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President Trump hid in an airport catering container and was taken to a military jet for a secret flight out of country after the NATO summit last month.
A group of homeowners had sued the city, arguing that the introduction of the tax was mishandled. After the judge issued an order pausing the rollout, the city said it would appeal.
Just shy of 44 with boyish good looks, Rob Sand is very much a moderate, but he has a withering critique of the political establishment in this country.
Investigators are focusing on the tour operator and the pilot of the boat that capsized in New York Bay on Saturday, killing a mother and her infant daughter.
The deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents into the streets has been expensive. How effective it has been is debatable.
The Israeli prime minister, facing a tough upcoming election, is trying to satisfy the sometimes competing demands of his right-wing base and of President Trump.
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, makes six-figure income from a cellphone tower on the grounds of a hospital where he was a board member.
The Trump administration has dismantled the agency that ensures that research makes its way into medical practice.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and state transit officials announced a plan to study a heat-capture system that could cool a notoriously hot train station and help heat city buildings in the winter.
In Texas, there’s one thing liberals and conservatives agree on: They don’t want cameras trained on their cars.
The democratic socialist is the front-runner to win the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin on Tuesday.
Weather at the start of the week looks like more of the same: heat and storms across the Eastern United States. But a subtle shift is in the cards.
Flock Safety’s automated license plate-reading cameras, used by thousands of law enforcement agencies in the U.S., have drawn intense criticism from civil liberties groups.
The president and his top aides have been especially bullish about data centers, despite national blowback against the facilities.
A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that talks with Oman on shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz were “separate” from discussions to fully reopen the waterway.
The Senate primary race in Minnesota will be the latest test of left-wing energy in the party, in a state that was convulsed by the Trump administration’s deadly immigration crackdown this winter.
As Waymo deploys more driverless cars to 15 U.S. cities and counting, its vehicles keep encountering new and unexpected situations that they have no script to handle.
Duane Davis’s book boasted of his role in the killing of Tupac Shakur. The memoir, which he now disavows, has become prime evidence in his murder trial, which starts this week.
The pop-country megastar is still thrilling young audiences and influencing a new generation of musicians.
Palestinian authorities and family members said Israeli settlers beat and killed a Palestinian-American man. Israel said the violence began when Palestinians threw stones at Israeli civilians.
The president’s supporters portray him as a top dealmaker. But, at least for now, far more trading partners have gotten stiff tariffs than trade deals.
The company has invoked the murder of an executive last year to complain about coverage in news outlets, on streaming services and on social media.
The order meant details in the case, which involves allegations of adultery, would not be public as the Texas attorney general challenges Senator John Cornyn in the 2026 primary.
Investigators released a preliminary account of the crash, describing how the plane struggled after its fuel supply was cut.
A focus on the Boeing 787’s fuel switches in a preliminary assessment raised questions about the pilots’ actions, but much is still unknown about Flight 171.
For decades, he tended a SoHo loft filled with dirt, made by the conceptual artist Walter De Maria. People made pilgrimages to see it — and Mr. Dilworth, its magnetic steward.
A reporter was familiar with the insurance giant under scrutiny and the law firm known for its attack stance. Then one hired the other.
Camp officials across the country said they had heard from worried parents after the Texas floods. As they try to reassure them, some camps are adding more safety procedures.
Volunteers and professionals from around the country and Mexico are still searching the challenging terrain for victims of the Texas flood.
The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was found during a drilling project.
In last month’s decision limiting one judicial tool, universal injunctions, the court seemed to invite lower courts to use class actions as an alternative.
The actor has a man-out-of-time quality that makes him surprisingly like his character. But he is hyperaware of the present expectations riding on his performance.
Immigrant workers are central to recovery efforts in neighborhoods burned in the January wildfires, but recent raids have led some to stay home.
Most people enter retirement without any idea how to manage withdrawing their savings without running out of money. Here is what you need to know.
Federal prosecutors investigating Jeffrey Maddrey, who resigned over sexual abuse accusations, learned of the request during an investigation into overtime misuse in his office.
A federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions.
Earlier this year, President Trump suggested he wanted to shutter the agency. Now, he says his aides “fixed it up in no time.”
Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence: the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations since Oct. 7.
In return, the White House would restore some of the more than $400 million in federal research funding it canceled, according to people familiar with ongoing discussions.
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.
The director of the reboot, James Gunn, called the superhero from the planet Krypton “an immigrant,” thrusting the summer popcorn movie into an Earthbound culture war.
Traders have repeatedly shrugged off President Trump’s disruptive tariff wars and fiscal policy, pushing U.S. stock prices back into expensive territory, our columnist says.
Eagle Creek’s experience underscores how President Trump’s chaotic approach to tariffs is having a real impact, even before the toughest levies take effect.
The Israeli military needs American help to destroy a key nuclear site in Iran. Waiting for that help comes with risks for Israel.
A panel rejected a lower-court’s finding that it was likely illegal for President Trump to use state troops to protect immigration agents from protests.
China, which depends on Iran for oil and to counter American influence, has a lot to lose from a wider war. But there’s not much it can do about it.
Confronted with tariffs and scrutiny in the United States and Europe, Chinese consumer brands are betting that they can become household names in Latin America’s biggest economy.
The 25-year-old man told the police that he had gone to the home of Mayor Paul Young to confront him about crime. The police later found a stun gun, rope and duct tape in the man’s car, they said.
While President Trump appears to be offering one more off ramp to the Iranians, he also is bolstering his own military options.
Both sides agreed that the investigation into the death of Ms. Read’s boyfriend, a Boston police officer, was flawed and plagued by unethical and unprofessional conduct.
The boy was standing under a tree when lightning hit and an electrical current transferred to a chain necklace around his neck, a law enforcement official said.
U.S. intelligence officials said Iran was likely to pivot toward producing a nuclear weapon if the U.S. attacked a main uranium enrichment site, or if Israel killed its supreme leader.
Voice mail messages promising violence against Zohran Mamdani, a progressive Democrat, came as attacks on politicians, judges and other government officials have skyrocketed.
The evidence is stacking up that the drug is associated with a greater likelihood of heart problems.
The retrenchment on transgender rights is fueled by fear: fear of the future, fear of unfamiliar concepts, fear of not knowing one’s child.
The policy says that ICE field offices are not subject to a federal law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to immigration facilities that “detain or otherwise house aliens.”
Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.
Pouria Amirshahi, a leftist member of Parliament, hopes that the decision will be reversed so that he can travel to meet lawmakers to understand life under President Trump.
Officials ordered a huge cleanup effort after videos of the mountains of garbage spread widely online.
With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.
President-elect Donald J. Trump arrived at Madison Square Garden for an Ultimate Fighting Championship event, which for a brief moment resembled one of his campaign rallies.
The president-elect’s early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.
The incoming Trump administration promises an immigration crackdown. But for years, the on-demand economy has been fueled by unscrupulous staffing agencies exploiting migrant workers.
Mr. Trump has criticized the Biden administration for what he calls its lax handling of the border — but it has left him with tools he can use to shut down the border.
Where Donald J. Trump’s critics see underqualified nominees with questionable judgment, his voters described them as mavericks recruited to shake up Washington.
President-elect Donald J. Trump is more contemptuous than ever of Washington expertise and determined to hire people based on loyalty.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for health secretary opposes fluoride in water, promotes unproven Covid therapies and has threatened to prosecute medical journals.
The North Dakota governor, who helped strengthen ties between the oil industry and President-elect Donald J. Trump, will do double duty as Interior secretary.
The Biden administration had warned that the United States would consider any Iranian attempt on Mr. Trump’s life to be “an act of war,” officials said.
Growing worldwide energy demand and other factors have shifted the calculus, but hurdles still lie ahead.
Institutions meant to promote civility, from soccer to song, have come under severe stress from rising antisemitism and anti-immigrant politics.
Processed foods are in the cross hairs of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but battling major companies could collide with President-elect Donald J. Trump’s corporate-friendly goals.
Trends in child health are in fact worrisome, and scientists welcome a renewed focus on foods and environmental toxins. But vaccines and fluoride are not the cause.
The wealthy entrepreneur, tapped by Donald Trump to co-lead an outside effort focused on “efficiency,” campaigned on an assertion that the president has the power to fire 75 percent of the federal work force.
The world has changed since Donald J. Trump’s last term as president. Mark Landler, the London bureau chief of The New York Times, describes what Mr. Trump’s choices so far say about his foreign policy ambitions.
The last five presidents have all had periods where both the House and the Senate were in friendly hands — but most lasted just two years before the backlash set in.
The North Dakota governor helped strengthened ties between the oil industry and President-elect Donald J. Trump
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s advisers on health, is taking aim at the agency’s oversight on many fronts.
The tech billionaire, a top adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, was reported to have discussed ways to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States.
Senior law enforcement officials face a wave of uncertainty as Donald J. Trump moves to nominate a fierce partisan and a longtime ally to fill one of the most powerful cabinet posts.
Republicans and Democrats alike insisted that the findings of the House Ethics Committee, which has been investigating the Florida Republican for years over sexual misconduct and other charges, be made public.
Using Project 2025 as a blueprint, the group Democracy Forward says it has prepared a raft of potential legal challenges to respond to the Trump-Vance agenda as soon as Day 1.
Readers are concerned that his campaign proposals would put Social Security’s finances on thinner ice, endangering their payments.
President Biden will attend global summits in Peru and Brazil as world leaders prepare for the return of Donald Trump’s isolationist foreign policy.
There is widespread concern that President-elect Donald J. Trump may end it, since he has tried before. But that may be the wrong thing to fear.
Arab Americans and liberal Jewish voters, however, have ample reason to fear the naming of pro-settlement, pro-Netanyahu officials to top foreign policy posts in the new administration.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet picks show that he prizes loyalty over experience and is fueled by retribution.
The committee has been investigating allegations that Mr. Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for attorney general, engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use.
The party protected vulnerable incumbents and picked off Democrats in competitive districts, handing the president-elect a unified Congress to enact his agenda.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be attorney general has set a new bar for in-your-face nominations.
Many Republican senators were stunned that Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, had been chosen as the nominee, and expressed skepticism that he could secure enough votes for confirmation.
Ms. Gabbard, a former congresswoman who left the Democratic Party, would hold a top job in the administration, overseeing 18 spy agencies.
The president-elect said Senator Rubio would be “a strong advocate for our nation, a true friend to our allies and a fearless warrior who will never back down to our adversaries.”
The choice of the Fox News host and veteran was outside the norm. But he was a dedicated supporter of President-elect Donald J. Trump during his first term.
“Isn’t it nice to win?” the president-elect asked to raucous applause by fellow Republicans. The influential billionaire Elon Musk joined him at the meeting and also received a standing ovation.
Intent on changing the U.S. food supply under the incoming Trump administration, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. passed judgment on the president-elect’s culinary choices during a recent podcast interview.
Mrs. Trump declined the invitation for the traditional meeting between the incoming and outgoing presidential spouses.
He’s on the patio. He’s on the golf course. Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world’s richest man.
The two wealthy entrepreneurs will lead what the president-elect called the Department of Government Efficiency, which he said would seek “drastic change.” But the announcement left a lot unanswered.
Ms. Noem, the governor of South Dakota, would play a major role in carrying out the president-elect’s promises to crack down on the border and deport millions of people.
Jumping from the high school ranks to lead one of the most storied programs in college football, he lost games but rarely lost hope.
The State Department said Israel needs to take more steps to improve the situation among Palestinians. The United States had given the country 30 days to meet aid criteria.
The department store is canceling an annual show that has long drawn tourists to its flagship store in New York City.
The disclosures that Jack Teixeira shared on a social media platform raised questions over how a relatively low-ranking Air National Guardsman had access to some of the country’s most sensitive secrets.
A blaze apparently connected to an Amtrak substation in the Bronx caused a power outage and a disruption that was expected to last through the day.
The choice of Mr. Hegseth, a dedicated supporter of the president-elect in his first term, is outside the norm of the traditional choice for the post.
Mr. Ratcliffe, who was also a Texas congressman, fought fiercely for Donald Trump during his first term.
Countries promised to move away from coal, oil and natural gas at last year’s climate summit. New research shows they’re are burning more than ever before.
When asked about whether President-elect Donald Trump would prevent a TikTok ban in the United States, a spokeswoman told The New York Times: “He will deliver.”
The authorities spent weeks searching a Wisconsin lake for the man’s body before discovering that he had moved money into a foreign bank account and had been communicating with a woman in Uzbekistan.
A host of problems that will need more subtle and sophisticated uses of force and coercive diplomacy will confront the new president.
Also, a judge blocked a Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
The Supreme Court is largely to blame for the challenges it may face over the next four years.
An irrepressible force who remained relevant over the course of a seven-decade career, he had a hand in every major development in modern jazz.
Investors have been comforted by a clear election result and are anticipating tax cuts and deregulation from a second Trump administration.
Higher education has been a favorite target of Republicans who believe schools have tilted leftward. Now, colleges and universities are bracing for the Trump administration to take action.
The ruling is probably the first in what could be a long legal fight for conservative Christian groups hoping to amplify public expressions of faith.
In interviews, these voters, especially men, questioned what dividends have come from their loyalty: “I’m just kind of over it all.”
Warwick Schiller made his name as an expert trainer. An enigmatic little horse completely changed his outlook.
This hexagonal home, hidden on an Oahu mountaintop, is the best example of Vladimir Ossipoff’s blend of Japanese and American midcentury design.
After months of wobbling, a fresh jobs report showed that hiring and wage growth is strong, aligning with other robust economic data.
After months of wobbling, a fresh jobs report showed that hiring and wage growth is strong, aligning with other robust economic data.
The data reversed recent signs of a labor market slowdown, probably taking away the argument for a big rate cut at the Federal Reserve’s next meeting.
A record surge in new businesses has helped drive job growth, and could have longer-term benefits.
The International Longshoremen’s Association received a new wage offer and will halt its walkout at East and Gulf Coast ports, which began Tuesday.
The former officers were acquitted of the most serious charge in the case — violating Mr. Nichols’s civil rights by causing his death.
Punishing hours, dilapidated facilities and an ill-conceived retiree program left the agency without the personnel it needed in a year of threats and violence.
In a survey of 50 members of the D.C. legal establishment, many warn that Trump could follow through on his threats to prosecute his political adversaries.
The president’s planned visit on Thursday follows a day in the Carolinas, where he sought to reassure the hurricane’s victims that the federal government would support recovery efforts.
Ms. Cheney, the most prominent Republican to endorse the Democratic nominee, will appear alongside her in Ripon, Wis., where meetings in 1854 helped lead to the party’s formation.
Most of the deaths from Hurricane Helene occurred far from Florida, where the storm first made landfall. Experts say alerts and evacuation orders need to target inland residents too.
Under pressure to control housing costs, Republican lawmakers rejected standards meant to protect against disasters, experts say.
If elected again, he would become the oldest president by the end of his term. Yet he is refusing to disclose even basic health information.
Modern technology has been slow to return to mountain towns after Helene. Whiteboards and gatherings are helping residents find missing people and much-needed supplies.
Judge Tanya Chutkan made public portions of a filing by prosecutors setting out their argument for why the case should go forward despite the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.
Israel seems ready to respond in a much more forceful and public way with Iran after Tehran launched its second massive missile attack on Israel this year, analysts and officials say.
Missiles over Tel Aviv fed Donald Trump’s narrative of a world in chaos and vaporized any hopes of an end to the war. In the near term, that poses political problems for Democrats.
At three colleges, there were snacks, big screens and homework assignments. But energy and enthusiasm were sparse — and by the end, even more so.
Both vice-presidential candidates say the government should spend more on child care, a rare point of agreement. But there are still major differences in how they talk about families and gender roles.
Iran’s second missile barrage against Israel is unlikely to deter its foe, experts say, but may help retain the support of the “Axis of Resistance” it has built up over years.
The main questions now are how much the conflict will escalate and whether the United States will get more directly involved in the defense of Israel.
JD Vance sailed fairly smoothly through some 90 minutes of Tuesday’s debate with Tim Walz. Then the subject turned to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Security analysts and former officials said the damage Israel had inflicted on Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militia, had stripped Tehran of much of its deterrence against a wider Israeli attack.
The barrage of missile fire came after much debate among Iranian leaders, officials there say.
The shooting took place on a major thoroughfare just as an eerie quiet descended on the city ahead of a widely anticipated Iranian missile attack.
A look back to an exchange of strikes in April suggests one possibility for what could unfold over the coming days.
Already crippled by years of economic decline, political paralysis and other crises, Lebanon has little but its own citizens’ grit to survive the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
In southern Appalachia, blocked roads and bad cellphone service have made it hard to find hundreds of people who are still unaccounted for.
Israel says it aims to cripple Hezbollah’s forces in an area of southern Lebanon that the armed group controls, and where it has built tunnels into Israel.
Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association walked out for the first time since 1977 in a standoff over wages, benefits and job security.
Transportation and warehousing sectors are poised to first feel the pinch, with a broader economic fallout expected if the strike drags on.
One of the sport’s greatest players, he set a record with 4,256 career hits. But his gambling led to a lifetime ban and kept him out of the Hall of Fame.
Bruce Tipton, 75, was in his trailer home when it was washed away by Tropical Storm Helene’s floodwaters. As his agonized family watched, he slipped into the raging river.
Worries of flooding had not been top of mind as the mountain-ringed city flourished in recent years as a haven for artists, chefs, brewmasters, entrepreneurs and retirees.
While the region hit hardest is largely rural, it holds a healthy share of the state’s nearly 7.7 million registered voters.
The additional forces, which one official placed at between 2,000 and 3,000, will bolster security for the 40,000 U.S. troops already in the region and help defend Israel, officials said.
Hurricanes typically weaken over land. But if the ground is already wet from earlier rains, storms can receive an extra jolt that keeps them churning.
The Biden administration is struggling to halt cooperation among Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. It feels urgency over the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East while also aiming to protect Taiwan.
After a weekend of intense talks, the American officials said they believed that Israel was planning only smaller, targeted incursions in southern Lebanon.
Iran united militias to take on Israel, but as the Israelis pummel one, Hezbollah, the rest have so far largely failed to come to its aid.
The escalation of violence between Israel and its Iran-backed proxies across the Middle East threatened to bring the combatants closer to a regional war.
Emergency workers are rescuing people from homes as they try to repair roads, power lines and water systems. Helene has killed at least 37 people in the state and more than 90 overall.
After hitting Florida’s Gulf Coast, Helene tore through the Southeast and particularly ravaged western North Carolina with floods and mudslides. The overall death toll rose to more than 90.
The United States’ ability to influence events in the Mideast has waned, and other major nations have essentially been onlookers.
Leaders in Tehran suggested it would be the Lebanese militia that would strike back at Israel after the killing of Hassan Nasrallah and bombings in Beirut.
Tehran is faced with deciding how, or whether, to retaliate after the death of the leader of Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militia and Iranian proxy.
After the 2006 war with Hezbollah, Israel invested heavily to intercept the group’s communications and track its commanders in a shadowy war that ultimately led to the killing of the group’s leader.
Israeli officials gave their American counterparts no advance warning of the strike that killed Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime leader of Hezbollah, according to U.S. officials. But Mr. Biden said the killing was “a measure of justice” for victims of Hezbollah terrorism.
The Israeli military decided to strike at the Hezbollah leader because it believed there was only a short window before he disappeared to a different location, three senior Israeli officials said.
The militia group seemed content to trade blows with Israel while avoiding a major conflict. A strike that killed its leader proves it miscalculated.
Most of the victims were women killed in one house, according to the police, who have started a manhunt for the gunmen.
To truly appreciate her novels, we have to stop imagining that they’re all about her, or about us.
Spending a personal fortune to fund a passion project isn’t folly. It’s the ultimate kind of cinematic courage.
If we can’t remember the things we read and watch and even loved, do they still “count”?
In its weird, shambolic spectacle, the record-setting game seemed to encapsulate the team’s entire dreadful season.
Residents of the booming region are confronting a new reality: Even when storms make landfall far away, their impact is being felt.
The normally unstoppable force of two veteran money reporters hit the immovable object of wretched industry conditions. Living in Brooklyn didn’t help.
If Ms. Harris were to win the “blue wall” and lose the Sun Belt swing states, the single electoral vote in Greater Omaha could determine the winner of the presidential election.
The race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has tightened in two of the Northern battlegrounds, New York Times/Siena College polls found.
A California woman facing trial on fraud charges is one of six people who received clemency during the Trump administration only to be accused of another crime.
It’s not just murders and mass shootings. Guns play a role in many of the country’s biggest problems.
Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected with ideas.
Mexican drug cartels are turning thousands of Americans into fentanyl smugglers, sending an army of couriers who can easily cross between both countries.
Eau Claire had a plan. But opponents, mostly from rural areas, were convinced that the newcomers would destroy their Midwestern way of life.
Mayor Eric Adams is the first modern-era New York City mayor to be indicted. But A. Oakey Hall, his little-known predecessor, faced criminal charges 150 years earlier.
Mayor Eric Adams was elected partly on the strength of his origin story, a narrative that shrouded questions of his character, judgment and associates.
Italy, an aging country, badly needs migrant labor and immigration, but the government has admitted that the pathways for legal entry are rife with abuse.
Visual evidence analyzed by The New York Times shows that nearby buildings were damaged in the attacks, which targeted Hezbollah’s leader. The extent of the destruction is not yet clear.
In 32 years in charge of Hezbollah, Mr. Nasrallah, 64, has built the Iranian-backed militia into an influential force in Lebanon and a potent adversary of Israel.
Although Israel, like many countries, is highly secretive about its weapons stockpiles, experts believe it could outlast adversaries in offensives on at least two fronts simultaneously.
An attack on a secret weapons lab was one of the most daring Israeli operations against the Iranian proxy group in years, covert in name only.
About a dozen people were arrested as demonstrators moved through the streets, condemning the Israeli prime minister over the country’s strikes on Lebanon and Gaza.
Three men were the first to be convicted under the city’s recently expanded national security law, which has greatly curtailed political speech.
The Department of Investigation is looking into whether Sheriff Anthony Miranda’s agency improperly took money from cannabis stores that it raided, closed and padlocked.
The Category 4 hurricane was expected to make landfall on the state’s gulf coast on Thursday evening.
A five-judge New York appellate panel questioned both the size and validity of a judgment of more than $450 million against Donald J. Trump at a hearing.
After landfall, the storm will move quickly into Georgia and the Carolinas, where it promises to bring even more rain.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it had found a defective part in the system that helps steer the aircraft after investigating an incident at Newark airport.
Mr. Adams accepted free airline tickets, lavish overseas accommodations and illegal foreign campaign donations, prosecutors said. He denied the charges.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel vowed to keep striking the Lebanese militants, who began launching rockets across the border almost a year ago in support of their Hamas allies in Gaza.
After reading from prepared remarks on immigration for 10 minutes, Donald J. Trump used the rest of a news conference to talk about everything else on his mind.
Alan E. Miller, convicted in three 1999 murders, appeared to shake and gasp after the gas began flowing, media witnesses said. The only other prisoner to be executed by nitrogen had a similar response.
The meeting signaled that the White House was preparing her to take over a thorny diplomatic relationship should she win the election in November.
Available antipsychotic treatments work by blocking dopamine receptors. The new drug, Cobenfy, takes a different approach.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several bills intended to atone for the state’s role in the oppression of Black Americans, but California legislators so far have sidelined proposals on cash reparations.
The indictment against Mayor Eric Adams includes revelations that range from the amusing to the horrifying.
Intelligence agencies concluded that granting Ukraine’s request to use Western missiles against targets deep in Russia could prompt forceful retaliation while not fundamentally changing the course of the war.
The federal indictment reveals how the city’s leader repeatedly failed in his duty to uphold the public trust.
The region has endured two other hurricanes recently, but many more people appeared to be evacuating this time, leaving their small coastal towns eerily empty.
You have to go way back to the days of the secular saint Fiorello La Guardia to come up with a New York mayor unencumbered by significant baggage.
As the war drags on, Ukraine’s president receives a quieter welcome in Washington and faces angry questions from some Republicans.
Vice President Kamala Harris is a sharp debater and a tireless campaigner, but televised interviews are a weakness. Her professional experience may explain why.
Harris advisers point to a number of brightening public polls showing that Donald Trump’s lead is eroding on the critical question of whom voters trust most on the economy.
The director’s latest is a great-man story about an architect, played by Adam Driver, driven by ideals and big plans. It’s a personal statement on an epic scale.
While promoting a memoir, the former first lady told Fox News that she blamed Democrats and members of the news media for the assassination attempts against her husband.
Mr. Coppola has spent $120 million on his new movie, “Megalopolis.” Most box office analysts predict that he’ll get far less in return.
Her medium is the tiny seed bead. Her canvas ranges from a 35-foot-long mobile home to the chauvinist history of Abstract Expressionism.
Russia attacked a number of cities a day after a devastating strike in the country’s east, Ukrainian officials said.
The devastation of the strikes on Tuesday was shocking even to Ukrainians who have seen many such scenes during the war.
Linda Sun, who also worked for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was accused of using her position to benefit the Chinese government in exchange for payments that went toward homes in New York and Hawaii, and a Ferrari.
The number of insurgent attacks has increased, officials say, as Iraq and the United States negotiate a plan to wind down the U.S.-led military mission.
Two ballistic missiles hit an educational institution and a neighboring hospital in Poltava, eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Ukrainian officials expressed outrage over the Russian leader’s visit, warning they would seek to “ensure that this has consequences” for Mongolia.
Ms. Yerushalmi, 24, was one of six captives whose bodies the Israeli military recovered from Gaza over the weekend. It was not clear when the video was taken.
Watch out for Good Samaritans with ulterior motives, packages in your mail and college students looking to make a quick buck, China tells its people.
A real estate collapse has made consumers cautious and businesses wary, as China confronts a crisis unlike any other since it opened its economy to the world.
In his first news conference since the bodies of six killed hostages were recovered, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to budge on his conditions for any truce in Gaza.
The people who voted against Donald Trump and for Nikki Haley in the G.O.P. primaries are weighing whether to support Kamala Harris. Either way, they could help sway a close election in swing states.
The Trump-Kennedy alliance followed a six-week crush of behind-the-scenes discussions, embarrassing missteps, secret meetings and private misgivings.
The president told reporters he would have more to say after a meeting later Monday in the White House Situation Room.
The union, which predates Israel’s founding, led a strike last year that helped force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to suspend a plan to overhaul the judiciary.
The vice president will appear with the president in Pittsburgh at their first joint campaign event since she took over the top of the ticket.
Hamas leaders spent years developing an underground warfare plan. Records from the battlefield show the group’s preparations, including blast doors to protect against Israeli bombs and soldiers.
The president returned to his refuge in Rehoboth Beach, Del., and hardly emerged as his job continued apace. Locals understood, but said they missed getting ice cream with him.
“They are like a bleeding wound, and no one sees it,” a schoolteacher said of her pupils, many of whom have fled frontline areas or lost family members in the fighting.
As interest in tennis increases, so do the crowds at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
The attack, the third large-scale bombardment in a week, coincided with intense fighting in eastern Ukraine and Russia.
The outage struck on Sunday, cutting access for many DirecTV viewers to the U.S. Open tennis tournament on ABC.
It was the latest effort by the Trump campaign to defend itself after the campaign defied a ban on political campaigning at Arlington National Cemetery.
The Israeli military said Sunday that Hamas had killed the hostages before they were discovered by Israeli troops on Saturday.
The prospect of a strong performance by the far-right Alternative for Germany party in two state elections is only one of the problems for Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Ukraine said Russia struck the country’s second-largest city with missiles and bombs. Russian state media and local officials earlier reported that Ukraine attacked power plants and refineries with drones.
Israel and Hamas agreed to pause the war to permit the vaccination of 640,000 children in Gaza, a daunting effort for health workers.
In presidential politics, campaigns are powered by billionaires. Here is a look at the most influential givers.
Donald J. Trump isn’t the first candidate to run afoul of the ban on partisan activity in Arlington National Cemetery. But no one else has responded as hostilely as his campaign has.
Her campaign’s message that Democrats are losing, which she never voiced when President Biden was tanking the ticket, is an artful attempt to lower expectations.
Though hotel chains say they’ll continue to operate normally, travelers could see disruptions as employees walked off the job in cities from Boston to Honolulu. Here’s what to know.
Ukraine gambled that its move into Russia would draw Moscow’s forces away from the town of Pokrovsk. It didn’t happen. And now resigned residents are evacuating daily.
The officers were shot and killed in what the Israeli police said was a terrorist attack. The incident followed a rise in Palestinian and Israeli violence, as Israel’s military raids Palestinian cities.
The U.S. government spending is too heavily lavished on its older people at the expense of its young.
Physical health and mental health are inextricably tied to each other. We need to devote the same care to both parts of ourselves.
A deadly listeria outbreak at the plant in Jarratt, Va., has residents worried about the town’s future.
At a Moms for Liberty event on Friday night, the former president passed up a pretty good opportunity.
There are few higher and better callings than to forge a bond with a person and provide a place where they belong.
Few things symbolize our national dysfunction as much as this accursed coin, which we mint by the millions because it’s too worthless to spend.
It’s so hot in Cairo that people like to go out all night. It might look like a party, but in reality, one shopkeeper said, “everybody is dead on the inside.”
Acadia Healthcare is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a Times investigation found.
Sal Strazzullo made a flashy career of representing minor celebrities and those in their orbit. His own affluence was a facade.
About a quarter of the residents of Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second-largest city, have moved away — and more are expected to soon follow.
Grueling shifts, abuse from the public and subpar security are nothing new to medical workers in India, where a ghastly killing has put a spotlight on their plight.
Two other officers were also shot, and one of them remains hospitalized. After a pursuit, the suspect was killed by the police, authorities said.
Seven million pounds of Boar’s Head meats have been recalled since late July, when reports of serious illnesses and deaths began to occur.
As east Germans vote, a region in decline is searching for answers on the political extremes.
Malika Andrews first caught the attention of fellow N.B.A. journalist Dave McMenamin as she conducted an interview with LeBron James.
Speeches and videos seek to shrink Donald Trump in order to rise above him, as Kamala Harris and her allies work to minimize him and disengage from him.
The plan does not appear to amount to government price controls. It also might not bring down grocery bills anytime soon.
President Biden made climate change a cornerstone of his agenda. Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to detail her own plan.
The Labor Department issued revised figures for the 12 months through March that point to greater economic fragility.
The attack came as Kyiv presses on with a cross-border offensive into western Russia that has rattled the Kremlin.
The Biden administration is pushing for a deal between Israel and Hamas with renewed urgency after months of lagging talks. Here’s a closer look at what the main differences appear to be.
So said former President Barack Obama after his wife electrified the Democratic National Convention. The delegates loved him, but they really loved her.
On Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention, the former first lady (and her husband) suited up for the next stage.
The automaker said it would invest less in battery-powered cars and scrap a planned electric three-row sport utility vehicle.
A preliminary hearing on Wednesday will determine the contours of the tax trial Hunter Biden faces in September. It is often a forum for discussions that could lead to a plea deal.
The damage inflicted on the nation during the former president’s first term in office pales in comparison to what he will do if he is elected to a second term.
A political persona forged on the prairie: self-assured but rarely self-serious; puckish when possible, stoic when necessary.
Iranian state media reported that the passengers were traveling to the Iraqi city of Karbala for Arbaeen, a Shiite Muslim holiday.
Every summer, hundreds of college-age musicians spend countless hours — and their own money — pursuing a single goal: the drum corps world championship.
Two weeks after Ukraine launched its surprise attack, Russian forces have recovered from the initial shock and are trying to use the expanding war to their battlefield advantage.
Edralina Diezon was working as a janitor and sending money to her family in the Philippines when wildfires destroyed everything she had. The road to rebuilding her life proved to be perilous.
The St. Louis County prosecuting attorney says the man should be exonerated. The Missouri attorney general says the court shouldn’t even hear the claim.
Four veterans who investigate claims of fraudulent military service said they do not believe the governor is guilty of “stolen valor,” but that he did misrepresent his record at times.
Ms. Harris is working to embody a powerful political force. But Donald J. Trump doesn’t want to let the incumbent party sell itself as anything but the status quo.
Here’s what our columnists and contributors thought of the event, which included speeches by Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, Doug Emhoff and Michelle and Barack Obama.
Mayor Eric Adams will sign an executive order that directs every city agency to investigate whether they have land that can be developed.
“All night, Democrats were chanting ‘We love you, Joe!’ while Biden must have been thinking, ‘Um, apparently not as much as others,” Jimmy Fallon said.
As hundreds of people appear in court for their role in recent anti-immigrant riots in Britain, several are accused of fueling disorder through online posts, raising questions about the limits of free speech.
Su Min became an internet sensation for leaving behind an abusive husband to drive across China alone. Now she’s ending the marriage, but there will be a price.
The A-list couple, who married in 2022, had attempted to rekindle their romance after close to two decades.
A Styles group chat on Season 4 of the Netflix series, with its Eurovision preparations, Claude Monet pond and cardigans included.
Mr. Santos, a former Republican congressman from New York, agreed to pay nearly $375,000 in restitution and will almost certainly face prison time.
Lawyers for Donald J. Trump had asked to move his sentencing in Manhattan on 34 felony counts to after the election. In a letter, prosecutors disputed many of their arguments.
Activists are pushing for policy changes on Gaza as Democrats hold their convention. Chicago officials are confident they will avoid a repeat of the chaos that unfolded in 1968.
The former president has been preoccupied with the popularity of the pop music megastar, who endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr. over him during the 2020 election.
Mrs. Clinton, who lost out on becoming the first female president, has been a behind-the-scenes ally for the woman now vying to do so.
A Palestinian teacher and all her children were killed in a strike in Deir al-Balah that the Israeli military said had targeted “a significant Islamic Jihad terrorist.”
Senator Jacky Rosen led her Republican opponent by double digits in two recent polls, but she is taking nothing for granted in her competitive and costly re-election race.
The attacks aim to destroy or damage crossings over a river in the Kursk region that are Russian forces’ only routes for resupply or retreat, military analysts say.
Floods swept Long Island early Monday, briefly closing highways. The same storm system dumped as much as 10 inches of rain on Connecticut a day earlier.
President Biden and his top aides have spent days reworking his original address, which he expected to give as the Democratic nominee, for a new moment.
Stalking the aisles, microphone in hand, he turned “The Phil Donahue Show” into a participation event, soliciting questions and comments on topics from human rights to orgies.
Vice President Kamala Harris has never commanded a spotlight this big. The party faces potential fractures over the war in Gaza. And Hillary Clinton’s speech will be a reminder of what might have been.
The unelected body that shapes voting rules has a new conservative majority who question the state’s 2020 results. They now have new power to influence the results in 2024.
On policy, the vice president is drafting off President Biden, essentially cherry-picking the most popular parts of his agenda and betting that a younger messenger can sell them to Americans.
Harris campaign officials and Democratic leaders have stepped up outreach to Arab and Jewish voters before the event, but large protests are still expected.
The secretary of state’s trip comes days after negotiations in Qatar ended without a major breakthrough.
The César-winning actor was an international favorite in the 1960s and ’70s, often sought after by the era’s great auteurs.
After struggling in recent years, Hollywood’s biggest movie company has now delivered four hits in a row, dominating the summer with a 42 percent market share.
His decision to quit the race ended a remarkable chapter in American political history — and started one that may yet define his legacy.
In the regional capital, those who left their homes as Ukrainian forces tore into western Russia are uncertain whether they can ever return to their old lives.
The newspaper in Minneapolis is expanding its statewide coverage and changing its name to The Minnesota Star Tribune.
The nation is in anguish as it buries its dead and enters a new era of authoritarianism.
He sought the office nearly all his life. When he finally got there, it brought out his best — and eventually his worst.
The football player Michael Oher believes his early life was misrepresented by the Oscar-winning movie and the book it was based on.
A far-right plank on immigration that is rooted in a baseless theory has found purchase among Republicans and right-leaning independents in parts of Ohio.
Nearly 14 years ago, Kamala Harris’s opponent in the California attorney general’s race gave an answer at a little-watched debate that was frank — and fateful for the future Democratic presidential nominee.
Artists saw six-figure sales and heard promises of stardom. But with the calamitous downturn in the art market, many collectors bolted — and prices plummeted.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has mostly shown a pragmatic streak abroad. But at home, her government is plunging many gay families into panic.
As President Biden’s understudy, Ms. Harris did not often get to lead on signature issues. But she found roles to play on abortion rights, gun safety and a Supreme Court appointment.
The senator from West Virginia assesses the Democratic Party and its path to victory in November.
Residents of the village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank say one Palestinian man was killed by rampaging settlers. Israel’s military confirmed the village was attacked.
At a rally in Pennsylvania, former President Donald J. Trump vacillated between criticisms of the economy and immigration and personal attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris.
Changes in how real estate commissions are advertised and paid went into effect this weekend. Buyers and even some agents aren’t sure what they mean.
The Northwell Health system allowed filmmakers to make documentaries following its doctors, nurses and patients. It went so well, the hospital is starting a studio to make its own.
Sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones who tell themselves they’re actually helping.
Gains among Black, Hispanic and young voters lift her into a tie across four swing states, new Times/Siena polls show.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in close races across Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina, crucial swing states that Mr. Trump had seemed en route to run away with just a few weeks ago.
The former president’s vision of using the military to enforce the law domestically would carry profound implications for civil liberties.
Both candidates embrace expansions of government power to steer economic outcomes — but in vastly different areas.
Nemat Shafik was vilified on almost all sides for her handling of the protests over the Israel-Hamas war. When given an offramp, she took it.
A Russian advance toward Pokrovsk casts doubts on Ukraine’s hopes that its offensive in western Russia will prompt Moscow to scale back attacks elsewhere.
The funding stems from the bipartisan CHIPS Act, which aims to bolster the production of critical semiconductors in the United States.
Court papers show that Mr. Perry, the “Friends” star who had long struggled with addiction, was increasingly taking ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, in the days before he died.
The 1908 riot started by a white lynch mob in Springfield destroyed a Black neighborhood and led to the creation of the N.A.A.C.P.
Officials have denied Narges Mohammadi medical care, the attorney told Iranian news media, raising concerns about Ms. Mohammadi’s well-being.
Hunter’s alleged foreign lobbying misdeeds have appeared to fall just short of crossing the line into criminality. That has now changed.
As Kamala Harris visits to unroll her economic agenda, Democrats in the state are feeling hopeful. Working against her is over four decades of Republican victories, interrupted only by Barack Obama.
MultiPlan has helped big health insurers make billions by reducing reimbursements for medical bills, but its business model is now being questioned.
The satirical site is hoping a newspaper with fake stories and fake ads will lead to real money.
Kamala Harris has a once-in-a-generation chance to deal a hammer blow against Trumpism and pull American democracy back from the brink.
Kenya has strict rules about displaying the flag. But some people have been wearing and waving them, and draping them on coffins, as a symbol of resistance.
Amazingly prolific and beloved by Hollywood royalty, the actor has a self-image that belies his status and achievements. “I just work,” he said.
The city has become a hothouse for experimentation in local news. Could it serve as a model for the rest of the country?
The militant group has vowed to retaliate against Israel for the assassination of a commander. But if that leads to an all-out war, Lebanon may turn against it.
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, a 37-year-old daughter of the political power broker Thaksin Shinawatra, is becoming prime minister at a chaotic time.
Ying Ying is the oldest panda on record to give birth for the first time. Also unusual: her cubs were naturally conceived, a rarity for the vulnerable species.
The authorities have warned that the storm, which has already flooded some streets in the Tokyo area, could bring violent winds and cause landslides.
Shola, who assisted with search-and-rescue operations in the U.K., has moved to her second act: saving other English Shepherds from blindness.
As the popular dance show grew into an international juggernaut, some of the group’s young performers paid a steep price.
Price increases when demand exceeds supply are textbook economics. The question is whether, and how much, the pandemic yielded an excess take.
The New York City Council approved a rezoning plan that will produce nearly 7,000 housing units, some of which will be offered at below-market rents, near four new commuter rail stations.
The fall of Sudzha, about six miles from the border, would be Ukraine’s first capture of a Russian town since its troops crossed into Russian territory 10 days ago.
The offensive was developed in secret, devised to divert Russian troops away from the front lines in Ukraine and seize territory to use as a bargaining chip.
The Biden administration said it would have saved $6 billion had the new prices been in effect last year.
Law enforcement agencies have been working to identify the source of the ketamine that led to the “Friends” star’s death.
People close to President Biden say he still believes he could have won a second term. But he came to realize that the fight would rip apart the Democratic Party that he had served his whole life.
The vice-presidential candidate wasn’t always tough on firearms. When he ran for Minnesota governor, he tried to recast a legislative record that had gotten high marks from the N.R.A.
The reality of 130,000 displaced Russians and a chaotic official response may begin to puncture the official line that Russia is steadily heading toward victory.
Nemat Shafik is the third university president to resign in the wake of turbulent congressional appearances and strife connected to the Israel-Hamas war.
Dr. Shafik, who had faced pressure over her handling of pro-Palestinian protests on campus, announced her resignation on Wednesday.
Israel has severely set back Hamas but will never be able to completely eliminate the group, U.S. officials said.
The epidemic is concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the virus has now appeared in a dozen other African countries.
The Consumer Price Index reading in July was the mildest year-over-year increase since 2021.
The vice president is expected to recalibrate President Biden’s policy themes in a bid to turn the Democratic economic agenda into an asset.
Two swing states have seen a boost in Democratic sign-ups since Kamala Harris entered the race.
Justice Juan M. Merchan, who oversaw the trial that led to Donald J. Trump’s conviction, declined for a third time to step aside from the case, dismissing claims from defense lawyers that he had a conflict of interest.
A six-ton megalith at the heart of the archaeological site traveled more than 450 miles to get there, a new study concludes.
The Justice Department and state attorneys general are discussing various scenarios to remedy Google’s dominance in online search, including a breakup of the company.
Doctors in Canada have identified dozens of patients with similar, unexplained symptoms — a scientific puzzle that has now become a political maelstrom.
Ukraine hopes that such a move will relieve pressure on frontline units. But Moscow appears reluctant to withdraw troops from eastern Ukraine, where it has been steadily advancing.
The sabotage of the pipelines that carried Russian gas to Europe has become one of the central mysteries of the war in Ukraine.
The American-backed talks in Switzerland, starting on Wednesday, aim to halt a catastrophic civil war. But only one side says it will turn up.
At Copenhagen Fashion Week, outfits on and off the runway had a lively spirit that reflected the event’s location in a country known for its quality of life.
Early in her husband’s political career, she stepped in to help. Some wondered: Why isn’t she running?
Old Timer, a male first photographed in 1972, was spotted last month near Alaska, enduring in the Pacific Ocean while some other humpbacks have struggled in a changing environment.
Fans have mobbed athletes in public and staked out their homes. State media outlets denounced their “visibly aggressive” behavior.
As the vice president introduced her new running mate at an energetic rally in Philadelphia, he quickly demonstrated his ability to deliver searing attacks against Donald Trump and JD Vance.
Democrats think Gov. Tim Walz’s cultural ties are needed to talk to rural and working-class voters. But Republicans are not going to let his folksy style obscure a liberal record.
The governor succeeded in projecting an avuncular image. But not all voters are convinced that he rose above partisanship or united the state.
The selection of Yahya Sinwar, a prime target of Israeli forces, to replace the assassinated Ismail Haniyeh consolidates authority in the hands of a hard-liner who is in hiding.
Imane Khelif, of Algeria, moved past questions about her eligibility with a unanimous decision over her Thai opponent. She will now fight for a gold medal.
Investigators believe that the targets of the man, who had recently spent two weeks in Iran, likely included former President Donald Trump.
Mr. Sinwar, one of the main architects of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, has spent decades with the militant group, working his way to the top of its leadership.
The new government was being formed a day after Bangladesh’s longtime leader, facing fierce protests, fled the country.
As masses of people converged, angry at the killing of protesters, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina insisted that she could hold on, which military leaders said would mean spilling far more blood.
In search of a connection between two worlds — one beloved, one baffling — a bibliophile made a musical pilgrimage.
Days after an angry crowd marauded through Sunderland, people in the industrial port city are trying to make sense of what just happened.
Two federal agencies, backed by ample funding from Congress, have quietly shown that it is possible to make progress on a seemingly intractable problem.
The vice president is said to have liked Mr. Walz’s economic policies in Minnesota, including a statewide child tax credit and a paid-leave program, as well as his folksy Midwestern background.
The Minnesota governor, a former high school teacher and National Guard member, brings to the ticket Midwestern appeal and a plain-spoken way of taking on Donald Trump.
Mr. Walz captured Democrats’ attention with his “weird” takedown of Republicans. Here’s a look at the new vice-presidential candidate.
Kamala Harris’s V.P. pick, known for his folksy persona and rural Midwestern roots, has elevated the issue of climate change in his state.
With a 90 percent share of the A.I. chip market, the company is facing antitrust investigations into the possibility that it could lock in customers or hurt competitors.
Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge’s decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major ripple effects.
Ukrainian troops are engaged in a harsh struggle for Toretsk, a strategic city in eastern Ukraine that has been under relentless assault by Russian forces.
A rout that began in Asia continued in Europe, and U.S. stocks fell sharply. Some investors said the sell-off was an overdue pullback.
A blaze in San Bernardino burned suburban homes and threatened others nearby, adding to an already intense California fire season.
The vice president is expected to announce her choice on Tuesday morning. One prominent Democrat recounted being asked by a contender, “Will you please make sure you put in a good word for me?”
Economists blamed a variety of factors for Monday’s slide. But Donald Trump was trying to disrupt weeks of momentum for Vice President Kamala Harris and her party.
The attack late Monday resembled previous ones carried out by Iraqi armed groups, backed by Iran, which have targeted the base repeatedly over the past nine months.
Two Olympians whose eligibility to compete as women at the Paris Games has come under scrutiny will fight for medals on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who once brought democratic hope to Bangladesh, turned increasingly autocratic and met her downfall in a crackdown on protesters.
President Biden convened his national security team and spoke with King Abdullah II of Jordan, and foreign ministers from Islamic countries plan to gather in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
The former campaign aide indicated in a Justice Department filing that she will be paid $50,000 a month by an oligarch to seek support for Ukraine.
The ruling on Google’s search dominance was the first antitrust decision of the modern internet era in a case against a technology giant.
Also, a judge ruled that Google violated antitrust laws and Bangladesh’s leader resigned
The federal government has more lawsuits in the pipeline trying to rein in the tech giants, including another antitrust case against Google that goes to trial next month.
The estimate focused on five cancers for which there is medically recommended screening — breast, cervical, colorectal, lung and prostate — and found that colonoscopies accounted for most of the costs.
She sealed her legacy with four medals at the Paris Games. She created it by being herself and going at her own pace.
This presidential campaign is playing out in fast forward. Strategists in both parties say speed is likely to benefit Vice President Kamala Harris.
Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow’s lawyer after records showed undisclosed flights between Hawaii and New Zealand with the Supreme Court justice in 2010.
Robin Davis spent a long career in finance and philanthropy haunted by what had happened to him as a boy. Could an unusual trial on Long Island help him find peace?
After fleeing Vienna, he was a music critic and teacher before returning to composing in the 1980s. His memories of Nazi barbarism inspired his music.
The food at the Coleman-Richards reunion in Fayette County, Ky., offers a look at the family’s ties to America and Liberia.
In Missouri, Attorney General Andrew Bailey is in a tough primary fight against a Trump lawyer who says Bailey is soft on crime.
According to Mr. Trump’s post on social media, the debate will take place in Pennsylvania, a crucial battleground state.
Iran has begun a sweeping investigation into the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, with its intensity a sign of how damaging and shocking the security failure was.
Mr. Lam had been filling the post of general secretary temporarily since the death of his predecessor in July. Now he is in position to consolidate power.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III assumed direct oversight of the case and effectively put the death penalty back on the table.
Hostile governments like Russia and Iran are often involved, and practical alternatives are hard to come by, experts say.
Last year, the band’s frontman, Steven Tyler, suffered a vocal injury during a show, and the farewell tour was postponed. The band announced its retirement on Friday, saying a full recovery was not possible.
Hawaiian Electric is expected to pay the largest share — nearly $2 billion — but avoided a heftier price tag that could have forced the utility into bankruptcy.
The Pennsylvania governor, a top contender to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, wrote in his college newspaper that Palestinians were “too battle-minded.”
If deals are struck, Meta may incorporate the actors’ voices into a digital assistant product called MetaAI, people with knowledge of the effort said.
The drawing of Schiele’s wife was the focus of a trial at which three parties, all with Jewish roots, argued whether it had been looted by the Nazis and from whom.
The location of local snipers when Donald Trump was shot has become a point of deep dispute, with local officials suggesting that the Secret Service is trying to shift blame.
The Justice Department and special counsel Robert Mueller investigated whether a Trump adviser was part of an Egyptian plan, never proven, to funnel $10 million to the 2016 Trump campaign.
Ilya Yashin, a prominent opposition politician, said he appreciated his freedom, but told his jailers he did not want it if it meant going into exile.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III directed the new deployments after speaking with his Israeli counterpart.
By releasing a convicted assassin, Germany played a critical role in securing the freedom of 16 people held in Russia. But the decision has raised questions about political influence in legal cases.
Politicians have long cast their opponents as outsiders. But Donald J. Trump has taken the strategy to the next level against Kamala Harris.
Big technology companies show no signs of slowing their spending on artificial intelligence, even though a payoff still looks a long way away.
Online fury and unclear rules have left organizers of the women’s boxing competition in Paris facing complex questions about fairness in women’s sports.
A truce has been reached in a battle that pitted admirers of the city’s art museum against fans of a giant outdoor Marilyn Monroe sculpture.
The vice-presidential nominee favors economic policies that help advance a socially conservative vision of American society — and that sometimes clash with Trump’s own plans.
The contestants in the internet star’s “Beast Games” expected outlandish challenges and signed contracts that acknowledged risks of serious injury and death. Still, few were prepared for the conditions on set.
Harun Farocki, a German artist and documentarian, spent his career unpacking how consumer and military technology intermingle in even the most mundane images.
The strike was in retaliation for a deadly rocket attack this weekend in the Golan Heights. At least three civilians were killed and 74 others wounded on Tuesday, Lebanese officials said.
An N.B.A. star’s trash talk was good-natured but typical, elite players said. They say they play along with it … to a point.
After a spate of positive tests for performance-enhancing drugs by athletes, the World Anti-Doping Agency is investigating why China and other countries are citing contaminated food as an explanation.
Iranian officials condemned the attack and warned that Hezbollah and Lebanon had the right to retaliate against Israel.
Ms. Dunn, the president’s senior adviser, will consult for a super PAC supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s fledgling presidential campaign.
Wealthy Democrats who support Pete Buttigieg are working behind the scenes to help him win a spot on Kamala Harris’s ticket.
The draft travel schedule, according to two people briefed on her plans, suggests that Vice President Kamala Harris will name her running mate a little earlier than her team had planned.
Ronald Rowe Jr. said communications problems between the Secret Service and local law enforcement led to a failure to protect former President Donald Trump during a shooting on July 13.
Vice President Kamala Harris will rally in the battleground state on Tuesday as crucial parts of the party’s base, particularly Black voters, are re-energized. But excitement still has to be translated into votes.
The legislation would impose stricter privacy rules and safeguards for children on the internet and social media, but concerns about free speech and fierce industry lobbying pose challenges.
The Senate was set to pass the Kids Online Safety Act on Tuesday, but the legislation faces an uphill battle in the House because of censorship concerns.
The vice president is narrowing her choices. How do the top contenders match up on political skills that matter most?
China’s electric vehicle companies are making inroads in Thailand, a key industry hub, as Europe and the United States wield tariffs to keep them out.
After dominating sales in Thailand for decades, Mazda, Nissan and other Japanese companies are losing their grip on a market long viewed as a regional hub.
“It was like a fight between two packs of dogs,” said an officer, describing the struggle for one of the areas, Urozhaine. But “there came a moment when it made no sense to keep people there.”
U.S. officials say Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of El Chapo, forced Ismael Zambada García onto a plane bound for the United States, in a case that landed the two Sinaloa cartel leaders in custody last week.
The president has proposed overhauling a court that has become increasingly politicized. The effort requires congressional approval, which would be a long shot with a Republican-controlled House and a divided Senate.
She ran to the left as progressive ideas dominated the last competitive Democratic primary. Now, in a tough general election, Republicans are digging up her old stances.
Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman and other tech billionaires, many of whom are part of the “PayPal Mafia,” are openly brawling with one another over politics as tensions rise.
Democrats could formally make Kamala Harris their nominee this week, as she narrows her running mate choices and attacks her rivals, Donald Trump and JD Vance, while they hit the trail.
The result, which would give Nicolás Maduro six more years as president, is likely to be disputed by the opposition. The voting was riddled with irregularities.
Text messages, obtained exclusively by The Times, indicate that some law enforcement officers were aware of Thomas Crooks earlier than previously known. And he was aware of them.
The overnight strikes, a response to a rocket attack from Lebanon that killed 12 people in an Israeli-controlled town, stopped short of a major escalation, for now.
At a rally in Minnesota on Saturday, former President Donald J. Trump once more escalated his attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, painting her as extreme and mocking her demeanor.
Donald Trump, speaking at a Bitcoin conference, told cryptocurrency holders that he would end the “persecution” of their industry.
In the 12 days since Ohio’s junior senator was tapped as the future of Donald J. Trump’s movement, old comments and a chorus of derision have blunted any sense of invulnerability.
It was the deadliest single attack from across Israel’s northern border in months of hostilities. Israel blamed Hezbollah, which denied responsibility.
A former Yale Law School classmate shared with The Times about 90 emails and text messages with Mr. Vance. Here are some of the most revealing moments in their correspondence.
His political views differed from a transgender classmate’s, but they forged a bond that lasted a decade — until Mr. Vance seemed to pivot, politically and personally.
The vice president’s expressions of concern for Palestinian suffering marked a shift in emphasis from the president’s statements as she moved to establish herself as the leader of her party.
Undeterred by arson attacks on rail lines earlier in the day, the Parade of Nations continued beneath a glittering Eiffel Tower, where Celine Dion belted out a love anthem.
The arson attacks were carefully planned to cause maximum disruption on a train network so vast it is virtually impossible to fully secure.
Thousands of miles of tracks leave the French system vulnerable to sabotage. But the suspected arsonists also knew just where to strike.
An absence of medical records or official accounts has stirred confusion, but a Times video and trajectory analysis indicates a bullet, not debris, wounded the former president.
The two men, Ismael Zambada García and Joaquín Guzmán López, run the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most dominant criminal groups in Mexico.
Los hombres dirigen el Cártel de Sinaloa, uno de los grupos delictivos más dominantes de México.
In a survey taken after President Biden stepped aside, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are locked in a tight race separated by a single percentage point among likely voters.
Given weeks instead of years to cultivate donors, the vice president’s allies are armed with a new logo and burning up the phones.
The directive from Gov. Gavin Newsom is the nation’s most sweeping response to a Supreme Court decision last month that gave local leaders greater authority to remove homeless campers.
In a TV interview airing on Thursday, Harry said his efforts against British newspapers over illegal information gathering were a “central piece” of his estrangement from other royals.
The report on gross domestic product offered new evidence of the economy’s resilience in the face of high interest rates.
Trends already underway make for a sunny outlook over the next few years. The question is who will get to take credit.
Paris aims to be the most sustainable Olympic Games in history, but it was London over a decade ago that proved host cities didn’t have to end up with empty stadiums in disrepair long after the Games were over.
The battle between the media mogul and three of his children over control of his empire has big ramifications for politics, media and more.
One of the great joys of a long marriage is how the personal and pragmatic moosh together.
Here are six takeaways from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to U.S. lawmakers.
After the tip of his ring finger was mangled in a practice match two weeks ago, Matthew Dawson chose amputation over a long, uncertain recovery.
The central bank lowered a key rate in its latest effort to steady China’s economy, as Asian stock markets followed Wall Street down.
In the days since President Biden ended his re-election bid and passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald Trump’s campaign has been crowded out of the headlines.
Shifting views on the economy have led to a “rotation” in the stock market. Small stocks and companies geared toward the economic cycle are rising. Big Tech is lagging.
Only 15 athletes from Russia will compete at the Paris Games, under a “neutral” designation. The Kremlin is framing the ban as part of its showdown with Western adversaries.
She may yet add to her impressive Olympic legacy in Paris. But by changing the way we talk about mental health, Simone Biles has scored a different victory.
The social media company will use its Community Notes program to moderate lies about the election, but cracks are already appearing.
In a speech from the Oval Office, President Biden said it was time to “pass the torch to a new generation.” But he said nothing about his own age or capacity that led so many Democrats to desert him.
A set of weapon-screening devices will be deployed at various stations over the course of a month.
Some younger people have become obsessed with learning old-fashioned hand crafts like leather-making, millinery and lacework.
“I guarantee he will attract suburban women, and I already have his slogan: ‘Yes, We Glen!’” Colbert said.
Defying sanctions, Russia has obtained nearly $4 billion in restricted chips since the war began in Ukraine. Many were shipped through a cluster of shell companies in Hong Kong.
Britain’s new government is likely to withdraw objections to the International Criminal Court prosecutor’s pursuit of a warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, two people told The Times.
The Trump campaign has sought to tie Vice President Kamala Harris to unpopular Biden administration policies and paint her as too liberal for independent or moderate voters.
Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch, has moved to change the family’s irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses as a conservative force. Several of his children are fighting back.
Possible contenders to join the Harris ticket include three governors who welcome clean energy and a senator concerned by extreme heat and drought.
Many Indian Americans see Kamala Harris as another example of the diaspora’s success and influence.
Between designer-less brands and rampant gossip, fashion is having a meltdown. And it’s not because of the heat.
According to excepts provided by his campaign, Donald Trump will again portray an America in decay, one that can only be rescued by his restoration to the White House in November.
One person familiar with President Biden’s thinking cautioned that he had not yet made up his mind to leave the race, after three weeks of insisting that almost nothing would drive him out.
As Republicans rally around Donald J. Trump, Democrats are circling President Biden like sharks. “What a time to be alive!” Larry David said.
The former speaker has been marshaling her knowledge of the political map, polling data and fund-raising information to press her case with President Biden that his re-election is in serious doubt.
The president’s Covid diagnosis, coming at a galvanizing moment for his opponent, resulted in starkly different images of the two campaigns at a pivotal moment in the race.
The former president’s son played a pivotal role in getting Mr. Vance on the G.O.P. ticket. Though he has never held elected office, he has emerged as a key enforcer of MAGA loyalty.
The Republican Party is full of people who have changed their minds about the former president.
The vote, which would have forced the tech giant to negotiate collectively with workers, was the closest an Amazon center in Britain had come to being unionized.
No disingenuous spin blitz by his loyalists or flurry of teleprompter-driven campaign events can lift the heavy weight sinking the president.
Even as the H5N1 virus evolves, gaps remain in the nation’s contingency plans for human testing, scientists say.
Anne Hidalgo swam in the cleaned-up waters of the capital’s river, fulfilling a promise that has become a symbol of the Olympic Games that start this month.
Mr. Vance spent less than five years in Silicon Valley’s tech industry, but the connections he made with Peter Thiel and others became crucial to his political ascent.
Landlords have to keep tenants warm in the winter, but can leave them sweating in the summer. A city councilman wants to change that.
Only six specimens of the spade-toothed whale have ever been identified. This carcass could be the first that scientists are able to dissect.
To prevent a collapse of the electricity system, crippled by months of Russian attacks, the authorities have imposed rolling blackouts. Experts say it’s a harbinger of what’s to come this winter.
The dated U.S. rail infrastructure is struggling to stay operational as climate change accelerates and intense heat waves, downpours and high winds become more frequent.
Democrats will nominate the president in a virtual roll call, but will delay setting a date for the vote until next week and will not begin it until August, according to a new letter.
Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, was found guilty of bribery and corruption. Leaders in his party are pressuring him to resign.
Rainfall of 6 to 11 inches overnight prompted a rare flash flood emergency in Marion County, where water was rising inside homes and bridges were washed-out.
The G.O.P. vice-presidential nominee is remembered as a warm and personable student. But some are perplexed by what they see as his shift in ideology.
A battle has erupted in Moldova over its links to the Russian Orthodox Church, seen by many as a tool of Moscow’s influence abroad.
The Democratic Party’s Biden dilemma is unresolved, even as the momentum against him slows.
His memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” told the down-at-the-heels story of Middletown, Ohio. It’s a depiction that has stuck.
The French had a far-right government before, one that collaborated with the Nazis. When casting ballots even today, that is not an easy thing to forget.
In an era of extreme lamination and viral hybrid pastries, the original model remains an absolute marvel.
They’re calling politicians. They’re dangling money to members of Congress. But major Democratic donors who want President Biden to step aside are also learning the limits of their powers.
What our columnists and contributors thought of speeches from Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elise Stefanik on the event’s second night.
The former Fox host, a longtime foil of the show, said he knew he had “no friends here.” “Well, not just here,” Stewart replied.
Ronny Jackson, former President Donald J. Trump’s White House doctor and now a congressman from Texas, replaced the dressing on Mr. Trump’s ear on a flight to Milwaukee on Sunday.
As long as Democrats see nothing of him but his lies and outrages, they’ll miss what makes him strong.
“An incident like this cannot happen,” Alejandro N. Mayorkas told CNN, as the Secret Service faces intense scrutiny over the assassination attempt.
A political newcomer and former Trump critic turned ally, Senator Vance relishes the spotlight and has already shown he can energize donors.
He once called Donald Trump “cultural heroin” and said he feared he could be “America’s Hitler.” But over an eight-year transformation, the Ohio senator became one of his most ardent supporters.
The 39-year-old from Ohio was best known as the author of the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” before his election to the Senate in 2022.
Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the entire case should be thrown out because the appointment of the special counsel who brought the case, Jack Smith, had violated the Constitution. Her decision is sure to be appealed.
Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the entire case should be thrown out because the appointment of the special counsel who brought the case, Jack Smith, had violated the Constitution. Her decision is sure to be appealed.
In video footage, everything was pandemonium. It was still images that defined the attack and its aftermath.
President Biden calls for a review of the protective agency’s actions after the attack, which left an audience member dead and two critically wounded.
The attack on former President Donald J. Trump comes at a time when the United States is already polarized along ideological and cultural lines and is split, it often seems, into two realities.
In remarks from the White House on Sunday, President Biden called the attack “contrary to everything we stand for as a nation.’’
Few would argue there could be a more perfect setting for the final game of the Copa América soccer tournament on Sunday night.
Authorities identified the gunman as a 20-year-old man from Bethel Park, Pa., a town about an hour’s drive from the site of the shooting.
Over the past eight months, the “90210” and “Charmed” star spoke frankly and candidly about her cancer and her tumultuous career.
Ms. Doherty, who also had roles in the TV series “Charmed” and the comedy-thriller “Heathers,” had continued to work after a breast cancer diagnosis.
Encouraged on social media, many Americans are estranging themselves from their families as a therapeutic step.
Mr. Trump was declared “fine” by his campaign, and the gunman was killed by Secret Service snipers. The explosion of political violence further inflamed the campaign for the White House.
The former president was holding a rally when he said he was shot in his ear. Two people, including the suspected gunman, were killed and two were critically injured.
“I hope I get the right shot. I hope I’m not shot myself,” said Doug Mills, who has been photographing presidents since 1983.
Mr. Trump’s allies are preparing to try to short-circuit the election system, if he does not win.
After the House minority leader visited the White House to share Democrats’ concerns over his candidacy, the president held a tense virtual session with lawmakers in which he resisted a call to step aside.
Lingering worries about President Biden’s age could make Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Virginia competitive, party operatives believe.
The president put on a competent showing at his pressure cooker of a news conference, but it remained in doubt if he could stem the bleeding of Democratic support.
The challenge for President Biden after last month’s debate debacle is that every public appearance between now and November will be scrutinized for evidence of infirmity.
In a nearly hourlong news conference, the president defended his decision to stay in the race amid questions about his age and mental acuity, but also showed a command of foreign policy.
Even as the president promoted his vice president’s qualifications alongside his own, he committed the sort of gaffe that has unnerved Democrats, referring to her as “Vice President Trump.”
More representatives called for the president to end his re-election bid after a session with reporters, while others highlighted his firm grasp of foreign policy after a NATO summit.
In the prolonged power outage after Hurricane Beryl, many well-to-do neighborhoods are humming with generators. Other residents are struggling to afford — or even find — one.
Some civilians are fatigued by their repeated displacements, while others say there is no point in going to other areas that may be just as dangerous.
Weapons donations from the United States and European countries will take weeks, if not months, to reach the front lines.
A brutal heat wave that has gripped the West for days will shift eastward on the weekend, while much of sweltering Houston still lacks electricity.
Even if President Biden can stem high-level Democratic defections, many Americans will still have grave concerns about his age and abilities.
The $230 million short-notice project has struggled to overcome rough seas and other problems since it started in May.
Close allies of the president are developing a case for why he should end his re-election campaign, though it is not clear that the discussions have reached him.
Her lithesome features and quirky screen presence made her a popular figure in 1970s movies, particularly Robert Altman’s.
The Consumer Price Index rose 3 percent in June from a year earlier and fell month-to-month, a sharper slowdown in inflation than economists had expected.
The beefed-up enforcement is part of the agency’s modernization initiative aimed at improving customer service and catching wealthy tax evaders.
As leaders gathered in Washington to mark the anniversary of the organization, they heard starkly different messages from two American presidents on NATO’s future.
The president’s allies, doubters and enemies will be watching for any evidence of stumbles as he fields questions from reporters.
The statement was a major departure for the alliance, which until 2019 never officially mentioned China as a concern.
After largely disappearing from view to let Democratic infighting play out, Donald Trump held a rally that was at times boastful and mercilessly cruel.
Mr. Clooney, who co-hosted a lavish fund-raiser for President Biden last month, wrote in a guest essay in The New York Times that Democrats “are not going to win in November with this president.”
Only four seats separate Democrats from the House majority, making the chamber a potential bulwark against complete Republican control. But gaining even a handful of seats will be difficult.
Representative Nancy Pelosi, a longtime Biden ally and the former speaker, is the most senior member of his party so far to suggest his status at the top of the ticket is uncertain.
Donald J. Trump’s monthslong search for a running mate, orchestrated to feed speculation and attention, is nearing an end, but questions of who, and when, remain.
Time is on President Biden’s side. Every day that he defies pressure to end his re-election campaign, replacing him becomes harder for Democrats.
The president has yet to do what many Democrats said he must to show he is up to remaining in the race. But so far, they have thrown up their hands, doing nothing to nudge him aside.
The vice president has made certain to demonstrate complete loyalty to President Biden.
Families and patients were not unfamiliar with the sound of missiles flying overhead. But the Russian assault on the hospital marked one of the worst days of violence against civilians in months.
Russian forces continue to inflict pain, but NATO leaders gathering in Washington can say that their efforts to strengthen Ukraine are working.
Politically aligned, Joe Biden and the new U.K. prime minister agree on climate change, Ukraine and Northern Ireland. Donald Trump would be a different story.
A summit meant to convey confidence in the newly expanded alliance now faces uncertainty over President Biden’s future, and the looming possibility of the return of Donald Trump.
When he takes over as secretary general in October, Mark Rutte will face strains over Russia, Ukraine and the potential return of Donald J. Trump.
In private and in public, President Biden made clear he holds all the cards when determining his political future. Can he get his Democratic critics to fold?
The plane manufacturer must still resolve various legal challenges and operational problems tied to the troubled 737 Max plane.
The longer Democrats delay in getting Biden to step down, the harder it will be to replace him.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia launched at least 40 missiles at targets across Ukraine, including the country’s largest children’s hospital.
Temperature records have been shattered from California and Nevada to North Carolina in the last few days, and relief is still days away, forecasters say.
A single image captures a day of horror at a children’s hospital in Ukraine hit by a Russian missile.
After we survived one round of economic Russian roulette, Donald Trump is asking us to take another spin, only this time with many more bullets in the chamber.
The White House said President Biden had met with a neurologist only three times in more than three years in office. But it would not say whether the visiting expert was consulting with the president’s physician about his health.
Sullivan & Cromwell is requiring job applicants to explain their participation in protests. Critics see the policy as a way to silence speech about the war.
As the storm crossed Houston on Monday morning, the call of the toads echoed from every flooded street corner.
The document reflects the former president’s ideological grip on his party, outlining the same nationalistic priorities that his campaign website does.
The actor is set to stand trial this week on a charge of involuntary manslaughter for his role in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer. He has pleaded not guilty.
Democrats need a new presidential nominee and can’t rig things for any one candidate. Here’s an idea for how to move forward.
Nemat Shafik, the university president, called the sentiments in the text messages “unacceptable and deeply upsetting.”
New York City officials, including the comptroller, Brad Lander, are weighing whether to challenge Eric Adams, potentially creating openings in other races.
They checked into a motel room in upstate New York, with a gas canister and a plan to end her decades of physical pain.
The junior member of the court’s six-justice conservative supermajority often questioned its approach and wrote important dissents joined by liberal justices.
Climate change and contaminated water have combined to create an epidemic of kidney disease.
The vote will determine the composition of France’s National Assembly, and the future of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term.
In a decades-long collaboration with the director James Cameron, he produced three of the highest-grossing films of all time.
The resilience that President Biden sold as a trademark of his political brand for half a century now looks to some like blind resistance in the face of a rising tide.
The process of choosing a running mate has created a new roster of rising Republicans with the potential to lead the ticket in 2028.
The Connecticut Democrat said the president had more to do to assuage voters’ worries about his age, mental acuity and fitness to run. Top House Democrats are set to meet on Sunday to discuss his candidacy.
Citing high housing costs, some couples are sharing apartments after dating for just a short period. Not all relationships survive.
Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Senator Robert Menendez, met with prosecutors last fall to plead his case. Days later, the senator was indicted on bribery charges.
Months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “victory is within reach,” the Israeli military escorted journalists into parts of a devastated Gazan city.
A day of nationwide anti-government protests comes amid signs of progress toward a truce and hostage deal with Hamas, as well as continued fighting.
From Oregon to California to Arizona, several cities have seen scorching temperatures in recent days. And there is little relief in sight, forecasters say.
In both Trump cases the liberal dissenters are more originalist than the conservative majority.
It is increasingly clear that Europeans need to shoulder more responsibility for their own defense.
Fifty years ago, my father’s friend was taken at gunpoint on Long Island. Then he went on with his life — and that’s the part that haunts me.
The former speaker has spent much of his time, energy and money since leaving Congress in a bid to defeat the Republicans who cost him his gavel — and his political career.
Treasury officials want to impose penalties on tankers that help Russian oil evade sanctions. White House aides worry that risks making gasoline more expensive.
Nearly 75 percent of shops operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority are vacant.
With President Biden’s future unclear, Donald J. Trump’s support uncertain and a major NATO meeting looming, Ukrainian leaders are straining to keep their balance.
Starting on July 8, we’ll unveil a list of 100. Make sure you’re among the first to find out.
President Biden is trying to figure out how to tamp down Democratic anxiety after last week’s disastrous debate performance.
The New York City Pride March, now in its 54th year, attracted tens of thousands in Manhattan. It was interrupted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
A surprise decision by President Emmanuel Macron to hold a snap election appears to have backfired badly, giving the National Rally a decisive victory, early returns showed.
In Tehran, many Iranians said they didn’t see the point in voting in Friday’s first-round presidential election since all the candidates had been vetted by the government.
Critics of the approach say it risks making President Biden and his campaign seem woefully out of touch with the voters they need to win.
Producers of “The Boyfriend” on Netflix hope it will encourage broader acceptance of the L.G.B.T.Q. community in Japan, which still has not legalized same-sex unions.
My dad always remembered his childhood journey through Europe. Now, with Alzheimer’s claiming his memories, we tried to recreate it.
Vice-presidential hopefuls are posturing as part of a bid to highlight their ties to wealthy donors.
Pabllo Vittar has become an A-list pop star and L.G.B.T.Q. activist in Brazil. Can she conquer the world?
Pets were once dismissed as trivial scientific subjects. Today, companion animal science is hot.
The region has long seen itself as distinct from its country and disinterested in the national team. Can a Euro 2024 squad studded with Basque stars turn heads?
The president’s inadequate performance in the debate made it clear he is not the man he was four years ago.
President Biden’s allies can no longer wave away concerns about his capacity after his unsteady performance at Thursday’s debate as worries among Democrats grow.
A day after a shaky debate performance that led to talk of a new Democratic candidate, President Biden was forceful and confident while speaking to supporters.
President Biden tried to minimize concerns about his fitness for office, saying he would not be running if he didn’t think he was up to the job.
While it is possible, it would most likely lead to political upheaval in the party unless the president decides to step aside on his own terms.
The ruling that the Justice Department misused a 2002 law in charging a pro-Trump rioter who entered the Capitol could have an impact on hundreds of other cases, including one against Donald Trump.
Experts in legal ethics have said that the activities of the justices’ wives raised serious questions about their impartiality.
Federal judges have agreed to release about 10 defendants who were serving prison terms because of their convictions under an obstruction law.
The foundational 1984 decision required courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, underpinning regulations on health care, safety and the environment.
In a case likely to have broad ramifications throughout the West, the court found an Oregon city’s penalties did not violate the Constitution’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment.”
President Biden’s shaky, halting debate performance has top Democrats talking about replacing him on the ticket.
President Biden, visibly angered by the former president’s suggestion, highlighted Mr. Trump’s civil and criminal cases in explicit detail.
The state superintendent, Ryan Walters, said the Bible was a “necessary historical document” that must be taught in certain grades.
The liability shield would have protected members of the Sackler family from civil claims related to the opioid epidemic.
Plaintiffs and the company vowed to renegotiate but the talks will be challenging after the court struck down a provision the Sacklers had insisted on in exchange for $6 billion.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Boeing had improperly released information about the blowout of a panel on an Alaska Airlines flight.
The celebrated show is both a product of our unhealthy obsession with toxic restaurant culture and a potential remedy for it.
When Trump and Biden square off, we can expect disorientation, dizziness and much else.
The smaller of the pair was spotted only this month and could be visible with binoculars as it passes by our planet within the distance to the moon.
A devastating civil war is pushing the country toward a full-blown famine, according to the international body that measures hunger.
The demonstrations were held despite his withdrawal of the tax bill that sparked days of protests. Some activists, fearing more bloodshed, warned people not to march to the president’s official residence.
A majority of the justices dismissed the case, reinstating a lower-court ruling that paused the state’s near-total abortion ban.
More than 1,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine were killed or wounded on average each day in May, according to NATO and Western military officials.
Facing grim job prospects, a young Nepali signed up to join Russia’s military, which sent him to fight in Ukraine. His ordeal of combat, injury and escape turned into a tale worthy of Hollywood.
The well-connected attorney, who founded a powerhouse firm at the dawn of the #MeToo era, has faced complaints that she mistreated and insulted other lawyers.
The high temperatures blamed for the deaths of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia are taking a broad toll in countries that have spent vast sums to attract tourists and investors.
As the planet warms, atoll nations like the Maldives seemed doomed to shrink. Scientists have begun to tell a surprising new story.
President Emmanuel Macron’s governing style has always been intensely top-down. But with far-right nationalists in France closing in on power, some believe he may have gone too far this time.
Even as Donald Trump has narrowed his list of top choices, he and his advisers are stoking speculation about others and suggesting that an announcement is imminent — or maybe not.
The former president’s past tariffs raised prices for consumers and businesses, economists say. His next plan could tax 10 times as many imports.
Police Commissioner Edward Caban has often relied on an obscure authority to intervene when officers are accused of serious wrongdoing, often handing out little to no punishment.
The acclaimed kitchen hit has allowed Elliott, a comic actor from a famously funny family, to embrace her dramatic side.
Only four homicides have occurred in the city this year. Although luck has played a role, the city is bringing a high level of precision to its strategy to prevent violence.
The court ruled there was no basis to exempt the ultra-Orthodox from service, a decision that threatened to split Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government amid the war in Gaza.
Barring last-minute snags, the deal would bring to an end a prolonged battle that began after the WikiLeaks founder became alternately celebrated and reviled for revealing state secrets in the 2010s.
A plea deal brought an abrupt end to an extraordinary legal saga that has raised novel issues of national security, press freedoms, politics and diplomacy.
Barring last-minute snags, the deal would bring to an end a prolonged battle that began after the WikiLeaks founder became alternately celebrated and reviled for revealing state secrets in the 2010s.
At a recent campaign speech, one of Donald Trump’s warm-up acts was a precious metals salesman being sued by federal regulators for fraud.
President Biden’s aides are working to position him as a campaign-season fighter who can counterpunch on the fly and combat voters’ concerns about his age.
At a recent campaign speech, one of Donald Trump’s warm-up acts was a precious metals salesman being sued by federal regulators for fraud.
“This is the most apprehensive I’ve felt about a presidential debate,” said one voter who usually supports Democrats. “I sense a disaster in the making where neither will look presidential.”
Corporate executives complain about some of President Biden’s policies, along with his rhetoric. But so far they have not abandoned him en masse.
If landlords can’t pay back loans on office buildings, the lenders will suffer. Some banks are trying to avoid that fate.
As Houthi rebels intensify strikes on vessels headed for the Suez Canal, global shipping prices are soaring, raising fears of product shortages and delays.
The state law bans health care providers from offering gender transition care to children.
Across the country this week, Democrats are focusing on abortion issues and emphasizing Donald Trump’s role in nominating the justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade.
A new study analyzed 50 years of friend-of-the-court briefs and found that abortion opponents were more relentless than their adversaries, with some reflected in the justices’ opinions.
An outside group supporting President Biden is embarking on a million-dollar campaign to focus voters’ attention on the makeup of the Supreme Court.
Two years after Roe was struck down, the conversation has focused on the complications that can come with pregnancy and fertility, helping to drive more support for abortion rights.
Doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, say that the workplace they once loved has been fractured by the Israel-Hamas war.
One network is in charge of every aspect of the Biden-Trump debate, a major shift from previous years. Tens of millions of viewers are expected to be watching.
Most of the more than 1,300 people who died making the Islamic pilgrimage were not formally registered, a Saudi official said. That left them with little access to protection from the brutal heat.
For nearly a decade, I worked in China as a Times correspondent and bureau chief. But it wasn’t until researching for a book that I uncovered the full story of my father’s role in Communist rule.
At least a half-dozen police officers and a priest in Dagestan died in what appeared to be coordinated attacks, local officials said.
The heat was especially oppressive in urban areas of New Jersey, a state that climate experts say is warming at a faster rate than others in the Northeast.
The act violated military procedure and there will be an investigation, the military said.
Despite being aware of the devastation in the enclave, many in Israel ask why they should show pity when Palestinians there showed none on Oct. 7.
Despite criticism that the most-watched moments omit crucial context, candidates are tapping into the practice — and watching their words.
People have grown more attached to their pets — and more willing to spend money on them — turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions.
High-end gyms, many of which used to be an amenity, are now the star attraction, offering hotel rooms and workspaces as part of their appeal. They’ve also gotten a lot bigger.
The matchup on Thursday will be the earliest presidential debate in American history, and any potential missteps could linger for weeks or months.
In France, as in the United States, feelings harden against immigrants, and President Emmanuel Macron and President Biden take note.
Björn Höcke has done more than take the far right into the mainstream. He is tilting the mainstream toward the far right.
A tear-jerker from Thailand, “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies,” has become a surprise hit across the region. Its theme is universal: bonding with family.
The small town of Fordyce, Ark., was beginning to absorb the impact of the bloodshed, as a few details began to emerge. A fourth victim died on Saturday.
Leaked images showed the trio sharing disparaging text messages during an alumni group discussion last month about Jewish life on campus.
The heat could not stop revelers from taking part in the pageantry of aquatic weirdness.
Meet Wild Thang, an 8-year-old Pekingese from Oregon who had sought the title of “World’s Ugliest” for years. Now, it’s finally his.
President Biden has a diverse group of advisers, but few have the influence of three men in his inner circle during his final campaign.
The action against 16 tour companies came as governments look into whether many travelers were not properly registered to make the journey into the desert.
Authorities suspended their search Saturday for the boys, 16 and 17, who were last seen on Friday being overtaken by a large wave in the waters off Jacob Riis Park.
The C.E.O. and his team drove Meta’s efforts to capture young users and misled the public about the risks, lawsuits by state attorneys general say.
In the dark months following the Jan. 6 attack, Donald J. Trump opened up to an entertainment journalist, revealing his fixation with celebrity, acceptance and the TV show that made him.
By averting his eyes as his red lines are ignored, Biden is wasting his leverage over Israel.
For many performers, drag is not only a cultural phenomenon, but also a political statement promoting social justice and gay rights.
The decision amounted to a retreat from what had been an unbroken series of major decisions expanding gun rights that started in 2008.
Robert Winnett will stay at The Daily Telegraph, after reports raised questions about his ties to unethical news gathering practices.
The Justice Department could require the aircraft manufacturer to install an independent federal monitor to oversee safety and quality issues.
Israeli judges have long ruled that Israel’s control of the territory is a temporary military occupation and complies with international law. A powerful minister’s recent speech, caught on tape, suggested the government is trying to change that.
Laws aren’t keeping pace with the risks climate change poses to workers laboring under sweltering conditions.
After an $80 million expansion, the Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening with a more welcoming approach — and all 82 of its First Folios on view.
Nico Nuño-Kelley, 17, fell six stories from the roof of his Manhattan apartment building after vaping marijuana. His anguished family wants answers.
Organizers of the Los Angeles Olympic Games hope that a huge venue for swimming, a marquee event, will draw crowds and generate much-needed revenue.
She was revered as an essential guardian of the country’s memory of war and repression long after the Franco dictatorship.
The parent of Truth Social has come under pressure this month, most recently after early investors were given approval to sell a fresh chunk of shares.
Ordering mistakes frustrated customers during nearly three years of tests. But competitors like White Castle and Wendy’s say their A.I. ordering systems have been highly accurate.
Rubio would offer Latinos the chance to vote for one of their own to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Donald J. Trump claims the order has unfairly restricted his free speech rights ahead of his sentencing on 34 felony counts. He has nonetheless attacked the judge, prosecutor and justice system.
*That’s his opinion. And yet he’s setting a new standard for what life after late-night can look like. (Hint: It’s a lot like what he did on talk shows.)
Wealthy donors including Timothy Mellon helped Donald Trump’s campaign out-raise President Biden’s last month, but Democratic supporters are still spending.
In heat waves, chemicals like formaldehyde and ozone can form more readily in the air, according to researchers driving mobile labs in New York City this week.
People all over the world are facing severe heat, floods and fire, aggravated by the use of fossil fuels. The year isn’t halfway done.
Fearful that conscription is a one-way ticket to bloody trench warfare, the men spend their days holed up at home to avoid draft officers who roam the streets.
Economists are debating what effect the singer’s sweep through Europe will have this summer as swarms of fans increase demand for hotels and services.
California is the latest state to try to regulate the devices. But how far should the ban go? And will parents sign on?
An uplifting new library in Manhattan comes with 12 floors of subsidized apartments. It’s a clever way to find community support for housing.
Just two months ago, President Biden appeared to have a daunting financial advantage. Then Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies, and Republicans’ wallets opened.
The fires have scorched more than 23,000 acres, and heavy rains have made it harder for firefighters to battle the blazes.
The cash from Mr. Mellon, a reclusive billionaire who has also been a major donor to a super PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is among the largest single disclosed gifts ever.
A convicted serial rapist who died in an Ohio prison in 2018 was responsible for the murder of a couple at Shenandoah National Park in a case that initially was believed to be a hate crime.
In a wide-ranging career (from “MAS*H” to “Ordinary People” to “The Hunger Games”), he could be endearing in one role, menacing in another and just plain odd in a third.
Service was partially restored around 5:30 p.m. But by then, the disruption had already rippled along the Eastern Seaboard, and delays were expected to continue well into the night.
Baseball hopes a celebration of its past in the home of one of its legends will attract more African American athletes, who are playing the sport in decreasing numbers.
The heat is expected to peak over the weekend in the Northeast, but not until early next week in the South and the Great Plains, according to the National Weather Service.
In June of last year, only 13 percent of ShotSpotter alerts were actually gunfire, according to Comptroller Brad Lander.
Chris Gloninger said he was hired to talk about global warming in his forecasts. That’s when things heated up.
The Russian leader issued the warning at the end of a trip to Asia, during which he signed a mutual defense pact with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.
They’ll be replaced in North America with paper packing, eliminating some 15 billion pillows a year. Plastic film is a major pollutant.
Also, the Supreme Court upheld a Trump-era tax provision. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
Judge Aileen Cannon has repeatedly proven willing to hear out even far-fetched arguments from the former president’s legal team, including a challenge to the appointment of the special counsel, Jack Smith.
An attack on a 12-year-old Jewish girl is inflaming an already tense and divisive situation.
The deluge in outside spending, which also includes another $1 million from another pro-Israel group, threatens to sink Representative Jamaal Bowman.
The actor understood the range of human feeling, but he came of age when movies distrusted institutions, and that suspicion was part of his arsenal.
Two federal judges in South Florida privately urged Aileen M. Cannon to decline the case when it was assigned to her last year, according to two people briefed on the matter. She chose to keep it.
Lionel Messi had said the 2022 World Cup, which his country won, was his last. Will the Copa América soccer tournament be his goodbye?
On-air meteorologists have become a target in the culture wars as they report on the effects of climate change.
Home prices have held up better than expected amid high interest rates. But that doesn’t mean the housing market is healthy.
Agricultural insecticides were a key factor, according to a study focused on the Midwest, though researchers emphasized the importance of climate change and habitat loss.
Our critics select 33 standouts from our weekly Playlists — and seven more tracks they had missed.
Their passion for fruit you’ve never heard of started small. Now they have a botanical garden that’s open to the public.
A new Biden administration measure enables “Dreamers” to get work visas that could free them from relying on the DACA program, whose survival is in doubt.
Thousands of people were being evacuated from the village of Ruidoso and nearby areas as of Tuesday morning.
The chip maker’s stock price has jumped over the last year thanks to its stranglehold on the market for the chips needed to build A.I. systems.
The new policy is one of the most significant actions to protect immigrants in years. It affects about 500,000 people who have been living in the United States for more than a decade.
Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a statewide ban as states and large school districts have pursued similar prohibitions to prevent disruption and cyberbullying.
The president’s announcement to expand legal protections for some undocumented spouses of American citizens evoked Barack Obama’s move to help young immigrants in 2012.
Congressional Budget Office projections released on Tuesday show a grim fiscal backdrop ahead of tax and debt limit fights.
Nancy Goroff, who has contributed $1.2 million of her own money to her campaign, has recently run a string of attacks against John Avlon in their Democratic primary on eastern Long Island.
Officials hope a looming deadline will pressure Israel to open more land routes into the territory, which is facing extreme levels of hunger.
Cricket faces notable obstacles before it can obtain widespread popularity in America, but its most passionate supporters feel positive about its future.
The captain of a ship assaulted by the Yemen-based militia last week spoke at a news conference in Manila after the rescue.
Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, wants warning labels on the tech platforms, arguing that they are fueling a mental health crisis among teens.
Dr. Vivek Murthy said he would urge Congress to require a warning that social media use can harm teenagers’ mental health.
Access to medical care and even clean water is limited, and the risk of infection is high, making it difficult for patients to get follow-up surgeries, prosthetics and rehabilitation.
The Security Council endorsed a U.S.-backed plan, while Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visited the Middle East to lobby for it, but Hamas and Israel were noncommittal.
The president has challenged voters to test the sincerity of their support for the far right in European elections. Were the French letting off steam, or did they really mean it?
The voting across 27 members of the European Union was a gauge of popular political sentiment at an unsettling moment on the continent. The right did well, but the center held.
President Emmanuel Macron’s surprise call for new elections in France’s lower house of Parliament is seen as a gamble.
The Israeli prime minister is likely to become more dependent on the right-wing partners in his coalition government after the centrist Benny Gantz and his party pulled out of it.
The rescue of four Israelis in Gaza in a ferocious assault over the weekend offered a glimpse into an ambitious intelligence operation aimed at bringing home those held by Hamas.
The operation conducted by Israel’s military to free four hostages resulted in a high death toll among Palestinians and has not resolved the challenges facing the Israeli government.
Forced into a coalition government, the prime minister faces the challenge of governing differently than he has so far in two decades in elected office.
Mr. Mosley, a British medical journalist and documentary maker, disappeared last week while on a trip on the Greek island of Symi.
Doug Burgum, the Republican governor of North Dakota, has stepped into the spotlight as a cheerleader for oil and former President Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Burgum, North Dakota’s governor, is a prime contender in the former president’s search for a running mate, but he remains untested on the national stage.
By committing not to give their children smartphones until an agreed-upon age, parents are hoping for strength in numbers when schoolyard pressure starts to build.
Vacancy is the lowest it has been in two decades, at 5.4 percent, according to a recent report. The properties are thriving even as retailers like Macy’s and Express shutter many stores.
The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.
Although the governor said she long feared the program might hurt New York City’s economy, she never disclosed her reservations, leaving some feeling betrayed.
Sam’s Restaurant in Cobble Hill, run by 67-year-old Louis Migliaccio, has long been a go-to spot for film crews looking for a bit of Brooklyn charm.
Las Vegas became a refuge that many believe Mr. Simpson did not deserve in his final years. There, he found an unlikely group of friends.
The Unabomber personified how we use the West as a mirror for the dark, untamed aspects of our national character.
The main things to know as voters in 27 countries head to the ballot box to shape the next five years of European Union policies.
Under Emmanuel Macron, “culinary diplomacy” is back on the menu, with a lavish dinner fortifying an old alliance at a tense historical moment.
His executive order limiting asylum seekers may be political, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
The news was met with jubilation in Israel, where tensions over the hostages’ safety have been rising in recent months.
The operation required weeks of planning and received the final go-ahead just a few minutes before it began, according to Israeli officials.
The GBU-39 is increasingly the weapon of choice for the Israeli military, and was used in two recent mass-casualty events.
The Israeli military said it killed militants in the central part of the enclave on Friday, a day after a strike on a former school, where Gazan officials say civilians were killed.
Jose Uribe said he had provided the car to Senator Robert Menendez’s girlfriend in exchange for gaining his “power and influence.”
The new rule requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon across all models by 2031.
Hiring levels have eased slightly but remain strong. The data for May, due Friday, is expected to show a gain of 190,000.
American and French forces have been ordered out of several countries after a series of coups.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters were hiding inside three classrooms, a military spokesman said.
The announcement adds to the pressure the president is facing on the issue from leaders in the Black community, a group that is key to his re-election.
Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, inundated by a rapidly rising casualty count, is so full that the crowds themselves are hampering treatment.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters were hiding inside three classrooms, a military spokesman said.
At Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, President Biden plans to follow one of the former president’s most iconic speeches with his own testimonial to democracy and the need to resist isolationism.
Robert Persichitti witnessed the raising of the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima. He died at a hospital in Germany.
It’s a moniker about corporate price increases that has bolstered some Democratic senators, and now the president is being encouraged to lean in on the issue for his economic messaging.
Elon Musk’s moon and Mars rocket reached space in March, but on Thursday SpaceX aims to see the spacecraft survive atmospheric re-entry.
The reduction comes as inflation in the eurozone cools, prompting the E.C.B. to move before the Federal Reserve in the United States, where rates remain high.
Cindy Elgan has overseen elections in rural Nevada without incident for 20 years, but now even her neighbors wonder if she’s part of “the deep state cabal.”
The $14 million effort by Mr. Scott’s super PAC comes as the South Carolina senator is said to be high on Donald Trump’s list of potential running mates.
Film cameras are seeing another renaissance. But some new photographers are leaving something behind: the tea-colored originals that determine the life of pictures.
Donald Trump is heading to San Francisco for a fund-raiser, and his host, the tech entrepreneur David Sacks, hopes to portray Silicon Valley as a more MAGA-welcoming place.
Conversations with nearly 2,000 voters showed a small number had changed their minds about Donald J. Trump. Here’s what a few said about why.
The opioid epidemic has made a dangerous job even more deadly. And when there’s an overdose at sea, fishermen have to take care of one another.
Residents of Sumy, in northeastern Ukraine, repelled Moscow’s forces in 2022. Now, after months of punishing airstrikes, Ukrainian officials say the Kremlin is preparing a new offensive.
“Just because you have the right to say something doesn’t mean it’s right to say,” said Carol Christ, who is retiring as chancellor at the end of this month.
Officials in Oregon say they need to cut trees, including some healthy ones. The reaction shows how complex land management has become as forest health declines.
Veterans of the pivotal battle of World War II are disappearing. Europe, facing new conflict, recalls what their comrades died for.
The M.T.A. had planned on $15 billion in financing backed by the tolls of congestion pricing for a number of crucial upgrades and repairs to the aging transit system.
Gov. Philip D. Murphy signed the legislation, insisting it would not encourage public corruption.
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.
In Turkey, India and elsewhere, where some feared authoritarian leaders would consolidate power, democracy has proved surprisingly resilient.
Since Israel invaded Gaza, the Sde Teiman military base has filled with blindfolded, handcuffed detainees, held without charge or legal representation.
China has relaxed or eliminated measures on home buying to spur new purchases. This has made a vocal constituency of existing homeowners very unhappy.
BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was just an A.I. chop shop.
Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.
The order means the prosecution of Donald J. Trump in Georgia is effectively frozen, at least through the presidential election.
Donald Trump’s promise to seek retribution challenges long-established norms. The election could hinge in part on what kind of justice system the country believes it has now and wants in the future.
We reached nearly 2,000 people who participated in previous Times/Siena polls to see if any had changed their minds.
The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers.
Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.
The president arrived in France for a visit meant to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion and showcase Western unity. But even as he rallies American allies in defense of Ukraine, he will defy them on the war in Gaza.
Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to postpone a plan to charge motorists to enter Manhattan’s business district, citing fears that it will hurt the city’s economy.
A “competitiveness crisis” is raising alarms for officials and business leaders in the European Union, where investment, income and productivity are lagging.
With eurozone inflation falling, the European Central Bank has signaled it is ready to lower rates this week, diverging from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
The victory makes Mr. Kim a favorite to replace Mr. Menendez’s father, Senator Robert Menendez, who is on trial, charged with corruption — a detail that became central to his son’s re-election race.
Though Narendra Modi will take up a third term as India’s leader, the election was closer than expected, forcing him to rely on coalition partners that don’t share his Hindu nationalist agenda.
The president issued an executive order that essentially blocks asylum claims at the southern border, a major shift in how the United States has handled claims for protection.
President Biden’s executive action addresses one of his most serious political vulnerabilities ahead of the presidential election.
The official said Ukraine had destroyed missile launchers in the Russian region of Belgorod using an American-made rocket system.
Republicans are hoping a proposal revisiting some of the tough immigration policies of a decade ago will turn out their voters.
The president blamed Donald Trump and Republicans for the failure of a previous immigration plan. Mr. Trump called the new action too little, too late.
In 2020, the author of “How to Be an Antiracist” galvanized Americans with his ideas. The past four years have tested them — and him.
The prime minister will keep his job, but his aura has been diminished and his leadership has fundamentally changed as the country’s multiparty democracy springs back to life.
The move, expected on Tuesday, would allow the president to temporarily seal the border and suspend longtime protections for asylum seekers in the United States.
As the 2024 presidential election ramps up, here is what polls say about public views on the growing number of migrants.
The Israeli prime minister has been put on the spot by President Biden’s announcement outlining a proposal for a truce.
The voting is very likely to put a woman in the country’s presidency for the first time ever, showcasing the immense strides that females have made in Mexico’s political scene.
Some South African voters welcomed the defeat of the African National Congress in last week’s elections, even as they remain wary of the country’s political future.
The system of checks and balances established in the Constitution was meant to hold wayward presidents accountable, but some wonder how it will work if the next president is already a felon.
After being convicted in a Manhattan courtroom, the former president still faces charges in three criminal prosecutions, all of which are tangled up in procedural delays.
For Barry Levine, a former top journalist at the supermarket tabloid, the former president’s trial was its own kind of tear-jerker.
Squeezed by high interest rates and record prices, homeowners are frozen in place. They can’t sell. So first-time buyers can’t buy.
Wars in Ukraine and Gaza, along with Donald J. Trump’s candidacy, are testing the Western alliance. But starting with the 80th anniversary of D-Day this week, leaders have a rare opportunity to showcase unity.
The timing of the remarks seemed to rebuff the president’s hopes for a speedy end to the war. But some analysts said the prime minister was aiming at domestic supporters, not the White House.
President Biden outlined a road map put forward by Israel that would begin with an immediate, temporary cease-fire and work toward a permanent end to the war and the reconstruction of Gaza.
Having a woman as president will be a milestone in a country where gender-based violence is so common. But how much will change remains unclear.
“If only everything would stop,” said Lidiia Lomikovska, who walked to safety after her town was attacked. But for civilians in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, it is not stopping.
Since the war in Gaza began, armed Israeli settlers, often accompanied by the army, have stepped up seizures of land long used by Palestinians.
Donald J. Trump was for decades a creature of New York. But in recent years, the city that helped make him seems more eager to break him.
New York appellate courts rarely overturn a jury decision without evidence of serious errors. The judge in Donald J. Trump’s case closed off many avenues.
The large-scale air assault appeared to be targeting western Ukraine, including places near borders with NATO allies.
The president outlined a plan to try to get Hamas and Israel to break out of a monthslong deadlock that has resulted in the killing of thousands of Palestinians.
The president broke his long silence over his predecessor’s legal troubles, calling the New York jury’s guilty verdict vindication for the idea that “no one is above the law.”
Her death was announced in a statement by Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and other members of the family.
The bipartisan invitation masked political divisions over the prime minister’s handling of the war against Hamas, including the recent attacks he has orchestrated in Rafah.
A proposal to be considered at the Southern Baptist Convention in June would advance fetal personhood and call on adherents to reject in vitro fertilization as immoral.
Federal prosecutors said that Robert P. Burke, who was the Navy’s second-highest-ranking officer, had steered a government contract to a company in exchange for a job at the firm.
Prominent Republicans, including congressional leaders, ex-rivals and potential running mates, basked in the energy, and fund-raising, of an outraged base.
Women are increasingly reporting sexual harassment and abuse in the sport, including accusations against the renowned climber Nirmal Purja.
A Black woman claims a white homeowner tried to pull out of a sale because of her race.
The former president’s conviction in a New York criminal trial revealed, yet again, why he is unfit for office.
Trey Curtis and J. Quinton Johnson are performing in “Hamilton.” Their friend Vincent Jamal Hooper is Simba in “The Lion King.”
New research shows that people who develop dementia often begin falling behind on bills years earlier.
After weeks of entreaties, Ukraine won permission to hit targets inside Russia with American-made weapons, a tactic that it says will help it defend territory in the northeast.
The U.S. secretary of state suggested that Ukraine’s use of American-supplied arms could expand beyond the current limitation to strikes in the Kharkiv area.
Even as it pivots to solar and wind for itself, Greece aims to become a natural gas supplier across Europe. Among its strongest backers is the United States.
Times Opinion writers reflect on an extraordinary development in American political history.
Environmental groups are making a new economic argument against coal, the heaviest polluting fossil fuel. Some regulators are listening.
Critics slammed Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. after the “Appeal to Heaven” flag was flown outside his vacation home, but it had billowed in the heart of San Francisco for 60 years.
“Pass me the nontoxic glue and a couple of rocks, because it’s time to whip up a meal with Google’s new A.I. Overviews.”
Jacqueline Winspear is retiring Maisie Dobbs, and Susan Elia MacNeal bids farewell to Maggie Hope.
The days are long, but this summer’s bounty of historical fiction will remind you that the years are short.
A Manhattan jury found that he had falsified business records to conceal a sex scandal that could have hindered his 2016 campaign for the White House.
Donald J. Trump has promised to appeal, but he may face limits on his ability to travel and to vote as he campaigns for the White House.
The permission is intended solely for Ukraine to attack military sites in Russia being used to attack the Kharkiv area, U.S. officials said.
A wave of retirees from both parties, including committee chairs and rising stars, say that serving in Congress is no longer worth the frustration.
Things look strong on paper, but many Americans remain unconvinced. We asked economic officials, the woman who coined “vibecession” and Charlamagne Tha God what they think is happening.
A nonprofit group is publicizing the relief program that Navient, a large lender, created for students who attended for-profit schools that misled them.
President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump both see Black outreach as critical to winning in November. But their approaches differ in fundamental and revealing ways.
Consumers eased up on spending in the face of rising prices and high interest rates, Commerce Department data shows.
Though he trails in the polls, President Biden has mostly held his support among white voters. Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin probably offer his clearest path to victory.
President Biden is weighing fears of escalation with a nuclear-armed adversary as he considers whether to let Ukraine shoot American weapons into Russia.
A plant still under construction in Mesquite, Texas, will soon turn out 30,000 artillery shells each month, roughly doubling current U.S. output.
The 12 unidentified jurors have retreated behind closed doors and started to debate whether the first president to be criminally prosecuted has committed felony crimes.
Justice Juan M. Merchan is expected to explain the 34 charges of falsifying business records that Donald J. Trump faces. It is no simple task.
Martha-Ann Alito has built a limited public life since moving to Washington that has mainly centered on apolitical projects and charity work.
In northeastern Ukraine, and in the part of Russia it touches, the war strains the emotions of people with relatives, and family histories, that span both sides.
The takeover is the latest in a wave of consolidation sweeping the oil industry, with the biggest players rushing to acquire smaller rivals.
A Times visual analysis found that munition debris filmed at the scene were remnants of a GBU-39, a bomb designed and manufactured in the United States.
The slogan, which has been a touchstone for pro-Palestinian demonstrators for months, ricocheted across social media this week.
What happened during the last day of arguments at the historic criminal trial in Manhattan.
Despite gains, women still lag far behind men in the little-regulated industry of college sports. A proposed revenue-sharing deal could create new clashes over equality.
Judge Aileen Cannon’s handling of court hearings offers insights into how the case accusing Donald Trump of illegally retaining classified material has become bogged down in unresolved issues.
For the first time since the Vietnam War, university demonstrations have led to a rethinking of who sets the terms for language in academia.
A.I. companies are divided over whether the technology should be freely available to anyone for modifying and copying, or kept close for safekeeping.
They may not win the state in the Electoral College, but Democrats may improve their chances in the statehouse.
Years of messages from an encrypted WhatsApp text thread show conversations of sheriff’s deputies, including those who terrorized Mississippi residents.
After some trying years during which Mr. Zuckerberg could do little right, many developers and technologists have embraced the Meta chief as their champion of “open-source” artificial intelligence.
Universal screenings for the inherited disease promised to get babies diagnosed and treated sooner. But they still miss some children of color.
A surprise television hit, now on Netflix, has people talking about what Japan has lost with today’s changed sensibilities.
The environment will come first as France tries to revitalize the global image of its cuisine.
Representative Tony Gonzales’s narrow victory over a far-right challenger came after a divisive race for the party, and most likely strengthened Republicans’ grip on the border district.
Cuts in the cranium, which is more than 4,000 years old, hint that people in the ancient civilization attempted to treat a scourge that persists today.
The kingdom is trying to juggle its still-vital petroleum industry with alternative energy sources like wind and solar as it faces pressure to lower carbon emissions.
In pivotal elections on Wednesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa and his African National Congress party are struggling to keep the support of Black middle- and upper-class voters.
A record 51 parties are competing to unseat the long-ruling African National Congress in the national election on Wednesday. Here’s why it won’t be easy.
Our society is losing sight of qualities that kept America strong, like responsibility and civility but also the capacity to feel shame.
Dade Phelan, the speaker of the Texas House, defeated a party activist and first-time candidate backed by former President Donald J. Trump in a bitter contest.
Defense lawyers and prosecutors tried strategy and stagecraft to sway jurors. The panel of 12 New Yorkers will get the case Wednesday morning.
Inside the escalating conflict on a bucolic suburban street that Justice Alito said prompted a “Stop the Steal” symbol at his home.
From southern Japan to the English countryside, these properties put the focus on therapeutic waters.
The advanced A.I. system would succeed GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. The company has also created a new safety committee to address A.I.’s risks.
Preparing for a potential verdict in Manhattan, the former president has increasingly aligned himself with fellow defendants and people convicted of crimes.
A conservative Christian coalition’s plan to end the federal right to abortion began just days after Trump’s 2016 election.
Politically disengaged Americans are increasingly Trump-curious, but President Biden has a shot at winning some of them back. Reaching them in a changed media environment will be his challenge.
Chief executives are vulnerable to the same forces buffeting their employees. Leadership is important, but so is efficiency — and cost-cutting.
Iraqis want to help Palestinians but say they are still recovering from their own wars and fear playing host to a proxy fight between Iran and the United States.
At a time when the U.S. government is concerned about its reliance on a mercurial billionaire for access to space, new competitors say Elon Musk’s SpaceX is using tactics intended to squash them.
After prosecutors get their turn, the case could be in the hands of the jury as early as Wednesday.
As fears have grown that the city is losing its attractiveness for publicly traded businesses, Britain’s government is making changes to bring them back.
We spoke to South Africans who grew up in the three decades since the country overthrew apartheid and held its first free election about their lives and plans to vote — or not — in this week's pivotal election.
The city, promised some autonomy by China, is trying to move on from a security law imposed by Beijing. Companies are learning that’s not always possible.
The latest battle over what the former president can say about a continuing legal case came after he falsely suggested that F.B.I. agents were authorized to shoot him when they searched Mar-a-Lago.
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers are expected to highlight the absence of Allen Weisselberg, Mr. Trump’s former finance chief. But he is in jail, serving time for perjury.
The weather disrupted flights at airports from Atlanta to Boston on Monday after powerful winds and rain battered towns across the South over the weekend.
The Israeli military reported the shooting on the border, but neither country said who opened fire. An investigation was underway.
The United States and Europe are trying to catch up to a rival skilled in using all the levers of government and banking to dominate global manufacturing.
Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers have resettled in the U.K. since 2021, among them prominent pro-democracy activists. China has not forgotten them.
Russian military intelligence, the G.R.U., is behind arson attacks aimed at undermining support for Ukraine’s war effort, security officials say.
Despite years of criticism, President Vladimir V. Putin has only now changed his defense minister and allowed high-level corruption arrests.
Deaths are rising sharply, and the Biden administration is trying to respond. Its plan faces big hurdles.
Despite fierce criticism, Israel insists it must take control of Rafah and the border with Egypt to prevent future arms smuggling.
The prosecutors said the former president had made “grossly misleading” assertions about the F.B.I.’s search of Mar-a-Lago that could endanger the agents involved.
Reviving a Mao-era surveillance campaign, the authorities are tracking residents, schoolchildren and businesses to forestall any potential unrest.
In 2016, Britain voted for Brexit and America for Trump, heralding a populist wave. Both countries face pivotal elections this year — but their paths appear to have diverged.
The landmark settlement made many wonder what the reality — and impact — of revenue-sharing plans with college athletes would look like.
During a 19-song set at MetLife Stadium that spanned 60 years, the band tapped into what seems like a bottomless well of rock ’n’ roll energy.
The International Court of Justice has no means to enforce its order in the Gazan city, but the ruling added pressure on the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
The unusual lawsuits filed on Friday are among the most far-reaching to be filed in response to the escalating number of mass shootings in the United States.
In a conversation at Harvard, the justice spoke of her despair at some of the court’s decisions, but she urged optimism and a focus on future generations.
The $2.8 billion agreement announced on Thursday would, if approved by a judge, allow college athletes to share team revenue for the first time. Here is what we know.
The latest assault by Haitian gangs left three people, including two American missionaries and a local pastor, dead in Port-au-Prince.
His 2004 film followed Mr. Spurlock as he ate nothing but McDonald’s for a month. It was nominated for an Oscar, but it later came in for criticism.
Speaking to a more diverse crowd than his events usually draw, Donald Trump made a series of pledges to New Yorkers and railed against President Biden and the migrant crisis.
Donald Trump’s interest in the Arkansas senator reflects a desire to choose a running mate with experience and the ability to run a disciplined campaign.
The Biden team faces questions of its own: Why have these voters backed away from him, and can his campaign find a way to reach them?
If approved by a judge, the $2.8 billion settlement of an antitrust lawsuit would allow for the first revenue-sharing plan for college athletes. The question now: How will it work?
The state dinner was held in honor of the African nation, but it was clear that the night was about keeping Democratic allies close as President Biden heads into the heat of the 2024 campaign season.
The General Assembly had adjourned earlier this week without a solution for a procedural issue that threatened to keep President Biden off the fall ballot.
Republicans like Nikki Haley have had to contort themselves to overlook their criticisms of former President Donald J. Trump as they decide to back him after all.
A small group of protesters initially formed a new encampment early in the afternoon, but after the police moved in, they fled to an area by a nearby administrative building.
The leaders of Northwestern, Rutgers and the University of California, Los Angeles, appeared to have navigated their testimony before Congress without many significant missteps.
Leaders of Northwestern, U.C.L.A. and Rutgers, drawing lessons from prior hearings, sought to avoid enraging either the Republicans on the committee or members of their own institutions.
The Pentagon predicted that a stream of humanitarian aid would be arriving in Gaza via the floating pier, but little relief has reached the besieged strip, officials acknowledged this week.
The case concerned a constitutional puzzle: how to distinguish the roles of race and partisanship in drawing voting maps when Black voters overwhelmingly favor Democrats.
Accused of violating antitrust laws, Live Nation Entertainment faces a fight that could reshape the multibillion-dollar live music industry.
Nearly 6,000 people have died over the past six years — an unparalleled number among U.S. cities.
The city was once hailed for its response to addiction. But as fentanyl flooded the streets and officials shifted priorities, deaths hit unprecedented heights.
Strong wind caused the collapse in northern Mexico as a presidential hopeful campaigned for a local candidate, officials said. Dozens of people were injured.
The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6 and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government.
The recognition of Palestinian statehood by Spain, Ireland and Norway highlights the changing center of gravity, but there also are staunchly pro-Israel nations in Europe.
What to know about Karim Khan’s decision to seek arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders as well as Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and defense minister, Yoav Gallant.
The finance minister’s office signaled that the decision, which could worsen the Palestinians’ dire economic crisis, was a response to Spain, Norway and Ireland recognizing Palestinian statehood.
As Moscow’s forces retake land from which they were ousted at the end of 2022, the Ukrainian military has adopted a strategy of fighting while slowly falling back to more heavily fortified positions.
As they evacuated from the fighting in Ukraine, the passengers already thought of what they left behind.
House Republicans are pushing legislation to crack down on voting by noncitizens, which is allowed in some local elections but illegal — and exceedingly rare — at the federal level.
The bills under consideration in the House have virtually no chance of becoming law, but Republicans are using them to amplify former President Donald J. Trump’s false claims of widespread illegal voting by noncitizens.
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers mounted a minimal defense after prosecutors called 20 witnesses. Closing arguments will take place May 28.
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers called two witnesses and he was not one of them. Closing arguments will happen May 28.
Prosecutors vehemently denied the accusations in newly unsealed motions that show how the former president’s defense team has used often-baseless assertions to undercut the indictment.
A total of 50 people, including former President Donald J. Trump, are now facing charges in four states related to efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power after he lost in 2020.
The White House suspended a secret mission to transfer detainees to Oman in October after Congress members expressed concerns about Middle East instability.
“Shoot down what’s in the sky over Ukraine,” he said in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times. “And give us the weapons to use against Russian forces on the borders.”
Vovchansk has been a prime target of Russia’s offensive in the northeast as it seeks to push back Ukrainian troops from the border.
Iran’s political establishment must choose between opening the race and facing moderate rivals, or limiting candidates and risking the embarrassment of low turnout.
Gang leaders with suspected links to the 2021 Haitian president’s assassination now control key infrastructure, and pose a major threat to the incoming Kenya-led force.
Michael D. Cohen admitted stealing from the Trump Organization. The judge excoriated a defense witness. And Donald J. Trump’s entourage included a former leader of the Hells Angels.
The question is whether the successors to the president and foreign minister will take a similar path by keeping slivers of communication open, and avoiding direct conflict with the United States.
The sudden death of Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, disrupts a careful effort at a smooth transition to a new supreme leader to replace the aging Ali Khamenei.
The report also found that Jaguar Land Rover and Volkswagen bought parts from a supplier the U.S. government had singled out for its practices in Xinjiang.
The oldest Ukrainians whose towns have been bombarded and overrun by Russia’s invasion have memories of similar miseries at the hands of Nazi Germany in World War II.
The ruling in the trial of the former president and presumptive Republican nominee, which may come this week, could be a deciding factor in a tight race.
The Dali, which had been pinned in by the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge since late March, began moving again early Monday.
Tens of millions of farm animals cross state lines every year, traveling in cramped, stressful conditions that can facilitate the spread of disease.
Much of why Americans are retiring with so little money can be traced to the reliance on the retirement account.
Former employees of the ChatGPT maker raised concerns that it isn’t doing enough to make sure its products don’t pose a threat to humanity.
The WikiLeaks founder won his bid to appeal his extradition on espionage charges, opening a new chapter in a prolonged legal battle.
There is a disregard among Israeli soldiers for Palestinian lives, and we are seeing it in Gaza today.
The city serves up a cast of supporting characters who flock to a park outside Manhattan Criminal Court, where Donald Trump is on trial, and grab the spotlight.
With elections a week away, the political comeback of the former president has presented a major test for the country’s young democracy.
Mr. Mokhber has long been involved in business conglomerates tied to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He must hold elections for a new president within 50 days.
As provocative as the testimony has been, this case may turn on something a great deal more mundane.
Columbus, Ohio, had only about 100 homicides a year. Then came a pandemic surge. With more guns and looser laws, can the city find its way back to the old normal?
A.I.-manipulated videos on Chinese sites use young, supposedly Russian women to promote China-Russia ties, stoke patriotism — and make money.
The hard-line Shiite cleric was seen as a possible successor to Iran’s supreme leader. Mr. Raisi’s death comes at a moment of turbulence for a country facing a deepening conflict with Israel.
Conflicting political visions, competitive jockeying and American dominance stand in the way of a more coordinated and efficient military machine.
The experience of TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, in Beijing and Washington shows how much the ground has shifted for China’s entrepreneurs.
The Wicked Witch. Dr. Evil. Mr. Burns. Ena Da? At the Evil Laugh Competition in Brooklyn, a contest for the best mwahahahaha.
Eight years after helping Donald J. Trump get elected — and four years after being released from prison — the longtime political operative was back as a volunteer to advise the G.O.P. convention.
The meeting was a highlight for the mayor, who is in Rome to speak at a conference about world peace and often talks about how his Christian faith informs his leadership.
After weeks of tumult over protests, many college administrators prepared themselves for disruptions. But several ceremonies unfolded without major incident.
The nonbinary singer Nemo won the high-camp contest, during a night that included pro-Palestinian demonstrations outside the arena and fireworks onstage.
The video shows him throwing a belt around a woman’s neck, pulling her to the ground and dragging her along.
The station’s owner, John Catsimatidis, a Republican billionaire, said he suspended the former mayor for persisting in talking about the legitimacy of the 2020 election on the air.
Her first stunt was riding a horse bareback down a cliff when she was 9. She went on to soar on the hit TV series “Wonder Woman” and in many other places.
A previously unknown focus of an I.R.S. audit is a dubious accounting maneuver that effectively meant taking the same write-offs twice on a Chicago skyscraper.
Many say there is nowhere to go, and even the “humanitarian zone” recommended by Israel is neither safe nor equipped to handle all of them, the U.N. says.
Electrical utilities said they weathered earlier conditions as persistent geomagnetic storms were expected to cause another light show in evening skies.
The Space Weather Prediction Center said solar activity would be high again on Saturday.
The president offered strong support to Israel after Oct. 7 but has grown increasingly frustrated over the conduct of the war. “He has just gotten to a point where enough is enough,” a friend says.
China’s economy has reached a dead end. Getting out will mean more trade friction with the United States.
The White House appears anxious about President Biden’s coming speech at Morehouse College. But for complex reasons, such campuses have had far less visible Gaza tensions.
After decades of reporting on the front lines, I am awed by the material and moral progress the world has made.
To connect with a parent who awes (and occasionally intimidates) everyone around her, the Times reporter Priya Krishna spends time with her in the kitchen.
“If we need to stand alone, we will stand alone,” the Israeli prime minister said, as the United States threatened to withhold more weapons.
Democrats saved the speaker but want to oust him at the ballot box in November, while his standing in his own party remains in serious question.
For some in Berkeley, Calif., New York City and Montgomery County, Md., their responses about the hearing on antisemitism appeared to hinge on their opinions going in.
In an interview with The Times, Vice President Kamala Harris deepened her criticism of the conservative justices who overturned Roe and singled out Clarence Thomas’s views on other settled cases.
Judging by the war’s conduct to date, it’s more likely that in the end, the operation will do more damage to Israel.
The network will keep covering the war in Gaza, but it will be harder for Israelis to watch. Israel calls the network a security threat, while Al Jazeera says Israel wants to conceal its brutality.
Colleges cannot accede to student protesters’ demands that they jettison investments because of the war in Gaza.
Concerns about refereeing integrity and preferential treatment for top saber competitors have cast a shadow over a sport decided by the finest of margins.
A fighter fly-past returned to Russia’s World War II commemorations, where President Vladimir V. Putin permitted himself a single reference to his “special military operation.”
Narendra Modi has proved one of India’s most consequential leaders. But he has drawn criticism for anti-democratic practices and charges of religious persecution.
Prominent Republicans have seized on campus protests to assail what they say is antisemitism on the left. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric.
Asbestos, “forever” chemicals, E.V.s and endangered species. Here’s what 10 new rules cover, and why the administration has been churning them out.
Mixing it up a bit, schools leaders showed, can go far toward neutralizing a Congress with a craving to make a point.
The singer and songwriter with a silky-smooth voice has written a memoir with Paul Reiser that recounts his story of pain and redemption with dashes of humor.
The spring population of the critically endangered species is at a 25-year high, a surprising rebound in a tiny desert cave.
In a quick but eventful year since his release, Majid Khan reunited with his wife, met his daughter who was born after his capture and added to his family with a baby son.
City officials worked to make Milan attractive to visitors, but now that some neighborhoods are overwhelmed by rowdy crowds and noise, they’re trying to scale back.
The Harlem Children’s Zone is investing millions of dollars to create savings plans for students in its charter schools and, eventually, nationwide.
He led the national team to a championship in 1978 but was convinced that it didn’t get the recognition it deserved in the shadow of the country’s dictatorship.
President Biden hopes the decision to withhold the delivery of 3,500 bombs will prompt Israel to change course in its war in Gaza.
Carol Folt had been under fire for canceling a valedictorian’s speech and calling in the police, who cleared an encampment arrested dozens of protesters.
Republicans and Democrats banded together to block a motion by the right-wing Georgia congresswoman to remove the speaker.
The Long Island abode of a couple of musical standards fans takes maximalism to a new level.
Hamas said it had accepted the terms of a cease-fire proposed by Arab mediators, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was “very far from Israel’s core demands.”
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing to add language to the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration that would halt expansion of the technology.
President Biden’s speech at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony came during weeks of protests on U.S. college campuses against Israel’s war in Gaza.
A long-awaited new policy broadens the type of regulated viruses, bacteria, fungi and toxins, including those that could threaten crops and livestock.
The social media company and its Chinese parent, ByteDance, sued to challenge the new law, saying it violated users’ First Amendment rights.
The French president took Xi Jinping to his childhood haunts high in the Pyrenees, hoping to forge a bond. If only the weather would have cooperated.
She has never accused Donald Trump of anything but a payoff, but their encounter sounds a lot murkier than before.
The billionaire businessman and House Republicans have given new life to former President Jair Bolsonaro by attacking Brazil’s Supreme Court.
Experts say that a new wave of electric vehicle charging stations are coming soon, even after Tesla gutted its charger team.
The police said that they did not know whether the shooting was related to the recent exchange of increasingly personal diss tracks traded between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
The Biden administration is due to release a report this week on whether it believes assurances from Israel on its use of U.S. arms and protection of civilians.
Stormy Daniels sued Donald J. Trump for defamation and lost. Her lawyer wound up in prison for stealing from her.
After 50 years, Creative Growth in Oakland celebrates as its artists enter the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s collection.
After a rough start to the rollout of her memoir, the South Dakota governor has continued to defend shooting her dog and to deflect on a false story about meeting Kim Jong-un.
The Ukrainian security services arrested two Ukrainian colonels and accused them of spying for Russia. They said the plot also targeted top Ukrainian intelligence officials.
Donald J. Trump’s books provided prosecutors with passages they believe can help their case, as they argue that he knew that his company falsified business records to cover up a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels.
The new U.S. approach to cyberthreats comes as early optimism about a “global internet” connecting the world has been shattered.
Hamas says it has agreed to a cease-fire plan that Israel said did not meet its demands, the latest in a long series of negotiating stumbles.
Young voters are far more likely than other Americans to support Palestinians. But few cite the conflict as a top source of discontent with the president.
As expected, protesters gathered near the Met Gala to protest the war in Gaza, creating an atmosphere far different from the one inside the event.
The flurry of actions underscores how fluid the situation in the region is as President Biden and his team try to ultimately end the war that has devastated Gaza.
The C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, was consulted on the changes, the officials say. The proposal uses the term “sustainable calm,” wording that Israel had earlier agreed earlier to, but whose definition may be a point of friction.
Hopes for an agreement to halt the fighting and free hostages have risen and fallen repeatedly in recent days.
The Invisible Institute, a nonprofit newsroom with roughly a dozen journalists, was recognized for local and audio reporting.
In Mexico, where tens of thousands of people have disappeared, the robust operation to quickly find the remains of three foreigners, from Australia and the United States, felt like a rare exception.
Before prosecutors began presenting crucial records, the judge held Donald J. Trump in contempt, saying his complaints about the jury were “a direct attack on the rule of law.”
Prosecutors on Monday took the jury deep into the Trump Organization’s ledgers as the state’s case proceeds at speed.
Using powerful technologies, scientists found staggering amounts of lead and other toxic substances in the composer’s hair that may have come from wine, or other sources.
The prize for public service went to ProPublica for coverage of the Supreme Court. The Pulitzer board also issued a special citation for journalists covering the Middle East.
They’re clearly linked to poor health. But scientists are only beginning to understand why.
The Chinese leader has carefully chosen three countries — France, Serbia and Hungary — that to varying degrees embrace Beijing’s push for a new global order.
The university has been in turmoil following the decision not to allow its valedictorian, who is Muslim, to speak at graduation.
At Washington dinner parties, dark jokes abound about where to go into exile if the former president reclaims the White House.
Republicans have spent years drawing Latino evangelicals into their fold. At one growing church in the Las Vegas suburbs, Donald J. Trump is reaping the benefits.
The global price of gold has reached its highest levels as Chinese investors and consumers, wary of real estate and stocks, buy the metal at a record pace.
Nine months after a coup in Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, an ally of France and the U.S., remains locked in the presidential residence, cut off from contact with anyone but his doctor.
He moved American art away from Abstract Expressionism toward cool minimalism. His explorations of color and form were endlessly discussed and constantly on exhibit.
The protests against Israel’s war in Gaza are merely the latest in a tradition of student-led, left-leaning activism dating back at least to the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s.
Mr. Khan defeated a right-wing rival who focused on crime and cars, his victory another ominous sign for Britain’s ruling Conservatives ahead of a general election.
America’s most famous horse race may be celebrating a milestone this year, but the hats are the real stars of the show.
After 14 years of Conservative government, Britain’s voters appear hungry for change. And Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seems unable to persuade them otherwise.
City officials have blamed “external actors” for escalating demonstrations at Columbia University and elsewhere, but student protesters reject the claim.
Muenster, Texas, has hosted a German-heritage festival for nearly 50 years. But then some locals rebelled.
Three terms in, she’s exiting her political adolescence and coming into her own as a veteran operator.
The remarks by Cindy McCain do not constitute an official declaration of famine, but she said the assessment was based on “what we have seen” on the ground.
Democrats call Donald J. Trump dangerous. Republicans see him as revolutionary. For young Trump voters, he is just normal.
Prosecutors started their criminal case against Donald J. Trump with eye-catching and lurid stories, but the heart of the matter is invoices and ledger entries.
Hope Hicks, once a spokeswoman for Donald J. Trump, broke down in tears on the witness stand as she talked about their time together.
The killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh nationalist who had sought a separate state in India and was viewed as a terrorist by New Delhi, set off diplomatic tensions between Canada and India.
An American official said the United States had information undermining Russia’s claim that a device it is developing is for peaceful scientific research.
Turkey said it would not resume trade with Israel until a “permanent cease-fire” in Gaza. The move came after a number of countries cut diplomatic ties with Israel.
He wrote a popular series of books revolving around a hunchbacked detective, Shardlake, whose troubles echo the author’s experiences of childhood bullying.
“I’m sure he underestimated me,” Ms. Noem writes of the North Korean leader in her forthcoming book. A spokesman said the error would be corrected.
Mr. Cuellar and his wife are accused of accepting bribes from a bank in Mexico City and an oil and gas company owned by Azerbaijan. He has maintained they are innocent.
Three Indian nationals have been charged in the brazen killing of a separatist leader in British Columbia. The case strained already-tense ties between the two nations.
George Lucas wants them to fade into oblivion. But some fans spent more than a decade digitally restoring the original “Star Wars” trilogy, preserving the movies as they were shown in theaters.
A cooler-than-expected jobs report for April shifted the tone on Wall Street, rekindling investors’ expectations that the Federal Reserve may cut rates soon.
Ahmed Best recalls the painful backlash to the “Phantom Menace” character that was considered a racial stereotype at the time, but is now embraced by fans.
The university said it would hold a celebration at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. More than 100 school-specific graduations and smaller receptions will also take place with tighter security.
The brash owner Mike Repole will take a break from tweaking horse racing’s powers when his colt Fierceness runs in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
Wage growth and hiring slowed in April, prodding investors to slightly increase their bets on rate cuts this year.
Both states are reliably Republican and have abortion bans that are among the strictest in the nation.
Older daters are not getting adequate screening and protection from S.T.I.s. Here’s how to be a safer sexually active senior.
The Federal Reserve is shedding assets at a glacial pace, exposing the financial system to continuing risks, our columnist says.
An antiques shop owner in Maine was hired by a friend to value the collection of the artist Robert Indiana. His verdict was $85 million. A second appraisal says that’s way too much.
For years, activists and politicians have led discussions about whether disputed museum objects should go back to their countries of origin. At this year’s Biennale, artists are entering the fray.
Netanyahu is making his nation more like the worst of the old kingdom, and the crown prince is making his kingdom more like the best of the old Jewish state.
America’s adversaries have mounted online campaigns to amplify the social and political conflicts over Gaza flaring at universities, researchers say.
Doxxing and other consequences have led many student protesters on college campuses to hide their identities. That choice has been polarizing.
Senator Robert Menendez’s attorneys want a psychiatrist to testify at his corruption trial about the impact of his father’s death by suicide. Prosecutors are objecting.
The Biden administration wants to focus on a cease-fire and rebuilding Gaza, but Israel’s leader is pushing a new offensive.
A self-taught electric guitar virtuoso, he influenced a generation of musicians. One of them, John Fogerty, called him rock’s first guitar god.
In an interview, the basketball star reveals her humiliation — and friendships — in Russian prison, and her path to recovery.
The school was ill prepared when protesters blocked students from accessing parts of campus and counterprotesters violently attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment.
“If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that,” Donald Trump told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.”
The former president recalled a key detail central to testimony before the Jan. 6 committee during a campaign event in Wisconsin.
Two Republican state senators broke with their party to ensure final passage of the repeal. Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, is expected to sign it on Thursday.
But the scope of the outbreak among cattle remains uncertain, and little human testing has been done.
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged for a sixth straight meeting and suggested that rates would stay high for longer.
Even opponents of abortion saw such curbs as too controversial just over a decade ago. Times have changed.
Rudy Giuliani promised a bankruptcy court that he would limit his spending, but it didn’t take long before he broke that pledge, and by a lot.
The vice president sought to tie former President Donald J. Trump to the state’s six-week abortion ban, which took effect on Wednesday.
Lawmakers voted to repeal an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions. Here’s what to know about the fight over the law.
Videos show Lisa Fithian, whom the police called a “professional agitator,” working alongside protesters who stormed Hamilton Hall.
Testing suggests that pasteurization inactivates the virus. But what about raw milk and cheese?
Comparing 30,000 years of human history, researchers found that surviving famine, war or climate change helps groups recover more quickly from future shocks.
The Biden administration is arguing that Idaho’s near-total abortion ban violates a federal law on emergency treatment.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s films are known for splendor, grandiosity and obsessive attention to light and detail. Will that translate to mobile screens?
Ben Houchen, a regional mayor in the north of England, faces a close re-election race, partly thanks to the broader troubles of Britain’s Conservative Party.
Issa Amro, who has been arrested and beaten for simple acts of defiance, is trying to pursue nonviolent resistance in the West Bank at a time when violence has become inescapable.
Two Republican state senators have said they support scrapping the law, enough to ensure final passage of repeal.
Economists are wondering whether political developments could play into both the Fed’s near-term decisions and its long-term independence.
We need to start aggressively testing dairy workers for bird flu to safeguard their health as well as ours — now.
Policymakers are expected to leave borrowing costs unchanged, but investors are bracing for signals that rates will stay higher for longer.
The ban, which took effect on Wednesday, was part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s push into cultural conservatism. But Florida politics is rarely that simple.
Applicants have more anxiety than ever. Elite schools have more power than ever. Something had to give.
White House officials have barnstormed Wisconsin to make the connection between big changes and their signature laws.
Here we are, watching the narrow, tawdry version of the trial the nation ought to have had 50 years ago.
Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. Police are looking into who is taking them, and why — a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster library security.
Russia has been losing its grip on the Rosenets Oil Terminal, near the port city of Burgas, as Bulgarian authorities seek to assert greater control over the Russian-run facility.
Columbia’s president expressed regret about calling in the police to clear a previous protest. On Tuesday, she said she had “no choice” after protesters occupied a building on campus.
Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced former Hollywood producer, is set to appear in a Manhattan court Wednesday in what could be the first step toward a new sex crimes trial.
With critically lauded works like “The New York Trilogy,” the charismatic author drew inspiration from his adopted borough and won worldwide acclaim.
More capable autonomous driving is just one way Chinese automakers are threatening to pull ahead — their E.V.s are also becoming bigger and roomier.
The firm, LaRocca Hornik, has represented Donald Trump’s political operation in numerous suits dating to his first presidential run, including a pregnancy discrimination case in New York.
Seven months after the beloved tree in northern England was cut down, the police charged two men in their 30s with damaging the 200-year-old tree and part of Hadrian’s Wall.
The killing of the four officers in a usually quiet neighborhood, where a running gun battle left people scrambling for cover, stunned residents and brought anguish across the city.
Donald J. Trump was fined for contempt and warned of jail time before a lawyer testified about how he struck deals to silence two women who said they had trysts with the former president.
U.S. lawmakers have long worried that the Chinese government could use the app to spread propaganda.
A police officer and three members of a U.S. Marshals task force were fatally shot while serving warrants to a suspect, who was also killed.
More than a decade after painful austerity, Greece, Portugal and Spain have been growing faster than traditional powerhouses like Germany.
The Columbia University building, which opened in 1907, has been occupied several times by student activists.
The White House wants federal agencies to keep climate change in mind as they decide whether to approve major projects.
On one of the last days it would be legal to get an abortion until 15 weeks of pregnancy in Florida, a clinic in Fort Pierce was completely booked.
What explains the almost total absence of working-class people from elected positions in state government?
High rates usually pull down asset prices and hurt the housing market. Those channels are muted now, possibly making policy slower to work.
A Times photojournalist embarked on a nuclear-powered attack sub to see how the Pentagon is training for a potential war below the frozen sea.
Though the notion would have been laughable a decade ago, Michigan is one promising national model for how state-level activists can retake power.
Florida is set to ban abortions after six weeks. Experts explain how that can often be before a woman knows she is pregnant.
In the battleground state of Georgia, some Black entrepreneurs are frustrated over the impact of higher interest rates, a source of economic anxiety.
Rachel Khong’s new novel follows three generations of Chinese Americans as they all fight for self-determination in their own way.
Opponents of the measure, which resembles a Russian law that Moscow has used to crack down on dissidents, say it could undermine efforts for Georgia to join the European Union.
As Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial enters its third week, new witnesses will appear and the judge will weigh a request to hold him in contempt for violating his gag order.
Todd Blanche upended his career to represent Donald J. Trump and has been the former president’s favorite. But Mr. Trump has made him a focus of his episodic wrath.
Three of the four were part of a U.S. Marshals task force. The felon whom they sought was also killed.
Pro-Palestinian protesters have occupied the administration building at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt for the past week and forced a campus closure until May 10.
A subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp, Germany’s venerable steel producer, is landing major deals for a device that makes the clean-burning gas from water.
Since pleading guilty to violating money-laundering rules, Changpeng Zhao, who ran the giant crypto exchange Binance, has networked across the United States to set up his next act.
Suggesting that some Jewish students are “pro-genocide,” the Minnesota congresswoman seemed to further polarize an already polarizing debate.
The annual event brings art collectors to the city, but the spirit of freedom that draws artists there has been damaged by the fallout from the Oct. 7 attacks.
She wrote her much-anticipated second novel, “Real Americans,” while also creating the Ruby, a co-working collective for writers and other artists.
Ukraine’s top commander said his outgunned troops were facing a dire situation as Russia tried to push its advantage before the first batch of an American military package arrives.
The country has been pummeled by heavy rains that have caused widespread flooding, part of a broader deluge that has devastated segments of East Africa.
Thousands of people with sleep apnea and other illnesses had sued the company, claiming flawed devices were harming them.
Elon Musk met with the country’s premier, a longtime Tesla ally, and secured regulatory nods and a necessary partnership with a Chinese tech company.
A new study bolsters existing research suggesting that exercise can protect against anxiety, depression and attention challenges.
University officials have given students, who have occupied a central lawn on campus for nearly two weeks, until 2 p.m. to leave.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s effort to get on the ballot in 50 states has already cost millions, federal campaign finance records show.
You may have trouble finding accommodations or tickets to events in Paris, but other destinations around France are hosting sports like soccer, sailing, basketball and surfing.
An audacious federal plan to protect the spotted owl would eradicate hundreds of thousands of barred owls in the coming years.
The food scene in and around the nation’s capital is vibrant these days, with Italian, Ethiopian, Salvadoran and more. Comments are open.
Tesla’s C.E.O. appears to have landed a deal that moves the company closer to bringing fully autonomous driving to a giant market. But Beijing is keen to exploit the visit for its own purposes.
Cuba’s Communist revolution took aim at private businesses, making them largely illegal. Today, they are proliferating, while the socialist economy craters.
Oral arguments serve a crucial role at the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts said last week at Georgetown University. But they are not always what they seem.
A battle over abortion bans and criminal charges against allies of former President Donald J. Trump continue to raise the state’s election-year profile.
A new legal standard is gaining traction among conservative judges — one that might turn back the clock on drag shows, gun restrictions and more.
The state has dozens of clinics that serve tens of thousands of women a year, including from across the Southeast. The six-week ban will require most to travel much farther.
Grief and rage over the war and Israel have led to demonstrations across the Arab world. Arrests suggest governments fear the outrage could boomerang.
With Mayor Eric Adams and his top aides facing several investigations, he is amassing a team of high-powered lawyers paid by his donors and city taxpayers.
Recent arrests at Columbia University spurred a nationwide movement of pro-Palestinian protests and encampments on campuses.
Scenes of chaos unfolding on campuses across the country are stoking internal divisions and carry political risk as a major election year unfolds.
Kenny DeForest was beloved among his fellow stand-ups. After his sudden death, they came together to grieve — and to confront comedy’s eternal question: Too soon?
International development agencies have been meeting with Middle East business interests and urban planners to map out an economic future for the territory.
Incarcerated women serve as guides to the show, which reflects Pope Francis’ longtime commitment to society’s marginalized people.
More than two dozen tornadoes were reported across the region overnight. The tornado threat was forecast to ease on Sunday morning.
Israel says the number of trucks entering the enclave has doubled to an average of 400 a day. The U.N. disputes that, but agrees that the pace of deliveries has quickened.
For the tens of thousands of asylum seekers in Britain, a new law brings the possibility of deportation to central Africa closer. We asked how it was affecting them.
The police made arrests at Washington University in St. Louis, Northeastern, Arizona State and Indiana, as more schools move in on encampments.
Radical Christians are working to erase L.G.B.T.Q. visibility from schools and ultimately, South Korean society.
Journalists and politicians schmoozed over filet mignon at the White House Correspondents Dinner as pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside.
Scarlett Johansson, Colin Jost and Senator John Fetterman made their entrances at the annual journalism celebration in Washington.
Some colleges that initiated police crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests have since taken a different tack. Others have defended the move. Hundreds have been arrested.
The U.S. secretary of state plans to raise the issues of hostages held by Hamas, a potential cease-fire, humanitarian aid and a long-term political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Donald J. Trump demands praise and concedes no faults, denying his lawyers time-honored defense tactics.
A new jury would hear from only one or both of the women whom he was convicted of assaulting, in what analysts say will be a much narrower and weaker case.
In Washington, celebrities mixed with journalists and government officials at glittery parties before the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
The former president called Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a ‘Democrat plant’ and attacked his running mate, Nicole Shanahan, who gave $2 million to the Kennedy campaign.
Mr. Kim, the New Jersey congressman, has become the odds-on favorite to win Robert Menendez’s Senate seat. His strategy? Don’t ask anyone for permission.
The testimony of David Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, included stories of celebrity encounters and his own wild journalistic tactics.
The movie producer won his appeal in New York on Thursday. But his story, at its core, is about work, and it can’t be measured by a criminal court.
The Spotify chief has co-founded a new start-up, Neko Health, that aims to make head-to-toe health scans part of the annual health checkup routine.
The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
No major American presidential candidate has talked like he now does at his rallies — not Richard Nixon, not George Wallace, not even Donald Trump himself.
The progressive Democrat from a rural, mostly white Wisconsin district is highlighting that it is not just young people of color who are concerned about the war.
College students started a venture that has diverted glass bottles from landfills and crushed them into sand for coastal restoration efforts.
Each day before and after court proceedings, the former president stepped out in front of the cameras and offered his version of the case.
This week, fans turned out for a new documentary about Jon Bon Jovi and took in a performance led by Gustavo Dudamel at the New York Philharmonic’s spring gala.
On the debut of ‘The Interview,' the actress talks to David Marchese about learning to let go of other people’s opinions.
Experts say the partisan political context in Washington is a driver behind the spread of protests at American universities even as overseas campuses have stayed relatively calm.
There might be problems in the student protest movement for Gaza, but they are not misguided in their goals.
The program has allowed thousands of young immigrants to avoid deportation and work legally.
The union’s president, Shawn Fain, said negotiators were nowhere near an agreement and ruled out a contract extension while talks continued.
After escaping from a county jail last month, Danelo Cavalcante eluded hundreds of law enforcement officers for nearly two weeks.
The speaker, who formerly argued that the House must vote before opening an impeachment inquiry, changed his tune this week, a decision that could have consequences for the investigation.
A looming auto industry strike could test the president’s commitment to making electric vehicles a source of well-paying union jobs.
The Utah Republican and 2012 G.O.P. presidential nominee, 76, said he would step aside to make way for younger leaders and strongly suggested the president and former president should, too.
Consumer prices rose 3.7 percent in the year through August, marking another month of accelerating inflation. The Federal Reserve will closely parse the data as it prepares its next interest-rate decision.
The former president has talked regularly with members of the House Freedom Caucus and other congressional Republicans who pushed for impeachment.
Peter Daou, a former Democratic activist, is running Cornel West’s third-party campaign. He talked to The New York Times about how he came to view the two-party system as a bigger problem than Donald J. Trump.
Moscow’s missile production now exceeds prewar levels, officials say, leaving Ukraine especially vulnerable this coming winter.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that it shot down seven of 10 cruise missiles that Ukraine fired at the facility in the city of Sevastopol. The area hosts naval operations key to Moscow’s war efforts in Ukraine.
More than 5,000 people are reported to have died in the floods in recent days. As international relief gradually arrived, the U.N. pledged $10 million in aid.
Russian reports said the North Korean leader had crossed into Russia by train on Tuesday morning, but his destination was unclear.
Republicans claim they have unearthed evidence of wrongdoing by the president and his family that could rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. In fact, there’s little to back up their allegations.
The agency now must decide whether products containing the ingredient, like some Sudafed and NyQuil products, should no longer be sold or perhaps give companies lead time to substitute other ingredients.
A season-ending injury to Aaron Rodgers, the New York Jets quarterback, after months of hype and hope, was the capstone on a disappointing stretch for the city’s teams.
The monarchy is revered and nearly all powerful in Morocco. But details about the lives and actions of the king, his family and his entourage remain mysterious and subject to speculation.
Powerful rains destroyed two dams, and the death toll in the North African country is estimated at more than 5,000.
Last week’s disaster raises questions that also emerged in Maui, Greece and other hard-hit places. Is the presence of tourists a hindrance? Or can visitors, and the revenue they bring in, help?
European regulators passed a rule requiring USB-C charging across electronic devices, forcing the change in Apple’s newest iPhones.
The Russian leader, whose government meddled in the American presidential election won by Donald J. Trump, also offered words of praise for Elon Musk.
The dream of carrying one power cable for all your devices is becoming a reality. But things aren’t as simple as they sound.
The move against President Biden, which Speaker Kevin McCarthy had been signaling for weeks, comes as some far-right House Republicans are irate over spending and threatening to depose him.
Aid workers say hopes of rescuing trapped victims are dwindling. The Moroccan government has drawn some criticism for being slow to greenlight international aid.
In her first interview, Danelo Cavalcante’s mother said that her son had killed two people, but she insisted that he was not a threat to the public.
In a catastrophe recalling Hurricane Katrina, a heavy storm burst through dams to unleash their waters on the city of Derna, sweeping away entire neighborhoods.
The observations from orbit suggest that a fault that had been inactive in modern times ruptured on Friday.
“We consider him desperate, we consider him dangerous,” a state police colonel told reporters Tuesday.
An M.R.I. confirmed the team’s worst fears after the four-time league M.V.P. was carted to the locker room after an injury in the opening minutes of the first regular season game.
The Italian group has become a global sensation — by giving Gen Z a taste of a genre that might have already taken its final breath.
The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Median income, adjusted for inflation, fell 2.3 percent to $74,580.
The music mogul, 53, has a new album, a new (psychedelics-fueled) self-image and a fresh sense of purpose.
Climate change is melting the ice on Mount Rainier. The environmental effects will be widespread, a Park Service study warned.
Here is a look at five expansive searches that lasted weeks, months or even years before the authorities caught their targets.
Israel’s government passed a bill in July limiting judicial influence. The Supreme Court began meeting on Tuesday to decide whether to strike down the bill, potentially setting up a constitutional crisis.
The police are hunting for Danelo Cavalcante, a convicted murderer who escaped from prison on Aug. 31. He was spotted again on Monday as the search intensified.
Aaron Rodgers’s Jets debut ended with his departure in the first quarter with an ankle injury. His teammates mustered three interceptions, a crucial touchdown catch and an overtime walk-off touchdown.
The motion essentially piggybacked off another filed by one of the former president’s co-defendants, which gave a detailed critique of the sprawling indictment.
Heading to Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin, the North Korean leader chose to travel by rail, on a train with some unusual features.
The people of a village high in the Atlas Mountains erupted in anger when the Moroccan government left them alone for three days to dig out and bury their loved ones.
Allegations that a researcher in Parliament was a foreign agent have intensified a fiery debate over Britain’s relations with Beijing.
In a new book, they grapple with why Trump turned out to be even worse than they expected.
The waters swept away hundreds of homes as emergency officials raced to find survivors of the flooding caused by torrential weekend rains. Officials in one city described “catastrophic” devastation.
A nationwide rollout of the vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna should begin later this week, after the C.D.C. considers guidelines to prepare Americans for this season when infections usually tick upward.
The president’s top aides believe that stories about the president’s age and health are stoked by his enemies in an effort to undermine his accomplishments.
The government defended its response to the earthquake as robust, but some residents desperate for basic supplies say they feel abandoned.
The former president said Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is hearing the Justice Department’s case accusing him of seeking to overturn the 2020 election, had shown bias against him in public statements.
Relatives of those who died went to Lower Manhattan to mark the 22nd anniversary of the terrorist attack, where they were joined by governors, senators and the vice president.
The subject of the manhunt outside Philadelphia disappeared into the wilderness in 2017 after an arrest warrant was issued in connection with a murder in northern Brazil.
The couple were wed Sept. 8 in an intimate ceremony at their home in Farmington, Conn. The newlyweds spoke to The New York Times in an exclusive interview about their relationship.
Beijing’s influence campaign using artificial intelligence is a rapid change in tactics, researchers from Microsoft and other organizations say.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, 90, and her daughter are locked in a dispute with her late husband’s family over how to manage the assets of his vast estate.
Gen. Augusto Pinochet led the violent overthrow of the socialist government of Salvador Allende, seizing power for nearly 17 years. Here is a selection of photographs from the coup and its aftermath.
Democrats appear resilient in the battleground states despite a nationwide loss of nonwhite support. New issues may be one reason.
On a court where he had regularly played the villain, Djokovic soaked in the fan adoration as he beat Daniil Medvedev in straight sets.
Last year’s U.S. Open focused on goodbyes. This year, Gauff, the new singles champion, along with Ben Shelton, Frances Tiafoe and Taylor Fritz, burst through the front door with plans to stay.
Visiting Hanoi, the president cemented a new strategic partnership that puts the memories of the past behind them and focuses on mutual concerns over Beijing’s assertiveness in the region.
When the quake struck a remote village in the Atlas Mountains outside of Marrakesh, it knocked out power and phones, making it impossible to call for help. Now food and water are running very low.
The convicted arms trafficker Viktor A. Bout hasn’t much flair for retail politicking, but his celebrity may compensate for that in regional elections.
The quake about 50 miles from Marrakesh turned residences into rubble and left the survivors terrified.
The U.N. Special Rapporteur on torture said Moscow’s refusal to address the issue represented tacit approval of its use. Russia has denied it practices torture.
It remained unclear how quickly emergency teams would be able to reach the victims and prevent more deaths. Many of the areas affected by the quake are remote mountain villages that are not easily accessible.
The quake, centered in the mountains just outside of Marrakesh, was the strongest to hit that area in a century. “It didn’t last long, but felt like years,” said one woman who lives near the epicenter.
American officials defended the agreement, saying it built on the statement released last year and that the United States was still pressing for peace in Ukraine.
Defying U.S. sanctions, a Vietnamese government document lays out a plan to buy Russian weapons, which officials see as a way to upgrade its military as a hedge against China.
A Fifth Circuit panel partly upheld restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with online platforms about their content.
Moving the case to federal court would have given Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff, one key advantage: a jury pool that was more favorable to Donald J. Trump.
Since she stepped down from leadership last year, many observers expected Representative Nancy Pelosi of California to head toward retirement. But she has kept people guessing about her future.
Congress has long been an institution that runs on seniority and rewards longevity, and these veteran lawmakers are still running the country at an age when most people are well into retirement.
Enrique Tarrio said in an interview that prosecutors believed he had communicated with President Donald Trump through intermediaries before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
News that Mr. Musk did not allow the use of his Starlink satellite network highlights concerns in Kyiv and Washington about his outsize influence in the war.
Declining male enrollment has led many colleges to adopt an unofficial policy: affirmative action for men.
Doing business in China, once seen as a can’t-miss opportunity, poses a troubling quandary: Reasons to stay can be as compelling as the reasons to retreat.
The West Virginia Democrat could run for re-election to the Senate, make a third-party presidential bid or simply retire from politics. To his party’s consternation, he’s not ready to say which.
The strain of migrants in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities has taxed resources, divided Democrats and put pressure on President Biden to act.
A shadowy fight is playing out on three continents for control of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s sprawling interests as head of the Wagner mercenary group. The biggest prize: his lucrative operations in Africa.
The Starlink satellite internet service, which is operated by Mr. Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, has been a digital lifeline for soldiers and civilians in Ukraine.
With the Russian and Chinese leaders absent, the president hopes to get others to align with him on a variety of matters, including Ukraine and curbing Beijing’s assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific.
The F.B.I. says more than 380 people remain unaccounted for. Many residents have begun to accept that their loved ones will not be coming back, and survivors wonder what comes next.
The more than 40-minute delay during the match between Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova appeared to be caused by environmental protesters.
An officer who was in a watchtower is on administrative leave, as prison officials review what went wrong during Danelo Cavalcante’s escape last week.
The longtime Democratic leader, who has served in the House for close to four decades, also left the door open to running again.
In the months since the president allowed the Willow project in Alaska, his administration has curtailed fossil fuel activities on millions of acres of public land and in federal waters.
The legislative stances of the G.O.P. leader and his usual opponents are aligned on Ukraine, spending and impeachment as he faces mounting health scrutiny.
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas has run a high-profile campaign to send migrants to Los Angeles, New York and other cities. But they are a fraction of the number of new migrants boarding buses.
In provocative remarks at a town hall meeting, Mayor Eric Adams said that he did not “see an ending” to the migrant crisis and renewed his push for federal help.
The weapons, banned by most countries over human rights concerns, are “not a magic wand,” but some Ukrainian troops say they are making a difference in fighting Russian forces.
An uptick in hospitalizations and deaths persists, but the numbers are relatively low and new vaccines are around the corner.
An unseasonal stretch of extreme heat and humidity has left the stadiums at the Open sweltering. But a few players, Coco Gauff among them, say the hotter, the better.
Sotheby’s in London began selling about 1,400 items once owned by the charismatic lead singer, who was also a discriminating collector of woodblock prints and other Japanese art.
The timetable, following the collapse of an earlier deal that would have allowed President Biden’s son to avoid any jail time, means he will face prosecution as his father seeks re-election.
He was a pioneer in using synthesizers, and his friendship with George Harrison led to a spiritual awakening that also influenced another hit, “Love Is Alive.”
The decision builds on an earlier high court ruling and reflects how Latin American countries are expanding women’s rights.
Osaka, the four-time Grand Slam singles champion, has taken breaks from tennis for her mental health and to start a family, but she is aiming to compete again in 2024.
A Russian missile killed at least 17 civilians and wounded dozens, while Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken vowed lasting backing and announced a new round of aid.
As the search for a convicted murderer continues, a mixture of fear and unease has settled over the community outside Philadelphia where he escaped and is believed to be hiding.
The Kentucky Republican said he would finish his term as leader, which runs through 2024, and in the Senate, where he was elected to serve through 2026.
A federal judge ordered the state to move the barrier, placed to discourage illegal crossings from Mexico, to the banks of the river.
The defense also rested, with closing arguments expected to begin Thursday morning. The fast clip of the trial suggested that the jury could deliberate shortly after.
With leaders of the far-right groups that helped drive the attack on the Capitol sentenced to long prison terms, attention is shifting to the fraught process of prosecuting Donald Trump.
Sidney Powell followed Kenneth Chesebro in demanding a speedy trial, but neither defendant in the election interference case wanted to be tried with the other.
The administration will cancel oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and set aside more than half of the National Petroleum Reserve.
Heavy reliance on online remote learning during the pandemic drew attention away from more equitable ways of teaching children at home, a UNESCO report says.
Dan Doctoroff’s efforts to rebuild the city after 9/11 brought him power. A terrible diagnosis brought him peace.
The former vice president used a speech in New Hampshire on Wednesday to call on Republicans to choose between conservatism and Donald Trump’s brand of populism.
Cleaning up after the festival is always a challenge, but this year the trash is soaked with mud and trapped in hardening sludge.
The Classic Learning Test emphasizes the Western canon and Christian thought. It’s the latest move by Gov. Ron DeSantis to shake up the education establishment.
The slowdown is posing perhaps the most sustained challenge to President Xi Jinping’s agenda in over a decade in power. He now faces a tangle of difficult choices.
The tech giant is facing the greatest legal threat in its history, and hopes the stolid approach of Kent Walker, its top lawyer, will once again prevail.
Some doctors who handle high-risk pregnancies are fleeing restrictive abortion laws. Idaho has been particularly hard hit.
The 10-week trial, set to begin Tuesday, amps up efforts to rein in Big Tech by targeting the core search business that turned Google into a $1.7 trillion behemoth.
Officials say the future of wildfire detection is cameras. But in northwest Montana, solitary humans on mountaintops still do more than machines alone can offer.
The vote in Slovakia this month will be a test of European unity on Ukraine, and of Russia’s efforts to undermine it. The front-runner wants to halt arms shipments to Kyiv.
Mr. Bankman-Fried, founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has protested his conditions at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center as he awaits trial on fraud charges.
The prison term for Enrique Tarrio was the most severe penalty handed down so far to any of the more than 1,100 people charged in connection with the Capitol attack.
The Cuban government said it had begun criminal proceedings against a “trafficking network” that had been recruiting its citizens in both Russia and Cuba for Russia’s armed forces.
Kim Jong-un is likely to seek missile and warhead technology in an expected visit to Russia, and he is already getting a public embrace he has long sought.
The embattled Chinese property giant is said to have avoided default by meeting a deadline to pay interest on small loans. But it must repay billions within the next year.
Once considered a survivor of China’s real estate turmoil, Country Garden is now at the center of the crisis and threatens the broader economy.
Russia seeks more weaponry for its war in Ukraine, and a North Korean delegation recently traveled to Russia by train to plan for Mr. Kim’s visit this month, officials say.
Xi Jinping has never missed the annual Group of 20 gathering since taking power in 2012. Beijing would not explain his apparent decision to forgo the event in New Delhi.
Thousands of people have been stranded for days at the festival’s remote desert site in Nevada because of torrential rain.
The removal of the defense minister highlights the enduring challenge of corruption in Ukraine, which has emerged as a rare area of criticism of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership.
Though a member of an opposition political party, Mr. Umerov has taken on several critical roles for the Zelensky government since the Russian invasion last year.
Climate. Refugees. Crime. With an election looming next year, the prime minister and his party are turning to populist issues.
A new generation of cheaper and more flexible vessels could be vital in any conflict with China, but the Navy remains lashed to big shipbuilding programs driven by tradition, political influence and jobs.
The first high school seniors to apply to college since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision are trying to sort through a morass of conflicting guidance.
The effort to help the Texas attorney general, whose impeachment trial starts Tuesday, is part of an ongoing struggle over the Republican Party’s future.
The annual festival started as an impromptu bonfire, but now attracts tens of thousands of revelers a year. How did it get here?
It has been several decades since American tennis players dominated en masse this deep into their home Grand Slam tournament. The American tennis party looks to continue for at least a few more days.
The fate of the defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, had been the subject of increasing speculation in Ukraine. It was the biggest shake-up in Ukraine’s government since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
The assault in the Odesa region came as Ukraine’s president said two more ships had traveled through a temporary corridor established by Kyiv after Moscow pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal.
The mother of a Marine and two veterans who served in Iraq reflect on the U.S. decision to send failure-prone shells to help the Ukrainian military battle Russia.
Under the ruling, Florida is forbidden to use the map in the 2024 election, and state legislators are required to draw a new one. But the decision can be appealed.
Officials were urging campers to conserve food and water as access to the site remained limited on Sunday and the police investigated one death.
Blatant political gerrymandering occurs in cities across the country, many of them run by Democrats. In Los Angeles, a scandal over a racist recording was only the tip of the iceberg.
Swimming in Paris is a full-on cultural experience, offering intimate views into the French psyche, which is on near-naked display in the swimming lanes, locker rooms and (mostly coed) showers.
Environmentally, economically and in terms of pure human suffering, the destruction of the Kakhovka dam unleashed untold damage. Months later, many communities are still reeling.
With their contract expiring Sept. 14, the United Auto Workers and the companies are far apart in talks. A walkout could take a big economic toll.
The Hawaii wildfire offered insights into the promises and shortcomings of a wireless alert system that relies on cellphones for emergency warnings.
Gilbert, a former pro, coached Andre Agassi to a U.S. Open victory in 1994. Now he’s advising Gauff — in between calling matches — at this year’s tournament.
On Saturday, the island that inspired him, and grew in fame because of him, celebrated a life and a way of life.
As Beijing tries to enlist the “whole of society” to guard against foreign enemies, the line between vigilance and paranoia fades.
With songs like “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” he became a folk hero to fans known as Parrot Heads. He also became a millionaire hundreds of times over.
The Mexican police, military officers and others secretly colluded with a cartel that kidnapped 43 students, a case unsolved after nearly a decade. Wiretaps show just how much the authorities helped the cartel behind the mass abduction, and what led to it.
Policías, militares y otros funcionarios se coludieron con un cártel que secuestró a 43 estudiantes en un caso que lleva casi una década sin resolverse. Unas intercepciones telefónicas muestran la ayuda que brindaron las autoridades al cártel en la desaparición masiva, y las circunstancias que llevaron a ella.
The remnants of the former hurricane, now a post-tropical cyclone, were forecast to strengthen into a tropical or subtropical storm over the weekend.
As Ukraine pushes slowly forward in its counteroffensive, it’s relying heavily on the effort of hundreds of small-scale assault groups, each tasked with attacking a single trench, tree line or house.
Though the president said earlier on Friday that he would see the governor on Saturday, Mr. DeSantis’s office said there were no plans for a meeting.
Ethan Nordean, a ground commander of the far-right group, got 18 years, matching the longest Jan. 6 sentence so far. Dominic Pezzola, among the first rioters to enter the Capitol, received 10 years.
Two episodes, where the Republican senator froze and did not respond to some questions, may be symptoms of a serious illness, according to neurologists not involved in his medical care.
A.I. chatbots could facilitate plagiarism on college applications or democratize student access to writing help. Or maybe both.
A.I. chatbots can do a passable job of generating short essays. Whether their use on college applications is ethical is the subject of fierce debate.
Families on Friday were trying to identify relatives caught in the blaze, a day after it consumed a sprawling settlement in one of the deadliest residential fires in South African history.
Discussion of a Plan B, should Ukraine fail to win a total victory, has become more fraught than ever, say those who have tried.
The blaze, one of the worst residential ones in South Africa’s history, occurred in a building that officials and locals say had become an overcrowded death trap for the hundreds who lived there.
Before Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes,” Phyllis Graber wanted to play tennis on a boys’ team. The rules said she couldn’t.
What happens if the nearly 100 million square feet of workplace real estate stays empty?
How can something so beautiful to watch, a stroke so etched into tennis history, be so exploitable — and why have a dwindling handful of players remained loyal to it?
The textbooks, which cover Russian history from 1945 to present, also reimagine the brutality of Joseph Stalin’s policies.
After it fired a worker for theft and its director stepped down, the museum faces renewed calls to give back contested objects and an uphill battle to raise funds for refurbishment.
The pontiff arrived Friday on a trip that the Vatican said was meant to encourage the fewer than 1,500 Catholics there. But it also brings him close to two great powers that have vexed him.
Such visits could help convey Beijing’s interest in stabilizing ties with Washington. But China has been noncommittal.
A 6-foot-10 American, Isner had announced he would retire following the tournament. Losses in singles and doubles on Thursday ended a career known for powerful serves and a marathon match.
A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech. He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest people.
The brief statement came from the attending physician of Congress, who said he had reached the conclusion after consulting with the top Republican’s doctors and didn’t say he had examined the senator.
The men are considered the leading candidates to replace the top Senate Republican, should he be forced to step aside for health reasons.
The penalty for Joseph Biggs is the second longest so far in more than 1,100 criminal cases stemming from the Capitol attack.
The 19 defendants in the election interference case are sparring with prosecutors over when a trial might start, and whether it will be in state or federal court.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. had asked for extensions on their annual forms that show travel, gifts and other financial information.
In unusually sharp remarks published this week, Pope Francis said some conservative American Catholics wrongly ignore much of the Church’s mission and reject the possibility of change.
The blaze struck an abandoned building that had become a crowded squatter settlement. The authorities were investigating the cause.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has vowed to make the city’s public transit system easier to navigate, but said it will take 32 years. For disabled New Yorkers, the subway is still a nightmare.
Overall inflation climbed to 3.3 percent, from 3 percent previously, underscoring the Fed’s long road back to 2 percent price increases.
His failure is a template for the inevitable disasters if Trump returns to the White House.
Prices rose at an annual rate of 5.3 percent, defying expectations of a slowdown. The news may bolster the case for another European Central Bank interest rate increase.
Amid a relentless heat wave, some migrants are succumbing to heat exhaustion. More than 500 people have died of various causes this year while trying to cross from Mexico.
For a group of men in a Texas prison, the fantasy game became a lifeline — to their imaginations, and to one another.
As the Scottish nationalists stumble, a by-election near Glasgow this fall will test support for the opposition Labour party ahead of Britain’s coming general election.
Gina Raimondo, the U.S. commerce secretary, and her Chinese counterparts agreed to continue economic talks, but such dialogues have a disheartening record.
After 12 years of conflict, anger over growing economic hardships has boiled over. Protesters are demanding the ouster of the authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad and an end to the war.
The Cold War-era Leopard 1A5 may be old, but it is still effective, Germany says. The country is now training Ukrainian troops to operate the weapons.
During a deposition in his civil case, the former president offered a series of defenses, digressions and meandering explanations of his political and professional dealings.
Letitia James, the attorney general, asked a judge to find, without a trial, that the former president had fraudulently overvalued his assets.
The episode, which took place in the Republican leader’s home state of Kentucky, intensified questions about his future in the Senate.
In New Hampshire, Republicans are feuding over whether the 14th Amendment bars Donald J. Trump from running for president. Other states are watching closely.
Ukraine’s sense of urgency in obtaining the fighter jet reflects concerns about the war against Russia, but also the political calendar in the West. But training pilots and support crew is a lengthy process.
The congresswoman from New York says she’s different from when she first took office. But she’s not ready to call herself an insider.
The ruling means that a defamation case against Rudolph W. Giuliani, stemming from his role in seeking to overturn the 2020 election, can proceed to a trial where damages will be considered.
Misattributed videos, recycled lies and warped fears are fueling unfounded claims about the recent record-breaking heat, floods and wildfires.
The Category 3 hurricane could expose insurers and their customers to huge losses across a wide stretch of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.
The federal election interference case — one of four — is set to start just before Super Tuesday and a cascade of consequential primaries.
Mr. Thompson, who helped revitalize The New York Times, will take over at a pivotal moment for the news network.
Harrison William Prescott Floyd, who once led a group called Black Voices for Trump, was held longer at an Atlanta jail after turning himself in, apparently because he showed up to his booking without a lawyer.
The burial of the Wagner mercenary group boss, two months after his mutiny, was shrouded in misinformation, preventing a public display of support the Kremlin did not want to see.
In Washington, the special counsel is pursuing a streamlined approach and has gotten an early trial date. In Georgia, a more comprehensive indictment faces slower going.
Russians are advancing in the Northeast, toward Kupiansk, while Ukraine presses its offensive in the South, each hoping to force the other to redeploy its forces.
After numerous misfires with his career, Paul, an American seeded 14th at the U.S. Open, finds himself as comfortable on the court as off it, and into the second round in Queens.
In Solano County, Calif., longtime residents are both worried and baffled by an ambitious plan to build a city where there is now mostly farmland.
Tech industry investors spent roughly $900 million buying land to build a dream city in a rural part of the Bay Area. It could be years, though, before they can do anything with it.
The ex-president vowed to appeal a judge’s decision to schedule the start on his trial the day before Super Tuesday. He can’t disrupt the trial that way, legal experts say — but there is a longer-shot possibility.
Jabeur, who said she had been dealing with an illness before the tournament, appeared weary at the end of the match but nonetheless took the first step toward a repeat run to the final.
Nearly 60 percent of Lahaina students haven’t enrolled in classes after the deadly fire, and families are yearning to rebuild their school network for educational and emotional support.
Cyanobacteria have overrun this lake an hour outside West Palm Beach, and excessive rain could spread that algae to nearby waterways.
The storm could produce flooding, storm surge and even tornadoes through northern Florida, southeastern Georgia and coastal South Carolina in the coming days.
The price negotiation program, established by Democrats as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, is expected to save the government tens of billions of dollars in the coming years.
Warm water can fuel tropical storms and hurricanes. This year has been record-breaking for ocean heat.
The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said.
Infighting between Trump acolytes and traditionalists has driven away donors and voters. Can the Michigan Republican Party rebuild in time for the presidential election?
Gina Raimondo, the commerce secretary, also emphasized U.S. national security concerns in a meeting in Beijing with Vice Premier He Lifeng, who oversees China’s economy.
For Ukrainian players, as well as those from Russia and its allies, the unceasing conflict at home has bled into the game. Now they face off at the U.S. Open.
Beijing has characterized concerns about the economic slowdown as being inflated by Western critics. Widespread anxiety and pessimism paint a different picture.
Sun Junli is one of many small-business owners, the backbone of China’s economy, who lost everything to a change in government policy.
Ukraine’s Danube River ports have become key arteries for grain exports. But threats from Russia and costly delays have made some shippers rethink their operations in the Black Sea.
As a real estate meltdown ripples through the economy, small businesses and workers are owed hundreds of billions of dollars, and new projects have dried up.
Tiafoe, who made a sensational run to the semifinal in New York last year where he ran into Carlos Alcaraz, got an easy first-round win over Learner Tien on Monday.
“To the American people’s chagrin, we will have to leave the rapping to the real Slim Shady,” Mr. Ramaswamy’s spokesman said after the campaign received a cease-and-desist letter.
Mr. Meadows, a former White House chief of staff, told a judge he believed his actions regarding the 2020 election fell within the scope of his job as a federal official.
Evacuations were ordered ahead of the storm, which is expected to make landfall on the state’s Gulf Coast early Wednesday after strengthening into a major hurricane.
The nonconsensual kiss that Luis Rubiales, the president of Spain’s soccer federation, pressed on Jennifer Hermoso has come to embody the generational fault line between a culture of machismo and more recent progressivism.
Ron DeSantis rose to prominence in part on his “anti-woke” agenda, especially when it comes to education. In some settings, culture-war messaging seems to be receding.
Luis Rubiales caused outrage with his conduct after Spain won the Women’s World Cup and then for his defiant stand when he came under heavy criticism.
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan rejected efforts by the former president’s legal team to postpone the trial until 2026.
Meiko Locksley was found to have had a degenerative brain disease often associated with football. His father, the head coach at Maryland, is still reckoning with the implications.
A new survey provides a portrait of the type of American who serves on a jury and a rare window into the thoughts of the kinds of people who may decide Donald Trump’s fate.
Hospitalizations are still low but are on the rise in recent weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It could be hard for the Kremlin to find a way to neutralize the mercenary group after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death while retaining its fighting power and geopolitical links.
An Air Force program shows how the Pentagon is starting to embrace the potential of a rapidly emerging technology, with far-reaching implications for war-fighting tactics, military culture and the defense industry.
The frequency of drone attacks inside Russia has increased in recent weeks, bringing the war to areas deep inside Russian territory.
Remarks by Nicolas Sarkozy have raised fears that Europe’s pro-Putin chorus may grow louder as Ukraine’s plodding counteroffensive puts pressure on Western resolve.
Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula enter the U.S. Open with both on a roll. Can they withstand the home-country pressure?
A coalition of unions and civic groups is pushing one of the world’s largest automakers to protect and train workers in return for federal money under President Biden’s signature laws.
Led by Carlos Alcaraz, tennis youth is coming for Djokovic. “My role nowadays is to prevent them from that.”
The Florida governor was reluctant to attack the former president too directly as he navigated the tricky waters of the Republican primary.
The 38-year-old entrepreneur says he has a plan to fix what ails Americans his age and younger, but many of his positions are out of step with those voters.
The kiss and its aftermath have stirred debate over the treatment of women in Spanish soccer.
In an apparent break with Pentagon advice, Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, the commander of Ukraine’s eastern forces, called for “all measures” to defend an area where Russia was threatening to take more territory.
He shored up Russian forces at their most vulnerable and drew Ukraine into a costly fight for Bakhmut, giving Moscow time to build defenses that are slowing Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
Wagner could be absorbed into Russia’s Defense Ministry or its military intelligence arm. A Russian general could also be installed to lead the group, U.S. and Western officials said.
Some defendants have already sought to move the case to federal court, while others are seeking speedy or separate trials.
Sharp-eyed birders might spot brown boobies, a tropical species once rare even in the Southern states. A flock of Canada geese might just include a pink-footed goose, too.
The commerce secretary’s trip may be the clearest demonstration yet of the balancing act the Biden administration is trying to pull off in its relations with China.
Before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to 250,000 people, a group of civil rights activists spent a summer planning an event many didn’t want to happen.
The powerful National Association of Realtors has ignored sexual harassment complaints, including those against the group’s president, current and former employees say.
Prescriptions for a new class of medications used for diabetes and weight loss are concentrated in the city’s wealthier, whiter and healthier neighborhoods.
On an island where Christianity and Buddhism are also prominent, many are finding strength in traditional Hawaiian spirituality and culture.
As of late Friday morning, all 19 defendants in the state election interference case involving former President Donald J. Trump had turned themselves in.
The list names people still unaccounted for after wildfires devastated the town of Lahaina and other areas. Officials asked anyone on the list who survived the fires to come forward.
Early dismissals and school closures reflected the need to make schools more prepared for a hotter world.
The players demanded change after Luis Rubiales declined to quit over kissing Jennifer Hermoso, a member of the World Cup-winning team.
Hartwig Fischer, who had led the museum since 2016, said that the museum’s failure to adequately respond to earlier warnings “must ultimately rest with the director.”
U.S. officials say they expect Ukraine to continue its attacks because they send a strong message: Kyiv can still strike back.
What it means when six Republican candidates think it would be fine to have a convicted criminal as president.
China’s economy, which once seemed unstoppable, is plagued by a series of problems, and a growing lack of faith in the future is verging on despair.
Consumer spending remains resilient, but retailers’ latest earnings offered a glimpse into worrying shifts in shopping habits.
Books or beach? In a coastal town, the decision is easy, thanks to artwork by the author of “Blueberries for Sal” and “Make Way for Ducklings.”
Jerome H. Powell, the head of the Federal Reserve, struck a resolute tone in a speech at the central bank’s most closely watched conference.
There was anger after the campus police union — which is renegotiating a contract — shared a safety flier with a picture of the Grim Reaper on it.
After a fierce rally largely propelled by a handful of tech stocks, the market’s rapid climb stalled in August. That setback could ultimately be a good thing, our columnist says.
The Kremlin appears to be sending the signal that no degree of effectiveness can protect someone from punishment for disloyalty.
A tycoon and a Putin ally, he built a paramilitary force that fought by Russia’s side even as he castigated its military leaders. He is believed dead at 62 in a plane crash.
Mr. Trump spent about 20 minutes at the jail, getting fingerprinted and having his mug shot taken for the first time in the four criminal cases he has faced this year.
Absent for more than two years, former President Donald J. Trump posted his mug shot on the site, now called X.
In a new lawsuit, Maui County said Hawaiian Electric acted negligently by failing to disconnect power lines that were at risk of toppling in high winds.
Republican rivals spent more time talking about abortion than any other single issue during the first debate, exposing divisions around a federal ban.
The figure exceeded the expectations of some television executives, who believed that Mr. Trump’s absence would lead to far fewer viewers.
The former South Carolina governor — the only woman in the Republican field — stood out for her responses on abortion, foreign policy and Donald Trump’s indictments.
The fate of Yevgeny V. Prigozhin is a reminder of all those who have paid a heavy price for standing up to President Vladimir V. Putin, and of how quickly people can fall from his favor.
The launch of an inquiry into Fani Willis, the Fulton County, Ga., district attorney, was the latest example of how the former president’s allies in Congress are using their majority to try to protect him.
A booking photo normally reflects gravity, bewilderment or even surprise. That is not the case with some of the former president’s co-defendants.
In a shift in tone, Gov. Kathy Hochul criticized the White House for failing to help the state deal with the continuing influx of migrants into New York.
Firefighters were battling scores of blazes nationwide, but the threat to a precious woodland north of the capital had some fearing a dystopian future.
Mr. Trump is hiring Steve Sadow, a veteran criminal defense lawyer in Atlanta who has taken on a number of high-profile cases.
Iran was the surprise among the countries invited to join the bloc of emerging economies. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Argentina and Ethiopia were also tapped.
At times onstage, Republican rivals could imagine the primary race was about issues, ideology and biography. Then reality set in.
Allina Health, a large Midwestern system of hospitals and clinics, says it has decided to stop cutting off medical care to patients with unpaid medical bills of $4,500 or more.
Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia have been invited to join the club of emerging nations, strengthening its role as a geopolitical alternative to Western-led forums.
A strange evening on Fox News was most passionate when it involved the contestant who didn’t show up.
Native plants crowded onto postage-stamp-size plots have been delivering environmental benefits around the world — and, increasingly, in the U.S.
New research indicates that a majority of emperor penguins in a region of Antarctica lost their chicks to sea ice melt.
Its celebrated lunar landing produced not only a wave of pride at home but also a road map for other countries dreaming big.
Avi Loeb’s single-minded search for extraterrestrial life has made him the most famous practicing astronomer in the country — and possibly the most controversial.
A Connecticut law allows residents to kill bears in certain circumstances. But some residents want a full-fledged bear hunt, allowed in almost every nearby state.
Michael Oher says Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy used their relationship with him to unfairly profit from his story. They have denied it.
After the blockbuster success of her debut LP, “Sour,” and its smash “Drivers License,” the 20-year-old cranks up the volume and digs deep for its powerful follow-up, “Guts.”
Officials in South Korea aren’t saying who crossed 200 miles of ocean to reach its shores. But people who know Kwon Pyong say it wasn’t his first audacious move.
As Republican presidential candidates traded fire at their first debate, they mostly left their party’s dominant front-runner unscathed.
Donald J. Trump is the most important figure in the Republican Party, but he merited only 10 minutes of questions from the moderators, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.
Sales for the current quarter will nearly triple their total a year ago, said the company, which makes chips essential to the development of A.I. systems.
Early data suggest laws to increase semiconductor production and renewable energy technology have shifted the makeup of foreign direct investment — but not increased it.
Mr. Giuliani served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer in the aftermath of the 2020 election, and advanced false claims that the election was stolen.
Kohei Saito says the country should seize this moment of demographic and economic challenge to reinvent itself through “degrowth communism.”
Former President Donald J. Trump won’t be on the stage in Milwaukee, but his rivals still need to make a case to be the alternative.
Being No. 2 could be especially important next year, and Ramaswamy has been gaining on DeSantis.
Many of the party’s presidential candidates have spent heavily as they try to introduce themselves to voters. Ads for Donald Trump, meanwhile, look ahead to a matchup with President Biden.
The federal wage floor of $7.25 is increasingly irrelevant when even most teenagers are earning twice that. But what happens when the economy cools?
Several of Mr. Trump’s co-defendants in the state racketeering case over election interference are seeking to have the matter transferred to federal court or dismissed entirely.
The storm was unleashing heavy rainfall that could cause flash flooding across parts of southern Texas, forecasters said.
Climate change has made hot, dry and windy conditions like those that fueled this year’s blazes at least twice as common as they would otherwise be.
Eight people, including seven students headed to a nearby school, had been stranded for hours after two cables broke as they traveled high above a valley in a remote, mountainous region of the country.
American strategists say Ukraine’s troops are too spread out and need to concentrate along the counteroffensive’s main front in the south.
A mix of devastating wildfires, tropical storms, mudslides and heat waves foreshadows a future of intensified extremes as the world warms.
The former White House chief of staff, a key witness to Donald J. Trump’s efforts to remain in power after his 2020 election loss, maneuvered to provide federal prosecutors only what he had to.
Beijing has often addressed economic troubles by boosting spending on infrastructure and real estate, but now heavy debt loads make that a hard playbook to follow.
At least eight Republican presidential hopefuls will spar on Wednesday night in Milwaukee, without the party’s dominant front-runner.
The country plans to proceed with a discharge that will eventually reach more than a million tons of water despite regional and domestic objections.
As Vivek Ramaswamy rises in the polls, fellow Republican presidential candidates are keying in on a number of policy pronouncements that veer far from the G.O.P. mainstream.
Mr. Trump, who said he would turn himself in on Thursday, was told not to intimidate or threaten any witnesses or co-defendants in the case.
After bracing for the worst, the state so far has recorded no deaths and avoided major problems from Tropical Storm Hilary, officials said.
The final tally of the damage will be higher, officials said, although no buildings have been destroyed over the past 24 hours as the fires ease.
A song by the previously unknown Oliver Anthony Music struck a chord with conservative pundits. Its quick trip to No. 1 relied on tactics that help pop stars go viral.
Defense lawyers had said they needed years to wade through 11 million pages of evidence, but the Justice Department, which is seeking to go to trial in January, said they were exaggerating the burden.
Numerous wildfires in Canada, Washington and Oregon sparked air quality alerts and evacuations across the region. At least one person has died.
Top Democrats, suddenly feeling a bit better about 2024, would love to see Republicans talk about a national abortion ban. They’re less excited about the inevitable Hunter Biden tirades.
The urge to play a violent video game in the midst of the most brutal land war in Europe since World War II may seem baffling. But it’s a way to cope.
There were no initial reports of significant damage or injuries from the 5.1-magnitude earthquake, one of several emergencies officials had to juggle.
The robotic Luna-25 spacecraft appeared to have “ceased its existence” after a failed orbital adjustment, the space agency Roscosmos said.
The final against England brought out fans of all stripes and rallied girls in both countries to hit the field and play.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said the Netherlands had agreed to supply 42 of the jets. Denmark also said it would donate the planes.
A team that had endured all that Spain has in the past 12 months should not be able to win a World Cup. And yet that is precisely what it did.
For weeks, England had found a way to win matches and keep its title dream alive. Against Spain, it ran out of magic, and time.
Former Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas said Sunday that he had met the criteria, which would make eight candidates onstage. Or nine. Or 10. The Republican National Committee isn’t saying.
Over the years, Mr. DeSantis embraced and exploited his Ivy League credentials. Now he is reframing his experiences at Yale and Harvard to wage a vengeful political war.
The public increasingly expects that police interactions will be recorded. And police unions increasingly expect a raise for doing the recording.
Despite tough fighting and heavy casualties, Ukrainian commanders say their forces are in better shape now than just months ago, while Russian troops appear worse off.
After a fight over water on the day of the Lahaina fire, the governor says the state has “tipped too far” in trying to preserve water.
On the front lines of a low-cost resort, Spanish residents complain that U.K. visitors drink too much and don’t spend enough.
Mr. DeSantis, the Republican governor and presidential candidate, leaned heavily on his Ivy League schooling before using it as fodder in the culture wars. Here are key findings from a Times examination.
In Slovenia and around the world, conservationists try — and mostly fail — to combat the widespread belief that honey bees are in danger.
Throughout the desert resort city in California, anxiety set in as the storm approached.
An examination of confidential correspondence and interviews with those close to Mr. Biden and lawyers involved in the case show how the deal ultimately fell apart amid schisms and withering external pressures.
Although the Republican front-runner was absent at a conservative conference where other candidates were in attendance, he was still top of mind.
The torrential rain and flooding that threaten Southern California also menaced Baja California, the western Mexico peninsula that is popular with tourists.
The Republican presidential candidate loves rap music, even if critics say his politics are at odds with its spirit. “There’s no such thing as one rap community,” he says.
Inmates who have been confined mostly to their cells for more than four months describe unsanitary conditions and a dearth of medical care. Experts say dire staffing shortages are likely to blame and are leading to lockdowns across the country.
Fox News leaned on the former president privately and publicly to join the debate. But all the while he was proceeding with a plan for his own counterprogramming.
The attack came hours after the Kremlin said that President Vladimir V. Putin had met with military commanders in Rostov-on-Don, a Russian city that was briefly seized during a mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group.
The prospect of a second presidential term for Donald J. Trump has many officials worried about alliance cohesion, NATO and the war in Ukraine.
What its signers, Japan, South Korea and the United States, call deterrence, China characterizes as encirclement, even provocation.
Pakyi and Tamandua are the final known isolated members of the Piripkura people. They are posing a tricky challenge for Brazil.
The utility knew it needed to upgrade its equipment but did not make changes that could have reduced risks of fires, energy experts said.
The rare search of a newsroom has uncorked a debate in Marion, Kan.: What is a newspaper’s role, anyway?
It’s not just the heat, as Southerners have explained for generations. It’s the moist, soupy, suffocating humidity. And this year the punishing conditions have been relentless.
After winter storms broke rain and snow records, flash floods in Southern California would mark another milestone for the drought-weary state.
The Gray Fire burned more than 3,000 acres on Friday near two communities southwest of Spokane. Critical fire conditions were expected on Saturday.
As Rudolph Giuliani has neared a financial breaking point with a pile of legal bills, the former president has largely demurred, despite making a vague promise to pay up.
A 35-unit, senior-living complex in Lahaina may have been one of the first major buildings to burn down, and at least two residents are among the dead.
Hurricane Hilary, now a Category 4 storm, has prompted flood warnings in Southern California and temporary shelters in Baja California, Mexico.
While the former president’s name appeared nowhere in the communique issued by three leaders, one of the subtexts was the possibility that he could return to power in next year’s election and disrupt ties with America’s two closest allies in the Indo-Pacific region.
As storms moved across the region on Friday morning, tornadoes were confirmed in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the National Weather Service said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Can an intellectual on an anti-graft crusade win the presidency in a nation sliding toward authoritarianism? Guatemala is about to find out.
Mr. Christie needled his higher-polling rivals while campaigning in their home state of Florida.
It remains unclear why the lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, seemed to be with the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones outside the Capitol or how he came to be with Mr. Jones and his entourage.
In 1970, Mr. Buckley, the son of an oil tycoon and the brother of a leading force on the right, became the first third-party candidate elected to the U.S. Senate in 30 years.
The former president’s apparent decision to skip the first debate is a major affront both to the Republican National Committee and to Fox News, which is hosting the event.
Ukraine and Russia have lost a staggering number of troops as Kyiv’s counteroffensive drags on. A lack of rapid medical care has added to the toll.
Newly revealed strategy advice from his super PAC seemed to leave the already struggling Florida governor in a no-win situation just days before the first Republican debate.
The nurse, Lucy Letby, was also found guilty of the attempted murders of six babies, ending a yearslong case that has haunted England.
The Hang Seng Index has fallen more than 20 percent from its recent high, as investors grow more pessimistic about China’s post-pandemic recovery.
Donald J. Trump is the target of four separate criminal indictments, but the prosecutions could drag on for months or even years.
Heavy rain linked to Hilary is expected to pummel the Southwestern United States through Wednesday.
Using an ultralight aircraft, Johannes Fritz once taught endangered ibises a migration path over the Alps. Because of climate change, he is now showing them a much longer route to a winter’s refuge.
Maui County’s lawsuit against some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies is still winding its way through state court.
The option of “alternative service” vanished after martial law was declared last year. But some have refused to serve, and now face jail time and skepticism about their motives.
The chief, Herman Andaya, cited his health in stepping down. His agency’s decision not to sound emergency sirens as wildfires neared Lahaina had drawn scrutiny.
President Mohamed Bazoum had grown alarmed at military takeovers sweeping across Niger’s neighbors. Then his own soldiers came for him. Weeks later, he remains imprisoned in his home.
Across hundreds of pages of indictments filed in recent months, his name appears about a dozen times.
Surging poll numbers and newly revealed concerns from Ron DeSantis’s super PAC underscore that Vivek Ramaswamy is having a well-timed political moment.
Only by reckoning with how deep manufactured insecurity runs will it become possible to envision something different.
Americans have begun taking their women’s soccer team’s success for granted, even as we make its members fight for their legitimacy.
Court challenges and bureaucratic roadblocks have created hurdles for would-be cannabis sellers in the state.
President Biden will host the leaders of the two Asian nations to overcome historical grievances and present a united front in the face of an increasingly assertive China.
The lawyers said the extraordinary delay was needed given the historic nature of the case and the volume of discovery materials they will have to sort through in the coming months.
The utility company’s share price has tumbled after lawsuits were filed seeking to hold it accountable for the blaze, which has killed more than 100 people.
The fate of Indonesia’s unrivaled stocks of nickel — a critical mineral used to make batteries for electric vehicles — is caught in the conflict between the United States and China.
An influx of Chinese investment into nickel-processing on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is sowing pollution while generating economic opportunity.
The housing market in China is in turmoil. But more and more women, facing a less equal society, are buying their own homes in search of security.
A staple of summer in the city lets children have fun without depleting firefighters’ water supply.
Federal prosecutors recommended the sentence for the group’s former chairman and a top lieutenant, while also asking for long prison terms for the other three defendants in the case.
After taking the Leagues Cup tournament by storm, Messi, 36, had his first news conference since joining Inter Miami. It was clear he is now in a more relaxed stage of his career.
Some of the jurors’ identities have been shared on social media, with suggestions that they be harassed or made “infamous.”
Hundreds of pages of blunt advice, memos and internal polling were posted online by the main super PAC backing the Florida governor, offering an extraordinary glimpse into his operation’s thinking.
Neglected landscapes, weak building standards and decommissioned dams have left the state more vulnerable to wildfires.
George Chidi’s cameo appearance in the indictment of Donald J. Trump in Georgia was a plot twist, but not an accident.
The group is starting a new venture that will focus on five battleground states: Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Nevada and Wisconsin.
The outdoorsy lifestyle of Colorado mountain towns has become a magnet for the new remote-worker class, upending life for those already rooted there.
It had barely a dozen followers, but the discovery of its racist posts turned a Bay Area community against itself — and changed students’ lives forever.
Residents and travelers are grappling with the propriety of visiting Maui, the epicenter of last week’s wildfires but an island heavily reliant on tourist dollars.
The empty auditoriums, Gila monsters, resistant pharmaceutical executives and enigmas that led to Ozempic and other drugs that may change how society thinks about obesity.
Facing a wide array of criminal charges, the former president is using money from small donors to defend himself legally — a practice that raises ethical questions.
The case is headed back to the Supreme Court, which will ultimately decide whether a pill used in the most common abortion method should remain widely available. Here is what’s at stake.
As the search effort continues more than a week after the disaster, Maui’s residents try to balance helping friends and families with the tourism work needed to support themselves.
The restrictions, which would prevent mifepristone from being mailed to patients and would require in-person doctor visits, are on hold until the Supreme Court weighs in.
State officials who rejected Donald Trump’s calls to subvert the election results say the party must move on from 2020 in order to defeat President Biden in 2024.
Some lawyers have said that if the former president were an ordinary citizen issuing these attacks, he would be in jail by now. The question is whether he will face similar consequences.
The prosecutor in the racketeering case against Donald Trump and 18 allies has an ambitious timeline. Experts have their doubts.
As families face an agonizing wait for word on missing loved ones on Maui, the death toll from the fire is likely to rise.
An island airlift brought some of the fire’s most severely wounded survivors to a Honolulu hospital unit created for just that kind of mass-casualty moment.
Fani T. Willis faced hiring challenges, threats, a judge’s reproach and a series of legal obstacles over her two-and-a-half-year investigation of Donald J. Trump.
A jury ruled in favor of a Texas woman who said her ex-boyfriend had psychologically and sexually abused her by sharing intimate images of her online without her consent.
An assessment of the four indictments against the former president, including notable features, strengths and weaknesses.
The president had not addressed the fires since last week, a relative silence that drew criticism from Republicans.
At age 17, Donnell Drinks was one of many young men in Philadelphia who went to prison for life without parole. Today, the city has resentenced more of those prisoners than any other jurisdiction.
Charles McGonigal, once the bureau’s chief of counterintelligence in New York, still faces separate federal charges out of Washington.
Britain’s counterterrorism unit arrested the five on suspicion of spying on British intelligence, the authorities said following a BBC report that three of the same people had been accused of spying for Russia.
On MovieTok, reviewers can reach an audience of millions and earn tens of thousands of dollars per post. “Critics,” they say, are old news.
Parents and doctors say that drug shortages are leading to declines in learning and self-esteem.
The personalities of MovieTok are not critics in the traditional sense. But their upbeat videos earn them the devotion of movie lovers.
The World Cup has added a new dimension to a national sporting conversation often dominated by the rivalry between rugby and Australian rules football.
The attack on bodily autonomy is an assault on both political equality and reproductive freedom.
The decision by the lawyer, Christopher J. Clark, is the latest development in the long-running negotiation between the Justice Department and Hunter Biden.
Xuxa was once Brazil’s biggest TV star. Now many are wondering whether a thin, blond, white woman was the right idol for such a diverse country.
A late swing of goals and emotions ended with a dramatic winner by Olga Carmona, and Spain one win from its first world championship.
Country Garden was China’s biggest real estate developer. Now it is staring down default, facing billions of dollars in losses and $200 billion in unpaid bills.
When a north-central Wisconsin news site reported that a businessman had uttered a homophobic slur, he sued, claiming defamation. The legal bills are piling up.
Fani Willis’s indictment powerfully complements the federal Jan. 6 case against Donald Trump.
Beijing stopped releasing youth unemployment figures in its latest attempt to play down negative trends as growth stalls, and global concerns grow.
Facing a growing mental health crisis among soldiers, Ukraine’s therapists and doctors use a variety of treatments, but the need far outstrips the available care.
When a historic coastal town in Hawaii was overrun by fire, many residents fled for their lives — but there was nowhere to go.
The Chinese government said it would no longer release monthly data about unemployment in young people, which had risen each month this year and reached 21.3 percent.
Facing a growing mental health crisis among soldiers, Ukraine’s therapists and doctors use a variety of treatments, but the need far outstrips the available care.
Behind the thousands of troops fighting the counteroffensive are engineers and technicians who perform an essential, and often dangerous, job.
The main utility serving Hawaii did not pre-emptively shut off power before high winds reached Maui, and power lines fell in the windstorm.
The rapid expansion came as exports have risen and tourists have flooded the country. But a drop in domestic consumption worried economists.
FEMA is typically the first agency to face scrutiny after disasters. But while the federal agency plays a critical role in disaster response, it is not meant to be the first on the scene.
Voters say they are wary of a replay of 2020 in 2024, and while they largely will fall in line at the end, they would prefer other options.
Michael Oher, whose life was depicted in the 2009 film, says in a lawsuit that he was never fully adopted by the family that took him in and was swindled into signing away his decision-making powers at 18.
The court found that young people have a constitutional right to a healthful environment and that regulators must be allowed to consider climate impact.
The former president’s lawyers argued that Justice Juan M. Merchan had a conflict of interest. In a terse decision, the judge rejected their arguments.
Republicans in Alton, N.H., still love the former president. But some are rethinking their loyalty, fearing Mr. Trump might not prevail in the general election.
Several reasons might explain the differing response, including the fact that no American troops have been committed to the fight.
Members of Grace Baptist Church, many of them now homeless, gathered on Sunday and described daring escapes from the fire.
A grand jury could decide within days whether former President Trump should be indicted for interfering in the state’s 2020 presidential election.
The Georgia case offers a vivid reminder of the extraordinary lengths Mr. Trump and his allies went to in the Southern state to reverse the election.
Firefighters who rushed to contain the Maui wildfire found that hydrants were running dry, forcing crews to embark instead on a perilous rescue mission.
A sweeping series of plantation closures in Hawaii allowed highly flammable nonnative grasses to spread on idled lands, providing the fuel for huge blazes.
The search of the Marion County Record led to the seizure of computers, servers and cellphones of reporters and editors.
Days after the wildfire that destroyed Lahaina, those staying nearby say private volunteers have served as far more of a lifeline than federal and local agencies.
In polling, fund-raising and conservative media, the former president has turned criminal charges into political assets.
None of the 80 warning sirens placed around the island were activated in response to the devastating Lahaina fire, a spokesman for Hawaii’s emergency management agency confirmed.
Hawaii has long endured battles for resources among developers, tourists, Natives and workers. Now, many who lost homes and jobs wonder if there will be a place for them in Lahaina.
The former vice president met with Christian leaders and spoke about his respect for a late Democratic congressman despite their political differences.
The Florida governor was hoping to have the stage to himself, but Donald Trump and his supporters have made that hard to achieve.
Although some G.O.P. lawmakers see the appointment of David C. Weiss as a vindication of their strategy, others criticize the now-scuttled plea deal he struck with Mr. Biden.
Among the rookie recruits monitoring New York’s pools, at least four were born in the Eisenhower administration. But they all passed the notorious lifeguard test, and the city needs them.
Troops advanced 10 to 12 miles along two main lines of attack in Kyiv’s drive to reach the southern coast and sever Russian supply lines, while explosions echoed at the vital Kerch Strait Bridge.
The West Coast rapper is an unsung pioneer of some of the genre’s most central elements.
In its hunt for weapons, Ukraine has rolled back anticorruption rules and turned to people once seen as relics of an anything-goes era.
Like many supremacist ideologues before him, Richard Hanania benefited from elite sponsorship.
For a few weeks, we had a taste of what it would be like if people cared about science as much as baseball.
Ultra-Orthodox members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition want to expand the powers of all-male rabbinical courts, and to bar women and men from mixing in many public arenas.
After a setback for President Biden, Democrats pointed to Donald Trump’s indictments and suggested that swing voters would ultimately not care about the sins of a candidate’s son.
After years of being inundated with new shows, some are using a pause in production to finally watch all the stuff they missed when it came out.
Popular devices known as “switches” are turning ordinary pistols into fully automatic weapons, making them deadlier and a growing threat to bystanders.
In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended a second prosecutor. In Texas, activists are trying a new way to get rid of D.A.s they dislike.
A historic Hawaiian town that was once home to 13,000 people is now a desolate ruin. With the death toll rising, the true scope of the tragedy is still unfolding.
The attorney general said he decided to elevate David C. Weiss after the prosecutor informed him that the powers of a special counsel were necessary to continue the investigation.
The collapse of a plea deal and the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden mean the president could face political fallout for months to come.
Mr. Bankman-Fried had been under house arrest at his parents’ home as he awaited trial on charges stemming from the collapse of his cryptocurrency company, FTX.
During a 90-minute hearing in Washington, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan also warned the former president against any attempt to intimidate witnesses or prejudice potential jurors.
The former president’s political orbit, including the super PAC that backs him, is already spending more than it is taking in — an unusual trajectory this far out from an election.
A fire near Lahaina that had initially been contained flared up again and threatened homes, but some residents said they received no evacuation orders.
The former president’s legal team will get to suggest its own timetable for the case next week and will surely object to the government’s proposal.
The fire has been contained, but access to the islands is limited, and as the focus turns to search efforts, the death toll could rise.
Iran and the United States appear to be observing an informal agreement under which Iran has limited its nuclear program and restrained proxy militias.
A federal appeals court had signed off on the agreement, which would shield members of the wealthy Sackler family from opioid-related lawsuits in exchange for $6 billion for victims.
Two law professors active in the Federalist Society wrote that the original meaning of the 14th Amendment makes Donald Trump ineligible to hold government office.
New York City said it had run out of space for migrants seeking shelter. Within days, it had found beds, and critics argued there had been room all along.
The former president did not appear in person for a second arraignment in the case after an updated indictment last month, and he indicated last week that he would plead not guilty.
Letitia James, the state attorney general, has declined to represent Gov. Kathy Hochul in a court proceeding over how to care for thousands of asylum seekers.
Five American detainees will eventually be allowed to leave Iran in exchange for Tehran gaining access to $6 billion for humanitarian purposes and the United States freeing several jailed Iranians.
Planted in 1873, the tree has grown to cover more than half an acre. County officials said it “looks burned” after the Maui fires, but the roots may still be healthy.
We’re celebrating hip-hop’s 50th anniversary this week. Wesley Morris traces the art form from its South Bronx origins to all-encompassing triumph.
The deviance of a tiny particle called the muon might prove that one of the most well-tested theories in physics is incomplete.
Economists looked past the first acceleration in overall inflation in more than a year and saw signs that price pressures continued to moderate in July.
The Republican National Committee has demanded that 2024 contenders pledge to support the eventual nominee in order to debate. The former president is refusing.
Ronald Reagan’s “three-legged stool” coalition supported the G.O.P. for decades. Our latest poll leaves little doubt that Donald J. Trump has put an end to that era.
Called the Geran-2, the drones are a Russian-made version of the Shahed-136, which explodes on impact, researchers say.
A teenager turned away by a bar in one of Manhattan’s fanciest hotels started a campaign to sully its reputation, a lawsuit says. The hotel is suing him for defamation.
As the state fair and its Republican pageantry begin, Donald Trump’s rivals face a transformed political environment in Iowa, where he holds a comfortable edge in polls despite rarely visiting.
Four Nigerian stowaways hopped on a cargo ship not knowing where it was going, but hoping to find a place where they could claw out of poverty.
The candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, had been vocal about ties between the state and organized crime, in a country roiled by violence tied to drug trafficking.
The two fashion conglomerates, Tapestry and Capri Holdings, generate about $12 billion in combined revenue.
As schools start, it’s been more paperwork, a culling of reading lists, as well as new regulations about bathrooms.
The town was once Hawaii’s royal capital, and there were fears that some of its historic buildings had been destroyed by the wildfires.
As companies reported their latest quarterly earnings, their executives were frequently asked about their next moves on pricing.
A Ukrainian unit sent a drone into Russian-occupied territory to surveil the battlefront, and it brought back vivid images of the Russian side of the war zone.
The justices will be scrutinized as never before at a hearing in September on the first part of a judicial overhaul that the government pushed through Parliament, angering many Israelis.
Hot weather can destabilize mood, exacerbate mental health disorders and complicate drug treatment. Climate change itself is a stressor, scientists say.
Ron DeSantis has cut back, reorganized, reset and refocused his presidential campaign. We talked to Republican strategists about what they think he ought to do next.
The presidential candidate who was assassinated on Wednesday had a long history in Ecuador’s public affairs, largely as an antagonist to those in power.
Champions in 2011, the team returned to the final in the next tournament and then fell behind the world’s best teams. It’s back, and playing like a champion.
Experts are warning of a new normal in which food supplies — and prices — could be rocked more regularly.
The new limits, aimed at preventing American help to Beijing as it modernizes its military, escalate a conflict between the world’s two largest economies.
Devastating fires on Maui and the Big Island have destroyed businesses and homes, and caused at least six deaths. They are also upending tourism, leaving travelers wondering what to do.
The warrant, obtained in January, is the first known example of prosecutors directly searching Donald J. Trump’s communications and adds a new dimension to the scope of the federal inquiry into the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
In addition to their views on abortion, many who cast ballots in Ohio’s referendum on Tuesday said they felt the measure’s backers weren’t being honest about its purpose.
A deepening slowdown in the world’s second-biggest economy has now raised fears of deflation, which could be crippling for heavily indebted China.
Abortion rights continue to drive turnout, and Republicans are struggling to figure out a response.
A year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion continues to be one of the main issues shaping American politics.
The Dobbs ruling has turned a coalition of liberal, swing and moderate Republican voters into a political force. Even in August in Ohio.
Ballot initiatives appear to be one of the few ways for advocates to expand abortion access in conservative states.
The House Jan. 6 committee’s investigation did not uncover the memo, whose existence first came to light in last week’s indictment.
The contest was seen as a test of efforts by Republicans nationwide to curb voters’ use of ballot initiatives.
Mr. Kerik, a close ally of the pro-Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, was asked about Mr. Trump’s fund-raising efforts and attempts to investigate fraud in the 2020 election.
A rule regulating the firearm kits was a centerpiece of President Biden’s gun control initiative. The Supreme Court has temporarily revived it, but it has been troubled by significant challenges.
Ian Fishback, who left the Army with the rank of major, was a dissident-in-uniform who died at the age of 42 after entering a dizzying mental health spiral.
The district attorney in Atlanta is expected to take the findings from an election interference investigation to a grand jury, which could issue indictments.
A clinical trial was the first to demonstrate that a new obesity drug could also improve patients’ heart health.
Replacing his campaign manager, the Florida governor capped a turbulent period of layoffs, financial worries and a shift in strategy against Donald Trump, the dominant presidential front-runner.
Air travel was slowly returning to normal, as thousands of homes and businesses remained without power. The powerful storm system moved on to New England, bringing heavy rains and floods.
Officials said there had been no reports of shark bites at Rockaway Beach “in recent memory” before Monday’s incident.
The federal government, citing a rise in violence involving untraced firearms, had asked the justices to step in. The court provisionally allowed the regulation while a challenge moves forward.
In the coastal town of Bray, south of Dublin, the site of Ms. O’Connor’s last Irish home, mourners gathered to pay their respects to the singer.
Shipments to trading partners slid 14.5 percent in July from a year earlier, the biggest decline since February 2020, further pressuring Chinese authorities as they try to rekindle growth.
The Black Sea, a largely overlooked part of the war in Ukraine, is suddenly a cauldron of military and geopolitical tensions. The region is deeply important to both Moscow, Ukraine and the West.
Across sports, female athletes are fighting a battle over what they put on their bodies and how much of those bodies they display.
The mayhem touched off by a social media personality’s game console giveaway tested the New York Police Department’s response.
The contrast between Biden saying America is “still” a democracy and Trump vowing to make it great “again” is more than a quirk of speechwriting.
The owner of a children’s bookshop on the Upper East Side had a German shepherd, Syko, who was known to attack other pets. His latest victim, Baby the toy poodle, died.
Chefs and restaurant owners are using a multiplicity of ingredients and tastes to reflect Taiwan’s roots, shaping a distinct culinary culture.
Punishments meant to be used only in the most serious circumstances have grown politicized and normalized. New charges against former President Donald J. Trump are likely to spur more recriminations.
Under pressure from Beijing, Chinese schools have been told to do more to secure jobs for students, who are facing bleak prospects.
As Donald J. Trump has escalated his attacks on the justice system and other core institutions, his competitors for the Republican nomination have followed his lead.
The election on Tuesday highlights how Republican legislators are using their power in Ohio and elsewhere.
“Joe Biden’s the president,” the Florida governor said in an interview with NBC News. He and other Republican presidential candidates have been testing new lines of attack against Donald Trump.
The orders, which can vary greatly in severity, generally ask that the defense use discovery evidence only to pursue actions related to the case itself and to not release it widely.
The former South Carolina governor is campaigning at a grueling pace, but polling suggests that so far, Republican voters aren’t flocking to her.
Journalists from The Times spent two weeks with troops from brigades trained and supplied by NATO to get their take on how, and where, the counteroffensive is going.
A pandemic-era lifeline that the Trump administration predicted would turn a profit for the federal government failed to keep Yellow afloat.
It’s pricey to borrow to buy a business, car or home these days. Interest rates are expected to fall in coming years — how much is up for debate.
The head of the powerful New York Fed said that it was an “open question,” and that rates could fall next year.
Singles are signing up in droves for city-hosted blind-dating events, but some point to their inability to address real issues with family planning.
Xi Jinping, China’s leader, set out to clean up the military a decade ago. But now his crown jewel, the missile force, is under a shadow.
The vice president is trying to reclaim the momentum that propelled her to Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s side as a candidate and into the White House in 2020.
A missed penalty kick was a cruel way to draw down the curtain on a star’s World Cup career. But her influence and legacy were never about soccer alone.
Former President Donald J. Trump spent the weekend on the attack on Truth Social while his lawyer, John F. Lauro, ran through a gantlet of interviews Sunday morning.
The shootout was rapid-fire, but still agonizing for both Sweden, which moved to the World Cup quarterfinals, and the United States, which was eliminated.
No movie in Warner Bros. history has sold so many tickets so fast, the studio said of the movie directed by Greta Gerwig.
Ukraine has grown bolder, striking Russian ships and firing drones at Moscow, while Russia has turned to regular attacks on the Black Sea, a crucial economic hub.
Vladimir Putin wants to lead Russians into a civilizational conflict with the West far larger than Ukraine. Will they follow him?
The presidential bid by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has tested the bonds of an iconic Democratic clan that does not want him to run and does not know what to do about it.
New polling shows national Republicans and Iowa Republican caucusgoers were more interested in “law and order” than battling “woke” schools, media and corporations.
Porsha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wrongfully accused as a result of facial recognition technology.
A goal in each half delivered victory, and a date with Spain. But a South Africa striker made the day as difficult as possible.
Voters pressed them to weigh in. Reporters asked about pardons. Mike Pence was heckled. Republicans found it’s not easy to escape the fallout from Donald J. Trump’s legal peril.
“It’s not enough just to listen — he has to do something,” said Dmytro Bohak, one of about 500 young Ukrainian pilgrims who attended the event and staged a demonstration.
The vehicle is a key part of the justice’s just-folks persona. It’s also a luxury motor coach that was funded by someone else’s money.
Huntsville, a city with a proud history of aerospace innovation, was set to welcome Space Command, until a distant force beyond its control intervened: politics.
Former President Donald J. Trump’s growing cast of lawyers is marked by a web of overlapping interests encompassing witnesses, co-defendants and potential targets.
In addition to the strike on an oil tanker, Ukraine issued a warning that commercial ships using any of six Russian Black Sea ports would be considered military targets.
It was an explosive claim — that a Virginia school district covered up a crime in order to protect transgender rights. But was it true?
In seeking a judge’s order, the government was drawing attention to the former president’s longstanding habit of attacking those involved in criminal cases against him.
Imagine how televised access to the quiet, methodical presentation of both sides’ arguments might temper the national mood when the verdict is announced.
Shoddy guidebooks are flooding Amazon. Their authors claim to be renowned travel writers, but are they A.I. inventions? And how big is the problem?
For as long as there have been sports in Australia, women have clamored to play and participate. But winning visibility, and support, has been a long road.
How the indictments are making it harder to fight 2024 on any grounds except Trump’s fitness.
His contained interactions with crowds this summer are a noticeable change for the Russian leader, who disdains retail politics and operated in extreme seclusion during the pandemic.
The pop star’s record-breaking, career-spanning show has dominated the summer, commanding attention and whipping up demand at a level thought unachievable in a fragmented age.
New York City officials cracked down on Corona Plaza, a celebrated Queens hub for Latin American street vendors. Its merchants are fighting to legitimize their businesses.
The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.
The far right is taking aim at the F.B.I. and the Justice Department in a push to cut funding for the agencies, another complication for Speaker Kevin McCarthy as he seeks to avoid a government shutdown.
The special counsel layered varied charges atop the same facts, while sidestepping a free-speech question by not charging incitement.
After an erroneous command sent the spacecraft’s antenna askew, mission specialists hatched a plan to point it back toward Earth.
Tyler Jay Marshall, 37, threatened on social media to shoot a number of Republican politicians. He faces up to five years in prison.
Because the pill works faster than other antidepressants and is taken for only two weeks, it may encourage more treatment of the debilitating condition.
Mental health issues are the leading cause of maternal mortality. Group therapy, S.S.R.I.s and a new medication can help.
The Florida governor went further than he has before in acknowledging that the election was not stolen as a major donor pressured him to appeal to moderates.
The attack damaged the warship hundreds of miles from Ukrainian-held territory, as Kyiv increasingly tries to bring the war home to Russia.
The skull belonged to Karen Vergata, who had disappeared in 1996. Other parts of her body had been found on Fire Island years before.
Project 2025, a conservative “battle plan” for the next Republican president, would stop attempts to cut the pollution that is heating the planet and encourage more emissions.
The former president’s poll numbers are still strong. But the caucuses could be his rivals’ best chance to make him look vulnerable.
The former vice president and Jan. 6 witness is campaigning to persuade voters. But is he also trying to warn them?
Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.4 percent as officials insist the economy must move away from its focus on gambling.
Some executives said they were not expanding their payrolls as quickly as they had, while others were more concerned about wage growth, which has remained robust.
New polling suggests that Gov. Ron DeSantis’s efforts in Iowa have been having an effect, but that the challenge of defeating Mr. Trump there is complicated by multiple factors.
The former president appeared in federal court in Washington after being indicted over his efforts to overturn his defeat in 2020. His first pretrial hearing was set for Aug. 28.
This time the seriousness of the charges facing the former president gave the proceedings a sense of historical weight.
The crews that offer help after a fire already operated outside the law. Then, police say, a former gang member took over a New York company and made things much worse.
Officials from the Texas Department of Public Safety said the body appeared to have floated there after a drowning upstream.
There are no easy answers for officials trying to find shelter beds, but “everything is on the table,” a deputy mayor said.
Britain’s central bank raised rates to 5.25 percent, the highest since 2008, as it warned that some risks from persistent inflation were “crystallizing.”
Stocks were down and Treasury yields were up after Fitch Ratings’ downgrade. But the biggest effects of the move may play out over time.
As migrants sleep on sidewalks outside a Midtown hotel, the city is struggling to avoid a homelessness crisis that resembles those in Los Angeles or San Francisco.
The village parishioners’ decision to oust their priest reflects a broader push within Ukraine to reduce the influence of an Orthodox church that answers to Moscow.
In the final hearing of the trial, survivors and relatives of victims will be given a chance to speak.
As the country endures its hottest summer in years, at least 125 people were hospitalized and many others were treated for symptoms during baking conditions at the World Scout Jamboree.
It is the biggest what-if of the latest Trump indictment: The Senate’s vote to acquit him in 2021.
Amid an unpredictable military coup, neighboring countries have threatened to go to war — some to scuttle the coup, and others to ensure its success.
As Dianne Feinstein, 90, struggles to function in the Senate, a dispute within her family over control of her late husband’s estate is another difficult chapter at the end of a long career.
The law was designed in part to prosecute political leaders who, while in office and after, sought to cancel the votes of millions to hold power.
The line between “responsible influence, working to contain the worst impulses in private” and “passive bystander” and “amoral chump” is difficult to discern.
A survey of power lines in four Western states found bullet fragments and shotgun pellets in most of the dead birds that were collected.
People have little protection or recourse when the technology creates and spreads falsehoods about them.
Economists had been wary of strong economic data, worried that it meant inflation might stay high. Now they are starting to embrace it.
With Elon Musk’s rebranding of the app, is Twitter’s name really retired? What about tweets? We unravel the terminology puzzle.
VanMoof’s sleek electric bikes attracted fans, but the Dutch company’s demise has left owners unable to get repairs and worried that app-enabled functions may stop working.
Some people expressed firm approval of the death sentence or acceptance that the jury had reached the right decision, while others were disappointed at the outcome.
The verdict, after nearly 10 hours of deliberations, was met with a mix of solemnity, gratitude and relief among the survivors and families of those killed in the 2018 attack.
They were anchors of a faith community that had changed over the years but persisted as a source of devotion, camaraderie and memory.
The Canadian prime minister and his wife have been married for 18 years and share three children.
Infections remain very low, despite signs of a slight increase. Now, experts are looking for clues to what living with the coronavirus will be like this winter and beyond.
It’s winter in Antarctica, when sea ice cover typically grows. But this year’s sea ice is way behind, reaching record lows with implications for the planet.
Two Canadian men who were switched at birth to families of different ethnicities are now questioning who they really are and learning how racial heritage shapes identities.
The criminal justice system of the United States has never seen an indictment of this magnitude, in which a former president is accused of defrauding his country.
People have come from all over the globe to a city that is legally required to give them a place to stay. This week, city officials said they had run out of room.
Ukraine’s army has for now set aside U.S. fighting methods and reverted to tactics it knows best.
Disrupting a celebrity may now be the ultimate concert souvenir. No pop star wants to be unsafe, but some are increasingly making themselves part of the crowd.
The sports juggernaut continues to earn billions of dollars for Disney, but profits are down and opportunities for growth have dwindled.
The strength of the indictment lies as much in what it charges as what it doesn’t charge.
Positioned close to the front lines, temporary medical posts are a critical lifeline for the constant inflow of soldiers hurt in the counteroffensive.
The pope will preside over a gathering of young people from around the world, mindful that the changes he has initiated in the Roman Catholic Church will depend on them.
A ban on most kinds of traditional bulbs renews a cultural squabble between regulatory efforts to curb energy consumption and the very American impulse to do whatever one wants in one’s domicile.
Their buildings have expanded and expenses have surged, even as attendance slowed. Art lovers will bear the cost: The Guggenheim is the latest to increase its entry fee to $30 — the new normal.
New efficiency rules, more than a decade in the making, have taken effect, relegating Edison’s glowing orbs to the history books.
With the addition of Woods, players will outnumber independent directors, giving them the final say in the tour’s plan to form a partnership with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.
These men have spent their entire adult lives in prison. How much punishment is enough?
Ms. Lacks’s family had accused Thermo Fisher Scientific of profiting from her cells, which have contributed to revolutionary advances in medicine, without seeking their permission.
Since the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal two weeks ago, small ports on the Danube River are the only shipping outlet for millions of tons of grain.
Ms. Oliver, 71, was taken to the hospital on Monday. She had been serving as governor while Gov. Philip D. Murphy was out of state, vacationing in Italy.
The group behind Ron DeSantis had more money than those backing his rivals, including Donald J. Trump. But big spending has not helped his standing so far.
The United Nations’ culture agency is warning of twin perils to the historic city from mass tourism and climate change.
“Joe” Petrsoric, the longtime bartender at Broadway’s go-to saloon, is finally retiring.
The scramble to cover legal bills for former President Donald J. Trump and his associates has prompted what appears to be the largest refund in federal campaign finance history.
Voters continue to rate the president poorly on economic issues, but there are signs the national mood is beginning to improve.
A gunman who killed Muslim train passengers and a Hindu march that turned riotous underscore how the partisan stances of India’s top Hindu leaders have given license to chaotic elements in the country.
A close call against Portugal at the Women’s World Cup gave the United States a chance to consider what might have been, and then move past it.
In theory, there is no branch in the American constitutional system that exists above or beyond the reach of the others.
Taking the monster truck concept to deadly new realms, cartels are modifying pickups with gun turrets, steel armoring and battering rams.
Unlike her husband, Nadine Menendez has lived a mainly private life. Investigators appear focused on the possibility that she or the senator received undisclosed gifts.
A New York Times/Siena College poll found that President Biden is on stronger footing than he was a year ago — but he is neck-and-neck in a possible rematch against Donald Trump.
The share of Republicans saying the former president has committed “serious federal crimes” has grown modestly, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Siena College.
A Times/Siena poll suggests a slight Biden edge among voters who don’t like either candidate.
With his bow tie, short drainpipe pants and flattop hairdo, Pee-wee became enshrined in the popular imagination as a symbol of childlike whimsy.
Paul Reubens committed to profound silliness without ever going mean or dark — though some peers were disappointed that he focused on one character.
The stepped-up drone and missile attacks show a will to hamper the Kremlin’s military logistics, and to remind ordinary Russians of the cost of war.
A Fulton County judge chided Donald Trump’s lawyers for “unnecessary and unfounded legal filings” ahead of indictments expected in mid-August.
Carlos De Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago property manager, made his first court appearance on charges of conspiring with Donald J. Trump to obstruct the retrieval of classified material.
Oregon’s experiment to curb overdoses by decriminalizing small amounts of illicit drugs is in its third year, and life has changed for most everyone in the city of Portland.
Paul Reubens’s oddball masterpiece celebrated the kind of anarchy that captivates kids and freaks out adults.
Officials in Ukraine rarely discuss attacks on targets inside Russia, including Moscow. But video evidence shows an increasing effort to launch long-range strikes inside the country.
The first Times/Siena poll of the G.O.P. primary shows he still commands a seemingly unshakable base of loyal supporters.
After a Times report, the bureau canceled its contract with a government contractor that used the tool on its behalf. But questions remain.
The economic strength has helped to maintain popular support for Vladimir Putin’s war, but some have warned the state-led spending is threatening the country’s financial stability.
The twice-indicted former president leads across nearly every category and region, as primary voters wave off concerns about his escalating legal jeopardy.
Women have long blended motherhood and elite sports. But as soccer expands its support systems, it is also demanding ever more of its players.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is the face of his government’s effort to reduce judicial power. His justice minister, Yariv Levin, is the main architect.
A continuous stretch of days reaching or exceeding 110 degrees has filled emergency rooms and even withered the mighty saguaro cactus.
From meatpackers to home health aides, workers are struggling in sweltering temperatures and productivity is taking a hit.
Austria, unlike most European Union countries, is still buying nearly as much natural gas from Russia as it was before the war in Ukraine.
Ron DeSantis’s remarks to a voter in New Hampshire suggest he may step up his attacks against the man who leads him in national polls by a wide margin.
One of the state’s largest homeless encampments was recently shut down in Oakland, but that didn’t stop the problem of homelessness.
How extreme temperatures and dwindling water are pushing the Fertile Crescent toward the brink.
An explosion at a political rally on Sunday in northwest Pakistan killed at least 35 people and injured 200 more, officials said, the latest sign of the deteriorating security situation in Pakistan, where some militant groups have become more active over the past two years.
Trying to understand the allure of a place that’s home to Oprah, the self-exiled royals, a celebrity juicer, Katy Perry’s dad — and the New American Dream.
The strike was the third in the past week in Moscow, a sign of how no city in Russia or Ukraine appears to be safe from the war. Russia blamed Ukraine, which has yet to comment.
Recapturing the village of Staromaiorske was such welcome news for the country that President Volodymyr Zelensky announced it himself. But formidable Russian defenses have stymied progress elsewhere.
Tricia Cotham, a Democrat who supported abortion rights, was encouraged to run for a state House seat by powerful Republicans. After she was elected, she joined them and delivered a G.O.P. supermajority.
Propaganda is appearing in Minecraft and other popular games and discussion groups as the Kremlin tries to win over new audiences.
They served in Congress and on the N.R.A.’s board at the same time. Over decades, a small group of legislators led by a prominent Democrat pushed the gun lobby to help transform the law, the courts and views on the Second Amendment.
The president sent Jake Sullivan, his national security adviser, on the latest diplomatic mission seeking to forge ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
American intelligence officials believe the malware could give China the power to disrupt or slow American deployments or resupply operations, including during a Chinese move against Taiwan.
Military reservists are key to Israel’s defense capacity and a shared sense of national mission. But scores of reservists have resigned over a new law curbing judicial power, reflecting a widening rift in Israeli society.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia views Odesa as a culturally important part of his nation. But many in the Ukrainian city reject the connection and view the country that has been attacking it with loathing.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has promised to build up defenses around his country’s southern coast, but Kyiv must make tough decisions about where to put its resources.
The city has long grappled with street homelessness and a shortage of housing. Now fentanyl has turned a perennial problem into a deadly crisis and a challenge to the city’s progressive identity.
Kyiv did not take responsibility for the attacks, which could be a bid to broaden a war that has mostly rained ruin and death on Ukraine.
The accusation that former President Donald J. Trump wanted security camera footage deleted at Mar-a-Lago added to a pattern of concerns about his attempts to stymie prosecutors.
Ron DeSantis and Tim Scott, fighting to become the leading Republican alternative to Donald Trump, have clashed in recent days over Florida’s educational standards.
In an interview with The New York Times, the Pennsylvania senator spoke about the dysfunction in Congress, his health challenges and why he hasn’t traded his loungewear for a business suit.
Their wedding was hosted by a charity group that provides uniforms, boots and other essentials to female soldiers, but because of demand recently started to organize such celebrations.
As the heat index edged toward 102, increasing the potential for heat-related illnesses, some city dwellers had prepared in advance.
People in Massapequa Park described him as awkward, solitary, and volatile. Though few knew him well, his presence pervaded a Berner High School reunion.
The actor, who was cleared of sexual assault charges in Britain this week, has parts in two small upcoming films. Yet his tarnished public perception makes starry roles unlikely.
In updating the standards to comply with a new law that limits how racism can be taught, officials largely bypassed the state’s African American History Task Force.
Ukraine is hoping that mile-by-mile gains could bring its weapons closer to Russian supply lines, if its forces can overcome Russia’s heavy defense.
Most of the money spent by the senator’s presidential campaign has gone to newly formed companies whose addresses are Staples stores in suburban strip malls.
A New Jersey woman now lives alone part of the year on a remote island in Maine that Stephen King called ‘a novel here, just waiting to be written.’
When FIFA sold Australia’s World Cup broadcast rights to a streaming service, it made it harder for casual fans to find the matches.
A deadly missile strike on a crowded restaurant wounded three Colombians who hope to build support for Ukraine in a continent that has avoided taking sides.
In lawsuits, former athletes accuse the sports program of having a pervasive culture of hazing and sexual abuse, and two coaches have been fired. Lawyers say more athletes may come forward.
Architectural styles and construction materials can significantly reduce the need for air-conditioning during heat waves, according to sustainable architecture experts.
The office of the special counsel accused the former president of seeking to delete security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago. The manager of the property, Carlos De Oliveira, was also named as a new defendant.
Senators steered clear of the social policy dictates that sapped Democratic support for the House bill, but the legislation was headed for a contentious negotiation to reach a final agreement.
The minority leader’s health episode at the Capitol has intensified talk about a possible succession, a prospect that his colleagues have not seriously grappled with for years.
Even as Republicans pushed through the first of a dozen government funding measures, the struggle over another foreshadowed a potential shutdown in the fall.
Kyiv has intensified its counteroffensive against the Russian invasion, but has kept things murky on the size of the assault, the casualties and what forces it still has in reserve.
At a summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, President Vladimir V. Putin offered free grain as he sought to shore up ties with the continent. But lower-than-hoped-for attendance among African leaders hinted at tempering support.
Daily heat records could be set across the region on Thursday and Friday. Many cities took precautions to help vulnerable residents.
As the Florida governor debuts his leaner campaign in Iowa, tensions still plague the highest levels of his operation and a supportive super PAC.
In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook’s and Instagram’s algorithms, suggesting there was no silver bullet to fixing the platforms.
In any society, she would have been radical for a pop star. But in Ireland, she was revolutionary.
People are often sure that the economy is going to settle down gently right before it plunges into recession, a reason for caution and humility.
Frank Kozik made his name with his playfully gruesome concert posters for Nirvana, Soundgarden and Butthole Surfers. He added to his underground fame with his boundary-pushing “art toys.”
The department will examine allegations of pervasive problems with excessive force and unlawful stops of Black residents that were amplified by the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.
The former president’s legal team had a last-ditch chance to provide information to the office of Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the inquiry.
July is on track to break all records for any month, scientists say, as the planet enters an extended period of exceptional warmth.
Mr. Musk, the owner of Twitter, is the latest Silicon Valley mogul to pursue an all-in-one app, the kind that has thrived in Asia but not elsewhere.
Senior Biden officials are in Riyadh on Thursday exploring the possibility of some kind of U.S.-Saudi-Israeli-Palestinian understanding.
The London police force said that the Irish singer was found dead at a home in the city.
The deals have become highly lucrative for the justices, including for those who used court staff members to help research and promote their books.
The reading on gross domestic product was bolstered by consumer spending, showing that recession forecasts early in the year were premature, at least.
The bank said some price pressures were easing, but that “underlying inflation remains high overall,” as it raised rates a quarter percentage point.
At a summit for African countries, the Russian president insisted that Western hypocrisy rather than his invasion of Ukraine was to blame for disruptions in the global food supply.
Lindsey Horan’s tying goal against the Netherlands saved her team at the World Cup. But it came from a dark place she knows well.
The agency said it had found thousands of cases where minors were employed in illegal, often dangerous jobs. Congress has accused the health secretary of failing to protect them.
A new report indicates that the guardrails for widely used chatbots can be thwarted, leading to an increasingly unpredictable environment for the technology.
Shortages of state and city personnel, especially those who must work on site, are so dire that unions are helping to get people in the door.
In the same week as a civil rights inquiry into Harvard, new data shows legacies are slightly more qualified yet are four times as likely to get into top schools.
After an affirmative action ruling, legacy admissions are a ripe target. Still, skyrocketing tuition costs and mountains of debt remain far greater worries for many Americans.
Despite tough talk, Britain’s new sanctions program against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has proved shaky. Some oligarchs have received generous exemptions. Officials have at times overreached.
Judge Maryellen Noreika sent the two sides back to try to work out modifications that would address her legal and constitutional concerns and salvage the basic contours of the agreement.
At what was billed as an Education Department “summit” in Washington on Wednesday, college admissions practices across the board were on the table.
Tearing up a photo was the moment nobody forgot. The performance that preceded it was just as powerful.
After holding back many of its units trained and armed by the West, Ukraine is now committing them, the officials said, but it remained unclear whether a full-scale assault was taking place.
Measuring and comparing sea surface temperatures is complex, but scientists agree on one thing: A high reading this week is bad news for wildlife.
The Biden administration’s new asylum policy, which a judge blocked this week, has contributed to a plunge in illegal border crossings at the southern U.S. border.
The Irish singer’s shaved head was as much a part of her identity and allure as her sound.
The 81-year-old Senate Republican leader, who had a serious fall earlier this year, was temporarily unable to speak during a news conference, raising questions about his health and future.
In just a few hours, Judge Maryellen Noreika exposes a gulf in understanding between the president’s son and prosecutors on an agreement they had spent weeks hashing out.
She broke out with the single “Nothing Compares 2 U,” then caused an uproar a few years later by ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II on “S.N.L.”
The step signals a major shift in American policy and ends months of resistance by Pentagon officials who feared setting a precedent that could pave the way for the court to prosecute U.S. troops.
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Unilever have each reported raising prices significantly in the second quarter, complicating the Federal Reserve’s efforts to tame inflation.
Stock markets often exhibit caution ahead of major events like Fed meetings, waiting until there is clarity over the central bank’s next move.
Savers benefit from higher rates, but borrowers have faced bigger bills on credit cards, student loans and other forms of debt.
As President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia prepares to host African leaders at a summit, a collapsed grain deal and the uncertain fate of Wagner mercenaries have cast a shadow.
The governor brought in razor wire, floating barriers and state troopers to deter unauthorized migration. The federal government mounted its first legal pushback this week.
Along the vast 600-mile front line, Russia is mostly playing defense. In the northeast, it is once again mounting fierce offensive operations.
The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the activism of his grieving mother helped galvanize the civil rights movement in America.
The chairman of the Ways and Means Committee filed a brief in federal court saying the plea agreement for the president’s son had been tainted by political interference.
The Army colonel overseeing the court-martial trial had applied for a job with the Trump-era Justice Department, raising the appearance of bias.
Carlos Macci, 72, was part of a crew that sold Michael K. Williams fentanyl-laced heroin that killed him in 2021.
These men, many in their 80s, may have titanium hips and implantable defibrillators. But they plan to play hockey until they go to that big locker room in the sky.
Odesa, a port city long beloved by travelers, had been largely spared the worst of the war, but that began changing this week.
The government’s vote to limit judicial power set off a night of street chaos. More showdowns are expected, but with Parliament about to recess, it is not clear when or in what form.
The ouster of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from the ultraconservative group and the rise of another rebel faction have raised questions about where the real power lies on the far right.
Bronny, a basketball recruit at the University of Southern California, was stricken during a practice on Monday. He is out of intensive care and in stable condition, his family said.
The special counsel, Jack Smith, continues to push ahead on several fronts as he assembles evidence about former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to retain power after the 2020 election.
Trevor Reed’s condition was not immediately clear. His decision to return to the region and volunteer to fight for Ukraine created some “exasperation” within the Biden administration, an administration official said.
Support for a wall is now routine, and some presidential candidates say they would use military force to secure the border if elected.
If the president fails to enforce the federal government’s clear supremacy on immigration, he will allow a humanitarian crisis to grow into a political liability.
Investigators have been excavating the backyard of the suspect’s home after finding “disturbances” that might be buried objects, the district attorney said.
Deadly blazes are raging across portions of southern Europe and North Africa, including the Greek islands and Algeria.
After months of defiance, there was defeat. The right-wing government’s success in passing a law that limits the power of the Supreme Court was a gut punch to the largely liberal and secular opposition.
Qin Gang, a sometime favorite of Xi Jinping, was replaced by Wang Yi, a seasoned diplomat, leaving many unanswered questions about Qin’s fall.
Immigrant advocacy groups had challenged the administration’s decision to dramatically limit who is allowed to apply for asylum in the U.S.
The opposition fears a slow descent toward authoritarianism, while the government is waiting to see how disruptive and prolonged the response will be from its critics.
United Parcel Service faced a potential walkout by more than 325,000 union members after their five-year contract expires next week.
His presidential campaign, facing questions from allies and donors about the strength of his candidacy, has now eliminated the jobs of 38 aides this month.
An inquiry into admissions preferences for family of alumni and donors began after the Supreme Court’s decision last month limiting affirmative action.
The system of ocean currents that regulates the climate for a swath of the planet could collapse sooner than expected, a new analysis found.
President Biden’s decisions on when to speak out forcefully for democracy can prove tricky.
Microsoft and Alphabet will report results on Tuesday, as investors look for signs that a rally in stocks tied to artificial intelligence is justified.
We still don’t know how the pandemic started. Here's what we do know — and why it matters.
The attack on a grain hangar on the Danube River, an alternative export route that has become an economic lifeline, complicates Ukraine’s efforts to export its grain.
Since 2011, there have been more human swine flu cases reported in the United States than anywhere else in the world. Most have occurred at farm-animal showcases.
After years of steady growth, many technology companies are laying off workers and giving up millions of square feet of office space in the city.
The court could strike down the law passed on Monday that seeks to curb its power. Or it might narrowly interpret it. Or it might simply put off any decision.
The Israeli prime minister has pushed through the first part of his judicial overhaul, but in doing so has deepened a rift in Israeli society and propelled the country into an uncertain new era.
Complaining of an unaccountable judiciary, the far-right governing coalition, despite months of mass protests, voted to strip the court’s power to override “unreasonable” government actions.
The assault, across the river from Romania, heightened the risk of a more direct confrontation with a NATO member and came on the same day that drones struck buildings in Moscow.
Peter Stager, a truck driver from Arkansas, is one of nine men charged in one of the most disturbing attacks on police officers during the assault on the Capitol.
Israeli lawmakers advanced parts of a contentious plan by the right-wing government to reduce the power of the Supreme Court, defying threats by protesters to shut down large parts of the economy.
Two buildings were hit but there were no reports of casualties. Video verified by The New York Times shows smoke and damage to several buildings.
More states are making all students eligible for private school subsidies. In Arizona, it has often benefited wealthier families.
President Biden has cautioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against pursuing a proposal to rein in Israel’s judiciary, a plan that has deeply divided Israeli society.
Lawmakers are set to vote Monday on whether to limit the Supreme Court’s power as one element of a government plan to overhaul judicial authority. It is part of a profound rift over Israel’s nature and future.
Once a vaccine advocate, the Florida governor lost his enthusiasm for the shot before the Delta wave sent Covid hospitalizations and deaths soaring. It’s a grim chapter he now leaves out of his rosy retelling of his pandemic response.
The Turkish leader has been a key mediator between Russia and Ukraine since the full-scale invasion began last February.
Aleksandr G. Lukashenko brutally repressed those who opposed his claim of re-election as president. The crackdown on dissent has only deepened since.
Seven leading A.I. companies made eight promises about what they’ll do with their technology. Our columnist sizes up their potential impact.
The death of Melissa Perez in San Antonio is renewing vexing questions about how police deal with people who have mental health issues.
At a medical school in Boston, instructors are using ChatGPT in training exercises to help teach students how to think like doctors.
Gilead delayed a new version of a drug, allowing it to extend the patent life of a blockbuster line of medications, internal documents show.
In one benchmark, middle schoolers would learn that enslaved Americans developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit.”
The prosecutor overseeing the investigation into election interference will make her case next month to a grand jury in Atlanta. Nearly 20 people have been warned that they could face charges.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s ruling to start the Trump documents trial in May 2024 showed, for now, that she is the jurist defenders have described: level-headed and not beholden to the man who appointed her.
While there has been a flurry of activity by the White House and lawmakers over artificial intelligence, rules for the technology remain distant, lawmakers and experts said.
From the early days with Frank Sinatra to his 21st-century resurgence with Lady Gaga, he was steadfast in his approach to song and style.
The crooner and the pop star seemed like unlikely collaborators when they joined up in 2014. But the two masters of reinvention inspired and bolstered each other’s careers.
Donald J. Trump’s former fixer had accused the company of failing to abide by the terms of a deal and refusing to pay more than $1 million in legal costs
The university said M. Katherine Banks would retire “immediately” after political pushback over the effort to appoint Kathleen McElroy to lead its journalism program.
Canada’s record-breaking wildfire season shows the need to shift from suppressing fires to preventing them as fires become more difficult to combat.
Security guards and others say the extreme temperatures in Athens and at other historical sites are dangerous for them and for tourists. The employees are stopping work at noon at least for now.
In Asia, Europe and the United States, records are shattering, and forecasters say there’s no respite in sight.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon rejected former President Donald J. Trump’s request to delay the trial until after the election but pushed the start date past the Justice Department’s request to begin in December.
“We have stopped eating tomatoes in salad,” one shopper said, “and we are not making any tomato-based vegetable dishes.”
From his initial success as a jazzy crooner through his generation-spanning duets, his career was remarkable for both its longevity and its consistency.
Amazon, Google and Meta are among the companies that will announce the new commitments on Friday as they race to outdo each other with versions of artificial intelligence.
The flight, from Las Vegas to Atlanta, was stalled at Harry Reid International Airport, leaving passengers sweltering in triple-digit temperatures, the department said.
While trying to cool brutally hot Phoenix, Roberto Guerrero and his sons endure sweltering attics, blazing rooftops and nonstop calls for help.
Vladimir V. Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have kept good relations despite the war in Ukraine, and analysts say that will continue after the Kremlin rejected a deal Mr. Erdogan helped broker.
In its monthly call, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration analyzed how June’s temperatures stacked up and said it expects August to continue the trend.
Extensive damage occurred at the company’s property in Rocky Mount, and many products used by hospitals appeared to have been affected. This could further exacerbate shortages.
As investigators spent years looking for a suspect, a key clue was buried in their files. Could they have solved the case years earlier?
Moscow withdrew from a deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain across the Black Sea despite a wartime blockade, and warned that ships sailing around Ukrainian ports would be seen as military targets.
The president has taken swipes at Republicans, including a video playfully featuring Marjorie Taylor Greene as a narrator, but he and his allies are avoiding one target: his predecessor’s legal woes.
The Republican front-runner is facing a growing tangle of criminal and civil trials that will overlap with next year’s presidential primaries.
Ukraine accused Moscow of specifically targeting the infrastructure for exporting food, after Russia pulled out of an agreement allowing ships carrying grain to sail past its Black Sea blockade.
A target letter sent by the special counsel investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to reverse his election loss cited three statutes that could be the basis for a prosecution.
Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump had sought to move the first criminal case against him to federal court, but a judge put an end to the effort.
John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, emerges from talks in Beijing without a new agreement. But just talking is progress, he said.
Richard Moore, the chief of MI6, said the Russian leader acted “to save his skin,” offering rare insights into the events surrounding the sudden end of Yevgeny V. Prigozhin’s march on Moscow.
With the fish numbers at historic lows, scientists, chefs and others are asking whether we should be eating them anymore, and what it means for the future of all wild salmon.
The small protests reflect the broad nature of popular opposition to plans by Israel’s government to overhaul the judiciary, and seemed timed to coincide with the speech by President Isaac Herzog.
The decision allows South Africa to avoid the predicament of whether to arrest the Russian leader, who is the subject of an international warrant, if he traveled to Johannesburg for a BRICS meeting.
News of a possible indictment related to Jan. 6 brought a muddled response from some of Donald Trump’s 2024 rivals, and familiar attacks on President Biden from his allies in Congress.
Ukraine lets soldiers from towns occupied by the Russian military join the battle to reclaim them.
In the first hearing before Judge Aileen M. Cannon, the two sides sparred over a trial date and how to prosecute a former president and current candidate.
Across North America, Europe and Asia, hundreds of millions of people endured blistering conditions. The U.S. special envoy for climate change called it “a threat to all of humankind.”
Among those facing felony charges was Meshawn Maddock, a Trump ally and a former co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party.
Despite rising scrutiny, the Florida governor stuck to the same strategy — including by defending his top rival, Donald Trump, in the face of new legal troubles.
The former president did not say which crimes, if any, prosecutors specified in a letter notifying him that he may be indicted again.
The ads will give Senator Tim Scott a significant boost as he draws attention from rival campaigns in the Republican presidential race.
A target letter is an official piece of correspondence from the Justice Department informing a person that he or she is being investigated.
World War II has been an ideological battlefield in today’s war in Ukraine, and it is cropping up on the actual battlefield as well.
Thousands of Israelis blocked roads and demonstrated over Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to limit the power of the judiciary.
The extreme heat wave choking China has become a talking point for John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, in his meetings with officials in Beijing.
As much of the South bakes, Phoenix is poised to break a record set half a century ago of consecutive days with 110-degree or higher temperatures.
He delivered remarks at the Christians United for Israel Summit as he courts evangelical voters.
After a leading progressive called Israel “a racist state,” Democratic leaders criticized the statement. But a planned boycott of the Israeli president’s speech by liberals underscored tensions.
The Federal Reserve chair spent the early pandemic bemoaning the loss of a strong job market. It roared back — and now its fate is in his hands.
President Isaac Herzog will meet with President Biden this week and address Congress. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he also got a presidential invitation.
Calls to overhaul the police go back decades. But violent episodes of police enforcement continue. So do violent outpourings on the street.
Wildfires in western Canada are expected to create smoky conditions in the United States again this week.
The Appleby Horse Fair draws tens of thousands of Gypsies and Irish Travellers each year to a rural patch of England to celebrate their culture. Our photographer spent four days there.
The Kremlin paused its participation in an agreement that allowed Ukraine to export its grain by sea despite a wartime blockade, a deal seen as essential to keeping global food prices stable.
New data published on Monday shows a post-pandemic recovery has not materialized after restrictions were lifted last year.
The former president and his backers aim to strengthen the power of the White House and limit the independence of federal agencies.
More scorching weather is expected in the southern part of the continent in the coming days, with experts anticipating records. Here’s what to know.
In a sign that the pandemic really is over, the total number of Americans dying each day is no longer historically abnormal.
Tens of millions of people are facing dangerous levels of heat this week, especially in the South and West.
The city of Chernivtsi in western Ukraine has been spared the mayhem of the Russian invasion. But like other towns in the region, it is doing its part, and has become, in effect, a back office of the war effort.
With few exceptions, you either let yourself learn from your competitors, or you fail to compete with them at all.
China was on track to recover after closing itself off during the pandemic. Now the country’s growth is staggering and Beijing is signaling it is open to talking.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is slated to approve new disclosure requirements, although the legislation is unlikely to advance.
Christopher Nolan’s film delves deeply into what this country did to its most famous scientist.
The convention was a battle between the forces of inclusive, expansive democracy and those espousing a narrower, hostile concept of who fully belonged to America.
Government data shows gross domestic product growth slowed in the second quarter from earlier in the year, even though it rose over the same period in 2022.
As the Women’s World Cup has expanded, so, too, has the group of nations with the firm belief that they can win it.
Ongoing strikes could disrupt the entertainment industry in fundamental ways, putting the 2024 box office and the fall broadcast lineup in jeopardy.
The British-French singer, actress and style icon may have been known as the inspiration for the Birkin bag, but she was so much more.
Vietnam, one of eight nations playing in its first Women’s World Cup, will face the U.S. this week. Its presence highlights the growth of women’s soccer, but also the challenges that remain.
The president has finished a review first mandated by law in 1992, and while a vast majority of papers related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have been released, some remain redacted.
Sudden, torrential rains struck areas within Bucks County, Pa., trapping people in their cars. Three people remained missing.
A two-week stretch of 110-degree days sends the fire department scrambling to rescue people overcome by heat, and tests a force already accustomed to tough summers.
Russia has repeatedly threatened to pull out of the wartime export agreement, which has helped stabilize global grain prices and avert famines. The latest deadline to renew it is midnight Monday.
Wealthy Democrats have thrown their money behind the president’s re-election bid, but for many reasons, the party’s small donors have yet to step up their contributions.
In 2011, experts made a list of characteristics they predicted the suspect would have. The man charged in three of the killings checks many of those boxes.
The dismissals come as his campaign for the Republican nomination for president struggles to gain traction against former President Donald J. Trump, who is leading in polls.
Former President Donald J. Trump taunted Gov. Ron DeSantis, his chief Republican rival, for his absence from the conservative Turning Point Action Conference.
Warning signs for Ron DeSantis were among the biggest developments of the latest campaign filings, which created a fuller financial picture of the 2024 field.
As it turns 75, the N.H.S., a proud symbol of Britain’s welfare state, is in the deepest crisis of its history.
To gain ground, Ukrainian forces have to make their way through a variety and density of Russian land mines they never imagined.
The long-shot candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination has a history of embracing conspiracy theories. His latest comments claimed the virus spared certain ethnic and religious groups.
The Ukrainian leader has secured new weapons pledges, but it was not clear when the aid would arrive, or how consequential it would be on the battlefield.
Rex Heuermann was painstaking in his Manhattan professional pursuits. At home in Massapequa Park, he left neighbors discomfited.
As China increases its reach in diaspora communities, Chinese Canadian politicians in Vancouver are the focus of Chinese state interference in Canadian politics.
From the beginning, the women who were found murdered were reduced to being prostitutes. More than a decade after they went missing, that seems to have changed.
Medical device makers have bankrolled a cottage industry of doctors and clinics that perform artery-clearing procedures that can lead to amputations.
The entertainment industry is trying to figure out the economics of streaming. It’s also facing angst over a tech-powered future and fighting to stay culturally dominant.
In uniting his party behind a defense bill loaded with social policy restrictions, Speaker Kevin McCarthy has raised questions over whether his short-term victory could imperil his majority.
The arrest of a man charged in three of the killings brought a sense of safety to a community long accustomed to being on edge.
In all, the remains of nine women, a man and a toddler have been found in the area on Long Island. Simple and sophisticated clues led investigators to the arrest.
Troops with the 36th Marine Brigade have been the tip of the spear in Ukraine’s counteroffensive and have advanced about five miles into a bulge into Russian lines in southern Ukraine.
Settlements along Ukraine’s eastern steppe were reduced to wreckage as the war passed through them. Now choked with weeds and with few residents, they are at risk of disappearing.
Democrats said they could not support the measure after the House adopted a raft of social policy provisions, including limits on abortions, gender transition procedures and diversity training.
But that oversimplifies a complex global situation, others say, with a weakened Russia and with China facing serious problems of its own.
Legislation backed by Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, would create a review board to declassify documents related to unidentified aerial phenomena across the government.
The dual walkouts pit more than 170,000 workers against old-line studios like Disney and Sony, as well as tech juggernauts like Netflix and Amazon.
Martin Sherwin struck the deal and dived into the research. But it was only when Kai Bird joined as a collaborator that “American Prometheus” came to be.
G.O.P. leaders acceded to the demands of ultraconservatives to use the annual defense policy bill to lodge cultural grievances and protest continued U.S. support for Ukraine. Now its fate is in doubt.
The money was listed as pay for a “speaking engagement” by Ms. Trump in a new personal financial disclosure by her husband.
The sentence for Kyle Fitzsimons was handed down the same day a California man who placed conspiracy theories at the heart of his trial defense was convicted in connection with the Capitol attack.
If the World Health Organization’s warning about the artificial sweetener has you worried, try these other refreshers.
The Wagner group mutiny three weeks ago has exposed dissension and fueled a shake-up in the Russian military, as it tries to fend off a Ukrainian advance.
The office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, said there “is no basis in law or fact” for granting a motion from former President Donald J. Trump that could push the start of the trial until after Election Day.
The F.D.A. and the powerful beverage industry protested the new findings, and a second W.H.O. group stood by its standard that the sweetener is generally safe.
Fran Drescher, who became a household name for her role on a 1990s sitcom, is now president of the union going on strike.
Jared Kushner was questioned before a federal grand jury as prosecutors appeared to be trying to establish if the former president knew his efforts to stay in power were built on a lie.
President Biden has resisted a full-throated attack on the Supreme Court or the individual justices, despite mounting pressure from activists and from within the Democratic Party.
The BBC is no ordinary media outlet and its presenter is no ordinary journalist. But the network’s wall-to-wall coverage has raised questions of its own.
Here’s why Hollywood is facing its first industrywide shutdown in more than 60 years, and what it could mean for your favorite shows.
Pickleball is everywhere, and “Paddleball Paul” is making his last stand on the handball courts of Central Park. It’s not going very well.
The decision, if upheld, could allow Democrats to shift as many as six G.O.P.-held seats in their direction. Republicans vowed to appeal.
The price of the pill, which has not been announced, will determine how affordable it will be when it becomes available in early 2024.
Any such restrictions are expected to anger Beijing and will be the first test of the new channels of communication that the world’s two largest economies are trying to restore.
A tornado warning was issued for the Chicago area on Wednesday evening. The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado had landed near O’Hare International Airport.
The state began new flood protection efforts after being battered by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. Many appeared to be effective, but experts say more will be needed as storms become more extreme.
Its final season earned 27 nods, the most of any drama, while “Ted Lasso” got 21, the most of any comedy. But the writers’ strike could delay the ceremony, planned for September.
Concluding a NATO summit focused on the war in Ukraine and other fast-changing challenges, President Biden vowed that the alliance would oppose Russian aggression for as long as needed.
With a new image, NASA commemorates the first anniversary of doing science with the most powerful observatory ever sent to space.
The alliance added Sweden, laid out new ambitions for itself and offered long-term support for Ukraine, promising membership someday. But Kyiv wanted more.
Forecasters say dangerous heat is expected to return across the South. It could last another two weeks, and possibly longer.
The 75th Primetime Emmy nominations proceeded mostly as anticipated on Wednesday, but there were a few surprises.
After voicing his support for Sweden joining NATO, President Erdogan of Turkey said Sweden needed to take more steps to win the support of his country’s parliament, which he said will not take up the matter until October.
Stoked by former President Donald J. Trump, congressional Republicans have been trying to undermine the F.B.I.’s legitimacy with the public.
One of us is a Twitter addict; the other not so much. In the end, we were both unsure how people might use Threads in the long run.
The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” he was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.
The Consumer Price Index climbed far more slowly in June, a relief for shoppers and a hopeful — though inconclusive — sign that America might pull off a “soft landing.”
Forecasters are warning of more rain in the coming days after the state was inundated by a deluge.
A Russian lawmaker says that Gen. Sergei Surovikin, who has not been seen in public since a short-lived mutiny, has been “taking a rest.”
Even though Democrats held the Senate and other key offices, Republican turnout was more robust, and the party showed strength among women, Latinos and rural voters, a new report found.
Under the proposed rules, any amount of lead dust in floors and window sills would qualify as “hazardous” and require abatement.
Microsoft said the hack began in May and was discovered just before Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s trip to Beijing in June.
The mysterious neighbor brushed off Sinatra, snubbed DiMaggio and married one of the top stars of 1960s TV. Would an overlooked form letter be her downfall?
The 75th Emmy Awards ceremony is planned for Sept. 18, but it may be delayed because of the Hollywood writers’ strike.
The National Weather Service in Shreveport, La., warned that flash flooding could cause “a life-threatening situation.”
Researchers are recording ocean temperatures that pose severe risks to coral reefs and other marine life.
Although subject to several idiosyncratic factors, the price of flights has eased markedly since last summer’s shortages.
The hack, by a Chinese group that the company said was intent on conducting espionage, went undetected for a month.
Gov. Kim Reynolds called the Legislature for a special session to consider sweeping new restrictions on abortion.
Right-wing Republicans want to use the annual military budget and policy legislation, traditionally a bipartisan affair, as a tool to pick fights on abortion and other social issues.
Calls for search and rescue missions continued, as residents and business owners started assessing damage, fueling an anxious, unsettled mood.
In a reversal, the department said it could no longer argue that Donald Trump was acting in his official capacity when he insulted the writer E. Jean Carroll.
The former president snubbed one influential Iowa leader and attacked another, testing his immunity to traditional political pitfalls in a crucial state.
Lina Khan has said a fear of defeat should not deter the agency from suing big tech companies. But after Microsoft won a ruling this week, her critics say that strategy is flawed.
Arizona is used to scorching summers, but the region’s 11th straight day of 110-degree temperatures is straining patience and resources.
Immaculate Grid has become a daily obsession for fans, journalists and even some ex-players. Being purchased by Baseball Reference should only help it grow.
Long seen as an in-house disrupter in NATO, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey could be trying to repair relations with the Biden administration, partly by scaling back close ties with Russia.
From late 2021 to early 2022, humans transmitted the coronavirus to white-tailed deer more than 100 times, research suggests.
Gal Luft, promoted by House Republicans as possessing evidence of corruption by the Biden family, was charged by federal prosecutors with lobbying and sanctions violations and with brokering arms deals with China and Iran.
She worked with the Maysles brothers on the groundbreaking film about two Long Island recluses, and she later shared an Emmy for a mini-series about Ben Franklin.
Anthropic, a safety-focused A.I. start-up, is trying to compete with ChatGPT while preventing an A.I. apocalypse. It’s been a little stressful.
In deciding a family dispute over her estate, a jury in Michigan ruled that a handwritten document found in a couch at Franklin’s home after her death represented her last wishes.
At the direction of Charles Manson, Ms. Van Houten participated in the murder of a California couple in 1969. She was initially sentenced to death.
The lack of a comprehensive national rainfall database and current flood maps hampers the ability to prepare for storms intensified by climate change.
As Ukrainian troops inch forward in the counteroffensive, they are occupying positions abandoned by enemy troops. Says one: “It’s not very pleasant.”
The Kremlin’s disclosure of the meeting with Yevgeny V. Prigozhin and other Wagner group commanders hinted at the power they wield, but left many questions unanswered.
It was as if a river had suddenly been diverted into an apartment complex in Highland Falls, N.Y.
Around the United States, dangerous floods, heat and storms are happening more frequently.
The international cooperation celebrated by President Biden has been challenged as the war in Ukraine drags on and questions linger over that country’s membership in the alliance.
Polish memories of ethnic pogroms by Ukrainian nationalists in the 1940s jostle with the trauma left by Russia and its war in Ukraine.
The Hudson Valley was the most affected by the storm system on Sunday, with sections getting up to eight inches of rain, the National Weather Service said.
Phoenix could be on track to break its record of 18 consecutive days with temperatures above 110 as a heat dome has settled over the desert Southwest.
After a wrongful conviction in a notorious rape, Yusef Salaam was freed and won an election. His case was part of a wave of exonerations created by discredited police tactics.
President Biden, who will attend a NATO summit in Europe this week, said it was “premature” to allow Ukraine to join the alliance as the war with Russia continues.
Rolling Fork, Miss., like much of the Delta, had already been wrecked by disinvestment and decline before a giant tornado swept through in late March, leaving residents to ponder whether to rebuild or move on.
Five members of the regiment returned home from Turkey to a heroes’ welcome on Saturday. The Kremlin accused Ankara of violating the terms of the deal that freed them.
The U.S. Treasury secretary met with China’s new economic policy leaders and toned down Washington’s talk of “decoupling.” But the two nations remain at odds on many issues.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, after 10 hours of meetings with Chinese officials, said the two sides would pursue “more frequent communication” despite their deep differences.
The exclusive Horatio Alger Association brought the justice access to wealthy members and unreported V.I.P. treatment. He, in turn, offered another kind of access.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte resigned after his coalition partners rejected his tough new line on refugees, favoring his own political future, critics say, over compromise.
As Spain prepares for elections, some liberal European politicians fear that the hard-right Vox party could become the first right-wing party since the Franco era to enter Spain’s national government.
A major lender abroad, China is facing a debt bomb at home: trillions of dollars owed by local governments, their financial affiliates, and real estate developers.
Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary, said China, the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, can have “greater impact” tackling climate change by working with other nations.
Chipmakers are finding it increasingly hard to operate in China but say doing business in the country is still key to their survival.
The Pentagon’s statements indicate that the cluster munitions that will be sent to Ukraine contain older grenades known to have a failure rate of 14 percent or more.
With Ukraine burning through stockpiles of conventional artillery, President Biden concluded that he had little choice but to provide the weapons.
Two weeks after the Wagner mercenary group’s rebellion against Russian military leadership, its fate is as murky as ever — as is the purpose of a newly revived military base in Belarus.
The gunman had pleaded guilty to the charges in federal court. He still faces a state murder trial later this year, and Texas prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty.
Hiring slowed last month, a sign that the Federal Reserve’s inflation-fighting campaign is taking hold. But with rising wages and low unemployment, the labor market remains resilient.
After years of frustration in singles, Austin Krajicek nearly quit tennis. Then an old friend asked him if he wanted to give the sport one more shot.
Some lawmakers questioned how the United States could maintain the moral high ground while supplying Ukraine with weapons that could harm civilians. Republicans cheered the move.
Federal Reserve officials are still expected to raise interest rates in July after a solid jobs report showed continued wage growth.
The first Black female member of the Supreme Court wasted no time in finding her footing, asserting herself in dissents, alliances and questions from the bench.
Officials want to tear down the house where four Idaho college students were murdered last year, setting off a debate over preserving the scenes of mass violence.
A hunter’s kill in upstate New York brought new hope, and trepidation, that wolves could slowly be making their way back to the Northeast.
There may finally be hope for New York’s busiest, dreariest train hub, with a new plan to improve it, the stars aligning and the clock ticking.
The Biden administration push comes after cooperation on halting the flow of the drug into the United States was derailed by wider geopolitical tensions.
How much more the Federal Reserve raises interest rates this year will hinge on the strength of the economy — particularly the labor market.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s concerns reflected continuing tensions between the two countries.
From movie theaters to military spending, here’s how one of the world’s most important economic relationships stacks up.
A yearlong freeze in climate talks appears to be ending as the United States and China, the world’s biggest polluters, resume discussions.
Ukraine is seeking cluster munitions, which are known to cause grievous injuries to civilians, as its ammunition supply runs low.
Medicare will cover much of the cost for patients in the early stages of the disease, but Leqembi has safety risks and can only modestly slow cognitive decline.
The F.D.A. gave full approval to the drug, but added a black-box warning about safety risks. Medicare said it would cover most of the high cost.
Regulators reached a provisional deal on how quickly the transition to zero-emissions fuels should happen for cargo ships, which often burn particularly dirty oil.
The brief mutiny by the Wagner mercenary force last month has given Belarus’s autocratic leader Aleksandr G. Lukashenko an opening to upend his subservient relationship with Moscow.
From north to south, temperatures are surging as greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere and combine with effects from El Niño.
Hiring was largely unchanged, and the number of workers quitting their jobs increased. The data will be watched closely by Federal Reserve policymakers.
During the most recent heat wave, residents of the northern city of Hermosillo struggled to breathe in the scorching temperatures.
An estimated 60 percent of those leaving prison are unemployed a year later. But after a push for “second-chance hiring,” some programs show promise.
The furious pace of job-switching in recent years has led to big gains for low-wage workers. But the pendulum could be swinging back toward employers.
Mayor Eric Adams has often talked about a wrinkled photo of a fallen police officer that he kept in his wallet. Now that photo and the story have been called into question.
The Treasury secretary will need to defend export controls and tariffs while explaining that the United States does not aim to harm China’s economy.
Ukraine has pressed the United States to supply it with the munitions. Here’s a guide to why this type of weapon is controversial and widely banned — and why Kyiv wants it.
Geopolitical risks have exposed long-ignored strains on Germany’s socioeconomic model. The family businesses underpinning its economy are seeking a new path.
Alliance leaders wanted their summit next week to celebrate the arrival of a new member, but stalling by Hungary and objections from Turkey have made that nearly impossible.
Decades behind its initial schedule, the dangerous job of eliminating the world’s only remaining declared stockpile of lethal chemical munitions will be completed as soon as Friday.
Laws in 20 states have left the fate of clinics in doubt and families with transgender children searching for medical care across state lines.
The superstar quarterback is among the celebrities dealing with the fallout from the crypto crash. Others, like Taylor Swift, escaped.
The case, which could alter how the government battles disinformation, is a flashpoint in a broader effort by conservatives to document what they contend is a liberal conspiracy to silence their views.
The Florida governor, who has yet to demonstrate himself as a campaigner on a national stage, has been plagued by a series of unforced errors and has yet to make a strong case against Donald Trump.
Ukrainian and Russian officials differed on whether a military or civilian area had been struck. Earlier in the war, Russia lost dozens of soldiers, if not hundreds, in a strike on the city.
They said a restriction on government interaction with social media companies could impede efforts to curb false claims about vaccines and voter fraud.
Israelis and Palestinians said the armed groups that were the targets of the military raid would quickly rebuild and the Israeli soldiers would be back soon.
President Biden backs the plan for Sweden to join the military alliance, but movement has been stalled by Turkey’s opposition.
In one of the deadliest periods in years in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, young Palestinians drawn into the struggle against Israel are writing farewell messages to their loved ones.
A major military incursion into the city of Jenin left at least 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier dead. A Palestinian attack on Tel Aviv wounded at least eight.
The major incursion into the West Bank city, which the military said was focused on rooting out militants, left several dead and forced thousands from their homes.
The White House wanted South Carolina to vote first in 2024. The Democratic National Committee obliged. It hasn’t gone according to plan.
“The only thing I ever wanted to do from the age of 14 was to be in a band,” but he is content with the duo’s short career, which is chronicled in a new documentary.
A new movie documents George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s storming of the pop airwaves as the duo Wham! and laughs past the thorny questions.
An inmate hoped to start over with a clean slate by fighting in Ukraine. Instead, he was confronted by the drudgery of trench work and the terror of battle. “You’re going in as meat,” he said he was told.
A video put a fresh spotlight on the chief rabbi of Ukraine, whose renown predates his humanitarian efforts since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
“Why did you run from me?” an officer asked Khalif Cooper, then 28, immediately after the shooting in Paterson, N.J. “I was scared,” he answered.
Nokian Tyres of Finland made 80 percent of its tires in Russia, where energy was cheap. After losing billions, it prioritized political security over business efficiency.
The order came in a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, who claim the administration is trying to silence its critics.
It appeared to be the first such attack near the Russian capital since May, when two waves of drones got close to the Kremlin.
Elena Milashina, known for her work on human rights, was assaulted along with Alexander Nemov, a lawyer.
As concerns over wildfires and air quality mount, drones and laser shows offer an alternative to fireworks on July 4 and other holidays.
Long focused on security, the Russian president is rewarding loyalty among the ruling elite and showering his most important constituency — the men with guns — with cash.
At a time when lawmakers and parents are seeking to restrict what can and cannot be taught in classrooms, many teachers are seeing efforts to limit what can be staged in their auditoriums.
Concerns about gun violence at large public events leave some contemplating safety measures or even staying home.
Mutual skepticism between the United States and China over a wide range of economic and security issues has festered in recent years.
The shooting on Sunday in the city’s Brooklyn neighborhood killed two people and wounded 28 others.
A supposed request for a website for a same-sex wedding played a minor role in a major clash between free speech and gay rights at the Supreme Court.
Ukrainians who live near the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have grown largely complacent about the dangers despite warnings that the facility has a bull’s-eye on it.
Evan Gershkovich has been held at Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo Prison since late March on accusations of espionage that the United States and his employer vehemently reject.
The compound has turned into the scene of protests, spy games and general weirdness as the most hostile relations in decades play out between the United States and Russia.
After the Supreme Court banned race-conscious affirmative action, activists filed a complaint, saying legacy admissions helped students who are overwhelmingly rich and white.
A new generation of treatment facilities is aiming to integrate dementia patients with the communities around them, blurring lines between home and hospital.
Wildfires are hurting many industries and could strain households across Canada, one of many countries reckoning with the impact of extreme weather.
An eighth grader was asked to leave Saint Ann’s, a prestigious private school in Brooklyn. Three months later, he ended his life. Now his parents are suing the school.
At least five Palestinians were killed in a new assault on militant targets in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, which involved a series of drone airstrikes and hundreds of ground forces.
The 37-year-old poet and novelist became the 13th person to be killed in the missile strike on a restaurant in eastern Ukraine on June 27.
Emergency responders in Ukraine’s capital offer not only physical care to the victims of airstrikes, but also mental health support for survivors in crisis.
A student objected to a class, “The Problem of Whiteness,” and tweeted the lecturer’s photo and email address. Hate mail poured in. What should the school do?
Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine. The tech may also be sold overseas.
Republicans, whose edge in the state has narrowed in recent years, have gone on offense politically, leading to clashes over voting access and control over elections.
Expecting a quick retreat, a volunteer Ukrainian unit instead faced two days of tough resistance from dug-in Russian forces.
The Supreme Court ruling is just the latest version of a question that the Whitehead family — and the nation — have been grappling with for years: How to deal with the legacy of slavery?
To build a diverse class of students, the medical school at U.C. Davis ranks applicants by the disadvantages they have faced. Can it work nationally?
Chief Justice Roberts delivered both landmark victories for the right and significant rulings in which he forged alliances with the liberal justices.
Satellite imagery, sealed court documents and interviews with survivors suggest that hundreds of deaths were preventable.
Ukrainian officials have tried to tamp down concerns while heralding their preparations, with President Volodymyr Zelensky nodding to plans for reinforcing the border.
As the authorities pressed ahead with efforts to contain violence set off by the police killing of a 17-year-old at a traffic stop, officials said the violence was less intense than in previous nights.
Xi Jinping needs Vladimir Putin to remain in power, and Russia to maintain stability, to help uphold the countries’ shared interests and to keep challenging the United States.
The decisions this week on affirmative action and student loans give Democrats a way to make a case on class and appeal to voters who have drifted away from the party.
Race-conscious admissions helped only a tiny fraction of Black and Hispanic students. It could not address the many obstacles to a college degree.
As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.
At a gathering of right-wing activists, Donald Trump vowed to target federal diversity programs and to use the Justice Department to investigate schools and corporations over supposed racial discrimination.
The Florida governor, who has spent almost his entire career in public service, made more than $1 million from his best-selling memoir.
An eight-year investigation determined that the religious schools were breaking the law by not offering thousands of students adequate instruction in English and math.
The Supreme Court decision on college admissions could lead companies to alter recruitment and promotion practices to pre-empt legal challenges.
The settlement with a former producer, Abby Grossberg, is the latest development in a series of legal battles involving Fox.
The end of race-conscious admissions could have wide-ranging effects. Here’s what might happen.
The pandemic pause on student loan payments will end soon, but a new system for calculating repayments may lower monthly bills.
The court, which has decided very few Second Amendment cases, will consider whether the government may disarm people subject to restraining orders for domestic abuse.
He got laughs and won awards on Broadway in “Enter Laughing” and in movies like “Little Miss Sunshine.” But he also had a flair for drama.
Smoke driven by the wildfires in Canada lingered over the Northeast and Midwest on Friday. Conditions were expected to improve over the Fourth of July weekend.
Colleges have a game plan, like emphasizing the personal essay, but so do conservative groups that promise to monitor and, if necessary, go back to court.
Protesters set cars on fire and looted stores in cities around the country for the third night in a row after the fatal police shooting of a teenage driver. The government is holding a crisis meeting.
Avdiivka, Ukraine, once had a prewar population of about 30,000. By March, only around 1,700 people remained.
Data showed a spike in fatal shootings like the one that has incited angry protests. Experts say it’s an unintended consequence of a rushed response to terrorism.
The incessant pop-pop-pop of the fast-growing sport has brought on a nationwide scourge of unneighborly clashes, petitions, calls to the police and lawsuits, with no solution in sight.
In the South, oppressive temperatures are expected to continue through Sunday in southern Texas and places along the Gulf of Mexico. Out West, an arid heat will take hold.
The Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision could upend how students apply to college, and how they are judged. Here’s how.
Even as Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared to agree over the policy’s aim, they harshly criticized each other’s conclusions on what to do.
Scot Peterson was found not guilty of child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury in a rare trial over police inaction in a school shooting.
Human rights groups and Ukrainian officials want the United States to stop buying Russian crude oil that has been refined into other products in third countries like India
Washington advised Kyiv not to do anything that would either try to influence the outcome of events or take immediate advantage of the chaos, according to American officials.
The Belarusian leader is once again trying to burnish his global image after the failed coup in Russia.
Ukrainian combat medics share their stories of war, more than a year after the invasion began.
Domingo Germán was masterful, cruising through the Oakland Athletics and securing baseball’s 24th perfect game.
While the Taliban have erased most obvious vestiges of the U.S. nation-building effort in Afghanistan, the cultural legacy of two decades of American occupation has been harder to stamp out.
Some companies are turning to technology to illuminate potential hazards in indoor air.
The Russian military still suffers from poor communication, coordination and leadership, but most of all, analysts say, from a morale-sapping lack of accountability.
Linda Yaccarino, who initially could not take ad sales meetings because of a noncompete clause, is adjusting to her new role reporting to Elon Musk.
The record June heat has been particularly dangerous inside the state’s prisons, where indoor temperatures can top 110 degrees.
Numerous left-leaning groups are behind a statewide effort to focus attention on a 2024 equal-rights referendum, hoping to increase voter turnout.
Federal law has put thousands of women on anti-addiction medications into an impossible bind: Give up your treatment or risk losing your baby.
No doubt they will take swings at him anyway. But it may be more difficult to land punches given that plenty of them voted for the bipartisan infrastructure and semiconductor manufacturing bills.
Booed off the mound in his last start for the Yankees, Germán joined a fraternity of pitchers that runs the gamut from Hall of Famers to otherwise forgettable fill-ins.
Radio telescopes around the world picked up a telltale hum reverberating across the cosmos, most likely from supermassive black holes merging in the early universe.
Debris from the Titan was returned to land off Newfoundland, nearly a week after an international search-and-rescue effort for the vessel ended and its five passengers were presumed dead.
Russia’s president indicates that associates of the Wagner group’s leader in government and the military will face punishment.
An influx of migrants has contributed to record numbers of people entering the city’s shelter system.
Yusef Salaam, exonerated as part of the Central Park 5 in 2002, appeared to be heading toward a City Council victory as voters embraced more moderate candidates.
The images reveal a possible location for the mercenaries who were given the option of relocating to Belarus after the group’s failed rebellion against President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
An upcoming study links smoke pollution across the United States to individual wildfires and could help predict which fires will be most harmful to public health.
A Russian missile strike on a popular restaurant in Kramatorsk, Ukraine killed at least 11 people, wounded dozens more, and showed the peril of trying to claim pieces of ordinary life during war.
President Biden hopes to claim credit for what the White House describes as a record-breaking economic revival in America.
Human-caused climate change is making high temperatures more common and intensifying the dryness that fuels catastrophic wildfires.
His family name, libertarian bent and support from the tech world, along with his views on censorship and vaccines, have given Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a foothold in the 2024 contest.
It’s not the first time that the Florida governor has faced accusations of inappropriately blurring the lines between his official duties and his presidential campaign.
Reports that the White House may clamp down on sales of semiconductors that power artificial intelligence capabilities sent tech stocks diving.
The one-time personal lawyer for Donald Trump answered questions from federal prosecutors about the former president’s efforts to remain in power after his 2020 election loss.
The Aquidaban has long attracted colorful characters as the only ferry in one of South America’s most remote stretches. Now it may disappear.
Florida flew 49 migrants from Texas to the liberal enclave last year. Since then, a few of them have found work, friends and a new life on the wealthy island.
The dangerous heat crippling Texas and other parts of the Southeast is forecast to spread north and east.
The ongoing outbreak of fires in Canada is sending new waves of smoke into the American Midwest, and the pollution has been seen as far away as Europe.
A new law pre-empting local labor rules is part of an effort by Republicans in the Capitol to exert control over the state’s Democratic-led major cities.
Scientists knew the planet’s centerline could move. But it took a sharp turn sometime around the start of the 2000s.
Women in the industry are speaking out about what they feel are cancellations motivated by their appearance rather than sound, even as there is a belief that pregnancy and childbirth have positive effects on the voice.
British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it.
In some places, educated young people are desperate for steady employment in the world’s most populous nation. In others, factory owners struggle to retain workers.
Amid a flagging war effort, a popular commander turned his troops toward Russia’s own capital, undermining the government. It happened last weekend — and in 1917.
It’s widely discussed in China: Employers don’t want you after 35. Some job listings say it plainly, leaving a generation of prime-age workers feeling defeated.
No country has had more export success than China. But Beijing faces risks in turning to the tested method of selling more abroad.
In an interview before his first official trip to Washington, Boris Pistorius made clear he is intent on helping the United States by taking a more assertive stance.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner, may have believed he had support in Russia’s military.
A novel Pennsylvania law requires corporations that do business in the state to consent to being sued there, even if the suits have nothing to do with the state.
The 6-3 majority dismissed the “independent state legislature” theory, which would have given state lawmakers nearly unchecked power over federal elections.
Whatever the Wagner uprising says about Vladimir Putin’s hold on the Kremlin, it is also the story of a mercurial mercenary leader’s growing desperation.
President Vladimir V. Putin spoke angrily of those who want “Russians to fight each other,” but his former ally, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, said the mutiny he led was not a coup attempt.
The White House concluded that it had to get ahead of any argument by Vladimir V. Putin that the uprising was serving the interests of Russia’s adversaries.
The order by Judge Aileen Cannon means the identities of some or all of the Justice Department’s 84 potential witnesses in the case against the former president could become public.
The program, which could begin next year, would charge drivers to enter Midtown Manhattan, with the revenues going to improve mass transit.
The high-pressure “heat dome” that has engulfed Texas and Oklahoma for several days is forecast to shift eastward this week, bringing dangerous temperatures to the Gulf States.
A member of Russia’s elite marched on his rivals, with a mercenary army at his back, suggesting that Vladimir V. Putin’s grip over a coalition of powerful figures may be more brittle than it appeared.
In most parts of the United States, temperatures must be above the historical average in an area for two or more days before the label “heat wave” is applied.
The strongman leader of Belarus, a dependable ally of Vladimir Putin’s, may see a chance to rebrand himself as a statesman.
Russians with ties to the Kremlin expressed relief that the mercenary leader’s mutiny did not spark a civil war. But they agreed that Vladimir Putin had come off looking weak in a way that could be lasting.
Neither Vladimir V. Putin nor the leader of the Wagner mercenary group made public appearances on Sunday, a day after an armed rebellion shook the nation.
A brief revolt by the leader of the Wagner mercenary group was a challenge to the authority of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, the secretary of state said during TV appearances on Sunday.
They bought $30 worth of fentanyl before making it into rehab. One overdosed. The other was charged in his death.
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the paramilitary Wagner Group, has been driven to fury by a mismanaged war in Ukraine. He turned on his creator, before apparently reversing course.
Gaps in campaign rules allow politicians to spread images and messaging generated by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology.
A previously unnoticed change in Donald Trump’s online fund-raising appeals allows him to divert a sizable chunk of his 2024 contributions to a group that has spent millions to cover his legal fees.
A contentious New York City policy to send more mentally ill homeless people to hospitals has helped some move into permanent homes.
Former President Donald J. Trump told an evangelical gathering that no president had done more for Christians than he did.
The information was considered both solid and alarming because of the possibility that a major nuclear-armed rival of the United States could descend into chaos.
The information was considered both solid and alarming because of the possibility that a major nuclear-armed rival of the United States could descend into chaos.
The leader of the Wagner mercenary group had kept a low profile for years, only acknowledging his force’s existence in September of last year.
After right-wing activists portrayed a Pride event in Franklin, Tenn., as a threat to children, the small city unexpectedly found itself at the center of a backlash.
Investigators boarded the Polar Prince, which docked at the Atlantic headquarters of the Canadian Coast Guard, looking for answers.
The video app drives streams on Spotify and influences the Billboard charts. Years after she broke through as a musician, the singer is gaining new fans, one viral dance soundtrack at a time.
For anti-abortion activists, the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision eliminating the national right to abortion is festive, but also a time to acknowledge challenges.
For anti-abortion activists, the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision eliminating the national right to abortion is festive, but also a time to acknowledge challenges.
A year after the end of Roe v. Wade, Biden administration officials are working with a limited set of tools, including executive orders and the bully pulpit, to galvanize supporters on abortion rights.
The Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade has produced some unexpected legal and political changes, as well as a shift in public opinion.
After his early astronaut dreams were cut short, Stockton Rush was determined to open up underwater exploration and saw his company as the “SpaceX for the ocean.”
Mr. Prigozhin has risen from a businessmen known as President Vladimir V. Putin’s ‘chef’ to a symbol of wartime Russia, controlling a private army operating from Ukraine to Central African Republic.
At least five telecommunications companies have blocked the service, which aggregates news from various sources, according to an analysis from NetBlocks, an internet observatory.
Social scientists are just beginning to understand who is purchasing firearms and how gun ownership may alter behavior.
In a murder-for-hire conspiracy trial, the majority allowed a defendant’s confession implicating a co-defendant to be used, with limitations.
The guidelines, setting priorities for which unauthorized immigrants should be detained, were blocked by a federal judge in Texas.
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, who leads the private Wagner force, has been scathing of Russia’s military leadership for months, but the 30-minute video he released on Friday took his criticism to a new level.
After hearing a loud cracking sound during the dive, the expert, Karl Stanley, emailed OceanGate’s C.E.O., Stockton Rush, to urge him to hold off on future trips.
An ecosystem of true believers is promoting a tale of persecution rather than prosecution that has migrated to the heart of presidential politics.
A record-breaking heat wave is expected to worsen through the weekend as it spreads through nearby states.
The International African American Museum, in a former slave port, is about more than slavery. It’s about survival and resilience.
The previously unreported shipments between a state-owned Chinese company and a Russian munitions factory last year raise new questions about Beijing’s role in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
New and extensive polling shows public opinion increasingly supports legal abortion, with potential political consequences for 2024.
The arrival of new units could be pivotal. But progress has been slow for Ukraine in the early stage of its counteroffensive.
A team of researchers verified a key measurement from a study earlier this year that had faced doubts from other scientists.
The writer’s lawyers are going after him again for defamation, but is there an award high enough to keep the former president from saying what he wants to?
The vast multinational search for the missing submersible ended after pieces of it were found on the ocean floor, 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic.
Wembanyama, the 19-year-old French basketball star, had been perhaps the most-hyped prospect since LeBron James.
On board the submersible were the founder of the company that operates the vessel; a British businessman and explorer; a British father and teenage son from a prominent Pakistani family; and a French maritime expert.
Two senior Navy officials said the information was shared with the Coast Guard official in charge of the search. But without certainty of a disaster, one said, the search continued.
If Judge Aileen Cannon sticks to her initial decision to hold the trial in Fort Pierce, Fla., the jury would be drawn largely from counties that Donald Trump won handily in his previous campaigns.
Under the guise of pomp and pageantry, state visits can be a chance to push foreign dignitaries to align with American interests.
The deal followed an agreement by Chemours, DuPont and Corteva to pay $1.19 billion to help resolve claims that the chemical manufacturers contaminated drinking water across the country.
Paul, who has spent the past three seasons in Phoenix, is expected to be traded to Washington and then to Golden State.
The “Titanic” director and diving expert said he’d had concerns from the start about the vehicle’s hull composition and claims about its network of hull sensors.
More than 380 guests were invited, including government officials, business leaders, fashion designers and prominent Indian Americans.
The Florida governor did say he would “respect the outcome” of the primaries while Donald Trump has refused to commit to backing the party’s 2024 nominee if the former president falls short.
Yeonmi Park’s account of the horrors of North Korea made her a human rights celebrity. Her new claims that America is on the same path have made her a right-wing media star.
The attack damaged a bridge in the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula that Moscow uses to resupply its forces in Ukraine.
Missing from Chris Christie’s campaign stop: Republicans who are leaning toward Donald J. Trump but open to an alternative.
“We must never sacrifice human rights at the altar of political expediency,” four of the protesting House members said, objecting to the Indian leader’s human rights record.
Mr. Santos, a first-term G.O.P. congressman, had tried to keep the names of the people who guaranteed his $500,000 bond sealed, but two judges rejected his efforts.
The Indian prime minister and his staff have tightly controlled his message and media availability. His appearance with Biden at a White House conference was a notable departure.
Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist who has been based in Russia for years, was arrested in March and charged with spying, which he denies.
Allowing Moscow to place tactical nuclear weapons on its soil is just the latest sign of its loss of sovereignty to the Kremlin, military experts and pro-democracy activists say.
Six opinionated writers debate — and define — the state of L.G.B.T.Q. writing in order to make a list of the most essential works of fiction, poetry and drama right now.
India’s politicians need a lot of time to attend to 1.4 billion people. And with corruption widespread, those without families are often seen as less likely to steal.
President Biden will host Prime Minister Narendra Modi for meetings and a state dinner, only the third since Mr. Biden took office two and a half years ago.
The visit has big implications for U.S.-India relations as President Biden seeks to shore up an alliance against Russia’s aggression and China’s economic influence.
The Biden administration is exploring whether it can mount a campaign against Chinese tech giants like Alibaba and Huawei, potentially fueling tensions with Beijing.
Thousands of people were without power in the state, and days of sweltering temperatures are expected to put further strain on resources there and in Texas.
The move by the G.O.P.-led House was the first in what could be a series of votes seeking to punish those whom Republicans have deemed enemies of the party.
Like former President Trump, the former analyst was accused of violating the Espionage Act, taking home hundreds of classified documents and being unhelpful.
A two-day camp trains current and former basketball players in the lucrative art of broadcasting, podcasting and throwing verbal bombs on camera.
Like a rider wrestling a bull beneath bright lights, reconciling national narratives is not a pastime for the faint of heart.
A dive in Alvin, a three-person submersible, revealed not only an alien world but why people engage in such risky pursuits.
The Wall Street Journal made the unusual decision to let Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. pre-empt ProPublica’s article about him in its opinion pages.
The Agriculture Department granted approval to cultivated meat producers for the first time in the United States, representing a watershed moment for the alternative protein industry.
Seeking to bolster morale and Western support, President Volodymyr Zelensky and his aides say that the slow progress of Ukraine’s counteroffensive is to be expected.
Daniel Rodriguez, whom the judge called a “one-man army of hate,” received one of the stiffest sentences so far in the Justice Department’s investigation of the Capitol riot.
Through Beauty 2 the Streetz, Shirley Raines helps those without a home by administering a little “spiritual C.P.R.” Millions watch on TikTok.
Mr. Ellsberg took issue with how the newspaper portrayed his role, and how he was treated by the project’s primary reporter.
There may be less than a day’s worth of breathable air left in the Titan, limiting the window for possible rescue of the five people on board.
Critics say a fierce law-and-order approach could undermine public health goals and advances in addiction treatment.
In an opinion essay in The Wall Street Journal, the justice disputed a ProPublica report, saying he was not required to disclose the trip or recuse himself from his benefactor’s cases.
Rent-stabilized apartments have enabled many people to stay in a city that grows ever more expensive. But for the second year in a row, rents are set to rise.
The results are the federal government’s last major data release on the academic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, is set to tell House lawmakers that most central bank officials expect rates to rise further.
The rate, which had been expected to edge lower in May, shows that Britain’s cost-of-living crisis persists, and is likely to prompt the Bank of England to raise interest rates again.
India’s fast-growing economy is drawing American corporate giants, even as the country faces scrutiny over ties to Russia and limits on political freedoms.
At a campaign fund-raiser, the president said China’s leader was “very embarrassed” to be kept in the dark about the surveillance craft that was shot down after crossing American airspace.
Inflation has come down from its 2022 heights, but economists are worried about its stubbornness.
The Indian leader, who visits Washington this week, has softened his image at home with an old-fashioned radio show, which feeds a vast social media apparatus.
Wartime fears closed the Ukrainian city’s famed beaches last year, but crowds were starting to return — until the destruction of a faraway dam dumped debris and dangers into the Black Sea.
The president who declared “the battle between democracy and autocracy” to be the defining struggle of his time has concluded that he needs to accept some imperfect but important friends.
Book bans, chatbots, pedagogical warfare: What it means to read has become a minefield.
The evolution of the Republican Party under the influence of former President Donald J. Trump calls into question a post-Watergate norm.
City leaders are racing to regulate battery-powered mobility devices, which have been the source of over 100 fires so far this year.
“You just drop like a stone for two and a half hours,” said a writer for “The Simpsons” who made the trip to the Titanic wreckage.
Experts inside and outside the company warned of potential dangers and urged the company to undergo a certification process.
The case had been closely watched as an important test of whether bans on transition care for minors, enacted by more than a dozen states, could withstand challenges.
The attorney general has confronted an unrelenting succession of politically sensitive investigations, underlining the intensely polarized environment he is operating in.
Under an agreement with the Justice Department, the president’s son agreed to probation for filing his taxes late, and he can avoid a charge that he lied about his drug use when he bought a gun.
Hunter Biden’s sentencing agreement put him in the cross-hairs of President Biden’s adversaries once again.
Congressional Republicans accused President Biden of orchestrating a lenient penalty for his son, while Democrats argued that bringing any charges reflected the Justice Department’s independence.
In an era of expertly manicured fields and shared knowledge among groundskeepers, crews have an unexpected tool in their arsenal: the ban on infield shifts.
The Constitution and American law have clear answers for only some of the questions that would arise. Others would bring the country into truly uncharted territory.
The judge, Aileen M. Cannon, set an aggressive schedule for moving the case forward, though the proceedings are likely to be delayed by pretrial clashes.
A British businessman and explorer, a British father and son from a prominent Pakistani family, and a French maritime expert are among the five-person crew on the Titan.
Our biased attention means we’ll always feel like we’re living in dark times, and our biased memory means we’ll always feel like the past was brighter.
The secretary of state’s talks with Xi Jinping raised hopes that the world’s two biggest economies might stabilize relations, but the big challenges were not resolved.
Ukrainian captives released in prisoner exchanges say that beatings were common, and that they suffered from woefully inadequate health care and food.
The largest study of chronic traumatic encephalopathy to date found that the cumulative force of head hits absorbed by players in their careers is the best predictor of future brain disease.
A Guinness World Record-holding British explorer and a businessman and his son from a prominent Pakistani family are among the five-person crew on the Titan.
The Chinese tech giant says its top leader, Daniel Zhang, will make way for two long-serving executives: Joseph Tsai takes over as chairman and Eddie Yongming Wu becomes chief executive.
Xi Jinping and nationalistic Chinese see recent U.S. actions as an effort to contain another superpower rather than compete with it — and they’re pushing back.
The historic ruling has hurt the party electorally, but G.O.P. lawmakers are still moving to pass more restrictive laws. These two realities represent the defining political fallout of the end of Roe v. Wade.
U.S. and Canadian crews are searching for the 22-foot vessel that set off on Sunday morning with five people on board to explore the Titanic shipwreck site off Newfoundland — and hasn’t been heard from since.
The state has begun emptying hotels of about 2,800 homeless people living there as part of a pandemic-era program — and offering them tents — after federal funding ran out.
The approach known as Housing First has long enjoyed bipartisan support. But conservatives are pushing efforts to replace it with programs that put more emphasis on sobriety and employment.
The next stage of getting workers back at their desks includes incentives like $10 to the charity of their choice — and consequences like poor performance evaluations if they don’t make the trek in.
It’s no surprise that this sports talk show is an indispensable source of chatter about sports. What’s weird is how good it is at talking about politics and race.
The reduction in the rates, which are used to set corporate loans and home mortgages, signal concern that the country’s post-pandemic rebound is stalling.
Details of the former president’s agreement to work with a Saudi firm to develop a hotel and golf complex overlooking the Gulf of Oman highlight the ways his business and political roles intersect.
Hamish Harding holds several Guinness World Records, including one for the longest time spent traversing the deepest part of the ocean on a single dive.
Contradictions in the Coast Guard’s account cast new doubts over how the Greeks handled one of the worst maritime disasters in the country’s history.
Officials say more than 100 Pakistanis were among those killed when a fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized in deep Mediterranean waters. The death toll of the disaster is expected to rise.
Policymakers and investors expected China’s economy to rev up again after Beijing abruptly dropped Covid precautions, but recent data shows alarming signs of a slowdown.
Former President Donald J. Trump has said that until Republicans gain power and can change the law, they have “no choice” but to support voting by mail.
This week the two countries will restart government consultations after a pandemic hiatus, but amid the war in Ukraine and rising U.S., Chinese tensions, common ground may be elusive.
In California, Bay Area Rapid Transit has suffered so much that it needs a state bailout — and possibly a new business model.
The unexpected polling strength of an anti-vaccine activist with a celebrated Democratic lineage points to the president’s weaknesses, which his team is aiming to shore up.
La crisis financiera argentina tiene un efecto secundario sorprendente: un floreciente panorama gastronómico en Buenos Aires, ya que los residentes se apresuran a gastar pesos antes de que pierdan más valor.
Argentina’s financial crisis has a surprising side effect: a flourishing dining scene in Buenos Aires, as residents rush to spend pesos before they lose more value.
A failed plot to assassinate a C.I.A. spy in 2020 in part led to expulsions of the agency’s chief in Moscow and his Russian counterpart in Washington.
Some of the weapons sent to Ukraine by other countries have been unusable, and hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts paid up front have yet to be fulfilled.
The talks between Antony J. Blinken, the secretary of state, and Wang Yi, Beijing’s top foreign policy official, were a prelude to an expected meeting with China’s leader, Xi Jinping.
Kyiv said Sunday that its forces had destroyed the facility in a Russian-occupied area of the south, where Ukraine has been fighting to recapture territory.
Kyle Roche was a rising star in the field of cryptocurrency law — until his career imploded. Who orchestrated his downfall?
Several counties have banned recreation on rivers that flow from the Sierra Nevada because of swift currents and fatalities.
The past week appears to provide a blueprint for the way the White House wants to handle the politically touchy subject of former President Donald J. Trump’s legal troubles.
Tension between the city and its surrounding areas over issues like crime, immigration and congestion pricing has grown since the pandemic.
While the world’s eyes were on the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and China, the paths to prosperity and shared interests have grown murkier.
Ingrid Lewis-Martin may be the second most powerful person in New York City government. But her views, leadership style and ethics have raised questions.
At 44, he is more than three decades younger than Donald Trump and Joe Biden. He is subtly playing up that age gap, even if his right-wing views leave him out of step with many younger voters.
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida avoided mentioning Donald Trump at a G.O.P. fund-raiser in Nevada, but he took clear aim at the former president.
The Justice Department’s devastating findings left the city searching for next steps. Some residents found little closure.
The Minneapolis Police may agree to court-enforced federal oversight. Experts say it can lead to improvements, though defining success can be difficult.
After meeting with the Africans, including some who have close ties to Moscow, President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested that their peace plans were unrealistic.
The city said it would try to negotiate a court-enforced consent decree with the federal government that would require an overhaul of its police force.
In Minneapolis and elsewhere, the movement faltered after crime surged and activists failed to build broad support for a goal that lacked a clear definition.
By claiming to be in control at a pivotal moment, critics say, he can no longer pass any military failures off on others.
Deeply disturbed by the accounting of American deceit in Vietnam, he approached The New York Times. The disclosures that followed rocked the nation.
The key findings in the report echo complaints that some Minneapolis residents have made for years. The report could lead to a court-enforced consent decree.
Greek authorities blamed smugglers for a disaster that may have been one of the worst of its kind. Critics say tougher policies are increasing the risks.
The report, released Friday, is the result of a multiyear investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department following the death of George Floyd in 2020.
Moves this week to oust women from church leadership in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination offer an early look into the psyche of evangelical America ahead of 2024.
Jurors will next hear arguments about whether Robert Bowers should be sentenced to death.
Jack Smith has taken an iron-fist-in-a-kid-glove approach, sidestepping secondary issues that could divert attention from the weight of the evidence he has assembled in his case against the former president.
On the short-form video app, long-established facts about the 1912 disaster at sea are being newly litigated as musty rumors merge with fresh misinformation and manipulated content.
Most Republicans still support Trump. But the polls still suggest the federal indictment is hurting him.
Jack Teixeira, 21, could face up to 60 years in prison after being indicted on six counts of retaining and transmitting classified national defense information.
The former president has long stowed papers and odds and ends in cartons that he liked to keep close. His aides have called it the “beautiful mind” material.
Judge Aileen Cannon gave the defense team until Tuesday to begin the process, underscoring how classified information will be fundamental to the trial.
In soaring opinions steeped in history, Justice Gorsuch has demonstrated a distinctive dedication to Native American rights.
At issue in the case was whether a law aimed at keeping Native American adoptees within tribes is constitutional.
Conservatives with close ties to Donald J. Trump are laying out a “paradigm-shifting” legal rationale to erase the Justice Department’s independence from the president.
Calls for retribution were plentiful after the former president’s indictments, but the demonstrations proved tame, a possible result of the aggressive prosecution of the Jan. 6 rioters.
The former president is surrounded by people who have provided testimony and evidence to federal investigators. He’s not supposed to discuss the case with any of them.
The talks reflect a resumption of diplomacy between the United States and Iran after the collapse of negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear deal.
Donald J. Trump, who is under indictment, is trying to undermine the American justice system by lashing out at his successor.
Central bankers have raised rates at the fastest pace since the 1980s, but now they’re taking time to survey how the changes are working.
At Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker, he polished the work of a who’s who of mid-to-late 20th century writers.
The banks at the center of the recent crisis, like Western Alliance, are engaged in collective soul-searching.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon, under scrutiny for past rulings favoring the former president, has presided over only a few criminal cases that went to trial.
Savers benefit from higher rates, but borrowers have faced bigger bills on credit cards, student loans and other forms of debt.
An all-indictment, all-the-time news diet could swallow the summer, denying attention to other Republican candidates who need it like oxygen.
The onscreen text appeared Tuesday beneath split-screen footage of President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump, who had been charged with federal crimes hours earlier.
The federal prosecution of the former president should play out much like any other criminal proceeding, but against the backdrop of the political calendar.
Some members of the military alliance want to set a timetable for Ukraine to join, though only after the war is no longer raging.
Donald J. Trump, now twice indicted since leaving the White House, surrendered to federal authorities in Miami and pleaded not guilty, striking a defiant tone afterward.
On the calendar for the Republicans’ 2024 front-runner: rallies and primaries mixed with court dates.
The former president and the special counsel were 20 feet from each other. But they exchanged not a word during their first, nearly hourlong encounter.
Keechant Sewell walked into Mayor Eric Adams’ office unannounced on Monday and told him she would be leaving. No one but her closest aides saw it coming.
El padre de dos de los sobrevivientes dijo que la familia temía que los niños fueran reclutados.
Who can forget Woods’s U.S. Open win by 15 strokes at Pebble Beach in 2000, or his 19-hole playoff in 2008 at Torrey Pines? “It does feel wrong that he’s not here,” his fellow Californian Max Homa says.
Russia attacked Ukrainian troops near villages in Ukraine’s south on the same day that Russian missiles killed at least 11 people and that President Vladimir V. Putin acknowledged some Russian losses.
The father of two of the survivors said the family had feared the children would be recruited by a violent armed group.
Golfers competing in Los Angeles this week were caught off guard by the news that the PGA Tour and LIV had planned to join forces. Now they have to try to win a major.
The measure urging Moscow to release Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested on assignment, and Paul Whelan, a former Marine, earned the unanimous backing of the House.
McCarthy applied a stark, merciless vision to his stories of misfits and the apocalypse. Here’s where to start with his work.
The boat capsized on the Niger River at night, when many passengers were returning from a wedding party.
The Coens and Ridley Scott are among the directors who took big swings at the novelist’s work. The distinctive writer left his mark on the big screen.
Those challenging Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the far right are violating a longstanding House tradition, fundamentally changing the nature of the chamber in ways that point to major dysfunction ahead.
The restrictions placed on the two men are common for co-defendants in a criminal matter, but they could be particularly challenging to uphold given that Walt Nauta’s job is Mr. Trump’s personal aide.
For decades, the soon-to-retire “Wheel of Fortune” host was … just there. That was the whole point of him.
Despite the drawbacks of turning to artificial intelligence in medicine, some physicians find that ChatGPT improves their ability to communicate empathetically with patients.
“All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” were among his acclaimed books that explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders.
Some conservatives in the evangelical denomination fear a liberal drift, and are set to vote on a strict ban against women in church leadership. Two churches are appealing their expulsions.
Spending on hotels, airline tickets and dinners surged after the pandemic. This summer could mark a shift back to normal.
Thousands of Indian women have been abandoned by men working overseas, leaving them trapped in their in-laws’ homes and often defrauded of dowry money.
Outnumbered, outgunned, out-tanked, Ukraine is putting up a scrappy defense of Marinka, another city near Bakhmut that is a few blocks from falling.
More than 200 planes from 25 countries gathered in Germany for the largest-scale war games in decades, held with an eye on the war in Ukraine.
Ms. Sewell, who was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams in 2022, announced her decision on Monday. She did not provide a reason for her departure.
South Africa is accused of helping supply Russia with weapons for the Ukraine war, a charge that South Africa denies.
The former president has already tested a variety of arguments to challenge his indictment in the classified documents case. They could be hard to sustain in court.
Republican rebels who blocked action in the House for the past week said they would allow votes on Tuesday, but warned that they would wrest control of the floor again unless leaders met their demands.
The increase, which requires app-based delivery workers to be paid $17.96 per hour before tips, is the first such minimum wage in the country for an industry that has exploded in popularity.
Military analysts said it would take weeks or months to gauge the success of the attacks Ukraine mounted last week across a broad stretch of the front lines.
The former prime minister of Italy reveled in the spotlight, even when it shined on him for causing offense.
Sixteen young people argue that the state is robbing their future by embracing policies that contribute to climate change.
Whether as a politician or media tycoon, the former prime minister and businessman who died Monday at 86, left an imprint, or a bruise, on just about everything he touched.
Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, has become a viral sensation for his absurd acts of altruism. Why do so many people think he’s evil?
The complicated feelings among some residents about Mr. Trump and the case against him reflect the complicated politics of the state.
More than 250 aircraft from 24 NATO countries and Japan will participate in a two-week military exercise.
Some details of former President Donald J. Trump’s court appearance in Miami in the documents case are not yet clear, including whether he will be photographed and have his fingerprints taken.
He introduced sex and glamour to Italian TV and then brought the same formula to politics, dominating the country and its culture for more than 20 years.
Attacks from Ukraine have killed at least a dozen Russian civilians and displaced thousands. But they have not fundamentally changed the calculus for Vladimir Putin.
M. Evan Corcoran, who was hired to represent the former president after the Justice Department issued a subpoena for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, could be a key witness in the trial.
The candidates challenging Donald Trump have to decide how to run against the indicted former president. And it could determine where the party goes from here.
The agreement to remake a global game stunned most of the sporting world after seven weeks of clandestine negotiations.
Donald J. Trump delivered his first post-indictment public remarks on Saturday at the state G.O.P. conventions in Georgia and North Carolina, as his federal indictment dominates the political landscape.
The former president’s allies have portrayed the indictment as an act of war and called for retribution, which political violence experts say increases the risk of action.
The man known as the “Unabomber” had been transferred to a federal prison medical center in 2021 after more than 25 years at a maximum security facility.
The domestic terrorist, who evaded authorities for almost 20 years, killed three people and injured 23 others with his homemade bombs.
The chief clerk of the courts for the Southern District of Florida added that Judge Aileen M. Cannon had been randomly assigned to the case.
Alone in a shack in the Montana wilderness, he fashioned homemade bombs and launched a violent one-man campaign to destroy industrial society.
As waters from the flooding of a burst dam began to recede, Ukrainian forces were trying to break through stout Russian defenses in the south and east.
Allies and rivals alike, beholding the messiness of America, must calculate the risks and opportunities in the latest plot twist in Donald Trump’s legal troubles.
The former president’s efforts to defend against multiple felony counts by discrediting law enforcement pose a grave challenge to democracy.
La sociedad española se ha visto sacudida durante años por la filtración de audios secretos de José Manuel Villarejo, otrora agente de inteligencia. Esta es la historia que me contó.
The former British prime minister, who resigned from Parliament on Friday, has found his way back into voters’ good graces before. But analysts say there is now almost no plausible path back to power for him.
Ukraine is using its new arsenal of Western tanks and armored vehicles in what is expected to be one of the largest military operations in Europe since World War II.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has repeatedly leveraged Saudi Arabia’s wealth and influence to overcome international condemnation of the kingdom’s human rights violations.
For years, Spanish society has been rocked by revelations from the secret tapes of José Manuel Villarejo Pérez, a former intelligence agent now facing prison. He told me his story.
The “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress is beloved in Hollywood. In supporting her husband’s campaign, is she normalizing his often dangerous ideas?
Researchers and industry leaders have warned that A.I. could pose an existential risk to humanity. But they’ve been light on the details.
After four students were stabbed to death in a house near a college campus, investigators scooped up data and forensic evidence, hoping for leads. A new DNA technique finally brought a breakthrough.
The charging document offers some possible hints but does not establish that the former president had a goal beyond simply possessing the material.
Many experts on artificial intelligence are warning of its potential dangers and calling for regulation, just as others once did with the atomic bomb.
The tally of how many jobs will be “affected by” world-changing technology is different depending on who you ask.
Rescuers had been searching for the children — aged 13, 9, 4 and 1 — ever since they survived a plane crash that killed the three adults on board.
The indictment details evidence that the former president placed national security secrets in jeopardy and schemed to thwart the investigation into the matter.
The accounts in the 49-page indictment provide compelling evidence of a shocking indifference toward some of the country’s most sensitive secrets.
Provincial firefighting agencies are stretched thin, there is no national agency and it’s hard to get approval for controlled burns — factors that have exacerbated recent outbreaks.
The indictment said the former president had illegally kept documents concerning “United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.”
Military analysts and U.S. officials said it was too soon to judge the success of Ukraine’s offensive, which is looking for weaknesses to exploit, in the face of fierce resistance.
The former prime minister quit after getting a confidential report about whether he had lied to lawmakers about lockdown-breaking parties.
The indictment said the former president had illegally kept documents concerning “United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.”
Mr. Santos, a New York representative, said his relatives had helped guarantee his bail, but asked a judge to keep their names sealed out of privacy concerns.
Nate Paul, the real estate investor at the center of the impeachment case against the attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, has been jailed at the request of the F.B.I.
Canada’s devastating fires and toxic smoke might not recur every year, but the heat from climate change increases the risks of a wide range of disasters.
The implosion of Three Arrows Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund, devastated the industry. Its two founders spent the next year surfing, meditating and traveling the world.
A review of archives suggests that efforts to protect Earth from contamination by any organism brought back from the lunar surface were mostly for show.
More companies are pushing low-calorie, sugar-free beverages they say are healthy. Some servings have nearly the same level of caffeine as a six-pack of Coca-Cola.
The indictment, handed up by a grand jury in Miami, is the first time a former U.S. president has faced federal charges.
It was a more familiar drill this time for the former president, his aides and allies, who cranked their political spin machine and fund-raising operation into action.
The former president assailed Hillary Clinton for her handling of sensitive information. Now, the same issue threatens his chances of reclaiming the presidency.
The seven counts against the former president include conspiracy to obstruct, willful retention of documents and false statements, according to people familiar with the indictment. He said he would surrender to the authorities on Tuesday.
A decision that said Alabama’s congressional voting maps were detrimental to Black voters was celebrated by advocates — and could mean changes to voting in other states.
The Justice Department has spent months trying to ensure it had obtained all classified documents that may have ended up at Mar-a-Lago.
The former president is stepping up efforts to delegitimize the investigation into his handling of classified material after leaving office, a tactic he has used throughout his career in business and politics.
The case, a trademark dispute, pitted Jack Daniel’s against Bad Spaniels Silly Squeakers, which looks like the distiller’s distinctive bottle and adds potty humor.
Voting rights advocates had feared that the decision about redistricting in Alabama would undermine the Voting Rights Act, which instead appeared to emerge unscathed.
Ukraine’s interior ministry said that eight people were injured in an attack near an evacuation point where medics, emergency workers and rescue teams have been gathering.
A vast fungal web braids together life on Earth. Merlin Sheldrake wants to help us see it.
A Baptist minister and a broadcaster, he turned evangelicals into a powerful constituency that helped Republicans capture Congress in 1994. He had earlier run for president.
The notice from the office of the special counsel Jack Smith suggested that an indictment was on the horizon in the investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents.
Members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus refused to surrender control of the floor, forcing G.O.P. leaders to scrap votes for the week and leaving the speaker facing what he conceded was “chaos.”
“We were getting used to the shelling, but I’ve never seen a situation like this,” said one woman rescued in Kherson after a dam upstream was destroyed.
The government has avoided default, but the effects of the debt-ceiling brinkmanship may still ripple across the economy.
The flights to California illustrate the broader bet Gov. Ron DeSantis has made that the animating energy in the G.O.P. has shifted from conservatism to confrontationalism.
It was unclear on Wednesday how Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, would respond to the legislation, or if his input would make a difference.
As rescue efforts plucked people from rooftops, and offered fresh water and shelter, Turkey’s president called for an international investigation into what caused a dam to fail.
Stay indoors tonight and listen to New Orleans jazz. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
The justices asked for extensions to file annual forms that detail gifts, travel and real estate holdings.
Mr. Zaslav, the head of Warner Bros. Discovery, must find a new leader who shares his vision for the network and can figure out its financial future.
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida criticized immigration policies in his first visit to the border since beginning his presidential bid.
The low-fi “Tucker on Twitter” finds the former prime-time host at the intersection of Fox News and Fox Mulder.
Days after he announced he would not return to Paris St.-Germain, Messi, Argentina’s World Cup hero, said he planned his next stop to be Inter Miami of M.L.S.
Residents said complaints about the apartment building in Davenport went unaddressed, and they questioned why the city did not intervene more aggressively.
The decision to fund medications to treat H.I.V.-AIDS patients in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean flew in the face of expert advice. But the U.S. did it anyway.
A press-in-the-pan shortbread crust and an easy lemon curd filling make this stunning pastry a snap to bake.
The ceremony honoring Broadway’s top shows and performers will take place at the majestic former “Wonder Theater” in Washington Heights.
The PGA Tour’s merger with LIV is the perfect union of the tour’s lack of principle and LIV’s paucity of character.
An agreement to merge LIV Golf with the PGA Tour is the latest step in the kingdom’s push to become a global force beyond oil.
Hundreds of wildfires are burning nationwide, expanding a sense of unease in the country as thick smoke billowed over Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.
Analysts said the countries’ mutual need to keep energy prices high would help them maintain close ties, despite signs that Moscow has undercut previous deals.
In a city full of great pizza, Andrew Bellucci was New York’s “original pizza nerd.” After he died suddenly, admirers gathered to remember his wild life.
At his New Hampshire kickoff, the former New Jersey governor called Donald Trump “a bitter, angry man” and said his time in office was a failure.
A spokeswoman for the Florida Division of Emergency Management said that the migrants’ relocation to Sacramento had been “voluntary.”
In a stunning announcement, the tour, along with the DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, said the rivals had agreed to create a “new, collectively owned, for-profit entity.”
The new alliance between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf is the latest example of how the former president’s relationship with Saudi Arabia has yielded gains, and criticism, for both.
With Russia and Ukraine blaming each other for the collapse of the Kakhovka dam, experts say that an external attack or even structural failure might explain the disaster, but that it is not likely.
Legal questions have been raised about migrant flights Florida chartered to Sacramento and Martha’s Vineyard. But state officials say they were voluntary, and proving otherwise could be tough.
Experts suspect an explosion collapsed the dam on the Dnipro River. Kyiv and Moscow blamed each other, and residents downstream were forced to evacuate to escape the cascading waves.
The two men had a relationship that could be genuinely warm, and at other times transactional. Now they are vying for the presidency in open hostility.
Mr. Christie, a onetime star presidential recruit who finished in sixth place in New Hampshire in 2016, has become a fierce Trump critic.
Mr. Meadows, the final White House chief of staff under Donald Trump, is seen as a potentially key witness in the documents and Jan. 6 inquiries.
Many Ukrainians have learned to live with occupation and shelling. On Tuesday a new menace began lapping at their doors.
Prosecutors have started calling witnesses to a federal grand jury in Miami after months in which activity in the investigation was centered on a separate grand jury in Washington.
The U.K. news landscape has shifted since the prince says he was hacked more than a decade ago, with hefty legal settlements, prison time for journalists and the threat of regulation forcing change.
A dam in southern Ukraine was split in half, but it is unclear who caused the damage. Thousands are being evacuated as dangerous volumes of water gush downstream.
The prince is getting his day in court as he takes on the tabloids that scrutinized his every move for years, even hacking his phone.
Assaults on trenches can be stealthy, or deafeningly loud. Either way, they are nerve-racking. Here’s how one Ukrainian unit says it carried out a successful attack earlier this month.
The former New Jersey governor’s presidential bid is a long shot. But if he takes out Donald J. Trump along the way, Chris Christie may consider it a victory.
For months, U.S. officials said cross-border operations risked a dangerous escalation. But those fears have ebbed.
Kyiv has not formally announced the start of operations. But Russia said that major Ukrainian attacks had begun in the Donetsk region and that it had repelled the assaults and inflicted casualties.
President Biden hosted Mette Frederiksen, the prime minister of Denmark, at the White House on Monday, and much of the discussion revolved around providing support to Kyiv.
Troops’ use of patches bearing Nazi emblems risks fueling Russian propaganda and spreading imagery that the West has spent a half-century trying to eliminate.
Each year we photograph Tony nominees, and talk with them about their craft. This year we focused on actors.
In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, handing a tough challenge to its new chief executive.
Pandemic aid was supposed to help students recover from learning loss, but results have been mixed.
Train travel in the country has gotten much safer, Friday’s disaster notwithstanding, but the government still puts high-profile projects ahead of basic safety improvements, analysts say.
Officials suggested human error, even sabotage, could have led to the crash that killed 275, as crews raced to restore service and families struggled to reach the site to identify loved ones.
The curriculum for young Russians is increasingly emphasizing patriotism and the heroism of Moscow’s army, while demonizing the West as “gangsters.” One school features a “sniper”-themed math class.
With single-party statehouse control at its highest level in decades, legislators across much of the country leaned into cultural issues and bulldozed the opposition.
With cross-border strikes, residents of the Russian region of Belgorod are starting to understand the horrors of war being waged at their doorstep.
The blast in the Zaporizhzhia region of southern Ukraine killed a cafe owner who was registered to run in elections seen as an attempt to legitimize Moscow’s illegal annexation of the area.
After decades when deadly accidents were frequent, train travel in India has grown far safer in recent years, with government investing heavily in the vast rail network.
The disaster, which officials said had involved three trains, had a stark toll even given India’s history of deadly crashes.
The president and his negotiators believe they worked out a deal that allowed Republicans to claim big spending cuts even as the reality was far more modest.
The rail disaster, in the eastern state of Odisha, was among the deadliest in a nation with a history of rail safety problems.
The president addressed the nation from the Oval Office on Friday evening, after congressional passage of legislation to prevent economic calamity.
Negotiations to prevent a government default reaffirmed that the big drivers of future deficits are all off the table in a divided Washington.
Federal Reserve officials are expected to leave rates unchanged at their June 13-14 meeting. Fresh jobs data might make the choice harder.
A fight over a proposed chain store is also about what “country” means to different people in a small community.
Fighting for change has cost Narges Mohammadi her career, separated her from family and deprived her of liberty. But a jail cell has not succeeded in silencing her.
The mental burden of Russia’s invasion has exacted a heavy toll on civilians. As the fighting drags on, pregnant women are among those facing the toughest trials.
They initially reacted enthusiastically to China’s reversal of pandemic restrictions but have since taken a dimmer view of the country’s recovery.
President Biden brokered a debt limit deal by following instincts developed through long, hard and sometimes painful experience in Washington.
The debt-limit legislation includes a provision meant to force both sides to pass additional bills following through on their deal: the threat of automatic cuts if they fail to do so.
A conversation in which the former president is said to have acknowledged that he could not declassify a sensitive document could undercut a defense he has offered.
In what could be a glimpse of the future as climate change batters the West, officials ruled there’s not enough groundwater for projects already approved.
Mr. Trump has been indicted in Manhattan, and federal and state prosecutors elsewhere have opened a number of investigations.
Miami’s strong economy has its mayor weighing a presidential run. But a trial against a city commissioner has exposed some of the city’s less attractive inner workings.
Doctors at the Allina Health System, a wealthy nonprofit in the Midwest, aren’t allowed to see poor patients or children with too many unpaid medical bills.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have sought recordings of calls made by two networks of groups that solicited money from donors for a variety of politically tinged causes.
The C919 jet, made by a state-owned manufacturer, completed its first commercial flight. But Western rivals still supply most of China’s planes.
The New York City mayor has made an art form of telling stories about himself that are nearly impossible to verify, adding fresh details to often-told anecdotes.
Four people died when a storm sank a boat in northern Italy. Then it emerged that 21 of those aboard had worked for Israeli or Italian intelligence, igniting a speculative frenzy.
I watched how corporate greed devoured my father’s life. So the writers’ strike feels personal to me.
The state of manhood has become one more front in our culture wars, a debate that keeps breaking down along political lines, even as men themselves just keep breaking down.
A professor decorated a sidewalk in Georgetown with 10-foot sculptures of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. The well-heeled locals were not pleased.
Leaders of both parties urged quick action to avoid a default, but some senators want to consider changes.
The justices ruled that federal labor law did not block state courts from ruling on a case regarding damage caused when workers walked off the job.
Death investigators in Utah are among a handful of groups trying to learn how many gay and transgender people die by suicide in the United States.
A deal to raise the debt ceiling would require borrowers of federal student loans to resume paying for the first time since early in the pandemic.
Some of the biggest providers of housing for mentally ill and formerly homeless New Yorkers have sued tenants for unpaid rent. While few have been evicted, critics call the process cruel and unnecessary.
China has pushed to set the terms of its re-engagement with the Biden administration, rebuffing a request for a defense meeting while urging Washington to drop sanctions.
In return for the shield, the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma are committed to paying up to $6 billion to help compensate communities and individuals for the ravages of the opioid epidemic.
The directors of this sequel discuss their diverging influences, from Leonardo da Vinci to the movie “Say Anything.”
As candidates like Tim Scott and Nikki Haley bolster their biographies with stories of discrimination, they have often denied the existence of systemic racism in America while describing situations that sound just like it.
In Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial this summer, 31 state senators will decide whether to permanently remove him as Texas attorney general. One is his wife.
Investigators are trying to determine if there was any attempt to obstruct them from getting access to footage from a security camera near the room where classified material was stored.
The European Union is trying to assemble the building blocks to produce electric cars, but subsidies are luring companies to the United States.
After absorbing months of attacks from the former president, the Florida governor is beginning to fire back — but carefully.
Gov. Greg Abbott chose John Scott, a former deputy attorney general, to head the office while Attorney General Ken Paxton faces impeachment charges.
Federal prosecutors obtained the recording as part of their investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents.
The case against a star of the sitcom “That ’70s Show” drew widespread attention because of accusations that the Church of Scientology had tried to discourage his accusers.
The fast-food chain, once a darling of conservatives, has joined other corporations in pursuing diversity, equity and inclusion policies, prompting some on the right to accuse it of going “woke.”
An older law still prohibits most abortions in the state, but it is less strict about exceptions for medical emergencies.
Kremlin officials said Ukraine’s allies should have condemned the strike, and argued again that its real war was with the West.
Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump said the judge, Juan M. Merchan, has ties to Democratic causes and candidates.
Boris Johnson’s misadventures still make headlines, but Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s bigger problem is high inflation and soaring bond yields reminiscent of those that toppled Liz Truss.
A $528 billion plan to clean up 54 million gallons of radioactive bomb-making waste may never be achieved. Government negotiators are looking for a compromise.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vilified gay people during his re-election campaign, calling them a threat to society and rallying conservatives against them. It has left people feeling threatened, and alone.
Most schools rev up for the big game. At the High School of Fashion Industries, it’s the spring fashion show. And this year’s was bigger and sassier than ever.
One of Freddie Mercury’s early drafts, which is being auctioned by Sotheby’s, shows that he crossed out “Mongolian” and substituted the now-famous title.
The largest insurer in California said it would stop offering new coverage. It’s part of a broader trend of companies pulling back from dangerous areas.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy was working to cobble together the votes to push through the compromise he struck with President Biden, as lawmakers in both parties signaled their displeasure with the plan.
The group behind “the Oscars of the food world” created a new process to weed out nominees with problematic pasts. But that process has troubles of its own.
The Texas Republican, who is the policy director for the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, has become the face of Republican opposition to a compromise forged to avert a federal default.
President Biden has been considering ways to challenge the constitutionality of the debt limit to defuse the risk of default.
The investment wave has the potential to drive a more rapid and efficient decarbonization of the economy while increasing the supply of clean energy.
The announcement by the Carter Center came just over three months after it said that Jimmy Carter, 98, had entered hospice care at the couple’s home in Plains, Ga.
Leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.
The disgraced founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos, who was convicted of fraud, turned herself in at a minimum-security prison in Texas.
In winning another term as Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was propelled to victory in part by the fervent support of an often underappreciated constituency — conservative religious women.
The Justice Department is seeking the death penalty for Robert Bowers, the man accused of killing 11 people in 2018.
A visit to the Mikimoto Tatoku Pearl Farm where the culturing process was developed 130 years ago.
Growing Republican opposition threatened the compromise and Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s political standing as he sought to push it through a key committee ahead of a House vote.
Two of the people were thought to still be inside the six-story apartment building in Davenport. More than a dozen people were escorted from the building on Sunday, and nine were rescued.
The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment.
The legislation would prevent President Biden from issuing another last-minute extension on the payments beyond the end of the summer.
Scientists are lugging sophisticated sensors into homes in 10 cities to measure and track the pollution from gas stoves as it drifts from room to room.
So far, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy are the only Republican presidential contenders to weigh in on the recent deal in Washington — but others could yet join them.
Strong reflected on Kendall Roy’s place in his life and in the culture. “Kendall is seen as a try-hard,” he said. “I guess that’s become something to judge or deride.”
He’s trying to show that it really is possible to get out of your car, even in Los Angeles.
After a string of police shootings and abuse in Paterson, N.J., the killing of Najee Seabrooks led the state attorney general to seize control of the department.
Agricultural and energy costs are falling, but basic items remain stubbornly expensive for consumers.
Routine missile tests aren’t generating the headlines he craves, so Kim Jong-un is tapping his daughter’s global star power.
Seven women say that a star columnist groped them or made unwanted sexual advances. But Britain’s news media has a complicated relationship with outing its own.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that at least eight drones had targeted Moscow and the surrounding region.
Plans to build apartments have sparked a fight between progressive newcomers and nostalgic old-timers — with surprising allegiances in a writer’s hometown.
Corporate profits have been bolstered by higher prices even as some of the costs of doing business have fallen in recent months.
A drone attack on Tuesday came after a barrage of missiles on Monday sent schoolchildren running for shelter as explosions echoed across the Ukrainian capital, rare daytime aerial assaults on the city.
The attack followed a rare daytime assault on Monday. Russia has stepped up attacks on the capital this month as Ukraine prepares for a counteroffensive.
Ukraine has charged four members of Russia’s National Guard with war crimes in Kherson. The four acted with such impunity, the authorities say, they did not mask their identities.
Spending caps, additional work requirements for food stamps and a new natural gas pipeline are just several of the components in a deal President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached to prevent default.
Bombarding the power grid has been an essential part of Russia’s invasion, but officials say it would take many more missile strikes to badly damage a wind farm than a power plant.
When a teen’s killing became a right-wing talking point, the rush to outrage obscured a more complicated story.
With low unemployment and above-trend inflation, the economy is well positioned to absorb the modest budget cuts that President Biden and Republicans negotiated.
Andrei Medvedev fought with Russia’s Wagner mercenaries in Ukraine, then requested asylum in Norway. The authorities there must now weigh his plea against solidarity with Ukraine.
With the right and the left up in arms about the agreement in principle reached by the president and the speaker, both sides started to make the case for its quick passage, a tall order in Congress.
The California Democrat is surrounded by a large retinue of aides at all times, who tell her how and when to vote, explain what is going on when she is confused, and shield her from the press and public.
A judge is expected to rule as soon as this week on whether the new law banning “adult cabaret” in front of children is constitutional.
Recent research shows that most pregnancy-related deaths occur in the year after a baby is born. The discovery is changing how doctors care for new mothers.
The deal to raise the debt ceiling bolsters President Biden’s argument that he is committed to bipartisanship, but it comes at the cost of rankling many in his own party.
Ron DeSantis entered the presidential race last week along with Tim Scott, with others to follow. For the former president, the more candidates the better.
Debris from an intercepted drone killed a man overnight as Ukraine said it shot down more than 40 drones over the capital.
Details are trickling out about the accord that could avert a default on the national debt. Here’s what to know.
With the government on track to reach its borrowing limit within days, negotiators sealed an agreement to raise the debt ceiling for two years while cutting and capping certain federal programs.
The intraparty impeachment battle among Texas Republicans punctuated a legislative session marked by divisions, name-calling and discontent among top leaders in the Republican-dominated state
Aderrien Murry suffered numerous injuries, including a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs. His family is demanding that the officer who shot him be fired.
The French filmmaker Justine Triet becomes the third woman to win the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival.
Citizens of three Pacific Island nations, eligible to serve in the U.S. military, find it hard to make use of the health benefits they have earned.
Despite pay increases and efforts to simplify the notoriously difficult swim test, New York’s lifeguard shortage is dire. The city says the lifeguard unions are partly to blame.
Even in African countries that have decriminalized homosexuality, life is not easy for gay people.
A lawyer representing a man who sued an airline relied on artificial intelligence to help prepare a court filing. It did not go well.
Vladimir V. Putin of Russia looks like a commander in absentia, treating the war in Ukraine as unfortunate but distant. His options have narrowed, but he is still betting on outlasting his foes.
The authorities say that cases are up, and one doctor estimates that there could soon be 65 million cases a week. But China appears determined to move on.
Republicans have criticized recent estimates of what Black Americans are owed in reparations. But for Democrats, they pose deeper problems for a party eager to retain the allegiance of Black voters.
Leyner Palacios’s push for dialogue, forgiveness and reconciliation has made him the face of peace in Colombia — and subjected him to death threats.
Why — of all the spectacular creatures with which we share this planet — do birds captivate as no others can?
When it comes to quantifying bias in popular entertainment, the Academy Award winner’s in a league of her own.
Darren Bader is looking to cap a two-decade artistic career by selling something valuable. Not the witty and poetic sculpture he’s known for, but his own name.
Surges of migrants have shaped President Biden’s policies at the border in ways that few of his allies imagined when he was running for president.
New York City officials are casting a wide net as they scramble to house the influx of migrants. The Flatiron Building said no.
Title 42, the rule used to immediately expel migrants, will end this week. U.S. officials expect illegal crossings to increase, placing additional strain on an already overtaxed system.
As the city of Allen mourns victims, authorities examine racist social media posts that they say belonged to the gunman.
The clashes in state capitals have faded, but the Republican push for stricter state election laws is organized and planning for the long term.
The last crisis, in 2011, led to a credit downgrade that sank stocks. This time, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned of a “financial catastrophe.”
As the president prepares to meet with Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week, his budget shares little common ground with spending and tax proposals from House Republicans.
The drumbeat of mass murder has fueled a new openness to gun regulation among some Texans, but it has done little to reshape the political realities in the State Capitol.
The identity and motive of the gunman so far remain a mystery. The shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets left nine people dead, including the suspect.
A police officer on an unrelated assignment nearby rushed toward the sounds of gunfire and killed the gunman.
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin said his mercenaries had been promised the ammunition and equipment they needed and would not have to withdraw from Russia’s fight for the eastern Ukrainian city.
More than 5.5 million people who left after the war began in February 2022 have gone back home — and not just to large cities like Kyiv or Dnipro, but to small places near the front line, as well.
A review of more than two dozen cases shows that in at least one sense, the indictment of the former president stands apart.
Title 42, the policy that has allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants at the southern border, will lift on Thursday. Officials are bracing for a new immigration surge.
The air force said it intercepted the hypersonic missile with a newly delivered U.S.-made Patriot air-defense battery. U.S. officials confirmed the strike.
Britain is crowning King Charles III. Here’s a selection of the best photographs from the coronation weekend.
The lavish ceremony, Britain’s first in 70 years, was brimming with ancient traditions with a few modern touches.
Supporters of an elected head of state for Britain see the coronation as an opportunity to highlight the absurdity of having a royal family in the 21st century.
Processions through central London will bookend a coronation service in Westminster Abbey. King Charles III and other members of the royal family will also make an appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
On May 1, a 24-year-old man named Daniel Penny choked Jordan Neely, 30, to death on a New York City subway train. Mr. Penny has not been charged.
The sentence was delivered the same day prosecutors recommended 25 years in prison for Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy in the attack.
Prosecutors are nearing charging decisions after investigating whether former President Donald J. Trump and his allies illegally meddled in Georgia’s 2020 election.
Experts explain what to do if you feel threatened and how to offer help if the situation calls for it.
In conversations with his associates, Mr. Carlson has expressed interest in getting back to work before the agreement expires.
The bill would allow approved development agreements for Walt Disney World to be voided. The company has already sued the governor over the issue.
U.S. national security officials are warning about the potential for the new technology to upend war, cyber conflict and — in the most extreme case — the use of nuclear weapons.
In an announcement on Friday, the head of the beleaguered agency said she would step down in June. “We made this world a safer place,” she said.
Employers added 253,000 jobs in April and unemployment fell to 3.4 percent, but the labor market’s strength complicates the Fed’s inflation fight.
PacWest and Western Alliance, the banks at the center of the latest phase of the crisis, recouped a chunk of earlier losses, as robust economic data also heartened investors.
With the official end of the public health emergency next week, the agency will no longer report community levels of infection and will stop trying to tally every case.
The decision has little practical effect but is a significant moment in the struggle against a virus that has killed millions and upended lives throughout the world.
Cases, hospitalizations and deaths are lower than they’ve been in years. We asked experts how to think about personal risk — and what the future likely holds.
Pay gains picked up last month, the opposite of what Federal Reserve officials are hoping for as they try to cool inflation.
The river has helped to define Ukraine’s history and culture, and remains vital to daily sustenance, even as it also serves as a front line in war — as it has countless times over thousands of years.
As the Biden administration moves to curb health threats caused by toxic chemicals, the debate hits home for families living near petrochemical plants.
Roger Lee has cataloged hundreds of thousands of tech job cuts on his site Layoffs.fyi. He still believes the industry will “100 percent” bounce back.
Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump sought to have his hush-money case moved to federal court, even as the judge in the case scheduled his trial for early next year.
The former president did not disavow the “Access Hollywood” video when questioned by lawyers for E. Jean Carroll, who has accused him of attacking her. They rested their case Thursday.
Law enforcement officials said they were still determining what happened and whether to charge the man who choked Jordan Neely, 30, to death.
After a homeless man was killed on the subway, New Yorkers and elected officials are mourning his death and debating how the city should address mental health and public safety.
Investors are not convinced that regional banks including PacWest and Western Alliance can remain viable. Some are actively betting on their demise.
Republicans used their new supermajority status to push through the restriction, which stands to limit abortion access throughout the South if enacted.
Prosecutors investigating the former president’s handling of classified material have issued a wave of new subpoenas and obtained the confidential cooperation of a witness who worked at Mar-a-Lago.
A Texas man says text messages on his ex-wife’s phone show the women helped her obtain an abortion. The women say he invaded their privacy.
Kyiv and Moscow angrily blamed each other after two explosions in an apparent drone attack on the heart of Russian power, but whose outrage is real?
The verdict was a blow against the far-right group and another milestone in the Justice Department’s prosecution of the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol.
Moscow has accused Ukraine of a drone attack aimed at assassinating President Vladimir V. Putin, without providing evidence. Kyiv has strenuously denied involvement.
The bank said “underlying price pressures remain strong” in the eurozone, where the annual inflation rate reached 7 percent last month.
An intensifying challenge for bankers and regulators is how to keep the turmoil in the stock market from spilling into the lenders’ day-to-day businesses.
Caught between slow growth and high inflation, businesses are hoping King Charles’s coronation will bolster consumer confidence enough to last more than just one weekend.
Turkish families got wealthy off a construction system rife with patronage. A Times investigation reveals just how fatally shaky that system was.
Three members of the Regier family now hold leadership positions in the Montana Legislature as the state’s conservative shift has left even some Republicans wary.
Xi Jinping says he has defeated poverty, but discussion of economic struggle is taboo, scrubbed from the internet and banished from the news.
A new competition encourages New Yorkers who live in public housing to pursue their own businesses.
Fears are growing that the Communist Party’s increasing focus on control over information about markets and companies is behind the questioning of firms.
Civil violations like littering or idling could be subject to sliding-scale fines under a City Council bill aimed at easing the affordability crisis.
Eating packaged foods like cereal and frozen meals has been associated with anxiety, depression and cognitive decline. Scientists are still piecing together why.
Can you tell the difference between a $10,000 Chanel bag and a $200 knockoff? Almost nobody can, and it’s turning luxury fashion upside down.
Municipalities across England will face voters, including in areas that could sway the next national election. Here’s a guide to the ballots and how to interpret them.
The global bank’s biggest shareholder, the giant Chinese insurer Ping An, wants HSBC to spin off its profitable Asian operation.
Jordan Neely died after a man held him in a chokehold. On Wednesday, the medical examiner’s office said the cause of death was compression of the neck, and ruled it a homicide.
Russia said Ukraine had launched a drone attack, which Kyiv vehemently denied, accusing Russia of manufacturing a pretext for escalation.
The Fed raised rates by a quarter point, bringing them above 5 percent for the first time in more than 15 years.
The central bank must consider how looming U.S. default could impact the economy as it makes a decision on raising interest rates.
Savers will benefit and borrowers can expect to pay more on credit cards, student loans and other forms of debt.
Federal Reserve officials will release a rate decision at 2 p.m. The key question is what will come next.
Factories that roared out of the recession have stalled, hampering the economy, even as a new wave of production looms.
As the government heads toward a possible default on its debt as soon as next month, officials are entertaining a legal theory that previous administrations ruled out.
House Democratic leaders who have been quietly planning a strategy to force a debt ceiling increase to avert default began taking steps on Tuesday to deploy their secret weapon.
The relative calm that met the collapse of First Republic Bank on Monday was shattered on Tuesday, with broad-based declines across industries.
How long they stay off the air is an open question. During the last strike, they gradually returned after a couple of months.
Congress controls how much money the United States can borrow. Here’s a look at why that is and what it means.
The largest bank is also the only one whose stability hasn’t been questioned. Its C.E.O. makes sure of that.
The Federal Reserve will release a policy decision on Wednesday on the heels of another bank collapse.
The dispute, which pits 11,500 television and screenwriters against the major studios, has shattered 15 years of labor peace in the entertainment business.
President Biden said he would meet with lawmakers on May 9 to discuss ways to avoid a default.
The resolution of First Republic Bank came after a frantic night of deal making by government officials and executives at the country’s biggest bank.
The bank’s rivals appear on firmer footing this time, in contrast with the widespread panic after the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in March.
As part of its deal, 84 First Republic branches in eight states will reopen as JPMorgan branches on Monday.
First Republic is the second-largest bank by assets to fail in U.S. history. Here are some answers to questions you may have about what comes next for the bank and for depositors’ money.
The lending giant’s shares jumped on the news that it is buying First Republic. But investors are watching to see if the deal ends the regional banking crisis.
Ensuring that chatbots aren’t serving false information to users has become one of the most important and tricky tasks in the tech industry.
A recent letter calling for a moratorium on A.I development blends real threats with speculation. But concern is growing among experts.
For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.
In January, Iran executed a former senior official who provided Britain with valuable intelligence on Iranian nuclear and military programs over a decade, according to Western intelligence officials.
ایران یک مقام ارشد پیشین را که به گفتهی مقامات اطلاعاتی غربی در طول یک دهه اطلاعات ارزشمندی در مورد برنامههای هستهای و نظامی ایران در اختیار بریتانیا قرار داده بود، در ماه ژانویه اعدام کرد.
In Arizona, where independents are a crucial voting bloc, there might not be the same sense of urgency for a Biden-Trump rematch. And some voters might look elsewhere.
In a speech at the annual White House Association Correspondents’ dinner, the president said his administration was “working every day” to secure the release of Evan Gershkovich.
Tech workers have stayed home, and ongoing social problems downtown are forcing civic and business leaders to confront harsh realities about the city’s pandemic recovery.
At the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, President Biden also skewered CNN and made light of his age.
Images of the new king may be blanketing Britain, but many in the country are more focused on navigating a cost-of-living crisis than celebrating a dysfunctional royal family.
Since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of Russian men have faced criminal charges for becoming war refuseniks. That has not stopped others from going to unusual lengths to avoid battle.
JPMorgan, PNC and Bank of America are said to be interested in acquiring the troubled lender after it is seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
The school cultivated ties to justices, with generous pay and unusual perks. In turn, it gained prestige, donations and influence.
High above Bryant Park, painting, music, fashion and events are showcased in a quirky historic venue.
Christale Spain won with the support of the party establishment, including Representative James E. Clyburn.
In interviews, Black voters, organizers and elected officials pointed to what some saw as unkept promises — raising questions about the enthusiasm of Democrats’ most loyal voters.
With fighting in the eastern Donbas region settling into a bloody stalemate, a patch of the Zaporizhzhia region of southeastern Ukraine could prove to be the war’s next big theater.
As labor contract negotiations heat up in Hollywood, unions representing writers and actors seek limits on artificial intelligence.
Gov. Greg Gianforte had been urged by his son, who is nonbinary, to reject the bill. A transgender lawmaker was barred from the House floor after the debate.
The budget deal contained a series of hard-fought wins for the governor, but left her without a grand policy achievement to trumpet.
When it had a Democratic majority last year, the North Carolina Supreme Court voided the state’s legislative and congressional maps as illegal gerrymanders. Now the court has a Republican majority, and says the opposite.
A bus convoy carrying about 300 people was the first U.S.-organized evacuation effort of Americans other than diplomats since fighting broke out nearly two weeks ago in the northeast African nation.
The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures index, slowed in March. But signs point to staying power.
Compensation for workers rose 5.1 percent from a year earlier, good news for employees but a troubling sign for the Federal Reserve.
Some of the biggest packaged food companies raised their prices last quarter and their profits rose, but some customers were starting to cut back or trade down.
The Federal Reserve is set to release an examination of why its oversight of the bank failed to stem disaster at 11 a.m. on Friday.
She accused Emmett, 14, of accosting her, and her testimony led to the acquittals of her husband and his half brother in a murder that helped galvanize the civil rights movement.
Fierce fighting has yielded heavy casualties but little movement. Ukrainian forces need heavy weapons to change that, but they say it is no guarantee.
The governor’s son, David Gianforte, told The Montana Free Press that he had asked his father to not sign “immoral” bills pertaining to the L.G.B.T.Q. community.
Barred by Republican lawmakers from participating in the legislative session on the House floor, Representative Zooey Zephyr reported for work on a hallway bench.
Joseph Tacopina asked Ms. Carroll to retell her story in minute detail, probing for inconsistencies. His aggressive questioning irritated the judge.
The former vice president is a key witness to former President Donald Trump’s attempts to block congressional certification of Joseph Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
After Republicans passed a bill that pairs spending cuts and fossil fuel support with raising the nation’s borrowing cap, the president must decide when and how to negotiate
Two years ago, high inflation was about supply shortages and pricier goods. Then it was about war in Ukraine and energy. These days, services are key.
The gross domestic product increased for the third straight quarter as consumer spending remained robust despite higher interest rates.
Private messages sent by Tucker Carlson that had been redacted in legal filings showed him making highly offensive remarks that went beyond the comments of his prime-time show.
The company claimed “a targeted campaign of government retaliation,” which it said stemmed from its criticism of a contentious state education law.
It was not clear whether Speaker Kevin McCarthy could pass the fiscal plan, which he has described as a necessary step to force President Biden to negotiate over the terms of a debt ceiling increase.
The fight between the Florida governor and the company, now headed to court, began over an education law and grew into a feud about oversight of land that includes the amusement park.
The Republican speaker has stuck to partisan bills that have kept his party united. That ends with a tough vote to raise the debt limit in exchange for spending cuts.
Republicans are increasingly taking on corporations they denounce as “woke.” The Florida governor is just the latest to find that it isn’t easy.
The British antitrust watchdog blocked the takeover attempt, in a decision that will be closely watched in Washington and Brussels.
The decision barring the takeover of a big video game publisher is a major loss for Microsoft, which also faces pushback from U.S. regulators.
A Polish town that was once occupied by the Soviets used to embrace its history with military re-enactments and Lenin banners. But “nobody wants to be reminded of Russia these days.”
President Biden’s emphasis on America’s willingness to defend South Korea is a striking admission that North Korea’s arsenal is here to stay.
President Biden has acknowledged that he has not accomplished all he wished to. But that, he maintains, is an argument for his re-election.
President Biden’s poll numbers remain low, but structural advantages have Democrats insisting he is far better positioned than his Republican rivals.
While the president once pitched himself as “a bridge” to a new generation of Democratic leaders, he has decided that he is not ready to turn the torch over yet.
Ms. Chávez Rodríguez, a veteran of Vice President Kamala Harris’s political orbit, also worked on the president’s 2020 campaign before becoming director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
The two hosts took very different approaches, but the decisions by Fox News and CNN to shed the stars marks at least a temporary shift in the excesses of Trump-era coverage.
The governor approved the state’s prohibition on Monday, just a month after the State Supreme Court blocked an earlier ban.
Taking advantage of its turn as president of the Security Council, Moscow sent Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov to preside over a session on peace and diplomacy.
The host’s abrupt dismissal upends Fox News’s prime-time lineup — and the carefully honed impression that the ratings star was all but untouchable.
Despite his aggressive moves to try to slash greenhouse gas emissions, President Biden has angered young climate voters upset by a drilling project in Alaska.
Hadley Gamble, a correspondent at CNBC, produced messages to investigators that documented instances of harassment by Jeff Shell, according to her lawyer.
Without a decisive victory, Western support for Ukraine could weaken, and Kyiv could come under increasing pressure to enter serious peace talks to end or freeze the conflict.
Mr. Lemon, one of the network’s most recognizable stars, had been under scrutiny since an uproar over on-air remarks he made about women and aging in February.
The president’s mission will be to defend his record while warning about the dangers of Donald J. Trump’s return.
The Baltic States summoned Chinese representatives after China’s ambassador to France questioned the sovereignty of countries that declared independence from the Soviet Union.
The president, who is expected to formally announce his re-election campaign this week, has won the full support of his party despite questions about his age and middling approval ratings.
A decimated village welcomes back displaced residents for a day of remembrance and hope.
With hopes fading that two warring generals will end their battle anytime soon, diplomats and other foreigners began heading for Sudan’s doors.
Under government pressure, Chinese scientists have retracted studies and withheld or deleted data. The censorship has stymied efforts to understand the virus.
Even before its two leading generals went to war last week, “everyone wanted a chunk of Sudan,” an expert said of the strategically located country rich in natural resources.
If the regulation is implemented, it will be the first time the federal government has limited carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of U.S. greenhouse gases.
The court’s order seemed to vindicate a commitment in last year’s decision in Dobbs: to leave further questions about abortion to the political process.
Democrats are vowing to make abortion rights a pillar of their campaigns, while Republicans are caught between their conservative base and a public that generally backs access to the procedure.
The order halts lower court rulings that would have restricted the drug as an appeal moves forward in a case with profound implications for abortion access and the F.D.A.’s regulatory authority.
A Discord user matching the profile of Jack Teixeira distributed intelligence to a larger chat group, days after the beginning of the Ukraine war.
Republicans’ opening bid to avert economic catastrophe by raising the nation’s borrowing limit focuses more on energy policy than reducing debt.
A blast in Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border, was the result of “an accidental discharge of aviation ammunition,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said.
Nancy Marks, Mr. Santos’s former campaign treasurer, has her own history of questionable dealings that have aroused interest from federal investigators.
An estimated 20 percent of Russia prisoner recruits are H.I.V. positive. To some, the front lines seemed less risky than prisons where they said they were denied effective treatments.
The court is expected to weigh in on whether a commonly used pill, mifepristone, should remain widely available. Here is what’s at stake.
As part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s emergency response to a migrant influx in the Florida Keys, the state hired a cruise ship to house state workers. But it neglected to arrange a place to put it.
Palestinian Muslims give the eidiya — a gift of money — to female relatives and children on the Eid that marks the end of Ramadan. It is a revered tradition but one that can come with a heavy price.
A campaign video is said to be in production, and donors are being mobilized, for a run that could be announced early next week.
Drug dealers are mixing xylazine, an animal tranquilizer relied on by veterinarians, into fentanyl, with deadly results. But controlling it is tricky.
A workman knocking on the wrong door. A cheerleader mistaking another car for her own. Small errors can have large consequences in a nation bristling with guns.
Fierce fighting has trapped people in the capital, Khartoum, and the United States says it is “conducting prudent planning” to get diplomatic staff members out.
With two generals vying for power, residents in the Sudanese capital said the violence had destroyed hospitals, airfields and homes, and left civilians caught in the crossfire.
The four-minute flight ended in what the company called a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” — meaning it blew up. But there was much to learn from the flight, the latest step in SpaceX’s explode-as-you-learn approach.
American lawmakers defending Israel have often fallen back on what they call the countries’ shared democratic values. But defending the current far-right government is proving a lot harder.
The chef has spoken out against sexism and abuse, but many former cooks and staff members say she has verbally and physically harassed workers for decades.
China has rebuffed calls to restart high-level talks with the United States, raising the risk of confrontation in contested areas like the Taiwan Strait.
Who wrote it, the novelist or the technology? How about both? Stephen Marche experiments with teaching artificial intelligence to write with him, not for him.
The former president’s rivals are seeking to tap into Republican frustration with recent election disappointments to urge a new face for the party in 2024, but it is proving to be a tough sell.
Buying an electric car has become much more complicated because of restrictions on which models qualify for a federal tax credit of up to $7,500.
The crime-scene investigators are the ones who document, and remember, the unimaginable. This is what they saw at Sandy Hook.
The Treasury secretary will strike a more conciliatory note in a speech Thursday, following months of escalated tensions between the world’s two largest economies.
The bipartisan group will challenge hard-right House Republicans in their home districts, running ads that accuse the lawmakers of holding antidemocratic positions.
Two men appeared in courtrooms in different parts of the country on Wednesday, charged in shootings that came after minor missteps on everyday tasks.
A year into the war, some residents of eastern Ukrainian towns still confound officials and the police with their support for Russia despite the constant bombardment from Russian forces.
A track like “Heart on My Sleeve,” which went viral before being taken down by streaming services this week, may be a novelty for now. But the legal and creative questions it raises are here to stay.
Those who argue that the news media should pay a steeper price for mistakes are pushing to have a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturned.
Even without a trial, the Dominion suit made plain that the network’s main goal is the maintenance of a reality bubble.
The election technology company has several more defamation lawsuits pending against public figures and news outlets.
China struggled for years to curtail its rapid population growth. Now that its population is declining, economists and others fear serious implications for China and countries around the world.
We look at India’s looming status as the world’s most populous country and also give you the latest on the Fox News settlement.
India has a young, vast work force that is expanding as China’s ages and shrinks. But the country’s immense size also lays bare its enormous challenges.
Fox News’s late-stage agreement with Dominion Voting Systems came with a rare acknowledgment of broadcasting false claims by the conservative media powerhouse.
It was the first time Mr. Gershkovich, a 31-year-old American, has been seen clearly since he was detained last month.
Western technology goods are winding up in Russian missiles, raising questions about the efficacy of sanctions.
After Russia invaded Ukraine, the European Union blacklisted about 1,500 people linked to the war. That has complicated the lives of those who share their sometimes fairly common names.
Una investigación del Times revela cómo el país se convirtió en el usuario más prolífico de Pegasus. Todavía lo utiliza, a pesar de que el gobierno prometió dejar de espiar.
A Times investigation reveals the story behind how Mexico became the first and most prolific user of Pegasus. It’s still using it, despite promising to stop.
Lawyers for the family of Ralph Yarl, 16, said he was critically injured when he was shot twice in Kansas City, Mo.
The foreign ministers of the Group of 7 nations discussed their shared visions on Russia’s war on Ukraine and China’s assertiveness after talk flared this month over different strategies.
These days it takes a generation to build a giant telescope. A new one is taking shape in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Before an observatory can plumb the secrets of the cosmos, it must navigate more humbling challenges.
Kevin Monahan shot Kaylin Gillis, 20, when she and several friends wound up outside his house in a rural part of upstate New York, the authorities said.
The inquiry aims to hold to account Syrian officials considered key architects of a brutal system of detention and torture that has flourished under President Bashar al-Assad.
The White House and federal agencies were repeatedly alerted to signs of children at risk. The warnings were ignored or missed.
Clashing with President Biden, who has called for a debt limit hike with no conditions, the Republican speaker went to Wall Street to pitch what he called a “responsible, sensible” solution.
Khartoum residents were trapped at home without electricity or water as the country’s two top generals battled for a third day to control the East African nation.
Republicans argue Alvin Bragg, the district attorney, has allowed a crime crisis to flourish in New York. But data shows that, after a pandemic spike, crime is down slightly in the city.
The Boston Marathon, a tricky, hilly beast of a course, has humbled legends in the past. Can this master of speed tackle Heartbreak Hill?
Hellen Obiri moved from Kenya to Boulder, Colo., to chase a running accomplishment she has yet to achieve: dominance in the marathon.
Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox News won’t start on Monday, as Rupert Murdoch’s media colossus reportedly pushes for an out-of-court settlement.
Shocked by Russian atrocities, NATO is becoming the war-fighting alliance it was during the Cold War, committed to defending “every inch” of its territory from Day 1.
The Board of Regents is expected to approve a policy barring school nicknames like “the Warriors.” A provision allows their use if a tribal nation endorses them.
Closed-door meetings about when to roll out the president’s campaign are intensifying. Still, with no serious primary challenge and Republicans infighting, he feels little pressure.
Dominion, which is owned by a New York private equity firm, has accused the news network of spreading false narratives about its election technology.
Candidates are visiting early primary states, attending cattle calls and holding donor summits. The nascent campaign seems to be kicking into gear.
The Ohio Republican defines himself by his penchant for punching back, whether against allegations that he was derelict in a sex abuse scandal or attempts to prosecute the former president.
Defeated on same-sex marriage, the religious right went searching for an issue that would re-energize supporters and donors. The campaign that followed has stunned political leaders across the spectrum.
In the past three months, 10 Republican-led states have passed laws banning gender-affirming care for minors.
One of Africa’s largest countries is spinning out of control, as weeks of mounting tensions between two military leaders erupted in battles in the capital, Khartoum, and in other cities.
The strategically important country in northeastern Africa has been consumed by turmoil after overthrowing a dictator in 2019, with plans for a civilian-led democracy now in shambles.
Rescuers were searching through rubble after the attack on the city of Sloviansk as fighting raged in Bakhmut.
Jack Teixeira grew up in a family with strong military ties, was quiet and somewhat awkward in high school and seemed, to some, unnervingly obsessed with war and guns.
Some in Ukraine even welcomed the disclosures as confirming what they have been saying for months — that its forces desperately need more weapons and munitions.
Lawmakers are beginning to contemplate questions about authorship and ownership around creative machines. The stakes for creative businesses are high.
Jack Teixeira, 21, was granted a top-secret security clearance in 2021, which was required for his job, the Justice Department complaint said.
Brazil has been reluctant about choosing sides in the war, as its new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, seeks to rebuild the country’s ties with Beijing.
“This isn’t our moment,” said Mr. Pompeo, a former Trump administration official. But he declined to endorse the former president and obliquely criticized him.
He may not be a candidate yet, but President Biden delivered a message of optimism to the people of Ireland. It was a possible preview of a campaign to come.
The temporary stay is meant to preserve the status quo while the justices study lower court rulings, and it did not forecast how they would ultimately rule.
Based on the charging documents, Airman Jack Teixeira does not appear to have been acting as a foreign agent, differentiating him from classic spying cases. He also does not appear to have been acting as a whistle-blower.
President Biden was in tears after the surprise meeting with the priest, Friar Frank O’Grady, who was given a last-minute security approval to meet with the president.
So far, most telemedicine providers seem undaunted by court rulings that could imperil their business.
A majority of Americans had not heard of mifepristone, a survey earlier this year found. The drug is now at the center of an abortion case headed to the Supreme Court.
President Biden’s three-day trip will mix diplomacy and personal genealogy as he meets with Irish leaders and traces his own family roots.
The young Black Democrats expelled from the legislature bring an activist approach, and model themselves after civil rights leaders of the past.
An election bill moving through the Republican-led Legislature would rewrite the rules for a single race: the looming battle against Senator Jon Tester, a Democrat.
JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and PNC Financial comfortably beat expectations for earnings in the first quarter, when the failures of smaller banks sent jitters throughout the sector.
JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo reported solid earnings on Friday, but big questions remain about the sector’s health and a potential recession.
Not everyone evacuated when the Chernobyl nuclear plant melted down in 1986. The few who stayed lived through another calamity when Russian troops marched in.
How Times journalists tracked down the alleged leaker of top secret military intelligence.
As “The Phantom of the Opera” ends its record-breaking Broadway run on Sunday, its most devoted followers, who call themselves Phans, are mourning.
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has had to appeal to two conflicting elements of his base: Republicans who are repelled by Donald Trump, and those who remain enthralled by him.
Despite hopeful signs, economists worry that a recession is on the way or that the Federal Reserve will cause one in trying to rein in inflation.
In 2022, conditions were heavily in stock pickers’ favor, but most trailed the market. This year looks worse, our columnist says.
The current and potential 2024 presidential candidates are expected to show support for gun owners’ rights — a core issue for the party’s base, but one that can be a tougher sell in a general election.
A national movement to give parents public vouchers to spend on private schools has run up against the deep loyalty Texas has always had for its public schools.
The group liked online war games. But then Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old National Guard airman, began showing them classified documents, members say.
Federal investigators are searching for the person who shared classified documents that revealed government secrets about the Ukraine war.
The judges blocked the drug from being sent to patients through the mail and rolled back other steps the government had taken to ease access.
The additional documents also suggest the breach of American intelligence agencies could contain far more material than previously believed.
Pushed into a shrinking corner of the devastated city, the Ukrainian military is determined to hold out for strategic reasons, even as allies question the cost.
When the student assembly voted to require faculty to alert students to upsetting educational materials, administrators pushed back.
China is far ahead of the rest of the world in the development of batteries that use sodium, which are starting to compete with ubiquitous lithium power cells.
While clinics in some states expanded capacity, bans prevented thousands from getting legal abortions, a major new survey of abortion providers finds.
A federal judge’s decision to invalidate the F.D.A.’s approval of mifepristone could affect availability even in states where abortion is legal.
Some are expanding in China, reluctant to leave a huge market they need to finance operations back home.
The Biden administration is proposing rules to ensure that two-thirds of new cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the U.S. by 2032 are all-electric.
The scenarios, as assessed by the Defense Intelligence Agency, include the deaths of Presidents Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
Criticism of the French president’s performance in Beijing has been scathing among some allies, who saw him as cozying up to Beijing.
A new law would bar anyone called up to fight in Ukraine from leaving the country, among other restrictions, even as the Kremlin insists it is not planning a new conscription.
As the river shrinks, the Biden administration is getting ready to impose, for the first time, reductions in water supplies to states.
The International Monetary Fund says a painful slowdown, which could include a recession, has become a bigger risk for the global economy.
As recession fears persist, the troubles in major industries have hurt tax revenues, turning the state’s $100 billion surplus into a deficit.
The reaction to the leak in South Korea is perhaps the strongest so far as the Biden administration scrambles to contain the damage from apparent spying on allies.
Some in the party are urging compromise, warning of dire electoral consequences for 2024, while other stances, on guns and gay rights, also risk turning off moderates.
The move to reappoint Representative Justin Jones was a swift rebuke to the Republican supermajority over its decision to expel him and another lawmaker for leading a gun control protest.
Four days after the House voted to expel State Representatives Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson, the Metropolitan Nashville Council unanimously voted to send Mr. Jones back to the seat.
More than 400 executives said that the decision ignored both scientific and legal precedent and that, if the ruling stood, it would create uncertainty for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
The police did not give a motive for the shooting, but they said that the gunman, who also died, may have been a current or former bank employee.
Economists are watching for the aftereffects of recent bank collapses across many industries. How bad could it get?
There is no official consensus on what constitutes a mass shooting, but by one count there have already been scores so far this year.
Rahm trailed Brooks Koepka by two strokes at the start of Sunday’s final round but surged as Koepka faltered to claim his second major tournament victory.
Mickelson, who withdrew from last year’s Masters Tournament as he took criticism for joining LIV Golf, earned a measure of redemption from fans by finishing in a tie for second place.
A huge influx of munitions is needed to keep Russia’s air force from changing the course of the war, according to U.S. officials and newly leaked Pentagon documents.
Intense patient advocacy, shifting politics, a determined Democratic governor and a handful of maverick Republicans led the state to join 39 others that have expanded Medicaid.
After a student protest, Jenny S. Martinez wrote a much-praised memo defending academic freedom. But that protest shows how complicated protecting free speech can be.
Probably not, experts say, given the shrunken state of its military industrial sector. A look at a major munitions maker helps explain why.
Delivery drivers were hailed as pandemic heroes. But they say the rise of contactless delivery has made customers less inclined to tip generously and gig work is becoming an even harder way to make a living.
In the year since El Salvador declared a state of emergency, the government has delivered a stunning blow to the gangs that were once the ultimate authority in much of the country.
Durante más de 400 años, en las montañas remotas del estado ha sobrevivido el neomexicano, dialecto de los primeros colonos hispanohablantes. Pero es posible que su final esté cerca.
A dialect from the state’s earliest Spanish-speaking settlers has endured for over 400 years in the state’s remote mountain villages. But its time may be running out.
The information, exposed on social media sites, also shows that U.S. intelligence services are eavesdropping on important allies.
In what would be the nation’s most ambitious climate regulation, the proposal is designed to ensure that electric cars make up the majority of new U.S. auto sales by 2032.
Ukraine is widely expected to launch a counteroffensive in the coming weeks to recapture territory from Russian forces. Some Ukrainian officials say it could focus on the south of the country.
Allies don’t always see things the same way, as Emmanuel Macron’s cozy visit to Xi Jinping made abundantly clear.
Former President Donald J. Trump now faces a very different legal challenge in the culmination of a more than two-year Atlanta investigation into election interference.
The Texas judge’s ruling was quickly contradicted by another federal judge in Washington State who ordered the F.D.A. to keep mifepristone available.
Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk issued a preliminary ruling in a closely watched Texas case that could make it harder for patients to get abortions throughout the country.
Employers added 236,000 jobs as the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate increases appeared to take a toll. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent.
The president is framing slower employment growth as the basis of a new stability, not a harbinger of hard times.
Understanding the often-overlooked links between math and literature can enhance your appreciation of both.
Elon Musk’s company made the norm-shattering move two days after the publishing start-up Substack unveiled a Twitter-like service.
Competition, not cooperation, has driven the bulk of climate progress over the past few years.
Russia’s war in Ukraine figured little in statements after meetings between President Emmanuel Macron of France and China’s leader, Xi Jinping.
The pilot made an emergency landing after feeling a Cape Cobra slither under his shirt while flying across South Africa. “I had a moment of stunned silence,” he said.
The former president recently directed advisers to give Ms. Loomer, who has a long history of bigoted remarks, a role in support of his candidacy, people familiar with the move said.
The Biden administration says there is “convergence.” But trans-Atlantic leaders adopt different strategies on security and trade issues — including on Ukraine and Taiwan.
Rare cross-border fire between Israel and militias in Lebanon ebbed on Friday, lowering fears of a wider escalation. But violence flared again in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where a shooting killed two Israelis.
Uniformed soldiers shot and killed unarmed civilians, including an American, then blocked medics from providing care, a top government official said. To many Mexicans, such abuse is all too familiar.
Government scientists have spent a year analyzing electric vehicles to help the E.P.A. design new tailpipe rules to trigger an electric car revolution.
In a statement released by the Supreme Court, the justice said he had followed past guidance from others at the court and believed he was not required to report the trips.
The detention of the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich poses new obstacles for Western journalists seeking to report on Vladimir V. Putin’s rule.
New Yorkers’ life span dropped by 4.6 years in 2020 from the previous year. Health officials say it may take the city years to recover.
Bob Lee’s death has stirred outrage among tech leaders and comes at a precarious time for the industry — and the city it calls home.
‘Extrapolations’ on Apple TV+ is one of a few ambitious shows about climate change. We asked the Times’s chief TV critic what works and what doesn’t when dramatizing global warming.
The Colombian novelist mixed fiction and fact to capture the outsize reality of Latin America. Even if you’ve never watched a priest levitate, a carpet fly or a drop of blood climb over curbs, there’s something for you.
The former president aims to apply political pressure to prosecutors — while revving up support for his campaign by portraying himself as a victim of Democratic persecution.
The unseating of the lawmakers threatened to further inflame partisan rancor in a state that is divided over issues like how to respond to a school shooting in Nashville.
Buying concert tickets has become a mess of high prices and surcharges, anxiety-inducing registrations and pervasive scalping as some of pop’s biggest acts hit the road again.
Varios soldados uniformados le dispararon a civiles desarmados, entre ellos un estadounidense, y luego obstaculizaron la atención médica, según un un alto funcionario.
An identity crisis involving a vaunted Chinese restaurant and the New Yorkers who love it strikes the Upper West Side.
Dance on the app has become more niche and more professionalized, but in the larger world TikTok-style dance has gained a toehold.
It is now the continent’s largest supplier of natural gas, and last year the country’s energy earnings jumped $100 billion.
Mr. Johnson, a progressive county commissioner, won over liberal voters across the city after finishing second in a first round of balloting.
Star hosts for Fox News like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity may also appear in person at the high-profile trial, which is set to start April 17.
Moscow used its rotating presidency of the Security Council to host a session on deported Ukrainian children, leading some officials to walk out.
Polish leaders backed Ukraine’s bid for NATO membership, but even without that, Russia’s invasion is making the alliance’s eastern flank more united, and more important.
A resounding victory by a liberal judge who ran on abortion rights showed that a largely unified political left is keeping up its momentum, and served as a new warning sign to Republicans.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy became the most senior elected official to meet with a Taiwanese president on American soil since the United States established diplomatic relations with Beijing.
The Republican-dominated House was set to vote on Thursday on taking the rare and punitive action of removing the Democrats from office for their part in the protest.
Here are some of the most important moments from the hearing where criminal charges against Donald Trump were unveiled.
A 463-page investigation released by the Maryland attorney general detailed the “enormous scope and scale” of scandal.
To some Republicans and Democrats, the charges appeared flimsy and less consequential than many had hoped. To others, the case had the potential to reverberate politically.
The indictment of the former president has unlocked a rush of fund-raising and has frozen the 2024 Republican primary, but he faces deeper legal peril in multiple inquiries.
President Emmanuel Macron of France spoke of the need for a “shared responsibility for peace and international stability.”
John Joseph was put on trial for leading a miners’ rebellion seeking less taxation and more representation. His legacy was forgotten — until now.
Mark O’Meara, who won the Masters Tournament 25 years ago, talks through the pleasures and perils of Augusta National Golf Club, the only place that hosts a major annually.
As a generation of Emilys enters adulthood, perhaps you’ve noticed the name in the air — and on TV, in film and in songs.
The unsealed case against Donald J. Trump accuses him of falsifying records in part to lay the groundwork for planned lies to tax authorities.
The former president, who appeared in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, is accused of covering up a potential sex scandal during the 2016 election.
The former president faces 34 felony counts in connection with a hush-money payment to a porn star before the 2016 election.
Supreme Court races were once more swayed by endorsements from legal and law enforcement officials. Now they’re indistinguishable from other elections.
The review found that the methodology of many previous studies was flawed and that risk of myriad health problems increased significantly after less than two drinks a day for women and after three for men.
The former president faces 34 felony counts in connection with a hush-money payment to a porn star before the 2016 election.
Evan Gershkovich’s work for The Wall Street Journal included reporting on the efforts by Russians to help others who were being repressed. Russian journalists are now scrutinizing his arrest as a brazen attack on press freedom.
Roy McGrath, who was chief of staff to former Gov. Larry Hogan, was wanted by the F.B.I. for three weeks after he did not appear for a federal fraud trial in March.
Charlie Javice, the 31-year-old founder of Frank, a college financial planning company, was sued by JPMorgan Chase for falsifying customer data.
A start-up in New York is among a group of companies working on systems that can produce short videos based on a few words typed into a computer.
Most of the funds will go toward future purchases of munitions, radar and other weapons to send to Ukraine.
A months-long event, just outside the park, was intended to keep the animals from spreading a disease to livestock. But its scope and other removal measures affecting hundreds more have generated opposition.
Paul Vallas, a former public school executive, has called for a crackdown on crime, while Brandon Johnson, a county commissioner, wants to expand social programs.
In 2011, a former U.S. senator faced federal charges similar to some of those Donald J. Trump is expected to face. The case did not end in a conviction.
For his 16th Broadway musical, John Kander, the composer of “Chicago” and “Cabaret,” returns to “New York, New York.”
To the would-be tactician, all of life is an opportunity to imagine military-style maneuvers.
Kamala Harris is the latest U.S. official to visit to Zambia. Why? Batteries. And China.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has ordered municipalities to stop certifying foreign birth certificates for same-sex couples who used surrogacy, leaving some babies in a legal limbo.
A marketing professor gave his students a challenge: If they made a video that got a million views, the final exam would be canceled.
The city has seen Mr. Trump shimmy out of many legal jams, but is on edge about his response to his first indictment.
The election for a swing seat on the court is likely to determine whether abortion remains illegal in Wisconsin, as well as the future of the state’s heavily gerrymandered political maps.
Mayor Adams told protesters that the city “is always ready” as Donald J. Trump returned to Trump Tower on the eve of becoming the first ex-president to be indicted.
Todd Blanche previously represented Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.
A requirement that states keep people on Medicaid during the coronavirus pandemic has come to an end, and 15 million people could lose their coverage as a result.
Mr. Trump was indicted over his role in paying hush money to a porn star. He plans to return to New York City on Monday evening and turn himself in on Tuesday, a lawyer has said.
Even as Donald Trump’s arraignment differs from the Capitol riot, law enforcement’s response is informed by lessons learned from that day and the nationwide protests against police violence.
Donald Trump and his campaign spent the weekend making plans for his arrest, and how to capitalize on it, while officials in New York prepared for potential turmoil.
The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO. It turns out that not every part of the government has gotten the message.
Donald J. Trump is expected to fly in on Monday night, then he is expected to spend the night in Trump Tower. The police will monitor every movement.
The former president’s appetite for attention has been fundamental to his identity for decades. Where others may focus on the hazards of a criminal case, he raises money, promotes his campaign and works to reduce the case to a cliffhanging spectacle.
Joe Manchin, a Democrat, and Bill Cassidy, a Republican, both voted to convict Donald Trump after Jan. 6. They expressed concern on Sunday that the criminal case against him is political.
Across many court cases over the decades, Mr. Trump has regularly leaned on those tactics. Now facing criminal charges in Manhattan, he has already lashed out at the judge.
Donald Trump’s criminal indictment and Fox News’s civil trial have nothing in common, but, combined, they delivered a rare reckoning for two forces that have transformed politics.
A salacious indictment against the 45th president is the latest chapter in a life made for the tabloids.
American politics has a long history of candidates who were indicted or convicted of crimes but sought office again.
Many of Donald Trump’s potential opponents snapped into line behind him, showing just how hard it may be to persuade Republican voters to choose an alternative.
A year ago, the investigation into the former president appeared from the outside to be over. But a series of crucial turning points led to this week’s indictment.
The tornadoes in the Little Rock and Wynne areas also injured at least two dozen people and destroyed homes. Tornado watches were in effect from Illinois to Mississippi.
A judge said the suit would go to trial, for a jury to weigh whether the network knowingly spread false claims about Dominion Voting Systems, and to determine any damages.
After a winter of intense battles and heavy losses in Ukraine’s east, both Russia and Ukraine are taking steps to replenish their depleted forces.
The Biden administration recently secured the release of two Americans convicted of criminal charges in Russia, but even fabricated charges of spying can raise the stakes.
The Republicans who will pick their 2024 nominee expressed anger, defensiveness and also embarrassment about the indictment facing Donald J. Trump.
Surrounded by piles of lumber and twisted metal, the president promised that the federal government was “not just here for today.”
President Biden believes that presidents should not comment on pending legal matters. He also does not want to be baited into a reaction.
Like Silicon Valley Bank, the company holds billions in bonds that have declined in value. But it has access to billions in cash, if needed, analysts say, and is much more diversified.
An under-the-radar change to the way regional banks are supervised may have helped the bank’s rapidly growing risks to go unresolved.
Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, had previously been a vocal critic of the former president’s conduct in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
Because of a bad facial recognition match and other hidden technology, Randal Reid spent nearly a week in jail, falsely accused of stealing purses in a state he said he had never even visited.
Many older home buyers say ownership was worth the wait, as they finally make a major real estate investment and consider their financial legacy.
The former president’s aides had believed that any action by the grand jury was still weeks away.
The Kremlin, which accused a Wall Street Journal correspondent of being a spy, made a move not seen since the Cold War, further raising the barriers between Russia and the West.
For more than two centuries, American presidents were effectively shielded from indictment. But the case against former President Donald J. Trump breaks that taboo and sets a new precedent.
A central area of expertise for Dustin Carmack, who will leave his post at the Heritage Foundation, is national security, with a focus on cybersecurity.
The authorities said arrest warrants had been obtained for three government migration officials, two private security workers and a migrant accused of starting the blaze.
The Florida governor’s new Disney World oversight board belatedly realized that the company had quietly sidestepped its control.
One state senator has been filibustering for weeks, trying to block a bill that would ban transition-related medical treatment for young people.
The infusion of money from interests in the two Persian Gulf monarchies reflects the close ties to Middle Eastern countries established by Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
In the Middle East, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies have become part of everyday policing.
The newspaper said it “vehemently denies the allegations” against Evan Gershkovich, an American, and called for his immediate release.
A satellite operated by NASA and NOAA bares how Russia’s drones and missiles knocked out the nation’s power.
Ukrainian commanders say they have exhausted Russia’s relentless assaults on the eastern city, though soldiers say the cost in lives has been steep.
Las autoridades identificaron a ocho sospechosos y dijeron que trabajadores del gobierno y de seguridad privada no habían hecho nada para ayudar a los migrantes a escapar del incendio.
The authorities identified eight suspects and said government workers and private security workers had done nothing to help migrants flee the blaze at a detention center in Ciudad Juárez.
The president’s decision to publicly criticize Israel is highly unusual for a leader who has pledged not to interfere in the country’s domestic politics.
President Biden said he had reached the limit of his powers to act alone on gun violence, and needed Congress to respond. Republicans said they had already done all they were willing to do.
The Kentucky measure bans access to gender-transition care for young people, and West Virginia’s governor signed a similar bill on Wednesday. Passage of bans also appears imminent in Idaho and Missouri.
Assailants used facial recognition to unlock phones and then looted financial accounts. The crimes, which occurred in Hell’s Kitchen, spread fear in New York’s nightlife.
Several House members, led by Jamaal Bowman, are pushing the governor to support a climate policy proposed by the left-leaning Legislature.
The ouster from Parliament of India’s best-known opposition leader shows how Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is manipulating the judiciary, critics say.
The governor’s quest, to force suburbs around New York City to build more housing, is meeting with resistance.
With a strong governor, a Legislature passing a raft of liberal measures and a looming early presidential primary, Democrats are testing the promise and pitfalls of complete control of the state.
In response to sharp criticism by President Biden, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would make its own decisions.
The iron- and steel-producing factories of Ukraine’s rust belt have made body armor, helmets and armored plates for vehicles — and steelworkers risked their lives rolling out heavy machinery at the beginning of the war to help physically block the Russian advance.
Party officials across the country have sought to erect more barriers for young voters, who tilt heavily Democratic, after several cycles in which their turnout surged.
President Tsai Ing-wen is expected to meet Speaker Kevin McCarthy next week, risking a show of force from Beijing, which opposes any such exchanges.
The fatal blaze comes as border cities across Mexico have been flooded with migrants turned back from the United States and more arriving from other countries.
As the United States has cracked down on border entries, Mexico is bearing the burden of housing and feeding tens of thousands of desperate migrants.
An officer turns a corner and spots the assailant, who he shoots several times, the footage from his body camera shows.
The ruling in Washington was the latest setback to efforts by former President Donald J. Trump’s legal team to limit testimony to grand juries investigating him on various matters.
Israel’s prime minister, who has long thrived by pitting one force against another, is caught between his far-right coalition and public anger over the government’s plan to weaken the judiciary.
The Israeli prime minister called for dialogue as civil unrest and work stoppages reached a crisis point, grinding the country to a halt.
President Biden and his advisers bombarded the Israeli government with warnings that the country’s image as the sole democracy in the Middle East was at stake.
The official met with President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the Zaporizhzhia plant, amid worries that a Ukrainian offensive could raise the already-high risk of disaster.
Beijing is emerging as a new heavyweight in providing emergency funds to debt-ridden countries, catching up to the I.M.F. as a lender of last resort.
Ukraine, with far more pressing needs, plans to rebuild the colossal Mriya cargo plane, a symbol of pride that was destroyed last year in a battle for its airfield.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government contends the Supreme Court has unchecked power.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel removed the defense minister, Yoav Gallant, after he called for a halt to the government’s plan to limit judicial authority.
China’s one-child policy has led to too few women. Grooms are now paying more money for wives, in a tradition that has faced growing resistance.
The proposal from President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, talked of since last year, would be provocative without changing the West’s battlefield calculus in Ukraine.
Doubts about both China and the United States are driving an arms race in the Indo-Pacific with echoes of World War II and new levels of risk.
A tornado warning demands instant action. Here’s what to do if one comes your way, and how you can prepare.
As thousands of ex-prisoners fight and die in Ukraine, honoring their memory is becoming a patriotic imperative in Russia. But some committed crimes their old neighbors cannot forget.
The company is expected to unveil an augmented reality headset in a few months. Some employees wonder if the device makes sense for Apple.
Once a symbol of Wall Street excess, Cohen has invested lavishly in the Mets, becoming the most beloved billionaire in Queens. Is that enough to reverse team history?
Illegal mines have fueled a humanitarian crisis for the Yanomami Indigenous group. Brazil’s new president is trying to fight back.
The deal, reached just before President Biden arrived in Canada for an official visit, allows both countries to reduce a surge in migration.
The city has spent millions to convert upscale hotels, humble motels and even office buildings into housing for an influx of migrants.
Federal prosecutors continue to build a case that the former president obstructed efforts by the government to reclaim classified material and that he may have misled his own lawyer.
Amid a national crisis over a planned judicial overhaul, Israel’s Parliament approved a bill making it much harder to remove a prime minister from office.
China’s opposition to a sale of the app leaves the president to challenge that stand or consider seeking a ban, which would face its own obstacles.
The office of the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, said the committee chairmen’s attempts to intervene in the investigation were “unlawful.”
The law, which prohibits social networks from allowing minors to have accounts without parental consent, may come as welcome news to many families even as it raises privacy concerns.
Lawmakers grilled Shou Chew, TikTok’s chief executive, over the app’s ties to its Chinese parent company and its effects on children, as Chinese officials said they opposed a sale of the platform.
For now, they are holding on with inferior Soviet-era tanks, but relish the idea of taking on the Russians with modern Western battle tanks.
Donald Trump’s allies have accused the district attorney bringing a case against him as having been “bought” by Mr. Soros, the philanthropist. That is misleading, though the men do have a financial connection.
As turmoil sweeps the United States financial system, banks are turning to the Federal Reserve for loans to get them through the squeeze.
The strange, twisting tale of Bradford Boobis and the nephew who has spent 50 years trying to make his painting public once again.
Investors remain preoccupied with the health of banks as interest rates rise, putting balance sheets under pressure.
Attorney General Merrick Garland and other prosecutors have sought to demonstrate that politics should not infect the justice system. Those efforts face a steep challenge as the Trump investigations move ahead.
Jerome H. Powell has said that snarled supply chains, an oil shock following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and shifts among American consumers are primarily behind rapid price growth.
If the White House can’t force a sale, that would effectively leave it with two options to resolve concerns about the company.
China’s commerce ministry publicly rebuked the Biden administration’s efforts to push TikTok’s Chinese ownership to sell the app or face a possible ban in the United States.
The Chinese-owned video app has become a battleground as the U.S. and China duel for tech leadership.
U.S. officials say TikTok is a national security risk. They’re trying to turn it into their advantage.
This month, the company announced a new 60-minute “daily screen time limit” for users under 18. But for most young users, staying on the app takes just a few taps.
Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York says the drive to ban TikTok stems from anti-China “hysteria.” His Democratic colleagues disagree.
Some analysts say that the banking industry tumult has slowed the economy as banks pull back on lending.
Brandon Johnson, a county commissioner who once taught in struggling neighborhoods, soared in the polls after an endorsement and donations from the Chicago Teachers Union.
The Biden administration has proposed changes to how it would pay private Medicare Advantage plans, setting off a lobbying frenzy.
A new generation of analysts and patients are embracing the father of psychoanalysis – in magazines and memes and many hours on the couch.
While prosecutors have signaled that an indictment of the former president is likely, its specific timing remains unclear, and grand juries conduct their work in secret.
An important element of the agreement known as the Windsor Framework, a Brexit provision negotiated with the European Union, was roundly endorsed in the British Parliament.
Peaceful solidarity alternates with the threat of violence, and all of France waits to see which way the standoff will turn.
The Biden administration announced a plan to modernize how patients are matched to organs, seeking to shorten wait times, address racial inequities and reduce deaths.
Boris Johnson told a powerful committee that his statements over parties at his office were “made in good faith.” His political future may be at stake.
President Emmanuel Macron of France, in his first remarks since pushing through a rise in the retirement age, was firm and unapologetic.
The attitude of many Americans toward their jobs appears to have changed during the long pandemic — and not for the better.
His electoral triumph in 2016 continues to confound election experts. But it’s hardly just an academic question.
Astronomers offer “a surprisingly simple explanation” for the curious behavior of the interstellar visitor in 2017.
Instead of focusing on a solution to the war in Ukraine, the Chinese leader’s visit to Moscow reinforced China and Russia’s shared opposition to American dominance.
After criticizing A.I. companies for liberal bias, programmers started envisioning right-wing alternatives, making chatbots a new front in the culture wars.
At issue is whether prosecutors have sufficient evidence of a crime to force a lawyer for Donald J. Trump to testify to a grand jury and turn over documents related to his representation of the former president.
The case of Olesya Krivtsova, a Russian student who ended up on the Kremlin’s official terrorist list, has underscored the perils of using social media to criticize the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.
The country recently declared itself a republic and there’s a new energy on the Caribbean island. Rum shops, farmers’ markets and surf breaks are there to be found if you venture beyond the resorts of the island’s west coast.
The market hadn’t fully rebounded from the pandemic. Some worry that another slowdown could add to fears of a recession.
Republicans are condemning the possible indictment, and Democrats, generally, are treading carefully. Here’s what else is being said.
Three Republican committee chairmen sought to use their investigative power to involve themselves in the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal inquiry into the former president.
The verdicts came after earlier trials in which other members of the pro-Trump, far-right militia were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles in the Capitol attack.
A new U.N. report says it is still possible to hold global warming to relatively safe levels, but doing so will require global cooperation, billions of dollars and big changes.
The U.S. secretary of state said the Chinese leader’s visit indicated that Beijing felt “no responsibility” to hold Russia accountable for atrocities in Ukraine.
Kohelet, the once-obscure think tank that conceived and now champions a revamped court system, is an American import.
The cuts follow a round of layoffs announced several months ago that affected more than 18,000 jobs.
The Florida governor, who had refrained for days from weighing in on the potential indictment of his likely 2024 rival, accused the Manhattan district attorney of political motivations.
On traveling to Morocco with a group-travel company that promised to build “meaningful friendships” among its youngish clientele.
A $30 billion cash infusion and a frantic effort to sell a stake in the bank to raise additional funds has done little to calm investors.
After more than 27 hours of deliberation, a Florida jury found three men guilty of killing the rising rapper during a robbery in the parking lot of a motorcycle shop.
The U.S. government has expressed concerns that the app may endanger sensitive user data.
The nation’s second-largest school district is planning to cancel classes starting Tuesday, while thousands of employees press demands for higher pay.
Markets wobbled as fears about the health of some banks, particularly First Republic, continued to cast a shadow over parts of the financial sector.
The government vowed to press on with a plan to take more control over appointing judges. But other changes were postponed in a move that was presented as a concession.
In a motion filed on Monday, the lawyers ask that the Fulton County district attorney’s office be recused from the criminal investigation into election interference in the state in 2020.
An international panel offers a warning about the dangers of fossil fuels, and also a blueprint to change course.
Plans that would bury carbon underground rather than release it in the air have stoked debate over climate and property rights, creating unlikely alliances and stirring memories of fierce battles over oil.
Jennifer Fox has long discussed what happened when she was 13 and her coach was 40. She even based a film on it. Now she has revealed the final detail: his identity.
Lt. William B. Montgomery flew a B-24 Liberator toward the British coast after it was hit in June 1944. Historians credit him for saving the lives of seven crew members.
A lab leak was once dismissed by many as a conspiracy theory. But the idea is gaining traction, even as evidence builds that the virus emerged from a market.
The bank was using an incorrect model as it assessed its own risks amid rising interest rates, and spent much of 2022 under a supervisory review.
The Swiss government is close to announcing a deal for UBS to buy Credit Suisse, its smaller rival, for about $1 billion.
The highly symbolic trip was the Russian leader’s first to territory his forces captured since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and came shortly after an international court issued a warrant for his arrest.
Manhattan prosecutors investigating a payout to Stormy Daniels may be poised to make Donald J. Trump the first former president ever to be criminally indicted.
Chinese officials say Xi Jinping’s upcoming trip to Moscow is a peace mission. But U.S. and European officials say he aims to bolster Vladimir V. Putin.
In the 20 years since the United States invaded Iraq, Iran has built up loyal militias inside Iraq, gained deep political influence in the country and reaped economic benefits. For Washington, these were unintended consequences.
Sending unarmed “diggers” into the front lines and near certain death, Russian troops are making slow but inexorable progress.
As homelessness overwhelms downtown Phoenix, a small business wonders how long it can hang on.
The surprise trip signals the Kremlin is trying to keep up business as usual, two days after an international court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian president.
A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.
As the families seek more than $1.4 billion awarded by courts for Mr. Jones’s lies, a New York Times review shows he is transferring millions of dollars to family and friends, potentially out of reach of creditors.
The law is the only one in the nation to prohibit the use separate from a total abortion ban and is part of a growing effort by conservative states to target the pills.
President Emmanuel Macron saw his decision to push through a change in the retirement age as necessary, but the price may be high.
Conversations with dozens of Iraqis offer a portrait of a nation that is rich in oil, hobbled by corruption and unable to guarantee its citizens’ safety.
They got lost in this weird moment, where the world is caught between crisis and normalcy, nostalgic for house parties — and Houseparty, too.
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank set major financial disruptions in motion. It also made one founder’s week a scramble.
A highly symbolic move by the International Criminal Court, which accused President Vladimir V. Putin of war crimes, carries moral weight.
Global divisions over Russia’s actions in Ukraine widened as China said Xi Jinping would go to Russia to help make peace, in a move widely seen as a stark sign of support for President Vladimir V. Putin.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir V. Putin and a Russian official for war crimes. Here’s a look at the warrant and what it could mean for Russia’s leader.
Borrowing could become tougher, a particular blow to small businesses — and a threat to the recovery’s staying power.
China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, is expected to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia next week and speak with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
After President Emmanuel Macron pushed his unpopular pension bill through Parliament without a vote, demonstrations about the changes broke out again.
By quietly shedding billions in assets, the Fed is making conditions tighter for banks, home buyers and investors, our columnist says.
The news came after Poland’s president said that his country would send MIG-29 jets, a move that appeared intended to open the door to more advanced warplanes from NATO allies.
Both sides face potential political snags, as well as a delicate balancing act in a region where the United States and China are competing for influence.
More than many other banks, SVB catered to how risky tech start-ups and their backers do not adhere to normal business practices.
A survey asked hundreds of wartime Ukrainians what they dreamed about. Many replied: the war.
In an age of division, the court ruled that towns could not mandate polite discourse at public meetings. One official called the decision “very dispiriting.”
A.O. Scott conducts his own exit interview as he moves to a new post after more than two decades of reviewing films.
The South Carolina women begin their title defense, while a couple of No. 12 seeds have us on upset watch in the men’s tournament.
No. 15 Princeton toppled Arizona, a No. 2 seed that was one of the favorites in the field, while No. 13 seed Furman knocked down No. 4 Virginia.
Led by center Zach Edey, the Boilermakers, who play on Friday, have earned a No. 1 seed in the N.C.A.A. men’s tournament.
Genetic samples from the market were recently uploaded to an international database and then removed after scientists asked China about them.
A plan led by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and JPMorgan Chase’s chief executive led to a $30 billion infusion by 11 of the largest U.S. banks.
The S&P 500 climbed by midday as shares of First Republic Bank and other regional lenders were lifted by news of a potential intervention.
The Treasury secretary said U.S. banks are “sound” but that regulators feared the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank could have led to other runs.
Economists expected inflation and rates to stay low for years. With Silicon Valley Bank’s implosion, Wall Street is starting to reckon with how wrong that prediction has proved.
Even as the stock price of Credit Suisse, the giant European lender, recovered after a plunge, shares of some midsize American banks plummeted on Thursday.
Behind the scenes, one publisher went to great lengths to avoid mentions of race, even in the story of Rosa Parks.
France is at a pivotal moment, as Parliament votes on President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to raise the legal age of retirement to 64, from 62, despite strikes and wide public opposition.
Una investigación de The New York Times revela que las fuerzas de seguridad dispararon municiones letales contra civiles desarmados, en las protestas de diciembre y enero.
A combative young Republican group in the state, firmly on the right and Trump-friendly, is wary of the official G.O.P. establishment’s more moderate path.
A New York Times investigation found that the country’s police and military fired lethal ammunition at unarmed civilians during protests in December and January.
In 2021, deaths of pregnant women soared by 40 percent in the United States, according to new government figures. Here’s how one family coped after the virus threatened a pregnant mother.
The visit, the first of its kind in 12 years, is the latest sign of a diplomatic thaw. North Korea launched a missile hours before the countries’ leaders were to meet.
After months of street protests across the country, the moment has arrived for a pivotal vote on raising the pension age.
Governments have expressed concerns that TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, may endanger sensitive user data.
Two years later, they’re suffering from a glut of red wine and plummeting grape prices with no overseas market big enough to fill the gap.
The military is using thousands of artillery shells a day as it tries to hold the eastern city, which could jeopardize a planned springtime campaign.
A pregnant woman is more likely to develop serious Covid-19 and to die of it. Several factors amplify the risks.
An Education Department regulation penalizes Fulbright-Hays applicants if they grew up speaking the language of their proposed country for research. Lawsuits have followed.
The demand hardens the White House’s stance toward the popular video app, which is owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance.
Robert Rice had been through war and was used to handling his own problems. Then an intense snowstorm in Southern California threatened to keep him from seeing his wife in her final days.
Officials were initially unsure about the need for the measures they eventually announced to shore up the financial system, but changed their minds quickly.
The incident was the first known physical contact between the Russian and American militaries since the war in Ukraine began.
Shares fell sharply, with banking stocks taking a beating, as Tuesday’s rally quickly faded.
While its leader extolled innovation and the future of tech, the bank paid less attention to risk management and was caught flat-footed by economic change.
The incident was the first known physical contact between the two militaries since the war in Ukraine began last year.
As two news events — banking turmoil and a train derailment — became flash points in America’s culture wars, conservative presidential hopefuls and media voices pounced.
Months after Ukrainian forces pushed out Russian occupiers, the city of Kherson remains very much a war zone.
Regional bank leaders offered jittery customers everything from a personal cellphone number to a video chat with Mitt Romney.
The Florida governor, who joined Donald Trump in declaring that defending Ukraine from Russia was not a vital interest, drew swift condemnations from establishment Republicans.
Students will vote Tuesday on a nonbinding referendum that considers opening admission to all nonbinary and transgender applicants. Opponents say the school’s mission is to educate women.
A major storm dropped more than two feet of snow in portions of northwest Massachusetts, while other cities only saw flurries or rain. The weather caused power outages and travel disruptions.
President Biden will announce a handful of minor steps designed to improve enforcement of existing gun laws during a trip to Monterey Park, Calif., the site of a mass shooting in January.
The Consumer Price Index cooled to a 6 percent annual pace in February, but a closely watched monthly index climbed more quickly than economists expected.
Policymakers have a duty to explain to the public how things were allowed to spin so far out of control.
It would be the tech company’s second round of cuts since November. Mark Zuckerberg, its chief executive, has declared 2023 the “year of efficiency.”
In just weeks, a gold rush into artificial intelligence start-ups has become a full-blown mania.
Legal experts said a focus of the investigation could be insider sales by several bank executives in the weeks before the bank’s failure.
The company unveiled new technology called GPT-4 four months after its ChatGPT stunned Silicon Valley. The update is an improvement, but it carries some of the same baggage.
The government will strictly limit in drinking water two chemicals that are ubiquitous in modern society but are linked to a range of health effects.
More heavy rain is soaking the state on Tuesday, with the ground still saturated from the storms and flooding last week.
OpenAI has upgraded the technology that powers its online chatbot in notable ways. It’s more accurate, but it still makes things up.
After enduring severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy, the geneticist Marlena Fejzo made finding the cause of her condition, hyperemesis gravidarum, her life’s work.
Ann Napolitano toiled in obscurity for years. Novels went unpublished; agents turned her down. She found recognition with “Dear Edward.” Then came the call: “Hello Beautiful” was the 100th pick for what is arguably the most influential book club in the world.
Russians, fleeing their country and its war, have quickly reshaped the societies of nations like Georgia and Armenia.
Those who have the luxury of working from home might end up realizing that remote work is disadvantageous to their mental and physical well-being.
Huge profits and higher demand have empowered the industry. Here’s what that might mean.
A study from the U.S. Geological Survey called the state’s python problem “one of the most intractable invasive-species management issues across the globe.”
Yevgeny Prigozhin says his Wagner force will shrink when the battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut is done. Now he’s maneuvering on the home front, for the favor of President Vladimir V. Putin.
Most older cancer patients received invasive care in the last month of their lives, a new study finds. That may not be what they wanted.
Across the country, banks of various sizes are battling market turmoil as customers rushed to withdraw their deposits and investors, worried about more bank runs, dumped bank stocks.
Officials with Signature and Silicon Valley banks, which regulators seized in recent days, called for looser financial requirements for midsize banks.
Regulators trying to stem panic among customers shut down Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank within days.
The Federal Reserve has been rapidly raising interest rates to fight inflation. But making big moves could be trickier amid instability.
Michelle Yeoh made history, Ke Huy Quan made us tear up and Cocaine Bear made us cringe. These were just some of the highs and lows.
Li Qiang’s business-friendly reputation could bolster confidence in China’s economy. But he is stepping into a role with diminished power under Xi Jinping.
In the exclusive neighborhoods and palatial shopping malls of the United Arab Emirates’ biggest city, wealthy Russians can build a new life without having to cut ties to their home country.
The arrangement is part of a broader effort to counter China’s military development and assertive territorial claims across Asia.
An agreement between attorneys general and major drug distributors increased scrutiny on medications for A.D.H.D., addiction, anxiety and pain.
The president has met Republican demands for debt reduction with a plan to trim deficits by taxing companies and the rich.
Li Qiang, the country’s No. 2 leader, sought to reassure entrepreneurs who have been wary of making new investments.
The futuristic film from the studio A24 won seven awards, including for best picture, directing and in three of the four acting categories.
Regulators said keeping open the 24-year-old institution, which held deposits from law firms and real estate companies, could threaten the financial system’s stability.
There are challengers, of course, but no team is tougher on paper than the undefeated, reigning champion Gamecocks.
Alabama, Houston, Kansas and Purdue earned No. 1 seeds in a tournament where top teams seem more beatable than usual, and others that usually might be considered upstarts have viable paths to the championship.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sought to reassure the public on Sunday as regulators scrambled to ensure that one bank’s failure would not spur broader problems.
Both countries as well as the broader region have much to gain from the reset in relations — if the agreement truly holds.
Some of the unflattering private messages among the network’s hosts and executives may never become evidence when Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation case against Fox News goes to trial.
Here’s one takeaway: The bank’s extremely online clientele may have contributed to its downfall.
The implosion of the Silicon Valley bank led to finger-pointing, as executives and investors jumped on the crisis for their own messaging.
Brokering a rapprochement between the Middle Eastern rivals underscores the Chinese leader’s ambition of offering an alternative to a U.S.-led world order.
Britain’s defense intelligence agency said that Russian forces had taken control of most of Bakhmut’s east, but advances farther west might be challenging.
Hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in a high-tech gamble to make hydrogen clean, cheap and widely available. In Australia’s Outback, that starts with 10 million new solar panels.
Decades after Cesar Chavez made the union a power, it has lost much of its clout. Membership dropped precipitously, from 60,000 to 5,500. It hopes a new law will turn the tide.
Some who till the breadbaskets of Ukraine have already lost three seasons of planting to war. With mines and cluster bombs widely scattered, normal harvests seem far in the future.
The Florida governor accused the Democratic prosecutor of undermining public safety. But a close examination of the episode reveals just how fueled it was by Mr. DeSantis’s political aims.
What could be more optimistic than dining with eight people you’ve never met in hopes of make a new friend?
The agreement negotiated in Beijing to restore relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran signaled at least a temporary reordering of the usual alliances and rivalries, with Washington left on the sidelines.
Lobbying at the International Labor Organization dovetailed with an influence campaign that sparked a corruption scandal at the European Parliament.
The decision would allow an enormous $8 billion drilling project in the largest expanse of pristine wilderness in the United States.
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida visited Iowa on Friday, providing a window into his still-untested skills as a retail politician.
Young companies raced to get their money out of the bank, which was central to the start-up industry. Some said they could not make payroll.
Mr. Cohen, Donald J. Trump’s former fixer, is the key witness in a case built around a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.
The regional rivals have agreed to re-establish diplomatic ties in an agreement brokered by China that could reverberate across the Middle East and beyond.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took control of the bank’s assets on Friday. The failure raised concerns that other banks could face problems, too.
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank comes as investors have been flipping between worrying about the economy and seeing an end to the recent market turmoil.
The agreement between the regional rivals was facilitated by China, underlining the country’s growing economic and political importance in the Middle East.
The Federal Reserve is anxiously parsing incoming data as it decides between a small or a large rate move this month.
The Communist Party-controlled legislature endorsed Xi Jinping for an unprecedented third term as China’s president in a ritual ballot, cementing his dominance.
As Xi Jinping starts his third term as president, he is pushing sweeping changes to the rest of the country’s leadership to elevate his allies.
New energy sources to replace oil and natural gas have been easier to find than kicking the dependency on Rosatom, the state-owned nuclear superstore.
After two years championing progressive priorities, the president is speaking more to the concerns of the political middle as he prepares to announce a campaign for a second term.
The former president was told that he could appear before a Manhattan grand jury next week if he wishes to testify, a strong indication that an indictment could soon follow.
The Saudi crown prince is seeking a civilian nuclear program and security assurances from President Biden, a steep price for an agreement long sought by Israel.
Of 81 missiles fired, six were hypersonic weapons, among Russia’s newest and most advanced, which are all but impossible to shoot down. The attacks killed at least nine people.
The president requested trillions in new spending that has no chance of passing a Republican House, even as he sought to reduce deficits by raising taxes on businesses and the rich.
Moscow on Thursday fired the largest number of the air-launched weapons used in a single wave since the war began a year ago.
President Biden said his budget was designed to “lift the burden on hard working Americans” and drew sharp contrasts with the proposals that Republicans have offered.
Jenna Ellis acknowledged that she knowingly misrepresented the facts about election fraud in a disciplinary procedure by Colorado state bar officials.
In theory, funding the government takes place in two major stages. But it’s a fraught and complicated process; here’s a step-by-step guide.
It was not clear whether the government intended to scrap the legislation, which critics said mimicked a law that stifles dissent in Russia, or was merely delaying it to assuage protesters.
Incidence of illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension are climbing quickly in most sub-Saharan countries, but the conditions are rarely diagnosed or treated.
Executive latitude is necessary in a democracy, but emergency government shouldn’t be a permanent system.
Both U.S. political parties are now open to the idea that Covid may have come from a lab in China.
As the Kremlin seeks to remake Russia’s institutions to comport with its militaristic worldview, cultural figures are picking a side. One singer made his choice — and is growing rich.
Piles of snow from a relentless winter storm have trapped some residents in the San Bernardino Mountains for two weeks.
A dozen miles from the Capitol, the first-term Democrat from Pennsylvania is keeping up with his work while being treated for severe clinical depression.
Broadway’s longest running musical, set to close next month, has been a source of stability for orchestra members, many of whom have grown up with the show.
Despite Republican objections, the Michigan House of Representatives voted to repeal a right-to-work law, codify L.G.B.T.Q. rights and expand gun background checks.
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has a few tips and proven experience on how to win over disaffected Trump voters and defeat MAGA Republicans.
Evangelicals were wooed by Donald Trump’s promise of an anti-abortion Supreme Court. Now, they’re back playing the field.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new explanation for an intractable problem.
Court filings give a peek into how Rupert Murdoch shapes coverage at his news organizations.
Wide acclaim for the role of Tevye helped make him, according to one newspaper, “Israel’s most famous export since the Jaffa orange.”
The Senate minority leader tripped during a private dinner, his spokesman said. No details on the 81-year-old Republican’s condition were available.
The president’s plans have little in common with the budget Republicans are set to release this spring, as the nation hurtles toward a possible default on its debt.
Two consecutive atmospheric rivers were expected to bring the threat of flooding to parts of the state, along with heavy snowfall at higher elevations.
Fox hosts and executives privately mocked the former president’s election fraud claims, even as the network amplified them in a frantic effort to appease viewers.
Jewish American leaders are denouncing a proposal by the country’s right-wing government to weaken the power of the country’s judiciary, in ways that some call unusually forceful.
The review, undertaken after a specialized unit killed Breonna Taylor in a botched raid in 2020, paints a damning portrait of a department in crisis.
The president’s proposals, included in the budget he will release on Thursday, are expected to heavily feature tax increases on corporations and high earners.
The new technology could upend many online businesses. But for companies that figure out how to work with it, A.I. could be a boon.
Big tech companies have long been willing to fund efforts with no obvious payoff. But those groups have been hit hard in recent layoffs.
The president’s proposals, included in the budget he will release on Thursday, are expected to heavily feature tax increases on corporations and high earners.
With Social Security and Medicare off the table, conservatives are focusing on a wide range of smaller programs as a clash with President Biden and Democrats looms.
Ukraine is firing artillery shells faster than manufacturers can make them. Brussels is working on a plan to increase production by guaranteeing big advance purchases.
Ukrainians say Russia’s Wagner mercenary group is running low on fighters recruited from prisons, used in attacks on Bakhmut, where Ukraine has also endured heavy losses.
New intelligence reporting amounts to the first significant known lead about who was responsible for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines that carried natural gas from Russia to Europe.
The president’s plan targets Americans earning more than $400,000 a year in an attempt to increase the program’s solvency by 25 years.
The president’s plan targets Americans earning more than $400,000 a year in an attempt to increase the program’s solvency by 25 years.
As President Biden prepares to release his latest budget proposal, a top economist will warn lawmakers that Republicans’ refusal to raise the nation’s borrowing cap could put millions out of work.
Facing huge economic uncertainty, the Fed is keeping its options open. Jerome H. Powell, its chair, will most likely continue that approach on Tuesday.
As Representative Josh Brecheen travels his district preparing his constituents for a debt showdown, his pitch reflects how the party has intertwined its spending fight with cultural battles.
President Biden has turned to increasingly restrictive measures as his administration prepares for the end of Title 42, which has allowed border authorities to swiftly expel migrants.
Gradual Russian advances and high Ukrainian casualties have fueled talk of a retreat from the eastern city, but Ukrainians say Russian losses are worse, a reason to keep them fighting.
The military leadership is concerned that anger over the government’s plan, with some pilots saying they will skip some training sessions and operations, could diminish military capabilities.
Pvt. Ivan Ovlashenko was one of at least 16,000 Russians who have died in Ukraine, more than in the Soviets’ Afghan war. It’s getting hard for the Kremlin to cover that up.
The largest outbreak of avian influenza in U.S. history has driven up egg prices and raised concerns about a human pandemic, though C.D.C. experts say the risk of that is low.
G.O.P. activists set out to root out the “deep state” at home. An Idaho community college may never be the same.
Meena Kotwal started a news outlet focused on Dalit and other marginalized groups in India, hoping that telling their stories will help improve their lives.
At the four-day conclave of MAGA conservatives, only former President Trump provided a jolt of excitement.
Democratic candidates everywhere should be paying attention to the miserable showing of Lori Lightfoot in the mayoral primary.
As they escalate a debt-limit standoff, House Republicans blame President Biden’s spending bills for an increase in deficits. Voting records show otherwise.
In his first collection since the brand’s ad campaign controversy, the designer Demna starts to move on.
The battle for Bakhmut is not over — at least not yet. Ukrainian assault brigades offered Moscow a bloody reminder of that over the weekend.
New evidence shows that many employers are mislabeling rank-and-file workers as managers to avoid paying them overtime.
Facing eviction, a former D.J. agreed to leave his apartment after a housing nonprofit offered assistance. Now he’s sleeping on the floor in an illegal squat.
Slap fighting competitions have drawn the support of Dana White and Arnold Schwarzenegger, along with national TV audiences. But, our columnist writes, the so-called sport is indefensible.
The president’s commemoration of Bloody Sunday comes as he is expected to announce a re-election bid, which will require the support of Black voters who were decisive in helping him win the first time.
The Ukrainian military calls it the zero position, where Russian soldiers are close enough to see, and where an old war tactic takes a horrific toll.
Republican lawmakers have indicated the session will be guided by Gov. Ron DeSantis’s priorities, including a proposal that would expand gun rights.
Russian troops and Wagner mercenaries are still waging a fierce battle to encircle the eastern Ukrainian city, officials said.
A 10-day exercise gave a new Marine regiment the chance to test war-fighting concepts the Pentagon may one day need in a battle with China.
As traditional weapons suppliers like the U.S. face wartime production shortages, South Korea has stepped in to fill the gap, while trying not to provoke Moscow.
Hungary has become a major testing ground for A.I. software to spot cancer, as doctors debate whether the technology will replace them in medical jobs.
China’s government said it expected the economy to grow “around 5 percent” this year. A meeting of the top legislature will reinforce Mr. Xi’s grip on power.
Donald Trump basked in affection from activists at CPAC on Saturday. But his campaign is preparing for an ugly, protracted primary fight for the nomination — and pledging even an indictment would not stop him.
Against the odds, Ukraine’s helicopter brigades are not only still operational, but are an inspirational component of its war effort.
Ukraine’s military said that Russia was continuing its efforts to encircle the city but that it had beaten back several attacks.
The state, surrounded by neighbors with abortion bans and restrictions, has had a 37 percent rise in abortions since the constitutional right to abortion was overturned.
President Biden said he and Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, would work in “lock step” to provide military support to Ukraine.
Ukraine is determined to hold the eastern city as long as it can. How high a price is it willing to pay? What might force its withdrawal? And what would a retreat look like — and mean?
A major topic of talks was how to hold Russia accountable for any war crimes committed over the past year.
Members of Congress are pressing for changes to the law and the Biden administration’s approach as federal and state enforcement agencies begin a crackdown on companies that employ underage migrants.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois has maintained his political organization, built a progressive record and is open about his ambitions. For now, he says, they don’t include the White House.
The city of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, has taken on a deep symbolic resonance for both sides, which have incurred staggering numbers of casualties.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives Friday for a quiet working visit with President Biden, sparking speculation that they will discuss tough questions on how to end the war.
The European Union and NATO have promised a path to membership for the embattled country. But real partnership will hold risks and benefits for both sides.
Prosecutors have said that they would seek life in prison without the possibility of parole, and not the death penalty.
The verdict came less than three hours after jurors began deliberating. It followed a six-week trial that served as a reckoning for Mr. Murdaugh, a lawyer whose life unraveled in recent years.
The exercises come as Ukraine is emerging from a winter that was expected to offer a lull in fighting. Ukraine’s president appeared to signal recently that the country is preparing for a major offensive.
The president said he would not veto legislation he had opposed that would thwart a new District of Columbia criminal code that reduces some sentences, as crime gains potency as a political issue.
The order on Thursday came as officials from Norfolk Southern were expected at a public meeting in East Palestine, giving the community a chance to confront the company over the crash’s aftermath.
The technology would have automatically stopped trains before they collided. Years of delays and neglect have left Greece with a hobbled system.
The jury on Thursday convicted Alex Murdaugh, a prominent South Carolina lawyer, of murdering his wife and son.
The Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan was a virtual city within a city. But in the end, nothing could save it.
The department told an appeals court that if President Donald J. Trump’s speech incited the Jan. 6 riot, he was not shielded by immunity.
An armed group said it briefly took control of a border town in Russia’s Bryansk region, but what actually took place there was shrouded in conflicting claims.
The only way Ukraine can achieve total victory is with NATO troops on the ground. Is anyone ready for that?
The House Ethics Committee unanimously voted to authorize an investigation into whether Mr. Santos broke various laws or engaged in sexual misconduct.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said he told Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, that Moscow must end its war against Ukraine and return to a nuclear arms control treaty.
A surge in illegal crossings from the United States has led to calls to shut down a rural road on the Canadian border.
This secret ingredient enlivens vegan cacio e pepe, creamy mattar paneer and more recipes.
Hybrid work has been choose-your-own-adventure, but now C.E.O.s are making their choices more permanent.
For nearly 50 years, the actor has made himself go toward places other artists hardly ever seek.
Traitor or hero? A decision by the former mayor of Kherson to remain in his post under Russian occupation has divided opinion, even after he vanished.
Not all Western companies packed up and left Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. Some say Moscow has tied their hands, while others choose to stay put.
The case illustrates the enormous challenges that victims of the opioid crisis have had in getting compensation from the pharmaceutical industry, despite its pledge of billions of dollars to state and local governments.
Paul Vallas, who emerged as the front-runner with a tough-on-crime message, will face Brandon Johnson, a progressive county commissioner, in an April runoff.
The two mayoral candidates, both Democrats, are on opposite sides of the debate over crime and policing. Republicans, with an eye toward 2024, are watching closely.
Amid persistent rumors of Ukrainian withdrawal from the war’s most prolonged battle, officials said nothing about the size or purpose of the reinforcement.
India’s homegrown instant payment system has remade commerce and pulled millions into the formal economy.
Proponents of more aid fear that growing taxpayer fatigue toward shipping tens of billions of dollars overseas could undercut the war effort.
President Biden has tried to bypass gridlock in Congress by using executive power. The Supreme Court is skeptical, and could curb that authority.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is scrutinizing the former president’s role in the hush money payment to a porn star.
David O. Brown, the superintendent, said he had accepted a job as chief operating officer of a personal injury law firm in Texas.
In closing arguments, the lead prosecutor said Alex Murdaugh killed his wife and son to hide financial crimes. The once-influential lawyer has insisted on his innocence.
The Democratic Unionist Party has no legal power to hold up the agreement, which would simplify post-Brexit trade rules. But a rejection could sabotage efforts to restart Northern Ireland’s government.
The statement jacket designed by Rachel Antonoff and patterned with farfalle has become a social-media and street-style sensation.
Joseph DeRuvo Jr. has lived a mostly barefooted life for nearly two decades. The experience has given him a thick skin.
A procedure called EVT is creating radically better outcomes for patients, but only when it’s performed quickly enough — and that requires the transformation of an entire system of care.
The Nordic partners wanted to join together, but with Turkey holding up Sweden’s application, Helsinki will reluctantly enter alone to ensure its security.
Britain and the European Union have long clashed over post-Brexit rules known as the Northern Ireland protocol. Here’s how their renegotiated agreement will work.
A three-week fight in the town of Vuhledar in southern Ukraine produced what Ukrainian officials say was the biggest tank battle of the war so far, and a stinging setback for the Russians.
The administration faced a conservative court that has insisted that government initiatives with major political and economic consequences be clearly authorized by Congress.
Some Republicans and Democrats quizzed military officials about the money that has been sent to Kyiv so far and what is still to come, threatening a consensus in favor of aid.
The president has tried to highlight years of Republican proposals that call for scaling back popular — and increasingly expensive — federal programs.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised stability, but two months into his new tenure, Israeli divisions have deepened, West Bank violence has escalated and splits have emerged in his coalition.
The administration says the conditions it has attached to $40 billion in new subsidies will help U.S. semiconductor makers compete globally. Some economists disagree.
A sprawling new program for the semiconductor industry is foremost about national security, but it will try to advance other priorities as well.
King Charles’s meeting with an E.U. leader on the day a Northern Ireland trade deal was announced drew angry recriminations from critics who viewed it as an improper foray into British politics.
In a new film, “Slava Ukraini,” the writer and filmmaker Bernard-Henri Lévy warns of a heavy price if the West fails to defeat Putin in Ukraine.
President Biden’s move means the student loan balances of millions of people could fall by as much as $20,000. This F.A.Q. explains how it will work.
The ruling Communist Party is waging an ambitious propaganda campaign to rewrite the public’s memory of its handling of the pandemic, which included some of the harshest restrictions in the world.
In addition to removing an obstacle to London-Brussels relations, the Northern Ireland trade deal could remove Brexit from the center of British politics after seven divisive years.
The struggle to deliver on promises to provide Leopard 2 tanks for use against Russian forces has exposed just how unprepared European militaries are.
The scale of the earthquake death toll has raised questions about who is to blame for shoddy construction.
How a white politician from the South who once supported segregationist policies eventually won the enduring support of Black voters.
An unlikely confluence of factors, including climate change and online shopping, appears to be at least partially to blame for the uptick.
The question is not which allies he hopes to empower or which elections he hopes to win, but what order he hopes to create and usher into being.
The administration faces a conservative court that has insisted that government initiatives with major political and economic consequences be clearly authorized by Congress.
The comic actor balked when he was offered a travel show. But hosting “The Reluctant Traveler” showed him the (mild) joys of leaving his comfort zone.
There is a way for Joe Biden to let his son stand on his own without giving in to the Republican circus on the Hill.
As of Wednesday, the city will no longer require people to wear masks indoors, outdoors or on public transportation.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces a wide field of challengers on Tuesday, including one front-runner who has portrayed Chicago as a city in disarray.
When the pandemic took hold, Chicago was awash in affectionate memes featuring Lori Lightfoot, the city’s stern, no-nonsense new mayor. Since then, the joke has worn off.
With a history as a date rape drug, a medication needed strict distribution controls. Its maker, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, used that to delay competition.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack on the judiciary is throwing Israel into chaos.
Early in the war, thousands of pets were ferried out of danger, mostly to other European countries. But now adoptions are waning.
In return for vast subsidies, the Biden administration is asking the chip industry to make promises about its workers and finances.
Imports are way up, retail shops are proliferating and more sake breweries are opening.
A month into the campaign, Russian forces have barely budged despite forays by small units in fields, pine forests and ruined towns.
A Supreme Court decision has produced scores of new lawsuits, sowing confusion as jurists and citizens sort out what’s legal now.
Despite interest rate increases meant to cool the labor market, companies outside the tech industry worry about having too few workers, not too many.
Three civilians were killed in the eastern Donetsk region and two others in Kherson, Ukrainian officials said.
No event has transformed the continent more profoundly since the end of the Cold War, and there is no going back now.
A number of new incentives encouraging people to have children highlight the challenges China faces in trying to boost its declining birthrate.
Thirty years ago today, Tim Lang was injured in the first attack on the twin towers, an ominous but often overlooked prelude to 9/11. He does not forget.
Here’s a guide to how the biggest war in Europe since World War II came about, and what’s at stake for Russia and the world.
Defiant resistance to Iran’s mandatory hijab law has exploded across the country after nationwide protests that erupted last year.
In Nigeria’s presidential election on Saturday, voters are desperate to elect a leader who can unleash their youthful country’s potential and chart a new course after years of dashed hopes.
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen urged her counterparts at a summit in India to condemn Russia’s actions, and she defended the cost of supplying aid to Kyiv.
Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make some of the country’s best-known products.
As tech companies cut costs and move to remote work, their left-behind office furniture has become part of a booming trade.
On the anniversary of the invasion, Volodymyr Zelensky held a marathon news conference and vowed victory if Ukraine’s allies remained united “like a fist.”
The Biden administration announced new measures targeting Moscow and supporters of President Vladimir V. Putin’s war.
Moscow and Kyiv face daunting challenges in moving forward, with no clear sense of what an attainable victory might look like.
A powerful storm has brought snow to the West Coast and snarled traffic throughout California — including in Los Angeles County.
A year after Russia’s invasion, Beijing released a paper declaring its position on the war: It called for an end to the fighting but avoided demands that could hurt its ties with Russia.
The ripple effects of Russia’s invasion have reordered lives and upended economies. Here are some of the consequences.
J.D. Vance, the freshman senator from Ohio, is in the spotlight for the first time in his tenure as he responds to the train derailment and its aftermath.
The relationship between the two leaders has become critical to the future of the international order.
Worries about gas and oil supplies have greatly eased. But reverberations from the war in Ukraine continue to cloud longer-term forecasts.
Bolder disclosures are part of a larger effort to stymie the Kremlin’s offensive in Ukraine and align support for Kyiv’s war effort in allied countries.
In choosing to testify on Thursday, Mr. Murdaugh took a gamble that could determine whether he is acquitted or sent to prison for life.
The crew tried to slow down after an overheated wheel bearing set off an alarm, but 38 cars still ended up leaving the tracks, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
Journalism experts said it was a sign that covering local news was growing more dangerous. The gunman killed two other people, including a 9-year-old, and wounded two more, the authorities said.
The power outages swept the Upper Midwest and New York State, and most were reported in Michigan, where a firefighter was killed.
After the West Coast storm battered parts of Oregon, officials warned California residents to prepare for dangerous weather through the weekend.
An explosion in proposed clean energy ventures has overwhelmed the system for connecting new power sources to homes and businesses.
The train derailment in Eastern Ohio has spawned conspiracy theories and contradictory narratives, with politicians from both parties parading through town to further their agendas.
Over two weeks, more than 50,000 people descended on a small campus chapel to experience the nation’s first major spiritual revival in decades — one driven by Gen Z.
Prosecutors have asked a federal judge to set aside any claims of executive privilege that former Vice President Mike Pence might raise to avoid answering questions.
At 89, after more than 30 years in the Senate, a trailblazing woman has announced her retirement.
Under Mark Brnovich, a Republican who left office in January, a 10,000-hour review did not see the light of day. His Democratic successor, Kris Mayes, released investigators’ findings.
The leader of Wagner appears to have backed down from his latest criticism of Russia’s senior command. But his vitriolic remarks suggested more discord in Russia’s war effort.
Elizabeth Koch, daughter of Charles Koch, the billionaire right-wing political force, has a new venture that is all about self-investigation. Two words: Perception Box.
The new collection “Jessye Norman: The Unreleased Masters” raises artistic and ethical questions.
Ukraine has long relied on Russian weapons for its armed forces. Now it is scrambling to get Soviet-era ammunition for those weapons, with the help of manufacturers even in rural corners of Eastern Europe.
For Kormotech and its 1,300 employees, Russia’s invasion disrupted everything. After nimble decision-making and good fortune, sales are up, providing Ukraine with much-needed tax revenue.
Ahead of a meeting of G20 finance ministers, the Treasury secretary offered a dark assessment of Russia’s economy and warned China of the consequences of helping Moscow skirt U.S. sanctions.
On the surface, it looked like a reversion to the Cold War era. The reality was even more complicated.
Los cambios suceden en la antesala de los comicios presidenciales de 2024 y son parte de un patrón de desafíos a las instituciones democráticas en el hemisferio occidental.
Nearly a dozen explosions rang out in the Russian-held Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, site of one of the best-known battles of the war.
The changes come ahead of a presidential election next year and are part of a pattern of challenges to democratic institutions across the Western Hemisphere.
In granting exclusive access to Jan. 6 Capitol surveillance footage to a cable news host bent on rewriting the history of the attack, the speaker effectively outsourced a politically toxic re-litigation of the riot.
The revelations from grand jury proceedings in Georgia are the latest signs that federal and local inquiries into the former president could reach key decision points in coming months.
The two-day testimony of Jeremy Bertino, a former leader of the far-right group, shed new light on the Proud Boys’ growing desperation in the weeks before the riot.
A concert and rally in Russia’s largest stadium romanticized the invasion of Ukraine, as Vladimir V. Putin and his government seek to normalize the country’s war footing.
The special counsel overseeing the inquiry into Donald Trump’s efforts to retain power after the 2020 election wants the former president’s daughter and son-in-law to testify to a grand jury.
Instead of the chilling rationality of HAL in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” we get the messy awfulness of Microsoft’s Sydney. Call it the banality of sentience.
Raghavan Iyer, whose books and spirited teaching spread the cuisine, is using his last days to get familiar comfort foods to patients like himself.
Bao Fan’s firm says he’s unreachable, and others in the tech sector are worried for him and fear what his disappearance says about China’s heavy hand in business.
Plains, Ga., is indelibly linked with the legacy of the 39th president. After he entered hospice care, the town has been gripped by a somber and sometimes strange wait.
Employee doubts are rising about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s $40 billion investment in an Arizona factory.
A gunfight broke out between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian gunmen during an Israeli operation to arrest Palestinian fighters. Ten Palestinians were killed and more than 100 others wounded.
U.S. officials pledged to crack down on shipments to Russia that can be used for both civilian and military purposes, but that has proved hard to police.
A tough new immigration measure could disqualify the vast majority of migrants from being able to seek asylum at the southern border.
As Biden’s economic team turns over, we look at its successes and failures over the first two years.
The country, once one of the world’s most ethnically and culturally homogeneous, has accommodated far more refugees from neighboring Ukraine than any other nation.
After 50 years of prohibition, state legislatures in the United States are now considering decriminalizing the drugs.
The derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals upended a region of Ohio where generations of families could afford to buy acres of land, raise livestock and plant gardens.
Much of the initial work required to build the first ocean turbines that will deliver power to New Yorkers is being done elsewhere.
After losing crucial seats in the congressional midterms, a bitter civil war over the moribund state organization has spilled into the open.
In a pared-down Broadway revival of “A Doll’s House,” the Oscar-winning actress doesn’t have props, period costumes or much of a set. To her surprise, she likes it.
The state has become a hub for chip makers including Intel and TSMC, as the government prepares to release a gusher of funds for the strategic industry.
Prison officials and judges have been reluctant to support “compassionate releases” unless an inmate is ill, dying or incapacitated by age.
The report found that the economy was a bigger problem than cultural issues for the party in the industrial Midwest. It also found hopeful signs for Democrats.
From Serial Productions. A long-unsolved murder. An unexpected arrest. A slam-dunk case that mysteriously fell apart. The sound of an investigation as it unfolds. All eight parts arrive on Thurs, Feb. 23.
Researchers created a map showing where PFAS compounds, linked to cancer in humans, have been detected in wildlife. It spans the globe.
A wildly erratic season has been a blessing for haters of mittens and blizzards, but a potential disaster for businesses that rely on snow and ice.
She would not discuss specific indictments in the special grand jury’s report but noted that its recommendations are “not going to be some giant plot twist.”
Beijing, in urgent need of reviving its economy, wants to mend ties with Europe but is struggling to create distance between itself and Moscow.
The case, concerning a law that gives websites immunity for suits based on their users’ posts, has the potential to alter the very structure of the internet.
Torrential rains could have helped to replenish depleted aquifers, but some say state bureaucracy, designed to distribute water fairly, has stood in the way.
Mutual inspections have been suspended for years because of the pandemic. But New START, the last nuclear agreement between Russia and the United States, is dying.
The storm is expected to interrupt travel plans across the country and possibly bring down power lines, forecasters said.
The kingdom’s courts are meting out harsher punishments than ever to citizens who criticize the government, with prosecutions built on Twitter posts ending in prison sentences of 15 to 45 years.
Created to depict the brutality of enslavement, the works are seen by some as offensive. The school wants them permanently covered. The artist says they are historically important.
Russian forces are shelling border areas there to tie up thousands of Ukrainian troops that might otherwise defend against attacks farther south.
President Biden traveled covertly to the besieged Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, hoping to demonstrate American resolve to help defeat the Russian forces that invaded a year ago this week.
The 6.3-magnitude quake struck near a town in hard-hit Hatay Province, one of the areas most devastated by the Feb. 6 quake that killed more than 46,000 people across Turkey and northwestern Syria.
The actor’s lawyers had argued that a firearm law included by the prosecutors was not in effect at the time of the fatal shooting. It would have carried a mandatory five-year sentence.
The vastly different world views of President Biden and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia will become vividly apparent in a rare split-screen moment on Tuesday.
The Bruce family won the return of oceanfront land near Los Angeles seized nearly a century ago. Their decision to sell for $20 million set off a different debate about reparations.
Driven by worry about China’s aggression, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has adopted the most muscular foreign policy approach that the Philippines has seen in close to a decade.
With loosened rules around remote prescriptions, a psychedelic-like drug has become a popular treatment for mental health conditions. But a boom in at-home use has outpaced evidence of safety.
President Biden took a nearly 10-hour train ride from the border of Poland to show his administration’s “unwavering support” nearly a year into Russia’s invasion.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken says Washington has indications that Beijing is strongly considering giving military aid to Moscow for the war in Ukraine.
In Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion has met setback after setback. But its effect at home has been very different.
The secretary of state said that if Beijing supplied Moscow with “lethal aid,” it would further damage a U.S.-China relationship already troubled since the spy balloon incident.
Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign is a major test of her party’s views on sexism and female leaders. Just don’t call it identity politics.
The meeting resumed diplomatic contact between Washington and Beijing that had been frozen since the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon.
Wang Yi spoke at the Munich Security Conference as suspense mounted over whether he might meet on the sidelines with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken.
When Russia invaded, recruiting officers asked no questions of the Ukrainian teacher. They handed her a rifle and 120 bullets, and assigned her to a unit expecting to fight in urban combat if the Russian Army broke into Kyiv.
For now, the Turkish government is relying on short-term solutions to house an estimated one million who are crowding into gyms, hotels and dormitories. A cruise ship is set to arrive to house thousands.
One of the most challenging water-rescue training programs in the world is run by the Coast Guard on the Columbia River when the conditions are at their roughest.
The end of the search for objects downed over Alaska and Lake Huron raises the possibility that the devices will never be collected and analyzed.
The Democratic senator from Pennsylvania is the latest public figure to disclose his mental health struggles, an indication of growing acceptance, though some stigma remains.
Safety experts say a focus on financial returns may be partly to blame for derailments and accidents like the one in Ohio.
A director at Germany’s spy service was picked up on suspicion of passing intelligence to Russia. German officials and allies worry just how deep the problem goes.
In early February, Iranian state media aired a video about an underground Air Force base. Details in the footage and satellite images point toward the possible arrival of advanced Russian jets.
Mr. Scott, the only Black Republican senator, has many political assets. What he lacks is an obvious ability to win over voters who have embraced a Trumpian brand of us-versus-them divisiveness.
American officials are worried China is far along in developing military technology that operates in the unregulated high-altitude zone of “near space.”
The backtracking by the Florida Republican came after bipartisan criticism and signaled how the G.O.P. has pulled away from calls to overhaul the nation’s entitlement programs.
A string of enforcement actions, the latest involving the multibillion-dollar collapse of Terraform Labs, has put the chill on a recent Bitcoin rally.
After stocks jumped more than 6 percent in January, the tone shifted markedly this week as a steady flow of data showed the economy continued to run hot.
South Africa starts 11 days of joint naval drills with Russia and China on Friday, despite criticism from American, European and even some South African officials that it looks like an endorsement of Russia’s Ukraine war.
Exuberance in financial markets is likely to only strengthen the Federal Reserve’s resolve and shake up those very markets, our columnist says.
The state’s hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs’ reluctance to invest for the long term. It wasn’t always that way.
Luxembourg’s challenges in buying arms on the open market underscore the struggle to keep Ukraine supplied until sophisticated Western weapons arrive in the spring.
A visit to East Palestine from the head of the E.P.A. and a White House pledge to lend more support were met with skepticism in the community.
The comments, by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and others, were released as part of a defamation suit against Fox News by Dominion Voter Systems.
A spokesman for the first-term senator from Pennsylvania, who had a near-fatal stroke last year, said his depression had grown severe in recent weeks, as he has worked to adjust to life in the Senate.
Excerpts from the jury’s report, however, provided no indication of who, if anyone, jurors believed should be charged for interfering in Georgia’s 2020 election results.
For many influencers across the political spectrum, claims about the environmental effects of the train derailment have gone far beyond known facts.
A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine led to it declaring its love for me.
The Chinese government has tried to meld its military and civilian innovation, prompting a backlash from the United States.
In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the transcript.
A disastrous Russian assault on Vuhledar, viewed as an opening move in an expected spring offensive, has renewed doubts about Moscow’s ability to sustain a large-scale ground assault.
As the country’s leaders lay postwar plans, companies from around the world are jockeying for advantage in what could be a multibillion-dollar effort, although one loaded with risk.
After a decade-long investigation, a team of forensic experts issued their final report on the exhumed remains of the acclaimed Chilean poet. Here’s why there are so many questions around his death.
Beginning with a doeskin bikini in “One Million Years B.C.,” she built a celebrated show business career around sex appeal and, sometimes, a comic touch.
Nearly two weeks after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, confusing messages from government officials have frayed locals’ trust.
There has long been suspicion that Chile’s military dictatorship poisoned the nation’s most famous poet. A decade-long investigation has produced tantalizing clues, but nothing more.
An investigation had examined whether Representative Matt Gaetz broke federal laws, focusing on his relationships with women recruited online, and whether he had sex with a 17-year-old girl.
Manchester City’s 3-1 victory lifted it over Arsenal and into first place in the Premier League. But the title race is far from over.
The overdose reversal drug has been administered mostly by emergency responders and outreach workers. If the agency approves a nonprescription version, it could become as easily available as aspirin.
U.S. officials now suspect that the balloon was sent to spy on bases in Guam and Hawaii and that other downed objects were not surveillance machines. Washington’s evolving view reflects U.S. and Chinese difficulties in discerning each other’s intentions.
The mass shooting in Monterey Park threatened a community of ballroom dancers who share a rich history. They hope to find a way to carry on.
A letter to ethics watchdogs in the House of Representatives questioned if Mr. Santos’s seven-year marriage was a scheme to aid a woman’s immigration bid.
The train was carrying industrial materials used in plastics, paint thinners and other products, according to information provided to the federal government.
Congressional Budget Office projections released on Wednesday suggested rising interest rates and bipartisan spending bills are adding to deficits.
The new, A.I.-powered system was released to a small audience a week ago. Microsoft says it is working out its issues.
The decision whether to indict Trump should be based on the law, not on a fear of the consequences of indicting him.
Was your last trip lavish, budget or somewhere in between? We’re interested in hearing about how much it cost and how much you enjoyed it.
The nonpartisan budget office also said that if tax receipts fall short of projections, and Congress fails to act on the debt limit, the U.S. could run out of cash before July.
Duangphet Promthep, 17, was a member of the soccer team that escaped from a submerged cave in Thailand in 2018 and later attended a soccer academy in England. The cause of his death was unclear.
During a statement from a victim’s relative, a member of the court audience had to be restrained after lunging at the gunman.
The accusation came days after Beijing claimed that the United States had sent airships over China multiple times, ramping up tensions between the two superpowers.
A robot lowered through the ice reveals how the Thwaites shelf is melting, which will help forecast its effect on global sea level.
The fighting has also come at a cost for Ukraine, which is expending vast amounts of ammunition to repel Russia’s growing numbers of ground troops,
Notes on marmalade and Yewande Komolafe’s new spicy recipe with caramelized dates and navel oranges.
Designed by David Adjaye, a $50 million Dream Charter School rises from a ruined plant on the Harlem River. But the construction process was tragic.
A new scorecard looks at the strengths and weaknesses of Republican presidential candidates.
Walking down its streets a year ago was like wandering into the modern ruins of another empire come and gone from Afghanistan. Now, the Taliban have adopted the former diplomatic enclave as their own.
New budget projections are expected to show that the program’s spending is outpacing tax revenues as an aging population claims benefits.
Daniel Werfel is expected to defend the administration’s plan to modernize the agency at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
The gunfire on Monday night left three dead and five critically injured. For some students, the familiar rituals of sorrow, anger and disbelief were playing out again.
Nine people were rescued in Turkey over a week after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated the region. The rescues were rare bright spots in one of the bleakest periods in memory for Turkey.
Cities are a form of life and they need constant care to stay strong. They didn’t get that care in Turkey.
Investigators have not yet found any evidence that the three objects shot down in recent days were connected to China’s program of balloon surveillance.
There is magic in the moment when you realize you’ve found a friend like no other. What if we celebrated that kind of connection more?
Ignoring charges of spying, Beijing says Washington’s “overreaction” is a symptom of the country’s broken politics.
As costs rise, many older Americans have changed the way they shop and eat out. For some, it could affect their health or leave them feeling isolated.
The biggest mass shooting on a college campus was at Virginia Tech in 2008, where a gunman killed 33 people.
The Biden administration is looking into mysterious U.F.O. encounters and pushing back against China over accusations of widespread espionage.
Here is what we know about the objects as well as the Chinese spy balloon that were taken down this month.
The plane was part of NORAD, a defense organization operated jointly by the U.S. and Canada.
As Benjamin Netanyahu’s government pressed ahead with plans to limit judicial influence, Israelis thronged to unusually large rallies.
Corporate records and media reports reveal an airship scientist at the center of China’s high-altitude balloon program. Companies he has founded were among those targeted by Washington.
The U.S. and Canada are investigating three unidentified flying objects shot down over North America in the past three days. Militaries have adjusted radars to try to spot more incursions.
As the former president lobs insults and calls him “Ron DeSanctimonious,” Gov. Ron DeSantis is carefully avoiding conflict. But if he runs for president as expected, a clash is inevitable.
After two unsuccessful runs for the presidency, the Vermont senator now leads the Senate health committee, a job that gives him sweeping jurisdiction over issues he cares about.
The Wagner paramilitary group said its fighters had seized a village outside Bakhmut, as Moscow’s forces continue a brutal campaign that has nearly encircled the strategic eastern city.
In the Free Russia Legion, soldiers repelled by Vladimir Putin’s invasion have taken arms against their home country, engaged in some of the most heated fighting in the war.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the object violating Canadian airspace was taken down on his orders, a day after another aerial object was shot down near Alaska.
The overnight strikes with Iranian-made drones capped a day in which Russian forces unleashed a major barrage of missiles on critical sites around Ukraine.
As the death toll in Turkey and Syria neared 25,000, daunting challenges loomed to care for hundreds of thousands of homeless people amid the wreckage.
A furor is building among some survivors over the government’s handling of the crisis. “I have been voting for this government for 20 years, and I’m telling everyone about my anger,” said one. “I will never forgive them.”
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the once secretive tycoon, is confounding Moscow’s Kremlin-allied elite by starting to dabble in politics alongside waging war in Ukraine.
The incident comes less than a week after a U.S. fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic.
Natalia Gavrilita had been prime minister since 2021, when she took charge of the government after elections gave a strong majority in Parliament to pro-Western politicians.
Syria’s authoritarian president, Bashar al-Assad, made his first visit to Aleppo, the main city in the northwest and one of the hardest-hit areas.
Ukraine’s top military commander had earlier said that two Russian missiles crossed into the airspace of Moldova and Romania before entering Ukraine
Russia’s deputy prime minister said the country would reduce its oil production by about 5 percent to counter Western sanctions.
Some conservative thinkers are pushing Republicans to move on from Reagan-era family policy and send cash to families. A few lawmakers are listening.
The first-term Democrat is adapting to Congress while coping with the lasting effects of a near-fatal stroke, and the institution is adapting to accommodate him.
Philadelphia’s Jalen Hurts and Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes played different styles successfully on the way to becoming the first two Black quarterbacks to face each other in a Super Bowl.
Being the leader of Kherson may feel more like a curse than an honor. But one woman isn’t giving up, even though the Russians are sitting just across the river and shelling her city nearly every hour.
The earthquake that hit in southern Turkey has killed more than 17,500 people there, overwhelming the traditional funeral process and accelerating how families say goodbye.
Amid scenes of utter devastation and widespread suffering in the bitter cold, residents mourned the loss of family, friends and memories.
The move by Jack Smith, the special counsel, is one of the most aggressive in his investigation of Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in power and is likely to lead to a battle over executive privilege.
His collaborations with the lyricist Hal David — “The Look of Love,” “Walk On By,” “Alfie” and many more hits — evoked a sleek era of airy romance.
A letter from state officials is likely to fuel controversy over the College Board, which has been accused of stripping or minimizing concepts to please conservatives.
Consumers continue to absorb significant price increases by PepsiCo, Unilever and others. The companies say prices will remain high in the months to come.
The Federal Reserve has raised rates rapidly. But instead of cracking, some data point to an economy that’s thriving.
Hundreds of families searched for deceased relatives at a makeshift morgue outside a hospital in Turkey’s hardest-hit region.
On Sunday, George Toma’s perfectionism will be on display for hundreds of millions of people who will have no idea who he is or how he suffers for his work.
A big white orb has pushed the rival superpowers back to diplomatic distance, showing that peace may be frighteningly fragile.
China’s surveillance balloons have flown over more than 40 countries and are directed by the Chinese military, the State Department said. The F.B.I. is studying recovered debris.
Thousands of released convicts have been killed, many soon after arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine, Russian rights advocates and Ukrainian officials say.
Chinese military scientists have been looking for ways to make them more durable, harder to detect and even to serve as platforms that fire advanced weapons.
A subterranean hospital known as the Cave and long the destination for war wounded is now filled with casualties of the earthquake — both alive and dead.
The balloons have some advantages over the satellites that orbit the earth in regular patterns. They fly closer to earth and can evade radar.
With thousands dead and many more left homeless in Turkey and Syria, people struggling to unearth victims, bury the dead and provide for millions of survivors are pleading for more aid.
In a State of the Union address that focused heavily on job creation, the president signaled the opening of a yearslong push to persuade white working-class voters to return to the Democratic fold.
Millions fled the war in Syria for the safety of neighboring Turkey. “We want them to be buried among their family,” said a man waiting for the body of a young relative coming from Turkey.
In his first appearance before a Republican House, the president renewed calls for large new economic programs and offered no concessions on federal spending.
President Biden was heckled during the State of the Union address when he spoke about fentanyl and when he accused Republicans of threatening Social Security and Medicare.
Mr. Biden is proud of reshaping foreign policy to focus on superpower conflict, but knows it is jobs and energy prices that voters want to hear about.
His State of the Union address was not exactly a celebration of a unity agenda. But the president seemed to relish the scrimmage.
Harrowing images have emerged of some of the millions of children caught in the catastrophic earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
The revelation came in Memphis police documents related to the firing of five officers who have been charged with murder in Mr. Nichols’s death.
Shoveling snow and rubble, emergency crews worked across hundreds of miles in Turkey and Syria to save people in the aftermath of the most powerful quake in the region in decades.
In the hard-hit Turkish city of Gaziantep, a collapsed apartment building spared few of its residents. But one man heard his brother’s voice from beneath the debris.
Ms. Sanders, 40, the newly elected governor of Arkansas, is expected to highlight the age difference between her and President Biden, 80.
The economy has helped drag down the president’s numbers, with a low point coming amid record high gas prices.
The sweet messages on those valentine hearts require careful planning and editing from year to year. And they speak volumes about the state of our lives and loves.
The gap between what the United States imports and what it exports hit a record as more foreign goods came into the country.
Amid the tech industry’s worst slump in decades, industry leaders are predicting an era built on new chatbots and other types of artificial intelligence.
The White House has embraced signs that the economy is strong. For the Fed, that strength could prolong its fight against inflation.
The daughter of an eccentric Swiss collector has asked an independent panel to review whether items in his massive collection were stolen from Jews during World War II.
Just hours before Christian Atsu was trapped, he had scored the winning goal for the Turkish soccer club Hatayspor.
States are pursuing bills to bar Chinese citizens and companies from purchasing land. In Texas, legislation backed by Gov. Greg Abbott brought opposition from Democrats in the state’s growing cities and suburbs.
Syria is not able to receive direct aid from many countries because of sanctions, so the border crossing has been a lifeline.
For the first time, A.I.-generated personas, often used for corporate trainings, were detected in a state-aligned information campaign — opening a new chapter in online manipulation.
Rescues typically happen within three days of an earthquake, an expert said. The logistics of finding survivors in Turkey and Syria are daunting.
Some earlier incidents had been classified as unexplained phenomena and handed over to a Pentagon task force charged with investigating U.F.O.s.
One of the hardest hit areas was northwestern Syria, where nearly three million people displaced by the country’s decade-long civil war were already living in precarious conditions.
Here’s how to contribute to organizations that are aiding the rescue and recovery efforts in Turkey and Syria.
People in the city in southern Turkey fled from their homes into the cold after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
The deadly earthquake was felt in at least four countries, with most of the casualties and the heaviest damage reported in Turkey and Syria.
The flap with the United States raises concerns about how China wields its power in a climate where one wrong move could set off an accidental conflict.
Turkey, a hotbed of seismic activity, sits on the Anatolian Plate, which borders two major faults as it grinds northeast against Eurasia.
The expected move against Oleksii Reznikov comes amid a widening corruption scandal, although he was not implicated in wrongdoing.
The effort off the coast of South Carolina is expected to take days. Navy and Coast Guard ships have been sent to the scene.
The move by the alliance of conservative donors could provide an enormous boost to a Republican alternative to the former president.
The president plans to use his first State of the Union address since Republicans took control of the House to call for bipartisan cooperation. Neither he nor many others expect that to happen.
The balloon, spotted earlier this week over the western United States, was brought down when an F-22 fighter jet fired an air-to-air missile at it off the coast of South Carolina.
The town of Vuhledar is just a few miles from a critical rail link. Its capture would enable Moscow to more easily transfer troops between the war’s southern and eastern fronts.
Residents say the street crime unit has been an intimidating and sometimes violent presence in the city. Five Scorpion officers are charged with murdering Tyre Nichols during an arrest.
Despite expectations that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would force Europe to bolster its military strength, it has instead reinforced dependency on U.S. leadership, intelligence and might.
In the Austrian state of Carinthia, where the law favors light-colored local bees, those honey producers judged “too dark” risk eradication.
Before a Chinese spy balloon was discovered in the United States, American officials said a rival power may have used advanced technology to surveil U.S. military sites.
The proposal would radically reshape the way the party picks its presidential nominees, putting more racially diverse states at the front of the line.
Three survivors who narrowly escaped the mass shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, Calif., reflect on life after tragedy as their community returns to the dance floor.
Recent efforts by Beijing to mend ties with Washington were showing progress, but the balloon’s appearance over the United States illustrates lingering mistrust and growing tensions.
The tycoon often said the Adani Group’s goals were in lock step with India’s needs. Now, the company’s fortunes are crashing, a collapse whose pain will be felt across the country.
Innisfree M&A says Twitter, which Elon Musk bought last year, has not paid it $1.9 million for services it rendered for the deal.
The case centered on whether investors lost money because they believed Mr. Musk’s social media posts about taking Tesla private in 2018.
The board that regulates emergency medical technicians in Tennessee on Friday voted to suspend the licenses of the two E.M.T.s who arrived at the scene and failed to render aid.
A Chinese balloon has been raising a lot of questions for people who live under its path. “I did see it, and it should have been shot,” said a barbecue chef in Billings, Mont.
The report defied expectations and underscored the challenges for the Federal Reserve, which is trying to cool the labor market to fight inflation.
Tyre Nichols’s fatal beating took its place on a roster of traumatic events that have helped shape the story of Memphis as much as its world-famous musical innovations.
Since the 18th century, Russians have flocked to the healing waters of Karlovy Vary. Now, the Czech government has barred them from visiting the country, and the town must reinvent itself.
The problem of democracy and American law enforcement goes beyond questions of accountability.
The four-legged pets are welcome, but not welcome everywhere. Their owners must carry them or use a service elevator.
Cold temperatures and fierce winds are expected to intensify throughout Friday and into Saturday.
The right should love its view of masculinity, the government and what it takes to survive.
The Fed is tracking incoming labor figures as it decides how high interest rates need to go and how long they should stay elevated.
Beijing said the object, which had been seen flying over Montana, was used mainly for weather research and had strayed off course. The Pentagon described it as an “intelligence-gathering balloon.”
Nearly a year into the war in Ukraine, U.S. policymakers and intelligence analysts have more confidence that they understand at least some of President Vladimir V. Putin’s red lines.
Bird flu has spread widely among animals. Unless we act now, it soon could do the same among humans.
Though the music label ultimately backed out, the deal illustrates the temptations and risks faced by corporations seeking to capitalize on the notoriety of pop-culture figures.
The Northeast is plunging into a deep freeze. Here’s what scientists know, and don’t know, about the role of rapid Arctic warming.
John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk.
Jeff Miller is the new House speaker’s top fund-raiser and closest confidant. He is also one of Washington’s most prominent corporate lobbyists, an arrangement that is drawing scrutiny.
Dispatchers for 911 are being inundated with false, automated distress calls from Apple devices owned by skiers who are very much alive.
The industry has been rebuilding after the pandemic lockdowns. Professional and business services and government employers also hired briskly.
The chapter is closing on three years of special public health measures, but that doesn’t mean Covid is over.
Casey becomes a content moderator, Kevin breaks some news on OpenAI and Instagram’s co-founder reveals his new project.
Moscow is sending poorly trained recruits, including convicts, to the front lines in eastern Ukraine to pave the way for more seasoned fighters, U.S. and allied officials say.
Wintry conditions led to the deaths of at least 10 people in the South. More than 300,000 customers in Texas were still without electricity on Thursday.
Invoking World War II on the 80th anniversary of victory at Stalingrad, Mr. Putin repeated his false justifications for an invasion that has taken a staggering toll.
U.S. officials say they are preparing to surge forces in the event of conflict with China, including over Taiwan, but do not intend to build up permanent bases.
Francis has been slowed by age. But his enthusiastic welcome in Africa has proved a shot in the arm and provided a reminder of the papacy’s global reach.
After years of expansion and billions in profits, Big Tech is pulling back from its famously lavish spending as a long boom finally ends.
Manhattan prosecutors warned that they might charge Allen H. Weisselberg with insurance fraud to pressure him to cooperate in an investigation of the former president.
Forecasters say “a once-in-a-generation cold” could grip parts of the region on Friday and into Saturday.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is eager to highlight his crackdown on corruption, ahead of E.U. accession talks and possible Western investigations of war aid.
Mark Zuckerberg’s company recorded its biggest daily market gain in nearly a decade, as the mood brightens among tech investors.
The old aircraft carrier, once the navy’s flagship, is packed with asbestos. No country, including Brazil, will let it dock to be dismantled.
David Pressman, a gay human rights lawyer, has been accused by pro-government media in Hungary of undermining traditional values, violating diplomatic conventions and meddling in the judiciary.
With a dominant new album, “Renaissance,” and the chance to become the most awarded artist in Grammy history, all eyes are on the pop superstar ahead of Sunday’s show. What could go wrong?
Sturgeon are disappearing from North American rivers where they thrived for millions of years. And the quest to save them is exposing the limits of the Endangered Species Act.
Washington and Manila announced a plan to increase American military access on four new bases in the Southeast Asian country, a strategic partner in the region.
Russia is massing hundreds of thousands of troops and stepping up its bombardment, perhaps signaling the biggest assault since the start of the war. “I think it has started,” Ukraine’s leader says.
The resource-laden nation of nearly 300 million is a big prize in the strategic battle between the United States and China for influence in Asia.
America’s central bank has shifted into a new phase, raising rates more slowly as inflation shows signs of moderating.
Savers will benefit and borrowers can expect to pay more on credit cards, student loans and other forms of debt.
Separately, Johnson & Johnson is demanding additional payment for unwanted shots, confidential documents show.
Prices rose at an annual rate of 8.5 percent last month, down from 9.2 percent in December, but signs of persistent cost increases remain.
Hot flashes, sleeplessness, pain during sex: For some of menopause’s worst symptoms, there’s an established treatment. Why aren’t more women offered it?
There has long been an effective, F.D.A.-approved treatment for some menopausal symptoms, but too few women have a clear picture of its risks and benefits.
The F.B.I. appeared to be blinded by a lack of imagination, a narrow focus on “lone wolf” offenders and a misguided belief that the threat from the far left was as great as that from the far right, new congressional documents show.
His death after he was beaten by the police inspired anger and sorrow across the country. His family remembers him as a “beautiful soul.”
The central bank is expected to lift interest rates and offer signals about what might come next.
The hours leading up to the meeting have highlighted the differences between the White House and the Republicans who now control the House.
Recent stock gains have been driven by hope that a rate-raising cycle is close to ending. If investors decide they were wrong about this, a drop could follow.
A SkyCop camera in Memphis provided overhead footage that was instrumental in shaping the public’s understanding of what unfolded.
A top research group is urging even women without genetic risks to have their fallopian tubes removed under certain circumstances.
Economic and military uncertainty clouds the outlook for Exxon, Chevron and other energy companies, whose bonanza from high prices is already fading.
A proposal by Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida to overhaul higher education would mandate courses in Western civilization, eliminate diversity programs and reduce the protections of tenure.
The attack raised fears of a new wave of militancy from the Pakistani Taliban and sparked a heated debate over the government’s ability to meet that threat amid an economic and political crisis.
A renewed focus on fiscal restraint in the debt limit standoff with Democrats poses its own political risks.
Ahead of a meeting at the White House on Wednesday, administration officials demanded that Republicans commit to avoiding a default on federal debt.
The eurozone economy grew 0.1 percent late last year, a reflection of modestly rising optimism as energy prices have eased, but risks remain.
After meeting Israeli officials in Jerusalem, the U.S. secretary of state will meet the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah amid a sharp rise in tensions in the region.
A surge in trade by Russia’s neighbors and allies hints at one reason its economy remains so resilient after sweeping sanctions.
Black children in particular are disappearing from the city, and many families point to one reason: Raising children here has become too expensive.
After an economic collapse and political upheaval, Sri Lankans have become resigned to leaner meals and reduced horizons.
Italy’s population of elder Italians is soaring as its birthrate plummets, putting the country at the forefront of a global demographic trend that experts call the “silver tsunami.”
Russia’s invasion has disrupted the social services that help reduce harm to the women and men who sell sex, threatening public health.
The plane known as “Queen of the Skies” helped make air travel more affordable, but it has been supplanted by smaller, more efficient aircraft.
The end of the emergency, planned for May 11, will bring about a complex set of policy changes and signals a new chapter in the government’s pandemic response.
The International Monetary Fund said the world economy was poised for a rebound as inflation eases.
The police report was the latest instance in which video evidence offered a starkly different account of police violence than what officers had reported themselves.
The Manhattan district attorney’s decision represents a dramatic escalation of the inquiry, and potentially sets the case on a path toward criminal charges against the former president.
It was not immediately clear what role the officer, Preston Hemphill, had played in the incident that led to murder charges against five fellow officers fired from the police force.
If the debt limit is breached, investors expect Treasury to put bond payments first. It’d be politically and practically fraught.
Tens of thousands of inmates have joined a mercenary group fighting with the Kremlin’s decimated forces in Ukraine. Some of them are returning to civilian life with military training and, in many cases, battlefield traumas.
City leaders had praised the new group as a key strategy for fighting crime. Now they are trying to assess whether it was flawed from the start.
Five years after winning it all, Philadelphia beat San Francisco, 31-7, to claim the N.F.C. championship.
Two Palestinians shot a dozen Israelis, seven fatally, over the weekend. In the aftermath, the attackers’ relatives expressed a mixture of pride and dread.
A Times analysis found that officers gave dozens of contradictory and unachievable orders to Mr. Nichols. The punishment was severe — and eventually fatal.
Two emergency medical technicians who first evaluated Mr. Nichols have been suspended until an investigation is complete.
The area is a flash point in an offensive that Moscow views as crucial for its goal of seizing the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
The state is still reeling from back-to-back attacks that left at least 19 people dead. The killings have spurred lawmakers to call for more regulations.
The country has dropped restrictions on overseas journeys for its citizens, but once-popular destinations are still waiting for the flood of vacationers to arrive.
“Granny flats” are popping up in backyards across the country, affording Americans a new housing option. Some communities are not happy about it.
Many of the legal arguments seeking to overturn abortion bans rely on rights provided by the states, and how they are interpreted by state supreme courts.
Mr. Nichols’s family and activists had demanded the scuttling of the group, the Scorpion unit, which patrolled high-crime areas of the city.
The five officers charged with the murder of the young Black man are also Black, complicating the anguish and efforts at police reform.
The video of Memphis police beating Tyre Nichols challenges public complacency — and complicity. What are our duties as citizens and as human beings?
As public officials and others condemned the actions they viewed, initial reactions from protesters around the country were largely peaceful.
With cameras nearly everywhere, and residents wary, the authorities are moving faster and speaking critically when officers are accused of beatings.
AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The monopoly is about to end.
Video footage of the fatal encounter included critical moments in which police officers kicked, punched and pepper-sprayed Mr. Nichols, 29, while he screamed.
Despite a series of conflicts, the Memphis police force had not been in the center of the recent national debates over policing. The death of Tyre Nichols changed that.
Police body camera footage, along with surveillance video, an interview with the suspect and audio from Mr. Pelosi’s 911 call, disproved but could not stop right-wing conspiracy theories about the attack.
Lawmakers are seeking answers on why the executive branch is not as careful about protecting classified information as they are required to be on Capitol Hill.
The National Archives does not have any independent ability to enforce its request that former presidents and vice presidents scour their files for classified documents.
Ronna McDaniel won a fourth two-year term to lead the Republican National Committee, fending off a fierce challenge after the party’s poor midterm showing.
Social media posts show that Mr. Nichols harbored a mistrust of prevailing government and economic systems, yet, a friend says, he also considered trying to change policing from the inside.
Officer Brian D. Sicknick died a day after the Capitol riot. Another man initially charged in the assault was sentenced to time served.
The police said a 21-year-old man with a handgun shot people on the street at close range, then fled and was killed himself by police gunfire.
After a podcast guest claimed that tons of prehistoric remains were dumped decades ago, scuba divers suited up. But the truth is as murky as the water.
The United States will have to step up its training program to ensure the Ukrainian military can use all the Western-provided equipment effectively.
Was the company’s recent decision to sideline its spokescandies a response to cultural backlash, or just an elaborate stunt leading up to the Super Bowl?
In the audio released on Friday, Mr. Pelosi’s voice is calm and his words carefully chosen as he tries to convey the danger he is in without angering the intruder, who would go on to brutally attack him.
Mr. Nichols was pulled over by the Memphis police on the evening of Jan. 7 and died three days later. Five officers were charged with murder on Thursday.
The footage is gruesome and distressing, officials say. The family of Tyre Nichols, who was killed, and Memphis civic leaders have asked people to protest peacefully.
The seven states that rely on the river for water are not expected to reach a deal on cuts. It appears the Biden administration will have to impose reductions.
As the city awaits video of the fatal encounter with Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, a law enforcement official described the footage as “absolutely appalling.”
Mike Zhang, 71, was filming videos of the Lunar New Year celebration at Star Ballroom Dance Studio on his phone just minutes before a gunman entered and killed 11 people on Jan. 21.
Is it OK for an athlete — or anyone, really — to have an extraordinary gift and not use it? The golfer Anthony Kim apparently decided, emphatically, that it is.
The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry.
There have never been as many official skateboard parks in New York City as there today. But there’s just something about an empty plaza and a distracted security guard.
Interviews with more than a third of the Republican National Committee’s members point to a desire for an alternative presidential nominee to emerge from a competitive primary.
Decades ago, a gritty and dangerous spot under the Brooklyn Bridge was the nerve center for city skateboarders. Mayor Eric Adams just announced plans that could fix it up.
Mr. Nichols had a 4-year-old son and a tattoo of his mother’s name on his arm, his family said.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the mercenary group Wagner, may be Putin’s greatest threat to power.
The president has found a welcome foil in a new conservative House majority and its tax and spending plans, sharpening a potential re-election message.
The protests against “zero Covid” were a rare rebuke of Xi Jinping’s rule, and Beijing apparently seeks to deter those who might have been emboldened by them.
Companies that ramped up hiring in areas like technology over the past few years are cutting back as customers slow their spending.
The war has raised the influence of Central and Eastern European countries with negative views of Russia, amplified calls to expand the E.U. and NATO, and dimmed the power of France and Germany.
The decision unlocked a flow of heavy arms from Europe and inched the United States and its NATO allies closer to direct conflict with Russia.
The Simons Foundation in New York is providing annual grants to the country’s chemists, biologists, physicists and mathematicians.
Western allies have pledged to send at least 105 tanks, far less than Ukraine says it needs, and it may be months before they join the battle.
Another child saw the gun at recess, a teacher warned that the boy had a gun in his pocket and an administrator dismissed the threat, according to the lawyer for a teacher who was shot.
The case, brought by GenBioPro, a company that makes one of two abortion drugs, argues that it is unconstitutional for a state to bar access to a medication approved by the federal government.
Britain’s most revered institution plays ball with one of its most revolting institutions, even if family members are hurt.
The anger felt by rural voters toward the Democratic Party is driving a regional realignment.
America’s increasing commitment and Russia’s mobilization show how short wars become long ones.
The drumbeat of layoffs in Silicon Valley is partly a result of how the pandemic upended the economy.
Civilians, armed or not, have put their bodies on the line to stop gunmen. But in a nation trained to “Run, Hide, Fight,” many say it should never have come to that.
The election for a swing seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has huge policy stakes for the battleground state. Cash is pouring in, and some of the candidates have shed any pretense of judicial neutrality.
Ukraine’s military acknowledged a gain for Russian forces that brings them closer to encircling the strategic eastern city of Bakhmut.
The actor is a star, writer and executive producer of this new series about a therapist crushed by grief and trying to put himself back together. It’s a comedy.
As inflation hits the pockets of families who already had little to spare, food banks say they are getting much busier and seeing more people with jobs.
A Times investigation revealed that many of these institutions are abandoning patients and straying from their charitable missions.
Recent strange activity around Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, confused and excited scientists.
Amid an escalation in gang violence in small California towns, families have usually been spared. But gangs there are increasingly working with violent Mexican cartels.
Your email address has become a digital bread crumb for companies to link your activity across sites. Here’s how you can limit this.
Third parties pay writers for posts praising or panning hotels, restaurants and other places they never visited. How review sites like Yelp and Tripadvisor are trying to stop the flood.
Recent satellite imagery and video footage offer a rare look at combat fatalities sustained by the Wagner mercenary group in Ukraine.
The Biden administration had resisted sending tanks, which Ukraine says it needs, but the move is seen as likely to push Germany to approve the transfer of its own tanks.
After enactment of a compromise bill last year, Congress is once again stalemated on gun control, with Republicans seeking to protect the free flow of guns and Democrats calling for more limits.
The Judiciary Committee, responding to the bungled sale of Taylor Swift concert tickets, heard the company apologize and its critics trace the problem to the industry’s lack of competition.
The documents were “inadvertently boxed and transported” to the former vice president’s home at the end of the Trump administration, Mr. Pence’s representative wrote in a letter to the National Archives.
The Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit, which a group of states joined, was the fifth by U.S. officials against the company since 2020.
Many of the top contenders can be watched at home. Here’s a guide to help you get a jump on the field.
The cases are markedly different in their particulars. But they are similar enough that as a practical matter, Democrats will have a hard time using the issue against former President Donald J. Trump.
The 11 people killed on Saturday night at Star Ballroom Dance Studio were six women and five men who ranged in age from 57 to 76.
It’s a record-setting year for performers of Asian descent. In the actress race, there’s room for Andrea Riseborough but not Viola Davis or Danielle Deadwyler.
The Army’s top acquisition official says production of the 155-millimeter shells badly needed by Kyiv will rise to 90,000 a month in two years.
In the first few weeks of 2023, at least 69 people have been killed in mass shootings across the country, including two shootings within days of each other in California.
Kyiv has been pleading for months for hundreds of modern battle tanks to reinforce its battered Soviet-era fleet.
The police arrested a 67-year-old suspect, who the county sheriff said was “fully cooperating.”
The 1994 ban blocked the sale of 19 specific weapons that have the features of guns used by the military. It expired in 2004 and any new proposals are unlikely to pass a divided Senate.
A wave of transformative but hugely expensive treatments is challenging the budgets of health systems in wealthy nations. Now countries with far fewer resources are wrestling with how to cover the therapies.
Stressful Covid lines are out, and happy lines are back, with New Yorkers and visitors queuing up for Sondheim, croissants and brunch.
In one deep-red pocket of rural Pennsylvania, three warring factions each claim to represent the Republican Party. Tensions boiled over in a scuffle over a booth at a farm show.
An analysis of workers’ compensation claims in New York found that 71 percent of claimants with long Covid needed continuing medical treatment or were unable to work for six months or more.
Leery of Russian aggression, Europe’s economic giant is making a historic attempt to revitalize its armed forces. It has a long way to go.
After the collapse of FTX, prosecutors and lawyers have scrutinized its discredited founder’s huge investment in Modulo Capital.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a news network originally set up as a C.I.A. operation early in the Cold War, is experiencing a renaissance and making a case for its independence.
Lawyers for Mr. Nichols’s family said he was beaten by officers for three minutes, according to video footage that has yet to be publicly released.
Officials are still releasing the names of the 11 people killed at a Los Angeles dance club.
He was 72, divorced and a naturalized U.S. citizen, according to information from the police and legal documents.
The four members of the far-right militia were found guilty of seditious conspiracy nearly two months after the group’s leader, Stewart Rhodes, was convicted of the same charge in a separate proceeding.
Richard Barnett became one of the highest-profile defendants charged in the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol after he was photographed with his boot on a desk in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.
Despite an injection of funding, the agency still has not recovered from an exodus of scientists and policy experts, both insiders and critics say.
Even as the sprawling dining halls of old struggle with emptier workplaces, food is still important to employees, particularly the young. Many companies are reinventing the company meal.
Amid Russia’s crackdown on resistance to the war in Ukraine, some have dared to lay bouquets and other offerings at a statue of a Ukrainian poet, protesting the recent Russian strike on civilians in Dnipro.
In advance of a scientific meeting on Thursday, officials proposed offering new shots to Americans each fall, a strategy long employed against the flu.
This month, hundreds of Elin Hilderbrand’s fans flocked to her freezing cold island to dance, shop, do yoga and drink espresso martinis with their favorite author. Why?
The House Jan. 6 committee report offered fresh evidence that former President Donald J. Trump was at the center of efforts to overturn election results in Georgia.
Rock-bottom rates were the secret engine fueling $1 billion start-ups and virtual attempts to conquer the physical world. But in 2023, reality bites.
Inspectors found that an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn hospital made numerous errors in administering epidurals. Some were life-threatening. One was fatal.
Brandon Tsay is being credited with preventing further violence by subduing the gunman before he could kill more people.
Many had been facing the hall’s wall-length mirror when the shooting occurred. They were practicing guangchang wu, a dance popular among middle-aged and older Chinese patrons.
A night of celebration turned into a night of horror. Jeff Liu saw a man storm in with a gun and open fire. Mr. Liu saw his wife collapse and has not seen her since.
The playlists often included songs in Chinese. The venue posts its schedule online in English and Chinese.
The shooting in Monterey Park, Calif., is the deadliest in the United States since the Uvalde massacre last year.
Educators are facing wrenching new tensions over whether they should tell parents when students socially transition at school.
A team from the Justice Department conducted a 13-hour search of the president’s Wilmington residence on Friday.
Mr. Klain’s departure would mark a rare moment of high-level turnover in an administration that has been remarkably stable through two years of crises and political battles.
An investigation of the abortion opinion leak was meant to right the institution amid a slide in public confidence. Instead, employees say, it deepened suspicions and caused disillusionment.
While Germany has not yet made a decision on whether to send Leopard 2s to Ukraine, a Kyiv official said his country’s soldiers would begin training on them.
The buildup is part of President Biden’s commitment to increase American forces in Europe in response to the Russian invasion last February.
A young founder promised to simplify the college financial aid process. It was a compelling pitch. Especially, as now seems likely, to those with little firsthand knowledge of financial aid.
America is in the middle of a streetcar boom. The billionaire would prefer that his hometown not get onboard.
A popular novel, “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” presents a sympathetic portrait of the Russian leader, critics say, raising concerns that it might influence national policy toward the Ukraine war.
The allies differ on strategy for the coming year and the more immediate question of what Ukraine needs ahead of a major offensive in the spring.
Officials tried to play down the rift. But Germany is still insisting it will not be the country to take the first step alone, for fear of incurring Moscow’s wrath.
The industry’s recent job cuts have been an awakening for a generation of workers who have never experienced a cyclical crash.
The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.
A rival chatbot has shaken Google out of its routine, with the founders who left three years ago re-engaging and more than 20 A.I. projects in the works.
Republicans are focused on voter ID rules and making it harder to cast mail ballots, while Democrats are seeking to expand access through automatic voter registration.
Activists are pushing for tougher abortion restrictions, while politicians fear turning off swing voters who don’t support strict limits like a national ban.
Advisers to President Biden calculated that the Justice Department would view possession of the documents as little more than a good-faith mistake.
One of the world’s leading battle tanks, the German-made Leopard 2 has sophisticated targeting capabilities, even in rough terrain.
The leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, published by Politico in May, was an extraordinary breach of the court’s usual secrecy.
He was an original member of the Byrds and a founder of Crosby, Stills & Nash. But he was almost as well known for his troubled personal life as for his music.
The prosecutors who decided to bring criminal charges in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer said Mr. Baldwin should have ensured his gun was safe. Some armorers questioned that.
A gun that Mr. Baldwin was rehearsing with went off, killing the film’s cinematographer. The armorer responsible for weapons on set also faces manslaughter charges.
The former president, who relied on evangelical voters in 2016, has accused Christian leaders of “disloyalty” and blamed them for Republicans’ disappointing midterm performance.
A legal reckoning awaits a chief architect of Donald Trump’s effort to reverse his election loss. But in Mr. Eastman’s telling, he was far from a criminal.
The March for Life, held each year for a half-century, should be a celebration now that Roe v. Wade has fallen. Instead, anti-abortion activists are split over what comes next.
The cases could significantly affect the power and responsibilities of social media platforms.
The risk of a federal debt ceiling breach later this year has increased. Steel yourself for trouble, our columnist writes. But remember: This, too, shall pass.
The milestone will not immediately affect markets or growth, but it sets the stage for months of entrenched partisan warfare.
Some of the former president’s most outspoken defenders will sit on the House’s main investigative committee, underscoring their high-profile roles in the new Republican majority.
The Biden administration is considering the argument that Kyiv needs the power to strike at the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
“Our energy supply for this winter is secure,” Germany’s chancellor declared as government and business leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum.
The court ruled that Aryeh Deri, a close ally of the prime minister who was convicted of tax fraud, should be removed from his posts, setting up a clash between the government and the judiciary.
At the start of his address, the Ukrainian president called for a minute of silence to honor the country’s minister of internal affairs.
The job cuts, which amount to less than 5 percent of the company’s work force, are its largest in roughly eight years.
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen will soon need to use accounting maneuvers to keep the United States from defaulting on its debt.
Through his staff hires and his public appearances with members of the House Freedom Caucus, Representative George Santos has signaled a move away from the mainstream.
Israeli officials had initially expressed concerns that the move could damage its relations with Russia.
The United States has a cap on the amount of money it can borrow. That means it can run out of cash if the limit isn’t lifted.
A default would most likely rattle markets and carry big risks, no matter how the Federal Reserve and Treasury try to curb the fallout.
Deaths outnumbered births last year for the first time in six decades. Experts see major implications for China, its economy and the world.
New government data shows that growth for the year fell far short of Beijing’s goal. With Covid curbs lifted but the pandemic’s course uncertain, hope and fear cloud the forecast.
Russia helped end a 2020 war and its troops policed the cease-fire. But with a new crisis in the Caucasus heating up, Moscow, distracted and weakened by Ukraine, has not intervened.
The authorities said 34 people remained missing after three days of searching for the living and the dead at an apartment building struck by a Russian missile in Dnipro.
Judges in 19 states and the District of Columbia are issuing orders to keep guns out of the hands of people deemed dangerous, like a Florida teenager who threatened a mass shooting.
Hundreds of homes outside the boundaries of Scottsdale can no longer get water from the city, now their owners are living a worst-case scenario of drought in the West.
With the rise of the popular new chatbot ChatGPT, colleges are restructuring some courses and taking preventive measures.
Despite some postmodern features, the fighting resembles a type of conflict from decades past: wars fought between nations in which one does not conquer the other outright.
On Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, the president assured an audience at Ebenezer Baptist Church that its side in the struggle would, indeed, overcome someday.
Rescue workers were still digging through the rubble of a residential building in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Sunday, a day after a Russian missile attack.
After Russia’s retreat from Kherson city, Ukrainians in other occupied areas of the south had expectations of quickly regaining their freedom. But those hopes have been dashed.
Schools may need to rethink everything, including recruitment, scholarships, standardized testing and alumni preferences.
Thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have fled their homelands for Bali. But even in a tropical paradise, the war is ever-present.
Western countries have balked at giving Ukraine tanks and other powerful weapons. As increased spring fighting looms, that seems to be changing.
A Times reporter and photographer rode along with a team gathering data on the colossal atmospheric rivers that have drenched the state.
The unexpected disclosure was made as the country faces mounting criticism for providing unreliable data on its latest coronavirus outbreak.
George Santos inspired no shortage of suspicion during his 2022 campaign, including in the upper echelons of his own party, yet many Republicans looked the other way.
The Treasury Department expects to begin taking “extraordinary measures” to continue paying the government’s obligations ahead of what’s expected to be a big fight to raise the borrowing cap.
The country’s largest lenders increased their reserves to protect against deteriorating economic conditions this year, after reporting resilient profits for the end of last year.
The two leaders discussed tensions with China, North Korea and Russia and plans for deterrence in Asia with U.S. troops and missiles.
With Western sanctions barring many imports, a lot of what Russia needs now travels a slow, crowded truck route through the Caucasus Mountains from Georgia.
Although the cases differ significantly, the new investigation is sure to muddy the waters politically as former President Donald J. Trump cries persecution over his own documents inquiry.
Mr. Hur spent time during the Trump administration as a top aide in the Justice Department when it installed a special counsel to oversee the Russia investigation.
Attorney General Merrick Garland provided more details on Thursday regarding the discovery of classified files associated with President Biden.
There are now two special counsels looking into presidents — Jack Smith was appointed in November by the attorney general to oversee the two investigations into former President Trump. Here’s more about the powers of a special counsel and why they are used.
The Justice Department is scrutinizing how both presidents came to have classified records after they left office. But there are major differences.
An avian flu outbreak and increasing costs of fuel, feed and packaging have contributed to an egg supply shortage and high prices in some parts of the country.
With the economy in a fragile state, Chinese officials are starting to use more business-friendly language, and also to back their words with action.
A review of records and newly uncovered documents reveals that efforts to elect George Santos may have run afoul of campaign finance rules.
As companies prepare to publish their latest financial results, Wall Street forecasters expect profits to fall for the first time since the early days of the pandemic.
The revelation is sure to intensify Republican attacks on the president, who has called former President Donald J. Trump irresponsible for hoarding sensitive documents at his estate in Florida.
Jack Smith’s challenges include a newly empowered Republican House majority and the recent disclosures of President Biden’s retention of classified documents.
The rejection by Republican leaders in Nassau County is the sharpest denunciation from Mr. Santos’s party, whose leaders in Washington have mostly stayed mum.
Unlike in colder-weather states, most homeless people in California live on the streets, in cars and along rivers. They are experiencing a long stretch of fierce storms in a way few others are.
Kyle Doan was swept out of his mother’s arms after their car was swamped on the way to school on Monday. “It’s so unfair,” his father said.
The papers include briefing materials on foreign countries dating from President Biden’s time as vice president.
Republicans pushed through a measure to create a powerful new committee to scrutinize what they have charged is an effort by the government to target and silence conservatives.
The Justice Department is scrutinizing how both presidents came to have classified records after they left office. But there are major differences.
Warm gestures by the American president have helped cement a critical relationship with a Mexican leader whose cooperation on migration, climate change and the drug trade is crucial.
At once emotional and embittered, the royal memoir is mired in a paradox: drawing endless attention in an effort to renounce fame.
In his new memoir, Prince Harry talks about taking psychedelics to deal with the ongoing pain over the death of his mother. Here’s what we know and don’t know about their effectiveness.
Residents hope that Jaylen Smith’s youthful energy and sense of purpose can improve the fortunes of Earle, Ark. — or at least attract a supermarket to the small city.
The budget gap reached 3.3 trillion rubles, or 2.3 percent of the size of the Russian economy, according to the country’s finance minister.
En un solo día se registraron al menos 17 muertes en el sur del país. “Lo que ocurrió ayer realmente fue una masacre”, dijo una activista de derechos humanos.
Major weather disasters have been striking the United States much more often in recent years as the global climate changes.
More than a foot of rain has fallen in parts of the state over the past 48 hours, flooding streets and prompting evacuations.
Hundreds of homes in the Santa Cruz region were damaged by flooding and wind. Weary residents are steeling themselves for even worse conditions this week.
After initially balking at a package of changes to House rules that enshrine concessions the speaker made to ultraconservative members, Republicans united to push them through.
Their first legislative move will seek to cut billions in funding that Democrats passed last year to help the agency crack down on tax cheats.
Earlier in the war, Ukraine’s leadership was more equivocal about pitched battles with high casualties. There’s no second-guessing this time. Some analysts say it makes sense strategically.
A cease-fire proposal seemingly aimed at splintering Western unity has instead been met with Western escalation, underscoring Moscow’s diplomatic struggles.
Many names of American service members who died in the conflict are misspelled or missing from the new memorial wall in Washington, relatives and researchers say.
Backers of former President Jair Bolsonaro ransacked government offices, denouncing what they falsely claim was a rigged election. Hundreds were arrested.
Watch key moments of rioters attacking Brazil’s Congress, Presidential offices and the Supreme Court.
History suggests that the procedural plans of the new House Republican majority are likely to lead to more gridlock and legislative instability, not less.
Before departing Brazil, the former president had urged his supporters to avoid violence.
Republicans plan to create a special subcommittee, led by a Trump ally, with a mandate to scrutinize open criminal investigations and classified intelligence.
Chechens, Crimean Tatars and people from the former Soviet republics, all with deep historical grievances against Moscow, are eagerly taking up arms for Kyiv.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s slog to his post ended with a remarkably public show of intraparty strife that played out in a history-making overnight session.
Mr. Gingrich began the zero-sum politics that mutated into the brand of the Tea Party and Trump M.A.G.A. Republicans and that presaged the raucous speaker battle in the House.
The top Republican already had to work with a tiny majority and an emboldened right flank. Concessions he made to win his speakership gave the rebels more tools to sow disarray.
An emboldened conservative flank and concessions made to win votes could lead to a protracted standoff on critical fiscal issues, risking economic pain.
An agreement with ultraconservative Republicans delivered a breakthrough for the California Republican, but he still had to claw his way to the post during a dramatic post-midnight session.
The Buffalo Bills said Hamlin “continues to progress remarkably” and his neurological function was intact.
Traders are betting that a slowdown in job growth and wage gains could reduce the pressure on prices and make the Federal Reserve less aggressive in raising interest rates.
As the Republican leader has made concessions to the far right, he has effectively agreed to give them carte blanche to disrupt the workings of the House — and to hold him hostage to their demands.
The rate of price increases in countries using the euro slowed to 9.2 percent in December, down from 10.1 percent a month earlier.
Small businesses and lower-income families could feel pinched in the months ahead whether or not a recession is avoided this year.
The parallels between a drawn-out clash for speaker in 1923 and one in 2023 suggest that not much has changed in Congress over a century.
When Damar Hamlin’s heart stopped during a game on Monday night, medical personnel can be heard responding to the kind of emergency the league hoped it would never face.
Doctors treating Damar Hamlin at a hospital said he was beginning to awaken but still critically ill and on a ventilator.
As global warming brings more intense rainfall, experts say the state needs to give rivers more room to flood safely. But the obstacles are enormous.
President Biden, who is under pressure to confront increasing numbers of migrants at the border, said he would visit El Paso on Sunday.
A powerful winter storm moving across the state was bringing heavy rain and wind on Thursday.
While much of the commentary has supported Representative Kevin McCarthy, others have backed the group of Republicans blocking him from becoming speaker.
A scandal-plagued private border fence is essentially orphaned, mostly redundant and, engineers found, at risk of floating away in a flood.
Christianity is embedded in N.F.L. culture in a way that goes beyond most sports; “Lord, I need you, please be by my side.”
Hamlin, a Buffalo Bills safety, was in critical condition at a hospital after going into cardiac arrest following a routine tackle.
A sweeping proposal by the Federal Trade Commission would block companies from limiting their employees’ ability to work for a rival.
With no unified agenda or clear leadership, Republicans face the prospect that the anti-establishment fervor that has powered the party in recent years could now devour it.
The House was scheduled to convene at noon on Thursday after adjourning for the second day in a row without a speaker, after Representative Kevin McCarthy lost a sixth consecutive vote.
Lawmakers in the House have yet to be sworn in. They can’t help constituents or get classified briefings, much less hold hearings or pass laws. And at some point, they may have trouble getting paid.
After Damar Hamlin’s collapse during an N.F.L. game, fans, coaches and players processed what it meant to love a sport that carries the risk of bodily harm for its participants.
Teams will return to practices on Wednesday, two days after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest during a game. He remains hospitalized.
The House is set to reconvene at noon to continue a historic floor fight — the first in a century — prompted by the Republican leader’s failure to secure a majority to become speaker.
The president, who has said he intends to run for re-election, will travel to Kentucky to emphasize that he is determined to reach across the aisle.
In failing to coalesce around Kevin McCarthy for speaker, Republicans showcased divisions that portend real difficulties in governing.
A lawyer and disciplined tactician, Mr. Jeffries is the first Black politician to lead either party in Congress.
The first woman to become speaker leaves a legacy that will be difficult for her successors to equal.
On the first day of the 118th Congress, the representative-elect, a Republican who has made false claims about his background, education and finances, will bring his saga to Capitol Hill.
A monthslong lobbying effort has failed to yield the breakthrough the California Republican would need to cement the top job, threatening a messy floor fight just as his party is assuming control of the House.
The rebellion has been led by a small but vocal group of ultraconservative Republicans. But there are other, less-known defectors who could help scuttle the G.O.P. leader’s candidacy.
Hamlin, a 24-year-old safety, received medical treatment on the field for 10 minutes before being taken to a hospital. The game against the Cincinnati Bengals was postponed indefinitely.
Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey joined a chorus of voices on Twitter offering prayers for Hamlin. “We are all Buffalo Bills fans tonight,” Mr. Murphy said.
The deployment to a NATO country near the conflict in Ukraine is seen as a model of deterrence for a U.S. military that has recently stepped back from direct fighting.
The Buffalo Bills safety, who collapsed during a game Monday night, created a toy drive for children in need in his Pennsylvania hometown.
The Jan. 6 committee released a whirlwind of documents in its final days and wrapped up its work on Monday.
A Ukrainian attack with U.S.-made rockets may have left hundreds of casualties, and pro-war Russians accused their military commanders of repeating fatal errors.
Representative Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, is struggling to break through a wall of entrenched opposition from hard-right lawmakers even after agreeing to weaken his leadership power.
Representative Kevin McCarthy has so far faced no viable challenger for the speakership. But if he is unable to secure the votes, an alternative could quickly emerge.
Moscow blocks most shipments from Ukraine, one of the world’s largest wheat producers, and its attacks on the country’s energy grid also disrupt the flow of food.
Brazil inaugurates its new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on Sunday. Facing investigations, former President Jair Bolsonaro has taken refuge in Orlando.
Amid a tech cold war with China, U.S. companies have pledged nearly $200 billion for chip manufacturing projects since early 2020. But the investments are not a silver bullet.
Amid a tech cold war with China, U.S. companies have pledged nearly $200 billion for chip manufacturing projects since early 2020. But the investments are not a silver bullet.
Hours before Russian troops began withdrawing from the suburban town, a Russian soldier left a trail of blood and devastated lives in a last paroxysm of violence.
Explosions hit the capital, Kyiv, and other cities on the final day of a year shaped by Russia’s invasion. Flanked by soldiers, Vladimir V. Putin called the invasion a “sacred duty” of Russians.
Benedict stunned the Roman Catholic world by becoming the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign. Now his death leaves a living pope presiding over the funeral of his predecessor.
Her fellow journalists, celebrity interview subjects and others offered tribute to the renowned newswoman.
He defined a conservative course for the Roman Catholic Church, but his papacy was noted for his struggle with the clergy sexual abuse scandal and for his unexpected resignation.
Teen pregnancies have plummeted, as has child poverty. The result is a profound change in the forces that bring opportunity between generations.
Ukrainian officials are cracking down on a branch of the Russian Orthodox Church that they describe as a subversive force doing the Kremlin’s bidding.
Google, Apple and Meta offer near-limitless digital basements in which to store photos, videos and important documents, but you should keep a copy of what you hold most dear.
The errant surveys spooked some candidates into spending more money than necessary, and diverted help from others who otherwise had a fighting chance of winning.
She broke barriers for women as a co-host of the “Today” show, a network evening news anchor and a creator of “The View,” all while gaining her own kind of celebrity.
Walters was a broadcasting trailblazer who helped develop many modern TV templates. Here are some of the most memorable moments from her influential career.
The college town of Moscow, Idaho, has been reeling since the attack last month, but the police gave no motive for the murders.
The release of former President Donald J. Trump’s private tax documents by the House Ways and Means Committee shows heavy losses from his own ventures as he continued to cash in on inherited assets.
The Supreme Court Historical Society has raised more than $23 million in the last two decades, much of it from lawyers, corporations and special interests.
Former President Donald J. Trump, who fought for years to keep his returns private, made no charitable donations in 2020, and his own tax law may have cost him. Here’s a running list of insights.
The publication of former President Donald J. Trump’s private tax documents comes amid questions about why the I.R.S. failed to fully audit him during his presidency.
Mergers and acquisitions activity plunged in the second half of the year, but there are signs that it could pick up again in 2023.
In the year ahead, the housing market may be slow to start, with home prices, rents, inventory and interest rates not moving much at all, according to economists, analysts and real estate brokers.
Russia is isolated by its invasion of Ukraine and needs China more than ever. But China, facing a Covid crisis, is in no position to risk sanctions.
In the fight against climate change, national goals are facing local resistance. One county scheduled 19 nights of meetings to debate one wind farm.
It is the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia says he wants to remedy by waging war against Ukraine; it is the legacy of Moscow’s dominance that Ukrainians hope to free themselves of by defeating Moscow.
Representative-elect George Santos, under scrutiny after fabricating much of his résumé, also spent campaign funds on $40,000 worth of air travel.
The storm raged for days, dumping four feet of snow and packing winds as high as 70 miles per hour, an unusually catastrophic combination.
Cruise missiles and exploding drones from Iran swept across the skies of Ukraine, wreaking havoc and once again knocking out power.
Nearly a week after a winter storm upended holiday travel across the U.S., the airline says it is close to resuming service “with minimal disruptions.”
In the absence of credible information from the Chinese government, researchers around the world are looking for any clues to determine the size and severity of the surge.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition will likely test ties with the United States and Europe, amid fears that it will undermine the country’s democracy and stability.
A police officer at Nashville International Airport told travelers whose Southwest flights had been canceled that they would be arrested for trespassing if they did not leave a secure area, a video shows.
In leading his national team to success on the field, a soccer star helped his country find itself.
Pelé, who was declared a national treasure in his native Brazil, achieved worldwide celebrity and helped popularize the sport in the United States.
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, whose last day as a federal employee is Saturday, plans to write a memoir and wants to encourage people to go into public service.
Tens of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have settled in Antalya, on Turkey’s southern coast, hoping to avoid the fallout of Russia’s war in Ukraine and start new lives.
New York has paid companies millions of dollars to help children with disabilities in religious schools. But the services are not always needed or even provided.
As the death toll grew, the Erie County executive criticized the Buffalo mayor, and the mayor suggested stress led to the outburst.
Prosecutors said on Wednesday that they would examine Mr. Santos, who has admitted lying about his work and educational history during his campaign.
Nearly 40 people in western New York are known to have died in the storm, but officials expect the death toll to rise.
Amid concerns about a coronavirus surge in Beijing, the Biden administration announced the change in policy for those entering the United States from China, including Hong Kong and Macau.
The bitter cold had left the region by Wednesday, but myriad broken pipes, disrupted municipal water systems and widespread aggravation remained.
The airline canceled another 2,500 flights on Wednesday and said it would be days before normal service resumes.
Many welcomed Beijing’s plan to loosen quarantine rules for travelers, but concerns linger about the country’s Covid wave.
As the Eastern United States starts to recover from a deadly weekend, the West is dealing with a fast-moving storm system that could bring flooding and mudslides, forecasters say.
Disruptions from winter storms have not only caused flight delays and cancellations, but have also separated many passengers from their luggage. Here are some ways to make reuniting easier.
As the war in Ukraine grinds on, some officials have become convinced that Iran and Russia are building a new alliance of convenience.
Doctors are exasperated by the persistence of false and misleading claims about the virus.
The temporary stay in lifting the pandemic rule known as Title 42 is a provisional victory for 19 states, led mostly by Republicans, that had sought to keep it in place on the border.
Hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled their country in recent years, escaping poverty and repression under an increasingly authoritarian government.
The Supreme Court agreed to a request from Republican-led states to keep in place — for now — a public health rule that has been used to turn back migrants during the pandemic.
Western New York is still digging out from a punishing holiday blizzard that has taken more than 30 lives.
The company canceled more than 60 percent of its flights on Tuesday and Wednesday, leaving many travelers stranded.
Flight delays and cancellations over the holiday weekend have left thousands of passengers stranded. Here’s a look at a few other notable episodes like it in recent memory.
Medical staff are outnumbered and working sick as the nation’s health care system buckles under the strain of a spiraling crisis.
Thousands remain without power in the Buffalo region, where there is as much as 49 inches of snow on the ground, with more still falling.
The congressman-elect confirmed The New York Times’s findings that he had not graduated from college or worked at two major Wall Street companies, as he had claimed.
Southwest Airlines, which canceled about 70 percent of its flights, was the airline most affected on Monday.
For a powerful government that has bragged about its command of the country, its absence at a moment of crisis has made the public question its credibility.
Two days after a raging blizzard struck, residents remained trapped in cars and in homes without heat. The death toll in the region rose to 17.
Fishermen in Sierra Leone need large amounts of ice to store their catch on multiday journeys. Like many commodities, it has become pricey.
As investigators piece together clues, Russia has quietly taken steps to begin expensive repairs on the giant gas pipeline, complicating theories about who was behind September’s sabotage.
A South Korean tour group’s van became stuck in the snow outside a house in Williamsville, N.Y. They spent the weekend with the residents — who luckily had a well-stocked kitchen.
The industry’s efforts to lure Asian customers will be a significant factor looming over the upcoming application process for new casino licenses in New York.
Father Gigante, a towering figure in the Bronx, left a $7 million fortune entirely to the son he had while he was a priest.
After retaining most of the governor’s offices they hold and capturing the legislatures in Michigan and Minnesota, Democrats are putting forward a long list of proposals to expand voting access.
The alert was lifted in most areas after about two hours. President Vladimir V. Putin repeated the claim that he invaded Ukraine to defend Russia’s national interests.
At least three people have died in Erie County, and thousands were without power. The bitingly cold temperatures are expected to persist.
A partisan cell in Kherson spied on, undermined and even hunted down Russian soldiers. Now that Vladimir V. Putin’s forces are gone, people feel free to talk — and to brag a little.
A railway bridge with a shallow underpass is bashed into by vehicles with startling regularity, causing mostly embarrassment, but sending cargo — flowers, bicycles, eggs and potatoes — flying onto the roadway.
Many police chiefs say staffing levels have not rebounded from a wave of resignations that started with the pandemic and the 2020 unrest.
One town is protecting a statue of St. Nick with sandbags, another is putting its Christmas tree underground and others are cranking up noisy generators to keep the holiday spirit alive.
As Moscow wages war in Ukraine, its mercenaries have already established control in the Central African Republic — with scant Western reaction.
Even Canadians accustomed to the vagaries of Arctic weather systems contended with a long list of extremes, including cold that “freezes flesh in minutes.”
A barreling storm thrust piles of snow against the fronts of homes and businesses, pinning vehicles parked in roads and driveways. The few people who ventured out faced bitterly cold temperatures.
A precariously narrow but consequential slice of the electorate broke with its own voting history to reject openly extremist Republican candidates — at least partly out of concern for the health of the political system.
A host of Democrats and Republicans say they’ll discuss running for office with their families, weighing their political futures with eggnog, board games and maybe a wise uncle.
Roughly two-thirds of the U.S. population — more than 200 million people — were under winter warnings or advisories at one point on Friday.
The final report of the committee provides many new details on former President Donald J. Trump’s actions and a record for history. But Republicans will soon begin a campaign to discredit it.
After sporting events were canceled in Iowa, Mark Woodley was pressed into service covering the storm. “I didn’t realize that there was a 3:30 also in the morning until today,” he said.
The bill, which passed the Senate on Thursday, now heads to President Biden’s desk for his signature.
Wind, ice and snow are snarling air travel across the United States, and playing havoc with rail and road travel as well.
These storms aren’t tremendously rare, but this particular one is much more powerful than most.
The report expanded on this summer’s televised hearings, describing in detail what it called former President Donald J. Trump’s “multipart plan” to overturn the 2020 election.
Cassidy Hutchinson recounted to the House select committee how a lawyer with ties to former President Donald J. Trump said to her that she should “focus on protecting the president.”
The Biden administration continues to balk at sending U.S. battle tanks, fighter jets and long-range missiles to Ukraine.
Ukrainians, many left in the dark and cold by Russian airstrikes, drew solace from President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to Congress.
The agency lacks the resources to go after rich taxpayers. For years, a single revenue agent was responsible for the audits of Donald J. Trump.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine came to Washington wearing his reality on his sleeves.
The disgraced cryptocurrency executive appeared in court in Manhattan after his extradition from the Bahamas last night. He was granted bail and will live with his parents in California.
Exclusive evidence obtained in a monthslong investigation identifies the Russian regiment — and commander — behind one of the worst atrocities in Ukraine.
For all the talk of victory, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s remarks in Washington revealed hints about his worries for the year ahead.
President Volodymyr Zelensky described military assistance for Ukraine as an investment in global security and democracy in the face of Russian aggression.
One of the Ukrainian leader’s overriding aims is to prevent support for the war from becoming a partisan issue.
The United States is sending its most advanced ground-based missile defense system to Ukraine, as Russia continues to pummel the country with airstrikes.
American officials believe that with Russia bolstering defenses and learning lessons, Ukraine will find it more challenging to retake land.
The Russian leader’s speech to defense officials was his latest effort to show he has no intention of giving up in the war on Ukraine.
The visit will be the first time President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has left his country since Russia invaded in February.
The former president reported a burst of income after entering the Oval Office, but by the end of his term, his tax filings had reverted to large losses, according to data released by a House panel.
The legislation, which would fund the government through September, would significantly increase federal spending and provide billions of dollars in emergency aid.
A big boost for the military, more aid for Ukraine, a preference for the lobster industry over whales and an overhaul of the Electoral Count Act are among the provisions in the 4,155-page bill lawmakers expect to pass this week.
The spending bill unveiled Tuesday includes billions more for the country than President Biden had requested.
A fight between Virginia and Maryland lawmakers over a new location for the F.B.I. headquarters held up a 4,155 page must-pass government funding measure.
Several provisions in the spending bill outline new ways employers can help workers save for retirement.
The Ways and Means Committee’s vote is expected to end a battle that Democrats in the House have been waging since 2019, when they began trying to perform oversight of then President Donald J. Trump.
Britain is experiencing a crisis in ambulance response times, part of a broader breakdown in the country’s revered National Health Service. We rode with one crew to witness the problems in real time.
Revealing private documents risks a tit for tat with Republicans set to retake control of the House of Representatives.
Former President Donald Trump’s current woes extend beyond the report by the House Jan. 6 committee, but the case the panel laid out against him further complicates his future.
The committee also accused the former president of three other federal crimes, including conspiracy to defraud the United States. Five Trump allies were referred as well.
The department is under no obligation to adopt the House committee’s recommendations, and not much is publicly known about any specific charges that the special counsel might consider.
The House panel investigating the Capitol attack is set to release its report and may back criminal charges against the former president, while a separate committee could decide to release his tax returns.
After micromanaging the coronavirus strategy for nearly three years, the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, has suddenly left the populace to improvise.
The committee, which consistently broke new ground for a congressional investigation, is expected to approve its final report and vote on issuing criminal and civil referrals against Donald J. Trump.
It looked like another title might have slipped through its fingers, but Argentina, and its star, claimed the ultimate trophy.
Kylian Mbappé twice brought France back to tie Argentina, but his bid to lead his country to consecutive World Cup titles fell short on penalty kicks.
Argentina and France each scored two goals in regulation, both scored once in extra time, and Argentina won in a penalty shootout, 4-2. See all the highlights from Telemundo and Fox.
An adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Western allies to take seriously the threat of a new Russian onslaught, which could include mass infantry attacks.
The charge of seditious conspiracy is the same as in a recent trial of members of the Oath Keepers militia, but the Proud Boys defendants are accused of a central role in the fighting at the Capitol.
The song, Muchachos, Ahora Nos Volvimos A Ilusionar, has been a constant refrain in Qatar.
Amid doubts about Moscow’s true war losses, Russian data journalists and volunteers use news articles, tombstone photographs and other open-source information to tally the Russian toll from the war in Ukraine.
The combination of the war in Ukraine and concern about longer-term threats from Russia and China are driving a bipartisan push to increase U.S. capacity to produce weapons.
European teams had planned to highlight inclusivity on soccer’s biggest stage. They blinked when the sport’s governing body flexed its muscles.
Scofflaws are tampering with tags, costing New York agencies more than $100 million a year in missed payments and fines. A group of citizen enforcers is coming to the city’s rescue.
In current politics, it isn’t just anti-Trumpers who find themselves frustrated by voters’ refusal to look backward.
Tech workers are still at home. The $17 salad place is expanding into the suburbs. So what is left in San Francisco?
Federal prosecutors appear to be focusing on possible wrongdoing by cryptocurrency executives, rather than by Democratic or Republican politicians. But the inquiries widen an explosive campaign finance scandal.
France might have its star Kylian Mbappé, but Argentina has hundreds of “brujas” casting spells to protect Lionel Messi and the rest of its national squad.
America and the West need to show as much strength in opposing this tyrannical regime as these protesters have.
A panel of experts has spent more than a decade deliberating on how, and whether, to mark a momentous new epoch in geologic time: our own.
The co-chief executive of an FTX unit who told regulators about wrongdoing at the exchange was a big Republican donor. He also bought restaurants.
President Biden’s polling has ticked upward. Gas prices are down. And Republicans are at loggerheads.
Genevieve Ko pairs salmon with miso cream and beef tenderloin with horseradish sauce for a lavish, but stress-free feast.
Leaked emails detail how Russia’s biggest state broadcaster, working with the nation’s security services, mined right-wing American news and Chinese media to craft a narrative that Moscow was winning.
On a frigid December night, The New York Times accompanied members of a surveillance team for the Ukrainian Army as they used a thermal sight to find enemy positions miles away.
With the United States lagging behind China in influence on the continent, the president pledged investments in key areas for development.
On some level this will always be Morocco’s World Cup, the one that made it a trailblazer, a record breaker, a watermark that will not fade.
Savers will benefit and borrowers can expect to pay more on credit cards, student loans and other forms of debt.
Central bankers are still fighting inflation, but are poised to slow to a rate increase of half a percentage point at their final meeting of 2022.
Despite assurances that the situation is under control, information on infections has become more opaque now that Beijing has rolled back pandemic restrictions.
If history is any guide, Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, the latest lawmaker to change her stripes, faces an uncertain future.
Supporters say Paul Whelan is more hapless tourist than James Bond — and that the Russians know it. But that doesn’t make freeing him any easier.
Bill Cario was one of the first to enter the elementary school after the shooting on Dec. 14, 2012, but he stresses that he was not alone in helping, or in healing the community.
Wednesday’s face-off between the Atlas Lions and Les Bleus will be about more than just soccer, reviving old colonial wounds and fueling identity debates.
Morocco’s magical run has elated fans, but for some, the strain of the impending showdown with the country’s former colonial overlords is too much.
The officials said a directive could be approved as early as this week to transfer the Patriot, the United States’ most advanced ground-based air defense system.
Representative Kevin McCarthy is dealing with a group of right-wing detractors who appear impervious to negotiation, and who have yet to be moved even by the entreaties of the former president.
Proponents of the legislation argued that Congress needed to be proactive in ensuring a future Supreme Court would not invalidate same-sex marriages around the country.
The promise of a new, bountiful energy source, not to mention the giant lasers, may sound familiar to fans of science fiction and comics.
The seven men were charged in a scheme to provide millions of dollars worth of American-made, military-grade technology to Russia.
Using missiles and saboteurs, Ukraine is focusing on the city of Melitopol, a vital Russian link to Crimea, ahead of an expected southern offensive.
Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures.
A criminal indictment unsealed on Tuesday and a complaint by the S.E.C. describe years of wrongdoing in Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire.
The advancement by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers will be built on to further develop fusion energy research.
Consumer Price Index data reinforces that inflation is beginning to slow down just ahead of the Federal Reserve’s December rate decision.
The group includes moderates and senators known for crossing party lines, a few who are retiring and some who had already broken with their party to support same-sex marriage.
The herbal drink is beloved by South American players, who have taken it with them around the world — including to Qatar.
A mechanical engineer at Qatar University used giant tanks of cold water to create a cooling system in one of the hottest places on the planet.
Now under arrest, the fallen crypto mogul faces a barrage of charges, including defrauding investors out of billions.
Almost no one is venturing out even after an easing of pandemic measures. Cold and flu medicines are scarce, but food supplies appear adequate.
The 9/11 Commission prompted a national reckoning over the Sept. 11 attacks. But some experts fear that the chance to create an independent panel to investigate the pandemic response is slipping away.
A statement by the government of the Bahamas said Mr. Bankman-Fried was arrested after prosecutors in the United States filed criminal charges.
Economists misjudged how much staying power inflation would have. Next year could be better — but there’s ample room for humility.
The arrival of up to 1,000 migrants, the latest big group to have crossed the border, was one of the largest single crossings in recent years in West Texas, which has seen a surge in migration.
Researchers working with lasers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are expected to say they made a major advance that could lead to future energy sources.
As the government drops its restrictions, it not only needs to convince people that the virus is nothing to fear, but also that inoculations are essential.
The missiles, returned to Russia in the 1990s under an agreement aimed at assuring Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, have shown up in rubble.
China, Russia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are all vying for influence in Africa. What will the Biden administration offer at a summit that starts Tuesday in Washington?
Vice President Kamala Harris swore in Ms. Bass in a ceremony that celebrated her historic win but also underscored the obstacles she will face.
Or is it Styles-ish? Either way, when anthropologists look back on this year, they’ll be glad to have this list.
Taken by surprise by Qatar’s decision to ban beer at stadiums, the company remade its marketing strategy in real time.
France and Argentina entered the World Cup as contenders, but Croatia and Morocco have proved to be worthy challengers for the title.
Prince Heinrich XIII was arrested last week as the suspected ringleader of a plan to overthrow the German government. Nostalgic for an imperial past, he embraced far-right conspiracy theories.
About 200 to 250 inmates are held beyond their legal release dates on any given month, with the average additional time lasting around 44 days in 2019.
Detaining foreigners to wring concessions from their home country’s government holds perils for both sides, but especially, perhaps surprisingly, for the hostage takers.
McKinsey documents suggest the Saudi league is far off-track for success. Experts say the analysis shows it was never just about profits.
In high schools across the country, students are being placed in military classes without electing them on their own. “The only word I can think of is ‘indoctrination,’” one parent said.
Descriptions of civic life and some key historical events differ from the way they are taught in typical public school textbooks.
In a display of defensive grit and attacking verve, Morocco’s formula moves it one step closer to the final.
The pandemic and tougher U.S. sanctions have decimated Cuba’s economy, prompting the biggest migration since Fidel Castro rose to power.
Westerners in Russia have to weigh the risks of living and working in the country against professional and financial opportunities there.
Relations between Warsaw and Berlin, never warm, have deteriorated since the start of the Ukraine war, damaging unity in both NATO and the European Union.
In a string of appearances, it wasn’t so much what the Russian leader said, much of it false, as it was his apparent need to demonstrate that he is healthy, alert and in control.
Past hostage exchanges have sparked criticism, but the response to Brittney Griner’s homecoming has been fueled by the politics of race, gender and sexual orientation.
U.S. officials say Moscow had been pushing for the release of a Russian assassin being held in Germany before finally agreeing to release Ms. Griner for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer.
The senator is registering as an independent, noting that she “never fit perfectly in either national party.”
By seizing the basketball star, the Russian president made things so painful for the U.S. that it capitulated and turned over a convicted arms dealer. Can the same tactic work in the war in Ukraine?
The House gave final approval to the measure, with lawmakers from both parties voting in favor. It now heads to President Biden to be signed into law.
Paul Whelan, a corporate security executive, was arrested at a Moscow hotel in December 2018. President Biden says his administration is still working on getting him released.
Viktor Bout has been accused of supplying arms to Al Qaeda, the Taliban and rebels in Rwanda. His exploits helped inspire a 2005 film, “Lord of War,” that starred Nicolas Cage.
A visible symbol of inflation for much of the year, prices at the pump have been driven down by reduced global demand and tumbling oil prices.
As China casts aside many Covid rules, it is also playing down the threat of the virus. The move could help ease the burden on hospitals but comes with its own risks.
Strict “zero Covid” curbs have been smothering growth. After easing them, Beijing faces the twin challenges of rising caseloads and wary consumers.
The market for commercial spyware — which allows governments to invade mobile phones and vacuum up data — is booming. Even the U.S. government is using it.
Behind the success of the Respect for Marriage Act was a group of prominent Republicans, some of them gay, who worked to persuade G.O.P. senators that embracing it was a political winner.
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“Friends are not friends anymore,’’ said one woman in the town of Sviatohirsk, which remains divided not by trench lines and artillery, but by where people’s allegiances lie: with Moscow or Kyiv.
Beyond the enormous cost of rebuilding the country are difficult and delicate choices about how to best connect the nation to European markets and commerce.
For the former president, who raced to announce his third run for the White House in hopes of clearing the Republican field, the losses, legal setbacks and embarrassments are rapidly piling up.
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Sam Bankman-Fried and his hedge fund orchestrated trades in a way that led to the collapse of two cryptocurrencies in May.
The House Judiciary Committee is set to hear from a whistle-blower who says he was tipped off about a religious freedom ruling.
Ahead of an impeachment vote by Congress, Pedro Castillo tried to dissolve the government and seize power. The attempt ended with his ouster and arrest.
Republicans from Georgia to Washington traded blame for their bruising defeats in the Senate races. Much of it landed on Donald Trump.
Vladimir Putin appeared to acknowledge that subduing Russia’s neighbor was taking longer than expected, but said there was no need for another draft now.
When Deshaun Watson’s suspension ended, the N.F.L.’s broadcast partners focused mainly on his return to the field, not on the behavior a hearing officer had deemed “predatory,” or on the women who accused him.
The Supreme Court heard arguments today on a legal theory that holds that state courts cannot review their legislatures’ rules for federal elections, even when the rules violate the state constitution.
The justices are considering whether to adopt the “independent state legislature” theory, which could give state lawmakers nearly unchecked power over federal elections.
Among those detained were a German prince, a former far-right member of Parliament, an active soldier and former members of the police and elite special forces.
Arab fans and Arab teams have been using the tournament’s global stage to elevate the Palestinian cause in the stands and on the field.
Pedro Castillo anunció la medida poco antes de que el Congreso votara para destituirlo. Buena parte de su gobierno renunció en protesta por lo que los líderes políticos calificaron como un intento de golpe de Estado.
Descended from an ancient aristocratic family, Heinrich now stands accused of being a leader of a far-right plot to overthrow the German government.
Arabs and Africans around the world joined in an outpouring of pride and joy over Morocco’s World Cup success after it defeated Spain.
The discovery came as series of searches were conducted by a team hired by the former president, after a federal judge directed his lawyers to look for any materials still in his possession.
He was a precious lifeline for me during the Covid lockdown in India, but he struggled with family pressures and heartbreak.
Beijing’s costly policy of lockdowns has pummeled the world’s second-largest economy and set off mass public protests that were a rare challenge to China’s leader, Xi Jinping.
The Chinese government ordered officials to cut back on mass testing and hair-trigger regional lockdowns, in a pivot from stringent pandemic rules.
Public unrest erupted across the country after years of disruptive restrictions. These photographs give a glimpse of life under those measures.
Raphael Warnock, a son of Savannah public housing who rose to become Georgia’s first Black senator, secured a full six-year term and a spot among Democrats’ rising stars.
Forget about Florida and Ohio: Georgia and Arizona are poised to be the next kingmakers of presidential politics.
Herschel Walker’s loss to Senator Raphael Warnock showed that flawed candidates cannot always rely on partisan loyalties to lift them. And it is likely to deepen Republican infighting over Donald Trump’s drag on the party.
Prosecutors did not indict the former president, but they invoked him throughout the monthlong trial. The Trump Organization had been his springboard to fame and power.
An astonishing $1.4 billion has been spent on just four races in the state since the beginning of 2020, according to a New York Times analysis.
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She did not deliberate and had no impact on the outcome of the case. But her impressions offered insight into the jury box.
The Democratic Party is anxiously awaiting a formal announcement from President Biden about whether he is running for re-election.
Representative Bennie Thompson, the panel’s chairman, said no decision had been made on who would be the subject of the referrals or what the charges would be.
Grabbing a piece of the lucrative holiday market requires planning, luck and the occasional battle with a seasoned superstar like Mariah Carey.
The 1988 film “Willow” turned Davis into a “proper actor,” he said, and changed his life. A new series on Disney+ picks up the story decades later.
A new reality is setting in for students and recent graduates who spent years honing themselves for careers at the largest tech companies.
Surprises are always possible, but there seem to be few reasons to think Herschel Walker can improve upon his showing last month.
For all their differences, President Biden and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain share a challenge: operating in the wake of a larger-than-life predecessor. They have tactics in common, too.
At the only government-sanctioned store selling alcohol during the World Cup, strict rules keep it out of reach for most residents.
Influential and powerful users on Facebook and Instagram receive “unequal treatment,” an internal report said.
Amid endless agonizing over the State of Cinema, the actual releases proved a bounty for film lovers, whether fans of the art house or the multiplex.
The cat-and-mouse experience of Proton, a Swiss company, shows what it’s like to be targeted by Russian censors — and what it takes to fight back.
On the eve of Georgia’s Senate runoff, Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, warned his supporters about being overconfident. Herschel Walker urged Republicans to flood the polls on Tuesday.
Kherson has been whipsawed by occupation, liberation and now dread. It’s a lonely place. And cold.
The law makes it illegal to spread “propaganda” about “nontraditional sexual relations” in all media, including social, advertising and movies.
The state’s top officials certified the results after weeks in which several Republican candidates have sowed baseless doubts about the outcome.
Weapons investigators in Kyiv found that at least one Russian Kh-101 cruise missile used in widespread attacks there on Nov. 23 had been made no earlier than October.
The justices are likely to settle a question left open in 2018: how to reconcile claims of religious liberty with laws barring discrimination based on sexual orientation.
People opposing Beijing over issues like Hong Kong, Taiwan or the persecution of Uyghurs see the moment as an opportunity to find common cause.
While Russia’s economy has not collapsed, an exodus of Western companies is eroding hard-won progress, and experts say the worst may be yet to come.
As temperatures drop amid an energy crisis, governments say power blackouts may be necessary to conserve electricity.
A Colorado graphic designer says she has a First Amendment right to refuse to create websites for same-sex weddings despite a state anti-discrimination law.
The move appeared to be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was being held by the morality police for supposedly violating Islamic dress rules.
President Biden’s push to abandon Iowa for younger, racially diverse states is likely to reward candidates who connect with the party’s most loyal voters.
The world’s harshest Covid restrictions exemplify how Xi Jinping’s authoritarian excesses have rewritten Beijing’s longstanding social contract with its people.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is shaping laws, running influence campaigns and taking legal action in a bid to promote fossil fuels.
In a nation deeply rooted in Islam, worshipers from other faiths find community in a government-sanctioned island of Christianity on the outskirts of Doha.
These misty and damp parts of the country have long beckoned to mushroom hunters with the promise of plenty, but now peril, too, lies beneath the earth’s surface.
Ukraine’s president criticized the $60-a-barrel limit set by the Group of 7 nations, suggesting that the architects of the plan were “trying to avoid big decisions.”
The world’s largest active volcano erupted for the first time in 38 years, raising excitement among scientists who are eager to unlock its many mysteries.
The United States saw its weaknesses exploited in a 3-1 loss to the Netherlands. But after a solid showing and with a young team brimming with promise, the best may be yet to come.
The contest might have been a showcase of Black political power in the Deep South. But many Black voters say Herschel Walker’s turbulent campaign has marred the moment.
Beijing had long warned that the only effective response was testing, quarantine and lockdowns. As it shifts policy, it must change how it portrays the risks.
Debt-relief efforts are stalling as developing economies are being hit by higher interest rates, a strong dollar and slowing global growth.
A key panel supported President Biden’s plan, which would remove Iowa as the first presidential nominating state. States with more diverse, working-class and in some cases more moderate constituencies are being elevated.
Under Elon Musk, the company has cut its financial expectations as some advertisers request discounts and are offered incentives.
Hyundai’s huge new plant outside Savannah could be a model for bipartisanship and a central achievement for Raphael Warnock, whose biggest efforts otherwise fell short. But Republicans aren’t giving him credit.
President Biden’s push to start the Democratic presidential nominating process in South Carolina has inspired a rush of wistful memories and soul searching in the Hawkeye State.
Before the November election, Mr. Walker had help from Republicans far and wide. Now, he’s relying heavily on Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia to pull him ahead of Senator Raphael Warnock, the Democratic incumbent.
The Infowars broadcaster has been ordered by courts to pay about $1.5 billion in damages to Sandy Hook families hurt by his promotion of conspiracy theories.
Men ages 35 to 44 are staging a lackluster rebound from pandemic job loss, despite a strong economy.
People entering the work force amid inflation, pandemic uncertainty and layoffs are recalibrating what a dream job looks like.
The tweet was deleted before the rapper’s account was shut down. Twitter’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said the post violated a rule against inciting violence.
Problematic content and formerly barred accounts have increased sharply in the short time since Elon Musk took over, researchers said.
The threat of U.S. sanctions jeopardized completion of a second direct gas pipeline from Russia. So Gazprom and German officials concocted a phony climate foundation to get the job done.
Huge swaths of the nation’s elderly remain vulnerable, scientists say, and a surge in deaths and hospitalizations may be inevitable.
After a weekend of protests, the authorities in China are using the country’s all-seeing surveillance apparatus to find those bold enough to defy them.
As he gets his presidential campaign underway, Donald J. Trump has aligned himself with forces that used to be outside the mainstream of American politics.
Michigan would become the fifth primary. The plan came as the president asked that “voters of color have a voice in choosing our nominee much earlier in the process.”
As the former president rallied with Senator Raphael Warnock on Thursday, Mr. Warnock’s Republican opponent, Herschel Walker, faced new accusations of violent behavior.
More than 300 guests were invited, including government officials, French fashion designers, actors and big donors.
The panel’s decision removed a major obstacle that had hindered the Justice Department’s investigation into Mr. Trump’s handling of sensitive government documents.
Showing a united front during a state visit, President Biden and President Emmanuel Macron of France affirmed their support for Ukraine ahead of a cold winter that will test the alliance.
Even as Ukrainian workers race to restore basic services like electricity, heat and water, new Russian airstrikes send them back to the starting line.
The president’s pro-labor reputation doesn’t mean much if he isn’t willing to stand firm when unions need White House support.
Despite all the tough headlines, he could prevail. Here are two theories about how the runoff could unfold.
The black-tie dinner marks a return of diplomatic pomp and an effort by the United States and France to display the strength of their alliance after a trans-Atlantic dust-up.
Japan surprisingly emerged at the top of its group, and Spain also advanced. Those results meant Germany, a former champion, was eliminated.
Bipartisan coalitions in the House and Senate pushed through a bill that would impose an agreement between rail companies and their workers.
The I.R.S.’s inspector general said that returns from James Comey and Andrew McCabe were initially part of a randomly generated pool, but that a flaw in the final winnowing required further attention.
The U.S. Justice Department is taking steps to seize the Madame Gu, a 324-foot luxury yacht, but it will be diplomatically thorny.
An analysis of November turnout data shows that voting by mail dropped as Georgians increasingly cast ballots in person. The shift hints at the possible impact of a 2021 voting overhaul.
The justices left in place an injunction blocking the Biden administration’s authority to forgive up to $20,000 in debt per borrower.
Joel Greenberg, a tax collector in Florida, had been cooperating with the Justice Department in its investigation into Representative Matt Gaetz.
Brazil’s World Cup team has become a political lightning rod at home after an ugly election. A championship might be the only thing that can bring Brazil together.
The country’s most influential hip-hop scene has weathered a period of extraordinary upheaval. A look back at happened, and what’s next.
An independent panel reported to Parliament that the South African president might have broken the law in a scandal over a large amount of cash hidden at his game farm that was then stolen.
There are fewer films now that allow an actor to grow a persona and a Tom Cruise level of stardom. It’s a crisis, and the movies know it.
Head scarves in the colors of the participating teams have become fan favorites in Qatar. Rather than object, locals say they like the twist on a traditional look.
In role after indelible role — and recently in “Men” and “Women Talking” — she is exploring the darkest corners of human nature.
The inequality and vulnerability that laborers from places like Nepal face overseas also stalk them in death, when dreams evaporate.
A new study of skeletons from a cemetery in Germany reveals a hidden history of Jews in the Middle Ages.
The House voted to force rail companies and workers to accept a pending agreement and to add seven days of paid leave, a key demand of the employees. But it met with a rocky reception in the Senate.
The Senate candidate’s performance in the final days of the runoff campaign has Republicans airing frustrations. But no one is counting him out yet.
As a singer, songwriter and keyboardist, she was a prolific force behind one of the most popular rock bands of the last 50 years.
The Federal Reserve chair said the central bank would keep lifting rates to control price increases, and played down a recent cooling in inflation.
The estate of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein will repay tax benefits and half the proceeds from the sale of an island he owned.
After months of repeated Russian strikes, Ukraine’s capital can no longer take electricity, water, heat, cell service or internet for granted. And the hum of generators is everywhere.
Many city residents agree something needs to be done to remove people with severe mental illness from public places. But some experts say the mayor’s aggressive new approach may not help.
In his final public remarks before a crucial Federal Reserve meeting, the central bank’s chair said the time to moderate rate increases could come as soon as December.
What seemed like a transitory step to avoid infection has become a major force driving the future direction of urban America.
Two games, played simultaneously in stadiums only six miles apart, settled the Group D standings: France (6 points) edged Australia (6) on goal difference, and left Tunisia (4) and Denmark (1) packing their bags.
The founder of an antiviolence support group said an aide pressed her on where she was from, dismissing Britain as an answer. The palace called the questioning “unacceptable and deeply regrettable.”
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” doesn’t shy away from big subjects like grief and colonization. The hosts of “Still Processing” are ready for it.
The conviction of Stewart Rhodes for sedition was a signal victory for the Justice Department, but prosecutors still face challenges as they prepare for the trials of other far-right figures.
Beach scenes, wild turkeys and fantastic abstract forms in glass grace the M.T.A.’s new Long Island Rail Road terminal, with works by other artists.
The cost of insulin is nowhere near as contentious as just about everything else raised in the runoff, but in a state with a high diabetes rate, it has proved a powerful issue.
The Gulf neighbors were split for years in a bitter regional dispute. Now, the glare of attention provided by the soccer tournament is highlighting their complicated reunion.
Speaking at the DealBook summit, the Ukrainian leader said the billionaire would do well to fully understand the situation before making pronouncements about it.
The unrest that has swept across the country is a rare public challenge to the world’s most powerful authoritarian government.
China’s obsession with controlling Covid has exposed the government’s inherent weakness.
The former president’s death drew tributes from Chinese people at a fraught moment for the current leader, Xi Jinping, who faces widespread criticism of his harsh Covid policies.
Tiny Livemmo won nearly 20 million euros to reverse its decline. Figuring out how to spend it is a big job, but someone’s got to do it.
A look at the demonstrations sweeping the country and what they mean for its “zero-Covid” policy.
“A Private Life,” a collection of correspondence spanning much of his life, offers a fresh look at his brilliance — and his contradictions
More than a year after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a network of volunteers is still trying to evacuate Afghan allies. But this commitment has come at a great cost.
Strict Covid restrictions are hurting the country’s economy and angering members of the public, who are taking to the streets. Here’s the latest on the situation.
Stock markets in Asia and Europe fell on Monday, as did U.S. futures and crude prices, as investors worried about the fallout of social unrest in China.
A mosaic of photographs once decorated Qatar’s showpiece stadium in Lusail. Now a V.I.P. entrance sits beside the spot.
In a country where the authorities have little tolerance for open dissent, demonstrators against Covid restrictions have turned to more subtle methods.
How a tiny nation ended up hosting the single largest sporting event on the planet — and at what cost.
Over the eight episodes of “All There Is,” the CNN anchor digs into his own family traumas as well as those of others.
After months of an already hyperpartisan political environment, the attorney general appears to be acknowledging that his approach has to be recalibrated.
Suffolk County officials had to return to the days of paper checks and faxes after an episode that exposed government weaknesses.
The Polish church is in a deep crisis, as its authority is sapped by cascading sexual abuse scandals and as more people grow wary of its perceived alliance with the country’s right-wing government.
The revered statue in Italy is not going to dust itself. That’s where Eleonora Pucci comes in.
A stronger-than-expected midterm showing has quieted the party’s public hand-wringing about a re-election campaign for President Biden. But it hasn’t put those worries to rest.
Social justice joins discounted cash flows on the syllabus as essential knowledge for aspiring corporate leaders.
Thomas James, a Navy petty officer, knocked down the attacker along with an Army veteran.
With an economic slowdown a distinct possibility, stores hope customers’ willingness to open their wallets will last through the season.
U.S. Soccer angered Iran by posting a doctored Iran flag on social media. The Americans said the decision was intentional but later deleted the posts.
A Wordle grid. A mitten-wearing Bernie Sanders. A stick of butter. Modern ornaments capture the zeitgeist.
It’s Black Friday, the unofficial start of the year-end shopping season. We’ve got ideas for stuff that isn’t stuff.
Even if policymakers achieve a gentle economic slowdown, it won’t be smooth for everyone.
“Every hour is getting harder.” Russia’s assault on Ukraine’s essential services has caused blackouts in hospitals and cut off power and water in cities.
Colleagues and relatives mourned the six people killed in a shooting at a Walmart store in Virginia.
The move would be a setback to President Vladimir V. Putin’s efforts to develop homegrown substitutes for Western technology.
The victims’ lives paint a picture of a uniquely American holiday’s ideals. Their deaths reveal how routinely those dreams are dashed.
There is no official consensus on what constitutes a mass shooting, complicating the efforts of government, nonprofits and news organizations to document the scope of the problem.
Shops selling weed have proliferated since the state legalized cannabis last year, thriving in confusion over their legality and a lack of enforcement.
Holiday costs from groceries to travel are up, and consumers have been willing to pay them.
NATO is determined to help Ukraine battle Russia, but wants no direct part of the war. A new promise of air defense weapons for Poland may make that more complicated.
Robert A. Iger had been gone from the company for less than a year, but he returns to a very different Disney.
Ending a long legal fight, the Supreme Court rejected the former president’s request that it block the I.R.S. from turning over the files.
Covid precautions have fallen by the wayside for many. But for the most vulnerable, risks are still front and center.
Argentina started as a favorite in the tournament as its star, Lionel Messi, looked for a final chance at the trophy. Now the team will struggle to advance.
The Biden administration has pushed social media giants like Facebook to curb Covid misinformation. But it is thriving on fringe platforms like Gab, a hub for extremist content.
Faced with the disturbing prospect of enduring an entire World Cup match with no alcohol, England’s fans had to turn to their backup plans.
In just three years, the FTX co-founder built a massive operation to woo politicians, regulators and nonprofits to support his crypto goals.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said the administration was optimistic that “we’re not going to see a repeat of what we saw last year,” when the Omicron variant swept through the country.
Empty streets, shuttered shops, long lines at coronavirus testing sites and other scenes from China as it tries to combat rapidly spreading outbreaks in cities across the country.
Mr. Musk and his advisers are examining all types of expenses at Twitter. Some of the social media company’s vendors have gotten stiffed.
A substantial amount of the company’s assets are missing, an FTX lawyer told a bankruptcy judge on Tuesday.
As workers try to find survivors, rescue efforts have been hampered by power outages and blocked roads in a disaster that has killed at least 252 people and injured hundreds.
“Risks remain tilted to the downside,” the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said, predicting economies will grow only 2.2 percent next year.
The New York Philharmonic, which was an all-male bastion for most of its 180 years of existence, currently has 45 women and 44 men.
New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services must protect children without overpolicing families. A report the agency commissioned says it often fails.
Ukraine is on the offensive along most of the 600-mile front line, and the Russians are in a defensive crouch. But about one-fifth of Ukrainian territory is still occupied by Russia.
The quick actions of a retired army major and a drag performer in high heels took down the gunman before he reached a crowded patio.
After Bob Chapek, the departing chief executive, tried to put a sunny spin on a disastrous earnings report this month, senior Disney leaders began talking about resigning.
A late penalty gave Wales the opening it needed to pull to a draw with the United States.
Journa.host promises to be a new “reliable home for journalists.” What happens when they move in?
The quake that toppled hundreds of building on the island of Java also blocked roads needed to get victims medical help.
The quake on the nation’s main island, Java, destroyed hundreds of buildings, and officials feared that many people were still trapped beneath the rubble.
Firing people. Talking of bankruptcy. Telling workers to be “hard core.” Mr. Musk has repeatedly used those tactics at many of his companies.
Richard M. Fierro, who served for 15 years in the military, said he was at Club Q in Colorado Springs with his family, and took down the man who killed five people.
Daniel Aston was a bartender at Club Q. Kelly Loving was on a weekend trip from Denver.
Ukrainian units plying the Dnipro River venture behind enemy lines under the cover of darkness, carrying out reconnaissance and sabotage.
The government of Oman is a partner in a real estate deal signed last week by the former president, intensifying questions about a potential conflict as he seeks the White House again.
After an embarrassing failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, the U.S. has returned to the event with a new identity instilled by its coach.
At last it was here, the last word in Qatar’s attempt to announce itself to the world, to showcase all that it could do, all that it could build. Then the soccer started.
A man with the same name and age as the club shooting suspect was arrested in June 2021 after police negotiators persuaded him to surrender.
Videos circulating online and reported on by Russian state media have raised questions about whether Ukrainian soldiers committed a war crime.
Being the England manager was never an easy job. And that was before the country started falling apart.
In order to reap millions of dollars in fees, universities are partnering with betting companies to introduce their students and sports fans to online gambling.
Soccer’s biggest championship is supposed to be a celebration. So why is everyone so unhappy?
Nations reached a landmark deal to compensate developing nations for climate harm. But some leaders said the summit didn’t go far enough in addressing the root causes of global warming.
The gambling industry and its allies got their way with lawmakers after showering them with donations, gifts and dubious arguments.
New rules curtailing protests have alarmed some who fear an erosion of civil rights. They come as environmental protesters have intensified their tactics to draw attention to climate change.
Ms. Lake’s supporters say in testimonials that they had problems at Phoenix-area polling sites. But a review by The New York Times shows that most of them successfully cast their ballots.
The decision to take the World Cup to Qatar has upturned a small nation, battered the reputation of global soccer’s governing body and altered the fabric of the sport.
Years before the leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, a landmark contraception ruling was disclosed, according to a minister who led a secretive effort to influence justices.
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. That combination led to strategic miscalculation unrivaled in recent corporate history.
The New York Times spoke to 10 experts in aging to paint a picture of what the next six years might look like for a person of the president’s age.
With Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer poised to lead the Democrats in Washington, New York’s biggest borough enters the political spotlight.
Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitter’s underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.
Even before Mr. Garland’s announcement, there were signs that prosecutorial activity in both cases was accelerating after a brief slowdown in the run-up to the midterm elections.
A storm lasting through the weekend is underway on the eastern coasts of Lakes Erie and Ontario, with snowfall rates reaching over three inches per hour.
The congressman, who has served in the House for a decade, would be a far different leader from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom he is running to succeed.
Former President Donald J. Trump’s continuing presence on the political scene has prompted the appointment of a third special counsel.
The many departures have set off a wave of hand-wringing about whether the site can continue to operate well.
Mr. Smith will take on the role of special counsel after leaving his current position as a specialist prosecutor based in The Hague investigating war crimes.
The about-face on alcohol could violate a multimillion-dollar FIFA sponsorship agreement, and signaled that soccer’s governing body may no longer be in full control of its showcase event.
The shots may help older, pregnant and immunocompromised Americans dodge serious illness or death. But the doses are not likely to prevent infections in any group, recent studies suggest.
Alameda Research was Sam Bankman-Fried’s first company. He built FTX partly to help Alameda’s trading business. Then things got out of control.
Anton Filatov was pulled into a theater he never expected or wanted to enter: the front lines of war, where he now writes movingly of the scene in the trenches instead of what’s on the screen.
Those worried about the service’s longevity can preserve their tweets, media and direct messages.
Financial and bureaucratic barriers in the United States mean that the next generation of Covid vaccines may well be designed here, but used elsewhere.
It’s a small yet noticeable shift, experts say — but climate change is causing retirees to start reconsidering moves to disaster-prone dream locales.
Ms. Holmes, founder of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, is scheduled to learn her fate on Friday. She faces a maximum of 20 years in prison.
Lawsuits claim the company, Philips Respironics, knew of problems with its breathing machines long before notifying customers of potential health risks.
An analysis, based on official documents and parliamentary testimony, reveals a series of missed opportunities to prevent a disaster that led to the death of more than 150 people in Seoul.
The government is betting that the plan will put public finances back on sound footing but acknowledges that the measures are likely to deepen the economic misery for Britons.
“This situation is unprecedented,” said John J. Ray III, who helped manage Enron after its collapse in an accounting fraud scandal in 2001.
Charges filed with federal regulators accuse the company of retaliating against eight workers over an open letter critical of the chief executive.
The crypto exchange’s collapse is stoking fears of contagion across the industry. Meanwhile, FTX’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, is still speaking out.
As the monkeypox emergency subsides, the city has stopped placing vaccine vans outside nightclubs and sex parties. Vaccinations will still be available at sexual health clinics.
This week’s missile assault by Russian forces has hit at least 15 energy facilities — some for the fifth or sixth time — forcing controlled blackouts in every part of the country.
Droughts, cyclones and floods have forced the people of Madagascar, a poor country in the southern Indian Ocean, to find new homes, new livelihoods and even new diets.
A look at the improbable return of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the arrival of the nation’s most right-wing government.
Naver, a South Korean internet firm, is trying to introduce robots into the world of cubicles and conference rooms without making employees uncomfortable.
Hybrid work, layoffs and higher interest rates are leaving lots of office space vacant and hurting the commercial real estate business.
A New York Times analysis examines the lengths China will go to eliminate Covid infections. Three years into the pandemic, China stands out in the harshness of its measures.
If Trump wins back the White House, we may be even more confused over just how many presidents there have been.
The arrogance and incompetence of their lawmakers in New York botched the House for the rest of the party.
A thin margin, ideological differences and competing pressures could make managing the “people’s House” virtually impossible. But the G.O.P. majority, however slim, will still be a challenge for President Biden.
Stocks rallied and bond yields tumbled as investors reset their expectations for the pace of interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve.
Sam Bankman-Fried told employees that he wanted to reinforce his company’s finances after a collapse that is drawing scrutiny from regulators.
Mr. Haggis, a writer of the Oscar-winning films “Crash” and “Million Dollar Baby,” was sued by a film publicist after a 2013 encounter in his New York apartment.
In his first communications with Twitter’s staff, the company’s new owner painted a bleak picture as more executives resigned.
The civil complaint, filed against the N.F.L., Commissioner Roger Goodell, the Washington Commanders and the team’s owner, Daniel Snyder, takes aim at the league’s investigation into workplace harassment.
The Consumer Price Index showed that prices climbed 7.7 percent in the year through October, a quick pace but a notable moderation.
Army Rangers killed her parents. A Marine is raising her in America. But her Afghan family says she was taken under false pretenses.
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, was set to bail out FTX. Then it pulled out of the deal.
A judge added $473 million in fees to the award Mr. Jones must pay in a Connecticut case and ordered him not to move his personal assets outside the United States.
The president said he would not change his economic approach, adding that his policies were working.
If confirmed by the Senate, Daniel Werfel will oversee an $80 billion revamp of the tax agency.
Many Democrats have craved the chance to pick somebody else to run for president in 2024. But which somebody?
Setting a meeting gives the two leaders an opportunity for face-to-face time, but President Biden said he would deliver no “fundamental concessions” over Taiwan.
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the coming winter months an opportune time for the two sides to hold peace talks, though that prospect appears dim.
The race between Senator Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, will be decided in a Dec. 6 runoff.
His best-known characters often speak in grunts. But in a new series from Taylor Sheridan, he plays a smooth talker written with his real personality in mind.
A report from the military found no voter fraud — but left room for Bolsonaro’s supporters to argue maybe he’d actually won.
The president is expected to hail the new U.S. climate law on Friday at the COP27 summit in Egypt. Other countries want to talk money.
The LOFTID mission tested a novel approach to guiding spacecraft through the extreme heat of returning from orbit, which could be used to put people on Mars.
In the midterms, the party bucked decades of conventional political wisdom, while the Republican playbook largely failed.
Irpin was one of the first Ukrainian cities to be destroyed and liberated. Now it’s becoming a laboratory for rebuilding.
The midterms’ results showed the limits of “Team Crazy,” in the words of Representative Peter Meijer — one of many harsh judgments coursing through a demoralized Republican Party.
Two men displaced from Syria as civil war gripped their country spent a decade living in limbo in Ukraine. But when war came to them again, they were forced to leave, eventually making their way to London.
At a private school 20 years ago, the future Florida governor was a popular history teacher and coach. But some students were taken aback by his comments on the Civil War and abortion.
As the city upgrades to 5G wireless, the streetscape is changing. Not everyone is impressed.
Itaewon was popular for its diversity and nightlife. A week after a disaster killed more than 150 young people there, the neighborhood is a monument of grief.
The COP27 meeting next week allows a debt-wracked African country to champion climate needs of poorer nations. But it also puts Egypt under scrutiny.
Russian families searching for loved ones say the system for finding missing soldiers is as disorganized as Vladimir Putin’s military effort, which has been marked by dysfunction from the beginning.
As the midterms come to a close, the establishment politics of the two most recent Democratic presidents will meet the disruptive force of the last Republican one, with control of Congress at stake.
For Carolyn Broe and her family, the 2022 midterms have unfolded the way they have for countless others: with great bitterness and turbulence.
Ten readers share their stories about the strain today’s politics has put on their family and personal relationships.
Republicans could flip Florida’s most populous county, a “massive warning sign” for Democratic Party leaders.
Irving was suspended after he would not say he held no antisemitic beliefs. Nike suspended its relationship with him Friday.
In New York City, the second-largest Jewish population center in the world, Nets fans are appalled and frightened.
Representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California and the chairwoman of the Administration Committee, raised questions in a lengthy letter to J. Thomas Manger, the Capitol Police chief.
Representative Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California and the chairwoman of the Administration Committee, raised questions in a lengthy letter to J. Thomas Manger, the Capitol Police chief.
Republicans are vying for Latino voters not just along the border but also in the state’s growing cities, historically a bulwark for Democrats.
Republicans are vying for Latino voters not just along the border but also in the state’s growing cities, historically a bulwark for Democrats.
The risk of a wider war between NATO and Moscow is rising by the day, as is the risk that a prolonged war could undermine Western democracy.
The risk of a wider war between NATO and Moscow is rising by the day, as is the risk that a prolonged war could undermine Western democracy.
John Eastman also suggested in a newly disclosed batch of emails that getting the case in front of Justice Clarence Thomas would be the most likely route to delaying certification of the 2020 results in Georgia.
John Eastman also suggested in a newly disclosed batch of emails that getting the case in front of Justice Clarence Thomas would be the most likely route to delaying certification of the 2020 results in Georgia.
After two years of fighting that left millions displaced or on the brink of starvation, the announcement came out of peace talks convened by the African Union in South Africa.
After two years of fighting that left millions displaced or on the brink of starvation, the announcement came out of peace talks convened by the African Union in South Africa.
Investigators have released details that paint a frightening story of what happened in the attack at the speaker’s home.
Investigators have released details that paint a frightening story of what happened in the attack at the speaker’s home.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, a teacher from Kansas, dragged her family to Syria and forced her daughter, Leyla, to train for war on behalf of the Islamic State. Now her daughter wields final words against her.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, a teacher from Kansas, dragged her family to Syria and forced her daughter, Leyla, to train for war on behalf of the Islamic State. Now her daughter wields final words against her.
Benjamin Netanyahu seems poised to take power again. But regardless of his fate, the election already highlights several trends that could have a lasting effect on Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu seems poised to take power again. But regardless of his fate, the election already highlights several trends that could have a lasting effect on Israel.
Especially for Black patients, inaccurate readings have imperiled care and may have contributed to deaths during the pandemic, experts told an advisory panel.
Especially for Black patients, inaccurate readings have imperiled care and may have contributed to deaths during the pandemic, experts told an advisory panel.
Native American tribes are competing for the first federal grants designed to help move communities away from high water and other dangers posed by climate change.
Native American tribes are competing for the first federal grants designed to help move communities away from high water and other dangers posed by climate change.
Democrats have seized on Republican proposals to limit retirement benefits to galvanize voters ahead of the midterm elections.
Democrats have seized on Republican proposals to limit retirement benefits to galvanize voters ahead of the midterm elections.
In a new book, a sleep scientist offers tips for better rest — without reaching for a pill.
In a new book, a sleep scientist offers tips for better rest — without reaching for a pill.
Jimmy Sebring hit the first World Series homer back in 1903 and in the third game of the 118th Fall Classic, Alec Bohm of the Phillies hit the 1,000th.
Jimmy Sebring hit the first World Series homer back in 1903 and in the third game of the 118th Fall Classic, Alec Bohm of the Phillies hit the 1,000th.
The agreement would resolve thousands of lawsuits over the retailers’ role in the addiction crisis. But a large majority of state, local and tribal governments must sign on for it to take effect.
The agreement would resolve thousands of lawsuits over the retailers’ role in the addiction crisis. But a large majority of state, local and tribal governments must sign on for it to take effect.
The Ohio Senate candidate’s wife, an accomplished lawyer, remains ensconced in the milieu he now rails against.
The Ohio Senate candidate’s wife, an accomplished lawyer, remains ensconced in the milieu he now rails against.
The key to enjoying exercise after a fitful slumber is to start early and keep it simple.
The key to enjoying exercise after a fitful slumber is to start early and keep it simple.
The Oscar-winning “Hunger Games” actress is free from her franchise commitments. But after a brief hiatus from acting, what will she do next?
The Oscar-winning “Hunger Games” actress is free from her franchise commitments. But after a brief hiatus from acting, what will she do next?
The streets of Ukraine’s capital, illuminated with nightlife only weeks ago, are shrouded in darkness and shadows now because of restrictions on the use of electricity. The lack of light creates moments of apprehension, but also of beauty.
The streets of Ukraine’s capital, illuminated with nightlife only weeks ago, are shrouded in darkness and shadows now because of restrictions on the use of electricity. The lack of light creates moments of apprehension, but also of beauty.
The conversations alarmed the Biden administration because they showed how frustrated Moscow had become over its battlefield setbacks in Ukraine.
The conversations alarmed the Biden administration because they showed how frustrated Moscow had become over its battlefield setbacks in Ukraine.
Russia’s meddling in Trump-era politics was more directly connected to the current war than previously understood.
Russia’s meddling in Trump-era politics was more directly connected to the current war than previously understood.
Instead of streaming a new TV show or movie, some Roku users are in it for the screen saver.
Instead of streaming a new TV show or movie, some Roku users are in it for the screen saver.
The attack has caused alarm about the threat of violence to elected officials, and has also become the focus of baseless conspiracy theories.
The attack has caused alarm about the threat of violence to elected officials, and has also become the focus of baseless conspiracy theories.
The election is over. We talked to people on both sides of Brazil’s political divide about their expectations.
The election is over. We talked to people on both sides of Brazil’s political divide about their expectations.
Top officials from the United States, Britain and France cautioned that there was no change in Russia’s nuclear posture and that they believed no decision had been made to use a tactical nuclear weapon.
The gunman, who was identified as a former student, also died after a shootout with the police at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, the authorities said. At least seven other people were injured.
The speaker, busy raising millions, is in no mood to contemplate a Democratic defeat in November, much less discuss her legacy.
Charlie Crist was eager to focus on abortion rights, while Gov. Ron DeSantis often turned his attention to President Biden.
Huawei has been a persistent target of the United States government since the administration of President Donald J. Trump.
Rishi Sunak’s ascent to the prime minister’s office is a significant milestone for Britain’s Indian diaspora. But for many, his immense personal wealth has made him less relatable.
In Kherson, the first Ukrainian city to fall after the Russian invasion, occupation forces appear to be preparing to fight advancing Ukrainian troops.
The Austrian salesman turned a Thai energy drink into a marketing juggernaut that owned sports teams, media outlets and a winning Formula 1 crew.
The furnishings store has moved into the hospitality business — but the food may not be the point.
After a period of chaos, Mr. Sunak, a Conservative, faces serious political and economic headwinds. He will be the first person of color and first Hindu to be prime minister.
The movement led to increased diversity and representation in the entertainment industry, but now there is worry that executives have turned their attention elsewhere.
The Justice Department’s effort to win the witnesses’ cooperation shows how the investigation stemming from the classified materials found at Mar-a-Lago is entering a new phase.
The Central United Talmudical Academy, which operates the largest all-boys yeshiva in New York State, acknowledged illegally diverting money from federal food aid and other programs.
In the final stretch before the 2022 midterm elections, some Democrats are pushing for a new message that acknowledges the pain of rising prices.
Republicans are threatening to peak at exactly the wrong moment for Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
Shows like “Will & Grace” made him a familiar face, then the pandemic brought new fame. He was killed in a car crash in Hollywood.
Developing affordable housing projects shouldn’t make a miserable existence for those who’ve devoted their lives to it.
Here’s what we know about some of the most popular remedies that show at least a little promise.
In the senator’s recollection, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the opinion overturning the abortion ruling tried to show Mr. Kennedy that he was not a threat to Roe.
The antisemitic outbursts and provocations by the artist now known as Ye have raised questions about how much offensive behavior companies are willing to tolerate from a proven moneymaker.
Returning to liberated towns, Ukrainians find destruction on a staggering scale, vital services cut, and the prospect of a lethal winter ahead.
Washington sees OPEC Plus’s decision to cut oil production as support for Russia, but Saudi Arabia had legitimate economic reasons for pushing it.
Emad Mostaque, the founder of Stability AI, says his Stable Diffusion image generator is the key to unlocking creativity. His critics say it’s a potential threat.
Is your penmanship a mess? Can you often not read your own handwriting? Share something you wrote and later found hard to decipher.
The president’s blunt warnings, highly unusual for an American president, were delivered informally to a group of Democratic donors in New York City.
At Harvard Law, he wrote a blistering manifesto he never published. Its searing advice could help Democrats escape their current political quagmire.
The California motorcycle group had claimed that its former president, David Santillan, was a government informant.
Fresh data on the labor market solidified investors’ expectations that the Federal Reserve will need to keep acting aggressively to cool the economy.
Ukrainian soldiers are exulting in their smashing of Russian lines in the northeast. They engaged enemy troops up close, and gained confidence from it.
The number of people in the New York City main shelter system has exceeded 61,000, nearing a record for the city.
The gains could raise pressure on policymakers, but analysts say the higher prices may be short-lived as refineries in California and Washington restart production.
The White House issued sweeping restrictions on selling semiconductors and chip-making equipment to China, an attempt to curb the country’s access to critical technologies.
Ms. Tenuta rose to prominence with an outlandish act in the 1980s and became one of the most prominent women comedians.
High-stakes weed-out classes like organic chemistry are relics of an age when college students were much more uniformly privileged.
Older women are more likely to carry fetuses with genetic disorders that often can’t be detected until 15 weeks of pregnancy, beyond the limit set in a Senate proposal.
Maybe the trash problem in New York will be solved with color-coded garbage cans designed by expensive consultants. Or maybe the problem is much deeper.
After a sudden confrontation that left a golden retriever dead, neighbors came together online to support the owner of the dog. But then things changed.
We tend to equate American democracy with the Constitution, but our history makes it clear that the two are in tension with each other.
A Canadian family is on a yearlong journey across Asia and Africa because three of their four children have an eye condition that causes blindness.
President Vladimir V. Putin has threatened to fire a particular kind of arm in Ukraine.
Two crises are converging at the perilous land bridge known as the Darién Gap: the economic and humanitarian disaster underway in South America, and the bitter fight over immigration policy in Washington.
Paul Siguqa grew up hating wineries because his mother toiled in their fields. But last year he opened the only fully Black-owned vineyard in Franschhoek, one of South Africa’s most prestigious wine towns.
A loss in the race for Senate could change the direction of the country on major public policy issues.
Technologists have long been warning that robots will replace human workers. It doesn’t seem to be happening.
Many workers grew comfortable thinking they had plenty of options. Now “everybody’s feeling the whiplash,” and anxiety is rising.
Conversations between department officials and the former president’s representatives have underscored investigators’ skepticism about his cooperation and exposed a rift among his lawyers.
Consuming alcohol can mess with your emotions the next day by causing stress hormones to spike and sleep to be disrupted overnight.
Our TV critic recommends a new show about shipwrecks, another about chain saws and a South African murder mystery.
The overturning of Roe v. Wade has given Democrats a rallying issue to mobilize around before the midterms. Can they catch up to years of Republican unity?
These events have prompted major changes. But fatal tramplings still occur, with more than 125 killed in Indonesia on Saturday.
The justices return to the bench on Monday to start a term that will include major cases on affirmative action, voting and discrimination against gay couples. Several will take on questions about race.
Brazil votes for president today. Jack Nicas, the bureau chief there, explains what’s at stake.
Darcy Bishop for decades has cared for her two brothers, who have cerebral palsy. Hurricane Ian was her biggest test yet.
An argument at Arizona State’s multicultural center spiraled into a disaster for everyone involved. Who was to blame?
One witness said most of the victims were people trapped in the stands, not those on the field. Without tear gas “there would have not been any casualties,” he said.
Violent confrontations in Leicester have prompted soul searching in an area long heralded as a success story of diversity and integration among its large Indian diaspora.
The wealthy California county just north of San Francisco has one of the nation’s highest Covid-19 vaccination rates after years of being known for parents who opposed shots for childhood diseases.
The true crime storytelling that has done so well for so long on television seems to have met a moment in an entirely new medium.
When it became clear that Vladimir Putin would require me to support his war in Ukraine, I had to leave.
As a teenage football prodigy, Mr. Walker was pressed to join a fight for civil rights in his hometown. His decision echoes decades later.
In a gathering Cold War atmosphere, American officials are gaming out responses should Russia resort to battlefield nuclear weapons.
From geckos to chinchillas, small pets were a pandemic balm. Now shelters across the country say they are being surrendered.
Caracas freed seven Americans in a trade for two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady who had been convicted on drug charges. Separately, Tehran released its longest-held American captive.
Amid the bluster and veiled threats, the president made three distinct points that form a blueprint for war and peace.
A new study predicts hip fractures will nearly double worldwide by 2050. Here’s how to avoid them.
Increased shedding after illness is not unusual. The good news is that it’s most likely temporary.
Whether you’re turning 26 and about to age out of a parent’s plan or just landing a job with benefits, finding coverage is a tricky task.
The two, who have played the characters Jay and Silent Bob for 28 years and counting, reflect on their time as best friends and professional partners.
Residents, who pay some of the highest electricity rates in the United States, say they have little patience for the kind of outages they faced after Hurricane Maria.
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties.
He first gained wide recognition for his work with John Coltrane. He went on to a fertile, prolific career, releasing dozens of albums as a leader.
In Katy, outside Houston, many men have taken up F3, a no-frills fitness group where members push themselves physically but also bond emotionally.
Federer kept alive a one-handed backhand, tried rushing the net on returns and helped popularize the between-the-legs shot. And with the Laver Cup, he showed that tournaments can be different, too.
Iranians fed up with oppressive rules and a battered economy have faced bullets, tear gas and arrests to demand an end to the Islamic Republic’s rule.
Amid growing repression, a sickly economy and bleak prospects, the death of one young woman was all it took.
Bon Secours Mercy Health, a major nonprofit health system, used the poverty of Richmond Community Hospital’s patients to tap into a lucrative federal drug program.
With the help of a consulting firm, the Providence hospital system trained staff to wring money out of patients, even those eligible for free care.
She was largely unknown to the public when she was cast as what the American Film Institute called one of cinema’s most memorable villains.
The offensive in the south was the most highly anticipated military action of the summer. Ukraine is making gains, but the fighting is grinding, grueling and steep in casualties.
This year’s harvest will be bountiful, with prices more than offsetting increased costs for items like fuel.
Mr. LePage, a former governor who is seeking to reclaim the office, has along with his wife benefited from property tax breaks reserved for permanent Florida residents, public records show.
Two survivors of pandemic parenting needed a relationship tuneup. Could a new virtual therapy module called Ours do the trick?
Their fund-raising dwarfed by their Democratic rivals, Republican nominees including Blake Masters and Mehmet Oz have been in Washington gathering cash from lobbyists.
Fewer headaches. Less severe hangovers. Better gut health. How do these health claims stack up against the science?
The flavor is a fixture on drink menus. But competition from abroad has South Florida growers rethinking their commitment to a once-lucrative crop that requires a lot of investment and care.
Here are a few ways to protect yourself from the elements, oncoming traffic and other threats that ramp up in the fall and winter months.
Blondshell, Central Cee, Ethel Cain and more: a conversation about what’s breaking through, plus questions from the audience at our first live taping.
The league drew the ire of several kickers over its enforcement of uniform policies that require players to wear pants that cover their knees.
With a vintage upright and painstakingly assembled songs, the English folk-pop-electronic songwriter’s eighth studio album, “Weather Alive,” is her best.
You are allowed to get the shot two months after a previous dose, but some experts suggest waiting a little longer.
Drug overdoses have reached record highs. Experts offer tips to talk about opioids with your family.