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I first encountered Mary McCarthy not through her novels or criticism but through her political reporting. A former editor recommended that I read “The Mask of State: Watergate …

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In a sketch from last night’s Saturday Night Live, the cast member Andrew Dismukes played a suburban husband who threw a successful dinner party. As he basked in …

The Baltimore Ravens lost 27-22 to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, and one controversial call in the fourth quarter played a major role in a game with significant …

Everyone you know is about to start putting their money where their mouth is. Prediction markets are booming. Think of them as like a stock market, but instead …

In a federal courtroom in New York City last year, a crime boss from the most notorious drug cartel in Honduras took the stand to testify against Juan …

On April 1, 2025, in Washington, DC, at the White House, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a press briefing.Andrew Thomas/NurPhoto/AP Get your news from a source that’s not …

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Donald Trump recaptured the White House in part by relentlessly exploiting Joe Biden’s failure to heed widespread concerns about the rising cost of living. Now, bizarrely, President Trump …

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The lexicographers at the Oxford University Press seem to be punking us. In 2015, their “word” of the year was “😂.” In 2023, rizz. In 2024, brain rot. …

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A Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries agent teams up with state troopers to stake out Bourbon Street in advance of the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans.Gerald Herbert/AP Get …

This week, the acting inspector general of the Department of Defense released a report that found Secretary Pete Hegseth could have put U.S. troops and national security at …

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I live in New York City, which fashions itself as many things: the financial capital of the world, the media capital of the world, and obviously, the bagel …

Jacob Hannah, CEO of Coalfield Development: “It was a once-in-a-generation cash injection.”Michael Swensen/The Guardian Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign …

Ours is a time of provably wrong claims, vociferously stated.  Gas prices are headed to $2 a gallon, President Donald Trump claimed. (Not true — gas prices just …

On Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s trip to Asia last month, Air Force leadership issued an unusual directive: Keep him from seeing a service member with a beard. …

Dec. 6, 2025, 5:15 AM EST By Jana Kasperkevic, Lara Horwitz and Melinda Yao A coach bolts on the brink of the playoffs, a city finds hope in …

The Supreme Court reinstated a Texas gerrymander that is expected to give Republicans five additional seats in the US House on Thursday evening, after a lower federal court …

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The suspected drug traffickers, the lone survivors of a U.S. airstrike, were sprawled on a table-size piece of floating wreckage in the Caribbean for more than 40 minutes. …