November 29, 2015

Mr. Dear lived in a white trailer on a patch of land by the Rocky Mountains and was described as “a mountain culture person.”

After decades of spotty acquisitions and token exhibitions, American museums are rewriting the history of 20th-century art to include black artists.

The Mediterranean port city of Surt has become an actively managed colony of the Islamic State, which has come under growing military and economic pressure in Syria and Iraq.

Conrad Ukropina’s 45-yard attempt sailed through the uprights, giving Stanford a wild 38-36 victory over Notre Dame and upending the race for the College Football Playoff.

Unprecedented political spending helped elect a fresh-faced financier. But his ideological vision has unsettled many in the state.

Mr. Kroll and Mr. Mulaney are riding a comic wave with their stereotypical characters in this bit, which has grown into an Off Broadway show.

Years after a phone-hacking scandal exposed a pattern of illicit information-gathering, the unspoken laws of tabloids have been reconfigured.

On a date known as Black Friday for the number of struggling coaches that lose their jobs, Rutgers fired Coach Kyle Flood and replaced Athletic Director Julie Hermann with Patrick Hobbs. Georgia, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Iowa also made big changes.

For the Jets, Miami, hapless on offense and defense, proved to be the antidote to their recent struggles as they make their playoff push. In sweeping the season series against the Dolphins for the first time in eight years, the Jets bolstered their hopes of making the playoffs.

Student protesters at Princeton have touched off a wide debate about racism and the former president’s proper place in history.

The singer, on a brief tour for her album “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz,” employed excess like a blunt utensil, bludgeoning the senses again and again.

Much of the $72 billion in debt the island cannot repay stems from loans extended and guaranteed by its Government Development Bank