As artificial intelligence bots spread, we are increasingly glimpsing how these digital entities interact and what they talk about with one another.

Manufacturers say they are close to perfecting a new, more efficient solar panel that could help the United States reclaim ground it lost.

We should care for this country as we would our children

We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.

The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.

The New York City mayor has an antidote to globe-spanning distemper.

We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

Four swing states will soon elect the official who will run the 2028 presidential election. The candidates are alarming.

He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.

RFK Jr. has apparently stopped pushing vitamin A to treat measles. Is it possible that he is learning from his mistakes?

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.

It is now apparent that many Americans — probably enough Americans — are determined to live within the truth rather than the lie.

Last words of men and women trapped on high floors of World Trade Center's twin towers provide haunting chronicle of their final 102 minutes; final words began as calls for help, information, and guid...

is that really too much to ask?

The world has lost track of the truth about Al Qaeda.

Courting authoritarianism with a rapacious Trump.

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

State officials say they worry about the Postal Service’s ability to deliver votes this fall. They are urging voters to mail their ballots early or use drop boxes so their votes count.

Bill Maher couldn’t tarnish Dolly Parton’s legacy, but he did manage to expose the rot in his own.

Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had unusu...

Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse.

Using serum samples collected from participants of the STEP 1 and STEP 2 trials, the authors have uncovered changes to the proteome upon semaglutide treatment, which can shed light on the mechanism of...

They know RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are destroying the research ecosystem that made it possible.

Mark Carney has chosen suffering, but he did what Canadians elected him to do.

A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.

The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.

Top Stories for August 18, 2026.

When presidential statements become unreliable and the Pentagon stops explaining the war, allies start watching ships, deployments and markets instead.

Prominent Republicans and others have falsely claimed this week that the shots are linked, despite years of data showing they are safe.

The Trump administration has dismantled the agency that helps research make its way into medical practice.

Thanks to Trump, G.O.P. extremism has become so ordinary that it breaks through only when it reaches an absurdly high level.

Mr. Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling to scale back the number of vaccinations American children receive.

In 2020, I wanted answers. This week, Senate Republicans tried to destroy him for a viral clip.

President Trump said recreation in Bears Ears National Monument was virtually impossible. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.

...is a vote in favor of the Epstein cover-up.

A band of idiots ringed Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday

Big debts, a questionable multi-million-dollar bank transfer and a missed bond payment triggered a DOJ investigation and the sell-off of a summer-camp classic.

Republicans are being shitweasels again

The number of A.I. chips that provide the computing power to advance the fast-evolving technology is doubling every nine months.

The continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and “it will get worse,” one climate expert said.

She spent a decade strenuously sucking up to Donald Trump and came up empty. Now she’s sucking up to someone new. Will she have better luck this time?

A New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.

Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.

“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S.

Have the “space Jews” come to get us at last?

The president joined Republican officials who slammed the National Academies of Sciences for a chapter about climate science in an educational guide for judges.

A service member was killed in action in Iraq, and unidentified remains of a third person were found at the site of an Iranian missile attack in Jordan, U.S. Central Command said.