‘This Is Very Strange’: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly
Perhaps no disease has inspired more terror than smallpox. Edward Jenner, who invented the smallpox vaccine in 1796, called it...
Stop Testing A.I. Like an App. Test It Like a Weapon.
Perhaps the most important argument we’re having about artificial intelligence right now is how to determine which models are safe...
Folk Singer Linda Perhacs Is Found and Is Safe, the Authorities Confirm
Linda Perhacs, the esteemed folk musician who had been reported missing, has been located and is safe, the authorities confirmed...
Saudi Arabia Pushing for New Military Coalition to Deter Red Sea Attacks
Saudi Arabia is forming a military coalition to protect shipping as attacks by a Yemeni militia in the Red Sea...
How Haley Stevens’s Accent Became a Flashpoint in Michigan’s Senate Race
Haley Stevens had heard quite enough from people who had heard quite enough of Haley Stevens. “There’s those cool kids...
When His Church Goes Dark, They Talk to His Digital Twin
He had baptized them in his waders, counseled them through marital crisis and prayed at their hospital beds, and now...
Musk Plans at Least $100 Million in Midterm Spending, Giving G.O.P. a Boost
Elon Musk, a year after voicing deep frustration with the Republican Party and threatening to start a third party, appears...
Father of Teenage Shooter in Georgia Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
The father of a teenager who fatally shot four people at his Georgia high school was sentenced onThursday to 15...
At Tanglewood, the Fresh Air Is Tainted by Tension
Tanglewood is special to many, many people. It’s the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but also a place...
The Fauci Interrogation, and the Diary
To the Editor: Re “Volatile Hearing as Fauci Invokes 5th Amendment” (front page, July 30): Dr. Anthony Fauci, who helped...
Why Democrats Won’t Stop Forcing Votes on the War
For the 13th time this year, members of the Senate filed into the marbled chamber on Thursday to cast their...
A ‘Zombie Court’ for Terror Cases Awakens
Hello! Today I want to take a look at an obscure tribunal with an ominous name — the Alien Terrorist...
Senate Considers Giving Judiciary Control of Some Courthouses
New bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate on Thursday would transfer the maintenance and management of dozens of federal courthouses...
Trump Says He May Drop Blanche’s Attorney General Nomination, for Now
Todd Blanche’s nomination to become attorney general was dealt a staggering blow Thursday morning when President Trump threatened to withdraw...
Ronald G. Davis, a Mime Who Spoke Out, Dies at 92
In 1966, when a Harvard student approached Ronald G. Davis — the founder of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, renowned...
