Heading into yesterday’s first round of presidential voting in Brazil, the incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was thought ...

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H ours after the United States snatched Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from Caracas in a Special Forces operation, Marco ...

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Bo Wang, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and the chief AI scientist at a drug-discovery company, recently ...

In what is now his stump speech, he called them “the real one percent” of our society who have “a perspective that 99 percent of Americans do not have.” For 251 years, he said, America has required ...

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T he principle that government ought to be administered for the benefit of all citizens, not on behalf of one political party ...

As autumn approaches in Spain, teams at festivals and competitions can be found forming spectacular human towers (“castells”) ...

A decade ago, an Apple executive named Phil Schiller had a message for people using computers that were more than five years ...

A teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened.