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Salman Rushdie was preparing to give a talk to more than 1,000 people in an idyllic amphitheater along Chautauqua Lake when he suddenly became aware of a figure onstage, rushing toward him. “I was very struck by his eyes,” Mr.…

Three weeks into this administration, hardly a day seems to go by that does not produce a norm-busting moment at the White House. But the scene that played out in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon was among the wildest…

President Trump on Tuesday secured the release of an American imprisoned in Russia as part of a deal with the Kremlin negotiated by Mr. Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. The American, Marc Fogel, a teacher who…

Often imitated but never replicated, the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, in its 149th year, is racing toward its conclusion. A group of New York Times journalists will be providing up-to-the-minute live analysis of the competition, in which seven group…

President Trump’s plan to take over Gaza, remove its two million Palestinians and turn the coastal desert strip into some sort of Club Med proves only one thing: how short a distance it is between out-of-the-box thinking and out-of-your-mind thinking.…

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday directing agency officials to draw up plans for “large scale” cuts to the federal work force and further empowered the billionaire Elon Musk and his team to approve which career officials are…