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Right Now The S&P 500 fell nearly 4 percent. Stocks on Wall Street fell sharply on Wednesday, following a slump in global markets, as investors face new project...

A member of the Tokyo organizing committee suggested delaying the Games. Organizers said he spoke out of turn. Organizers of this summer’s Tokyo Olympics sought...

Books of The Times When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. When the poet Osip Mandelstam was arreste...

Credit... SANTA CATALINA ISLAND, Calif. — When the gun went off, I was near the back of the pack, wedged in a crush of over 250 runners. Some were tethered toge...

Trilobites Researchers say it is tinier than the smallest living bird, the bee hummingbird, and raises questions about bird evolution. In 2016, Lida Xing of Chi...

marc stein on basketball In this week’s newsletter, Marc Stein explores the turbulent seasons of the Knicks and the Nets, and a coaching controversy in San Anto...

“Gramping” allows grandparents and grandchildren to overcome distance and busy schedules and grow closer through traveling. But a trip is bound to come with cha...

One chart explains why slowing the spread of the infection is nearly as important as stopping it. At the end of February, Drew Harris, a population health analy...

Nonfiction SHAKESPEARE IN A DIVIDED AMERICA What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future By James Shapiro America is massive. Shakespeare is massive. When t...

In a speech from the Oval Office at the White House Wednesday night, President Donald Trump laid out new, aggressive policies designed, he said, to combat the f...

Some 100 million years ago in a seaside mangrove swamp in what we humans now call Myanmar, a truly bizarre dinosaur flitted about, stalking its insect prey. Its...

Midday light streams through the windows of the Stanford Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, California. In a bed too big for his child-sized body, David Sanchez ...

The coronavirus sweeping across the world is a pandemic, the World Health Organization declared today. There are now over 118,000 cases of COVID-19, the disease...

Aerospace company Blue Origin has finished building its mission control center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where engineers will monitor launches of the company’...

Greta Thunberg is calling on other young climate activists to avoid big protests and move their demonstrations online amid efforts to contain the novel coronavi...

Nearly everyone in the US will be affected in some way by the COVID-19 pandemic, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus — by stress and anxiety, event clos...