As extreme heat threatens the stability of electrical grids across the eastern United States, big users of power have been...

Pretty much everyone agrees that artificial intelligence has the potential to reshape the economy in the coming decades. But no...

Call it a quirk of wedding planning or the battle for the Fourth of July, but the coming weekend is...

On Saturday, as the skies above Washington host what President Trump has called “the largest fireworks show in history,” dogs...

Aminah Knight had an idea two years ago to mark a major Islamic holiday by throwing an unusual party for...

To the Editor: Re “Despite Some Losses for Trump, Supreme Court Delivers Enduring Conservative Wins” (news analysis, nytimes.com, July 1):...

A company with deep ties to President Trump is organizing some of the biggest events in Washington this weekend, including...

The four-foot-tall beaver sculpture was painted to commemorate the United States, little flags on each cheek flanking a bucktoothed smile....

John Loring, who in 1979 set aside a successful career as a painter and journalist to become the design director...

Far-right House Republicans blocked consideration of the annual defense policy bill on Tuesday, solidifying a legislative blockade and forcing an...

As the window of opportunity shrank in the search for earthquake survivors trapped under rubble in Venezuela, relief efforts on...

The largest digital camera on Earth has finally started filming a motion picture of our universe. On Tuesday, the Vera...

President Trump announced on Tuesday that the Republican Party would hold an unusual midterm convention in September in Dallas as...

NASA has a spare Mars rover that it hopes to send to the moon, officials at the space agency announced...

María Corina Machado, the exiled Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has made a forceful bid in the past week to...