Major Subway franchisee MTF Enterprises and its five business affiliates (including operations outside the restaurant industry like MTF Childcare) has filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy. The Lancaster, Penn.

One of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s transition advisers on crime once raged she didn’t care if Black Lives Matter protesters burned a department store to the ground — insinuating that demonstrators learned ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

The House passed a bill on Wednesday that would criminalize gender transition treatment for minors. The measure, sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., passed by a 216-211 vote with some ...

In Adam Johnson’s “The Wayfinder,” a highlight in a strong year of fiction, a young woman on a Polynesian island more than 500 years in the past ponders the significance of a whale that has beached on ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has chosen a formerly incarcerated rapper to serve on his City Hall transition team as he prepares to take office in New York City Jan. 1, according to reports. The ...

So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people to help advise his incoming administration on policy and ...

The author of “The Sweetness of Water” returns to the postbellum period with this western about June and Coleman, a formerly enslaved sister and brother who are separated by circumstances beyond their ...

SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson, the city's first democratic socialist mayor, has unveiled the team that will guide her transition into office, tapping into a variety of leaders across ...

Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson named a director and four co-chairs of her transition team Wednesday, marking her first significant decision since her election victory was confirmed last week. The ...

Around four on a recent Thursday afternoon, the second floor of the Center for Fiction buzzed with a near-silent hum of productivity. Light streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows as writers ...