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“I’m never going to be that free,” Mr. Urie thought about taking the lead part in “Torch Song.” But Mr. Fierstein, who wrote and created the role, had other ideas.

The governing party in this East African nation has a network of millions of loyalists and informers to watch each village and every neighborhood. Meet one of them, a farmer and enforcer.

In books like “My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies,” Ms. Friday helped establish what one commentator called “a confessional feminism.”

Conan O’Brien doesn’t draw much in the way of ratings or buzz, but he is taking artistic risks that make for truly compelling comedy.

“I felt like I had won the lottery,” said Carmen C. Bambach, curator of the Met's vast new exhibition of Michelangelo drawings.

If you’re running the race, or know someone who is, or just think it’s kind of wild that 50,000 people are ripping through the five boroughs today, follow along here.

The sweeping campaign of arrests appears to be the latest move to consolidate the power of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the favorite son and top adviser of King Salman.

With nonverbal characters and savants, a new play demonstrates just how broad and multicolored that spectrum is.

Here’s what you need to know about the week’s top stories.

For the longtime budget and tax wonk, and for the Republicans he leads in the House, the tax proposal is a big opportunity. It is also a big risk.

In a phone call, President Trump praised Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is thought to be behind a sweeping campaign of arrests.

The race has divided voters along demographic lines highly reminiscent of last November’s election.

Creativity doesn’t come from agreement, it comes from good-natured quarreling. It’s time we teach our children that.

The tax bill unveiled on Thursday provides changes long sought by religious and social conservatives.

To go out in style, one of the most accomplished American distance runners gathered with family and friends at an event that acknowledged his Eritrean roots.

The New York Times covered the moment on Nov. 5, 1872 — sort of. A one-paragraph news item the next day ran under the heading “Minor Topics.”

In the series finale of our 360 video series, "Life on Mars," the six crew members living in isolation for a NASA-funded research study exit their habitat in Hawaii after eight months. Follow their return from Mars-like conditions and how they adjust to everyday life.

With an isolated leader, a demoralized diplomatic corps and a president dismantling international relations one tweet at a time, American foreign policy is adrift in the world.

With over 1,800 infected and 127 dead, new cases are now declining. But the plague season will not end until April, the W.H.O. warned.

More than 400 years after his capture ended a plot to kill the king of England, his name and face are part of the culture in Britain and worldwide.