Wallace Shawn’s ‘What We Did Before Our Moth Days’ Is Purgatory Done Right
Back in January, in a basement in the East Village — the venue, usefully, is called the East Village Basement...
Israel Begins Assault in Southern Beirut, Raising Fears of Wider Incursion
An Israeli order for residents to “save your lives and evacuate your homes immediately” brought chaos to the suburbs of...
Justice Dept. Releases Missing Interviews With Woman Who Made Claims Against Trump
The Justice Department released F.B.I. documents on Thursday describing several interviews with a woman who made an accusation against President...
Bulletproof Vests and Rolex Watches: The Rise and Fall of Kristi Noem
The display of a Rolex at a notorious prison in El Salvador. A self-promotional advertising campaign for mass deportations. The...
Kristi Noem’s Story Was Destined to End This Way
As I looked at Kristi Noem’s MAGA-fied visage plastered across the media on Thursday, along with the news that President...
State Department Is Accused of Slow Assistance for Stranded Americans
The State Department is battling accusations from diplomats and travelers who say the Trump administration endangered U.S. citizens in the...
Ex-Executive at Blood Filter Start-Up Charged With Covering Up Deaths
Federal prosecutors charged a former executive of ExThera, a California medical-device manufacturer, with concealing from the government the deaths of...
War in the Gulf Could Turn India Back Onto Russian Oil
Indian officials spent six months in agony after President Trump decided last summer to punish the country for buying crude...
Israel Pounds Southern Beirut, a Hezbollah Stronghold
Israeli airstrikes pounded the southern outskirts of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, late on Thursday and into the early hours of Friday...
Minnesota Officials Welcome Firing of Homeland Security Secretary
Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis had two words after Kristi Noem was fired as homeland security secretary: “Good riddance.” After...
A Killing Spree in Utah Rattles a Region and Baffles Officials
When two women failed to return from a hike through the red-rock desert of central Utah on Wednesday, their husbands...
Protection for Section 8 Renters Is Struck Down by N.Y. Appeals Court
A New York State appeals court on Thursday invalidated a key protection for low-income tenants, ruling that a state law...
A Sly Political Switcheroo Stuns Montana and Starts a New Senate Fight
At 4:52 p.m. in Montana, Kurt Alme, the state’s top federal prosecutor and a Republican, filed to run for Senate....
Not Just Oil: In Venezuela, U.S. Interior Secretary Pushes for Mining Access
With a couple dozen representatives of American mining companies and other firms in tow, the U.S. interior secretary, Doug Burgum,...
Superfood Fuels Mating Frenzy for a Critically Endangered Parrot
Not all superfoods are indeed super, but one just might help save a critically endangered parrot species that can be...
