The American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommended on Tuesday that its members refrain from performing gender transition procedures on young patients until they reach age 19, a shift that comes at a time of mounting opposition to such care at the state and federal levels. The group’s new position stands …

President Trump’s determination to blow up the current global order has spawned a cottage industry devoted to explaining his view of how the world works and America’s role in it. Professors and pundits have invoked great-power politics and ruthless realism, as well as previous presidents and authoritarian strongmen. But there …

“We do train, we do prepare for the games and, in our case, during the opening ceremony, we have our own Olympics final,” Mr. He recalled breathing a sigh of relief when the biggest controversy around the opening ceremony two years ago in Paris related to artistic performance and not …

For years, Lee Kyong Min’s life revolved around shuttling her two daughters from school to cram schools to home. It was a routine followed by nearly every other parent she knew, all sharing the same goal: making sure their children got into South Korea’s best universities. The decisive element was …

He invoked a freedom song from the civil rights movement, “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ’Round,” to criticize the Trump administration officials who had pursued his arrest, charging in an indictment that he had helped organize the protest and had threatened churchgoers who were exercising their rights. “They don’t …

Nearly one month after a federal immigration agent shot and killed Renee Good, 37, in Minneapolis, two of her siblings, Brent and Luke Ganger, appeared on Capitol Hill on Tuesday and urged lawmakers to move to rein in the deportation crackdown. “In the last few weeks, our family took some …

President Trump laced into the CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins in the Oval Office on Tuesday, calling her “the worst reporter” and scolding her for not smiling as she tried to ask about the latest release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. “She’s a young woman — I don’t think I’ve …

President Trump doubled down on his extraordinary call for the Republican Party to “nationalize” voting in the United States, even as the White House tried to walk it back and members of his own party criticized the idea. Trump said on Tuesday that he believed the federal government should “get …

What started last year as an effort from the administration to investigate antisemitism on the Cambridge, Mass. , campus quickly morphed into a broad attack on the university, including 13 investigations from 10 federal agencies. Trump said Harvard should have a cap on the number of international students enrolled. That …

When the Canadian comic actress Catherine O’Hara died last week at 71, fans mourning her loss had no shortage of works to revisit: “Waiting for Guffman,” “Beetlejuice,” “Home Alone,” “Schitt’s Creek. ” But it was her turn in Christopher Guest’s 2000 mockumentary “Best in Show” that people seemed to gravitate …