The violence was the latest bloody chapter in a city where homicides and shootings have skyrocketed since last year, when the numbers were already high.
The United Nations Security Council vote condemning Israeli settlements could force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a choice between them and a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
Under nearly constant bombardment, the Islamic State is on the run, but the Berlin truck rampage shows it can still inspire terrorist attacks.
In Hendersonville, N.C., Muslims are so scarce that few people seem to know any, causing a disconnect in a county where worries about migrants run deep.
Mr. Michael, the English songwriter who sold tens of millions of albums in the 1980s and ’90s as part of the duo Wham! and on his own, was found dead on Sunday at his home. He was 53.
The Times Magazine remembers Muhammad Ali, Gwen Ifill, David Bowie, Natalie Cole and more of those we lost this year.
Take a tip from the seasons and introduce change into the workplace.
The organizational psychologist Adam Grant argues that the key to hyperefficiency is tirelessly helping others.
The American Kidney Fund, one of the largest charities in the United States, might not be holding up its end of a deal with the federal government, an investigation by The Times found.
World Wrestling Entertainment is trying to bring body slams and drop-kicks to a country where other companies have run into government restrictions.
The physical construct of the National Museum of African American History and Culture memorializes a figurative one. “Black” is the concept that gets unpacked, rebuilt and celebrated within.
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The man said he was selling his father’s guitar, which is not an uncommon thing to hear at Sam Ash Music. But it was also an uncommon guitar, and the store employee knew who owned it.
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Niche product makers are finding rising demand for clever Jewish holiday trinkets, decorations and party favors, like the yamaclaus and the menorah bong.
It is hard to know when or how much to get exercised over culinary cultural appropriation when it is class that is really at issue, Ginia Bellafante writes.
The Times is highlighting some of its most engaging journalism of the year, like the story of a man who wrote to the caregivers who helped him cope after his wife died.
Luckily, there’s a bulwark against any attempt to roll back the progress made.
A president’s popularity used to depend on growth. Now it depends on geopolitics.
Trouble is brewing for millions of families.
A selection of the year’s most riveting photographs.
Idi Diallo practiced every day in Ivory Coast, even as gunfire surrounded him. He made his way to the United States, and is still striving to become a professional soccer player.
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How do you go through 180,000 images to find a handful that sum up the year? Jeffrey Henson Scales tells us.
Readers discuss an essay about the dangers of Donald Trump’s breaking of political norms and his “authoritarian tendencies.”
Four women share a two-bedroom, creating a de facto Jewish sorority.
