Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive...

The Senate race in Maine looks significantly different than it did 48 hours ago. Yesterday, Politico reported a credible allegation...

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Anyone with eyes can see that Monday night’s World Cup game was rigged. Team USA is winning, 0–0, and then...

Years ago, when the Simpsons animator Chuck Sheetz was a lecturer at UCLA, he invited a producer colleague of his...

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In recent weeks, Silicon Valley has been fawning over an AI model released by a lab in China. The program,...

The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete. But pundits, activists, and members of the Trump...

At roughly 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 3, the words JUST&T MARRIED! appeared on the jumbotrons outside Madison Square Garden....

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When Ludivine Verboogen and Romain Alderweireldt’s third child was born in Belgium in late 2015, they marveled at his long...

I. Will and his brother, Butch, lived under the same roof for 23 years without it ever dawning on either...

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The debate over the future of the Democratic Party’s foreign policy has become intensely personal. In May, Senator Brian Schatz...