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This is my first newsletter after a four-month book leave, and I want to try something a little different. As I prepared to come back, I spent time talking with Times colleagues...

A train derailment caused a huge fire to erupt in eastern Ohio on Friday night, prompting officials to order many of the town’s residents to evacuate as crews assessed whether the cargo...

AUSTIN, Texas — Warmer weather has returned to Austin, Texas, after the winter storm that began to hit the state last Monday. It was a balmy 73 degrees in the city on...

WASHINGTON — Navy divers were working to locate portions of the debris from the Chinese spy balloon that a U.S. fighter jet shot down six miles off the coast of South Carolina,...

Menopause, for many women, is an unknown — a confusing tunnel to pass through, with limited signage for what to expect.But one effective treatment has been overlooked for decades, signaling that women’s...

An off-duty New York City police officer was hospitalized in critical condition after being shot during an apparent robbery as he tried to purchase a vehicle in Brooklyn on Saturday night, the...

Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, alerted Mr. Biden.By Wednesday, when the balloon had made its way to the skies above Billings, Mont., Pentagon officials were...

They were later pardoned, and their lawyer called the whole matter “balloonacy.”In 2012, balloon enthusiasts around the globe were again transfixed as Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian daredevil, rode a helium balloon to...

In mid-January, a neighbor found a resident in his 70s collapsed in his home. An ambulance could come only as far as the southern closure.Four members of the local volunteer fire brigade...

DALLAS — The first missing animal at the Dallas Zoo, taken or allowed to escape through a hole cut in the heavy metal mesh of her enclosure, was Nova, a 25-pound clouded...