Rudolph W. Giuliani has admitted that while acting as a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump, he made false statements in asserting that two Georgia election workers had mishandled…
Hunter Biden, President Biden’s troubled son and the target of long-running Republican efforts to cast the first family as corrupt, is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday in federal court…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling gutting race-conscious admissions last month placed a spotlight on legacy preferences in higher education, a practice that mostly helps white and wealthy students. That focus…
Legacy admissions in the cross hairs In opening a civil rights investigation into Harvard’s legacy admissions policy — in which relatives of alumni and donors are given preference — the…
Mario Voigt, a leader of Germany’s mainstream conservative party, has watched with concern the slow but steady string of victories notched by the far-right Alternative for Germany, known as the…
The pod of pilot whales huddled together for nearly a full day in the shallow waters off a remote beach in Western Australia. At times it made the shape of…
The moment the motor turned off, I was hooked. It was 20 minutes into my first Swedish sailing trip on a blazingly sunny morning in late June. I’d set sail…
Did Covid jump from an animal to a person at a food market in Wuhan, China — or leak from a research lab there? That question remains the pandemic’s central…
Wildfires devouring swaths of Algeria’s Mediterranean coast have killed 34 people over two days, the Algerian authorities said on Tuesday, as an extreme heat wave sears North Africa, Southern Europe…
The crackling flames have left charred forests, drawing in thousands of firefighters to stop their hungry march. Residents are filling buckets of water to douse blazes in their hometowns. And…
For animals that humans almost drove into extinction, there’s a lot about whales we still don’t know. Consider the bowhead whale in particular. “Bowhead whales can live greater than 200…
If you’ve read this column regularly over the last few years, my rooting interests should be clear by now. I pull for the outsiders and outliers. The strugglers and stragglers.…
Deanna Giulietti is not in the actors’ union, but she turned down $28,000 last week because of its strike. Ms. Giulietti, a 29-year-old content creator with 1.8 million TikTok followers,…
About a year before George Santos was elected to Congress, he and three other men approached a loyal campaign donor with a potentially lucrative opportunity. A wealthy Polish citizen wanted…