Basketball superstar LeBron James has missed the start of an NBA season for the first time in his storied 23-year professional career. The reason for his absence is a medical condition that affects ...

George Orwell once wrote that restating the obvious is the “first duty of intelligent people.” In that vein, allow us to restate the case for what may be literacy instruction’s richest but ...

EXCLUSIVE: “Detective… Do you seriously think that one of us was capable of killing Sheila?” asks Iñaki Mur, in character as a concerned Salvador Dalí. “We don’t think so, Mr. Dalí… We know,” comes ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. For the second day in a row, President Donald Trump has felt the need to assure ...

“A Truce That Is Not Peace,” the Canadian novelist Miriam Toews’s first nonfiction book since 2001, is a discursive reflection on her father’s and sister’s suicides, 10 years apart. Miriam Toews’s new ...

Agreement at the White House Monday on the next step – a bilateral meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – seemed broadly unanimous. Then came the ...

A scene from Taipei’s 2025 Urban Resilience Exercise, the civil defense portion of the Han Kuang exercise, July 17, 2025. Credit: Office of the President, ROC (Taiwan) As the war in Ukraine grinds on ...

Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is once again raising eyebrows, this time over a resurfaced clip in which he says, "Israel is not a place, it is not a country." Mamdani, who ...

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance said Sunday that the U.S. is not at war with Iran, but with Tehran's nuclear weapons program, and declined to confirm with 100% confidence that the country’s ...