China Is Winning the Big Data War
President Joe Biden came away from his summit with China’s President Xi Jinping on Nov. 15 committed to prosecuting what he called “simple …
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The Taliban nominate a U.N. envoy, complicating a quandary for the General Assembly.
The Taliban have nominated an ambassador to represent Afghanistan at the United Nations, U.N. officials said Tuesday, injecting a new twist into …
Our Prenatal Testing System Is Broken
Our 16-year-old daughter, Penny, wakes up to the beeping of her alarm. On her way downstairs, she picks up her iPhone to check her texts. She …
Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents
Judge Hannah C. Dugan was accused of helping an undocumented immigrant elude federal agents who were waiting to arrest him outside her courtroom.
Our Kids Are Behind in School. Here’s How to Help Them.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which struck in August 2005, many New Orleans public schools were closed for several months. The median …
Nobel Prize Awarded to Scientists for Research About Temperature and Touch
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly on Monday to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors …
To Win This Contest, Just Squawk Like a Seagull
Contestants gathered in Belgium to screech and move like gulls in a competition that is meant to “make sea gulls sexy again.”
How the Fed Is and Isn’t ‘the Supreme Court of Finance’
The Federal Reserve is sometimes called “the Supreme Court of finance.” That’s a stretch, of course, but the analogy does make you think about …
Cheers, Chants and a ‘Dance of the Little Devils’ for Pope Leo in Peru
The ceremony to honor Pope Leo XIV in the Peruvian city where he served as bishop for roughly eight years began on Saturday night with a procession of altar boys and priests. It ended long past dark with dancers in devil costumes swirling on the …
A Black Graduate of an Elite Boarding School Gets Real
ADMISSIONSA Memoir of Surviving Boarding SchoolBy Kendra James Early in her memoir, “Admissions,” Kendra James describes an off-campus adventure …