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Just outside New York City’s Central Park Zoo, not far from where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once stealthily deposited a dead bear cub, stands a bronze statue to another animal: Balto, the husky that, 100 ...

When Donald Trump sat down Tuesday beneath the exquisite stained-glass windows of the National Cathedral, he likely expected a sermon that would reflect his earthly glory back to him: something about ...

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

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When David Lynch died last week, it was almost hard to know whom exactly to mourn. He was a Renaissance man: musician, ...

The new president needs the tech industry more than it needs him.

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At Trump’s last rally before returning to the White House, an ecstatic audience anticipated a historic presidency.

Showing off his new big tent, the returning president played circus master to a strange kind of union. Sign up for Trump’s ...