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Are AI companies to blame?

As Donald Trump faces one humiliation after another, he is attacking those he blames.

Charlie Surfs Up barks as he is pushed through the breakers in the second heat of very large dogs during the World Dog Surfing Championships in Pacifica, California, on August 3, 2024.

Margaret Hoover on Herbert Hoover’s life, presidency, and legacy, and the renovation of his presidential library. Plus: Trump’s dropped Reflecting Pool indictment and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré

A new film about Anthony Bourdain uses its subject to examine how a young person comes to love cooking.

Why young people are giving up on love

The luxury automaker is beaming a Spider-Man ad into its cars.

Abdul El-Sayed called out Democrats. Now he needs to bring them together.

The French writers of the postwar era argued that the author’s life is irrelevant. Emily Eakin’s lively new book proves them wrong.

The House speaker doesn’t want to get involved in the Max Miller scandal—or anything else that might seem like part of his basic duties as a leader.

At summer camp, the kids may be far from home, but technology is keeping many moms and dads tethered to them—and anxious.

The latest Trump renovation project would violate a basic rule of building maintenance.

Idle threats and munitions shortages have boxed Trump in.

Evacuation has become a familiar, terrible summer ordeal.

The U.S. is a relative outlier in keeping Christopher Nolan’s movie away from younger audiences.

The party has been backing independent Senate candidates in red states. But Montana is not working as planned.

Would you attend a “farewell to Spirit Airlines” party?

A drone hovers over railway tracks in a Russian-occupied location in Ukraine’s Kherson region.

Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.

Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.

Leftists like Abdul El-Sayed will take over the Democratic Party unless the center-left adapts to their rise.

The Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s unlikely ascent has come to a tragic end.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, analysts can’t decide if the terrorist organization is all but defunct or more threatening than ever.

A new Truth Social subscription service is another way for the president to profit from his office.

Piecemeal price cuts won’t solve the Iran war’s effects on inflation.

The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.

The chorus of optimism has quieted on several fronts, including Zelensky’s struggle with corruption and his relations with Trump.

Tehran wants the Arab public to balk at the cost of allying with the United States.

AI can handle these kinds of pointless interactions.

The humble booklet is more than just a last redoubt against cheating. Staring down its empty pages, students discover what they’re capable of as writers and thinkers.

The hit Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct tidies a far more complicated story.

Tina Peters.

Lara Grbac rides a horse named Perlaz in the water during a heat wave in Supetar, on the island of Brac, Croatia, on August 5, 2026.

Curbing the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will require stepping up testing.

AI is like ultra-processed food for developing brains.

The term assumes that adding a child to a family is for the best. But that’s not the case for everyone.