Chang-rae Lee’s new novel examines a young man’s attempt to be tough—and its far-reaching consequences.

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Kevin Dowdell, a lieutenant in an elite FDNY rescue unit, taught his sons to take action. When he disappeared on 9/11, they went to Ground Zero to search for him.

But starting tomorrow, Spain’s regular drumbeat of fairs, street parties, and patron-saint festivals will be accompanied by improbable astrological luck. After a century of no total solar eclipses ...

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Second, she tried to laugh off stances that progressives in her wing of the Democratic Party had taken in the preceding years: “‘Woke 1 was crazy,’” she said, echoing a comment that one of her allies ...

Some institutions jumped onto the MAGA bandwagon after the 2024 election, but it hasn’t taken long for those decisions to ...

While Europe braces for yet another heat wave, prolonged drought conditions have dropped inland waterways to record-setting low levels, exposing long-submerged shipwrecks and affecting navigation.

Summer is the worst season of all, and also the most beautiful.

San Francisco’s roughly 500 ALPRs are provided by Flock Safety, a police-technology firm that claims its ALPRs are deployed ...

A s you cross the Androscoggin River into Lewiston, you pass on your left the waterfalls that once set the mills to humming.

Living outside is a more dreadful prospect during a heat wave.