Can Paula Kerger Keep PBS on the Air Amid Threats from Trump and Congress?
Paula Kerger, the chief executive of PBS, is used to fights over the public broadcaster’s funding. But to her, the latest threats feel like “all-out effort to take us out.”
Paula Kerger, the chief executive of PBS, is used to fights over the public broadcaster’s funding. But to her, the latest threats feel like “all-out effort to take us out.”
What we can learn from polls about the president’s action-filled second term so far and how Democrats are looking.
Selling off public lands threatens more than a century of progress for one of America’s most vital and popular shared experiments.
Louisiana officials want to overturn the remaining federal desegregation orders in their state. They may find allies in the Trump administration.
The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here’s some of what those taxpayer dollars created.
The titans of the tech industry say artificial intelligence will soon match the powers of humans’ brains. Are they underestimating us?
For decades, research showed that the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes looked like a U-shaped curve: Happiness tended to be high when they were young, then dipped in midlife, only to rise again as they grew old. But recent surveys suggest that curve is starting to flatten. Christina Caron, a Well reporter, explains.
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation nations, staring down U.S. tariffs, jockeyed for time with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer at a gathering in South Korea.
As Pakistan declares victory, confidence in the troubled country’s state institutions is re-emerging, at least for now.
Expectations are low for the talks in Istanbul, the first direct peace negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv since early 2022.
The checks, at a cost of $2 billion, are a political move that the state cannot afford, some lawmakers say. They will be distributed to millions of New Yorkers this fall.
The Trump administration says it is ending a lease in the Columbia building that houses Tom’s Restaurant. The university says the rent is still due.
A military parade marking the anniversary of the Army’s founding will be held on the president’s birthday. “He wants overwhelming force,” Stephen Colbert said.
After years of gradual progress toward stability, a succession battle is pushing the country to the precipice of another full-blown civil war.
Romania’s disastrous slide to the far right had been coming.
Fu Zai has won top workplace reviews as an unusual breed of sniffer dog. But his lack of self-control cost him his annual bonus.
The strike by the locomotive engineers would disrupt the lives of tens of thousands of commuters in the New York metropolitan region.
James Comey shared and later took down a post with a phrase used by critics of the president, saying there had been no ill intent.
The layoffs amounted to over a third of the media organization’s staff, and came as the Trump administration put up for sale the federal building in Washington that houses the network.
An audit of deaths in Maryland found that in cases of people who died after being restrained by the police, medical examiners often classified the deaths as natural or accidental.
Saou Ichikawa is the country’s first severely disabled author to win a top literary prize. Her novel “Hunchback” is an angry cry against “ableist machismo.”
“Ceasefire” will be the low-key public affairs channel’s first new weekly show in two decades. The question is whether Republicans and Democrats will show up.
Envoys for Iran and the United States have engaged in four rounds of talks. But exactly what a deal would look like remained unclear.
Errol Langton and eight members of his family were among the first group of white South Africans to arrive in the United States this week after President Trump created an expedited path to citizenship.
A search for Tiffany Slaton, 28, covered roughly 600 square miles of mountainous terrain in California. She was found at a cabin, where she waited out a blizzard.
For the first time, Casandra Ventura was questioned by Sean Combs’s defense lawyers, who confronted her with many messages from their relationship.
Big deals to sell chips to the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia have divided the U.S. government over whether they could be remembered for shipping cutting-edge A.I. overseas.
WilmerHale and Jenner & Block pleaded with the courts to intervene as the Justice Department moved to implement President Trump’s orders targeting their business.
His remarks, delivered to an audience abroad, stood out at a time when other superstar artists have seemed to mute their criticism of the president.
With new testing requirements, it’s not even clear how new Covid or flu shots can be made available this fall.