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Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota has personally appointed members to the state’s teachers board, a body that will require educators to “affirm” their students’ gender identities, have “racial consciousness,” and...

Ethan Hawke rolled through the Venice Film Festival this morning for a career Q&A ahead of a gala event this evening where he will present Aussie filmmaker Peter Weir with...

Washington has rebuked Beijing following another collision between Chinese and Philippine coast guard vessels, marking the latest flashpoint in the long-running territorial dispute in the South China Sea. “The United...

VATICAN CITY — If any evidence were needed to underscore that Pope Francis’ upcoming trip to Asia and Oceania is the longest, farthest and most challenging of his pontificate, it’s that he’s...

If hit podcasts, best-selling books and influencer culture are any indication, millions of people are obsessed with longevity. But just as important as your life span is your health span,...

When the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022 and some of her students fled abroad, Iryna Kovaliova, a literature teacher, decided it was time to retire. “I wrote...

Fall is full of harbingers of change: Air is brisk, daylight becomes fickle, leaves turn red. There is perhaps no better way to ground such a time of transformation and...

When Iria Leino, a Finnish-born painter, died at 89, the rent on her 4,000-square-foot loft in a former knitting factory in SoHo was $650 a month. Ms. Leino (pronounced LAY-no)...

A far-right party won the most votes in a German election for the first time since World War II. The radical Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which ran on nativist anti-immigrant...

As vacations wrap up and classes resume, trade in those sandy beach reads for more ambitious fare this fall. If you’re desperate for a break from politics — it is...