ConnexionClimate Goals Are Becoming More Realistic. That’s Good News.
Policymakers and investors are pursuing what’s feasible rather than promising the impossible.
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Gary Graffman, Piano Virtuoso and Renowned Teacher, Dies at 97
Mr. Graffman was a onetime child prodigy whose career was curtailed by a neurological condition that restricted him to his left hand.
Gary Graffman in 2018, when he turned 90. He was an acclaimed concert pianist before developing focal dystonia, the neurological disorder that restricted him to his left hand, in his 50s.
How Oil, Drugs and Immigration Fueled Trump’s Venezuela Campaign
New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized confrontation with Venezuela.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, have been key players, alongside the presidential adviser Stephen Miller, in President Trump’s escalating conflict in Venezuela.
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A Second Lawsuit Accuses Tyler Perry of Sexual Assault
Mario Rodriguez, who had a role in one of Mr. Perry’s films, sued him on Thursday, months after another actor filed a similar lawsuit.
The actor and director Tyler Perry was named as a defendant in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed on Thursday in California.
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Hundreds of Flights Canceled at New York Airports, Even With a Few Inches of Snow
To avoid the ripple effects of real-time adjustments to what was predicted to be up to nine inches of snow, the major airlines said they pre-emptively canceled flights.
Kennedy International Airport on Saturday morning. The airport, along with LaGuardia and Newark International, dealt with hundreds of flight cancellations and delays from Friday into Saturday.
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Sal Khan: A.I. Will Displace Workers at a Scale Many Don’t Realize
Companies benefiting from A.I. should donate a small percentage of their profits to retrain the workers the tech will displace.
Trump Pursues His Legacy One Name at a Time
In attaching his name to buildings and programs while still president, Donald Trump is walking a path paved by conquerors and autocrats.
President Trump announcing the Navy’s new “Trump Class” battleships.
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A Dancing Dictator and Bankers in Chains: The Other Venezuela Blockade
A crisis more than a century ago involved U.S. aims to assert military supremacy, a hard-partying dictator and frictions among the great powers.
Cipriano Castro, who ruled Venezuela from 1899 to 1908. Known as the “Lion of the Andes,” he defied the great powers of the era.
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Another Front in the Trump Immigration Crackdown: Import Warehouses
Workers at facilities that stock shipped goods say customs officers who inspect merchandise are helping immigration agents arrest migrants.
Immigration officials raided the Savino Del Bene warehouse in Avenel, N.J., which moves fashion and luxury goods.
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It’s Time to Give the Ovary Some More Respect
Recent research highlights that for fertility and aging, the egg may be the leading lady, but she needs her supporting cast.
A light micrograph of a sectioned ovary and ovarian follicle. The ovary is both a reservoir for eggs and a producer of hormones.
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More Student Loan Borrowers Are Shedding Debts in Bankruptcy
A new study suggests that distressed borrowers using a simpler bankruptcy process are succeeding — and that more people like them should try.
Amy Howdyshell, 43, used a bankruptcy filing to get more than $78,000 in federal student debt dismissed.
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Saudi-Led Group in Yemen Tells Separatists to Withdraw, or Be ‘Dealt With’
The Saudis ramped up their rhetoric against a faction that has seized parts of Yemen in recent weeks.
Forces affiliated with Yemen’s separatist Southern Transitional Council in Abyan, Yemen, this month.
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I Love My Naturally Aging Face
But when I see Demi Moore, 63, looking far younger than me at 48, I wonder if I should be figuring out a way to keep up.
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In Which I Try Valiantly to Cheer You Up
OK, 2025 wasn’t the best year ever. But we’re arguably still in the best decade in the history of humanity.
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Good Calls
This week, we close out the year with your best advice of 2025.
New York Receives Its Heaviest Snowfall in Nearly 4 Years, Disrupting Flights
Central Park got more than four inches of snow for the first time since January 2022, with higher totals outside New York City.
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Park Chan-wook and the Funny Thing About Stomach-Churning Horror
When American studios wouldn’t back his film about a laid-off manager committing gruesome murders, the director returned to Korea. Now he has a hit on his hands.
When Park adds humor to his films, “it sometimes skips a couple of steps, so it can go over people’s heads,” Lee said.
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This Ukrainian Soldier Spent More Than a Year on the Front Line
Serhii Tyschenko, a Ukrainian combat medic, spent 472 days in a bunker. His case appears to be an extreme example of a problem that has long plagued Kyiv’s military.
Sgt. Serhii Tyschenko last month in his home village near Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Trump’s Second-Term Promises: What He’s Done So Far on Immigration, Trade, DEI and More
President Trump has driven illegal crossings at the border to record lows, helped bring about an uneasy cease-fire in Gaza and upended the global trading system.
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How One Father Created an Organ Empire
The National Kidney Registry has matched thousands of kidney donors with recipients. It has also paid millions of dollars to a company owned by its founder.
The organization, which began as a nonprofit, charges hospitals for access to its donor registry.
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California Drops Lawsuit Over $4 Billion Federal Cut to High-Speed Rail Project
California sued after the Trump administration cut grants for the long-planned project. The state says it will seek private investors instead.
A high-speed rail overpass being built outside Hanford, Calif., in April.
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In Myanmar, the Election Is Called Fake, but the Human Suffering Is Real
A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections.
Buddhist devotees visiting the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, on Thursday.
Karoline Leavitt Says She’s Expecting Her Second Child
The White House press secretary announced on Instagram that she was pregnant with a daughter who is due in May. She and her husband have a 1-year-old son.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, this month at the office. She’s the youngest person to hold the job.
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Russia Pummels Kyiv Before Trump-Zelensky Meeting
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the assault with hundreds of drones and missiles, lasting nearly 10 hours, showed that Moscow was not serious about peace.
Firefighters at the site of a Russian strike on an apartment building on Saturday in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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