It’s over. Facebook is in decline , Twitter in chaos . Mark Zuckerberg’s empire has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value and laid off 11,000 people, with its ad business in peril and its meta

Despite being the world’s skinniest skyscraper, New York’s newest tower is still shaking up Midtown Manhattan in a big way. Located at 111 West 57th Street , the residential skyscraper cuts straight t

Credit...Philip Vukelich for The New York Times Molly Jong-Fast had just finished interviewing Vice President Kamala Harris for her podcast when she hopped in an Uber S.U.V. headed to the Century, the Manhattan literary club where she was throwing a book party for the media critic Margaret Sullivan,…

FEATURE November 7, 2022 The new system uses Apple technology to help disrupt nightmares for those with PTSD After serving in the Army for more than 20 years with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan,

Movable mansions: trips on some of the roughly 150 private railcars in the U.S. Share Text The interior of a 1927 vintage railcar called the Patrón Tequila Express owned by John Paul DeJoria, founder

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Nicole Lawson spent the beginning of the pandemic incredibly worried about her daughter, who has asthma. Five-year-old Scarlett’s asthma attacks were already landing her in the ER or urgent care every

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Japan’s Digital Agency Minister Taro Kono is trying to get companies in the country to use digital technology, and no longer use fax machines. File photo: AP

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An emerging group of architects believe in designing not just for the life of a building, but for its afterlife, too.Credit...Max Pinckers for The New York Times When the Dutch National Bank moved into its Amsterdam headquarters in 1968, the new buildings were epic and stylish. A sprawling Modernist…

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Where would you rather live? A society where the rich are extraordinarily rich and the poor are very poor, or one where the rich are merely very well off but even those on the lowest incomes also enjo

By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud. Note: The lawsuit against Scan was settled in 2012, and the lawsuit against Humana was settled in 2018. Lawsuits against other insurers…

Credit...Brian Finke for The New York Times My two young daughters are both crying as I tell my husband that he’s on his own because I’m going to the metaverse. Shutting myself in my home office at 7 p.m. on a Friday, I put on Meta’s $399 virtual-reality headset: the Quest 2, a bulky, white visor…

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It all started with a tweet. “Fresh wave of bad reviews for yankee candles,” wrote @drewtoothpaste in December 2021, in a post that included screenshots of Yankee Candle reviews on Amazon. “This candl

In an explosive hearing in July, an unidentified former Twitter employee testified to the House Jan. 6 committee that the company had tolerated false and rule-breaking tweets from Donald Trump for yea

After nearly three years of patchwork rules, as school districts attempted to manage the coexistence of public education and public disease, this was finally the year to get back to normal for million

The Consumer Price Index report for September, released Thursday, showed that painfully rapid price increases continued to trouble Americans and bedevil the Fed. Here are the takeaways: Inflation remains relentless . The overall index climbed 8.2 percent in September versus the prior year, a slight…

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Somehoursbefore hewasabductedbyasquadoffedsincamouflagetacticalgear,MarkPettibonewasplayingapickupgameofFrisbee. It was what had become a normal night for the summer of 2020 in Portland, Oregon. The c

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Yesterday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's spokesperson, Christina Pushaw, best known for her smearing opponents of Florida’s anti-LGBTQ “Don’t Say Gay” law as being “pro-grooming,” tweeted out a scre

At a luncheon for Republican women in Mesa County, Colorado, last week, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., warned that educators “are putting litter boxes in schools for people who identify as cats.” To a

Credit...Leonardo Santamaria For the last century the biggest bar fight in science has been between Albert Einstein and himself. On one side is the Einstein who in 1915 conceived general relativity, which describes gravity as the warping of space-time by matter and energy. That theory predicted that…

A day in the life of a 20-something on TikTok who works in tech might look something like this: start the day with free breakfast and a latte. Immediately go out for a multihour lunch break. Return to

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With Barack Obama’s presidency slipping into the not-so-recent past, it’s hard to remember the thrill — or dread — he once inspired. Even before entering politics, Mr. Obama had a way of telegraphing that he was headed for big things. Back in the early 1990s, journalists interviewing him for the…

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Google is trying to blow up how you think about search. To say it’s pivoting to compete in a world where TikTok and Instagram are changing the way the internet works would be an overstatement… but not

We’ve heard a lot in recent months about how much the cost of just about everything has been going up, from butter and eggs to gas and airline tickets. But I bet you haven’t heard a lot about how much

At 1:15 pm on September 15, a man who identified himself as Tom Gomez called Sangamon County Central Dispatch in Illinois to report that two gunmen had shot a dozen students at Springfield High School

GQ Hype: It's the big story of right now. Within the first few minutes of sitting down for drinks with Charlie Puth at the Hotel Bel-Air, he has: complimented my cologne, claiming to have worn it for