This year's short list features novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as five first-time nominees for nonfiction, including journalists Omar El Akkad and Julia Ioffe.

In addition to Pynchon's Shadow Ticket, this week's releases include a new memoir from Dopesick author Beth Macy, and a ...

Inspired by a military strategy to ward off disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers see if the technique will help cut ...

The Nobel committee said that the laureates' work provides opportunities to develop "the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors." ...

Some federal workers support the government shutdown, even as President Trump threatens to use this moment to lay off ...

On the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel of Oct. 7, 2023, the leaders of Israel and Hamas are pushed by Arab countries and the U.S. toward a potential end to the war.

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds ...

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to ...

The decades-old radical troupe Bread and Puppet, famed for its protest art including giant puppets, is touring again — mixing ...

The International Criminal Court in The Hague handed down its first-ever Darfur war crimes conviction, finding Janjaweed ...

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accepted a controversial recommendation from outside vaccine advisers to ...