Donald Trump has offered to mediate between India and Pakistan over the conflict in Kashmir.The US president has been holding talks with Pakistani leader Imran Khan at the White House.Trump also said America could restore military aid to Pakista ...

When a room is nearly finished and all the major pieces of furniture are in place, there’s one thing you need to make the space feel complete: an artfully arranged tablescape, or grouping of objects on a console, coffee, side or center table.“Th ...

The 52 Places TravelerThe 52 Places Traveler was one of four tourists on the remote Falkland Islands, also known as Las Islas Malvinas. But there were thousands of penguins. July 23, 2019Our columnist, Sebastian Modak, is visiting each destinati ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Lunatic Asylum admitted its first patient in 1828. Ever since, its impressive brick wards surrounded by nearly 200 acres of leafy lawns and gardens served as landmarks in Columbia, the state’s capital.Almost 2 ...

Agreed. I feel lucky to live nearby enough to nurture a close relationship with Bartola and to backstop her harried working parents.Still, these arrangements — leaving aside those heroes actually raising their grandchildren — differ from the way ...

WASHINGTON — Dream Center Education Holdings, a subsidiary of a Los Angeles-based megachurch, had no experience in higher education when it petitioned the federal Education Department to let it take over a troubled chain of for-profit trade scho ...

SALY, Senegal — Even though he was 6-foot-6 by the time he was 14 years old, when an aspiring basketball star in Senegal picked up a ball for the first time, his friends were skeptical: In this soccer-mad region, why bother with a ball you dunk, ...

But the publisher has also called it “‘Sex and the City’ meets ‘Catch Me if You Can,’” and if you believe that, I know a German heiress you should meet. As a narrator, Williams is earnest, sympathetic and all too conscientious. “This is not abou ...

You’re driving on a winding, rural road at night and a car in the opposite lane has its high beams on.Do you:A. Flash your headlights to alert the driver?B. Momentarily look down and to the right at the white line on the road to avoid being blin ...

REASONS TO BE CHEERFULBy Nina StibbeNina Stibbe’s “Reasons to Be Cheerful” is so dense with amusing detail that I thought about holding the book upside down to see if any extra funny bits might spill from the creases between the page. Or maybe I ...