To Jump-Start Your Exercise Routine, Be Mindful
By now, many of us, beset by bad weather and declining motivation, are struggling to maintain our New Year’s exercise resolutions. But a timely new study offers encouragement, suggesting that…
Author: The New York Times
In New York, Immigrants’ Advocates Vow to Fight After Judge Halts Obama Programs
Immigrants and their supporters gathered on Wednesday at rallies and news conferences in New York and across the nation to denounce a judge’s order halting President Obama’s sweeping executive actions…
White House Struggles on Immigration Ruling
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s lawyers, facing what could be months of delay on the White House’s immigration efforts, are struggling for a response to a Texas judge’s ruling that has…
Pakistanis Try to Nudge Taliban Along the Path to Peace Talks With Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistan’s top military and intelligence officials have begun pressing the Taliban to sit down for face-to-face discussions with the Afghan government, potentially opening a path for direct…
Gold Coins, at Bottom of Sea for Millennium, Go on Display
CAESAREA, Israel — Israel on Wednesday unveiled the largest collection of medieval gold coins ever found in the country, accidentally discovered by amateur divers and dating back about a thousand…
Alex Rodriguez’s Tricky Future With the Yankees
Sports of The Times By JULIET MACUR Hasn’t everyone had enough of Alex Rodriguez by now? Enough of the lies and the apologies, and then the lies again, and the…
Alabama Apologizes to India for Police Assault on Indian Visitor
Open Source By ROBERT MACKEY The governor of Alabama offered a written apology to the people of India on Tuesday for the severe injuries suffered by an Indian visitor hurled…
March to Honor Dead Prosecutor Highlights Tensions Over Government in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES — Tens of thousands of Argentines flowed into the center of this city on Wednesday for a demonstration in honor of Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor whose mysterious death…
Persecution Defines Life for Yemen’s Remaining Jews
An ancient Jewish ghetto, once a vibrant community, has been reduced to a small group of families.” RAIDA, Yemen — About all that remain of Yemen’s ancient and once vibrant…
John P. Craven, Scientist Who Shaped Cold War Spying at Sea, Dies at 90
John P. Craven, a former Navy scientist whose innovations in ocean technology and exploration led to some of the nation’s most celebrated feats of espionage, died on Feb. 12 in…
New Approach to Blocking H.I.V. Raises Hopes for an AIDS Vaccine
A new compound has blocked H.I.V. infection so well in monkeys that it may be able to function as a vaccine against AIDS, the scientists who designed it reported Wednesday….
Obama Outlines Programs to Counter Lure of Extremist Groups Like ISIS
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday outlined his administration’s efforts to counter what he calls “violent extremism” in a speech to law enforcement, community and religious leaders gathered to discuss…
Obama Chooses Joseph Clancy to Head the Secret Service
WASHINGTON — President Obama has decided to appoint Joseph P. Clancy, who has guided the Secret Service on an interim basis for the last four months, to lead the agency…
Walton Street Is Charmingly Old-Fashioned — at Least for Now
“It’s an age-old destination that understands luxury,” says Alex Eagle, whose own eponymous one-stop shop and gallery opened on the street late last year in a three-story Georgian townhouse with…
‘I Am My Own Man,’ Jeb Bush Tells Foreign Policy Group
Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida talked about Iran and Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled speech to Congress and said his foreign policy positions were his own, not his family’s. CHICAGO —…
Power Broker in Greek Debt Crisis Could Be the E.C.B.
FRANKFURT — As Athens and Brussels engage in a showdown over Greek debt, the ultimate power broker may reside in neither of those European capitals. Instead, the outcome may largely…
From a Private School in Cairo to ISIS Killing Fields in Syria (With Video)
As his dreams crashed into Egypt’s social and political turmoil, Islam Yaken left his friends, family and a life of guilty pleasures for religious extremism, jihad and the Islamic State….
Iran’s Supreme Leader Says He Doubts Nuclear Talks Will End Sanctions
TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme leader said on Wednesday that he did not believe that all sanctions against his country would be lifted, a move he had previously said was an…
New Approach to Blocking H.I.V. Raises Talk of an AIDS Vaccine
A new compound has blocked H.I.V. infection so well in monkeys that it may be able to function as a vaccine against AIDS, the scientists who designed it reported Wednesday….
Fed Officials Sound Cautious Note on Raising Interest Rates
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve is not sounding as if it is ready to raise its benchmark interest rate in June. Fed officials at their most recent policy-making meeting in…
French Cemetery Vandalism Suspects Acted With ‘Anti-Semitic Motive,’ Prosecutor Says
PARIS — Five teenagers who were detained after overturning as many as 250 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in eastern France over the weekend had a clear “anti-Semitic motive,” a…
Pussy Riot Releases 'I Can't Breathe,' a Protest Song for Eric Garner
“This song is for Eric and for all those from Russia to America and around the globe who suffer from state terror — killed, choked, perished because of war and…
‘Mark Twain’s America’ and ‘Huck Finn’s America’
Fresh and funny today as he was more than a century ago, Mark Twain wittily distrusted everything bogus, inflated, predictable or empty. He was a man of a thousand American…
Greece to Propose Compromise on E.U. Bailout
ATHENS — Greek officials are planning to submit a proposal to eurozone finance ministers for breaking the impasse in debt negotiations between the new government in Athens and Greece’s European…
Photoshop at 25: A Thriving Chameleon Adapts to an Instagram World
Farhad Manjoo STATE OF THE ART The history of digital technology is full of innovations that are praised for having changed the world: the Mac, Microsoft Windows, the Netscape Navigator…
In Challenging Modi, Indian Activists Risk a Legal Backlash
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an admirer of persistence, but perhaps not in India’s human rights activists. What many of them are persistent about is pursuing him….
Obama to Outline Nonmilitary Plans to Counter Groups Like ISIS
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday will outline his administration’s efforts to counter what he calls “violent extremism” in a speech to law enforcement, community and religious leaders gathered to…
Scientists Shed Light on Circuits That Control Genes
More than 200 scientists working on an ambitious federal project have begun to understand the complicated system of switches that regulates genes, turning some on and others off, making some…
Video Shows Chelsea Soccer Fans in Racist Behavior
Video footage showing white fans of the English soccer club Chelsea shoving a black subway rider in Paris has revived concerns about racism in what is often labeled “the beautiful…
In Translating Chinese Year’s Name, Enough Options to Fill an Ark
HONG KONG — China said goodbye to the Year of the Horse on Wednesday, and on the first day of the new lunar year revelers were to welcome the Year…