Syrian Court Sentences Bashar al-Assad to Death in Absentia for War Crimes
A court in Syria sentenced Bashar al-Assad, the country’s ousted president, and several other former government officials to death in...
Oil Prices Rise to $90 a Barrel Over U.S.-Iran Stalemate
The price of oil continued to climb on Tuesday, reaching $90 a barrel for the first time in two weeks...
How Social Media Spurred a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco
Two days before tens of thousands of migrants surged into Ceuta, one of Spain’s enclaves on Morocco’s northern coast, a...
Wildfire Forces Evacuations in Big Sur, Along California’s Famed Northern Coast
A wildfire along Northern California’s celebrated Big Sur coast spread rapidly on Monday, prompting evacuation orders in Monterey County, including...
A Skyscraper Almost Collapsed. How Worried Should We Be?
When something goes wrong with a building in New York, it shakes more than steel and concrete. It also shakes...
This Playwright Says He’s Done With Maine. Let’s Hope Not.
In New York City, where he lives, theater fans know John Cariani as a character actor who can unassumingly, guilelessly...
One of Them Was Unemployed. Could They Afford to Date?
An electrical engineer, a technician, a NASA employee. Those were the people Claire Doty thought she was going on first...
Trump Is Trapped in a Maelstrom of His Own Making
As of January, President Trump’s stubborn insistence on a beggar-thy-neighbor trade policy had already cost American consumers $200 billion, and...
5 Great American Bike Rides of 25 Miles or Less
From a wildflower-lined path along the California coast to the tree tunnels of a rail trail in New York, you...
Is the BRAT Diet Really the Best Way to Treat a Stomach Bug?
Q: I’ve always heard that the BRAT diet, with its bland foods, helps ease diarrhea and nausea from a stomach...
His Start-Up’s Goal: A.I. That Is Trainable and Not Controlled by a Big Company
A year ago, Igor Babuschkin left xAI, the artificial intelligence start-up he founded with the tech mogul Elon Musk. Now,...
Sun’s Out, UV Umbrellas Out
It’s the reign of the umbrella, and not because of rain. Sun umbrellas — used to protect against intense heat...
Using A.I. to Stop the Demolition of an Old Steam Plant
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll look at how two residents on Roosevelt Island who are fighting the demolition of...
A.I. Is Finding Sperm Where Doctors Couldn’t
The hardest part of Dr. Zev Williams’s job as a fertility physician is telling a man: “You’re not going to...
New Evidence Shows Agents Using Slurs, Bolstering Profiling Claims
Since immigration agents began carrying out a string of big, aggressive sweeps last year, civil rights groups have argued that...
