The quick confirmation highlighted the new administration’s focus on controlling and changing the Justice Department.

Alan Cumming, Katie Holmes and Iman were among the celebrities who gathered at Café Carlyle in Manhattan to toast the designer’s new flagship store.

The president will welcome the Israeli prime minister to the White House for his first in-person meeting with another world ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

The Los Angeles Times is offering voluntary buyouts to employees who have been with the publication for two years or more, ...

Adam Nagourney, a former Los Angeles bureau chief, writes about the disasters that left scars on Los Angeles and New York ...

The Recording Academy has worked to reshape its voting pool, but the triumph of “Cowboy Carter” as album of the year can’t be ...

The new president has left virtually no corner of the nation’s capital untouched in a wide-ranging effort to tear down the ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

Media institutions and technology companies are offering obscene sums of money to settle feeble or frivolous lawsuits.

Mary C. Daly, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said the central bank needed to assess the “scope, ...

After fierce online bidding wars for vintage copies of “Entertaining,” a homemaking classic from 1982, the publisher decides to put it back in stores.