February 16, 2013

Cambodia has asked that Jane A. Levine, who sits on a State Department panel on cultural property issues, recuse herself because her employer, Sotheby’s, is named in a lawsuit over an ancient Khmer statue it seeks to sell.

“Killing Lincoln,” on the National Geographic Channel, mixes narration by Tom Hanks with re-enactments to chronicle the plot to kill the president.

New data show uneven benefits from the economic recovery of 2010-11, with a big rise for the highest earners and little change for others.

The German artist A. R. Penck, member of a school on the outs with art historians, returns to New York with some of his best paintings in years.

Margarita Aguilar’s departure as El Museo del Barrio’s director comes as the museum cuts operating hours and staff.

The region’s reliance on natural gas for power generation has collided recently with a surge in demand for heating.

The short-story collection, often an underappreciated literary cousin of novels, is now enjoying the limelight, thanks to digital media.

Drones are becoming a darling of law enforcement officials across the country. But they have prompted fears of government surveillance, often even before they take to the skies.

As American troops get ready to speed up their withdrawal, it is clear some of it will happen under fire, as Taliban fighters try to strike in areas where the idea of Afghan-led security remains an abstraction.

Lance Armstrong’s confession of drug use has, for some, done little to diminish the meaning of the tattoos that bear the name of his foundation to raise cancer awareness.

Watty Burnett, a Jamaican reggae musician and the baritone vocalist for the Congos, is making a musical comeback after decades as a family man on Long Island.

Raphael Haim Golb, 53, is headed to jail for waging an Internet campaign against his father’s academic rivals over the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls.