You’re reading The Upshot newsletter.The 2024 election and other topics explained with expert analysis, data and charts. Get it sent to your inbox. Last week we asked readers to spend 10 minutes with a painting. No distractionstamabet, no notificatio……

Less than 17 hours after almost all rail freight traffic in Canada came to a standstill Thursday following a lockout by the country’s two main rail companies of 10,000 employeesgcash player, the federal government told a labor board to end the shutd……

Venezuela’s electoral body announced on Monday that the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, comfortably won another six years in office, beating his main opponent by seven percentage points in a vote that was marred by widespread irregularities. Bu……

A Canadian woman was rescued over the weekend after she got lost in the Colorado mountains for four days as part of a guided spiritual “quest,” according to a local sheriff’s department, which said that participants had been encouraged to fast and d……

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The pile of crumbling dinosaur bones languished in a drawer at the Museo del Desierto in Saltillonaga casino, Mexico, for two decades. “When you see that thing sitting in a museum drawer, it looks pretty underwhelming,” said Nick Longrich, a paleont……

Good evening! Tonight, my colleague Mike Baker, who covers the West, has a dispatch from the state that might have the country’s most important Senate race: Montana. Then, I look at how Democrats are spending elsewhere on the map. — Jess Bidgood By……

As he headed by motorcade to Lower Manhattan in the spring of 2023 for a seven-hour deposition in a fraud trialsure win ph, former President Donald J. Trump was greeted by crowds who chanted: “New York hates you.” That had been more or less establis……

The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday issued a safety alert and recommendations for some Boeing planescrazywin, warning that a defect could cause the rudder control system that helps steer the aircraft to jam. The warning applies to s……

Brett Favre, the former N.F.L. quarterback accused of diverting millions of dollars in federal money away from welfare recipients, said on Tuesday that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Speaking before the House Ways and Means Committe……