Both teams got an extra day of rest when the game was rained out on Wednesday, allowing Zack Greinke to start for Houston and Masahiro Tanaka to take the mound for the Yankees.
Hannah Lash’s “Desire,” an allegorical chamber work for three singers and the JACK Quartet, had its world premiere in New York.
In an address at Georgetown University, the Facebook chief executive called for more free speech — not less — as his company has been assailed for allowing lies and falsehoods to appear.
The contract extension for the late-night leader keeps him on the job beyond the next election.
Set around a Greek seaside resort, the now-acclaimed director’s 2005 movie bears inklings of ideas he would explore more fully later.
The San Francisco Fed warned that banks, communities and homeowners face significant financial risk from climate change and offered proposals for banks to do more to help.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi honored Representative Elijah E. Cummings, describing him as a “revered and respected” colleague. Mr. Cummings, one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, died on Thursday.
The W.N.B.A. team, which played in Westchester County, N.Y., for two seasons after years at Madison Square Garden, will join the Nets at Barclays Center.
The decision to host the economic summit at the Trump National Doral Miami Golf Club is sure to alarm ethics watchdogs and critics of the administration.
With the success of “Hustlers,” is Jennifer Lopez finally getting her due?
The United Automobile Workers said the tentative contract agreement would provide wage increases and improve the prospects of temporary employees.
The United Automobile Workers said the tentative contract agreement would provide wage increases and improve the prospects of temporary employees.
Rooted in the idealization of the land and French identity, the National Rally’s approach focuses on the local and dovetails with its push to strengthen borders.
How can music be a powerful tool for learning?
Frequent fliers are responsible for two-thirds of all air travel, and therefore aviation emissions, in the United States, according to a new analysis.
Angelina Jolie returns as the powerful, dangerous fairy in this tame, disappointing follow-up to the 2014 revisionist hit.
The city approved a $205,000 payout to a woman who sued after she said an officer violated her rights during a cavity search.
America’s dual faith in individual liberty and democracy is under attack by the president’s populism.
Damon Lindelof’s entertaining comic-book rethink takes on the Big Bad of white supremacy, explosively and sometimes unsteadily.
Extroversion, an energetic disposition, calmness and maturity were associated with a lower risk of dementia 50 years later.
Scientists have rediscovered a compound developed by German researchers during World War II. It appears to be more effective and perhaps safer than DDT.
The orderly collection of ancient arthropods suggests that complex social behavior goes way back in the history of life on Earth.
Northern Ireland’s border controls and its ability to make trade rules are among the central issues covered in the latest agreement between the E.U. and Britain.
We found billions of dollars to pay for universal health care.
The museum is bigger and more demanding, but there’s more fun, and a sense of serendipity.
What happens to shelter dogs and cats has changed considerably over the past decade.
Ad revenue that used to support journalism is now captured by Google and Facebook, and some of that money supports and spreads fake news.
A stepmother wonders whether traveling to visit her partner’s daughters — and fight with his ex for their time — is worth it.
A letter by President Trump last week, warning Mr. Erdogan in blunt terms against the incursion, threatened to make the shuttle diplomacy by Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo more difficult.
Celebrating his 20th anniversary at American Ballet Theater, Mr. Cornejo stars in a new work by Twyla Tharp.
In a new memoir, “Time Is Tight: My Life, Note by Note,” the Stax studio wizard and acclaimed producer tells his own story and finds his voice.
The streaming giant has been hush-hush about how many people watch its original content. Until now.
With recovery no longer so secret, a new wave of plays dealing with its realities has started to emerge. Some of the playwrights have drawn from their own lives.
Clues from the state with the biggest recent decline.
Meteorologists were describing the storm as a “bomb cyclone,” in which masses of warm and cold air meet, creating a cyclonic effect.
Ava DuVernay’s Netflix series about the Central Park jogger case refers to harsh interrogation practices as the “Reid technique.” Now the company behind that technique is suing for defamation.
Gordon D. Sondland said in his prepared statement to House impeachment investigators that he was disappointed the president involved his personal lawyer in diplomacy with Kiev.
Gordon D. Sondland said in his prepared statement to House impeachment investigators that he was disappointed the president involved his personal lawyer in diplomacy with Kiev.
A new study shows where the very smallest studio rentals are.
July was the deadliest month for noncombatants in Afghanistan since the organization began tracking such figures a decade ago.
Thursday: Another look at the crisis. Also: A tentative settlement in the Sutter Health antitrust case; and an important quilt collection finds a home in Berkeley.
This week’s properties are in Gramercy Park, Brooklyn Heights and Spuyten Duyvil.
This week’s properties are five-bedroom homes in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., and Short Hills, N.J.
This week’s properties are in Gramercy Park, Brooklyn Heights and Spuyten Duyvil.
This week’s properties are five-bedroom homes in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., and Short Hills, N.J.
With Chad Smith leaving to lead that orchestra, Ara Guzelimian will return as artistic director of the Ojai Music Festival.
Final approval for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s deal with the European Union could rely on 10 lawmakers from Northern Ireland. How can so few wield so much influence?
Video of one episode, filmed during disruptive action by the Extinction Rebellion group, illustrated the inflamed passions on both sides.
After a lifetime of poor vision, a woman learned to navigate the blur of New York City by memory and mental tricks. Then things got worse. And then, miraculously, better.
The acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, told reporters that the U.S. withheld military aid to force Ukraine to investigate corruption, which he said would include scrutinizing Democrats.
A walkout in the nation’s third-largest school district canceled instruction across Chicago. It was uncertain how long the strike might last.
Two Americans who ran an English-language teaching company are being held on charges of organizing illegal border crossings, a Chinese government spokesman said.
Support for the deal from Parliament and Northern Irish lawmakers is far from assured.
Support for the deal from Parliament and Northern Irish lawmakers is far from assured.
In footage shot over several years, this documentary follows a herd of elephants across the Kenyan savanna.
Feras Fayyad’s new documentary takes viewers into a subterranean Syrian hospital, as warplanes rumble overhead and bombings rattle the walls.
In her new documentary, the sculptor Prune Nourry explores how her work evolved after a breast cancer diagnosis.
Burying itself in weirdness and absurdity, this oddball movie follows two soccer moms through a surreally competitive suburban hell.
Barbara Miller’s humane profile of five women fighting back against sexism and misogyny is a hopeful, clearheaded confessional.
In her new documentary, the sculptor Prune Nourry explores how her work evolved after a breast cancer diagnosis.
Burying itself in weirdness and absurdity, this oddball movie follows two soccer moms through a surreally competitive suburban hell.
The often irreverent French director François Ozon gets serious with a fact-based story about a group of men who were childhood victims of a pedophile priest.
This documentary about siblings and irrevocable memory loss is sad and eerie to the extent that you wish it were fiction.
This superficial take on the writing and initial staging of “Cyrano de Bergerac” is a whirlwind of soapy declarations and backstage chaos.
This superficial take on the writing and initial staging of “Cyrano de Bergerac” is a whirlwind of soapy declarations and backstage chaos.
The British pound surged this morning after Britain and the E.U. reached an agreement on Brexit. But there are still serious hurdles to overcome.
Cars that were handcrafted nearly a century ago require a hard-to-find mix of skills to restore them to their former glory.
Tariffs don’t work the way Trump seems to think they do.
We live in an age that is losing the capacity to distinguish art from ideology and artists from politics.
Many of us assume our proximity to black people makes it O.K. for us to say the word. It’s not.
New York City requires its employees to blow the whistle on wrongdoing, and that approach is working.
Some older adults are dabbling in this powerful psychedelic, which is mostly illegal in the United States.
President Trump’s troop withdrawal ignited a predicted outburst of chaos and carnage in the Middle East.
Gridwise, Mystro and others help drivers predict where to get the best routes, and also manage the nitty-gritty for tax purposes.
A son of sharecroppers, he fought tirelessly for his hometown, Baltimore, and became a key figure in the impeachment investigation of President Trump.
A son of sharecroppers, he fought tirelessly for his hometown, Baltimore, and became a key figure in the impeachment investigation of President Trump.
Thursday: She was a relatively unknown organizer on his 2016 campaign. This weekend, she'll star at his campaign rally in Queens.
Turkey, Brexit, Chicago: Here's what you need to know.
Here's what you need to know.
The fall, which left the president bruised, came amid questions about his health and recent absences from public view.
Families shivered last year as NYCHA experienced repeated heat outages. Now workers are scrambling to keep residents warm.
Andrew Kassoy and the other two co-founders of B Lab are encouraging businesses to focus on more than just profits.
The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund kicks off its 108th annual campaign, adding Feeding America as a beneficiary.
In her 30 years, the sleuth trade has gone from disguises to digging for data.
Supporters say a bill being considered by the City Council in the nation’s capital would protect prostitutes. Critics say it would be a boon to sex traffickers.
A new exhibition concentrates on the artist’s early years, tracking the experiments in printmaking and assemblage that led to her pivotal work “Black Girl’s Window.”
The company’s latest plan to police toxic social media content is intriguing — and even laudable.
A technologist works in rainforest canopies to track illegal logging. To document that work, you can’t take pictures from the ground.
For a few months in 1964, “Murph the Surf” and his crew became folk heroes when they looted the Hall of Gems from the Museum of Natural History.
Rugby and Olympics fans have a good reason to visit the second-largest city in Japan, as do those in search of gardens, temples and the largest Chinatown in the country.
The 25 percent U.S. tariffs to be imposed Friday trigger headaches for single malt distilleries, already struggling with Brexit.
Get ready to buy eight cases of $12-per-gallon oat milk per week.
Mr. Colley, who has collaborated with Ariana Grande, animates his choreographed videos with emoji and positive affirmations.
After “Twilight,” the actor reinvented himself in art-house films. How will he follow “The Lighthouse” and his wildest role so far? With yet another swerve: He’s playing Batman.
The New York Times’s Fund traces its history to 1911. Since then, it has raised $300 million.
In 2016, the Marine Corps said it had wrongly identified another of the men in the famous photograph.
New nonstop flights are dramatically cutting travel time and linking more African cities to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.
And happy birthday to “The Argument”!
Brian Quinn is reviving the borough’s most iconic brand. There are two other breweries on the North Shore, and beer fans are starting to notice.
Union leaders are meeting in Detroit to discuss a tentative contract agreement that could end a monthlong strike. The closing of the Lordstown plant remains a sore point for workers.
Eliminating debt is a great goal. But is it the best option for you?
Are the wealthy addicted to money, competition, or just feeling important? Yes.
When their Crown Heights purchase fell through, Alex Wong and Michael Thomas thought they might find better space in lower Manhattan. Here’s what happened next.
The star of the Amazon show “The Boys” likes to be scared.
Machines are learning how to complete more complex tasks. Is this a good thing?
David Romtvedt’s poems often contain a tangible moment or two, then something startling or surprising drops in.
“I’m a very organized bloke.”
Simply asking people how old they feel may tell you a lot about their health and well-being.
It’s better if you start cancer treatment when you can jump in wholeheartedly and without regrets.
In the era of the auteur chef, Jean-Georges Vongerichten has figured out how to create high-end restaurants by the dozen. How — and why — does he do it?
Never use bare hands. Carry the supplies needed in case of an accidental poke.
Should men be expected to put the seat back down when they’re done?
Whether it’s finishing what Jane Austen started, imagining the private conversations of first ladies or inserting the personal, on London stages female playwrights are mixing things up.
Influential local allies of Beijing, the group most likely to be able to resolve the impasse, are divided on a range of issues, including the protesters’ demand for full democracy.
In this lesson, students will explore the question of whether prison should be for rehabilitation or punishment?
Britain’s prime minister cited a “great new deal that takes back control,” hours after a Northern Irish party rejected the agreement.
As quarterback Patrick Mahomes copes with an ankle injury, Kansas City will need help from the rest of the offense to defeat the resurgent Denver Broncos and end a losing streak at two games.
What is this image saying? Can you relate to it personally?
The “Daily Show” host was taken aback to see the Trump sons, of all people, give Hunter Biden trouble for capitalizing on the family name.
How many wild animals will be involved? How much Spam?
This word has appeared in 21 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year.
The Abyssinian spring in Ethiopia has entered a critical phase.
A recent documentary about Toni Morrison hits Hulu. And a Hitchcockian thriller with Sam Worthington is on Netflix.
Kyle Williams, 20, faces a murder charge in an assault that left one man dead and 11 others wounded at Old Timers Day in Brownsville.
As violence escalates between demonstrators and the police in Hong Kong, protesters have started writing “last letters” to their loved ones, in case they don’t return. These notes chronicle the mental and emotional state of frontliners coming to terms with risking death for their beliefs.
Brexit, Syria, President Trump: Here’s what you need to know.
Corrections appearing in print on Thursday, October 17, 2019.
Quotation of the Day for Thursday, October 17, 2019.
Randolph Ross brings us together.
The 27-year-old Long Island native had been in a coma after he was knocked out by Charles Conwell, a 2016 Olympian.
A musical adaptation of the popular fantasy novel comes to Broadway and goes to Hades.
After vowing not to cooperate with a “kangaroo court,” the president has largely failed to prevent current and former administration members from spending hours with Democrats seeking to impeach him.
Big moves come with hitches. But that’s no reason not to go big and bold.
Before indicting a state-owned Turkish bank, the Justice Department sought to negotiate a deal following calls by Turkey’s president to the White House.
Mr. Sondland was to tell impeachment investigators that President Trump placed a condition on any meeting with Ukraine’s president — the opening of an investigation that could benefit Mr. Trump.
“I hate ISIS more than you do,” President Trump said. “You don’t know that,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi replied. Here’s the rest of their exchange.
“I hate ISIS more than you do,” President Trump said. “You don’t know that,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi replied. Here’s the rest of their exchange.
Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg are vying to become the pragmatic alternative to Joe Biden. Mr. Sanders is trumpeting endorsements to compete with Elizabeth Warren.
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's plans to ease protections on an iconic western bird's habitat -- and open it to oil and gas exploration.
The performer in chief is forcing us to live in a B-movie horror.
Congress wants answers from the transportation secretary, wife of the Senate majority leader, about the apparent mixing of public and family business.
The justices weighed whether Mr. Malvo, who was 17 when he and his partner killed 10 people in the Washington area, is entitled to a new sentencing.
The president wrongly claimed that a violent Kurdish separatist group was “more of a terrorist threat” than ISIS, among other inaccurate claims.
Relentless, yes. But “radical left” and “lowlife”? Not at all.
The diplomats were intending to travel to a remote town in the Russian Arctic, where a mysterious nuclear accident killed seven people in August, releasing radiation.
The resignation of Carlos Romero Deschamps, who is under investigation for his unexplained wealth, is an important step for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in his fight against corruption.
President Trump’s trade adviser frequently cited Ron Vara, a fictional source who was a critic of China, in his writings.
The F.B.I. is investigating the death of a lawyer who was shot three times outside her home.
In her first public comments since Representative Nita Lowey announced her retirement, Ms. Clinton said she was not considering running to replace her.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
With Wednesday’s Game 4 postponed a day, the Yankees and Astros could end up playing on four straight days — a stretch that could test the Yankees’ reliance on their bullpen.
Under fire for rule changes that could cut millions off food assistance, the Trump administration is extending the comment period on food-stamp changes.
Trump said he’d written the “very powerful” letter to warn the Turkish leader.
State Department officials said the new measures were ordered in reciprocity for China’s strict limits on the actions of American diplomats there.
The nation’s three largest drug distributors, as well as two manufacturers, are in intense negotiations to settle thousands of cases before a trial set to begin on Monday.
Tuesday’s event drew an audience significantly smaller than the one for last month’s candidate forum in Houston.
The award comes several months after a Wisconsin judge ruled that Leonard Pozner had been defamed by an author of a book promoting claims that the 2012 school shooting was a government-led hoax.
Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe play antagonistic lighthouse keepers in a twisted tale of men and loneliness.
Turnover is high, unemployment low. So the chain is offering to pay full tuition costs for some business and technology programs.
Also this week, rising emissions on America’s roads
The killings took place at the Santa Barbara home that the actor shared with his wife.
Their criticisms were read aloud in their absence during a ceremony at the Justice Department.
Exxon, Marathon, BP and others are flaring natural gas, a wasteful practice with consequences in the fight against climate change, at a record pace.
In the past three months, Mr. Biden spent more on his campaign than he raised. He begins an aggressive phase of the primary race with far less cash on hand than top rivals.
Readers offer both praise and criticism, suggesting how some questions could have been handled better.
The actress, known for her role in “My Cousin Vinny” and now starring in “The Rose Tattoo” on Broadway, reads an essay about a dying husband’s peculiar request.
In “The Problem With Everything,” the essayist Meghan Daum scrutinizes the resurgent women’s movement, uncovering a nexus of social justice activism, marketing and empty rhetoric.
A legal provision that protects companies like Facebook and YouTube has come under criticism from lawmakers. But they have shown little appetite to repeal the law.
The hospital group in California was accused of using its market dominance to demand higher prices for health care.
Even before Disney, Reiniger told fanciful stories in animated films with her hand-cut paper silhouettes.
News outlets described a “fight club,” but an investigator said there was no evidence of that. The assisted living facility called it an “isolated incident.”
Brexit talks, talks and more talks.
The husband-and-wife duo behind the homewares store Mjölk are discovering a slower lifestyle north of Lake Ontario.
His debut film, “The Cat and the Moon,” is loosely inspired by his parents.
We sent the artist an instant camera, and he shared a characteristically joyful glimpse into his world.
On Sunday Oct. 6, President Trump announced that Turkey would move forward with an offensive in northeast Syria after U.S. troops pulled out of the area. Since then, American-allied Kurdish forces have been under attack, over 200,000 people have been displaced and the threat of ISIS’s resurgence looms. Our video traces how we got here in just one week.
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In “A Tall History of Sugar,” Curdella Forbes uses skin as a prism to examine color, race, colonialism, heritage and — most important — love.
A day after they sparred in a Democratic presidential debate, Mr. Biden aimed more criticism at Ms. Warren, who has joined him as a front-runner.
From Ta-Nehisi Coates to Terese Marie Mailhot to Imani Perry, writers are letting their audiences eavesdrop on private conversations. Parul Sehgal asks what it means.
In a work opening with a goat tethered to a cinder block, the closest we get to Tchaikovsky’s ballet is four dancers representing swans.
The City Council is expected to approve an $8 billion plan on Thursday to close the complex by 2026 and build four new jails that could become a national model.
After 10 years, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg and Abigail Breslin are still murdering the pop-culture clichés.
A college student says the doctrine has its appeal, but many more students don’t care for any politics. Also: A jail plan for New York City.
One of the leading Greek designers of her generation, she balanced a cutting-edge feminine look with ancient motifs and dressed thousands for the Athens Olympics.
Mr. Abraham’s program at the Joyce was partly hopeful, partly disappointing.
House Democrats believe their political fortunes turn on issues like prescription drug costs and education, but the impeachment inquiry is drowning out their message.
There is no reason that any player, white or black, should have to go to a country or a stadium with a history of racist abuse.
On her second album, “Vagabon,” Laetitia Tamko shifts away from the style that brought her an international audience with “Infinite Worlds” two years ago.
A century ago, the future Nazi leader began his career as a propagandist.
Wind and solar power will replace coal at a Colorado furnace.
Holding internet platforms liable for certain content would harm internet users.
The couple met as 12-year-olds in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., dated in their first year of high school, and then, 10 years later, began dating again.
Republicans and Democrats delivered a rebuke to the president over his decision to pull back American troops, an order many viewed as acquiescing to Turkey’s incursion against a United States ally.
The move was an overwhelming condemnation of the president’s decision to pull back American troops inside Syria.
The last time the English musician Sam Shepherd made an album, it took five years. His intense new record, “Crush,” took five weeks. What changed?
We asked veterans of political debates for their reviews of each of the Democratic hopefuls onstage Tuesday.
Former President Barack Obama said “the world needs his progressive leadership now” of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, who faces a federal election this month.
A trade truce with China has done little to reduce the uncertainty that threatens the global economy
The winning image showcases “the humor and horror” of nature, the Natural History Museum in London said.
Attacked abroad, and facing a raft of sanctions, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may nevertheless be getting what he wants from Turkey’s invasion of Kurdish-held Syria.
Quilt-like jackets, rare teas and more ideas from the editors of T Magazine.
Some companies will pay you to go away to keep you employed. People without that lucky perk are ginning up their own sabbaticals: by quitting.
The British singer, whose 1972 hit “Rock and Roll (Part 2)” plays at a pivotal point in the film, was convicted in 2015 of sexually abusing three girls decades earlier.