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Taylor Swift's upcoming docuseries and extended cut of The Eras Tour movie both premiere on Disney+ next month. (Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management) A basic, ad-supported ...

Last Thanksgiving was full of backhanded compliments and pointed remarks. Despite my best efforts to steer the conversation away from politics, it did not go well. The same snarky political comments ...

Stephen DiKerby receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home ...

Mr. Schmemann, an Opinion writer, is a former Moscow bureau chief of The Times. Efforts to halt the war in Ukraine, now approaching its fourth year, have all failed. The Trump administration is now ...

The crypto ecosystem has made strides in decentralizing blockchains, but the recent Cloudflare incident showed that true resilience requires decentralizing the frontend and storage layers as well, ...

Senate Republicans opted not to vote on legislation to potentially end the government shutdown on Friday, Nov. 7, which effectively stretches the funding lapse into the weekend as travelers begin to ...

Scandals no longer spread through whispers on a college campus; gossip has gone digital. A new app has taken over, allowing students from campuses across the country, including UNC, to anonymously ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new paper adjusts an equation that defines our universe in response to recent new data. The cosmological constant, which describes how our universe ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers said on Tuesday they have made slight progress toward ending the government shutdown, which is poised to become the longest in U.S. history after another failed vote ...

As Republicans and Democrats battle for the upper hand in the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump has zeroed in on a new target for potentially breaking the deadlock: eliminating the ...

The IRS has notified states that offered the free, government tax filing service known as Direct File in 2025 that the program won’t be available next filing season. In an email sent from the IRS to ...