Early Friday morning, heavy rainfall in central Texas set off flash floods, causing the Guadalupe River to rise 26 feet in less than an hour and reportedly killing at least 89 people—including many girls at a summer camp. Rescue workers and volunteers have been hard at work throughout the weekend.
Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”
The health secretary has no plan for addressing the country’s sleep problem.
Housing prices are rising fast in red and purple states known for being easy places to build. How can that be?
You carry literal pieces of your mom—and maybe your grandma, and your siblings, and your aunts and uncles.
Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.
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Google is ushering in an era of custom chatbots.
Kids on bikes once filled the streets. Not anymore.
That’s a nice business you’ve got there.
Adaptations of Biblical stories too often settle for capturing their lessons, not their spirit.
The Republican megabill could be setting America up for the worst energy-affordability crisis since the 1970s.
He hasn’t crashed it, but he hasn’t made it great either. That’s a problem.
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
Pro-wrestling—and America?—were never the same.
The health secretary’s approach to the condition gives the impression that two decades of research simply never happened.
Here’s how to make the most of it.
With work requirements in place, many will be removed from Medicaid even though they should qualify.
“Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine.
After a lifetime of good fortune, the generation has become vulnerable at exactly the wrong moment.
One of the worst maritime disasters in European history took place in 1994. It remains very much in the public eye. On a stormy night on the Baltic Sea, more than 850 people lost their lives when a luxurious ferry sank below the waves. From a mass of material, including official and unofficial reports and survivor testimony, our correspondent has distilled an account of the Estonia’s last moments—part of his continuing coverage for the magazine of anarchy on the high seas.