New York Times

With the world in chaos, it’s no surprise occultism is making a comeback.

Most preserved fossils of the beasts are male, scientists found, which offers insights into mammoth behavior.

Water and electricity have been cut off to a Papua New Guinea detainee camp, but hundreds of asylum seekers are refusing to let Australia move them.

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

The White House is framing the trip as a chance for the president to showcase his budding relationships with President Xi Jinping of China and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan.

A new exhibition of the rock star’s memorabilia at the O2 concert arena in London shows how carefully he orchestrated his public persona.

Runners in Sunday’s race try to shake off anxiety as the police add more officers and other measures as a result of the terrorist attack on Tuesday.

A closeted gay woman didn’t know how to have platonic love with a man. Decades later, she wishes she had been brave enough to try.

Reporters and editors at the local news sites joined a union last week. On Thursday, their billionaire owner closed the sites.

The statement was issued in the group’s weekly newsletter and described the suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, 29, as a “soldier of the Caliphate.”

In a note he left behind and in a cellphone photo album, the Manhattan attack suspect Sayfullo Saipov points to the depths of his radicalization by ISIS.

Amid a presidency that has seemed, at times, to be conducted primarily in 140-character pieces, it was a seismic event when a Twitter worker deactivated the account.

Court documents show an aide trumpeted his Russian connections in front of Donald J. Trump during the campaign, the first concrete evidence Mr. Trump was told of Russian ties.

A sexual harassment scandal in Britain’s Conservative Party could have major reverberations.

Federal prosecutors are examining whether fraud was involved when money Harvey Weinstein helped raise at a charity auction went to a theater that had put on one of his productions.

The uncertainty hanging over a $1.2 billion payment from the state oil company is another indication of the country’s worsening financial problems.

Mr. Mercer has been a leader of Renaissance Technologies and is a benefactor of the former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon.

The Rams’ Johnny Hekker dominates his position like no other. He is already being called the best to ever punt in the N.F.L., but he thinks he can be better.

Economists are still parsing the details of the G.O.P. tax plan, but even some ardent supporters say expectations about heady growth and job gains are exaggerated.

Ayad Akhtar, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Disgraced,” explores the shady side of 1980s Wall Street in an economics lesson of a play.