Some were valedictory, praising an American president’s legacy. Others lauded the courage they said it took to walk away from power. But a few world leaders struck another note over President Biden’s decision not to seek re-election: trepidation. “I
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Image Tim Walz and Kamala Harris in March in St. Paul, Minn.Credit...Nicole Neri/Reuters A few days ago, Donald J. Trump said vice-presidential nominees have “virtually no impact” electorally. By selecting Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, as her runn
While he can’t turn water into wine, Nigel Braun is making vodka out of thin air. He is neither miracle worker nor magician. His secret is chemistry, and he films his experiments inside a commercial-grade laboratory in Montreal and shares the videos
In a fast-paced world, asinnajaq likes to take things slow. As a guest curator at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, asinnajaq, a 32 year-old artist who uses all lowercase letters in her name, has been working on a new exhibition of Inuit art for a f
A federal grand jury in Washington has indicted three members of a cyberespionage unit associated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps for mounting wide-ranging attacks targeting politicians8k8, officials and journalists that led to the hacking of
As the tropical disturbance that became Hurricane Helene moved north toward Florida’s Gulf Coast on Tuesday, I had an argument with myself about evacuating from Tallahassee: If I ran from the storm, would I get caught up in it anyway? I was thinking
A 57-year-old Florida man who had argued that lethal injection would cause “needless pain and suffering” because he has Parkinson’s disease was executed on Thursday evening after the Supreme Court rejected a last-minute request to halt the proceedin
After rewriting Title IX regulations to include protections for gender identity, President Biden told trans students: “We see you.” When he announced in April his latest executive actions to waive student loan debt, he proudly proclaimed that “this