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Cagdas Halicilar, a former electrician-turned-Bezos-impersonator from Germany, stood on a dock near the Aman, waving at the passing boats. He hoped to deliver an expensive bottle of whiskey as a wedding gift,...

In recent extraordinary moves, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired and replaced a team that makes vaccine recommendations for the country. Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter at...

Paul Marantz, a prominent architectural lighting designer who illuminated disco floors and skylines, libraries and chic hotels, train stations and concert halls, museums and embassies, died on May 26 at his home...

On Wednesday, The Times announced that Tejal Rao and Ligaya Mishan are the new chief restaurant critics, filling — and expanding — the role Pete Wells left in 2024. This appointment is...

Outside the O2 Arena in London on Monday evening, the hip-hop superstar Pitbull tore into a bowl of chicken katsu curry. A few feet away, Pitbull fumbled with an iPhone charger. A...

After a motorbike ride down an empty road, my daughter and I found ourselves jumping off a high wooden platform into a deep lagoon with salt-white sand, healthy coral — and no...

In Ovid’s “Pygmalion” an artist creates an ivory sculpture of a woman so beautiful that he falls in love with it. He kisses his statue, adorns it with jewels and finery, and...

Ronald Reagan and his fellow Republicans once invoked what they referred to as “welfare queens” as they made the case for reining in social spending in the 1970s and 1980s, painting a...

Looking AheadLa BocaThe Francis Mallmann restaurant in the new Faena hotel, both opening this summer, will be named for the neighborhood in Buenos Aires where he has a home. He has described...

The attendees of a plant walk in Tompkins Square Park were not who you might typically imagine seeing on a New York City tour.