McDonald’s C.E.O. Takes a Big Bite Out of a Burger. Maybe Scratch ‘Big.’

Chris Kempczinski’s rather tentative chomp drew mirth online, even from some competitors.

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Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power

Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers.

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The Smart Home Never Quite Worked. Now It’s Getting an A.I. Reboot.

Amazon and Google think that artificially intelligent assistants like Alexa+ and Gemini will speed up the process of setting up a smart home, but many problems remain unsolved.

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Savannah Guthrie Plans a Return to ‘Today’

Ms. Guthrie visited 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Thursday for the first time since her mother, Nancy, went missing in early February.

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Did You Know These Oscar-Nominated Actresses Started in Reality TV?

Hollywood careers don’t always begin where you expect them to, as Jessie Buckley, Teyana Taylor and Emma Stone could tell you.

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Did Andrea Fraser’s Career Bloom Because Her Mother’s Career Died?

Andrea Fraser had long felt that she was to blame for the years her mother, Carmen de Monteflores, was overlooked. Now Carmen is 92. Can the Whitney Biennial make amends?

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Sea Levels Are Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows

Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

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Are You ‘Biohacking’ Your Diet? We Want to Hear From You.

Your responses may be used in an article that examines the growing popularity of biohacking.

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Trump’s Head-on-a-Pike Foreign Policy

Ben Rhodes, a contributing Times Opinion writer, discusses why Trump waged war on Iran — and why his predecessors didn’t dare to.

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Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse 2026: Time and Visibility Guide

Earth’s shadow will temporarily drape the moon in a copper hue before sunrise on Tuesday.

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Scientists Decry ‘Political Attack’ on the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence

More than two dozen contributors to the manual criticized the deletion of a chapter on climate science by the Federal Judicial Center.

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