As I read Stacey Levine’s new novel “Mice 1961” — which is not about small, intelligent rodents but about two young sisters and their live-in housekeeper — I laughed aloud many times. It was a startled, delighted laughter produced not by commonplace tricks…

Since its raucous entrance into the space industry more than two decades ago, SpaceX has evolved from a scrappy start-up perpetually near death to a dominant behemoth that has continued to upend the market for space launches by achieving one unheard-of milestone…

A field of 30,000 athletes will participate in that annual rite of spring known as the Boston Marathon. The 128th edition of the race, an annual event on the Patriots Day holiday, will begin shortly after 9 a.m. in Hopkinton, winding its way through towns…

Between rising food prices and the growing environmental catastrophe of food waste, we have good reasons to eat what we have and throw away only what’s absolutely necessary. But in the rush of everyday life and habits, that’s hard. So hard that the nonprofit…

If history is made of culture’s collective memory, novelists have an important role in enlarging and complicating that memory — especially when it comes to the lesser-known chapters, even the ones that seem best forgotten. Crystal Hana Kim does exactly that…

The Stefon Diggs trade — and subsequent contract reshaping — that shook up the NFL last week did not come as any particular surprise to those within the industry. It was the continuation of a longer trend that shows no signs of curbing anytime soon. Yet another…

Don Donoher, who died Friday at 92, was Dayton’s basketball coach for 25 years, winning 437 games, taking the Flyers to the national championship game in 1967, winning the National Invitation Tournament in 1968 and losing to Georgetown’s 1984 national championship…

Tesla plans to lay off more than 10 percent of its staff, chief executive Elon Musk told employees on Monday. Musk cited the company’s need to reduce costs and increase productivity, according to the email published by CNBC. News of the layoffs was first…

Having taken women’s college basketball to new heights, Caitlin Clark is about to step boldly into her future as the presumed No. 1 draft pick in the WNBA, where expectations are that she will do the same. Clark’s income could rise significantly, as No. 1…

One presentation of the rise of Donald Trump focuses on the anti-establishment backlash that the Republican Party experienced during the presidency of Barack Obama. The tea party was one manifestation, and Trump’s appearance as a presidential candidate in…

First around Fiji, then the Florida Keys, then Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and now in the Indian Ocean. In the past year, anomalous ocean temperatures have left a trail of devastation for the world’s corals, bleaching entire reefs and threatening widespread…

JERUSALEM — Israel’s war cabinet deliberated Monday how to respond to Iran’s unprecedented aerial assault without rankling international allies and squandering an opportunity to build a strategic international alliance against Tehran. Prime Minister Benjamin…

A multiday stretch of severe weather begins Monday and will carry though at least Thursday as repeated rounds of severe thunderstorms target the Plains, Midwest and Mid-South. Strong tornadoes are possible both Monday and Tuesday over the central states,…

A suspect was arrested after a number of people including a prominent bishop were stabbed at a church in southwest Sydney during a live-streamed service Monday, authorities said. The second stabbing incident in the city in three days drew uneasy crowds outside…

“Unknown Soldier,” a compelling, still-new musical that had the rotten luck to premiere at Playwrights Horizons in New York in March of 2020, is less a war story than a romantic mystery spanning almost a century. If “rotten luck” sounds like a cavalier way…

The way I remember it — and this was 15 years ago, so forgive me if things get a bit blurry at the edges — we were sitting in a cramped room in the New York City Civil Court building in Lower Manhattan when a court official asked who in the room might be…

Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album will be released at midnight first thing Friday, and it’s set to take over the local bar scene in the same way it will take over your social media feeds, sales and streaming charts, and, eventually, our collective consciousness.…

An MLB debut can be daunting for any pitcher, no matter the opponent. But Mitchell Parker is expected to make his major league debut Monday night, when the Washington Nationals (6-9) face the Los Angeles Dodgers (11-7). Which makes things especially tough.…

When I was a kid, the prospect of a week without bread at Passover was a daunting one. What would my mom make me that I would eat? Matzoh pizza was often the answer. Matzoh is an unleavened bread, essentially a cracker, that is eaten during the Jewish holiday…

A former president of the United States went on trial for the first time in American history on Monday. And as any political analyst will tell you, this Manhattan “hush money”/election-interference case is the least concerning to voters of Trump’s four indictments.…