The 52-to-47 vote ended a racially charged battle over Senator Jeff Sessions’s nomination as attorney general. The debate was dominated by the Senate’s formal rebuke of Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Silenced on the Senate floor for condemning a peer, Senator Elizabeth Warren emerged in a coveted role: the avatar of liberal resistance in the age of Trump.
A woman in Arizona was arrested Wednesday — days after the definition of “criminal alien” was broadened — and was told she would be deported to Mexico, a country she had not seen in 21 years.
In the European Union, more than half the new jobs since 2010 have been through temporary contracts, creating more workers seeking full-time employment.
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The travel ban litigation, live-streamed. Also, why the 60-year-old words of the novelist James Baldwin, captured in a new film, are so resonant right now
A new study suggests there’s some science behind the claims made for mindfulness meditation.
The electric pressure cooker is the kitchen gadget of the moment. Here’s what it does (and doesn’t do) well.
Mayor Bill de Blasio closed New York City schools for Thursday amid storm warnings calling for 8 to 12 inches of snow. We will have full coverage of the storm and any disruptions all day.
Even as global stock markets climb, concerns are building that debt problems in Greece and Italy will further strain the euro.
Doctors and hospitals failed to tell the Food and Drug Administration about women whose cancer was spread by a surgical device, a new report finds.
Among recently discovered papers were letters from Mrs. Kennedy to David Ormsby Gore, including an explanation of her decision to marry Aristotle Onassis instead of him.
Anderson .Paak is a songwriter, singer, rapper and drummer who doesn’t fit neatly into any one Grammy category. His album “Malibu” could help define him as undefinable.
Shrinking budgets and the specter of overexposure have reduced the ranks of megastars lending their wattage.
The department is sending 75 new investigators to the Bronx to ease detectives’ enormous caseloads — often twice as heavy as their peers in Manhattan.
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Dorothea Lange’s photographs of Japanese-Americans interned during World War II capture not only oppression, but a people struggling to retain their dignity.
Warner Bros. offers amusement at its own expense and Will Arnett gives great voice to Gotham’s brooder, but this new movie is still a commercial.
The Griffith Observatory, Pasadena and palm trees — Damien Chazelle, the writer and director of the award-winning film, talks about why he loves L.A.
Oral arguments on the president’s travel ban reminded America what the rule of law looks like.
Like a teenager who didn’t do the homework, he’s always eager to blame someone else.
Being silenced, or being one of the few women in the room, can be both inhibiting and enraging.
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Rayshell Byers is in college, Daniel Byers is a cook, Curtis Byers has a love of science, and their mother, Lynette, still keeps an eye on all three.
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The head of President Trump’s business council doesn’t exactly serve the American worker.
When students explore foreign cultures, they learn about themselves.
Seeking good public schools, a family leaves their Brooklyn townhouse for a two-bedroom in the West Village.
