Despite hailing negotiations between the two sides as a “historic milestone,” Washington did not call for a halt to Israeli strikes or for a withdrawal from Lebanese territory.Mourning victims of airstrikes at a temporary cemetery in Aamrousiyeh, Lebanon, on Monday. Hezbollah flags are displayed at
A new pattern of deceptive activity by some vessels around the critical waterway suggests the new American blockade is changing how some ships linked to Iran are behaving.A cargo ship off the coast of Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, on Monday.
The administration has invoked national security in a variety of matters, including the White House ballroom and offshore wind farms, drawing rebukes from some judges.Construction of the White House ballroom project last month. An appeals court signaled that the Trump administration’s assertions abo
While last year’s tax law has raised the average I.R.S. refund, the boost is less than the White House expected — and may not have much impact on voters.Frank Bisignano, the leader of the Internal Revenue Service, is scheduled to testify about this year’s filing season in the Senate on Wednesday.
Democratic candidates see sudden voter interest in the sleepy contest as a campaign opportunity. All are scrambling for support from former backers of Eric Swalwell.Eric Swalwell’s departure seemed most likely to benefit the two Democrats who had been polling closest to him.
The admission by Senator Ruben Gallego that he had heard, but disbelieved, rumors about Eric Swalwell and women showed the attitude on Capitol Hill toward men accused of behaving badly.Senator Ruben Gallego at the Capitol on Tuesday. He spent considerable time with Mr. Swalwell and chaired his short
A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well can help predict what jobs it may replace.
As artificial intelligence makes many tasks easier, the human work of cajoling, arm-twisting and reassuring appears to be rising in importance.
For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain.
An influential order of nuns decided to complete its mission when the last sister dies. The only question left is how to finish well.Water is poured over the hands of Sister Mary Kay Finneran during Maundy Thursday Mass at Kittay Senior Apartments in the Bronx.
Vivek Ramaswamy has all but cleared the field ahead of the May primary for Ohio governor, but whether a finance and pharma billionaire is the man for the moment is another question.“This idea of doing economic abundance is something that really animates me,” said Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican cand
More Perfect Union, a left-wing media organization, hopes to win back young voters and build a new generation of college influencers with its More Perfect University program.Faiz Shakir, the executive director of More Perfect Union and a senior adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders, has cast the organiz
With new limits on federal lending, many students will need private loans and some could be shut out. See the data, program by program.
Across the city’s fire zones, there’s a surge of experimentation — collective rebuilding, catalog homes and new technologies that are safe and reduce costs.An empty home lot overlooking the Pacific after the fires, one of 16,000 homes destroyed. Challenges to rebuilding are stiff: labor shortages, t
The actor-comedian said he will return to Broadway this fall with a new solo show called “860,” named for the address of his destroyed family home.Billy Crystal at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony in March.
Mark Rosenblatt’s Broadway play, starring John Lithgow as the British children’s book author, draws from Dahl’s comments over the years.The British author Roald Dahl in 1971.
In Mark Rosenblatt’s play, a powerful portrayal of the beloved children’s book author who almost gleefully exposes his bigotry.John Lithgow in “Giant” at the Music Box Theater in Manhattan.
Oleksiy Klochkovsky has driven mail and parcels around the front line in Ukraine for four years. He keeps one ear tuned for danger from above.Oleksiy Klochkovsky, a driver for Nova Poshta, a private postal service in Ukraine, in the back of his truck in the Kharkiv region in January.
The actors play a married couple on the brink in the second season of the Netflix anthology series.
Your pet is (probably) not a genius, and that’s OK.
Trump is in over his head.
We’re looking at who is filing and what they’re paying.A tax preparation clinic in Los Angeles.
It would be the first walkout by the apartment building workers in more than three decades.About 34,000 residential building workers could go on strike in New York City next week.
New Haven’s police chief, Karl Jacobson, resigned abruptly after his deputies saw red flags, including missing money. He has pleaded not guilty to embezzling city money to gamble on sports.Karl Jacobson served as New Haven’s police chief for three years before his career unraveled.
