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Last August, over a calm Michigan lake, Karl Duesterhaus, 34, of Chicago, was treated to an unusual phenomenon: the northern lights, which appeared as hazy colors in a brighter-than-usual night sky. It...

I can’t make Tim better. But he has made me a better doctor.

Laura Marie Acker was visiting her mother in Lewes, Del., in June 2023, when she joined a group of her mom’s friends for a Ouija board night. “During the session, my father...

Richard M. Cohen, an outspoken and award-winning television news producer whose career was eventually derailed by the ravages of multiple sclerosis, which he wrote about in a best-selling memoir, died on Dec....

How was your holiday season? I hope you ate plenty of pigs-in-blankets, and toasted to the end of the year. Mine was lovely, but I’ll admit that I overdid it with a...

Three days after the Jan. 6 anniversary, with its indelible images of costumed rioters running amok in the Capitol, former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral service in the National Cathedral presented a historical...

In early 1988, the British neuropsychiatrist Peter Fenwick found himself drowning in letters from people who believed they had survived an encounter with death.“I slowly floated down a tunnel, not afraid in...

After I asked readers to share their 2025 kitchen resolutions with me last week, some familiar goals made their way into my inbox: Make better use of the cookbooks that crowd our...

No Match for a Mud PuddleWe met at the employee Christmas party at a place where I didn’t work. Open bar. We traded lipstick colors and a kiss. Later, we went on...

Ski patrollers at Park City Mountain in Utah triumphantly returned to the slopes on Thursday, after ending a nearly two-week strike over union wages and benefits. The strike hobbled the largest U.S....