New York Times

Legend says the Durandal sword had been stuck in a French hillside for nearly 1,300 years. When it went missing in June, an investigation to find France’s Excalibur began.

In northern Burgundy, services have collapsed and the far-right National Rally has risen.

Masoud Pezeshkian, a cardiac surgeon and relative moderate in the ruling establishment, defeated an ultraconservative former nuclear negotiator in a runoff.

President Biden insisted on Friday that he would stay in the race. But if he decides to step aside, these individuals will determine who leads the ticket.

Once declared “the face of American tennis,” he was ranked among the leading players in the United States from the 1940s to the ’60s.

Representative Emilia Sykes is one of only a few Black Democrats in Congress who don’t resemble most of their constituents, and whose political survival this year will help determine which party controls the House.

As more foreigners, especially Americans, visit or move to Mexico City, some taco shops have lowered the heat in their sauces. Not everyone is happy.

A revolution is about to swallow U.S. politics, and it’s based on the simplest and most radical theory of power.

The girls, ages 17 and 18, went into the water near the Coney Island boardwalk as thunderstorms rolled in. It was the second pair of drownings off city beaches in two weeks.

The far-right party National Rally may end up governing France. Although it has evolved, its basic philosophy remains: Immigrants are a threat to the country’s safety and economy.

The president just doesn’t see that it’s time to take the win.

The country is interested in the future. Biden keeps talking about the past.

These Palestinians say Arabs and Jews can live in peace.

Pop culture is serving up dark visions full of labyrinthine bunkers, endless loops and characters who feel hopelessly mired. Welcome to the stucktopia.

A trip to some of the happiest places on Earth.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will travel to a NATO summit this coming week, where he will represent a rare point of centrist stability among unsettled allies.

Both have gotten caught up in fights over plastic packaging. When Costco recently tried to trim its plastic use by selling rotisserie chickens in bags, some shoppers disapproved.

The meals that we love are informed as much by the experience of eating them as by the flavor of the food itself.

The American Republic feels fragile.

Many Americans plan to donate their organs for transplants or their bodies for medical science. Few realize that there’s a growing need for their brains, too.