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A reader who is obese asks how to confront her most hurtful — and most familiar — critic.

Here’s what you need to know to start your day.

A game cast, lively score and sturdy source material made Fox’s holiday special pleasant enough, but the presentation was lackluster.

Children will enjoy the company’s colorful, daffy production of Humperdinck’s opera, while adults will be struck by its dark undercurrents.

The vote was the left’s final shot to hold on to power in one of the region’s economic and diplomatic heavyweights.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels said it intercepted a missile fired over southern Riyadh on Tuesday, which the rebels said was targeting a "top leadership" meeting at the royal palace in the kingdom's capital, Riyadh.

In recent days, three nominees have withdrawn from consideration, including one who failed to answer basic courtroom questions in his confirmation hearing.

The N.I.H. will create expert panels to assess controversial research into creating pathogens that easily infect humans.

Tuesday: An evacuated Montecito resident, the mysteries of the Amargosa River, Bay Area infrastructure dreams and a Trader Vic’s legend retires.

Dancers of retirement age reflect on why they’re still dancing. “Why not now?”

Bitcoin may be in a bubble, but it is part of a much bigger trend that is here to stay: a shift in trust from government to technology.

The magical game is back, and this time it’s turning geeks into action heroes and jocks into zoologists.

Officials said the train was going more than twice the limit when it jumped the tracks south of Seattle, killing at least three people.

The world’s No. 1 polluter will create a national market to clean up its power sector, putting it in a leading position on the issue as the U.S. retreats.

Tuesday: A seaonal market pops up in East Harlem, a klezmer Hanukkah celebration, and a noise-beating bill.

Like moviemaking studios, our political class has largely forgotten how to tell compelling, original stories.

“It’s impossible to know what the United States position is,” says a European ambassador. The administration has no policy. It has outbursts.

What we saw while we binge-watched Trump.

In “God: A Human History,” the author of “Zealot” follows up his book about Jesus with one about God.

A culture war over French fries, cheese curds and brown gravy grips Quebec.