On a cold spring day in a small garage in Alberta, Canadalucky horse, an engine revved up and an improbable machine — fabricated from auto parts, a hand-sewn rubber skirt and an abandoned fiberglass hull — came to life. A homemade hovercraft began t
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. When I first heard that Jon Lovett, the prominent political podcast host and former speechwriter for Barack Obama, would
Florida’s Big Bend region was hammered by Hurricane Helene late Thursday and into Friday morningbet88, as the Category 4 storm made landfall with 140-mile-per-hour winds and brought record-breaking storm surges to the state. More than a million peop
As Helene thrashes the Florida Panhandle with “unsurvivable” storm surge and “catastrophic” winds Thursday evening, people across the Southeast were bracing for the storm’s arrival in their region in the coming hours and days. The worst was expected
One Sunday morning two years ago, Amanda Jones, a middle school librarian in Watson, La., woke up and saw an email on her phone that left her shaking and breathless. Listen to this article with reporter commentary Listen · 15:1 min The expletive-lac
As Vice President Kamala Harris parses out the details of her agenda, she has favored broad strokes over detailed policy papers. Only recently has she begun sitting for interviews, which have elicited few details about what her presidential administ
Hoda Kotb is a woman who knows how to have fun. She laughs easily, often to the point of tears. But that playfulness is balanced by wisdom born of a decades-long career in broadcast journalism. It was with that thoughtfulness that she announced her
Every day, patients send hundreds of thousands of messages to their doctors through MyChart, a communications platform that is nearly ubiquitous in U.S. hospitals. They describe their pain and divulge their symptoms — the texture of their rashes, th
The pile of crumbling dinosaur bones languished in a drawer at the Museo del Desierto in Saltillonaga casino, Mexico, for two decades. “When you see that thing sitting in a museum drawer, it looks pretty underwhelming,” said Nick Longrich, a paleont