The connection between New Zealand, the Pacific archipelagoeast of Australia, and Zeeland, the windmill-flecked Dutch province from which it …
U.N. Chief Heads to Odesa, Facing Limits of Influence Over War in Ukraine
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, is scheduled to arrive on Friday in Odesa, Ukraine’s largest port city, in the midst of a …
Your Friday Briefing
A wildfire near Belin-Béliet, in southwestern France, last weekend. Credit…Thibaud Moritz/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe strain of …
Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target.
Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target. This most storied of ports remains the Russian leader’s obsession. Not only because it holds …
Bruce Reinhart, the Magistrate Judge Who Approved the Mar-a-Lago Search
Ever since the F.B.I. searched the Mar-a-Lago estate of former President Donald J. Trump for classified documents, the federal judge in Florida …
What Biden Has — and Hasn’t — Done
There’s something strange in the D.C. air these days. It smells a bit like … competence. Seriously, it has been amazing to watch the media …
The Man Who Found His Inner Depths
One morning in the fall of 1936, 10-year-old Frederick Buechner and his younger brother were playing in their room. Their father opened the door …
California Needs More Housing. Unions Might Stand in the Way.
One cause of California’s severe shortage of housing is well known: The state is plagued by byzantine zoning rules and other local restrictions …
The Water Crisis in the Southwest
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Woman Testifies R. Kelly Sexually Abused Her on Video When She Was 14
CHICAGO — In 2008, a jury in Chicago declared the singer R. Kelly not guilty of producing child sexual abuse imagery after seeing a videotape …