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Israel had agreed to open the Rafah crossing as part of the October cease-fire deal with Hamas but kept it closed. Egypt denied that the bor...

For the first time in decades, ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel are being called to serve in the country’s military. The community is furious,...

While growing evidence shows that carbon emissions are harming the economy, the journal Nature found that an outlier paper had deep flaws.

The Grammy Award-winning singer debuted a 14-karat gold, cushion-set natural diamond ring while posing with her longtime boyfriend, Mr. Mora...

The trip comes days before the anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and as Lebanon is navigating the cease-fire between Hezbollah and...

Our film critics rank their 10 favorites of the year.

It was all roast beef, chocolate cake and air kisses at the Gotham Awards in Lower Manhattan.

Our list of classics is broad, from warm Old Hollywood favorites to the sort of boozy, vulgar entertainments that parents can watch after pu...

Several new start-ups are building replicas of sites so A.I. can learn to use the internet and maybe replace white-collar workers.

The owner of a bar in Tokyo said that the 1980s sci-fi film had long influenced her personal style.

We asked readers for their questions for The Times’s executive editor about how we cover the news and make judgment calls in our reporting a...

A prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut explosion and a waterfront Mass capped his three-day visit to the Middle Eastern nation with the hig...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major.

The playwright won an Academy Award for “Shakespeare in Love.” But he was also a prolific script doctor who worked with filmmakers like Stev...

Tell us about the places big and small, new and old, where you have the most fun shopping in person.

In many ways, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request mimics how President Trump has assailed his perceived enemies and attacked legal p...

Young people across Iran have been leading a dramatic change in social mores in recent months. “We have a fearless young generation that is...

Spinning off Shakespeare, waltzing through Imperial Russia, bantering about literature or diving deeply into history, Stoppard shared his gi...

David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of...

The pope, en route to Lebanon after visiting Turkey, said he had discussed with the Turkish president how the Vatican might help mediate in...

The move comes two weeks after President Trump wrote to Israel’s president urging a pardon for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The pontiff is set to meet political leaders and say Mass at a Beirut port destroyed by an explosion five years ago. It is the first papal v...

The scores aimed to predict a property’s risk from a fires, floods and storms, but some in the real estate industry as well as homeowners ha...

The couple legally married at a courthouse in Newark days before hosting an intimate wedding in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. They shared th...

The Israeli military said it had fired on two “suspects” on Saturday who had crossed cease-fire lines in southern Gaza and did not comment o...