When Texas Went After Transgender Care, Part 2

A tornado that tore through a city outside Wichita, Kan., on Friday night caused significant damage, ripping through houses and power lines, uprooting trees and heaving cars onto buildings. No fatalities were reported. Earlier reports put the number of damaged structures in the city, Andover, at 50 to 100, but…

Jubilant marchers are set to fill the streets of Manhattan on Sunday for the New York City Pride March, but a foreboding backdrop from threats both local and national promised to hang over the day’s slate of events. The march, which commemorates the 1969 Stonewall riot widely viewed as spurring…

Tony Pigg, a silky-voiced disc jockey who rode high during FM radio’s golden era — first supplying extended jams to the psychedelic underground on the seminal San Francisco radio station KSAN in the 1960s and later at the powerhouse rock station WPLJ in New York — died on April 26…

During a recent group email for my book club, one member said she couldn’t make the next meeting because she’d accidentally frost-burned her rear end with an ice pack meant to soothe a strained muscle. That’s nothing, a second member replied, describing a friend who’d thrown out her back sneezing…

Russia’s biggest military loss so far in the Ukraine war is also becoming something of a liability for the Kremlin’s propaganda machine. After Russia’s flagship in the Black Sea, the Moskva, sank last week, the authorities said that the entire crew of more than 500 had been rescued. But there…