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Trump Convicted on All Counts to Become America’s First Felon President

A Manhattan jury found that he had falsified business records to conceal a sex scandal that could have hindered his 2016 campaign for the White House.

 By Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman, Kate Christobek, Jesse McKinley and William K. Rashbaum

The Increasing Trumpification of TikTok

An internal analysis found nearly twice as many pro-Trump posts as pro-Biden ones on TikTok since November, a sign of the right’s use of a liberal-friendly platform.

 By Anjali Huynh

Departing House Members Ask: ‘Why Am I Here?’

A wave of retirees from both parties, including committee chairs and rising stars, say that serving in Congress is no longer worth the frustration.

 By Robert Draper

The Major Supreme Court Cases of 2024

No Supreme Court term in recent memory has featured so many cases with the potential to transform American society.

 By Adam Liptak, Abbie VanSickle and Alicia Parlapiano

The Textbooks Were Wrong About How Your Tongue Works

The perception of taste is remarkably complex, not only on the tongue but in organs throughout the body.

 By Joanne Silberner

The Long-Overlooked Molecule That Will Define a Generation of Science

These tiny biological powerhouses can help us cure deadly diseases, and tell us how life itself started.

 By Thomas Cech

How the Tree Lobster Escaped Extinction

The Lord Howe Island stick insect vanished from its home, but an effort at zoos in San Diego and Melbourne highlights the possibilities and challenges of conserving invertebrate animals.

 By Darren Incorvaia

Life in the Dirt Is Hard. And Climate Change Isn’t Helping.

Heat and drought are taking a toll on the tiny soil creatures that help to lock away planet-warming carbon, according to a new analysis.

 By Sofia Quaglia

If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your C.E.O.

Chief executives are vulnerable to the same forces buffeting their employees. Leadership is important, but so is efficiency — and cost-cutting.

 By David Streitfeld

OpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship A.I. Model

The advanced A.I. system would succeed GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. The company has also created a new safety committee to address A.I.’s risks.

 By Cade Metz

How A.I. Has Changed Music, and What’s Coming Next

Artificial intelligence has become the dominant disrupter to music creation and distribution. And it’s only getting started.

What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate

A.I. companies are divided over whether the technology should be freely available to anyone for modifying and copying, or kept close for safekeeping.

 By Mike Isaac

The Women of Greek Myths Are Finally Talking Back

Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets to tell these stories, and how.

 By Alexandra Alter

Everyone Wants a Piece of Kafka, a Writer Who Refused to Be Claimed

A hundred years after Kafka’s death, people and nations are still fighting over his legacy.

 By Benjamin Balint

Why Are Divorce Memoirs Still Stuck in the 1960s?

Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success.

 By Sarah Menkedick

Do You Know the Manhattan Locations of These Children’s Books?

This urban island is home to a huge number of popular books for younger readers. Try this short quiz to see how many you recognize.

 By J. D. Biersdorfer

Life in the Dirt Is Hard. And Climate Change Isn’t Helping.

Heat and drought are taking a toll on the tiny soil creatures that help to lock away planet-warming carbon, according to a new analysis.

 By Sofia Quaglia

Logging in Canada’s Most Famous National Park to Save It From Wildfires

Trees have been cut to create fire guards in Banff, the country’s most popular national park. After its warmest winter in history, Canada braces for another season of wildfires.

 By Norimitsu Onishi

Carbon Offsets, a Much-Criticized Climate Tool, Get Federal Guidelines

The new principles aim to define ‘high-integrity’ offsets amid concerns that current practices often don’t cut greenhouse gas emissions as claimed.

 By Brad Plumer

The Right Kind of Tipping Point

Global carbon dioxide emissions might have already peaked, according to new estimates, signaling a potentially monumental shift.

 By David Gelles

Why Are People So Down About the Economy? Theories Abound.

Things look strong on paper, but many Americans remain unconvinced. We asked economic officials, the woman who coined “vibecession” and Charlamagne Tha God what they think is happening.

 By Jeanna Smialek

Can Billions in New Subsidies Keep Family Farms in Business?

The Biden administration aims to better support small farmers while still aiding big operations and rewarding climate-friendly practices. It’s a tall order.

 By Lydia DePillis

U.S. Economic Growth in First Quarter Was Milder Than Initial Reading

Consumers eased up on spending in the face of rising prices and high interest rates, Commerce Department data shows.

 By Ben Casselman

America Is Still Having a ‘Vibecession’

Most voters say that they’re doing OK but that the economy is bad.

 By Paul Krugman

A Crowning Achievement in a Neighborhood’s Fight Against Air Pollution

The artist Jordan Weber’s queenly sculpture in a Detroit park does double duty as an air quality monitor.

 By Patricia Leigh Brown

Want to Succeed as an Artist? Click Here.

With a rising number of artists vying for a limited number of galleries and grants, arts professionals are pivoting to careers as coaches. But can they help people profit from their talents?

 By Travis Diehl

How A.I. Has Changed Music, and What’s Coming Next

Artificial intelligence has become the dominant disrupter to music creation and distribution. And it’s only getting started.

At City Ballet, a Once-in-a-Generation Dancer Arrives

Mira Nadon, the rising New York City Ballet principal, is coming off her best season yet. And it’s only the beginning.

 By Gia Kourlas

Cleveland Museum of Art to Return a Rare Ancient Icon to Libya

A 2,200-year-old sculpture of a bearded man carved from basalt, unearthed in the 1930s, is believed to have been stolen in the early 1940s.

 By Tom Mashberg

Girls of Color Are Getting Their Periods Earlier. No One Quite Knows Why.

Researchers have linked early menstruation to an increased risk of health problems later in life.

 By Alisha Haridasani Gupta

The Textbooks Were Wrong About How Your Tongue Works

The perception of taste is remarkably complex, not only on the tongue but in organs throughout the body.

 By Joanne Silberner

Ancient Skull With Brain Cancer Preserves Clues to Egyptian Medicine

Cuts in the cranium, which is more than 4,000 years old, hint that people in the ancient civilization attempted to treat a scourge that persists today.

 By Jordan Pearson

Countries Fail to Agree on Treaty to Prepare the World for the Next Pandemic

Negotiators plan to ask for more time. Among the sticking points are equitable access to vaccines and financing to set up surveillance systems.

 By Apoorva Mandavilli

Gaza’s Historic Heart, Now in Ruins

The Great Omari Mosque, built on an ancient holy site, is one of the many treasured landmarks damaged in Israel’s military offensive.

 By Bora Erden, Graham Bowley and Tala Safie

Amateur Historians Heard Tales of a Lost Tudor Palace. Then, They Dug It Up.

In a small English village, a group of dedicated locals has unearthed the remains of a long-vanished palace that had been home to Henry VIII’s grandmother.

 By Megan Specia

Ancient Skull With Brain Cancer Preserves Clues to Egyptian Medicine

Cuts in the cranium, which is more than 4,000 years old, hint that people in the ancient civilization attempted to treat a scourge that persists today.

 By Jordan Pearson

The History That New York City Takes for Granted

Gotham’s 400th birthday calls for a celebration worthy of the great metropolis it is.

 By Kenneth T. Jackson

Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, June 1, 2024

Can you sort 8 historical events?

If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your C.E.O.

Chief executives are vulnerable to the same forces buffeting their employees. Leadership is important, but so is efficiency — and cost-cutting.

 By David Streitfeld

The Quiet Magic of Middle Managers

Amid a wider national atmosphere of division, distrust, bitterness and exhaustion, middle managers are the frontline workers trying to resolve tensions and keep communities working.

 By David Brooks

It’s Lonely at the Top

When making difficult decisions, you won’t help matters by over-explaining that you did what was best for everyone.

 By Roxane Gay

Elon Musk’s Mindset: ‘It’s a Weakness to Want to Be Liked’

In an interview, the tech billionaire slams advertisers for pulling back from X and discusses his emotional state.

 By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Evan Roberts, Elaine Chen, Dan Powell and Kelly Pieko

PTSD Has Surged Among College Students

The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among college students rose to 7.5 percent in 2022, more than double the rate five years earlier, researchers found.

 By Ellen Barry

The Textbooks Were Wrong About How Your Tongue Works

The perception of taste is remarkably complex, not only on the tongue but in organs throughout the body.

 By Joanne Silberner

In the House of Psychiatry, a Jarring Tale of Violence

At the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting, a patient described a restraint that haunts him, more than eight years later.

 By Ellen Barry

Cannabis Tops Alcohol as Americans’ Daily Drug of Choice

A new study shows a growing number of people are regularly using cannabis, while frequent alcohol consumption has remained stable.

 By Christina Caron

The Battle Over College Speech Will Outlive the Encampments

For the first time since the Vietnam War, university demonstrations have led to a rethinking of who sets the terms for language in academia.

 By Emily Bazelon and Charles Homans

Less Marriage, Less Sex, Less Agreement

Bonds between men and women may be eroding when we need them most.

 By Nicholas Kristof

Why Do People Make Music?

In a new study, researchers found universal features of songs across many cultures, suggesting that music evolved in our distant ancestors.

 By Carl Zimmer

How the Pandemic Reshaped American Gun Violence

The footprint of gun violence in the U.S. has expanded, as shootings worsened in already suffering neighborhoods and killings spread to new places during the pandemic years.

 By Robert Gebeloff, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Eli Murray, Josh Williams and Rebecca Lieberman