The Rev. Jesse Jackson rose to prominence in the shadow of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ghastly assassination. Mr. Jackson was...

A judge in New Zealand who discovered last week that apology letters from a defendant in an arson case had...

A group of nonprofits filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday against the Trump administration, arguing that its decision...

An enormous sewage spill has sent hundreds of millions of gallons of raw human waste pouring into the Potomac River...

It is considered one of the most treacherous paths in Britain, a medieval route that is said to have caused...

The most memorable moment in “Monster’s Paradise,” Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek’s Grand Guignol-style sendup of today’s politics and crises,...

A senior official for Gaza on President Trump’s “Board of Peace” met with a top Hamas leader last week and...

A young Black man sits on a brownstone stoop, his hair in an Afro, a medallion around his neck the...

Actors draw on what they know, Robert Duvall told Stephen Colbert in an interview that was broadcast in 2021. “Your...

To the Editor: Re “Jesse Jackson, Charismatic Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 84” (obituary, nytimes.com, Feb. 17): In 1984,...

If drugs and booze were once the high-octane fuel of drama, these days it’s recovery and sobriety that are inspiring...

A series of powerful Pacific storms is battering the western United States this week, unleashing days of heavy snow and...

Frederick Vreeland, a debonair Cold War diplomat and spy who was a son of Diana Vreeland, the hortatory, theatrical and...

Adam Baidawi recalls being enthralled by GQ magazine the first time he pored through an issue as a teenager in...

Palmerston, a cat who served as the “chief mouser” for Britain’s diplomatic service, has died in Bermuda. He was about...