How My Interfaith Family Figured Out the Holidays
On Sunday night, my family decorated our Christmas tree while “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” played in the background. Earlier in...
Islamic State Camps Pose a Dangerous Problem for Syria’s Leaders
The arid steppes of northeastern Syria stretch almost uninterrupted to the Iraqi border, the emptiness broken only by the occasional...
Our Phones Are Making Us Lonely. There’s Drama in That.
Ani is a precocious literary scholar specializing in the works of the 17th-century poet John Milton. She’s also a compulsive...
Sophie Kinsella, ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ Author, Dies at 55
Madeleine Wickham, the British author who wrote the “Confessions of a Shopaholic” novel series under the pen name Sophie Kinsella,...
‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive
Canada is making an aggressive effort to attract highly skilled researchers from around the world, including H-1B visa holders in...
Miami Elects First Democratic Mayor in Nearly 30 Years
Miami voters elected Eileen Higgins as mayor in a rout on Tuesday, choosing a Democrat to lead the city for...
Trump’s Nvidia Chip Deal Reverses Decades of Technology Restrictions
In the first few months after President Trump returned to the White House, he held firm to an American technology...
Irksome, Evicted Beavers in Utah Are Getting a Second Chance
The beaver who would one day be named June was simply doing what beavers do. But her dams, built around...
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
Secretary of State Marco Rubio waded into the surprisingly fraught politics of typefaces on Tuesday with an order halting the...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
The Pentagon was in a bind. The military had plucked two survivors from the Caribbean Sea in mid-October after striking...
Democrats Say Hegseth Balked at Call for Full Video of Boat Strike
Democratic lawmakers said on Tuesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in a classified briefing, declined to commit to showing the...
Trump’s Speech on Economy Veers Into an Anti-Immigrant Tirade
Facing criticism for rising costs for American consumers under his administration, President Trump stoked fear of immigrants from poor countries...
Taiwan Invokes National Security Law to Protect TSMC Trade Secrets
In July, the Taiwanese engineer Wei-Jen Lo left his job after 21 years at the world’s leading computer chip maker,...
Chip Company Plotted to Send Technology to China, Ex-C.E.O. Says
When a Chinese company bought the Dutch chipmaker Nexperia in 2019, its head quickly began plotting to move research and...
Rod Paige, Education Secretary Who Defended ‘No Child Left Behind,’ Dies at 92
Rod Paige, who was President George W. Bush’s first secretary of education but who left amid a series of controversies...
