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Senate Republican leaders are hoping that President Trump will intervene to quell a conservative rebellion in the upper chamber against a package of spending bills that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is trying to advance before Christmas. Conservative Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) have brought a package of...

The booming business of college sports is getting out of control, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree, but whether Congress should intervene and how to effectively level the playing field between premier universities and smaller schools is a heated debate on Capitol Hill. The stalemate was highlighted last week by the death of...

Surveying the year in fashion, industry insiders vote for the designer of the year, their favorite collection, and much more.

In the 20 years since Helmut Lang walked away from fashion, his influence has not waned. A new exhibition drawing on the designer’s archive considers his legacy behind and beyond the catwalk.

“There is so much to celebrate about being pregnant in your late 30s and 40s,” writes Nell Frizzell. “I was happier, more confident, more content, and better-resourced than I think I would have been two decades earlier.”

Seen and heard as Brighton and Hove Albion drew with West Ham United

On a day that would continue to live in infamy, Toledoans opened a special afternoon edition of The Toledo Blade to find out that Japan had staged a surprise attack on United States’ defense bases in Hawaii and Manila.

Everywhere you look, there is news that one can scarcely believe is emanating from the United States of America, and I think you know the subject matter to which these news items all refer. In Arizona, a three-year-old child was forced to act as her own lawyer in immigration court, because the nonprofit that would normally provide her defense saw most of its federal funding cut. A Christmas parade on the east side of Santa Barbara was canceled out of fear that ICE agents would crash it. Adelita Grijalva... Читать дальше...

The Trump administration’s ideologues keep coming back to birth rates. The new National Security Strategy, released on Friday, declares that Europe is facing “the stark prospect of civilizational erasure” because of “migration policies that are transforming the continent” and “cratering birth rates,” leading to a “loss of national identities and self-confidence.” What Europe needs, the NSS states, is more “unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history,” and a... Читать дальше...

Every two years between 2001 and 2015, I’d begin my term in Congress with the official swearing-in ceremony on the House Floor. I’d raise my right hand, proclaim my oath to the Constitution, and take a seat. I’d always assumed that seat was bestowed to me by a majority of voters in my Long Island district. Turns out I was wrong: The very Constitution I’d promised to protect and defend has an obscure clause that could have invalidated my election.

Tom Cruise is 'livid' after Ana de Armas kicked him to the curb after he claimed she was not up to his standards.

This is not my problem!

I thought one day it would be my turn.

Should I just let it go and hope it never happens again?

No good deed, etc.

He needs to learn a lesson.

This year's bumper crop looks at salsa, noodles, drinking culture, and home baking.

The Ash Pendant was discovered in a Viking Age burial mound in Sweden and may have been used by a female shaman.

Ocean waves could be an enormous source of power for the grid: in the U.S., the motion of waves along coastlines could generate as much as 1.4 trillion kilowatt-hours a year, or around a third of the electricity that Americans currently use.

In Apple’s new holiday ad, “A Critter Carol,” a group of woodland puppets frolic in a wintery forest to a wildlife-themed parody of the Flight of the Conchords’s song Friends. Every element, from the puppets to the set and even the ad’s typography, was rendered using practical effects.

At first glance, Clove’s collaboration strategy may seem a little wacky. Why, you might ask, is a startup that makes sneakers for healthcare workers partnering with Land O’Lakes butter, Levain cookies, and Olipop prebiotic sodas?

A man from Mexico says he toiled long hours, seven days a week, for nearly a year without proper pay for a hotel chain that he says took advantage of him and others.