So far, direct attacks between the two adversaries have been precise and calculated. Whether that lasts is another question.

Israel and Iran Seemed on the Brink of a Bigger War. What’s Holding Them Back?

Quotation of the Day for Thursday, November 21, 2024

Quote of the Day: Wildfire Risk Only Growing For Northeast

Anything is on the table for a general assignment reporter in New York. Still, a series of brush fires in the city and a big blaze upstate were far from expected.

In New York, Reporting on Four Fires in Four Days

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for defense secretary was never charged with a crime and vehemently denied to the police that a sexual encounter was coerced.

Police Report Offers Graphic Details of Sexual Assault Claim Against Hegseth

About two inches were forecast to fall through Saturday. Officials say it won’t be enough to fully replenish the city’s reservoirs.

New York City Will Get Some Rain, but Not Enough to Ease Its Drought

Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”

Percival Everett, Author of ‘James,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction

Katie Hoody’s theme just goes on and on. …

Hanging Out in the Cold

The G.O.P. united behind Nick Begich III, the conservative son of a prominent liberal Alaska political family, to beat Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat.

Begich Defeats Peltola in Alaska, Flipping House Seat for Republicans

Corrections that appeared in print on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024.

Corrections: Nov. 21, 2024

Randy Boissonnault, who resigned as employment minister, had long described himself as the great-grandson of a Cree woman, but now acknowledges he was wrong about his family’s ancestry.

Canadian Cabinet Minister With Shifting Story of Indigenous Heritage Steps Down

The legislation failed resoundingly but highlighted a growing Democratic divide over whether the United States should withhold some weapons to register its disapproval of Israel’s war tactics.

Democrats Split as Senate Rejects Bills to Block Weapons Transfers to Israel

View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.

Map: 2.3-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Connecticut

The bill, known as the PRESS Act, would codify protections against federal investigators seizing reporters’ records. It is now less likely the legislation would clear the Senate before the current session ends.

Trump Tells Republicans to ‘Kill’ Reporter Shield Bill Passed Unanimously by House

Darius A. Paduch, a fertility specialist, assaulted men and boys for years at prominent New York hospitals, prosecutors said.

Urologist Who Sexually Abused Patients Is Sentenced to Life in Prison

A conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian,” is just a fruit-stand banana taped on the wall. But 7 bidders were biting. It went to a crypto entrepreneur.

Who’s Laughing Now? Banana-as-Art Sells for $6.2 Million at Sotheby’s

In a landmark antitrust case, the government asked a judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser.

U.S. Proposes Breakup of Google to Fix Search Monopoly

Ambas películas se estrenan el viernes, y algunos fans esperan obtener un ‘Glicked’ y reavivar el entusiasmo que despertaron el año pasado los estrenos simultáneos de ‘Barbie’ y ‘Oppenheimer’.

‘Barbenheimer’ arrasó en taquilla. ¿Podrán ‘Wicked’ y ‘Gladiador II’ recuperar la magia?

Ms. Hayden voiced many “Simpsons” characters since the show started in 1989. She’s most famously the voice of Bart’s awkward 10-year-old best friend.

Pamela Hayden, the Voice of Bart’s Friend Milhouse, Retires From ‘The Simpsons’

In an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal, the heads of the new Department of Government Efficiency said taxpayers shouldn’t pay federal employees “for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.”

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Call for Five-Day In-Office Workweeks for Federal Employees

The next two or three months in Ukraine are likely to be exceedingly violent, in a war that has already been the deadliest in Europe in the past 80 years. Marc Santora, who has been reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the war with Russia, explains why.

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