Higher premiums and rising medical bills have intensified Americans’ dissatisfaction with their medical coverage.Stephen Hemsley, chief executive of UnitedHealth Group, left, was among the executives defending insurers’ practices at congressional hearings in January. To his left were David Joyner, c
The shooting of a health care executive in December 2024 led to a sprawling manhunt, and two complex and interwoven cases.Luigi Mangione was arrested in Pennsylvania on Dec. 9, 2024, in connection with the murder of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, the previous week.
In the tiny nation, Moscow paid Orthodox priests, conducted a vote-buying scheme and set up training camps on election interference — all in an effort to derail the Western-leaning government.Police officers in Chisinau, the Moldovan capital, watching protesters gather outside the electoral commissi
Investment gains at Alphabet and Amazon reveal a new way in which technology companies’ fortunes are increasingly linked.Alphabet and Google have benefited from the rising value of their investments in A.I. companies, adding to profits beyond their core businesses.
The S&P 500 is in position for a rare fourth year of consecutive annual gains. Risks are rising, our columnist says, yet Wall Street is doubling down.
The currency has resumed its slide, eroding gains after the U.S. Treasury intervened to prop it up, as concerns mount about the direction of the country’s spending.The rally in the yen has faded, with the currency approaching 160 yen per dollar, a level that could test the resolve of officials in To
The data for July showed the biggest drop in more than a year, as American households face the economic strains brought on by persistent inflationU.S. shoppers spent less in July, as consumers struggled with persistent inflation, higher grocery bills and rising housing costs.
As the Trump administration drops charges against corporations and the wealthy, it is also taking aim at small-scale fraud cases, including against the operator of a weathered food truck in California.Justice Department officials have internally declared that each assistant U.S. attorney should have
The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln has been deployed for nearly nine months. Members of Congress are worried about the crew’s well-being.The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in San Diego in 2021. The aircraft carrier, with a crew of about 5,000 sailors, has been at sea for more than eight and a half months.
Prospectors are eyeing mineral deposits within the former boundaries of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah.Both Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments are rich in wildlife habitat and archaeological treasures but also sit atop vast reserves o
The backbone of the list: nine novels by Tana French, and five novels each from John le Carré, Kate Atkinson and Mick Herron.
Can our Book Review editor, Tina Jordan, guess thrillers from their first sentence? In this game we explore a few of the books from The New York Times’s “50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century” list; and learn a bit more about why opening sentences are so important to get people reading.
From “Slow Horses” to “Big Little Lies,” our list of great psychological thrillers, spy novels and crime fiction have inspired a heap of great adaptations.
The president has been focused on the race since the death of Lindsey Graham in July. Ms. Graham, the late senator’s sister, is competing against Representative Ralph Norman in a runoff on Aug. 25.Representative Russell Fry, left, will endorse Senator Darline Graham in a special Republican primary r
Recent polling issues could continue in Democratic primaries in part because progressives are more likely to enjoy taking surveys.
With “Coyote vs. Acme,” Ian Frazier, a soft-spoken reporter and humorist, has finally gone Hollywood.Ian Frazier, who has written for The New Yorker since the 1970s, in Montclair, N.J.
In an interview, Afghanistan’s foreign minister called on the U.S. to reopen its embassy and invest in the country — a near-impossible sell for now, analysts and former diplomats say.Afghanistan’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, during an interview with The New York Times in Kabul this week.
The Italian military police said that art collectively valued at more than $10 million had been found five months after being taken in a nighttime heist near Parma.Italian military police officers with works by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
France has faithfully renovated most of what burned at Notre-Dame in 2019. Contentiously, six towering windows will soon be replaced by a new design.An artisan working at the Atelier Simon-Marq, a centuries-old stained glass studio, in Reims, in northeastern France.
The prints by the French master were taken in São Paulo last year in a brazen daylight heist.A handout photo released by the São Paulo police press office showing the recovered Matisse works.
Firefighters in Phoenix race to save lives in a city that’s only getting hotter.
The right’s reluctance to gatekeep may be its undoing.
We look at recent problems with political polling.
The whole planet is warming, but changes in weather patterns could help explain why the continent is suffering so many bouts of severe heat.A tourist at the parched bed of Lac des Brenets on the France-Switzerland border on Tuesday.
