Many Venezuelans support U.S. military strikes against drug trafficking, hoping they could topple President Nicolás Maduro.
The world's second-largest economy is deciding its economic strategy for the next five years, a decision with high global stakes.
Pakistan says the Taliban should stop a militant group that is attacking from Afghanistan. The tension erupted into conflict, now eased by a ceasefire.
Individual Israelis and professional organizations are feeling increasingly isolated globally as the world focuses on Palestinian suffering in Gaza. But do boycotts of academic and artistic institutions further the cause of peace?
When Donald Trump hiked the cost of H-1B visas, Indian professionals looked to be the hardest hit. But India may also be the beneficiary of the new pool of job seekers.
New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has won plaudits for modernizing the agency and rooting out corruption. But she and mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani hold different views about how best to fight crime.
The East Wing is being replaced by a $250 million gilt ballroom. On display is how President Trump’s public and private personas have merged.
As schools combat chronic absenteeism, one solution gaining traction is offering elective courses that are too interesting to skip. The result is a better attitude toward school – and toward the rest of the subjects in it.
People in Three Rivers, Michigan, set aside political partisanship to work together, urging city leaders to move more quickly on a water quality issue.
Republicans and Democrats aren’t talking. They’re pressuring each other to give in as effects of the weekslong government shutdown are taking hold.
The context of why civil rights activists like Medgar Evers and Maceo Snipes were murdered has been lost in the current conversation about the Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court.
With the nation's capital in a stalemate, experiments in cooperating on local concerns are building social trust that can help bridge political rifts.
Getting to know Life as God replaces symptoms of depression with healing, joy, and hope. An article inspired by this week’s Bible lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly.
The new prime minister, Takaichi Sanae, takes power as more Japanese women seek help in their work-life balance.
We’re all capable of yielding to God’s healing love rather than the pull of hate or disgust.
Pittsburgh is attracting money, and talent, as the former steel industry center remakes itself as an AI hub focused on innovation for everyday tasks.
Gold prices rise in uncertain times. The current spike may signal both hedges against inflated stock market risk and doubts about the dollar as a stable reserve currency.
If Beijing and Washington can reach a soybean deal soon, it may pave the way for a larger trade agreement. Otherwise, America’s farmers will remain boxed out.
The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement has hit some farms and agricultural businesses, and some operators say it’s harder to find workers.
The government shutdown might not yet be having a visible effect on air traffic controller staffing levels, but it could hurt efforts to hire and train more workers.
Nine months after the Eaton Fire, an Altadena family navigates the red tape that is hampering recovery for those who lost it all in the blaze. How much of their daughter’s childhood will be spent in limbo? The third in our series from Olive Avenue. Read Parts 1 and 2.
California once suppressed “controlled burns,” an Indigenous practice. Residents are now embracing it to reduce the growing threat of wildfire.
Electric vehicle sales jumped after the U.S. announced it would end a tax credit. Without the incentive, sales may dip, although automakers may offer discounts to lure buyers.
Disasters in Texas and North Carolina over the past year underscore how costly interior floods can be. After Roseville, California, was hit by destructive floods in the 1980s and ’90s, the city turned itself into a model of preparedness and hazard mitigation.
Hurricane Katrina was a wake-up call for states as well as for federal disaster response. Lessons in resilience have born fruit, but a proposed scaling back of FEMA’s role is stirring debate in an era of rising storm costs.
Georgia Power Co. announced one of its two new reactors reached self-sustaining nuclear fission on Monday. The announcement is a key step toward reaching commercial operation of nuclear energy in the United States.
Cellphone inventor Martin Cooper, who placed the first mobile call on April 3, 1973, remains hopeful the technology can transform lives, but he’s also concerned about its impact. “We don’t have any privacy anymore,” Mr. Cooper said at a trade show in Spain.
The U.S. government has reached a rare bipartisan agreement to invest $52 billion to develop advanced computer chips. Factories, autos, appliances, electronics, toys, toothbrushes, and weapons systems all depend on semiconductors.
ChatGPT has spurred lively conversations about the role of educational technology. While some colleges and universities are cracking down on ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot, other educators believe ChatGPT could help with assisted learning.
Artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT can now produce convincingly human-sounding essays with minimal effort from users. It’s a massive timesaver – and an ethical quandary.
Could your next spiritual guide be artificial intelligence? AI is offering Christians, Jews, and others an alternative to priests, rabbis, and faith leaders.
Artificial intelligence, 5G networks, and the Internet of Things are used increasingly often in spaces from retail to the military, raising privacy and ethical considerations.
Cavendish bananas are under threat from a fungus that has wiped out other varieties. The island of La Palma may have the conditions to protect them.
An eight-day mission for two astronauts to the International Space Station turned into nine months. NASA crews work to prepare for unforeseen events like this.
The Trump administration aims to overhaul publicly funded science. Critics say cuts could undermine U.S. leadership that has fueled significant advancements.
Conservators are on the front lines of a battle to refurbish art from museums and historic sites.
“Mr. Scorsese” probes the innermost thoughts of the Oscar-winning filmmaker and his efforts to use art to grapple with life’s toughest challenges and questions.
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has sacrificed for his art, having been sentenced to prison and house arrest. His latest movie, “It Was Just an Accident,” examines significant questions, including if there are limits to forgiveness – or mercy.
After 40 years of spontaneous conversations, I cut the cord on my landline – and bade goodbye to an era of close connections.
At the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, the show wouldn’t go on without the people guiding the puppets’ movements.
Getting to know Life as God replaces symptoms of depression with healing, joy, and hope. An article inspired by this week’s Bible lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly.
The immersive new “1929” benefits from journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin’s meticulous archival research and his access to documents never before available, including the board notes from the New York Federal Reserve.
In her new book, Marla A. Ramírez examines the reverberating consequences of a push to deport ethnic Mexicans, many of whom were U.S. citizens, during the Great Depression.
To this master of narrative nonfiction, something extraordinary is waiting under every rock, beckoning her to look closer.
Arthur Sze, the new U.S. poet laureate, hopes you’ll take time to read a poem today – slowly. Within it, he says in an interview, are words and phrases that can be “seeds that nurture you.”
Jill Lepore’s “We the People” examines amendments as engines of change. And “History Matters” offers insights from the late David McCullough.