NEW YORK, May 20, 2026 — By the time Jalen Brunson hit his seventh and eighth points of the fourth quarter off James Harden’s hip — a move so automatic it looked choreographed — Madison Square Garden had found its…
NEW YORK, May 20, 2026 — Key Takeaways: On Monday night, Victor Wembanyama scored 41 points and 24 rebounds and the Spurs beat the defending champions in double overtime in Oklahoma City. On Tuesday night, Jalen Brunson scored 38 points,…
AUSTIN, May 20, 2026 — Key Takeaways: The Trump primary machine does not take days off. Two days after Thomas Massie fell in Kentucky and three days after Bill Cassidy fell in Louisiana, the president turned his endorsement apparatus toward…
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2026 — The United States government moved Tuesday to close its borders to foreign travelers from three African nations as an Ebola outbreak killed at least 134 people, infected more than 500, and reached a confirmed American…
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2026 — More Americans filed for bankruptcy in the first three months of 2026 than in any first quarter since the pandemic disrupted the courts in 2020. The numbers are not the result of a single catastrophic…
FRANKFORT, Ky., May 20, 2026 — Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, one of the most ideologically consistent and politically independent members of Congress in the modern era, lost his Republican primary Tuesday night to Ed Gallrein — a former Navy…
NEW YORK, May 19, 2026 — At 6 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, a rock the size of a blue whale — somewhere between 50 and 115 feet across, traveling at 29,000 miles per hour — passed Earth at a…
NEW YORK, May 19, 2026 — Key Takeaways: Monday night in Oklahoma City, the basketball world got what it came for. Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs walked into the home arena of the defending NBA champions, played two…
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2026 — President Donald Trump announced Monday evening that he has called off a planned military strike on Iran that was set for Tuesday morning, after the leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates…
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2026 — Key Takeaways: The most consequential corporate deal in American energy history arrived quietly Monday morning, buried beneath Iran war diplomacy and Wall Street’s digestion of the Moody’s credit downgrade. NextEra Energy, the Florida-based giant that…
NEW YORK, May 19, 2026 — New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced Monday that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the five unions representing Long Island Rail Road workers have reached a contract agreement, ending a three-day strike that was the…
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2026 — The most common reason Americans give for not having adequate life insurance is that they cannot afford it. Research has now quantified exactly how wrong that belief is — and how much it is costing…