No Iranian drone was downed by the American military in the Strait of Hormuz, officials said, a day after President Trump made the claim.
The beloved cookbook author’s latest recipe in The New York Times Magazine will change your cacio e pepe game.
The recent deaths of U.S. service members in Afghanistan are part of a larger issue resulting from the Pentagon’s struggle to contend with multiple wars and new global threats at once.
Conservative thinkers are trying to bring intellectual coherence to the Trumpian moment under the banner of nationalism. But can it be cleansed of its darker currents?
New research is helping the hunt for missing art, largely amassed by Hitler, then re-stolen by desperate Germans in the closing days of the war.
The actor and host of “WTF” talks about hope and change and wrestling.
Jessica Wade has added nearly 700 Wikipedia biographies for important female and minority scientists in less than two years.
CNN’s hourlong debate-lineup revelation had the appearance of a Powerball drawing and just as much depth.
Carrie Lam’s administration is confident that it can weather further demonstrations, despite recent violent clashes and signs that the economy could suffer.
The postmodern Hamptons house was commissioned by the artist Norman Mercer in the 1970s and is on the market for $9.5 million.
Robert A.M. Stern designed this house in the 1970s for Norman Mercer, a sculptor.
A court in Stockholm said the rapper’s detention could be extended while an assault investigation continues.
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Once a hero to Russian nationalists, Aleksandr G. Nevzorov has found a new cause and a growing audience in denouncing imperial fantasies.
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake prompted people in the Greek capital to flee buildings, though initial reports suggested no major injuries or damage.
Brokers and other real estate marketers have ways to find you when you’re already under stress.
“People who won’t walk across the street to save $5 on a pair of pants will take a day off from work to take advantage of a sales-tax holiday,” a tax expert said.
Here is what you need to know about the eruption of street protests and popular anger at Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló and his administration.
Striking Amazon employees complained about how robots changed their jobs, but the company may help them think differently.
In New York, the calisthenics community is finding its rhythm.
A day after Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods struggled, some players tamed Royal Portrush.
The Times’s Graphics, Science and Immersive Storytelling teams shine a new light on the iconic photography from the first moonwalk.
Goodbye Cadillac tax.
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The Democratic National Committee has all but encouraged performative breakout moments, and candidates must try to go viral or risk being left behind.
The chancellor said the president’s “go back” comment ran counter to her impression of what had made America strong.
A party of 160,000 paying members has had roughly 40,000 joiners in the past year. That has raised questions about whether this new wave helped radicalize the party.
The composer of a bleak “Handmaid’s Tale” adaptation brings a lighter, more lyrical fairy tale to Santa Fe Opera.
With orchestras rare in the early 19th century, today’s classics spread in quartet arrangements, a new recording shows.
Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival presents a music-theater adaptation of one of the poet’s dramatic monologues.
Benefits for the Parrish Art Museum and the Fisher Center at Bard College.
Foreign Minister Marise Payne said Yang Hengjun, a Chinese-born Australian, should be released “if he is being detained for his political views.”
The Supreme Court reduced the state’s level of liability for damages in the deaths of 350 men and boys who were ordered out of a peacekeepers’ compound in 1995.
Fifty years ago, humans set foot on the moon. These documentaries and feature films try to put that and other real-life space missions into context.
The superstar is all over the 2019 remake’s promotional tour. But how much of her will you hear in the actual film? We counted her lines.
There is a booming industry of private hackers, snoops and secret agents. Is it too late to rein it in?
“The Lion King” remake, the Apollo 11 anniversary and more: Here’s your guide to the weekend in culture.
Trump’s bigoted attack on four congresswomen of color has nothing to do with fighting anti-Semitism.
A leaked group chat involving the governor set off protests demanding his resignation. The outcry has brought the island to a crossroads.
Ireland, the country of my ancestors, has become what America used to be.
Millicent Cooley was resigned to being single, but her attitude changed after meeting Anthony Duncan, a professional juggler. Their romance soon hit the road.
Their fans are old enough to take over the world, just as the Spice Girls are back.
Vice President Leni Robredo was among 36 people charged in what opponents called a trumped-up case to discredit the president’s opponents.
The financial fallout from the troubled 737 Max jetliner continues to swell for the plane maker, and could yet climb higher.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has offered conflicting accounts about the money, given by a company that is involved in a government corruption inquiry.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has offered conflicting accounts about the money, given by a company that is involved in a government corruption inquiry.
Here’s what you need to know.
Kyoto Animation is known for employing more women than most of its competitors do, and that was reflected in the toll from the apparent arson on Thursday.
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Sometimes agents really mean it when they say an apartment has a panoramic view. Here are a few examples, borough by borough.
Finding an apartment with open views, borough by borough.
Big business loves to flash cultural credentials
The filmmaker Richard Curtis portrays an unblemished city in one British romantic comedy after the other. In real life, the screenwriter of “Yesterday” gives his spin on favorite spots.
Works by confined children show hopefulness in the face of stress, and may help in the healing.
Yes, air hockey is a professional sport. Join a master and his student on a quest for the championship — and a regulation table that isn’t broken.
The U.S.S. Eagle PE-56, which lost 49 of 62 crew members, was located by a civilian dive team.
Following in the footsteps of the self-described “black feminist lesbian poet,” whose ideas caught fire in a city she cherished and criticized.
The cartoonist Will McPhail works through his feelings about Nora Ephron’s classic divorce book by baking a pie.
Francesco Clark, who was paralyzed 17 years ago, has defied the odds in his recovery while running a skin care company.
The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame has modest roots, but a recent expansion offers more room to preserve the country’s sometimes-quirky involvement in the game.
The original moon shoot inspired billions. Calling climate action a moon shot isn't an perefect parallel — but maybe we should try it anyway.
The district attorney of Staten Island is a Democrat, but don’t expect him to jump on the progressive wave of criminal justice reforms.
The acclaimed Brooklyn Youth Chorus collaborates with cutting-edge composers and has become a resource for popular musicians.
Jacob Hays was high constable. His descendant, Benjamin Singleton, crunches crime statistics at Police Headquarters.
“I think it scares people,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico said of a proposal to eliminate private health insurance. Other governors echoed similar concerns.
Puerto Rican artists from Ricky Martin to Bad Bunny joined the protests this week against Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló.
When Philip Poniz opened Box 105 at his local Wells Fargo, he discovered it was empty — and that he was totally unprotected by federal law.
The relatively rapid acceptance of marijuana use in the United States has lawmakers and employers grappling with ways to adjust hiring rules.
Nesbo’s new novel, “The Knife,” made Marilyn Stasio’s skin crawl, so she followed it with less grisly fare, including a mystery set at a summer cottage in Maine.
Large U.S. financial institutions reaped a windfall from the 2017 Trump tax cuts. Now foreign banks are pushing for favorable treatment from Treasury.
Mr. Steyer plans to spend $100 million of his own money to take on President Trump, whether anyone wants him to or not.
Making a tuition-free college education available to everyone who wants one is an immensely worthwhile — and realistic — goal, a Harvard economist says.
Step away from the stove.
That year seems to have been a turning point: For the first time, books by women sold as well — or better than — books by men.
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
An acknowledgment that some old rules of thumb no longer apply.
After my sister was injured by a roller coaster, would we be tempting fate to ride again?
Each aftershock has a tiny chance of being severe, with some scientists concerned that the robust activity could trigger strong earthquakes in nearby faults.
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The hosts questioned the president’s claim that he’d tried to stop the chant (and his remark to the crowd that he had “nothing to do”).
Resonance Records is set to release a nearly-200-song anthology of music, which will be the first complete collection of Cole’s pre-Capitol recordings.
The mother of Amadou Diallo became an activist after his death in New York. The Eric Garner case brings painful reminders.
Rolling back mass incarceration requires new approaches to those who have committed violence. In Ohio, that has meant some hard conversations.
Anti-Japanese sentiment in South Korea has often led to dramatic protests in front of the embassy. The two countries are currently locked in a bitter trade dispute.
The Fab Five are back for a fourth season, and BBC America revisits mankind’s fascination with the moon.
For a couple of hours on an otherwise uneventful day in the mountains, nobody was able to say where Rohan Dennis, the time trial world champion, had gone.
The Yankees manager was ejected in the first game of a doubleheader sweep after vulgar objections about the home plate umpire’s strike zone.
In a live television spectacle involving cards, boxes and a triple-split-screen, CNN revealed who will face off in the next set of Democratic debates.
With “fertility preservation,” I thought I could have children on my own timeline. I was wrong.
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Corrections appearing in print on Friday, July 19, 2019.
Quotation of the Day for Friday, July 19, 2019.
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President Trump’s insult to four nonwhite congresswomen this week touched a nerve in Australia as well as the United States.
On Sunday, the president tweeted about four congresswomen in messages denounced as racist. By Wednesday, a crowd of his supporters had a rallying cry.
Halley Feiffer’s “Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow” turns the master’s refined Russians into “Mean Girls.”
Miranda Haymon’s play relocates Kafka’s horrific tale of punishment to a contemporary world where African-American men are expendable entertainment.
Isaac Gomez’s one-woman play follows the trail violence in a city on the Mexican border.
The decision came a day after Mayor de Blasio urged race directors not to hold the event on Sunday, when temperatures in the high 90s are expected.
A rider was also injured in the accident, which occurred on the second day of the track’s season and followed 30 horse fatalities during the recent meet at Santa Anita Park.
The proposed settlement also commits the country’s military to improve its complaints process and to create a forum for victims to share their experiences with the military’s top brass.
The company, long a target of President Trump, is seen as the leading competitor for a $10 billion cloud computing contract that the president said he was “getting tremendous complaints about.”
Here’s what he has claimed, and what we know.
It’s become the message of Donald Trump’s presidency.
A small-town eye doctor, he founded and fostered advocacy groups whose warnings on demographic change have reached the Trump White House.
The Treasury Department cited human rights abuses when announcing the penalties, which are partly tied to the Trump administration’s campaign against Iran.
Woods shot a seven-over-par 78, a stroke better than Rory McIlroy, the local favorite at Royal Portrush. J.B. Holmes, a long-driving American, took the first-round lead.
Mr. Scalia, the son of Antonin Scalia who worked in the Bush administration, is expected to bring a pro-business approach and stability to the Labor Department.
In six countries, the company is trying out hiding the number of likes that a post receives. The goal is to reduce pressure on people.
There is no good reason to disturb the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
The rest of us can love America well.
For decades he played a 1741 instrument. Then he sold it and gave $1.5 million of the proceeds to his alma mater.
As I.R.S. commissioner in the Kennedy administration, Mr. Caplin promised to be “both reasonable and vigorous” and largely succeeded.
Lawmakers grilled the acting homeland security secretary on Thursday over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy and offensive social media posts by border agents.
The landmark retailer, facing steep rent increases, is exploring filing for bankruptcy, along with renegotiating leases or taking on a strategic investor.
The Trump bump probably peaked too early.
The designation, which came a day before a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, coincided with the anniversary of a 1994 attack on a Jewish community center that killed 85.
In the On Politics newsletter: The president’s attacks on four congresswomen, and the response by his base, gave a sense of his re-election campaign.
There are good lessons to learn from an overblown controversy.
The average number of heat waves in 50 major American cities has tripled since the 1960s.
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The unnamed expansion team will not join the league until 2021, but the ownership group has tasked Francis, a Hall of Famer, with building the squad.
We finally get to see Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden and the newcomer Francesca Hayward all furred up. We have five months to get used to it.
Russian miniatures — boxes painted with elaborate fairy tales — once replaced the holy icons banned by the Soviets, but now history is reversing itself.
Woke Foods, Next Stop Vegan and Coco Verde Vegan are three collectives trying to modernize “la bandera dominicana.”
Should you blast your skin with light therapy masks? If you do, use eye protection.
Galas for the Parrish Art Museum and the Fisher Center at Bard College.
Need suggestions? Our TV critic has three great ones, including a slick foreign drama and an overlooked favorite.
When the big one hits, be prepared with this gear for enough water, light, communication, power, first aid, and contact info.
The end comes weeks after its acclaimed chef, JJ Johnson, opened a new rice bowl shop in Harlem.
The chef and slow-food pioneer has picked up antique cups from around the world — which now remind her of her travels.
Our guide to film series and special screenings.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
Our guide to pop and rock shows and the best of live jazz happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Our guide to stand-up, improv and variety shows happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Our guide to dance performances happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
Our guide to cultural events in New York City for children and teenagers happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
The withdrawal of Saudi Arabia’s key ally in Yemen leaves Prince Mohammed with few good options. Now he is asking for increased American help.
The company, which had already announced $1 billion in costs from the jet’s grounding after two crashes, added $5.6 billion to compensate airlines and $1.7 billion due to a production slowdown.
The decision not to prohibit the pesticide, which has been linked to developmental disabilities, comes after years of legal wrangling.
His discovery of what seemed at first a mathematical curiosity led to what is known as the Feigenbaum constant, a pattern of chaos found in nature.
At least 92 pro-government forces and 45 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week.
The promo shows the star reprising his role as Maverick, with a glimpse of Miles Teller as the son of Goose, the first film’s sidekick.
After being sentenced to life in prison, the Mexican drug lord was whisked away to an undisclosed location.
U.S. shoots down Iranian drone
President Trump said Thursday that an American military ship had downed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz.
At the White House, the president said the Navy ship Boxer was defending itself against an Iranian drone that had refused to back down after being warned.
The financier’s attorney outlined three potential arguments in a bail filing last week and a subsequent hearing.
The president’s remarks, directed at four congresswomen of color, evoke the city in which he came of age.
A new leader is about to take over from the Williamsburg theater’s founders. A festival there now offers a sense of her transgressive, slightly bonkers vision (sour cream included).
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
They are, in fact, in the minority — so why do the media and Democratic leaders seem so obsessed with them?
The Iranian foreign minister sounded philosophical if nothing came of efforts to restart negotiations to the nuclear accord that President Trump has jettisoned.
Series and films depicting abortion in a matter-of-fact way have markedly increased, a scholar finds. Writers say they’re showing what they know.
Though the sky is ripe for disruption with jetpacks and flying cars, we are stuck on the ground partly because we want to be.
A French inventor flew on a gas turbine-powered contraption holding a rifle as part of the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris on Sunday.
Removing a name, even one that has become toxic, is not so easy because of legal concerns and how it might look to other donors.
Removing a name, even one that has become toxic, is not so easy because of legal concerns and how it might look to other donors.
Documenting the final moments between critically ill children and their families helped me come to terms with my cancer diagnosis.
New laser technology appeared to trigger particular images in the brains of lab mice.
Thirty-three people have died in a fire at Kyoto Animation. Here are some of the studio’s most influential works.
Thirty-three people have died in a fire at Kyoto Animation. Here are some of the studio’s most influential works.
Born during the AIDS crisis to raise money for dancers, the festival turns 25, mixing celebration with sorrow.
The strong results indicate large companies are still investing in new technology, shrugging off concerns of a downturn or trade war.
The alliance’s intelligence arm has been a priority for President Trump, but the appointment could make NATO’s analysis look like a rubber stamp for Washington.
With a heat wave spreading to about two-thirds of the United States, you’re going to hear a lot about the heat index rather than the air temperature. Here’s what it all means.
Peter Orner, author of “Maggie Brown & Others,” on a writer who specializes in “American oddness.”
Scientists have created “soft” magnets that can flow and change shape, and that could be a boon to medicine and robotics.
A reader asks about the cause of uterine fibroids and their consequences.
The president of the Police Benevolent Association defends the police officer involved; another reader urges new police guidelines. Also: Afghanistan and Arizona.
The wind projects are meant to be an important component of the state’s plan to get 70 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
Find a cool reprieve — and endless stimulation — at these exhibitions in New York City.
When you see an older man taking photographs of underage boys in a locker room, say something.
Around New York, all roads lead to the moon: Here’s a roundup of events honoring the small steps and giant leaps that made the mission possible.
Around New York, all roads lead to the moon: Here’s a roundup of events honoring the small steps and giant leaps that made the mission possible.
Something about the confession did not sound right. So an Idaho mother pushed to use the emerging technique of genetic genealogy to find another suspect.
Something about the confession did not sound right. So an Idaho mother pushed to use the emerging technique of genetic genealogy to find another suspect.
The men were tried under an antiterrorism law and were the main defendants in a case that put two dozen suspects on trial.
The men were tried under an antiterrorism law and were the main defendants in a case that put two dozen suspects on trial.
These unusual whites from Etna are more salty than fruity, yet even when cloaked in winemaking tricks, the power of the grape and terroir shine through.
Apollo 11’s return to Earth, in the astronauts’ words and photos.
From the Earth to the moon, in the astronauts’ words and photographs.
See Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s historic photographs and words from the moonwalk.
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden will face off again on the debate stage later this month, and Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will headline the other half of the two-night event.
Fifty years after the Apollo 11 mission, a new French plan for a space command must overcome the reluctance of its European allies to weaponize space.
The “Oslo” playwright J.T. Rogers found himself moved stitching a story he thought he knew well: “It is a piece about hope and wonder.”
Joseph Elmer Yoakum’s delirious vistas; Olga Balema’s discreet sculptures; and a 12-artist show, “Just Painting,” rich with visual echoes.
For the sake of their collection, Trey and Jenny Laird had to crawl around to retrieve hundreds of pieces of a tabletop work upset by a pet.
But as the crowd chanted at his re-election rally in North Carolina, President Trump looked around and seemed to bask in the enthusiastic refrain.
But as the crowd chanted at his re-election rally in North Carolina, President Trump looked around and seemed to bask in the enthusiastic refrain.
Sally Field, Michael Tilson Thomas and Linda Ronstadt round out the honorees.
After six months of success in Midtown, the makers of painstakingly from-scratch pies are planning a more basic spinoff called Norm’s.
The disclosure came as documents were released showing that the investigation had been expanded, but is now over.
The outcome appeared to be a legal victory for President Trump, but documents also offered new details of his involvement in the case.
Opposition figures denounced the arrest of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, a senior figure for Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, as part of a political vendetta.
The attack was said to have occurred at a hotel in the resort town of Ayia Napa, where the woman and the suspects, some of whom are minors, were staying separately.
Prosecutors had opposed Mr. Epstein’s proposal to stay in his mansion under guard until trial, saying the financier was seeking “special treatment.”
Starring Anthony Mackie and Frank Grillo, Netflix’s 86-minute would-be thriller somehow manages to feel interminable.
Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival presents a staging inspired by animated film and the style of Weimar Berlin.
At this Jackson Heights restaurant, the owner Jimmy Lozano shows off his grandmother’s secrets in dishes like pollo a la brasa, a spiced, spit-roasted chicken.
“Unfortunately, he is sounding like Donald Trump,” Senator Bernie Sanders said of Joe Biden, as the two Democratic candidates spar over one of the most important issues in the 2020 election.
To Jimmy Lozano, Warique has the spirit of the restaurant his cousins once ran out of their house in Pucallpa in eastern Peru.
New York children read the words of their peers held in U.S. Border Patrol facilities.
New York children read the words of their peers held in U.S. Border Patrol facilities.
An intrepid newspaper reporter — juggling work, desire, ambition and family — investigates two murders in mid-1960s Baltimore.
Readers react to a column by Thomas L. Friedman criticizing Democratic rhetoric that is too far to the left.
Following the latest innovations in science and technology may seem daunting, but these podcasts can help.
As the world splits along U.S.-China fault lines, telecom companies in Vietnam appear to be quietly avoiding the Chinese tech giant in their 5G plans.