‘We’re Part of History’: An Overnight Wait to Bid Farewell to the Queen
LONDON — It was just after two in the morning when the couple from Bristol joined the end of the line, snaking beside the dark, rippling waters of the River…
Railroad Unions and Companies Reach a Tentative Deal to Avoid a Strike
WASHINGTON — Freight rail companies and unions representing tens of thousands of workers reached a tentative agreement to avoid what would have been an economically damaging strike, after all-night talks…
Opinion | The World Is Waiting to Be Discovered. Take a Walk.
I started walking around my neighborhood more. Compared with those wild places, this was unremarkable: pacing down a sidewalk of 10-year-old maples, across cracked squares of pavement, alongside a ditch…
New Inflation Developments Are Rattling Markets and Economists. Here’s Why.
When inflation began to accelerate in 2021, price pressures were clearly tied to the pandemic: Companies couldn’t produce cars, couches and computer games fast enough to keep up with demand…
How Cash-Strapped Schools Are Benefiting From the Sun
About 30 other school districts in the area have since adopted solar, he said. Tish Tablan, program director at Generation180, said the normalization of solar was especially potent when it…
Giorgia Meloni May Lead Italy, and Europe Is Worried
CAGLIARI, Sardinia — Giorgia Meloni, the hard-right leader of a party descended from post-Fascist roots and the favorite to become Italy’s next prime minister after elections this month, is known…
Congress Told Colleges to Return Native Remains. What’s Taking So Long?
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — The tribal leaders arrived at the University of North Dakota last month for a somber, secret task. For three days, they scoured storage rooms, recited prayers…
The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting
The Webb telescope can look near as well as far. During its first year, about 7 percent of its time will be spent observing our own solar system, according to…
Opinion | The New Covid Boosters Are Amazing News
Many European countries and Canada, for example, did a better job of making sure more of their population got boosters. Their cumulative death and illness tolls from the Omicron wave…
Trump Media’s Merger Delay Puts $1 Billion Financing Deal in Doubt
The social media company backed by former President Donald J. Trump may not be able to count on a $1 billion deal it arranged to finance its upstart Truth Social…