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The actor Frank Langella was fired from his leading role in “The Fall of the House of Usher,” a Netflix mini-series based on Edgar Allan Poe works, after a misconduct investigation. His firing was reported by Deadline. Netflix declined to comment, but a person familiar with the matter, who was…

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal jury on Thursday convicted a British militant accused of being a member of the brutal Islamic State cell known as the Beatles in the abduction, abuse and deaths of four Americans, a major victory for U.S. prosecutors and the families of victims who sought to…

Frank R. James entered a Brooklyn subway station early Tuesday morning with an “entirely premeditated” plan to unleash a barrage of bullets into a car of commuters, an attack that federal prosecutors said in a Thursday court filing could have ended in a slaughter. Mr. James, 62, is expected to…

Two people were killed in a large springtime wildfire in New Mexico that has burned more than 5,000 acres in the Sierra Blanca mountain range, the authorities said on Wednesday. The victims, an older couple, were found Wednesday in a burned home in Ruidoso, in southern New Mexico, according to…

If you’re a student, an educator or a parent, I’m sorry. The pandemic has been an ordeal for schools. While exam time has always been tough on students, remote test-taking now often involves a new kind of pressure: special monitoring software that watches eye movements, listens for whispers and tracks…

In the report, the administration cited its efforts to identify weaknesses in supply chains for key products like semiconductors, electric-vehicle batteries, certain minerals and pharmaceutical products, and to bolster American manufacturing through expanded federal purchasing and other investment. “The public sector can be a partner of the private sector, rather…

Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter on Thursday and said it needs to be transformed as a private company.Credit…Suzanne Cordeiro/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, is famously enigmatic. On April 4, when he first disclosed that he had bought enough shares of Twitter to become the…

Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter on Thursday and said it needs to be transformed as a private company.Credit…Suzanne Cordeiro/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, is famously enigmatic. On April 4, when he first disclosed that he had bought enough shares of Twitter to become the…

When the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus arrived in the United States last fall, it pushed new case numbers to previously unseen peaks. Even then, the record wave of recorded infections was a significant undercount of reality. In New York City, for example, officials logged more than 538,000…

And yet, the dominant vision of ambient music today is a cartoonish inversion of these aspirations. In a multibillion-dollar wellness industry, streaming platforms and meditation apps frame ambient as background music — something for detached listening and consumption. It is spa and yoga music, or field recordings for undisturbed, restful…