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Susan Hirsch was visiting her father in the hospital where he was recuperating after a fall and was shocked to find him — long devoted to her mother — flirting with a nurse as if he were “17 and...

The world is split up into continents, there are seven in all. And if you get the gist, we’re going to make a list, From biggest to small ... Your kids may have come home from school...

AUSTIN, Texas — On a quiet street of multimillion-dollar properties, one stands out: a 14,400-square-foot mansion that looks like a villa plucked from the hills of Tuscany in Italy and transplanted...

McDonald’s aims to move past the E. coli outbreak that has sickened dozens of people in recent weeks, projecting the food safety scare will not affect its full-year finances. The company’s...

WASHINGTON — The questions came in the form of an email on Dec. 1, 2018, to Boeing from the chief pilot at Ethiopian Airlines. They were detailed and filled with aviation jargon. One of them was 452...

WASHINGTON — At the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank last week, Kristalina Georgieva, head of the IMF, expressed a mix of relief and trepidation about the world...

With two weeks left in a tight race for the presidency, Donald Trump on Tuesday escalated his vicious attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, making several demeaning personal insults at two...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris continued her busy schedule of news media interviews Tuesday, sitting down with Hallie Jackson of NBC News to discuss how she would distinguish herself from...

WASHINGTON — The global economy has managed to avoid falling into a recession even though the world’s central banks have raised interest rates to their highest levels in years to try to tame rapid...

Many people say they can’t live without their phones. But one Australian woman’s attempt to save hers left her fighting to get back to her life. This month, Matilda Campbell was with her...

Leaders of Boeing’s largest union said Saturday that they had reached a “negotiated proposal” for a new contract and would put it up for a vote to end a long and expensive strike. In a post...

More than 1 in 3 adults in the United States has prediabetes, higher-than-normal blood sugar levels that can lead to diabetes. More than 1 in 10 have diabetes, characterized by still higher blood...

Every October, scientists eagerly await the announcement of the Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine. But many researchers outside of those fields may miss out on opportunities for the...

For Hope Alcocer, the diagnosis was grim: 11 cavities. Inflamed gums. A tooth in need of a root canal. As the list of problems grew, so did her feelings of shame and fear. Shame that she had waited...

Newark Liberty International Airport has been described in many ways in its 96 years. But it has probably not been called world-class, at least not recently. The airport has a long-standing...

Netflix said Thursday that it added 5 million subscribers in the most recent quarter, helping to lift revenue to $9.8 billion during the period, a 15% increase from the same period last year. The...

Tesla’s plan to build fleets of self-driving cars suffered a setback Friday when the main federal auto safety regulator said it was investigating whether the technology was to blame for four...

LONDON — Boris Johnson knows he’s often cast as Donald Trump’s populist twin, and he puts up a perfunctory protest. Analogies between Brexit, which he championed, and Trump’s MAGA movement are...

Demand for electricity around the world is rising faster than expected, making it harder for countries to slash their emissions and keep global warming in check, the International Energy Agency said...

By the time Dr. Richard Bates swept his radar device over the sandstone of Petra’s ancient Treasury building, it had been more than two decades since anyone had so deeply probed the stone city’s...