In a podcast interview, former President Barack Obama did not directly address the video posted by Mr. Trump but denounced a “clown show” on social media.
Learning about our family’s past can connect us to the turmoil and difference that have always been America’s story.
Readers discuss a guest essay asserting that formula promotes marriage equality. Also: Ethics and the Supreme Court.
We explore why we care so much about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
Future Olympic prospects are testing a device that can give them corrective advice in real time as they hurtle into the air.
A so-called Christian Zionist would also likely be a Christian Kurdist or have a Christian commitment to Palestinian statehood.
You want at least one weird entree on the Olympics menu, even if only for the pleasure of not ordering it.
His network may not have known everything, but it is hard to deny that many of them knew enough to know better.
A look at the tensions and triumphs shaping this year’s Winter Games.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Feb. 16, 2026.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Feb. 16, 2026.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Feb. 16, 2026.
The party is dedicated to running the country under Islamic law, but ran on a more moderate platform. It gained far more seats in last week’s election than it ever had before.
President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world.
In Minneapolis, videos of the Alex Pretti killing undermined the federal government’s account. But an A.I. video of Brad Pitt shows the dangers ahead.
Researchers developed aluminum structures that trap air bubbles, making them able to float perpetually in even the harshest environments.
A passageway hidden below a dresser at the Merchant’s House Museum had long been a mystery. Then researchers learned that the home’s original builder was an abolitionist.
Hidden under a built-in dresser in a former home in the East Village is a narrow crawlspace, which historians have recently linked to the Underground Railroad.
South Carolina’s state legislature is one of 17, mainly in heavily Republican states, that is moving to handcuff state agencies at a moment of tectonic changes in energy, technology and finance.
Rights groups are investigating the death of Ali Rahbar as a potential extrajudicial killing. Iran denies executions have taken place.
Ms. Campbell previously claimed she was an acquaintance of the convicted sex offender. Emails shed new light on the extent of their interactions.
As venture capital funding pours into start-ups large and small, more firms are pitching themselves as the next big thing.
In dozens of states, students have staged walkouts over immigration enforcement. In Texas, they’re doing so despite threats from Gov. Greg Abbott.
Athletes train and sweat for years in pursuit of the glittering prizes. Many store them in the least glamorous places.
Fractured politics, disruptive technologies and a distrust in institutions are making it harder to focus on the traditional tasks of growing sales and profits.
On Sunday the series, the longest running American sitcom, will air its 800th episode on Fox. In an interview, the creator Matt Groening says there’s no end in sight.
With matter-of-fact precision, “A Hymn to Life” powerfully chronicles the shock of discovering her husband’s sex crimes, and the rallying cry that followed.
A young telephone company operator finds herself in the dark underbelly of the Me Decade in Claire Oshetsky’s “Evil Genius.”
Obituaries have memorialized the lives of a figure-skating trailblazer, a “Miracle on Ice” hockey player, a bobsledder who overcame blindness, and more.
On the Strip and beyond, clubs, bars and restaurants spotlight local performers who deliver some of the city’s best entertainment.
En una entrevista de casi tres horas realizada el mes pasado en París, la mujer que se convirtió en un icono feminista al renunciar a su derecho al anonimato, esboza un relato sincero y emotivo de su vida.
Parece democráticamente inviable y puede estar avivando el populismo.
En México, una franja de pueblos costeros amigables con el bolsillo ofrece un antídoto relajante a lugares de moda como Cancún y Puerto Vallarta.
Astoria, first spotted in Queens last spring, is now a resident of Lower Manhattan, where three devoted women watch over her.
Lidiar con el fracaso es parte del trabajo de los deportistas de élite. Así es cómo lo enfrentan.
Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
Postcards from the Lower East Side, a bodega cat takes a break and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
La FAA citó “un grave riesgo de víctimas mortales” por una nueva tecnología usada en la frontera mexicana y se vio atrapada en una discrepancia con el Pentágono, que consideró el arma “necesaria”.
The war in Ukraine can look like the future and the past at once. But it’s just our present, the only one we know.
Blame junk food.
In a San Francisco garage, Corey Chan and his team create giant, spectacular lions that will lead the festivities.
Quotation of the Day for Sunday, February 15, 2026.
Satellite imagery of secretive nuclear facilities reveals Beijing’s efforts to expand its arsenal, just as the last global guardrails on nuclear weapons vanish.
Tax hikes made cigarettes in Australia the most expensive in the world. They have also helped fuel a multibillion-dollar criminal enterprise in bootleg tobacco.
Popular paperbacks are being translated with the help of machines, raising anxiety among professionals in the field.
An engineer by training, he used systems theory and quantitative analysis to examine criminal behavior, revealing the systemic patterns of crime.
Most had court orders protecting them from removal to their home countries, so they were sent to detention in Cameroon.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said it was looking into three new complaints with links to the files and revisiting an earlier investigation into an Epstein associate who died in 2022.
Thousands of protesters in several cities across the world took to the streets to demand regime change in Iran on Saturday. The demonstrations came after security forces in Iran violently crushed antigovernment protests in the country, killing thousands of people.
Michael Lieberman and Rebecca Goldstein’s puzzle looks beyond the horizon.
The Americans trailed Denmark after one period, but fought back to cruise to a 6-3 victory.
Aleksei Navalny was most likely poisoned by a toxin found in a South American frog, five European countries said on Saturday, making the most concrete Western accusation yet that Russia’s leading opposition figure was murdered by his government in 2024.
A commercial about a lost dog being reunited with his family ignited concerns that a “Search Party” feature posed privacy risks. Ring parted ways with the tech company Flock Safety.
He trained mostly lesser-known, cheaper thoroughbreds in Maryland and was the fifth-winningest trainer in North American history.
In Munich, European leaders were also talking about “de-risking” from the United States, citing President Trump’s unpredictability.
A Brazilian skier secured South America’s maiden medal at a Winter Games the day after a Kazakh figure skater won his nation’s first gold in 32 years.
The medical examiner’s office is investigating the cause of death of Michelle Montgomery, 39, whose remains were found two weeks ago in a public housing building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
The DHS is flooding social media companies with administrative subpoenas to identify accounts that are protesting ICE. Social media companies have pushed back but are largely complying. Our tech reporter, Sheera Frenkel, explains.
To mark Lunar New Year and the publication of Natasha Pickowicz’s latest cookbook, guests brought the fixings, and she and Sue Chan supplied the broth.
David Curl, a retired lawyer, said the woman who lived there was distraught and did not know why investigators were focusing on her home.
Face was one of the first major-league hurlers to make the closer job a specialty. Not an overpowering pitcher, he finagled outs with a tricky forkball.
The lawyer for the former prime minister claimed he had lost 85 percent of the vision in his right eye because of delayed treatment in prison.
Demonstrators opposed to the Iranian government gathered near the Munich Security Conference and in other cities. Another round of U.S.-Iran talks is expected on Tuesday.
What are a food reporter, the Miami bureau chief and a presidential photographer doing at the Games?
Brenda Ogden lost her waterproof prosthetic leg 10 months ago, and with it, her zest for swimming. Then a local fossil hunter stumbled upon it.
The president’s immigration dragnet is vicious but not surprising.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani stopped by City Hall last Thursday, stepping in to officiate weddings and shocking couples as they arrived for their appointments.
It’s Feb. 14. Let’s do this.
Milo Rau’s examination of the infamous broadcast that preceded the Rwandan genocide is onstage now. Two other works, including “The Pelicot Trial,” arrive in March.
The attacks since early November had specifically targeted suspected drug smuggling boats in the Pacific Ocean.
En este Día de San Valentín expresa lo que sientes a tu manera.
Sue Li takes the Bake Time questionnaire.
His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.
The actress from Netflix’s “The Rip” doesn’t allow anyone else to touch the ring, one of the rules that keep its magic alive.