After a court blocked Donald Trump’s National Guard plans in Portland, talk of invoking the Insurrection Act resurfaced. Here’s how the law works and when it’s been used.

The Insurrection Act gives the president power to deploy the U.S. military domestically and to federalize National Guard troops during specific circumstances.

I Swear is a biographical drama based on Scottish campaigner John Davidson’s experience of Tourette’s syndrome. Spanning his teenage years to the present, it follows the first tics and their social ...

Let’s explore the history and evolution of the word 'O.K.' from its origins to its modern-day usage worldwide.

Several hundred Catholics and people of faith gathered on Sept. 13 to celebrate a people’s Mass, or Misa popular, outside the gates of the Great Lakes Naval Station in the city of North Chicago.

In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, the rectangle is mine.

A massive conservation project to track one of the most elusive predators on Earth, which resides in Jammu and Kashmir, has yielded encouraging and remarkable results. As Research Matters reports, a ...

"Kids are quite discerning, actually," says someone who has never really spent any time with kids, and perhaps doesn't even know what a child is. My experience with kids has revealed that, no, they ...

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

None of the most widely used large language models (LLMs) that are rapidly upending how humanity is acquiring knowledge has faced independent peer review in a research journal. It’s a notable absence.

The recent collapse of murder trials in New Brunswick due to a police error is both a failure in the justice system and a learning opportunity, says a criminal lawyer ...

We are suffering through an epidemic of leftist violence. The ruthless assassination of conservative youth leader Charlie Kirk, 31, at a crowded campus event in Utah on Wednesday is the latest ...