PARIS — A day after violent clashes in the northern French city of Calais injured at least 18 people and left four migrants in critical condition on Friday, local organizations and officials faced a lingering question: Could tensions among migrants spin further out of control? “This is a level of violence never seen before,” Interior […]

DAWN OF THE NEW EVERYTHING Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality By Jaron Lanier 351 pp. Henry Holt & Company. $30. EXPERIENCE ON DEMAND What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do By Jeremy Bailenson 290 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $28.95. Jaron Lanier’s book “Dawn of the New Everything” and […]

President Trump’s assertion of his “genius,” athwart recent reporting that his inner circle describes him in somewhat different terms — “moron,” “idiot,” “like a child” — along with concerns about his mental health, awakened a dormant memory of a scene in the 1970s TV adaptation of Robert Graves’s classic novel of ancient Rome, “I, Claudius.” […]

To the Editor: Re “Horror at Florida School; Ex-Student Held” (front page, Feb. 15): Enough. All citizens of good conscience should call their representatives and senators — local, state and national — and demand legislation banning assault rifles and ammunition. If that doesn’t work, in November vote for those who will end the control of […]

LOS ANGELES — “Were you following me?” said Pete Holmes, a 38-year-old actor and comedian, as he stood near the front gate of his bungalow in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles last month. “Sorry, I was just sitting in traffic and am literally just getting back from a week in Hawaii,” Mr. Holmes […]

Ellyn and Vinnie Amessé, a married couple who run a commercial photography business in Staten Island, moved with their two daughters to Lighthouse Hill in 1994. They paid $250,000 for a 1950s ranch home on Manor Court and added a second floor. Given a choice of bedrooms, their younger daughter, Leah, who was 3 at […]

The president wants a parade, but not some girlie, frilly procession that limits itself to high-stepping musicians, high-reaching headdresses, flutes and floats. He wants muscle. Metal. He wants tanks and soldiers and planes. In his Veterans Day vision, Pennsylvania Avenue bulges with artillery, because in his blinkered view, that’s the measure of a nation’s worth. […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: Shots are fired, and bots swarm in • Soon after the mass shooting at a high school in Florida last week, Twitter accounts suspected of having links to Russia jumped on the hashtag #Parklandshooting, posting messages about […]

Click on the slide show to see this week’s featured properties in New York and Connecticut: • In Ridgefield, Conn., a six-bedroom, four-full- and two-half-bath renovated 1880 house, with dark-stained hardwood floors, a wraparound porch, four fireplaces, a newer kitchen with a marble island, a large dining room open to living room, a master suite […]

Last week, we learned that researchers had discovered two major flaws in microprocessors of nearly all the world’s computers. The revelation came on the heels of a distressing series of major hacks: In 2017, Yahoo revealed that all of its three billion accounts were compromised, WannaCry ransomware shut down hospitals across the globe, and an […]