In my high-school English classes, I often tell my students that they write their papers backwards: They devise a thesis and then look for evidence to support it. They’ll find what they want to see, I ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A judge has cleared the path for many Murray Hill residents to pursue a class-action lawsuit against International Flavors & Fragrances, something they say is a key win in their ...

In the gritty underbelly of crisscrossing highways, Tacoma’s coffee pot-shaped dive bar has lost its color — temporarily — as the owner, just a few years into his stewardship of the century-old icon, ...

A Virginia federal judge ordered Lindsey Halligan on Tuesday to explain in writing why she continues to refer to herself as US attorney for the commonwealth’s Eastern District, despite another judge ...

In a useful entry in the growing canon of “quit lit,” Charles Knowles blends science and memoir to persuade readers to cut down on alcohol. Credit...Anthony Kwan for The New York Times Supported by By ...

Law enforcement has quickly embraced AI for everything from drafting police reports to facial recognition. The results have been predictably dismal. In one particularly glaring — and unintentionally ...

Avoid this common English mistake! Learn the proper usage of the verb "explain" in this quick lesson. Don't say 'explain me something,' instead use 'explain something to me'. Florida freeze map update ...

What happened in 2025? Well, a lot. There were tariffs, breakthroughs and disappointments with AI, and a wobbly economy that sent decidedly mixed signals. There were crises of purpose, execution, and ...

I never thought I would say this in the year 2025, but here it is: the United States is working on a brand-new battleship, the likes of which the seas of the world have not seen in countless decades.

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

In 1980, neither China nor India had much representation in the “global middle class” — people who neither belong to the bottom half of the income distribution nor rank among the top 10% worldwide.

Note: This story contains spoilers from “It: Welcome to Derry” Episode 8. The “It: Welcome to Derry” season finale finally revealed why the show planned to release seasons going further and further ...