Author: News Polite

Russia pounded military targets throughout Ukraine on Saturday, in apparent retaliation for the sinking of an important naval ship and in preparation for an offensive in the Donbas region of the country’s east. Russia’s Defense Ministry said Saturday the strikes had destroyed workshops in a tank factory in Kyiv and…

By that time Mr. Peng had been blacklisted from returning to Taiwan, after a military court in 1964 convicted him of sedition over his involvement with two of his students in the printing of a manifesto calling for the overthrow of the Republic of China government and the establishment of…

When she and Captain Larson had met in 2016, she said, he was already taking mushrooms once every few months, often with other pilots. He also took MDMA — known as ecstasy or molly — a few times a year. The drugs might have been illegal, but, he told her,…

To the Editor: Re “College Has Become the Default. Let’s Rethink That,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, April 7): I was puzzled and disappointed by Dr. McWhorter’s essay. Puzzled by his assumption that so many students are biding their time until they get that “piece of paper” so they can get…

“Everyone?” I asked the rabbi. “He struck everyone?” “Everyone,” the rabbi said. “Yay!” my classmates cheered. God, it seems, paints with a wide brush. He paints with a roller. In Egypt, said our rabbi, he even killed first-born cattle. He killed cows. If he were mortal, the God of Jews,…