Nicholas Daniloff, an American news correspondent whose 1986 arrest in Moscow on trumped-up espionage charges ignited a political firestorm in the United States and an international crisis in the latter stages of the Cold War, died on Thursday at an assisted living facility in Cambridge, Mass. He was 89. His …

shop talk At the Grocery Store, Blinded by the Light of the ‘Health Halo’ The term refers to the perception that a food product is generally good for us based on a single claim, casting subliminal power over our diets and dollars. By Dani Blum This article is part of …

American homeowners have accrued hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity and they’re increasingly borrowing against that value, even though interest rates remain high. Home equity, the difference between your home’s value and what you owe on your mortgage, has ballooned as home prices have risen. American homeowners with …

When money market interest rates broke above 5 percent last year, it was a wake-up call for many investors who had grown accustomed to getting almost nothing for their money at banks. Hundreds of billions of dollars flowed into the funds, which swelled in size month after month. Now that …

The 2024 election could be won or lost on the strength of the Black vote, which could in turn be won or lost based on the strength of the American economy. So it is no surprise that candidates are paying a lot of attention — and lip service — to …

A 50-year-old California man has been charged with drugging and sexually assaulting nine women at his homes in the oceanfront cities of Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach, and of murdering one of them who died after being drugged, prosecutors announced Friday. The man, Michael DiGiorgio, faces 18 criminal counts in …

A brush fire erupted in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, forcing the evacuation of hillside neighborhoods and the brief closure of a major highway as high winds threatened to spread the blaze. The five-alarm fire, which officials have named the Keller fire, had burned about 15 acres and damaged two homes …

Ashwin Ramaswami, a Democrat running for a Georgia State Senate seat, grew up in a wealthy stretch of Atlanta suburbs transformed by the tech industry and waves of Indian American immigrants, like his parents, who have settled there. It is a part of the American South where the percentage of …

Three dozen Catholics from “Lebo,” as the Mt. Lebanon area of Pittsburgh is called, packed into Colleen Oxenreiter’s living room on a recent Friday evening. Lebo is a heavily Catholic neighborhood, and her home was the one with a giant Trump sign in the yard, by her pumpkins. She explained …

Americans flocked to the city in droves. A warm fall sun shone through the vast glass roof. The dealers brought their very best pieces. And the Art Basel brand did what it does. Art Basel Paris, which opened to V.I.P. visitors on Wednesday and runs through Sunday, is the first …