Dorothy Vogel, a librarian who, with her postal-clerk husband, Herbert, bought thousands of works from future art stars like Sol...

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A breach in security permitted two protesters to leap onstage during a performance of “Carmen” at the Metropolitan Opera on...

Finally, finally, President Trump just might get a peace prize that would secure his place in history. Unfortunately, though, it...

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The Israeli military conducted a wave of strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 20 people and...

On Tuesday evening, a line of very fashionable guests grew outside Surrogate’s Courthouse in Lower Manhattan, snaking down the block...

Even by the standards of the raucous House of Representatives, the past week was an exceptionally caustic one, with lawmakers...

The Confederacy’s theory of victory at the start of the Civil War was straightforward — so logical, the historian Emory...

Global climate negotiations ended on Saturday in Brazil with a watered-down resolution that makes no mention of fossil fuels, the...

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Just when it appeared that President Trump’s hold over his party might be slipping, his most vocal Republican antagonist seemed...

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One person was killed and eight teenagers were injured in two separate shootings in downtown Chicago on Friday night after...

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