President Biden pressed the Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday to crack down on the Chinese firms that are helping to produce fentanyl, a potent drug that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. A plan to curb China’s illicit exports of fentanyl and, particularly, the chemicals that can be combined to make the drug…
Jeremy Scott had just started interviewing for the job of creative director at Moschino when he had an epiphany of sorts while driving through Los Angeles. “I saw the iconic McDonald’s logo,” Mr. Scott said, “and it just hit me: Moschino, McDonald’s.” “I’ve always been very much about pop culture,” he added. He got the…
A Moment That Sums It Up: 3:46 p.m. The millionth vet joined the database on the afternoon of Nov. 8. Employees who had waited a dozen years for this moment wept. As the goal approached, the department had started an intensive email campaign, encouraging vets to sign up online or at V.A. medical centers. In…
Life is made up of a series of individual moments, woven together to create a tapestry entirely unique to you. Some of these events and memories, however, are more profound than others. In any given calendar year, these can take the form of a graduation ceremony or a well-deserved work promotion, the blessing of becoming…
Once upon a time — 1976, in fact — a beautiful, poor 18-year-old Lebanese waitress named Mouna Ayoub was cleaning tables in Paris. She caught the eye of an older man, a billionaire from Saudi Arabia. They married, and he soon whisked her away from France to a life of gilded splendor in the desert…
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There are six weeks left in 2023, but some people on social media are already popping the champagne, yelling “Happy New Year!” and jump-starting their resolutions. Proactively setting goals for the year ahead has become trendy online, where a number of creators have been posting videos and memes detailing the ways they have already gotten…
On a recent evening in the West Village of Manhattan, Dorothy Wiggins, a petite 98-year-old woman wearing a dark coat and a pink scarf, left her townhouse to check out Little Ruby’s Cafe, a chic new restaurant in her neighborhood. Inside, she approached the hostess. “I remember this place when it was the other place,…
I know I’m not the only one who feels that the real star of Thanksgiving is dessert. Actually, make that desserts, because chances are there’ll be more than one sweet item gracing your table; maybe pies and ice cream, possibly rounded out with cheesecake, cookies, pudding and so on. On Thanksgiving, over the top is…
Recipe: Spicy Roasted Mushrooms With Polenta Incidentally (or maybe not), using flavored oils is another example of how I can, quite literally, see flavor happening. The best illustration for this is cilbir, a Turkish dish of poached eggs, served huddled in a bowl over garlic yogurt. To finish it off, simmering butter gets an infusion…