The cars, drivers and teams are still getting ready and are now in a time crunch, but the 2026 Indianapolis 500 field is set. Alex Palou will lead the 33-car field to green for The Greatest Spectacle ...

Defending Indy 500 winner Alex Palou will start in the top spot again this year at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The four-time IndyCar champion, who won the pole in 2023, qualified first Sunday at the ...

This is the starting lineup for the 2026 Indianapolis 500. The 200-lap race is scheduled for Sunday, May 24, on the 2½-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval. The Indy 500 starting lineup features 11 ...

A writer and her 12-year-old daughter grapple with their family legacy while on a road trip through Sicily in this arresting and layered novel from Luiselli (Lost Children Archive). After a “slow, ...

Even Mother Nature herself is a Tyler Reddick fan. Rain descended upon Talladega's iconic thoroughfare on Saturday morning, bringing out the red flag. Reddick was the beneficiary of the slick ...

Students at the nation’s most prestigious university are being taught remotely using online lectures filmed in the COVID era. The University of Melbourne, which said this week it was facing a ...

Here are some of our staff’s favorites, for ages 4 to 8. By The New York Times Books Staff We polled our editors and writers about the best chapter books for beginning readers. These are our favorites ...

Who is on the pole for the NASCAR race tomorrow? The NASCAR Cup Series Starting Lineup at Darlington Raceway is set following qualifying for the Goodyear 400. In the 37-driver field, tire ware is ...

Internationally renowned novelist and essayist Yiyun Li has become known for writing that probes life’s hardest realities. Li, a recipient of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, ...

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with ...

American workers are in founder mode. Nationally there were 532,319 new-business applications in January, according to the Census Bureau, 36.8% more than a year earlier. On LinkedIn, the number of ...