. No American spacecraft has made a soft landing…
At first glance, this might seem like just the right moment for New York City’s deep-pocketed philanthropists to flex some muscle. To hear Mayor Eric Adams tell it, the city…
When the Louisiana parole board met in October to discuss the potential release of a convicted murderer, it called on a doctor with years of experience in mental health to…
The Alaska Airlines plane that lost a piece of its fuselage in midair on Friday was not being used in long flights over water because a pressurization warning light had…