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LAST spring, soon after Facebook acknowledged that the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had improperly obtained the data of tens of millions of the social network’s users, a top enforcement official at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) drafted a memo about the prospect of disciplining Facebook.
BEIRUT—The Iranian cultural attaché stepped up to the microphone on a stage flanked by banners bearing the faces of Iran’s two foremost religious authorities: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini—founder of the Islamic Republic, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—current supreme leader.
By years after Wang Quanzhang disappeared in China’s fierce offensive against human rights lawyers, he faced charges of subversion in a closed trial on Wednesday, capping a year when the Communist Party redoubled efforts to stifle political and religious dissent.
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump managed to do something remarkable with his abrupt order last week to withdraw all US troops from Syria and half from Afghanistan: unite the left and right against a plan to extract the United States from two long, costly and increasingly futile conflicts.
SOME significant expenses decline as we age: Most mortgages are eventually paid off, and ideally children grow up and become self-supporting.
CONGO Tales, a new book published recently by Prestel, began as a call to action to save the Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the heart of the Congo Basin, which is the second-largest tropical forest in the world after the Amazon, from the threats of climate change.
LOS ANGELES—Fresh superheroes—Aquaman, Black Panther, Venom, the Wasp—and new twists on classic big-screen formulas delivered a box-office comeback for Hollywood in 2018. Ticket sales in the United States and Canada will total roughly $11.8 billion for the year, analysts say—a 6-percent increase from 2017.
ALCEDO VOLCANO, Galápagos—When the clouds break, the equatorial sun bears down on the crater of this steaming volcano, revealing a watery landscape where the theory of evolution began to be conceived.
WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, whose experience and stability were widely seen as a balance to an unpredictable president, resigned on Thursday in protest of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from Syria and his rejection of international alliances.
By Catherine Porter, Dan Bilefsky and Rick Gladstone| New York Times News Service
PERSISTENT warming in the Arctic is pushing the region into “uncharted territory” and increasingly affecting the continental United States, scientists said last week.
It is one thing to eat chicken every day. It’s something else to have that on your permanent record, as in the geological record, the remnants of our time that archaeologists or aliens of the future will sift through to determine who we were and how we shaped our world.
Japan took a step on Tuesday toward expanding its military capabilities by advancing plans for aircraft carriers that can launch fighter jets.
SELMA Wynberg Engel, who escaped a Nazi extermination camp after a prisoner uprising and was among the first to tell the world about the camp’s existence, died on Tuesday in East Haven, Connecticut. She was 96.
AFTER Chip Conley sold Joie de Vivre, the boutique hotel company he created and ran for about 24 years, his life took an unexpected turn. At 52, he was sought out by Brian Chesky, the then-31-year-old chief executive of Airbnb, for advice on how to turn the fledgling home-sharing start-up into a major player in the hospitality field.
By Noam Scheiber | New York Times News Service
Greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide are growing at an accelerating pace this year, researchers said a few days ago, putting the world on track to face some of the most severe consequences of global warming sooner than expected.
SAN FRANCISCO—The world’s leading technology companies, from Google to Alibaba in China, are racing to build the first quantum computer, a machine that would be far more powerful than today’s computers.
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