The revelation was included in a report by Democratic staff members on the Senate Judiciary Committee who had conducted a 20-month investigation into ethics practices at the Supreme Court.
Why religious trends in the later 2020s might be different from the trends of the 2010s.
For decades, the film industry seemed to forget how to mint new male matinee idols. Then came a much-needed windfall.
The scholar Elaine Pagels discusses her research about ancient accounts suggesting that Jesus’ father might have been a Roman.
Readers discuss a guest essay by a woman who finds things to cherish in caring for her dad.
Children deserve better than to feel left in the dark against their will.
Today, your highly personal, hyperspecific best-ofs of 2024.
Chrystia Freeland’s departure this week recalls the 2019 SNC-Lavalin affair, in which Jody Wilson-Raybould quit Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet after a demotion.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024.
After an interview on The Times’s Popcast podcast, André 3000 and the band behind “New Blue Sun” — featuring Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, Carlos Niño and Deantoni Parks — performed an improvised piece in the newsroom.
The rapper-turned-flutist improvised in the middle of The Times’ office following a wide-ranging conversation on Popcast.
André 3000 and the band behind “New Blue Sun” — featuring Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, Carlos Niño and Deantoni Parks — perform in The Times’ newsroom.
The star of “The Chosen” discusses his early struggles in Hollywood, fans who conflate him with his character and how his own faith informs his work.
Un popular restaurante de Buenos Aires está formado casi en su totalidad por trabajadores neurodivergentes aprovechando un talento que a menudo se pasa por alto y aprovechando sus habilidades.
Pernicious patterns figure heavily in two thought-provoking plays on small Manhattan stages.
Costs have soared again amid a bird flu outbreak, bringing renewed attention to the fact that while inflation is cooling, prices are still elevated.
Canada’s prime minister gained global renown 10 years ago for his unabashedly progressive politics. But at home, voters turned sour on him long ago.
Braids as tethers, visible face tape, hip-hop-inflected preppiness: Recent looks by the Grammy-nominated rapper have inspired fascination and at least one nail-art tribute.
Turn store-bought croissants into so much more with these effortless recipes for a crowd.
The filmmaker has long collaborated with the graphic designer Juan Gatti to make alluring posters for his films, including one for his latest, “The Room Next Door.”
It’s possible that a gym isn’t even allowed in your building. If it is, it cannot violate the noise code, the warranty of habitability or the lease.
Spending money to avoid conflict or gain social acceptance can ruin your finances. Some self-reflection and support from professionals can help turn things around.
A popular restaurant in Buenos Aires is staffed almost entirely by workers with neurological challenges, tapping into often-overlooked talent and harnessing their skills.
The first night of Hanukkah and Christmas Day converge for the first time since 2005. What are families who celebrate both to do?
The “Saturday Night Live” alum and director of the new horror-comedy movie “Y2K” talks yacht rock, Cheez-Its and “cat” videos.
Undocumented workers help feed America’s hunger for prepared foods, but some take jobs with staffing agencies that expose them to hazardous conditions.
Bert Williams, the first modern Black entertainment star, was born 150 years ago. The contradictions at the heart of his career are still relevant today.
The Ukrainian energy network has been so battered by Russian attacks that officials are seeking out new options to prevent a crisis, like renting floating power plants and scavenging scrapped ones from the region.
We recently asked readers to tell us about the one saved item from their wedding day, or the time leading up to it, that they still cherished today. Here are 10 sentimental stories.
The car-centric architectural style, characterized by neon signs and dramatic rooflines, is now endangered. Its admirers mourn the loss of the ideals it represented.
Getting shot, and trying to keep it a secret.
Googie architecture is a midcentury design style characterized by dramatic rooflines, pops of color, large glass windows and flashy signs. Anna Kodé, a reporter covering design and culture for the Real Estate section of The New York Times, describes the efforts by preservationists to save examples of the distinctive style.
Decades after mega retail centers became a shorthand for bland suburbia, there may be some hope for them yet.
Anh Sung-jae went to America as a 13-year-old, joined the Army, went to culinary school and opened a top restaurant in San Francisco. Now back home in South Korea, he’s a Netflix star.
Experts share tips for minimizing irritation and avoiding intrusive questions.
These culinary coming-of-age tales are movable feasts for the gluttonous listener.
At least five people were killed and more than 200 others injured after a driver rammed an SUV into a crowded Christmas market in eastern Germany.
El primer ministro de Canadá se ha enfrentado a críticas de la oposición por algunas de sus políticas sobre la pandemia y la economía.
El corresponsal de asuntos cósmicos del Times se retira, pero no quita los ojos de las estrellas.
Cada noche le escribo en un diario a mi hijo de 12 años y continúo una conversación que iniciamos apenas tres días antes de que muriera inesperadamente.
Citywide rules now require more buildings to place trash bags inside containers for pickup. Many New Yorkers are thrilled to see fewer rats, but some are discovering new headaches.
Sophia Cheng, the founder of Oddball, takes a snack tour around the city, breaks for tennis and wards off the Sunday scaries with Channing Tatum.
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Jaime Cachua llegó de México a Georgia cuando era un bebé. Aunque es muy querido por su comunidad, la mayor parte de ella votó por las deportaciones masivas.
Ahora la sociedad sabe más sobre el abuso, pero, desafortunadamente para los hermanos, la defensa social rara vez trae consigo un cambio judicial en Estados Unidos.
The popular measure gives full benefits to millions of people who currently receive them at a reduced level. Critics warn the $196 billion cost will speed up the program’s insolvency.
Political instability, dwindling public support and economic constraints are eroding the costly gains that the country made in combating militancy after a ghastly school attack in 2014.
Years of strife ruined the energy sector, battered the currency and strangled growth. The West must ease financial controls to help the economy, experts say.
A joyful baked creation, taken from a children’s book, celebrates the return of longer days.
Quotation of the Day for Saturday, December 21, 2024
The Israeli military said several people were lightly injured after its air defenses failed to intercept the projectile, which struck a playground in the city.
The federal judge who ruled Google was a monopolist in search is weighing his options to fix the monopoly. Here’s what happens now.
The search giant’s proposals included allowing flexibility for companies and consumers in choosing a search engine.
The job status of Pedro Martinez, the chief executive of Chicago Public Schools, had been in doubt for months amid tension with Mayor Brandon Johnson.
Barbara Lin and Lewis Rothlein’s puzzle packs the right amount of punch.
Corrections that appeared in print on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024.
Donald Trump aún no ha tomado posesión de su cargo, pero el presidente electo y Elon Musk ya están influyendo en la política, poniendo al gobierno federal a horas de un cierre.
The authorities say at least 160 children and teenagers may have been victims of human trafficking and other crimes on a farm run by an ultra-Orthodox sect, Lev Tahor.
In Syria, women begin to pick up the pieces of a broken nation.
Tired of real politics? Try the silver screen instead.
The Senate passed the measure, sending it to President Biden’s desk, shortly after the midnight deadline for funding to lapse.
Justice Erin P. Gall of Oneida County, N.Y., faced removal from office after a judicial commission found that she engaged in a “racially offensive, profane” tirade at a high school graduation party.
With the vote, the Senate approved its 235th lifetime judge of President Biden’s tenure, besting his predecessor by a single judgeship.
Tens of thousands of prisoners deemed to be at low risk of committing crimes again have languished in lockup for as long as a year after they reached their release date under the First Step Act.
The eldest daughter of Nelson Rockefeller, she founded a nonprofit to support Indigenous culture and helped fill two Smithsonian institutions with artifacts.
Also, Canada’s leader suffered another setback. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
Officials have said that the death toll in Mayotte, currently at 35, could end up in the thousands. But in the capital, there were no scenes of public mourning and little talk of searches for missing loved ones.
He was at the helm of several influential publications, notably Gay City News in New York City and, since 2017, The Los Angeles Blade.
Luigi Mangione faces terror and murder charges in New York court. A federal prosecution is proceeding in parallel.
Eric J. DeValkenaere was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Cameron Lamb. Calls for clemency angered many in Kansas City, Mo.
A surprise congressional standoff remind us that big, discordant change could be coming.
President-elect Donald J. Trump is known for his tight grip on members of his party, but the rare rejection of his demand to suspend the debt limit reflected a disconnect that could plague his policy agenda.
In widely seen images, Mayor Eric Adams was behind Mr. Mangione, a murder suspect, when he arrived in Manhattan. Some questioned the mayor’s motives.
Canadian ministers will convene a meeting with the police to discuss antisemitism, after attacks at Jewish establishments in Toronto and Montreal this week.
Allies and opponents alike are calling for him to resign as prime minister.
Actriz prolífica, era mundialmente conocida por su trabajo con el cineasta Pedro Almodóvar, con quien tuvo una relación por momentos tensa.
At least two people were killed and dozens were wounded after a car rammed into a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg in central Germany on Friday evening.
She became a photographer the same year she came out, chronicling the lives of women in same-sex relationships — something most people had never seen.
The administration may extend protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose legal status is set to expire near the start of the Trump administration.
The duo Brewer & Shipley reached the Top 10 in 1970 with “One Toke Over the Line,” a ditty about marijuana that ran afoul of Nixon-era censors.
Zepbound is the first prescription drug approved specifically to treat the common condition.
A short lapse in funding would probably do only modest damage. But it could send a troubling signal about government dysfunction.
El presidente electo prometió “aranceles hasta el final” si Europa no compra más petróleo y gas estadounidenses. Los funcionarios europeos no tienen una estrategia clara para evitar una guerra comercial.
These buildings and places capture the city’s playful approach to concrete-and-asphalt Modernism.
At the DealBook Summit, seven sports stars and experts discussed how building a brand as an athlete has changed.
Chow chow, a bright and bracing pickled relish, is essential to the holiday table in Trinidad and Tobago — and the perfect accompaniment to ham.
The decision to withdraw the regulations seemed to be an acknowledgment that they would go nowhere under the Trump administration.
Emergency responders attended to an incident at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday.
She believed that people with dementia were desperate to connect.
Despite never having had offspring of her own, she was an instinctive caregiver.
As a journalist, she was determined to tell a story of Gaza that was full of life.
He made his cookies — and himself — “famous.”
Banned from Major League Baseball, he turned his disgrace into a personal brand.
She was a musical virtuoso who never quite got her due.
Despite her husband's betrayal, she recreated herself as the writer she always was.
For years, he tried to expose the Tuskegee syphilis study – but no one would listen.
In “The Backyardigans,” she created a world for kids as wildly sophisticated as her own.
For him, comedy became a form of therapy.
He was seen as greed incarnate — and never said otherwise.
Together, they told us everything we wanted to know about sex.
Her own filmmaking aspirations were thwarted by domestic life. Her daughter’s would not be.
She redefined how an actress was supposed to be — and then she left Hollywood.
He knew that tragedy comes for us all.
To run a scientific expedition that travels billions of miles, it takes more than great engineers — it takes a great manager as well.
The strange, sad period when the Hall of Famer was exiled from his sport.
Can you sort 8 historical events?
As a professional ballerina, she inhabited the world of fairy tales. It’s tempting to read her real life as one too.
Her singing career began and ended before she turned 20.
Some workers would be forced to report to work, while others would be furloughed.
A government shutdown would affect employees across major agencies, but the proportion that would be furloughed varies widely across agencies.
How the R&B hit ‘Before I Let Go’ became an enduring anthem.
Beda Koorey, 75, returned personalized plates inspired by the identifying tag on the U.S.S. Enterprise to New York State in 2020. She has since been inundated with tickets for others who used the same tag.
One of the world’s greatest basketball players, he thought of himself as a loser.
After refusing to talk for most of his childhood, he discovered the power in performance.
She worried that marriage would ruin her acting career. Instead, it fueled one of the most dynamic partnerships in film history.
The leader of the party that supported Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party vowed to bring down the government, saying Mr. Trudeau had failed Canada.
Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year.
Selected Times graphics, visualizations and multimedia stories published this year. All free to read for a limited time.
The beloved pets of some of the notable people we lost this year.
The artificial intelligence start-up said the new system, OpenAI o3, outperformed leading A.I. technologies on tests that rate skills in math, science, coding and logic.
La inacción del Congreso podría afectar los planes de decenas de millones de estadounidenses que viajan debido a las fiestas de diciembre.
Video showed a car plowing into a large crowd in the city of Magdeburg. The driver, identified as a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian citizen who worked as a doctor, was arrested.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on family planning in uncertain times.
It was a cushion for workers hurt by free trade. Why did Congress let it lapse?
A prolific actress, she was best known globally for her work with the filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, with whom she had a stormy relationship.
“Parents have heard so much misinformation,” Kaye Hayes, a federal infectious disease official, said in a statement announcing the campaign. “Many of them are overwhelmed.”
Richard Allen, of Delphi, Ind., received the maximum sentence, concluding a case that came to be known as the Delphi Murders. His lawyers plan to appeal.
Congress devised some positions to stay on during changes in administrations. But Donald Trump has declared his intent to replace at least three.
Samuel Paty was beheaded in 2020 by an Islamist extremist after showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his students to illustrate free speech.
Losing Syrian military bases would hurt the Kremlin’s attempts to project power in the Middle East and Africa.
And one to read for fun.
A partial government shutdown in Donald J. Trump’s first term was the longest in U.S. history.
Hear songs from Quincy Jones, Melanie and Toby Keith.
The deputy prime minister and the leader of the far-right League party claimed he was a victim in the fight against illegal immigration that has swept across Europe.
In search of a New World answer to Narnia and Hogwarts.
Mr. Regan informed agency employees that he would leave before the formal end of the Biden term.
A freshman at George Mason University, who is a citizen of Egypt, was arrested on Tuesday after being accused of planning an attack.
Make it through the holidays with these movies, books and music from the past year that are adapted from stage productions or evoke a theatrical spirit.
Frequent images of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others lifting weights in jeans and boots raise the question of what can be classified as proper gym attire.
Hear tracks from Bartees Strange, Madi Diaz, GloRilla and Kehlani, and others.
En una expedición de 38 días por la remota región de Alto Mayo, amenazada por la influencia humana, se descubrieron nuevas especies de mamíferos, peces, anfibios y mariposas.
For an upcoming article, we are looking for stories about what happens to a long-term relationship when one partner decides to get much thinner.
The rebels are largely the most conservative lawmakers who are passionate about slashing spending and debt. They hail from deep-red districts where a primary challenge is less of a danger.
Readers discuss his role in the government shutdown negotiations. Also: Trump austerity; G.O.P.’s future; clean energy; guns and young people.
Elon Musk, empresario y asesor de Donald Trump, ha utilizado las redes sociales para expresar su apoyo a favor de partidos antiinmigrantes en Europa.
The S&P 500 jumped after a November inflation reading helped ease worries. A partial government shutdown, analysts said, wouldn’t have a lasting economic impact.
Bing Crosby dreamed of it and Charles Dickens romanticized it, but the truth about a white Christmas in Britain may surprise you.
The automaker agreed to keep all 10 of its factories in Germany open and to guarantee workers’ jobs until the end of 2030.
Action against Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo may not survive President-elect Donald J. Trump’s return to office.
This slim novella about one Irishman’s crisis of conscience during the Christmas season is the topic of our December book club discussion.
On Thursday, the Los Angeles Chargers pulled off a rare “free-kick field goal.” There are other oddball rules in the book if you dig deep enough.
“The Troublemaker” is a brisk account of the life and work of Jimmy Lai, the media mogul and democracy activist currently on trial for national security offenses.
The astronomical event, which overlaps with the Winter Solstice, is often overlooked because of the winter chill.
It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.
A new study finds that deaths related to cold weather in the United States have risen in the past two decades.
The president-elect was eager to evade responsibility for the consequences of a potential shutdown even as he blew up a bipartisan deal that would have kept the government open.
The chairmen of the Finance, Judiciary and Banking Committees demanded answers from a Trump lawyer accused of soliciting payments from potential administration nominees.
Where do wildfires threaten the most homes? How much can an inch of floodwater in your house cost you? Take our quiz to find out.
The writer and director Pedro Almodóvar narrates a bittersweet sequence between the two at a luxurious home.
Dr. Jessica B. Harris revisits and expands “A Kwanzaa Keepsake,” her highly personal book from 1995.
Al acercarse la fecha límite para aprobar el presupuesto federal, los funcionarios se preparan para la posibilidad de una temporada de vacaciones con perturbaciones, que podría incluir tiempos de espera más largos para los viajeros.
Pedro Almodóvar narrates a sequence from his film starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.
Las autoridades federales presentaron un total de cuatro cargos contra Luigi Mangione, quien es acusado de asesinar a Brian Thompson, director ejecutivo de UnitedHealthcare.
In this month’s sci-fi picks, time loops, zombie apocalypses and robot/dog friendships.
Weekend kitchen shenanigans to keep everyone festive and fed.
The failure to act by Congress could cause airport lines and other disruptions across the travel industry during a busy holiday travel period.
El presidente ruso, en una conferencia de prensa anual, dijo que aún no se había reunido con Bashar al Asad, el derrocado dirigente sirio que huyó a Moscú, pero que tenía previsto hacerlo.
The veteran actress, playing Prospero in her West End debut, is strangely absent from Shakespeare’s narrative.
Listen to our interview with David Ricks and Fatima Cody Stanford.
Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, Dec. 20, 2024.
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Don’t give up on resolving to do better, psychologists and personal finance experts say. The key is to reframe the way you think about it.
Optimistic guesses about the future are not forecasts, our columnist says.
The Personal Consumption Expenditures index climbed 2.4 percent from a year earlier, though the report’s details were more subdued than expected.
The swirling wind and rain hit an area where a yearslong insurgency had already forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.
Donald Trump has yet to take office but the president-elect and Elon Musk are already influencing policy, putting the federal government hours away from a shut down.
The encyclopedia maker could have become a casualty of the Wikipedia era. But it has remade itself into a digital learning giant that is weighing going public.