New York Times

Fiona Mozley’s debut novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is about a radically self-sufficient family headed toward a reckoning with the society it has renounced.

Leaders of the German chancellor’s conservative party say a coalition with the Social Democrats would provide more stability than a minority government.

Across the country where he was born more than 150 years ago, Rubén Darío, who breathed new life into the Spanish language, is honored and remembered.

Anita and Burt Swerdin volunteer with A Time for Us, a program that organizes events at the Samuel Field Y in Queens for adults with developmental disabilities.

Nguyen Van Hoa was convicted of spreading information about the discharge that killed marine life and sickened people along a 120-mile stretch of coastline.

The flippant message on a sidewalk sign touched a nerve in a city where housing costs are shooting up and newcomers are pricing out residents of modest means.

President Trump criticized CNN International for representing “our nation to the WORLD very poorly.” The network pointed out that representing the United States was not its job.

The actor and comedian did his illustrations from his London home with a Sharpie.

A no-smoking ordinance being considered by the city raises the question of whether the famously rule-abiding Japanese would obey it.

Leandra English, the deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, filed a lawsuit to block President Trump’s nominee from becoming its acting director.

Meredith Corporation, the publisher of Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens, clinches a deal in a cash transaction valued at nearly $3 billion.

The Chinese Communist Party is reaching into Western academic communities and silencing visiting Chinese students.

Monday: A project shows how much further the state has to go to help foster equality, change comes to Inglewood and a podcast about Mountain View.

Representative John Conyers Jr., who paid a secret settlement with taxpayer money, stepped aside from his post as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.

A guide of artful objects that pay homage to fleeting or quotidian forms.

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

Officials have expanded an exclusion zone over fears that a larger eruption could follow.

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing’s campaign to drive out Muslims, which is widely approved of by Myanmar’s Buddhist majority, may help lead him to the presidency.

A victory by Salvador Nasralla, an ex-sportscaster, would be a rebuke to President Juan Orlando Hernández and his authoritarian administration.

Monday: Experts recommend holiday events in the city, the Winter’s Eve festival, and a search for local charities.