Fire Badly Damages Sanctuary of a Landmark Church in Dallas
A fire that broke out Friday at the First Baptist Dallas church, a landmark in the city’s downtown, appeared to cause major damage to an old part of the church…
Blinken Says Gaza Cease-Fire Deal Is ‘Inside the 10-Yard Line’
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and the national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said on Friday that an agreement to free hostages held in Gaza and establish a cease-fire was…
Can New York City Ever Win Its War Against Rats?
What do rats do in heat waves? Or to put it differently, what is it that they don’t do? As temperatures have continued to stifle all will, and the humidity…
Picture Books That See Shadows in a New Light
Shadows are almost always presented with negative connotations: When people are shady they can’t be trusted; when a place is shady danger is lurking there; to throw shade is to…
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Champion for Progressive Causes, Dies at 74
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas who was a leading voice for racial justice and progressive causes during the three decades she served in the House, died on…
Check, Please: The Pete Wells Exit Interview
Pete Wells announced on Tuesday that he was stepping down as The Times’s restaurant critic. Wells became the restaurant critic in 2012, and his insights into the dining experience, alongside…
The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast
For years, the people building powerful artificial intelligence systems have used enormous troves of text, images and videos pulled from the internet to train their models. Now, that data is…
The Push to Develop Generative A.I. Without All the Lawsuits
Companies like Google and OpenAI built their artificial intelligence chatbots and image generators by gobbling content from the web, spurring legal fights over copyright claims. Now, some of those copyright…
Why Ontario Premier Doug Ford is at war with the LCBO
12 hours ago By Holly Honderich & Nadine Yousif, BBC News, Toronto Toronto Star via Getty Images Last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford posted a video online with a message for his…
Microsoft IT outage: Global services slowly recovering after bug causes chaos
6 hours ago By Robert Greenall, BBC News EPA Businesses and services around the world are slowly recovering after a massive IT outage affected computer systems for hours on Thursday and Friday.…