Dear Miss Manners: An acquaintance of mine has taken to writing poetry. It’s awful: full of unnecessarily obscure words, commonplace observations presented as profundities, tedious self-ruminations, etc. I’ve heard enough to last me a lifetime, but whenever…

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Just over a minute was left on the clock during a hockey game in Cleveland Thursday when a player struck the puck, sending it barreling into the stands and toward Asia Davis’s 4-year-old son. That’s when another fan jumped and extended his right arm to block…

Technically speaking, the Washington Capitals could neither clinch a spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs nor be eliminated from contention based on their result against the Boston Bruins on Monday. But the Capitals weren’t willing to leave their postseason hopes…

Faith Ringgold, an artist, author and activist who charted a defiantly independent course through the American art world, protesting the exclusion of Black and female artists from major museums and crafting vibrant paintings, quilts and children’s books that…

NEW YORK — NCAA championship game. “Saturday Night Live.” The “Today” show. Such was the whirlwind of the past eight days for Caitlin Clark leading up to Monday’s WNBA draft at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Now, college basketball’s all-time leading scorer…

NEW YORK — Former president Donald Trump and his allies have fought back against the criminal case he faces here by discounting the impact of alleged conduct that happened years ago and charges that center on the seemingly tedious subject of business records.…

At roughly 450 tons, the hulking piece of the ruined Francis Scott Key Bridge weighed nearly as much as two Statues of Liberty. To the crews rushing to reopen the Port of Baltimore — who for weeks had hauled and hoisted, lifted and tugged wreckage from the…

Iran’s recent attack on Israel has complicated President Biden’s efforts to change Israel’s course in Gaza and introduced a new, unpredictable element into his push to prevent the Israel-Gaza war from escalating into a broader conflict. Just days ago, Biden…

Earlier this month, a video posted to social media captured two men destroying ancient rock formations at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada. National park rangers are asking for the public’s help in identifying the visitors, who could face federal…

NEW YORK — More than a year after he was criminally charged in his former home city, Donald Trump came face-to-face Monday with some of the New Yorkers who could decide his fate. To protect their anonymity, however, the 96 prospective jurors brought into…

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked roads, highways and bridges across the country Monday, snarling traffic and sparking arrests in a wave of protests against the Israel-Gaza war. The disruption appeared to span the country for much of Monday. Protesters…

The first day of the first-ever criminal trial of a former president has officially concluded. Defendant and former president Donald Trump was present and called the proceeding an “assault on America.” At the outset, lawyers spent hours arguing about how…

The Indiana Fever holds the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, which starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and it would be a shock if the team did anything but use it to select Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark. What happens after that is far less certain…

After months of inaction, House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled on Monday evening an outline of his plan to address ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Middle East, defying anti-Ukraine Republicans who threatened to oust him from his speakership if he moved forward…

“Islander” is a tale steeped in Scottish folklore, but it’s less about traditional myths than the myths we tell ourselves. A gentle two-hander, it’s held together by a mystic strangeness and mystery that, artfully, is never fully revealed. Some of that magic…

Microsoft plans to invest $1.5 billion in an Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence company, a deal that could limit China’s influence in the Gulf region amid rising technological competition with the United States. In a blog post Tuesday, Brad Smith, Microsoft…

A former Army financial counselor accused of siphoning millions of dollars from deceased soldiers’ life insurance funds pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday, accepting a deal with prosecutors that could put him in jail for years. Following publication…

Two far right-members are now threatening to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson just as the embattled Republican leader has introduced a complex plan intended to fund key foreign allies during wartime. Johnson on Monday night introduced a four-part proposal…