The disgraced producer’s trial on sex charges resumes Tuesday in Manhattan with the cross-examination of a woman who says he abused her repeatedly.

“Backgammon is the cruelest game — so much of it is based on luck,” said Joe Urso, who was one tournament away from earning his grandmaster title, but down a few points in his match on a recent Wednesday night last month. Mr. Urso, 41, and several …

The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., believes toxic chemicals in food are behind the U.S. explosion in rates of obesity and a range of other chronic illnesses. “A facade of normalcy has masked this meteoric rise in chronic disease, and we can …

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, a moderate Democrat, used Fox News to amplify a message that her policies are “giving kids their childhoods back.”

“Mr. Mitchell, how do we access the punk?” That’s what a student asked at Emerson College in Boston after a recent screening of “Shortbus,” my 2006 film, which chronicles a real-life bohemian New York City art and sex salon scene that flourished …

Early in my medical career, I was shocked to learn that intensive care units are full of patients who never expect to leave the hospital alive. Facing advanced disease and collapsing organ systems, they rely on the miracles of modern technology to …