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Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

Freddy the Detective solved his first mystery in 1927, a passing-of-the-deerstalker year in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his last Sherlock Holmes story and Agatha Christie introduced Miss Jane Marple. The likeliest detectives—rich, idle Englishmen—had…

After Spirit Airlines ceased operations, in the middle of the night on May 2nd, a series of canary-yellow airplanes sat on the tarmac at Newark Airport, arranged neatly like children’s toys at day’s end. Travellers flying in or out of the hub ogled the spectacle…

After decades of false starts, a new rail line has opened along Los Angeles’s most congested boulevard. The next step is getting people to take it.

In his first substantial conversation with a foreign journalist since being elected, Péter Magyar, Hungary’s new Prime Minister, discusses the rewriting of the Hungarian constitution, the implications of his victory, and his upcoming struggle to lead his…

“We’ve seen them overplaying their hand,” the sociologist Brooke Harrington says. “They’re pillaging American cultural institutions. They’re pillaging democracy.”

Keir Starmer’s unpopularity has led the U.K.’s Labour Party to a humiliating defeat in local elections. Now, with five major parties competing for votes, the far right could be well positioned for a general-election victory.

On her new album, “Middle of Nowhere,” the singer toys with two of country music’s great themes: her home state of Texas, and solitude.

In Ildikó Enyedi’s meditative nature epic, “Silent Friend,” three lonely experimenters from three different eras seek to unlock the secrets of plants—and learn something vital about themselves.

Harriet Clark’s new novel, “The Hill,” parallels her own childhood years spent visiting the prison where her mother was incarcerated. She talks with Rachel Aviv.

One evening a week, at Eunji Lee’s tiny Manhattan pâtisserie, Lysée, sweets are appetizer, entrée, and everything else.

As a teacher, she would talk about literature with other people’s children. Finally I got the same chance.

Stanley Richards brings faith in reform and his own experience of incarceration to an ongoing crisis.

The filmmaker Curry Barker got his start online as a teen-age sketch comedian. Now he’s making his name as Hollywood’s next great horror auteur.