Congress gave final approval to the Inflation Reduction Act, which will lower the cost of prescription drugs, extend health care subsidies and invest billions into climate and energy programs.

A Victory for Biden, and a Bet on America’s Future

Both threats of political violence and actual attacks have become a steady reality of American life. Experts blame dehumanizing and apocalyptic language.

As Right-Wing Rhetoric Escalates, So Do Threats and Violence

Three recent books revisit the Outer Cape, long an inspiration for writers like Mary McCarthy, who lampooned the area as “the seacoast of Bohemia.”

Bohemia Beach Is Having Another Day in the Sun

The suit, filed by Dominion Voting Systems, could be one of the most consequential First Amendment cases in a generation.

Defamation Suit About Election Falsehoods Puts Fox on Its Heels

The party confronts a mood of frustration among the rising electoral force that helped vault it to power. The campaign in Georgia will test that bond.

Asian American Voters Rallied for Democrats in 2020. Will They Again?

The lawyer signed a statement in June that all documents marked as classified and held in boxes in storage at Mar-a-Lago had been given back. The search at the former president’s home on Monday turned up more.

Trump Lawyer Told Justice Dept. That Classified Material Had Been Returned

Various city agencies respond to rodent complaints, depending on where the pests are and who owns the building. But be prepared to wait.

The Rats Next Door Are Dangerous. What Can I Do About It?

Matthew Garrison codes, composes, performs and produces as he pushes the boundaries of music.

How a Jazz Musician and Entrepreneur Spends His Sundays

From Covid guidelines to monkeypox, public health has a crisis of authority.

The C.D.C. Continues to Lead From Behind

Hollywood tried to slot her into cookie-cutter blockbusters, sometimes successfully. She was at her best playing competent women in extreme situations.

Anne Heche Onscreen: Wily and Funny but Also Unnerving

Quotation of the Day for Saturday, August 13, 2022.

Quotation of the Day: Serbia’s ‘Little Putin’ Rejects the Label Amid Fears of Meddling by the Kremlin

Planners weren’t equipped to address the emotional roots of how clients dealt with money. Therapists couldn’t guide finances. Now, there’s a bridge.

Where Money Meets Feelings: Financial Therapy Finds Its Footing

Turning the tables, Trump is Elliot Mess.

Trump Sics the G.O.P. on the F.B.I.

A new generation of Ivory Coast chocolatiers is striving to change an industry that has long left cocoa farmers in poverty.

Ivory Coast Supplies the World With Cocoa. Now It Wants Some for Itself.

Five Afghan women reflect on the anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal.

Afghan Women Reflect on the Anniversary of the U.S. Withdrawal

The state’s redistricting woes have created a rare August primary for New York’s congressional and State Senate seats, raising concerns of low voter turnout.

What to Know About New York’s 2nd Round of Primary Elections

Welcome to Commerce, Ga., the Battery Belt.

Can the F-150 Lightning Make Everyone Want a Truck That Plugs In?

Max Calderan has trekked some 700 miles in the Arabian Peninsula. To him, that summer heat you’re running in probably feels like a cool breeze.

How to Run in Extreme Heat? Ask a ‘Son of the Desert.’

Political prisoners in Egypt live under constant uncertainty about how long they will be detained. So freedom often comes as a big, and welcome, surprise.

Egypt’s Revolving Prison Door: Sudden Freedom for Inmates Who Languished

Accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women, Watson said he was “truly sorry.” His lack of remorse had been cited as part of the rationale for his six-game regular-season suspension.

In His Football Return, Deshaun Watson Tries a New Move — Contrition

Companies have been criticized for the vast sums they are sending investors. Some of that money could be put to better use but for the most part, our columnist says, bring it on.

Stock Buybacks and Dividends Become a $1.5 Trillion Political Target

The cookbook collection that began in the basement of her home became the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan.

Jan Longone, Influential Scholar of Food History, Dies at 89

Striking deep behind enemy lines, the Ukrainians are depleting Russia’s combat potential, slowing its advance in the east and creating new vulnerabilities in the south.

With New Weaponry, Ukraine Is Subtly Shifting Its War Strategy

A new intelligence assessment of the Al Qaeda threat was prepared after a drone strike killed Ayman al-Zawahri, the group’s leader. But some outside counterterrorism specialists said it was overly optimistic.

U.S. Says Al Qaeda Has Not Regrouped in Afghanistan

After fleeing the war in Ukraine with his mother, Maksym Kryshtafor, 8, is using his passion for chess to help him assimilate into the United Kingdom.

August 13, 2022

Headlines from August 13, 2022

A Victory for Biden, and a Bet on America’s Future

As Right-Wing Rhetoric Escalates, So Do Threats and Violence

Bohemia Beach Is Having Another Day in the Sun

Defamation Suit About Election Falsehoods Puts Fox on Its Heels

Asian American Voters Rallied for Democrats in 2020. Will They Again?

Billboard 200

Renaissance

Un Verano Sin Ti

The World EP.1 : Movement

Dangerous: The Double Album

Harry's House

Historical Context for August 13, 2022