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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Most travelers following in Darwin’s footsteps go to the Galápagos. But it was here, on a rocky island off the coast of West Africa, that the young naturalist...

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTWhat to KnowA Harrowing FlightWhy a Panel Tore OffMissing Plane Piece RetrievedBoeing Under ScrutinyGuidance for TravelersCockpit voice recorders in the U.S. start rerecording every two hours, a limit that the National Transportation Safety Board says should be extended to 25 hours.The Alaska Airli...

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.After years of delays, victims of one of the U.K.’s worst miscarriages of justice are finally being exonerated — thanks to a TV drama.The ITV drama series, “M...

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTHow It BeganKey Figures in the FieldOne Year of ChatGPTRegulating A.I.Inside OpenAI’s CrisisThe company, which has been working to trim expenses, laid off employees who worked on core engineering, the Google Assistant product and hardware such as the Pixel phone. Google had 182,000 employees as of ...

There is more speeding, plowing through intersections and intoxicated driving on the roads than we’ve seen in a long time.Credit...Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari for The New York TimesThere is more speeding, plowing through intersections and intoxicated driving on the roads than we’ve seen in a long time.Cr...

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTDonald Erwin, a 59-year-old disabled veteran, disappeared in 2013 after leaving his home in the Ozarks. Last month, a YouTube diver found his car submerged at a nearby property.Donald Erwin’s car after it was removed from the pond.Credit...Camden County Sheriff's OfficeOne morning in late December ...

It was only when I attempted to make small talk with my visibly squirming seatmate on a Raleigh-Durham to New York flight that I realized it was me causing that look of horror on his face, rather than the slight turbulence we had been experiencing since takeoff. A friendly chat, I had thought, might help distract hi...

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTA commuter using an Amazon Kindle while riding the subway in New York.Credit...Lucas Jackson/ReutersIn George Orwell’s “1984,” government censors erase all traces of news articles embarrassing to Big Brother by sending them down an incineration chute called the “memory hole.”On Friday, it was “1984...