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MILWAUKEE—To tell you the truth, were I a U.S. senator, I'd have voted for cloture, too. If the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh had failed on a procedural vote, everybody would have had an easy time being a coward about where they really stood on the idea of putting an accused sex offender, and…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Last week, the Redskins announced that changes are coming to the team’s in-house cheerleading squad. Beginning this season, cheerleaders on game days will be dressed in a more “demure” fashion after team officials selected the five “most conservative” of their 22…

Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week regarding sexual assault allegations. Credit Erin Schaff for The New York Times The fate of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, remains uncertain as the F.B.I. carries out an…

Few rivalries in sports fuel as much hostility and pressure to win like college football's annual Red River Showdown between Oklahoma and Texas. And through the years, those monumental stakes have led to some serious skullduggery. The most notable example came in 1972, when the Sooners spied on…

By Brett M. Kavanaugh Oct. 4, 2018 7:30 p.m. ET United States Supreme Court Building in the evening light of sunset. Photo: istock/getty images I was deeply honored to stand at the White House July 9 with my wife, Ashley, and my daughters, Margaret and Liza, to accept President Trump’s nomination to…

Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh takes a seat before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Sept. 27. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) AS SENATORS prepare to vote this week on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, they, and the rest of the country, must wonder: Which Brett M. Kavanaugh are they…

In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies , a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming video service, known today as Amazon Prime Video. Based in Portland, Ore., Elemental made software for compressing massive video files…

President Trump with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada at the Group of 7 summit meeting in Quebec in June. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times TORONTO — He called his relationship with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada “testy.” But President Trump put that down to heated trade…

Efi Chalikopoulou In December 1998, Universal Studios released a movie its director now calls a “weird science experiment.” Directed by Gus Van Sant, Psycho remade the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic (almost) shot-by-shot and line-by-line. “I said, ‘What you guys haven’t done is try to take a hit and…

An industrial site in Lathrop, Calif., east of San Francisco, where the self-appointed Shorty Air Force has identified a large collection of Tesla cars. This view was shot in late July. Credit Machine Planet Skip to contentSkip to site index Groups of new vehicles are being detected in unexplained…

Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., September 27, 2018. Andrew Harnik / Reuters President Donald Trump, who has attacked the FBI and the Justice Department relentlessly over the ongoing Russia investigation,…

The government said in-country security checks would be carried out to make operations faster at passport control.Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images EU citizens will no longer be given priority to live and work in Britain in a radical overhaul of immigration policy after Brexit , the prime minister…

Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself. It’s a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners-Lee works out of an office above a boxing gym. After politely offering me a cup of coffee, he leads…

President Trump received today’s equivalent of over $400 million from the real estate empire of his father, Fred C. Trump, whose photograph sits behind him in the Oval Office. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Donald J. Trump built a business empire and won the presidency proclaiming himself a…

When I mentioned to my daughters that it’s the tenth anniversary of the release of “Mean Girls,” it was no news to them: the firstborn, now twenty-one, is wearing her “You can’t sit with us” T-shirt, and her sister, sixteen, is dressed in pink (it’s Wednesday). They knew the movie by heart long…

Getty Images/Ringer Illustration This weekend, Adam Driver hosted the Saturday Night Live season premiere, featuring musical guest Kanye West, whom many fans expected to release new music by the end of the night. West and Lil Pump performed their latest hit, “I Love It,” a single that has…

At Shiru Cafe in Providence, R.I., students "pay" for coffee, but not with money. Chaiel Schaffel /Rhode Island Public Radio Shiru Cafe looks like a regular coffee shop. Inside, machines whir, baristas dispense caffeine and customers hammer away on laptops. But all of the customers are students, and…

Prostitutes behind display windows in Amsterdam’s overcrowded red-light district. Credit Jasper Juinen for The New York Times AMSTERDAM — It’s not a problem many vacation destinations spend much effort worrying about or money trying to fix: the wrong kind of tourist. But that is the challenge…

A car hauler heads for Detroit on the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, in 2017. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Canada late Sunday was near agreement to join the trade deal that the U.S. and Mexico announced last month, as negotiators raced to meet a self-imposed midnight deadline designed to…

There is growing confidence a convention could take place, introducing new constitutional amendments: ‘We’re in a battle for the future of our country.’Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters It’s been more than 230 years since America’s last constitutional convention, but there is growing confidence in…

When Billy Krankavitch started eating a printed picture of Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg’s face, he had one goal: to get Kjellberg to eat a picture of his face in return. Krankavitch, a 15-year-old high school student from Illinois who goes by FaZe Lampshade on YouTube (no affiliation to FaZe Clan),…

JeeYoung Lee with her ocean of trash at the pop-up space 29Rooms. Credit Amy Lombard for The New York Times The South Korean artist JeeYoung Lee stood surrounded by piles of New York City trash: 4,500 plastic water bottles, 1,500 wine corks, dozens of sheets of cardboard and recycled newspapers. Ms.…

The Museum of Ice Cream, in San Francisco, is not a museum. Rather, it is a sprawling warren of interactive, vaguely hallucinatory confection-themed exhibits: brightly colored rooms with flattering lighting that contain, among other things, a rock-candy cave, a unicorn, and a swimming pool of…

When Robert Smigel first visited Wrigley Field, he immediately noticed the look. Heavyset fans sporting walrus mustaches and big sunglasses were everywhere. It was 1983, three years after The Blues Brothers hit theaters and a season into Mike Ditka’s tenure as head coach of the Bears. In addition to…

Facebook's latest security blunder is mind-blowingly serious, and it would not be unjust for the company to have many billions wiped off its value. Losing up to 50 million people's personal information is bad enough, but also risking people's accounts with sites like Tinder, Airbnb, or Spotify was…

A demonstration in Liverpool, England, in September calling for a people’s vote on the final outcome of the government’s Brexit negotiations. Credit Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images LONDON — When Theresa May appears onstage at the Conservative Party’s annual meeting this week, it will take all of her…

Many of us who watched Thursday’s Senate hearing spent much of the time cataloguing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s lies. After hours of testimony, during which Dr. Christine Blasey Ford answered questions about her alleged sexual assault, the financing behind her lie-detector test, and…

Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh “was often belligerent and aggressive” when drunk in college, Chad Ludington, a Yale classmate of his, said in a statement. Credit Erin Schaff for The New York Times Chad Ludington, a Yale classmate of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s who said he often drank with him, issued a…

Some who say that they have information relevant to the F.B.I.’s investigation of Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, are suspicious that the investigation will amount to a “whitewash.” Photograph by T.J. Kirkpatrick / NYT / Redux As the F.B.I. began its investigation this…

The story of Orson Welles ’ unfinished and final film, “ The Other Side of the Wind ,” which will screen at the New York Film Festival September 29, is the stuff of legend. Produced over six years from cobbled-together funds, the chain of title was a legal nightmare: French courts held the film’s…

Recently I visited Whisk, a Manhattan store that sells kitchen goods, and next to the cash register was a strange, newfangled device: a 3-D printer. The store bought the device—which creates objects by carefully and slowly extruding layers of hot plastic—to print cookie cutters. Any shape you can…

AVQ&A Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences. This week’s question comes from reader Caleb Shively: “As a big fan…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk at a press conference at the Nevada State Capitol in Carson City, Nevada, in 2014. Photo: Max Whittaker (Getty Images) In August, Tesla CEO Elon Musk set off an entirely preventable and catastrophic chain of events by tweeting that he was “considering taking Tesla private at…

Image: AP Christine Blasey Ford ceased to exist the moment that Brett Kavanaugh began his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday afternoon. Despite hours spent answering questions with a kind of graciousness that was devastatingly familiar, despite the polite formalities of the…

President Trump has ordered an FBI investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, his nominee for the Supreme Court. The announcement came after Arizona Republican Jeff Flake sensationally changed his mind about backing the judge - telling the Senate Judiciary Committee he…

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee today clearly demonstrated both the seriousness of her allegation of assault by Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh and the stakes of this question for the whole country. Judge Kavanaugh denied the accusation and emphasized in his…