Author: NY TIMES

Though Mr. Kennedy’s embrace of recovery farms may be novel, the concept stretches back almost a century. In 1935, the government opened the United States Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Ky., to research and treat addiction. Over the years, residents included Chet Baker and William S. Burroughs (who portrayed the institution in his novel, “Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict”). The program had high relapse rates and was tainted by drug experiments on human subjects. By 1975, as local treatment centers began to proliferate around the country, the program closed.In America, therapeutic communities for addiction treatment became popular in the…

“Let’s figure out what our letter of the day is!”Ms. Rachel, the children’s YouTube star, cooed that sentence in an Instagram video posted this week as she dug into a sensory bin of purple rice, with the kind of texture toddlers tend to ogle.Set against a blank yellow screen, like many of her videos, she smiled as her ponytail bobbed onto her signature pink T-shirt and blue overalls.She gasped as the camera panned to a bright red “N” in the rice.Holding the letter, she cheerfully told viewers in her singsong voice that her videos would soon be available on Netflix.The…

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicThe Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” focuses on just a few crucial years at the beginning of the songwriter’s career, from 1961, when he relocated to New York from Minnesota, up through his plugged-in heresy at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. In that short window of time, he revolutionized the folk movement and became something of a pop phenomenon.Playing him, appropriately, is a modern-day pop phenomenon: Timothée Chalamet. And the attention he brings thanks to his outsize celebrity seems designed to expose Dylan to a whole new audience. Dylan is as…

Making his final trip as America’s top diplomat last week, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken arrived in Paris, his former hometown, to a hero’s welcome.France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, proclaimed Mr. Blinken “an eminent servant of peace” at a ceremony at the Élysée Palace before awarding him the country’s highest tribute, the Legion of Honor medal. With its red silk ribbon pinned to his jacket, Mr. Blinken called the medal “the honor of a lifetime.”It was a very different scene back in Washington a few days later, when Mr. Blinken gave a final speech before a crowd of foreign policy…

MELBOURNE, Australia — In 2020, 19-year-old Iga Swiatek won her first Grand Slam title.The following year, 18-year-old Emma Raducanu won her first Grand Slam title.Since then, the pair of junior Grand Slam champions have taken different paths. Swiatek added four more Grand Slam titles, and in the process remained world No. 1 for more than 100 weeks; Raducanu has yet to reach a WTA Tour final, let alone another. A major championship.Saturday’s third-round match at the Australian Open is the most important match of Raducanu’s career since winning the 2021 U.S. Open. She reached the fourth round at Wimbledon, but…

Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital and other cities across the country with a barrage of drones and ballistic missiles before dawn on Saturday, killing at least four people and injuring at least a dozen more, Ukrainian officials said.Air-raid alarms were still sounding as emergency crews raced to search for dead and wounded — a grimly familiar routine in a nation that has been battered by relentless Russian bombardments for nearly three years.Ukraine’s Air Force said four ballistic missiles and 39 attack drones were used in the assault, adding that two ballistic missiles were shot down in the region of Kyiv,…

Since 1988, the hulking presses at Lanex Manufacturing on the edge of Windsor, Ontario, have been stamping out door strikers, folding-seat latches, tailpipe hangers, frame braces and other prosaic bits of metal that make their way into vehicles ranging from Corvettes to Honda minivans.But, these days, worries about the future permeate the plant as President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to enter the White House. He has threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on all goods exported from Canada to the United States. In Windsor, that would ravage its lifeblood: automobiles and everything that goes into them.“Everybody’s waiting for the…

TikTok said late Friday that its service would “go dark” for its 170 million American users on Sunday because of a ban in the United States over fears that its Chinese ownership poses a threat to national security.The company said in a statement that “unfortunately TikTok will be forced to go dark on January 19” unless the Biden administration assures Apple, Google and other companies that they would not be punished for delivering TikTok’s services in the United States.The statement was TikTok’s latest attempt to pressure the administration to grant it a reprieve from a law, upheld by the Supreme…

More Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease is striking young and middle-aged adults and women more frequently, the American Cancer Society reported on Thursday.And despite overall improvements in survival, Black and Native Americans are dying of some cancers at rates two to three times higher than those among white Americans.These trends represent a marked change for an illness that has long been considered a disease of aging, and which used to affect far more men than women.The shifts reflect declines in smoking-related cancers and prostate cancer among older men and a disconcerting rise in cancer in people born since…

In its infancy, TikTok was often described as an app for teenagers’ dance videos. In 2025, it’s a juggernaut with 170 million users in the United States and, according to the Justice Department, a national security threat that must be eliminated.The platform’s path from a whimsical dance app to the target of a federal ban has been dotted with recipes, niche drama, micro trends, new entries into the popular lexicon and overnight megastars — as well as legal troubles, Senate hearings and, finally, a widely watched Supreme Court case.Here’s a timeline of the app’s meteoric rise, and a reminder of…