Russia hit critical electricity transmission facilities linked to nuclear power plants during its latest assault on Ukraine’s power grid on Thursday, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported. It was the…
Difficult as it was to achieve, the cease-fire in Lebanon was the easy part. After helping to strike the deal this week, President Biden insisted that “peace is possible,” reflecting…
Covid’s rampage through the country’s nursing homes killed more than 172,000 residents and spurred the biggest industry reform in decades: a mandate that homes employ a minimum number of nurses.…
The president-elect follows the markets closely. He bragged frequently about how well stocks performed in his first term in office, and said they had boomed this year in anticipation of…
Pandas are a vulnerable species. American zoos are allowed to fly them in from China and display them to tourists on one condition: They have to prove to federal regulators…
President-elect Donald J. Trump comes to office with a view of America’s place in the world that is dramatically different from his predecessor’s. Branding President Biden’s foreign policy as “historically…
In September 1983, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fell ill on a flight to Rapid City, S.D. The pilot radioed ahead for medics. By dint of his famous name, Mr. Kennedy,…
Shoppers are heading into the Black Friday weekend unsure how wide to open their wallets, retailers say, with many still feeling the squeeze of inflation and also worried that tariffs…
Maybe it’s the inspired flavors like pear with cocoa nibs or pineapple and yuzu, the affordability ($45) or the cute little jars that can be repurposed to hold spices or…
The Franklin Institute, a Philadelphia museum dedicated to the study of science, has long said one of its most impressive holdings — a plane built in 1911 by the Wright…