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A number of women — including you, as the interim replacement for Charlie Rose on PBS — have taken over positions of men who were fired over sexual-abuse accusations. Are you surpr...

Until his dying day, my dad’s Uncle Bern was a communist sympathizer. I remember him as an affable old man with a gracious wife who made a modest living selling antique lace. He pr...

Suppose that you were asked to assess the state of American society under Donald Trump, the essence of our problems and divisions, without any access to the president’s own words o...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration failed on Tuesday to repatriate a Guantánamo Bay detainee to Saudi Arabia, missing a deadline set in his 2014 plea deal and dealing another bl...

LONDON — An 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker was sentenced on Friday to life in prison in Britain after he was convicted of attempted murder in the botched bombing last September of...

Name Naomi WatanabeAge 30Hometown Ibaraki Prefecture, about two hours northeast of Tokyo.Now Lives TokyoClaim to Fame With more than 7.6 million followers on Instagram, Ms. Watanab...

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The league-leading Tampa Bay Lightning’s top stars will be on full display when the city hosts N.H.L. All-Star Weekend later this month.Top scorer Nikita Kucherov, goaltender Andre...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The Russian curler who failed drug tests at the Winter Olympics has made a last-minute decision to withdraw his appeal, a move that came after a meeting ...