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Summer at the Spa -- a ritual nearly 200 years strong -- started early in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., with the third leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, being [...]

Summer at the Spa — a ritual nearly 200 years strong — started early in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., with the third leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, being [...]

Uncovering the brutal career of a crucial American ally — and the hidden truths of the war in Afghanistan. I first heardabout Abdul Raziq in early 2009, when I was [...]

When busloads of migrants from Venezuela and Latin America started turning up on New York City streets in 2022, it spurred a crisis that has overwhelmed city shelters and incited [...]

Byline: Winnie Hu, Jeffrey E. Singer and Victor J. Blue When busloads of migrants from Venezuela and Latin America started turning up on New York City streets in 2022, it [...]

Un grupo de padres en Brooklyn recaudó dinero para unos vecinos que fueron desalojados de un albergue. Son algunos de los muchos neoyorquinos que se han movilizado para ayudar a [...]

A group of Brooklyn parents, using WhatsApp and GoFundMe, helped three migrant families evicted from their hotel shelter find temporary homes and other assistance. The migrant family rescue mission began [...]

A group of Brooklyn parents, using WhatsApp and GoFundMe, helped three migrant families evicted from their hotel shelter find temporary homes and other assistance. The migrant family rescue mission began [...]

Byline: Christina Goldbaum, Yaqoob Akbary and Victor J. Blue Seemingly unending earthquakes in Afghanistan have killed nearly 1,300 people and amplified already troubling times since the Taliban seized power. The [...]

Byline: Christina Goldbaum, Yaqoob Akbary and Victor J. Blue The deadliest earthquake to strike the country in decades leveled entire hamlets. Many people lost most, if not all, of their [...]

Byline: Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and Victor J. Blue LAS PALMITAS, Mexico - Pedro Parra stood by his horse's side as the animal dropped to the ground under the weight of [...]

LAS PALMITAS, México — Pedro Parra estaba junto a su caballo mientras el animal caía al suelo bajo el peso de la anestesia. Sus cuatro pezuñas se agitaron por un [...]

LAS PALMITAS, Mexico -- Pedro Parra stood by his horse's side as the animal dropped to the ground under the weight of anesthesia. Its four hooves flailed for a moment, [...]

Byline: Victor J. Blue Mullah Naqibullah, a slim, young Taliban fighter, tossed his shawl over his shoulder and adjusted his rifle. He made his way from under a spreading mulberry [...]

Byline: Victor J. Blue, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Safiullah Padshah KABUL, Afghanistan - A young Taliban fighter with a pair of handcuffs dangling from his finger warily watched the stream of [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A young Taliban fighter with a pair of handcuffs dangling from his finger warily watched the stream of approaching cars as he stood in front of a [...]

Byline: Victor J. Blue, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Christina Goldbaum JALALABAD, Afghanistan - Aref Mohammad's war against the Islamic State ended earlier this fall when his unit of Taliban fighters was [...]

JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- Aref Mohammad's war against the Islamic State ended earlier this fall when his unit of Taliban fighters was ambushed by the terrorist group in eastern Afghanistan. A [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Victor J. Blue, Jim Huylebroek and Christina Goldbaum Amid the uncertainty that lies ahead under a Taliban-controlled government, Afghans reflect on the final months of fighting. KABUL, [...]

Amid the uncertainty that lies ahead under a Taliban-controlled government, Afghans reflect on the final months of fighting. KABUL, Afghanistan -- By the time Ghulam Maroof Rashid's 50th birthday passed, [...]

Byline: Jim Huylebroek and Victor J. Blue A small village outside Ghazni found itself on a critical supply artery in war-torn Afghanistan. It paid a heavy price. ARZO, Afghanistan - [...]

A small village outside Ghazni found itself on a critical supply artery in war-torn Afghanistan. It paid a heavy price. ARZO, Afghanistan -- When Muhammad Akram Sharifi returned to the [...]

Byline: Jim Huylebroek and Victor J. Blue PANJSHIR, Afghanistan - In this lush strip of land - walled off from potential invaders by high mountain peaks and narrow, ambush-prone passes [...]

Afghanistan's new government is likely to severely restrict education for girls and women despite the Taliban's claims that schooling will eventually resume. KABUL, Afghanistan -- The director of a girls' [...]

PANJSHIR, Afghanistan -- In this lush strip of land -- walled off from potential invaders by high mountain peaks and narrow, ambush-prone passes -- former mujahedeen fighters and Afghan commandos [...]

Several hundred women wore the head-to-toe garments at a pro-Taliban demonstration on Sept. 11. The march was a reminder of how after years of war, Afghanistan's women are again at [...]

A passenger jet's departure on Thursday was the first foreign flight out of Afghanistan since the U.S. evacuation ended. But thousands who want to leave remain stuck. KABUL, Afghanistan -- [...]

The former police officer, from the Hazara ethnic minority, had hoped to help his family escape the Taliban. Instead, he is now numbered among the scores killed at the Kabul [...]

Byline: Annie Correal and Victor J. Blue Every day along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, people stream off the elevated subway into a swarm of activity. Vendors ring bells and shout [...]

Every day along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, people stream off the elevated subway into a swarm of activity. Vendors ring bells and shout in Spanish -- ''Masks! Water! Shaved ice!''-- [...]

STANDING ROCK RESERVATION, N.D. -- The virus took Grandma Delores first, silencing an 86-year-old voice that rang with Lakota songs and stories. Then it came for Uncle Ralph, a stoic [...]

STANDING ROCK RESERVATION, N.D. — The virus took Grandma Delores first, silencing an 86-year-old voice that rang with Lakota songs and stories. Then it came for Uncle Ralph, a stoic [...]

A matriarch to generations, both in the United States and Colombia, she struggled with the coronavirus on a ventilator. They gathered online and in the I.C.U. to prepare for the [...]

CROW AGENCY, Mont. -- Richard Long Feather is searching for his son Jace among the bareback riders as they storm toward the grandstand at the Crow Fair. Stepping away from [...]

Even after more than six months, Kirad wasn't used to sharing a bed with her mother. She was now 17, and ever since they arrived in New York after fleeing [...]

ST. ANTHONY, Idaho -- Belinda Luna, the librarian in this outpost in Idaho farm country, still shakes when she remembers a visit one day a little more than a year [...]

ALONG THE CAROLINAS COAST -- Two weeks after a storm named Florence barreled into dozens of coastal communities -- flooding homes, demolishing buildings, uprooting trees and carving up roads -- [...]

Byline: VICTOR J. BLUE When 12-year-old Noorzia Amarkhel came into the room, held in her father's arms, she looked weightless, as if he were carrying just a green dress and [...]

FORT YATES, N.D. -- Arlene Grey Bear took Lucky and Rue and Kennedy to the rodeo grounds in Fort Yates, N.D., on the Standing Rock Reservation -- Lucky and Rue, [...]

Byline: Victor J. Blue, Special for USA TODAY, An Afghan soldier had spotted the tiny wire in the road, bringing the convoy of Humvees to a halt. Soldiers trailed the [...]

We recommend that you view these images in full-screen mode. Every morning, as he has for more than 65 years, my grandfather rises early, hitches a filly to a harness [...]

The article discusses the surge of Covid-19 cases spring that filled the Brooklyn Hospital Center's emergency room and intensive care unit with the critically ill and the dying.