Trump administration cutbacks have left some prisons short on correctional officers, requiring support workers like teachers and secretaries to step in.
By creating an industrial policy that largely looks to the past, Mr. Trump differs from his predecessors.
An American businessman approached the Trump administration last summer with an unusual proposition: The North Korean government wanted to talk to Jared Kushner.
The authorities said the man who was killed was believed to be one of several gunmen who opened fire early Sunday morning at the Art All Night festival in Trenton.
New York City screens students for more than 20 percent of its middle and high schools, creating tiers of educational opportunity that often leave out blacks and Hispanics.
Semenya, a two-time Olympic champion, is trying to block a rule that seeks to limit the permitted testosterone levels in female athletes in races over certain distances.
After a three-year restoration project, the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park has reopened, with less asphalt and more concern for the health of the trees.
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President Trump has threatened for a year and a half to go after leakers. The seizure of emails and phone records from a New York Times reporter shows what that might look like.
The New York Times and Wirecutter bring you this indispensable guide to the best gifts for Father’s Day.
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Beyond the Battery and the Great White Way lies Broadway’s less-traveled northern stretch: Manhattan’s Inwood section. A walking tour and photo essay reveal its treasures.
A new coach, a new mind-set and a new generation of players have England’s team entering the World Cup with excitement, rather than dread, for a change.
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Seeking re-election, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes to leave a lasting imprint by opening thousands of religious schools, even as standards slip in public ones.
Some 600 million Indians, about half the population, face high to extreme water scarcity conditions, with about 200,000 dying every year from inadequate access to safe water, a report says.
“Deep State” on Epix and “Next of Kin” on Sundance Now show the different ways 21st-century geopolitics can be combined with good old family soap opera.
Funding is harder to find in general, and the current approach favors low-risk research and proposals by older scientists and white men.
For Matthew J. Boylan, a reference librarian who fields questions from the public, his father and a famous trial spurred a commitment to public service.
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Mike Parr has been entombed in a steel box under a busy road in the Australian state of Tasmania since Thursday. Here’s why he did that to himself.
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In a nod to Aboriginal history, the artist Mike Parr will spend 72 hours entombed under a road in Hobart, Tasmania.
An oral history of some of the places and figures that shaped the city’s past — and are still around today.
Tom Santopietro’s “Why ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Matters” is painstakingly researched, if flawed, our critic writes.
When Washington embraced marijuana, it felt for these parents as if the electorate had conspired against them.
Not only does it get Democrats going, it hurts him with Republican moderates.
Two charts show what’s happened to the American economy.
Long-held misperceptions of African-Americans continue to prove deadly.
Readers, some of whom are dealing with depression or have had suicidal thoughts, offer their suggestions.
What obligation do sellers have to disclose potential problems with their homes?
