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The Greenest Dinner Party You’ve Ever Had

Steve Jobs

Dag Hammarskjold

Oprah Winfrey

Erica Jong

Red Sorghum Brings Vintage Chinese Glamour to Long Island City

Hugh Elliott

Bob Moawad

John F. Kennedy

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pelosi’s Foolishness on Gaza Protesters

Stanley Kunitz

Tina Turner

Rabbinical Saying

Karen Sunde

The E. Jean Carroll Verdict Exposes the Limits of Libel Law

$83 Million Verdict Renews Spotlight on Trump’s Finances

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Matthew Arnold

Malcolm X

Major Donors Pause Funding for U.N. Agency as Scandal Widens

UNRWA claims: UN agency condemns aid halt over alleged help for Hamas attacks

Harry Connick Sr., New Orleans D.A. Criticized for Overreach, Dies at 97

Ice T

Benjamin Franklin

Richard Prince to Pay Photographers Who Sued Over Copyright

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Joan McIntosh

Leo Tolstoy

Scheduled to Fly on a Boeing Max 9? Here Are Your Options.

Thomas A. Edison

Katherine Paterson

Henry J. Kaiser

Tesla Profit Doubles From Tax Effect, but Price Cuts Hurt

Trump’s Defamation Trial Delayed Until Thursday

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Haley Voters Are Tired of the Trump Show

How Does the New Hampshire Primary Work?

Norman Jewison, Filmmaker Who Spanned Genres, Is Dead at 97

Elon Musk, on Rehabilitation Tour, Calls Himself ‘Aspirationally Jewish’

Cato the Elder

Ron DeSantis Drops Out of Presidential Race and Endorses Trump

L. M. Montgomery

H. L. Mencken

Henry David Thoreau

Swedish Proverb

Haley Hits Trump on Age, Suggesting He Is ‘in Decline’

Ernest Hemingway

Stocks Are in a Bull Market. What Does That Mean?

Stocks Climb to Record, Lifted by Big Tech and Rate Cut Hopes

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Kevin Smith

Jim Bishop

Dorothy Parker

Trump’s Split Screen: Campaign Trail and Courtroom

Judge Declines to Hold Prosecutors in Contempt in Trump Election Case

George Washington

Sunak Quells Rebellion on Immigration, for Now

Why New Hampshire Thinks It’s Smarter Than Iowa

Wil Wheaton

Jorge Luis Borges

Socrates

W. Somerset Maugham

Qatar says it has brokered a deal between Israel and Hamas to allow medicine to reach hostages.

Laura Moncur

David Shore

Chinese Proverb

Kurdish Proverb

Israel Gaza war: Hamas video claims to show dead hostages

Pritzker Is Among Democrats Making Case for Biden in Iowa

U.S. and Iran Battle Through Proxies, Warily Avoiding Each Other

Besieged Influencer Chiara Ferragni Is the Talk of Milan Fashion Week

In his last rally before the caucuses, Donald Trump amped up his attacks on Nikki Haley.

Jennifer Neal

Robert J. Sawyer

Gloria Steinem

Steven Spielberg

Marlo Thomas

Lawsuit Challenging University of California’s D.E.I. Statements Is Tossed

Quaker Oats Recalls More Products Over Potential Salmonella Contamination

Iowa poll will provide a final snapshot of the race ahead of Monday’s caucuses.

Mike DeWine’s ‘Compromise’ Lacks Common Sense

Tesla and Volvo to pause production in Europe after Red Sea attacks.

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Adan Canto, Actor in ‘The Cleaning Lady’ and ‘X-Men,’ Dies at 42

Regulators Approve New Type of Bitcoin Fund, in Boon for Crypto Industry

U.S. Hit by Record Number of High-Cost Disasters in 2023

Former Minister Arrested After Standoff at Poland’s Presidential Palace

Blinken says Saudi-Israel ties depend on steps toward a Palestinian State.

Arab leaders push for talks on Gaza’s ‘day after’ the war to include path to Palestinian state.

With Time Running Short, Liz Cheney Implores Republicans to Reject Trump

What Passengers Need to Know After the Boeing 737 Max 9 Incident

On Jan. 6 Anniversary, Trump Repeats Lie That 2020 Election Was Stolen

Defense Secretary Kept White House in the Dark About His Hospitalization

Gimme a Second!

Biden Condemns Trump as Dire Threat to Democracy in a Blistering Speech

Subway Trains Collide in Manhattan, Causing Derailment, M.T.A. Says

Xerox to Cut 15% of Its Work Force in the First Quarter of 2024

Former Guard Official Says Army Retaliated for His Account of Jan. 6 Delay