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The heavy metal pioneer known for his lightning-fast shredding and snarling vocal style is going out his way, with a final album and tour.

For the tribal nations of the Pacific Northwest, water has been a through line, bringing spirituality and sustenance that have sustained communities for generations.

Western oil companies have been fighting to recoup tens of billions of dollars that they say Venezuela owes them — debts that could play a prominent role in efforts by President Trump to compel U.S. businesses to produce more oil in the country.Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips top the list of …

Q: I know walking is good for my body. But can it be my only form of exercise?Stepping outside for a brisk walk can bring significant health benefits. Walking has been linked to improved blood pressure, better mental health and lower risks of falls, cardiovascular disease and dementia. It’s also …

I'm happy to have represented Southwest Florida in this most anticipated travel list of the year!

Q-UP, the spiritual successor of the video game Universal Paperclips, is a savage critique and a loving appreciation of esports culture.

Soaring demand and extreme weather worsened by climate change have wiped out harvests of the popular purple yam.

The flakes began falling late Friday in New York City in what was expected to be the biggest snowfall in more than three years in the nation’s largest metropolitan area.

A quiet Baltimore suburb was shaken Wednesday morning after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot an undocumented driver trying to evade arrest, according to ICE and local officials, resulting in a crash that left the driver and a passenger hospitalized.

Around Minnesota on Wednesday, Somali residents called immigration lawyers with urgent questions. Advocacy groups for immigrants tracked reports on social media that federal agents had been spotted on the streets of Minneapolis.

The singer and songwriter died in April 2020 of Covid-19, delaying proper tributes. Now he is the subject of a new documentary, “You Got Gold.”

On Brazil’s third-largest river basin, deep in the Amazon, a massive hydroelectric power plant stands as a monument to the world’s oldest source of clean energy — and the big challenges it faces.Drought and time have taken their toll on the plant, the Tucuruí Dam and hydroelectric power project. Up …

Top U.S. government officials are skipping the annual United Nations climate summit for the first time in 30 years. And many American corporate executives appear to be following their lead.Though few executives have joined President Trump in calling climate change a hoax, some have recently suggested that it is perhaps …

The nun known as Madre Carmen is the first female saint from Venezuela. Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez was born in 1903, in Caracas, Venezuela. Born to an affluent family of French background, she studied art as a teenager. At 23, she joined a French religious order, the Servants of the …

Oct. 29, 2025 • Contributing reporter "As political battles upend college campuses, we asked dozens of students what is on their minds as they plan for the future. Politics was only part of it."

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The singer and songwriter was the focus of a tribute concert in Los Angeles on Friday. Next month, he’ll be honored by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The “Strut” singer had creative relationships with Prince and Nile Rodgers and experimented in different genres. A pair of new boxed sets chronicle her peak years.

It’s fall marathon season, which for many runners means it’s also shin splints season. Whether you’re a beginner or have several races under your belt, the injury can be debilitating.Shin splints manifest as pain along the tibia or shin bone, and they are among the most common running injuries. Most …

The Lemonheads frontman’s life was really bleak for a while. He tells the tale in a new memoir, to be followed by his band’s first album of original songs in nearly 20 years.

The former Marine accused of killing four people in a fiery attack on a Michigan church held a deep grudge against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to two lifelong friends and other people who knew him.

For years, Dan Harrison’s home in the western hills of Los Angeles would lose power when it was hot, when it rained or when it was very cold — sometimes the outages would stretch longer than 10 hours.So, he took matters into his own hands.Over the last six years, he …

A linchpin of the Los Angeles recording scene from the late 1950s through the ’70s, Kaye began her career as a jazz guitarist, before moving into the pop world and eventually onto the electric bass, appearing on thousands of songs, including hits for Simon and Garfunkel, Sonny and Cher, Barbra …

It begins with a jumble of fragments, all deceptively benign: the warbling of birds, a well-dressed man pacing through the frame, a dial tone. Then we’re dropped into a phone call between a man and what sounds like a young girl. “So, you know we gotta be, like, really careful …

Bennett Foddy’s breakthrough gave players a hammer to climb a mountain of trash. In his newest video game, every step is an adventure.

Sept. 21, 2025 "Climbing more than 40 floors to the top of one of the tallest buildings in New York City was not on my mind when I began an internship on the Flexible Editing desk at The New York Times."

Decades ago, singles by everyone from The Monkees to The Jackson 5 were printed on cereal boxes as cutout prizes. Now, a dedicated few are working to save these cardboard treasures from extinction.

The clock strikes 6 a.m., and I’ve watched Paul sleep for nearly an hour. It’s the only time he seems helpless, incapable of hurting me. Before I parachuted into his Los Angeles world from Minneapolis for the weekend, he insisted on keeping things casual to make long-distance work. But that …

Around the time Joaquin Phoenix dabbed red, white and blue clown makeup over his face in the movie “Joker” — the film’s attempt, perhaps, to say something bleakly profound about America’s brokenness — we reached the peak of a metamorphosis that superhero movies had been undergoing for a while. They …

The annual meeting of state utility regulators is typically a humdrum affair of dry speeches and panel discussions. But in November, the scene at the Marriott in Anaheim, Calif., had a bit more flash.The conference’s top sponsors included the nation’s biggest tech companies — Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Their executives …