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How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide.

admin24 April 2025

It may not have been the tax-evasion trial of the century — the second century, that is — but it was of such gravity that the defendants faced charges of forgery, fiscal fraud and the sham sale of slaves. Tax dodging is as old as taxation itself, but ...

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Measles Surge in Southwest Is Now the Largest Single Outbreak Since 2000

admin24 April 2025

Growing case numbers suggest that national total will surpass that seen during the last large outbreak in 2019.

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When They Don’t Recognize You Anymore

admin24 April 2025

People with dementia often forget even close family members as the disease advances. “It can throw people into an existential crisis,” one expert said.

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Trump-Allied Prosecutor Sends Letters to Medical Journals Alleging Bias

admin24 April 2025

An interim U.S. attorney is demanding information about the selection of research articles and the role of N.I.H. Experts worry this will have a chilling effect on publications.

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On New Website, Trump Declares Lab Leak as ‘True Origins’ of Covid

admin24 April 2025

The White House has thrown its weight behind the lab leak theory, an idea that has divided intelligence agencies.

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Roy Thomas Baker, Who Helped Produce ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ Dies at 78

admin23 April 2025

Among the most successful music producers in the 1970s and ’80s, he helped churn out hits for acts like Queen, the Cars, Journey and Foreigner.

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Eunice Golden, Artist Who Mapped the Male Nude, Dies at 98

admin23 April 2025

Like many feminist artists, she took the body as her subject. But while others were exploring their own bodies, she painted the male anatomy.

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Herbert J. Gans, 97, Dies; Upended Myths on Urban and Suburban Life

admin23 April 2025

A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees.

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Aliza Magen, Highest-Ranking Woman in the Mossad, Dies at 87

admin23 April 2025

Her career at Israel’s national intelligence agency included working undercover before serving as deputy under three directors.

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Francis, the First Latin American Pope, Dies at 88

admin23 April 2025

Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, who clashed bitterly with traditionalists in his push for a more inclusive Roman Catholic Church, and who spoke out tirelessly for migrants ...

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