One Palestinian killed by Israeli army in Gaza, while two Palestinians, including a child, are shot dead in West Bank.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Telluride, one of the best-known ski resorts in the Western U.S., plans to close in the coming days due to a labor dispute between its owner and the ski patrol union. The Telluride Professional Ski Patrol Association voted Tuesday to strike Saturday after contract...

Nvidia, the maker of artificial intelligence chips and the world’s most valuable public company, agreed to license the technology of the chip start-up Groq and hire its top executives.In an announcement on Wednesday, Groq called the deal with Nvidia a “nonexclusive licensing agreement” and said Jonathan Ross, its founder and chief...

President Trump’s recent actions against tankers near Venezuela, the dramatic seizure of a vessel called Skipper and the detention of another called Centuries, appear to bend international maritime laws and customs, legal experts say.Countries have authority to seize vessels in their territorial waters. But policing international w...

It’s been three months since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, long enough that the country has since endured several successive news cycles of spectacular violence. And long enough for the right-wing response to the shooting — including President Trump blaming it on liberals and left-wing rhetoric, the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel...

To the Editor:Re “The Ominous Isolation of the Home-Schooled Child,” by Stefan Merrill Block (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 21):As a 16-year-old lifelong home-schooler, I can confirm that Mr. Block includes accurate depictions of home-schooling gone wrong, but these examples should not be used to define home-schooling in principle.To h...

This is the time of year when many of us hail “peace on earth” and earnestly repeat lines about “good will to all.” So maybe it’s also a moment to hold ourselves accountable for our collective failures — and, even more important, to try to do better.It’s not just that ill will and war prevail in so many places, from Gaza to America...

As we try to find some cozy solace with our families for the holidays, the Department of Justice is starting to — as required by a law that it took an open political revolt by the MAGA base to enact — release the Epstein files. It is doing so in what seems to be the most haphazard, obfuscatory and confusing a manner possible. As a...

In 1935, the English journalist George Dangerfield published a book-length political obituary for the British Liberal Party, which only a few decades earlier had found itself “flushed with one of the greatest victories of all time” after winning a commanding parliamentary majority and passing a series of long-sought reforms. “From...

Neil Frank, a former head of the National Hurricane Center credited with increasing the country’s readiness for major storms, died Wednesday. He was 94.Frank led the hurricane center from 1974 to 1987, the longest-serving director in its history.“He gets tremendous credit for the being the f...

DENVER (AP) — Former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters is asking the state appeals court to recognize President Donald Trump’s pardon of her state convictions as valid.In a motion Tuesday, Peters’ lawyers said the Colorado appeals court no longer has jurisdiction over her case because of...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump marked Christmas Eve by quizzing children calling in about what presents they were excited about receiving, while promising to not let a “bad Santa” infiltrate the country and even suggesting that a stocking full of coal may not be so bad....

Bangladesh’s main opposition party says it is preparing a vast show of support as its leader, Tarique Rahman, prepares to return home after nearly 17 years in exile.The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) aims to mobilise up to five million supporters in the capital to welcome Rahman, who is widely viewed as the party’s prime minist...

Four prisoners in the United Kingdom linked to the banned group Palestine Action are continuing with their hunger strike, despite grave medical warnings and two fellow strikers having recently paused their protest after suffering serious health concerns.The protest group Prisoners For Palestine said the four remaining hunger strike...

Algeria’s parliament has unanimously passed legislation declaring France’s colonisation of the country a crime.On Wednesday, lawmakers stood in the chamber draped in scarves bearing the national colours, chanting “Long live Algeria” as they approved the bill.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Algeria bill seeks to crimin...

Here is where things stand on Thursday, December 25:Fighting An explosion in Moscow killed three people, including two police officers, just days after a car bomb killed a high-ranking Russian general in the same area of the capital. An official from Ukraine’s military intelligence, known as GUR, told The Associated Press news agen...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura won Honduras’ presidential election, electoral authorities said Wednesday afternoon, ending a weeks-long count that has whittled away at the credibility of the Central American nation’s fragile electoral system.The election is...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The al-Shabab extremist group remains the greatest immediate threat to peace and stability in Somalia and the region, especially Kenya, U.N. experts said in a report released Wednesday.Despite ongoing efforts by Somali and international forces to curb operations by al-Q...

Iran has rejected calls to allow inspections of nuclear facilities bombed during attacks by the United States in June, saying the United Nations nuclear watchdog must first define “post-war conditions” governing access to sites hit by military attacks.Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday, Mohammad Es...

Thousands of people have gathered in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve for the first public celebrations since 2022 after the city cancelled or muted festivities for two years out of respect for the thousands killed during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.Families filled Manger Square in the occupied West Bank city as a giant Christmas tree...

At least one Palestinian has been killed and six, including a child, wounded by Israeli attacks across Gaza amid a threat by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.A Palestinian man, Ayoub Abdel Ayesh Nasr, was killed and two people were wounded when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians in Jabalia in northern Gaza on Wednesday.Recomm...

Syria’s Ministry of Interior has announced the arrest of Taha al-Zoubi, a leading figure in the ISIL (ISIS) group, in the Damascus countryside, the country’s SANA news agency reported.The report said a “tightly executed security operation” was carried out that led to the arrest of al-Zoubi, adding that “a suicide belt and a militar...

Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris on Monday presented a proposal before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), seeking to end the country’s nearly three-year war that has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with some 14 million people displaced.The North African nation descended into civil war in April 2023 after...

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced the launch of a joint military battalion aimed at fighting armed groups across the Sahel, one of Africa’s poorest and most volatile regions.The initiative was announced at the end of the two-day Alliance of Sahel States (AES) summit in the Malian capital, Bamako, as the three countries st...

An explosion has ripped through a mosque in northeastern Nigeria as worshippers gathered for their evening prayers, killing and wounding several people, according to media reports.The blast took place at about 6pm on Wednesday (17:00 GMT) in the city of Maiduguri in Borno State, the Reuters and AFP news agencies reported, citing wi...

The Supreme Court’s refusal on Tuesday to let the Trump administration deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area was in large part the result of a friend-of-the-court brief submitted by a Georgetown University law professor named Martin S. Lederman.The argument Professor Lederman set out, and the court’s embrace of it, could...

The letter landed like a thud on Saturday in the inbox of Harvard University’s president, Alan M. Garber.The message, from Linda McMahon, President Trump’s education secretary, conveyed an understanding of an emerging deal between Harvard and the White House that flew in the face of the terms the university had been insisting on.Dr...

The man suspected of shooting two National Guard members in Washington on Nov. 26 is facing additional federal firearm charges that could carry the death penalty.The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan refugee, had already been charged in Superior Court in Washington with first-degree murder, assault and two weapons charges. H...

A prominent farmer in Southern California was arrested on Tuesday on charges that he fatally shot his wife, who had filed for divorce and was living apart from him in Arizona, the authorities said.The man, Michael Abatti, 63, was arrested in El Centro, Calif., after an Arizona grand jury indicted him on charges that he murdered his...

The Justice Department said on Wednesday that it had discovered over a million more documents potentially related to the investigation of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — increasing the amount previously known and lengthening the time it will take to release the material.To date, the department has released about 130,00...

Palau, an archipelago of about 350 small islands in the Pacific Ocean, has signed a “memo of understanding” with the Trump administration to take up to 75 “third country nationals” who cannot be returned to their home nations, the office of Palau’s president said on Wednesday. In return, Palau will receive $7.5 million and other ai...

Todd Donaldson was fishing with family on Monday near Galveston, Texas, when he caught a glimpse of a plane — flying too low, he thought — before it vanished back into the dense fog that had enveloped the bay. A few seconds later came sounds he would not forget: a sharp, concussive crack followed by the heavy slap of water. It did...

A quiet Baltimore suburb was shaken Wednesday morning after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot an undocumented driver trying to evade arrest, according to ICE and local officials, resulting in a crash that left the driver and a passenger hospitalized.Tricia McLaughlin, the Department of Homeland Security’s assi...

Texas A&M University has declined to reinstate a faculty member who was fired after she was accused of teaching a course that recognized more than two genders, even after an appeals panel found that the dismissal was not justified.The decision to not reinstate the instructor, Melissa McCoul, is expected to set off a court battle to...

Muthoni Nduthu had one last nursing shift at the Bristol Health and Rehab Center in eastern Pennsylvania before she and her family planned to hit the road on Christmas Eve to spend the holidays with relatives in North Carolina. Instead, her stunned family gathered on Wednesday to mourn Ms. Nduthu, 52, who was killed, along with a f...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia won’t attempt to replace injured Nathan Lyon with another spin bowler for the fourth Ashes test against England and will go into Friday’s start of the match with a 12-man, pace-heavy squad.After Lyon suffered a long-term hamstring injury in the Ashes-cli...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Thursday displayed apparent progress in the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine, with state media photos showing a largely completed hull, as leader Kim Jong Un condemned rival South Korea’s push to acquire the technology.North Korea’s officia...

Four United Nations human rights experts have condemned the partial naval blockade of Venezuela by the United States, finding it an illegal armed aggression and calling on the US Congress to intervene.“There is no right to enforce unilateral sanctions through an armed blockade,” the UN experts said in a joint statement on Wednesday...

More than a million additional documents that are potentially related to late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein have been uncovered, according to the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).In a social media post on Wednesday, the DOJ said it is reviewing the documents and will need “a few more weeks” before proceeding w...

Filmmakers Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet are clearly fascinated by ambition. They’re fascinated, too, by dreamers — difficult dreamers, brilliant but demanding people who have plans they must fulfill no matter the personal cost.They’re also interested in dreamers who cross the ocean to Amer...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from executing a March presidential memorandum to revoke the security clearance of prominent attorney Mark Zaid, ruling that the order — which also targeted 14 other people — could not apply to him.Tuesday's decision mark...

The American Academy of Pediatrics sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday, seeking to block nearly $12 million in cuts to the group.Earlier this month, the federal government “abruptly terminated” grants to the group, the lawsuit says.The funding supported numerou...

NEW YORK (AP) — A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center, a holiday tradition dating back more than 20 years, has been canceled. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President...

This is not exactly what the NFL and Netflix had in mind when they thought they would be getting big-name quarterbacks Jayden Daniels vs. Dak Prescott and a high-stakes matchup of NFC East rivals Washington Commanders and Dallas Cowboys in the Christmas Day spotlight.As things stand now, it...

A day after the Trump administration acted to throttle offshore wind farms, it tossed two lifelines to coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel and a favored industry of the president.The government ordered two coal-burning power plants in Indiana to continue operating past their scheduled closure dates while it also gave hundreds of coal pl...

Election officials in Honduras on Wednesday declared Nasry Asfura, a former mayor endorsed by President Trump, as the winner of the country’s presidential election, after weeks of delays, technical issues and claims of fraud.Mr. Asfura becomes the Central American country’s next president by a razor-thin margin after a hard-fought...

Peng Peiyun, a senior Chinese Communist Party official who was given the task of enforcing her government’s draconian “one-child” family-planning restrictions at their height and who then worked to soften and, ultimately, end the policies, died on Sunday in Beijing. She was 95.Her death was reported by China’s official Xinhua news...

In addition to running House of Dagmar, the Swedish women’s wear line they founded with their sister Kristina Tjader, 54, 20 years ago, Sofia Wallenstam, 42, and Karin Soderlind, 58, have also become partners in putting on an annual Christmas get-together for their creative circle. Two years ago, it took the form of an outing to se...

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The Parisian designer Lauren Rubinski likens her new store, Rubirosa’s, to “a candy shop for adults.” Inside the 450-square-foot boutique on the Left Bank’s Rue de Grenelle, the custom-made, ebony-veneered shelves are stacked with plush cashmere sweaters in 15 colors and neatly folded cotton poplin shirts, pajamas and boxer shorts...

Wyatt Johnson still remembers refreshing his Coinbase app during the hype of the crypto frenzy in 2021. He and his friends were convinced they were witnessing history, so Mr. Johnson decided to invest about $5,000.But instead of making money, his portfolio in Solana, a cryptocurrency, lost half its value within months.Mr. Johnson,...

My mother is in her late 80s and lives alone in a house with a big fenced yard. She’s sharp, mobile and surrounded by friends. She has always lived with a dog, and she gave her last one a wonderful life until his recent death. She’s ready to welcome another older companion who fits her lifestyle.When she recently tried to adopt, th...

To Please a WomanMinh says I’m hard to buy gifts for. Yet every day I anticipate him coming home with little offerings: cookies wrapped in napkins sneaked out of faculty workshops, a bottle of sanitizer, a ChapStick from a job fair. When Minh gives larger gifts, he often confuses the holidays. Among Christmas presents? A “Most Wond...

There is something elemental about the mail. Like the rain, snow, heat and “gloom of night” cited in the unofficial motto of the U.S. Postal Service, it is simply a part of everyday life.Until one day, perhaps, it isn’t.These days, the Postal Service is losing money — more than $100 billion since 2007; $9 billion in fiscal year 202...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage ticked down modestly this week, remaining in the same narrow range of the past two months.The average long-term mortgage rate fell to 6.18% from 6.21% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Wednesday. A year ago, the rate aver...

Almost every night, Party, a 65-pound Labrador retriever, intercepts nightmares.Party jumps onto Marshall Bahr’s chest, rousing him before he wakes up — heart hammering, gasping for air. Dr. Bahr, 40, gives the dog a treat, thanks him and goes back to sleep.For almost seven years, Dr. Bahr served as a combat medic with the U.S. Arm...

Good morning! Today we have for you:What would happen if you turned cinnamon rolls into a big Bundt cakeMy salt-and-pepper roast chicken, simple and stunningAnd, pistachio-goat cheese bites, great on their own or topping a salad (remember salad?)ImageGenevieve Ko’s cinnamon roll Bundt cake with cream cheese frosting.Credit...David...

I’m delighted by how many classic crime novels are being reissued these days. Here are a few recent favorites, which span over a century of excellent storytelling.ImageNothing but Murders and Bloodshed and Hangingby Mary Fortune“I have been told by some that I tell horrible stories, and by others that I am not sensational enough; a...

Voyage CreativeVoyage CreativeVoyage CreativeVoyage CreativeVoyage CreativeVoyage CreativeVoyage CreativeVoyage CreativeVoyage CreativeVoyage CreativeVoyage CreativeVoyage CreativeVoyage CreativeSavannah, Ga. | $1.995 millionAn 1850 rowhouse, on 0.05 acresThis house, in Savannah’s Historic Landmark District, has three bedrooms, thr...

It was decidedly not love at first sight. Yearning to escape the Midwest, Melissa Longstaff and her husband decided to move to Richmond, Va., after graduating from art school in Kansas City, Mo., 35 years ago. Back then, Virginia’s sleepy capital was still locked in an embrace of its past as the seat of the Confederacy.“What you sa...

Last weekend’s first round of the College Football Playoff averaged 9.9 million viewers on ABC, ESPN, TNT, TBS and truTV, according to ESPN and Nielson. That is a 7% drop from last year.A big reason for the drop was that the final game, James Madison versus Oregon, was on TNT, TBS and truTV...

VIERA, Fla. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy being investigated in the death of his stepsister on a Carnival cruise ship last month has no recollection about what happened, according to text message exchanges between his parents filed in a custody court case in Florida.The boy’s mother told her ex-h...

HONOLULU (AP) — A federal judge’s ruling clears the way for Hawaii to include cruise ship passengers in a new tourist tax to help cope with climate change, a levy set to go into effect at the start of 2026.U.S. District Judge Jill A. Otake on Tuesday denied a request seeking to stop official...

A Delaware state trooper who was shot to death at a DMV office was described Thursday as dependable and professional on the job and steady and kind at home. Cpl. Matthew “Ty” Snook, 34, of Hockessin, Delaware, was working an overtime assignment at a DMV office near Wilmington on Tuesday when...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The president of Fenerbahce, one of Turkey’s leading sports clubs, was taken into custody in Istanbul on Wednesday as part of a widening drug investigation that has ensnared prominent entertainment and media figures, state media reported.Sadettin Saran, a dual citizen o...

BRISTOL, Pa. (AP) — Construction crews worked to clear the collapsed walls and roof from a Pennsylvania nursing home Wednesday to help investigators find the cause of an explosion that killed a resident and employee, and set off a dramatic evacuation amid falling debris and shooting flames.T...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — An Eritrean man alleged to be a people-smuggling kingpin was extradited Wednesday to the Netherlands by the United Arab Emirates, paving the way for trial in a Dutch court.The 41-year-old Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam had been on an international wanted list since 2021 after f...

Johannesburg (AP) — Police in South Africa on Wednesday said they had arrested 11 people, including many suspected of being illegal miners, and were seeking a potential connection to Sunday’s shooting at a pub that killed 10 people.In search for illegal miners in the area, police and Sibanye...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Some Kenyans on Wednesday protested after roaming elephants killed four people over the past week in what experts describe as human–wildlife conflict driven by scarcity of vegetation.One elephant believed to have killed two people was shot dead in Kajiado County. The Ke...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House has been charged in a complaint with federal firearms charges in connection with the ambush on November 26 that fatally wounded one of the West Virginia National Guard members and seriously injured the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday that finishing the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files could take a “few more weeks,” further delaying compliance with a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress.The department said the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a March presidential memorandum to revoke the security clearance of prominent Washington attorney Mark Zaid, ruling that the order — which also targeted 14 other individuals — could not be applied to him.Th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday that it may need a “few more weeks” to release all of its records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after suddenly discovering more than a million potentially relevant documents, further delaying compliance with last Friday’s con...

A series of powerful winter storms threaten to hit California with relentless rain, strong winds and mountain snow as vacationers hit the road for Christmas.Millions of people across the state are expected to hit the road. They will likely encounter dangerous, even impossible, conditions wit...

NEW YORK (AP) — It is one of the most surprising music stories of the year. While streams of new music — releases from the last 18 months — were down from last year, one genre is on the rise: Christian and gospel music, according to industry data and analytics company Luminate’s 2025 Midyear...

Norwegian biathlon Olympic hopeful Sivert Guttorm Bakken has died suddenly. He was 27.“The International Biathlon Union is deeply saddened to learn that Norwegian biathlete Sivert Guttorm Bakken has passed away at the age of 27 during a training camp in Italy,” the sport’s governing body sai...

Officials in Southern California began issuing evacuation warnings and closing roads as a severe storm began hitting the region, with heavy rain and dangerous floods expected across Los Angeles County on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.Relentless rains and strong winds from a series of atmospheric rivers could cause rock and mudsli...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week and remain at historically healthy levels despite some signs that the labor market is weakening.U.S. applications for jobless claims for the week ending Dec. 20 fell by 10,000 to 214,000 from the prev...

The family drama “Goodbye June” is the rare mother-son cinematic debut: Kate Winslet, who also acts in the film, directs a script by her son, Joe Anders. It’s his first time screenwriting and hers directing, although freshman inexperience is more easily identified in the former. The story, about a dying matriarch and her stricken a...

Jim Jarmusch won the top prize at the Venice International Film Festival in September for “Father Mother Sister Brother,” and that would be a gratifying outcome in any year. A director who has stayed committed to his offbeat aesthetic since his breakthrough with “Stranger Than Paradise” (1984), Jarmusch is a filmmaker for whom just...

For whatever reason, movies about adolescence often bathe those memories in golden, nostalgic hues, sentimentalizing painful lessons and viewing them with a fondness only distance can provide. “The Plague,” the debut from the writer and director Charlie Polinger, is about as far from that kind of movie as you can get. Thank goodnes...

The makers of “Anaconda” got at least one thing right: Rebooting the shlocky, widely-panned creature-feature of the same name from 1997 is a goofy idea. Enter Jack Black and Paul Rudd as two losers from Buffalo with an outsize affection for the 1990s artifact, a film so bankably bad-its-good to have spawned multiple sequels and eve...

Reflecting on England during World War I, the poet Philip Larkin wrote, “Never such innocence again.”His words spring to mind while watching “The Choral,” written by Alan Bennett and directed by Nicholas Hytner. One infers that Larkin’s words were close at hand as Bennett wrote the screenplay for “The Choral,” a moving account of m...

“Neil Diamond sucks!” yells a patron at the biker bar where Lightning and Thunder, a Neil Diamond cover band, has been rashly booked for its first gig. (The expected motor-home convention has not materialized.) Yet even if you endorse the sentiment, you are bound to be won over by “Song Sung Blue,” a small-scaled, bighearted tale o...

Ann Lee, the illiterate daughter of a Manchester blacksmith, was born on the 29th of February, 1736 — “as one might expect of a miraculous person,” explains Sister Mary Partington (Thomasin McKenzie). From the beginning of her life she was preoccupied by the things of God. From the start she was repulsed by sex and magnetized by wh...

In a blur of fury, Ryan J. Haddad broke out from his hiding place in a closet. “I’ve got you now! I heard it all,” his character, Damis, exclaimed at Tartuffe (Matthew Broderick). Will his attempt to expose Tartuffe’s lechery pay off finally, or will the inveterate schemer outwit his many accusers again?Six days before Lucas Hnath’...

For a few weeks now, I could not shake the sense that there was something familiar about Timothée Chalamet’s relentless press tour for “Marty Supreme,” his new postwar table tennis epic.It was not just the orange leather suit he wore to the film’s Los Angeles premiere, though that did deepen my convictions.It was not merely the sig...

England’s Ashes tour of Australia appears to be going from bad to worse.Star bowler Jofra Archer will not play in the remaining two tests due to a left side strain, a team official said Wednesday, adding to England’s problems both on and off the field that include accusations of drunken beha...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s liberal-led legislature on Wednesday passed a bill allowing heavy punitive damages against traditional news and internet media for publishing “false or fabricated information,” brushing aside concerns the legislation could lead to greater censorship.Jo...

Naturalized citizens in Ohio’s capital, Columbus, have taken to carrying passports with them. Businesses and nonprofits that serve immigrants around the city are delivering goods to customers who are afraid to venture outside their homes. Churches in immigrant neighborhoods are all but empty.A surge of enforcement in Columbus by Im...

A coalition of 19 states on Tuesday sued to block the Trump administration’s plan to strip federal funding from hospitals providing gender-related care for minors, a policy that would effectively shut down any health care providers that failed to comply.That plan, announced on Thursday by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wou...

They were among Bashar al-Assad’s top spymasters and generals, men who spent over a decade brutally suppressing a popular revolt in Syria. Now, a year after fleeing as the Assad regime collapsed, they are plotting to undermine the fledgling government that ousted them, and perhaps take back a piece of the country.It is unclear if t...

The cease-fire in Gaza is more than two months old. But the killing of Palestinians has not yet stopped for more than a day or two at a time.Death can come from straying across the Yellow Line, the poorly demarcated border between eastern Gaza, where the Israeli military has entrenched itself, and the western half, where Hamas is s...

Video‘A Hard Time We Had of It’A fitting poem for a transformative year.CreditCredit...Jim West/Report Digital-REA, via ReduxThis week Ross Douthat shares one of his favorite poems for the occasion, “The Journey of the Magi,” written by T.S. Eliot, to reflect on a year one might call “interesting.” See you next year!‘A Hard Time We...

When “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” won the Emmy for outstanding talk series in September, the host gave thanks with a short mission statement. When he first conceived his iteration of the CBS franchise, which he took over from David Letterman, Mr. Colbert had in mind a late-night comedy show “that was about love,” he explain...

Most of my students at the University of Virginia love going home for the holidays. They cherish their immediate families. But some do not look forward to holiday dinner with the extended family.My students are mostly liberals (no surprise) and they do not relish the thought of a sit-down encounter with their uncle in a MAGA hat wh...

Recently, I was away from home doing a series of book events on the East Coast of the United States. I came off a flight to a barrage of text messages. Back in Britain my husband was clearly drowning, exhausted from juggling two different school pickups and drop-offs, clashing after-school activities, major professional deadlines a...

As each new year approaches, many people reflect on what they hope will be different in the new year. We imagine ourselves living up to an ideal and wish for a better tomorrow. Soon, the tension between who we are and who we want to be emerges. We might say we want to be healthier or friendlier, but we find that true change is easi...

Polarization is such a reality that for many years, we couldn’t even celebrate Christmas calmly or brightly. Again and again, the “peace on earth good will toward everybody” faction faced off against the “don’t tell me when I can’t say ‘Merry-Christmas’” caucus. When you turn the birth of a savior into an occasion for grievance, yo...

In a year when the United States seemed more split than ever, Americans united in one way: We demanded results and we wanted them now. From ICE raids designed as a theater of terror and GLP-1 shortcuts for weight loss, to A.I.-generated term papers, rampaging DOGE bros and summary Alien Enemies Act deportations, America raged again...

The New York Times is joining an expedition by sea to Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers.

The Ukrainian military says its forces have withdrawn from ​​the battle-scarred town of Siversk in the eastern Donetsk region after heavy fighting with Russian forces.In a statement on Telegram on Tuesday, Ukraine’s General Staff said that Russian troops had a “significant advantage” in manpower and equipment and had exerted consta...

Two police ⁠officers ​and another ‍person have been ‍killed in ⁠blast in southern ​Moscow, ‌near where a general was ‍killed recently by a car bomb Russia said was planted by Ukrainian intelligence, according to investigators.The two traffic police officers were killed early on Wednesday in an explosion that occurred when they atte...

Russian attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region kills at least one and injures three, according to its governor.

The Libyan army’s Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, has been killed in a plane crash in Turkiye while returning from an official visit to Ankara.Turkish officials said the private aircraft, which was heading back to Tripoli on Tuesday, requested an emergency landing due to an electrical failure just m...

When you’re shopping for a high-quality vehicle, the idea of acquiring one with a luxury badge that’s packed with features can be appealing. But it can also be an expensive proposition in today’s market when the average price of a new car is approximately $50,000. Thankfully, there is an alt...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Harry Martinez has delivered The New York Times for 44 years. Once a week, he makes the long haul to West Virginia to pick up copies of The Times Magazine, which are then inserted into the Sunday paper. Th...

Jeanne started taking Zepbound, a weight-loss drug like Ozempic, in March 2024. She and her husband, Javier, spoke to me at length earlier this year about how they felt about their bodies. And about each other’s bodies. They hadn’t had sex since Jeanne started taking the medication. They became furious with each other.In one of our...

Hosted by Anna MartinProduced by Reva GoldbergEmily LangDavis LandAmy PearlSara Curtis and Elisa GutierrezEdited by Jen Poyant and Lynn LevyEngineered by Daniel RamirezOriginal music by Dan PowellAman Sahota and Diane Wong‘The problem is you can’t hold on to anything. It’s, it’s all letting go. … This life is all a letting go.’Imag...

Eating black-eyed peas augurs good luck and good fortune for the new year.That’s what they say down South. And who am I to disagree? Though I wasn’t raised there, I’ve long been partial to serving them on New Year’s Day, often preparing them a day or two in advance.Recipe: Black-Eyed Peas With Pork Belly and GreensImageCredit...Dav...

If you’re gearing up to host out-of-town guests, throw a big New Year’s Eve bash or are just trying to pick a movie with friends, these features on your phone or tablet can help.Share the Wi-FiWant an easy way to share your home network password with visiting family that doesn’t involve typing? Your phone can display a QR code they...

Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the secretary-general of the Arab League, has praised a peace plan presented by Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris to the United Nations Security Council earlier this week.Gheit said on Wednesday that the 22-member league backed the recently unveiled initiative, which calls for a ceasefire and global monitoring...

This article contains spoilers.She’s a middle-aged, blue-collar amputee who sings backup in a kitschy Neil Diamond cover band. “I don’t want to be a hairdresser,” she says with a heavy Wisconsin accent. “I want to sing and dance.”It’s not exactly a role that shouts Oscar. At first glance, it reads more like Razzie bait.But the righ...

It was early November, and the stock market had grown jittery as investors recoiled anew over the enormous bets the nation’s largest technology companies had placed on artificial intelligence.But the skittishness playing out on Wall Street that day barely registered at the White House. Asked whether he harbored any fears about an e...

ImageElon Musk, the tech billionaire, briefly joined the Trump administration in the role of cost-cutter in chief. In February, he said that the U.S. would go bankrupt without big budget cuts.Credit...Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe year in photosVolatility, shifting technology and high-stakes decisions shaped the...

In May 2022, clients of the private equity firm Clearlake Capital gathered at a California resort with dazzling views of the Pacific Ocean, where champagne and shrimp flowed freely.Perhaps even more dazzling than the setting at the Monarch Beach Resort & Club was Clearlake’s recent performance, which had blown through almost every...

When David Ellison became a teenager, his father, Larry, bought him a gift not usually bestowed on a 13th birthday: his own Katana stunt plane. The two had spent little meaningful time together. But with their own aircraft, the father and son could bond in the air, practicing aerobatic flips and ruling the skies together.Now, Larry...

A movie theater that bore witness to Afghanistan’s modern history — from the cosmopolitan vibrancy of the 1960s to the silencing and repression that followed not one but two Taliban takeovers — has been razed to make way for a shopping mall.The Ariana Cinema in Kabul, the capital, had remained closed, save for occasional propaganda...

Two weeks ago, Pheap Sreymean had just gotten up in her dorm in a scam center in the Cambodian border town of O’Smach, when she said her supervisor ran in shouting, “The bombs are coming!”Two Thai warplanes were circling overhead. Ms. Pheap, a Cambodian, was running for safety when she heard an explosion behind her. She said she sa...

The Australian state of New South Wales, of which Sydney is the capital, on Wednesday passed new laws that further restrict gun ownership and empower police to shut down protests, in response to last week’s terrorist attack on a Hanukkah celebration.The state legislation comes just 10 days after the country’s deadliest mass shootin...

China has been growing its stockpile of nuclear warheads by about 100 a year as its top leader, Xi Jinping, pushes to expand his nuclear options. But its production of warheads slowed last year, the Pentagon said, without specifying a cause.The U.S. Department of Defense’s latest annual report on China’s armed forces estimated that...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine told reporters on Tuesday that he was ready to pull his troops back from areas of the eastern Donetsk region still under Kyiv’s control and turn them into a demilitarized zone as part of a possible peace deal with Moscow.The offer was the closest Mr. Zelensky has come to addressing the thorny...

Three people, including two police officers, were killed on Wednesday by a bomb in Moscow after the officers tried to apprehend a person acting suspiciously near a police car, Russian investigators said.The blast occurred next to a police station in the same southern Moscow neighborhood where a senior Russian military commander was...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has unveiled a revised draft peace plan, developed with the United States, portraying it as Kyiv’s best effort to end the war with Russia.The 20 points included in the plan cover a broad range of issues, from the security guarantees Kyiv wants to prevent future Russian aggression to commitmen...

Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg lead a German legal aid organization that assists individuals facing online abuse and violent threats.Clare Melford runs a British group that helps identify disinformation.Imran Ahmed is a British activist who runs an organization that has chronicled anti-vaccination content on social me...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An explosive device detonated in Gaza on Wednesday, injuring one Israeli soldier and prompting Israel to accuse Hamas of violating the U.S.-backed ceasefire. It was the latest incident to threaten the tenuous truce that has held since Oct. 10 as each side accuses the other o...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem’s Manger Square on Christmas Eve as families heralded a much-needed boost of holiday spirit. The giant Christmas tree that was absent during the Israel-Hamas war returned on Wednesday, overlooking a parade of scouts playing...

Finances already looked tight for Jade Grant and her three children as she entered the year’s final months.“Everyone’s birthday is back-to-back,” the 32-year-old certified nursing assistant said. “You have holidays coming up. You have Thanksgiving. Everything is right there. And then, boom....

Suze Lopez holds her baby boy on her lap and marvels at the remarkable way he came into the world.Before little Ryu was born, he developed outside his mom’s womb, hidden by a basketball-sized ovarian cyst — a dangerous situation so rare that his doctors plan to write about the case for a med...

Burkina Faso’s interim leader, who is part of a regional alliance of military-led countries that includes Mali and Niger, has announced “large-scale” joint operations against armed groups in the coming days.Captain Ibrahim Traore’s comments came as the three countries, allied under the banner of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES),...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive on Wednesday warned that it would take action against any “unjustified measures” after the U.S. State Department barred five Europeans it accuses of pressuring U.S. technology firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.The Europeans were ch...

PARIS (AP) — A pro-Russian hacking group claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack that halted package deliveries by France’s national postal service just days before Christmas, prosecutors said Wednesday.After the claim by the cybercrime group known as Noname057, French intelligence ag...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters that he would be willing to withdraw troops from the country’s eastern industrial heartland if Russia also pulls back and the area becomes a demilitarized, free economic zone monitored by international forces. The pr...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Voters in Guinea will head to the polls on Sunday for the West African nation’s first presidential election since the military took power in a 2021 coup, with analysts predicting a likely win for junta leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya.Guinea is one of 10 African countries w...

PAPIRI, Nigeria (AP) — In a Christmas reunion, families and villagers in north-central Nigeria cried and hugged schoolchildren who were held for a month after being seized in one of the largest mass abductions in the country’s history. The 130 schoolchildren and teachers were released on Sun...

China has accused two Taiwanese nationals of leading a smuggling ‍operation involving a ‍Chinese-crewed vessel that damaged subsea cables in February, in an incident that has stoked tensions between the countries.The public security bureau in Weihai, in China’s eastern Shandong province, said on Wednesday that a probe into the inci...

The state of New South Wales (NSW) will have the toughest gun laws in Australia as well as wide-reaching new restrictions on free speech in the wake of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, which left 15 people dead.Less than two weeks after the attack on a Jewish celebration, new legislation was passed by the state’s legislative assembly...

Thailand and Cambodia have reported new fighting in their ongoing border conflict, as the first talks between the sides since the latest outbreak of violence get under way.Thailand’s military said on Wednesday that there had been clashes in the border provinces of Sisaket and Surin, Thai media reported, with Thai forces responding...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin doesn’t condone the actions that led to wide receiver DK Metcalf’s two-game suspension by the NFL following an in-game altercation with a fan, but he added that Metcalf has his full support.The league punished the two-time Pro Bowler by...

The United States has imposed visa bans on five Europeans, including a former European Union commissioner, accusing them of pressuring tech firms to censor and suppress “American viewpoints they oppose”.In a statement on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterised the individuals as “radical activists” who had “advance...

Venezuela has told the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that the United States has “continental ambitions” over much of Latin America as it wages an unofficial war to remove the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.“It’s not just about Venezuela. The ambition is continental,” Venezuela’s UN ambassador, Samuel Mon...

United States President Donald Trump has said that he expects the next chairman of the US Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low and never “disagree” with him.Trump made his remarks on Tuesday as interviewing was under way for candidates to replace outgoing Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell.Recommended Stories list of 4 items...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for a meeting with United States counterpart Donald Trump to discuss “sensitive issues” as negotiators inched closer to a final draft of a peace plan, nearly four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Zelenskyy told reporters in an embargoed briefing on Tuesday that U...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs urged a federal appeals court in New York late Tuesday to order his immediate release from prison and reverse his conviction on prostitution-related charges or direct his trial judge to lighten his four-year sentence.The lawyers sa...

A prominent California farmer was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife in a remote mountain community in Arizona, the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office said.Michael Abatti, 63, was arrested in El Centro and booked into jail on a first-degree murder...

A Christmas Eve Powerball drawing could add new meaning to holiday cheer as millions of players hope to cash in on the $1.7 billion prize, which comes after months without a jackpot winner.The United States’ 4th-largest jackpot on record comes after 46 consecutive draws without someone claim...

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Central African Republic on Dec. 28 will hold presidential and legislative elections as concerns over armed groups have led to a growing reliance on Russia for security.President Faustin Archange Touadera has led the country since 2016 and is seen as l...

DWEIL’A, Syria (AP) — At a church in Syria where a suicide attack killed 25 people in June, hundreds of worshippers gathered before Christmas to remember those they lost and reaffirm their faith.With a small detail of security forces standing guard outside, members of Mar Elias Church held M...

California officials and weather forecasters urged holiday travelers to avoid the roads and reconsider Christmas travel as a series of powerful winter storms brought relentless rains, heavy winds and mountain snow.Storms began to move in late Tuesday evening and were expected to intensify in...

Masashi “Jumbo” Ozaki, whose 113 worldwide victories were the most of any player from Japan, died Wednesday in his home country after a battle with colon cancer, the Japan Golf Tour said. He was 78.Ozaki was revered in Japan, a big hitter with a sense of style who won 94 times over 29 years...

HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets were mixed on Wednesday after the benchmark S&P 500 closed at another record high following a report that the U.S. economy grew at an unexpectedly strong 4.3% annual rate in July to September.The U.S. government’s first estimate of growth for the third quarter...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Search teams on Wednesday recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from the jet that crashed and killed Libya’s military chief and other senior officers, while efforts to retrieve the victim’s remains were still underway, Turkey’s interior minister said. Th...

MOSCOW (AP) — Three people, including two police officers, were killed in an explosion in Moscow on Wednesday, Russian investigators said, just days after a car bomb killed a high-ranking general not far away.The two traffic police officers were approaching a “suspicious individual” when an...

NEW YORK (AP) — A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and its inspector general over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people.Th...

Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka became the first player to defect from LIV Golf, a significant blow to the Saudi-funded league that raises questions whether the PGA Tour will find a way for him to return.LIV Golf posted an announcement to its website under a statement that Talor Gooch...

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” The university said in a statement pos...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri pass rusher Damon Wilson II claims that the athletic department at Georgia is trying to illegally punish him for entering the transfer portal in a lawsuit filed by the linebacker in state court Tuesday in Boone County, Missouri.Wilson transferred to the Tigers l...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — After a gunman shot a Delaware state trooper inside a DMV office near Wilmington on Tuesday, the wounded trooper pushed a nearby employee to safety before the gunman shot him again, killing him, authorities said. A police officer then confronted, shot and killed the g...

BRISTOL, Pa. (AP) — A thunderous explosion Tuesday at a nursing home just outside Philadelphia killed at least two people, collapsed part of the building, sent fire shooting out and left people trapped inside, authorities said.Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a news conference several...

Briana Fair, a mental health clinician with the San Mateo Police Department, received a dozen voicemails from the same distressed caller over a single weekend this month. She knew the voice. It was her client, saying that a celebrity has been hacking her phone, that she needed help moving in...

NEW YORK (AP) — Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier ’s lawyers are asking a judge to throw out sports gambling charges that have kept him off the court this season, arguing that the government overreached by turning a private dispute over bettors’ use of nonpublic information into a federal case.I...

SWANSEA, Wales (AP) — Martha Stewart has joined pal Snoop Dogg as a minority owner of Welsh soccer team Swansea.The former Premier League club, which plays in the English second division, didn’t disclose financial details in Tuesday’s announcement about the American businesswoman and media p...

After the outbreak of World War II, Robert Nakamura and his family, like 120,000 other people of Japanese descent, were forcibly removed from their home and placed in a remote internment camp.It was 1942, the year Mr. Nakamura turned 6. He would later recall that on the roughly 250-mile trip north to the camp from Los Angeles in a...

Lawyers for the music mogul Sean Combs on Tuesday appealed his conviction and sentencing on prostitution-related charges, saying that the sexual encounters at the heart of his case were consensual and that the trial judge handed down an improperly steep sentence.In a federal trial in Manhattan this past summer, a jury found Mr. Com...

The new leadership of CBS News is facing an outcry over alleged political interference in its coverage after a report on a controversial Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration has deported immigrants was pulled at the eleventh hour.Criticism of the network grew on Monday after an investigation into alleged abuses at El Sa...

A new batch of Jeffrey Epstein files that have been released contains numerous references to United States President Donald Trump, including documents detailing flights he took on his then friend’s private jet.Trump flew on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet “many more times than previously has been reported”, acc...

NEW YORK (AP) — A financier has been extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States to face allegations that he cheated investors who were promised monthly 10% gains in what was actually a Ponzi scheme, authorities said. Matthew Melton, 61, of Boulder, Colorado, has remained jailed...

Leaves and bodies fall in “No Other Choice,” Park Chan-wook’s masterfully devilish satire with a chilling autumnal wind blowing through it. “Come on, fall,” urges You Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) as he grills an eel for dinner for his family in the opening moments of Park’s film. He’s eager for th...

British prosecutors on Tuesday charged Russell Brand, the comedian, actor and YouTuber, with two counts of sexual assault, including one of rape.Mr. Brand, 50, was already facing five charges of sexual assault in Britain, including one of rape and another of oral rape, for encounters that were said to have occurred between 1999 and...

Gaza’s health system is on the brink of an unprecedented collapse, with thousands of patients facing death or disability amid a harsh Israeli siege on the enclave, a top health official has warned.Munir al-Barsh, director-general of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that the situation inside the territory’s hosp...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said the Israeli military will never fully withdraw from the Gaza Strip and that an army unit will be established inside the Palestinian enclave.Speaking on Tuesday, Katz said Israeli forces would remain deployed throughout Gaza, despite a United States-backed peace plan signed by Israel and...

Israeli forces have begun demolishing shops in the vicinity of the Qalandiya refugee camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem, as part of a wider military incursion across several Palestinian neighbourhoods, witnesses and medical officials say.The raids, which began early on Tuesday, have extended into the nearby town of Kafr Aqab, w...

The Israeli government is cracking down on critical media outlets, giving it unprecedented control over how its actions are presented to its citizens.Among the moves is the so-called Al Jazeera Law, which allows the government to shut down foreign media outlets on national security grounds. On Tuesday, the Israeli parliament approv...

The Libyan army’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, has died in a plane crash near the Turkish capital, Ankara, shortly after the private jet he was travelling in took off from an airport there.The crash on Tuesday killed everyone on board.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Turkiye jails top-tier players pend...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s parliament on Tuesday approved a measure that criminalizes a broad range of activities that can hinder navigation and commerce in the South American country, such as the seizure of oil tankers. The bill — introduced, debated and approved within two days...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s new government on Tuesday issued a decree that will allow global satellite internet companies such as Starlink or Kuiper to provide internet access across the Andean nation as it tries to upgrade its technology and speed up its notoriously slow connectivity r...

The New York Times is joining an expedition by sea to Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers.