Many attendees aren’t better off financially than those who have only a high school degree, at least not right away. How should applicants consider these institutions?

Some Colleges Don’t Produce Big Earners. Are They Worth It?

Introduced 10 years ago, the app has slowly become a popular way to keep track of friends. But it comes with considerable privacy concerns.

How the Find My App Became an Accidental Friendship Fixture

Two years of economic recovery brought strong gains to workers at the top and the bottom, but headwinds for those in between. Consider the pharmacist.

How Pharmacy Work Stopped Being So Great

A late August congressional primary in New York has candidates scrambling to find far-flung voters who tend to summer in places like the Hamptons.

Where Are All the Manhattan Voters in August? Try the Hamptons.

New York wants to welcome new immigrants. Its economy and vibrancy depend on them. But an influx has strained a social safety net already on the brink.

A Migrant Wave Tests New York City’s Identity as the World’s Sanctuary

It’s all fun and games till you strain your Achilles’ tendon, herniate a disc or do a face-plant in the Kitchen.

Pickleball, Sport of the Future Injury?

Government documents that President Donald J. Trump had accumulated were with him in roughly two dozen boxes in the White House residence. They were to go to the National Archives, but at least some ended up in Florida.

The Final Days of the Trump White House: Chaos and Scattered Papers

Alice Feiring devotes the day to her mother, her boyfriend, playing folk music, shopping for food and yes, visiting wine bars.

How a Wine Writer Spends Her Sundays

In the past, the conventional wisdom for renters this time of year has been to sit tight for a few weeks. But this is not a normal market.

Should You Rent Now or Wait Until the Fall?

Quotation of the Day for Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022.

Quotation of the Day: When a Key New York Primary Cuts Into Voters’ Beach Time

YouTube star Elijah Quashie, of the U.K. hit “The Pengest Munch,” copes with the rising cost of wings.

The Fried Chicken Inflation Index

After the Russiagate experience, there’s no room for bumbling or overreaching.

With Trump, Merrick Garland Can’t Afford to Miss

For almost a century, the ultrarich moisturizer has been made from plants grown by methods both scientific and spiritual.

The Deep Roots of Weleda’s Skin Food

Becoming an overseas citizen of India, and learning Hindi, has afforded a closer look at the country.

India in a Different Voice

Even though cryptocurrencies have lost value, many Argentines see them as a less risky choice than their own currency, whose worth has plunged as inflation has soared.

Crypto Is Tumbling, but in Argentina It’s Still a Safer Bet

HBO Max took down classic episodes of “Sesame Street” as it prepares to combine with Discovery+. The move came as a surprise to fans, who worried about what it signals.

HBO Max Pulls Nearly 200 ‘Sesame Street’ Episodes

Just as Bilkis Bano had started to rebuild her life after grisly communal violence in 2002, a state government cut short her assailants’ life sentences.

In India, New Wave of Trauma as 11 Convicted of Rape and Murder Walk Free

Goals of cutting nitrogen emissions in half by 2030 have caused an uproar in the Netherlands. Climate activists say the cuts are necessary to preserve nature.

Dairy Farmers in the Netherlands Are Up in Arms Over Emission Cuts

He led the spy agency for only a few months, promising to reduce its size and rein in its excesses. After he left, it bounced back under a new name.

Vadim V. Bakatin, the Last Chairman of the K.G.B., Dies at 84

In work seen, among other places, on the cover of Vogue, she was part of a vanguard of Black talent that altered an industry and expanded the canon of beauty.

Latisha Chong, Hair Stylist Who Helped Change Fashion, Dies at 32

The Hungarian leader is being confronted with soaring inflation and a depreciating currency linked to unsustainable spending by his government.

Hungary’s Orban, a Scourge of Liberals, Faces a New Foe: Economics

The attack was the first major outbreak of violence in Mogadishu, the country’s capital, since the election of a new president in May. The insurgent group Al Shabab claimed responsibility.

Militants Storm Hotel in Somalia, Leaving More Than 10 Dead

The country’s former attorney general, accused of covering up the probable massacre of 43 students, was charged with forced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice.

Mexico Arrests Top Prosecutor in Case of Missing Students and Issues 80 Warrants

After eight months in office, Olaf Scholz is still struggling to find his footing, drawing questions over a tax scandal and criticism of his response to a Holocaust remark made at his side.

Germany’s Stony-Faced Chancellor Faces Critics on Nearly Every Side

As summers have grown hotter, high temperatures inside trucks without air conditioning have also sickened postal carriers and others who deliver America’s packages. A few have died.

August 20, 2022

Headlines from August 20, 2022

Some Colleges Don’t Produce Big Earners. Are They Worth It?

How the Find My App Became an Accidental Friendship Fixture

How Pharmacy Work Stopped Being So Great

Where Are All the Manhattan Voters in August? Try the Hamptons.

A Migrant Wave Tests New York City’s Identity as the World’s Sanctuary

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Un Verano Sin Ti

The Last Slimeto

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