In some of the nation’s most populous areas, hazardous storms can dump significantly more water than previously believed, new calculations show.

Intensifying Rains Pose Hidden Flood Risks Across the U.S.

Home construction surged in May and prices have ticked up, even with interest rates at a 15-year high. The resilience has surprised some economists.

What Is Happening in the Housing Market?

Suriname, a tiny nation ravaged by recession, inflation and impossible debts, saw its relief held up by superpower politics. It won’t be the only country.

Trapped in the Crossfire of the U.S.-China Rivalry

The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire.

How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published

Season 2 of the restaurant dramedy is more uplifting, more team-focused and more magnificent.

Review: ‘The Bear’ Changes Course(s)

The tiny U.S. territory in the western Pacific Ocean is thousands of miles from the nearest state, and has no resident doctors who perform abortions. Court decisions could cut access to pills, the only legal option left.

In Isolated Guam, Abortion Is Legal. And Nearly Impossible to Get.

The Ukrainian Army is encountering an array of challenges that has complicated the early stages of its counteroffensive, especially the large swaths of minefields. But its leaders are urging patience, insisting the main push is yet to come.

Minefields and Menace: Why Ukraine’s Pushback Is Off to a Halting Start

These big, communal all-you-can-eat spreads faltered amid pandemic fears, but inflation and a hunger for an experience are giving them new life and variety.

The Buffet Is Back, Stretching Dollars and Slinging Crab Legs

Physicists have long explored how phenomena in groups of three can sow chaos. A new three-body problem, they warn, could lead to not only global races for new armaments but also thermonuclear war.

The Terror of Threes in the Heavens and on Earth

He helped New York City avoid bankruptcy in the mid-1970s, ran the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and later served as lieutenant governor.

Richard Ravitch, Rescuer of the Subways and New York’s Finances, Dies at 89

The best use for generative A.I. in health care, doctors say, is to ease the heavy burden of documentation that takes them hours a day and contributes to burnout.

A.I. May Someday Work Medical Miracles. For Now, It Helps Do Paperwork.

Google’s new $1,800 gadget proves that phones with bendable screens are something people might want. Now they just need to get cheaper.

Google Pixel Fold Review: Foldable Phones Are Improving

President Vladimir V. Putin spoke angrily of those who want “Russians to fight each other,” but his former ally, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, said the mutiny he led was not a coup attempt.

Putin Says Russia Is United Behind Him, After Quelling Rebellion

The editor of the game talks about how she makes it feel fun.

How Our New Game, Connections, Is Put Together

With a big voice and big personal changes to sing about, Clarkson ends up with arrangements that don’t match the power and rawness of the emotions fueling them.

Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Chemistry’ Draws on Familiar Formulas

In danger of scrolling her life away, a writer gets a vintage cellphone.

Flipping Out

The actor Ryan Reynolds, the private equity firm RedBird Capital and Otro Capital are among the investors taking a stake in Renault’s Alpine team.

Deal for Formula 1 Team Reflects Growing U.S. Interest in the Sport

A study found that loan officers in Uganda, where information is scarce, were more likely to offer credit to heavier-looking people.

In Poorer Countries, Obesity Can Signal Financial Security

As a Berlin museum with Russian trustees commemorates an allied victory over the Soviet Union, it is also negotiating the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

For This Museum, Russian-German Collaboration Got Awkward

Fox’s prime time ratings have consistently been the highest in cable news but have fallen off by roughly one-third since the network took Mr. Carlson off the air.

Jesse Watters to Fill Tucker Carlson’s Old Slot as Fox Shuffles Prime-Time Lineup

The 20th season of the reality dating show premieres on ABC, and PBS presents a documentary about a safe home for trans women in the ‘50s and ’60s.

What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Bachelorette’ and ‘Casa Susanna’

A national program is reducing day care fees to as low as 10 Canadian dollars, about $7.60, per day, a relief for families even as a surge in demand has created obstacles.

Day Care for Less Than $10: How Canada Is Easing the Burden for Parents

The Hermitage Amsterdam broke away from its St. Petersburg mother ship and will now be called H’Art Museum, presenting works from the Smithsonian, the Centre Pompidou and the British Museum.

After Cutting Ties With Russia, a Hermitage Museum Outpost Rebrands

The country singer’s latest album, “One Thing at a Time,” has now notched more weeks atop the Billboard chart than any album in more than a decade.

Morgan Wallen Enters Adele Territory With 14th Week at No. 1

Yasufumi Nakamori, a curator at the Tate, will be director of the New York museum showcasing Asian art, artifacts and culture.

June 26, 2023

Headlines from June 26, 2023

Intensifying Rains Pose Hidden Flood Risks Across the U.S.

What Is Happening in the Housing Market?

Trapped in the Crossfire of the U.S.-China Rivalry

How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published

Review: ‘The Bear’ Changes Course(s)

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One Thing At A Time

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