This image made from a video provided to The Associated Press by a Mideast defense official shows a helicopter raid targeting a vessel near the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, April 13, 2024. A video seen by The Associated Press shows commandos raiding a ship ne... More »
Since 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has offered scientists an incredible view of the universe. It has provided well over 1 million observations.Now, NASA has released “Hubble Focus: The Dark Universe,” a free e-book that explores what the Hubble mission has... More »
An average of recent surveys, including the Times/Siena poll, finds President Biden inching closer to Donald Trump.President Biden campaigning in Madison, Wis., this week.Tom Brenner for The New York TimesIs President Biden gaining in the polls? There have bee... More »
A crowd gathers outside Westfield Shopping Centre in Sydney, Saturday, April 13, 2024. Media reports say multiple people have been stabbed and that the police shot a person at the Sydney shopping center. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)Rick Rycroft via APSYDNEY (AP) — ... More »
This photo provided by U.S. Coast Guard shows HELP" spelled out with palm fronds by three stranded mariners on Pikelot Atoll, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia, Monday, April 8, 2024. The three mariners are safe after the coordination of U.S. Coast Gua... More »
Police in New York took possession of a gun belonging to writer E. Jean Carroll in February after she said during testimony in her defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump that she had an unlicensed firearm at home, according to a police report... More »
The epistolary novel is kind of a tough sell these days. Writing a narrative in letters might have given Samuel Richardson license to let his characters speak in candid, informal ways that were otherwise inaccessible, but his innovations are so much a part of ... More »
Fourteen-seasons-old Ogma guards the walls surrounding her village, like all the children who live there do. They keep a dense fog at bay, one that leaves the kids alone but somehow spirits away the adults. So, it’s the children, many of whom are younger than ... More »
Religion can engender feelings of anxiety about the constraints of church doctrine as followers mature into their understandings about life and the world. For Paolo Venticinque, an Italian seminarian working as a Jesuit high school teacher, those constraints d... More »
The author explores trauma, memory, and mental illness in this body of poems. He begins by lamenting, “The years reveal a tally of losses” (“What Came After”). In his youth, Stewart moved to Chicago with his mother while his brother and father stayed behind in... More »