In "Home Alone 2," Kevin McCallister, played by Macaulay Culkin, is heading out for the holidays with his family. After a ...

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The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896. “In thousands of ...

L.B. Sullivan sued The New York Times over a civil rights fund-raising advertisement. The Supreme Court ruled against him in ...

The Obama-Romney race in 2012 was the last in a familiar pattern in U.S. politics, which has since become defined by Donald ...

Employees of SpaceX have filed a formal petition to create the city of Starbase. Its first mayor would be a security manager ...

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This year had a lot of news. Not coincidentally, it was also one in which people searched for relief from the news. They ...

The koala, long an Australian icon, faces extinction. India burned mountains of trash to generate electricity. Those ...

Robert Coover’s “The Public Burning” was met with bafflement and awe when it appeared in 1977. Reality has finally caught up ...

Situated on a leafy corner of the Crown Heights neighborhood, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum commemorated its 125th ...

Anna Kodé, a reporter covering design and culture for the Real Estate section of The New York Times, describes the efforts by preservationists to save examples of the distinctive style.