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The changing headlines that topped The Times's home page -- 13 of them in all -- convey the drama of election night.

"You might belong in Hufflepuff, where they are just and loyal"

The Syrian president expresses doubts on whether the president-elect will deliver promise to fight Isis amid US-led airstrikes against group in Syria and Iraq Bashar al-Assad has said in an interview that Donald Trump wi...

We can't predict much, but here's what we know

The annual festival take place in November for three nights during the full moon.

The late singer's estate wants Tidal to pay damanges

Trump has held differing opinions on the electoral college.

This essay is excerpted from The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age by David Biello, published by Scribner.

Donald Trump's political inexperience matters

Donald Trump might not be the only one in the world with that hairstyle. Recently, tourists visiting Hanzhou Safari Park in China's Zhejiang Province noticed this golden pheasant looks a lot like America's president-elec...

Trump takes US presidency into uncharted waters with series of tweets attacking the New York Times, hours after ducking reporters to visit restaurant Donald Trump has renewed his fight with the American media, criticizin...

Straddling the border of Poland and Belarus, the Bialowieza Forest is home to 20,000 animal species, including roughly a quarter of the world's bison population. At nearly 600 square miles, it is the largest remaining se...

Author Naomi Wolf and Professor Hamid Dabashi debate if misogyny played a role in Hillary Clinton’s election loss.

Facebook's business model relies on people clicking content regardless of veracity, and preventing any of that sharing interferes with core user behavior The challenge of fake and misleading news has come to the fore in ...

Former political prisoners use threat of social media and protest to leverage big businesses into compensating workers.

The API Twitter makes available to the general public allows users to access about 1 percent of the 500 million tweets posted each day. The FBI wants more -- a lot more. The federal agency this week entered a contract wi...

(Warning: Spoilers about Westworld abound.) What if Westworld's puzzles are just a bit of sleight of hand? On Sunday, the HBO series revealed that Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright), the sad-eyed number two to park director R...

Birth control is an essential aspect of many women’s health care ― and with the threat of losing affordable access to it under the Trump and Pence administration, women are extra eager to celebrate it. Whether it’s...

At this moment of unprecedented upheaval, it is striking that some things never change. We are being subjected to a tidal wave of interpretation and speculation as to what a Trump administration means for American foreig...

President-elect Donald Trump put out a tweet Tuesday night declaring that his transition is going smoothly. "Very organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions. I am the only one who know...

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, who along with Swiss anti-corruption expert Mark Pieth quit the panel set up to investigate the Panama Papers scandal, Tuesday urged international regulators to treat secrecy havens like a...

The fallout from the imploded Hillary Clinton campaign is prompting demands from Democratic progressives for an immediate change at the top, in this case the resignation of interim DNC chairperson Donna Brazile, says Nor...