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In an important test of the Bush administration’s detention policies, a federal judge ruled that five Guantánamo Bay prisoners are not being lawfully held.

Faced with its most severe financial crisis since the 1970s, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced plans on Thursday to drastically

When putting the negotiations surrounding the recent Status of Forces Agreement in historical context with past reporting in The New York Times, the echoes of today's headlines are uncanny.

If you buy stamps, one at a time, get in line, the post office says. The vending machines that used to sell customers only one stamp are rapidly disappearing.

Four researchers have won the coveted AAAS/Science Dance Contest, which rewards those brave enough to choreograph and perform their dissertations.

After rising to dizzying heights this summer, the oil market is suffering a hair-raising drop.

“Chinese Democracy” is the Titanic ship of rock albums: It’s outsize, lavish, obsessive, technologically advanced and, all too clearly, the end of an era.

Representative Henry A. Waxman unseated John D. Dingell to become chairman of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee.

Study after study has failed to show that regular vitamin use prevents heart disease and cancer.

Mike Mussina, who turns 40 next month, is leaving after his first season of 20 victories.

All of the foreign policy jobs in the Obama administration have been held up because of the uncertainty over the appointment of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The Chinese government issued several new measures aimed at reining in abuses in the dairy industry.

In 30 states, adult children are legally responsible, on paper at least, to pay for food, clothing and medical care for indigent parents.

Even celebrity chefs find themselves cooking in less-than-perfect kitchens.

A new paper finds that ants that specialize are no more productive at their tasks than ants that don't.

Hanging out online helps teenagers develop “technological skills and literacy,” a researcher on a new study said.

An anti-government protester was killed and at least 29 were injured in an attack against activists occupying the Government House in Bangkok, according to reports.

With Barack Obama’s election, the city is basking in a moment of triumph that goes well beyond politics.

As the stock market tumbled to its lowest level in nearly six years, traders and many others were asking the same question: Where is the bottom?

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said a rebate promised to hundreds of thousands of homeowners was “up in the air.”