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What is a vibe? Many know it when they see it. A vibe is a certain energy, a sense of familiarity, “a placeholder for an abstract quality that you can’t pin down,” as Kyle Chayka wrote in The...

India has a teeming population of able-bodied workers, tens of millions more than its employers can accommodate. Many other countries have the opposite problem: more jobs than workers.Today, across...

Warner Bros. Discovery, the owner of HBO, CNN, and the Warner Bros. movie studio, just hung a “for sale” sign on its business.In a lengthy statement released Tuesday morning, Warner Bros....

PARIS — Jewelry stolen from the Louvre museum in a brazen weekend heist is worth an estimated 88 million euros, or a little over $100 million, the Paris prosecutor said Tuesday afternoon.“This sum...

In the spring of 2023, at an isolated archaeological site in the Nafud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia, a day laborer named Saleh Idris stood beside a test trench, awaiting the next bucket of sediment...

A number of popular protein supplements contain levels of lead that could pose health concerns, according to a report published last week by a nonprofit group.The group, Consumer Reports, tested...

The United States has been at the nexus of a data center boom, as OpenAI, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others invest hundreds of billions to build the giant computing sites in the name of advancing...

PARIS — Police in France were racing against time as they searched Monday for four thieves who carried out a daring heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris, aware that the chances of recovering the...

 The White House worked to hold together the Gaza Strip peace deal Monday as American officials said they were increasingly concerned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could dismantle...

Sabah Abu Ghanem and her family made the long trek back to Gaza City after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire this month, leaving a crowded tent encampment in the south of the territory with the...

In an audacious raid Sunday, thieves stole eight items of jewelry of what officials described as “incalculable” value from the Louvre Museum in Paris.The gang targeted the Louvre’s Apollo...

The Federal Aviation Administration will let Boeing produce as many as 42 of its 737 Max jets each month, raising a cap that the agency established nearly two years ago.The agency had limited Boeing...

A lithium battery spontaneously combusted in a passenger’s carry-on luggage during an Air China flight Saturday to Incheon, South Korea, from the Chinese city of Hangzhou, according to the...

n Japan, women have long been severely underrepresented at the highest levels of business, government and society, the product of a culture that expects them to bear a disproportionate share of child...

Fighting in the Gaza Strip has come to a halt, and while much remains to be negotiated before anything resembling peace touches the Palestinian enclave, a new ceasefire has raised hopes that a flood...

My keyboard, so used to criticisms of President Donald Trump, is shocked as I hammer out this column. But Trump genuinely deserves great credit for (belatedly) ramming through the Gaza Strip ceasefire...

After months of speculation, Netflix is taking its first step into the world of video podcasting.The streaming giant announced a partnership with the audio company Spotify on Tuesday that would bring...

SAN FRANCISCO — A year ago, Instagram made sweeping changes to the account settings of its teenage users after growing scrutiny from parents and lawmakers over child safety issues.On Tuesday, it...

LONDON — Sirens screamed as police vans pulled into a north London street, and shocked passersby paused to watch as officers charged into three secondhand phone shops.“Do you have a safe on your...

For an activity most of us spend about a third of our lives doing, there’s a lot scientists still don’t understand about sleep, including why we evolved to do it in the first place. But experts do...