The debate over how best to deter China in the western Pacific has reached a new level of ambition. Ely Ratner, a former senior defense official in the Biden administration, proposed a “Pacific ...

As the Department of Transportation begins the process of overhauling the country's air traffic control system — a $12 billion undertaking — there are already plans to integrate artificial ...

QUINCY — Politics as usual have been upended inside the thick granite walls of historic City Hall. There, seven-term Mayor Thomas Koch apparently can no longer count on the lopsided support that has ...

ST. LOUIS – The City of St. Louis has filed a major lawsuit challenging Missouri’s state takeover of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department last year, aiming to overturn the law that established ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt hosted a combative press conference on Wednesday, during which she offered evasive answers over the president's previous threat to annihilate Iranian ...

In a world where high-bandwidth memory, GPUs, and advanced AI packages are all the rage, it is easy to forget the important role specialty devices play. These unsung heroes of modern life perform ...

In the fall of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow-members of the organization’s board of directors. For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions ...

I can’t put my family through what she put us through on Thanksgiving. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since 2015 and teaches ...

DENVER, Colorado — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday directing federal agencies to create a national voter database, an effort critics say amounts to nationalizing elections ...

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