Cristóbal Tapia de Veer did not have an entirely pleasant stay at “The White Lotus.” Mr. Tapia de Veer, a 51-year-old composer who was born in Chile, joined a video call on Monday from his home in the Laurentian Mountains in Quebec, a gong the size of a beach ball visible over his right shoulder….
For 25 hours straight, Cory Booker stood on the Senate floor delivering the longest speech in the chamber’s history without stopping to eat, go to the bathroom or even sit down. “It’s an amazing physical feat, absolutely,” said Dr. Santina Wheat, a family medicine doctor at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Illinois. It also goes…
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services in February, he promised “radical transparency” and declared that “both science and democracy flourish from the free and unimpeded flow of information.” But when the Trump administration laid off thousands of employees on Tuesday, the targets included the very…
We interact with people every day: A brief nod to a neighbor. A friendly chat in the school pick-up line. A heart-to-heart with a friend. Together, these moments add up to your “social biome,” a term coined by the communication researchers Andy Merolla, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Jeffrey Hall, of the…
Make the most of your space and your ingredients. Julia Gartland for The New York Times. Prop Stylist: Kristine Trevino. Published April 1, 2025Updated April 1, 2025 “Pantry” is an antique word with an eternal logic: Cooking is simpler and faster when you already have the ingredients. Here are some tips for keeping your cupboard,…
More than 230 passengers and crew members have been sickened in an outbreak of norovirus during a 29-day round-trip luxury cruise from England to the Eastern Caribbean, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Queen Mary 2, the flagship ocean liner of Cunard Lines, left from Southampton, England, on March 8, according…
When Alissa Torrez, 24, saw TikTok videos of parents doing the viral “cookie challenge” with their toddlers, she immediately wanted to hop on the trend with her 3-year-old son, Oliver. In these lighthearted videos, parents test their children’s sharing skills through a simple exercise that goes something like this: They sit on either side of…
Hakata TonTon at Cha Kee Having closed the Midtown location of his hot pot spot, the chef Koji Hagihara needed a new location. Like a hermit crab he was welcomed by Baron Chan and Ophelia Wu into their Hong Kong style diner to do dinners of hot pots, soup dumplings and okonomiyaki. Cha Kee continues…
Firemen from Highland Beach, Fla., were heading to a conference in Miami, a money manager to his office in Boca Raton. Families with young children wearing Mickey Mouse ears and toting Little Mermaid backpacks, filled the train’s sun-soaked four-seaters on their way to or from Disney cruises and various theme parks. Florida, of all places,…
In the bathroom of the fashion executives Carlo Alberto Beretta and Jacopo Venturini’s Milan apartment, a stucco shell and glazed tiles that are original to the house, with William Morris wallpaper, exemplify Italy’s turn-of-the-20th-century Liberty style. Read more here. Toto fixtures and an Apaiser tub in the primary bathroom of Gildas Loaëc, a co-founder and…