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Known professionally as the Amazing Randi, he dedicated his life to exposing seers who did not see, healers who did not heal and many others.

Iran is behind threatening, spoofed emails sent to voters, the officials said, but there was no indication that any votes themselves had been altered.

Get ready for snarky 2020 tree ornaments, like toilet paper and a hanging dumpster fire figurine. And take our advice to become a better listener.

TikTok’s changes follow in the footsteps of its larger and more popular contemporaries.

Boston, citing rising virus cases, suspended an attempt to resume in-person learning. It was a microcosm of the disarray across the U.S. Here’s the latest.

Former President Barack Obama slammed President Trump’s failure to contain the coronavirus in more personal terms than he has used before.

President Trump’s personal lawyer has become caught up in Sacha Baron Cohen’s new “Borat” satire after he was shown with an actress in an edited scene.

An unlikely collection of lawyers, activists, economists and academics is fueling the tech backlash, armed with funding from billionaire sponsors.

The Justice Department announced an $8 billion settlement with the company. Members of the Sackler family will pay $225 million in civil penalties but criminal investigations continue.

The storm is the 10th hurricane of the season. A tropical storm warning is in effect for Bermuda.

Love stories cut short by the unexpected live on in alternate endings.

Killings in New Jersey’s capital city have more than doubled since last year, officials said.

Introducing everybody’s dream invention: a Trump-muter.

It’s an amusingly harebrained scheme, but there’s nothing in this moviefilm that matches the elegant social experiment of the first.

Even as Nancy Pelosi and Steven Mnuchin continued to narrow their differences, the president said Democrats were holding out for too much, suggesting he was preparing to blame them for the demise of a deal.

Tyrese Haliburton is one of many college stars forced to stay idle ahead of the draft because of the pandemic.

A new report shows hundreds of cases in which the deported parents of migrant children who were taken from their families cannot be located.

The federal government’s lawsuit isn’t likely to derail the company’s market dominance.

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.

A British former intelligence officer was said to have recruited and interviewed potential hires as the conservative group sought to have former spies train employees.

Do we really want our rights to be determined by the understandings of centuries ago?

The company started by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman had a high-profile launch and megawatt Hollywood stars involved but failed to find an audience.

The comments, shown in a new documentary, are the strongest yet from a pontificate that has taken a more tolerant and inclusive tone.

Nigerians are stunned after police and soldiers opened fire on protesters against police brutality. The largely peaceful demonstrations have grown into a challenge for the government.

Our usual routines are disrupted.

The spacecraft succeeded in pogo-sticking off the space rock, hinting that it may have been able to capture a large sample to bring back to Earth.

He ministered to generations of carnival workers, and his work was recognized by popes. He died of the coronavirus.

The president’s advisers want him to present an affirmative vision for the country. Joe Biden’s team is bracing for ugly attacks.

If Biden holds on, keeping the Democratic coalition intact will take an unusual level of political skill.

Under President Muhammadu Buhari, there is a sense that the country could burn to the ground.

As the number of virus cases rises, anxious residents are taking precautions and making sure they are prepared this time.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s new digital map also includes updates on elevators and escalators that are out of service.

The state is seeing record case numbers, adding to evidence that the virus is poised to thrive as the weather grows colder.

Billy Graham’s granddaughter says, “This president doesn’t represent our faith.”

As winter approaches, we still need to be vigilant about taking precautions.

The United States is home to 95 million cattle, and changing what they eat could have a significant effect on emissions of greenhouse gases like methane that are warming the world.

To stop the coronavirus, we have to stop super-spreader events.

Two weeks from Election Day, the president picked a fight with the country’s most popular television news program.

Except in areas where Covid is surging, there are still no lines of patients in the hospital halls.

The big lesson of 2020 is that everything keeps getting more dishonest.

I’m drowning in campaign lit and freaking out about my mail-in ballot.

A future without chats in the office kitchen seems pretty lonely.

Wine is good for children but bananas are bad, according to the Times archives.

All the weak points of American health care — testing delays, communication breakdowns, inequity — are working against this potential treatment.

The pathbreaking musician reveals the health issues that make it unlikely he will ever again perform in public.

John Ratcliffe is breaking norms, which could weaken our defenses.

The threat posed by the virus makes randomized controlled trials extremely difficult. That means “real-life experiments” are especially important.

Against both the coronavirus and Joe Biden, the president’s strategy increasingly accepts defeat.

In “Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters,” Rosanna Warren retraces the colorful history of a now largely forgotten figure of French modernism who was surrounded by famous friends.

And how to nip them in the bud before they start.