Employers added 321,000 jobs in November, echoing other positive economic data recently and far exceeding analysts’ expectations that payrolls would increase by 230,000.
The former head of the domestic security apparatus is the highest-ranking official to be arrested since the Gang of Four after the Cultural Revolution.
The magazine acknowledged “discrepancies” in an article that described a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity.
Mr. Carter, whom President Obama nominated on Friday to be defense secretary, is a centrist who may advocate a stronger use of American power.
Raed Fares, a Syrian activist whose video protests skewer ISIS and President Bashar al-Assad alike, is dodging the threat of death from both sides.
The action was prompted by anger over an abrupt change of editors, the departing writers and editors said.
The idea of lacrosse as a safer alternative to football has taken a hit as two of the most popular helmets are no longer certified as safe.
The British Museum plunged itself into a geopolitical tempest with the loan of one of the famous Elgin marbles of Greece to the Hermitage.
“Wild” stars Reese Witherspoon as a woman who takes on an arduous solo trek along the Pacific Crest Trail.
In “Still Alice,” Julianne Moore plays a Columbia linguistics professor who receives a devastating diagnosis.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge — Prince William and Kate Middleton — are expected to arrive on Sunday, with stops planned at a children’s center in Harlem and a Nets game in Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn district attorney, Kenneth P. Thompson, said on Friday he wanted to convene a grand jury in the case of the Brooklyn man killed by a police officer in a public housing stairwell.
In the deal, the Yankees will send pitcher Shane Greene to the Detroit Tigers, who will send pitcher Robbie Ray and an infield prospect to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Pete Mangurian resigned after three seasons, a day after a report that Columbia players had written a letter accusing him of abusive behavior.
The spacecraft returned to Earth, just a mile off target in the Pacific Ocean, about four and a half hours after it was launched from Florida.
Tranquil pagodas, thriving markets and a new wave of sleek bar options await visitors to the Cambodian capital.
Scott Saul’s biography “Becoming Richard Pryor” draws on new sources to trace his journey from harshly treated boy in an Illinois brothel to comic genius with a fully honed act in the late 1970s.