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THE TWISTED LOVE STORY OF JOSE AND LADDY BETTY

A 95-year-old diamond heiress and her much younger genderfluid spouse became social media stars. Was theirs a feelgood romance for the agesor something far darker?

Love Trouble Is My Business- “President Reagan resembled a bashful cowboy the other day when he was asked about the apparent collapse of the ‘Star Wars' talks with the Soviet Union. . . .

Francis X. Clines, in the Sunday Times . . . : “President Reagan resembled a bashful cowboy the other day when he was asked about the apparent collapse of the ‘Star Wars’ talks with the Soviet Union. . . .

TALKING DIRTY

Chelsea Handler sexes up late night.

A CRACK IN THE GREASEPAINT

How \"Saturday Night Live\" breaks the mold.

CHABLIS Donald Barthelm

My wife wants a dog. She already has a baby. The baby’s almost two. My wife says that the baby wants the dog.

PRYOR LOVE

The life and times of America's comic prophet of race.

CORRECTIONS

Because of an editing error, an article in Friday’s theatre section transposed the identifications of two people involved in the production of “Waiting for Bruce,” a farce now in rehearsal at the Rivoli. Ralph W. Murtaugh, Jr., a New York attorney, is one of the play’s financial backers.

DEAD MAN LAUGHING

Jokes run through a family.

BRAVO!

\"Funny Girl.\"

LGA-ORD

Then, Beckett decided to become a commercial pilot. . . . “I think the next little bit of excitement is flying,” he wrote to McGreevy.

What's So Funny?- A scientific attempt to discover why we laugh.

A scientific attempt to discover why we laugh. How the brain processes humor remains a mystery. It’s easy to make someone smile or cry by electronically stimulating a single region of the brain, but it’s astonishingly difficult to make someone laugh. The “laughter circuit” is complex and various. Puns are processed on the left side of the brain by gyri, bumpy areas on the surface of the cerebral cortex; more complex, non-wordplay jokes are routed through gyri on the right side of the brain and also trigger electronic activity in many other parts of the brain.

72 MINUTES WITH ...Sophie Brickman

On a recent mercilessly hot morning, the eastern sidewalk of Central Park West is filled with women in linen and sandals pushing strollers north.

Is There Such a Thing As a Good Fishbowl?

IF ALL PETS ARE to some extent prisoners, pet fish often get the harshest sentence.

A Pigeon You Can't Ignore

Dinosaur, by artist Iván Argote, is coming to nest atop the High Line for 18 months.

A Picnic in the Country

Phoebe Sung and Peter Buer, founders of the home-goods company Cold Picnic, have decked out their Delaware County farmhouse in warm designs.

Naomi Ackie Is No Novice

The actress keeps almost breaking out. Can her role in a new thriller be the difference?

Not Like Nonna

Small portions and high prices undermine Massara's genial charm.

Bidenism brought Kamala Harris and the Democrats to the brink of catastrophe. Obamaism can save them. YES, SHE CAN

WHEN SHE CAME forward as the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee this summer, Kamala Harris offered what has become a standard tribute to the man who had anointed her.

The Body Politic: Rebecca Traister

The Nice Men of the Left An election defined by two very different kinds of guys.

Tomorrow: Elizabeth Weil

Killing Season Deaths from extreme heat are just beginning.

Your Table Is Ready.The Clock Is Ticking.

Restaurants are enforcing strict time limits― whether or not diners are done.

Jennifer Till Went for It

The Bride of Chucky star on how she got one of her most iconic parts. As told to Angelica Jade Bastién

EVERYONE KNEW ABOUT THE A-TEAM

How did the ALEXANDER BROTHERS become fixtures of the city's real-estate elite-and two of them become high-powered brokers while allegedly raping or assaulting more than a dozen women?

The Devil on Wall Street

An immersive production aims to enfold you in sex, horror, and high capitalism.

CRITICS

Alison Willmore on Trap... Jackson McHenry on Life and Trust... Kathryn VanArendonk on Joe Rogan's Burn the Boats.

Microplastics Are Everywhere, But Are They Harming Us?

Microplastics have been found in the ocean and the air, in our food and water. Minuscule plastics have been detected in air, water and soil, in milk, and in bottled and tap drinking water. They also have been found in a variety of foods, including salt, sugar, honey, rice and seafood.

And How! - Decorator Nick Olsen transforms a Sag Harbor home into a Hamptons retreat with an irreverent humor.

If you must go to the Hamptons, however-because it is devilishly good fun, after all-you may notice an apparently modest, low-slung cottage on Sag Harbor's Main Street and think, with a comfortable sort of feeling, Now that is how a house should look. Nestled amid the Botox bars, helipads, and club-staurants, it could almost set the sordid world aright both a rebuke and a solution to the chaos that surrounds it. A real home.

SO OVER THE RAINBOW

Stone color trends seem to ebb and flow at a monthly clip, but mixing black and white is forever.

THE Hottest SPORTS STORY YOU'LL READ ALL YEAR

There's a reason romance author Ana Huang has sold more than 8 million books. And that reason is...well, see for yourself in this exclusive excerpt of her highly anticipated novel The Striker, about her fan-favorite hero, pro soccer star Asher Donovan, and former ballerina Scarlett DuBois. Is there sexual tension? Yes. Will there be steam, sweat, and exertion? Yes. Should you stop reading this intro and start diving right in? Yes.

The New Noir

THE VOLVO XC60 BLACK EDITION ADDS ITS NAME TO THE LONG HISTORY OF ICONIC BLACK-ON-BLACK DESIGN.