A federal magistrate judge in Oregon ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration could not withhold emergency preparation money from states that failed to provide updated population counts that accounted for deportations.The Federal Emergency Management Agency imposed the requirement in October, adding a hurdle for states in ord...

From the moment President Trump won re-election last year, it was clear that major upheavals were coming for the nation’s climate and energy policies. Few could have predicted just how sweeping the overhauls would be.Yesterday, my colleagues published an article detailing many of the changes. Here is a partial tally of the major en...

Relentless rains from a series of atmospheric rivers are expected to take a “dead aim” at Los Angeles, with dangerous flooding, mudslides and debris flows possible in the region through Christmas, forecasters said.Mike Wofford, a meteorologist at the Los Angeles office of the National Weather Service, said the heavy rain would arri...

Less than 24 hours after President Trump dealt a catastrophic blow to five major offshore wind farms on Monday, the Democratic governors of several Northeastern states began plotting a strategy to save them.In a hastily arranged conference call on Tuesday morning, the governors started to craft a two-pronged plan. They discussed su...

An hour’s drive north of Mumbai, India, in the middle of a swath of low green hills and small farmhouses, a large arch marks the entrance to a complex known as Keshav Srushti — or, loosely, Keshav’s Creation. Next to the arch is a tall portrait of a man with a walrus mustache and an orange blazer: Keshav Baliram Hedgewar.Dr. Hedgew...

More from our inbox:The Best Gift EverImageCredit...Maansi Srivastava/The New York TimesTo the Editor:Re “How Mamdani’s Audacious Child Care Plan Could Work,” by Rachel Cohen Booth (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 15):As an immigrant mother and literacy advocate, I read this essay with both relief and resolve. Relief, because it confirms...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Christina Chavarria had already prepared almost 200 tamales, but she was back at Amapola Market in Southern California early Tuesday morning for more masa. The dough made from ground corn was the best there, so it didn’t bother her that the line was wrapped around the park...

Ukraine returns fire as Russia says intercepted 29 drones, two days after US-led peace talks end in Miami.

Ukraine returns fire as Russia says intercepted 29 drones, two days after US-led peace talks end in Miami.

Ukraine returns fire as Russia says intercepted 29 drones, two days after US-led peace talks end in Miami.

Ukraine returns fire as Russia says intercepted 29 drones, two days after US-led peace talks end in Miami.

London, United Kingdom – Lawyers of imprisoned hunger-striking activists linked to the protest group Palestine Action have put the British government on notice as the justice secretary refuses to meet them.Imran Khan & Partners, which represents the collective, wrote a pre-claim letter to the government on Monday, warning that they...

British police have arrested Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and two other people at a pro-Palestine protest in central London, according to campaign group Defend Our Juries.The group said Thunberg was arrested on Tuesday at the Prisoners for Palestine protest held in the heart of London’s Square Mile financial district outside the...

British police have said they will take no further action over comments made by punk-rap duo Bob Vylan about the Israeli military during a performance at the Glastonbury music festival in June.Avon and Somerset Police said on Tuesday that the remarks did not meet the criminal threshold required for prosecution “for any person to be...

British authorities have brought new counts of rape and sexual assault against comedian Russell Brand, who is already facing similar charges involving four women.The United Kingdom’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Tuesday that the new charges – one count of rape and one of sexual assault – against Brand were in relation to...

Belgium has formally joined the case launched by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) alleging Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.In a statement on Tuesday, the ICJ – The Hague-based highest court of the United Nations – said Belgium had filed a declaration of intervention in the case.Recommended St...

Here is where things stand on Wednesday, December 24:Fighting Russian forces began a “massive attack” on Ukraine on Monday night, killing three people and targeting 13 regions with 650 drones and 30 missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X. Those killed in the overnight attack included a four-year-old g...

Syria’s foreign and defence ministers met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and held discussions on expanding “strategic cooperation in the military industries sector”, Syrian state media has reported.The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) ⁠said that Putin’s meeting on Tuesday with Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Asaad Hass...

We’re doing something a little different over the next two weeks. We’ll still give you the latest news. But at the top, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite reads of the year or giving you some cool end-of-2025 stuff. We hope you enjoy the chance to slow down a bit. We won’t be publishing a newsletter on Dec. 25.To those of you wh...

The United States’ aggressive campaign against tankers carrying Venezuelan crude has thrown the country’s oil industry into disarray, jeopardizing its government’s main source of revenue.President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has been struggling to adjust to President Trump’s dramatic escalation of pressure against his government, w...

For Tina Nguyen, a Canadian muralist in Belleville, Ontario, Christmas is part of another nativity story: the birth of her hair-accessory business. It all started six years ago, when Ms. Nguyen gave a cousin one of her handmade, pillowy hair scrunchies, inspiring her to sell them on the internet, where they quickly became a hit.But...

In early December, Germany’s centrist government didn’t have the votes to pass a law to save the country’s teetering pension system. A group of 18 coalition lawmakers balked at the cost, robbing the government of its parliamentary majority.The bill was rescued at the last minute by an unlikely savior: The far-left Die Linke party a...

At first glance, the candy in convenience stores across London appeared to be regular Snickers. It had familiar wrapping, with a picture of a nougat and caramel bar encased in chocolate and, for any complaints, a toll-free number to call.But the writing on the packaging was almost entirely in Cyrillic, Russia’s alphabet — and anyon...

In the hours after the massacre at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney last week, it seemed that Australia’s leaders had come together to offer a bipartisan response, as they had done for many past catastrophes.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged unity, describing the assault on the Jewish community as an attack on ev...

The French Parliament voted on Tuesday evening to pass a special law that will keep public services funded through January, after lawmakers failed — for the second consecutive year — to agree to a new national budget by the end of the legislative calendar.The failure to agree on a new budget reflected the political paralysis that h...

VideoCreditCredit...By Ruru KuoBy the end of 2024, words like slop, brat, brain rot, skibidi toilet and solo polyamory had become part of some people’s everyday life.In the deluge of unprecedented and often harrowing news this year, you may have missed an assortment of new slang terms that burst onto the scene, with help from Gen Z...

A California woman has been charged with murder after the remains of her missing 9-year-old daughter were found in Utah, authorities said Tuesday. Ashlee Buzzard, 40, was arrested Tuesday after bullet cartridges found near her daughter’s body were linked to a used cartridge case found in her...

A group of immigrant truckers sued California’s Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday, alleging the state violated thousands of workers’ rights when officials took action to revoke their commercial driver’s licenses.California officials said last month that the state notified about 17,000...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge gave a green light Tuesday to New York’s so-called Green Light Law, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to stop the state from giving people driver’s licenses without having them prove they are in the country legally.U.S. District Judge Anne M. Nardacci i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has directed five large-scale wind projects under construction off the East Coast to suspend their activities for at least 90 days, according to letters from the Interior Department obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, which provide new details...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday it was replacing its longstanding lottery system for H-1B work visas with a new approach that prioritizes skilled, higher-paid foreign workers.The change follows a series of actions by the Trump administration aimed at reshap...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s newly appointed envoy to Greenland said Tuesday that the Republican administration is looking to begin a conversation with residents of the semi-autonomous Danish territory about the best way forward for the strategically important island...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran and the United States reaffirmed their commitments to diplomacy at a contentious meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, but the gap between the Trump administration and the Islamic Republic on a nuclear deal remains wide and deep.The sixth round of negoti...

The Trump administration is deploying 350 National Guard troops to New Orleans ahead of the New Year, launching another federal deployment in the city at the same time that an immigration crackdown led by Border Patrol is underway. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Tuesday that Guard memb...

Take a 3-D tour of the president’s office, where he covered more than a third of wall space with gold.

Pro-Trump influencers have always had a lot to say about the Jeffrey Epstein files.Several called for their release before President Trump was re-elected, certain that the files would expose a cabal of Democrats who had palled around with Mr. Epstein even though he had been exposed as a convicted sex offender.And several criticized...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow President Trump to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in the Chicago area over the objection of Illinois officials, casting doubt on the viability of similar deployments in other American cities.The justices’ order is preliminary, but it blocks the Trump administration for now fro...

Two explosions at a nursing home northeast of Philadelphia killed two people and hospitalized at least five others, officials said Tuesday. Multiple people were unaccounted for, they said, cautioning that the numbers were still “in flux.”The explosions at the Bristol Health and Rehab Center in Bristol Township, Pa., also known as S...

A Delaware state trooper was killed after gunfire broke out at a motor vehicle office in Wilmington on Tuesday afternoon, leaving the gunman dead and additional people injured, the authorities said.Deputies responded to a report of an active shooter shortly after 2 p.m. at the Division of Motor Vehicles office, according to a state...

About 350 National Guard troops will arrive in New Orleans before New Year’s Eve, Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana said on Tuesday, and they will stay through at least February.Mr. Landry confirmed the deployment both in an appearance on Fox News Channel and on social media. Following Washington and Memphis, New Orleans would be the l...

Claudio Neves Valente was like a ghost.He dropped out of Brown University in the early 2000s, and friends and family have said they had no idea what happened to him until he appeared two decades later, accused of killing two students at Brown University and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor this month.Now, law enfor...

The United States military has dispatched a number of transport and cargo planes to the Caribbean this week, as President Trump continues to ramp up military pressure on President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, whom Mr. Trump has threatened with military action.Over the past week, C-17 heavy-lift cargo planes — which are largely used...

Portions of some files released from the Justice Department’s investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, were not properly redacted digitally, with some censored information easily revealed by copying and pasting blacked-out text into a separate file.The information from the failed redacti...

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor from teaching duties over her decision to fail a paper on gender that cited the Bible, in a case that has provoked a debate over academic freedom and what speech is protected in the classroom.An undergraduate student at the university had complained to the school after she receiv...

On a crisp, cold morning in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia this month, a federal judge listened as lawyers argued over racism, the Confederacy and who deserves to be honored through historical memory.The trial, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, was ostensibly about whether a school board violated t...

Yemen’s warring factions agreed on Tuesday to release thousands of prisoners in what would be the largest swap since civil war erupted in the country more than a decade ago.The deal provides for the exchange of about 2,900 prisoners between the Houthi rebels and Yemen’s internationally recognized government, according to Abdul Qade...

Libya’s highest-ranking army officer, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, and four other Libyan military officials were killed in a plane crash in Turkey on Tuesday night, according to the Libyan prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeiba.General al-Haddad, the Libyan military’s chief of general staff, had been meeting in Turkey with his...

The Trump administration will begin to garnish the pay of student loan borrowers in January, the Department of Education said Tuesday, stepping up a repayment enforcement effort that began this year.Beginning the week of Jan. 7, roughly 1,000 borrowers who are in default will receive notices informing them of their status, accordin...

One of this season’s most-talked-about “60 Minutes” investigations may be one that never made it to air.CBS News caused a controversy after it pulled a report from Sunday’s episode of the long-running news program that featured the stories of Venezuelan men who were deported by the Trump administration to a brutal prison in El Salv...

The Trump administration is barring five prominent Europeans from the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Tuesday, accusing them of being involved in online censorship of Americans, a claim they have disputed.The action sharply escalated the administration’s fight against European efforts to monitor content o...

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Texas from enforcing a new state law that requires companies that run app stores, like Apple and Google, to verify the ages of users — a win for the tech giants and a blow to parents who want more control over the apps their children download.Judge Robert Pitman of the U.S. District Court for the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. The Europeans, characterized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “radical” activists and “weaponized” n...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday he was “very disappointed” that his home state of Illinois had approved a law allowing for medically assisted suicide, and he called for greater respect of life.Leo said he had spoken “explicitly” with Gov. JB Pritzker and urged him to...

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado woman suspected of killing two of her young children during a custody dispute with her ex-husband two years ago has been returned from Britain to the United States to face charges, authorities said Tuesday.Colorado Springs-based District Attorney Michael Allen announ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Monday against Illinois Governor JB Pritzker over a series of new state laws that aim to protect immigrants inside courthouses, hospitals and day care centers.Pritzker signed a set of laws a few weeks ago that prohibit civil arrests in an...

CAPTIVES AND COMPANIONS: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World, by Justin MarozziWhen the British journalist Justin Marozzi was covering the 2011 uprising in Libya, he encountered something that profoundly confused him. Meeting in Tripoli with a group of rebels, he heard one turn to a Black comrade and say,...

Tariffs, a government shutdown, rising unemployment and persistent inflation have all added stress to the U.S. economy. And whether any of that might put a dent on consumer spending has been a subject of speculation.At least part of the answer came on Tuesday when Mastercard released its annual data on holiday spending. Shoppers sp...

The U.S. economy grew at a vigorous pace through the end of September, despite the uncertainty created by tariffs and widespread concerns about affordability among households.Economic growth rose at a 4.3 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday, an acceleration from the previous quarter.Th...

In our era of hyperpolarization, much of our art this year seemed to agree on one thing: The best vantage for exploring our times was from the political middle.It was a thought that grew as I saw works of film, stage and TV that explored ideas of racial injustice become some of this year’s biggest critical and commercial successes....

“The Queen of Versailles,” the biggest-budget production to open on Broadway this fall and the only large-scale new musical, aspired to be a cautionary tale about consumption and greed. Instead, it wound up as a cautionary tale about Broadway.The show, based on a 2012 documentary about a couple seeking to build America’s largest pr...

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State defensive coordinator Jon Heacock has retired, ending a coaching career after four-plus decades.He announced his decision on Tuesday.Heacock, known for a 3-3-5 scheme with the Cyclones, was a finalist for the Broyles Award that recognizes college football’s top a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default early next year. The department said it will send notices to approximately 1,000 borrowers the week of January 7, with more notices to come at an in...

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it had received an application for seabed mining exploration in international waters, the first in its effort to encourage the controversial industry.The federal government said it was formally considering the first permit applications from the Metals Company, which has become a forerun...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A consortium led by a Pakistani investment firm acquired a 75% stake in state-run Pakistan International Airlines on Tuesday during a televised auction, marking a major step in the government’s long-delayed effort to privatize the loss-making national carrier.The Arif Habib...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia ’s government has declared an economic state of emergency that enables President Gustavo Petro’s administration to issue taxes by decree, as the nation struggles to finance hospitals and the military while paying off record debts.Petro issued the decree late...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The death toll in South Africa ’s latest mass shooting at a pub rose to 10 on Tuesday, while police said they had identified two potential suspects.Three women and seven men were killed in Sunday’s early-morning assault in the township of Bekkersdal, 46 kilometers (28 mil...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The head of an alliance of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger declared Tuesday that the launch of a joint battalion “must be followed by large-scale operations in the coming days” in a region plagued by deadly extremism.Burkina Faso leader Capt. Ibrahim Traoré gave no details i...

TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian lawyer accused of playing a key role in an international drug smuggling network involving a former Olympic snowboarder was granted bail on Tuesday ahead of his extradition hearing to the United States.Deepak Paradkar, 62, was arrested with several other Canadians la...

PARIS (AP) — A freight lift rose up on its crane Tuesday toward the Louvre Museum — but this time it wasn’t jewel thieves. It was workers installing security bars on the window used to break into the Paris landmark’s Apollo Gallery in October’s stunning heist.The world’s most-visited museum...

CAIRO (AP) — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh was put on display Tuesday in the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall while being reassembled in real time. The cedarwood boat, one of two that were found that belong to King Khufu, was pieced together starting Tuesday morning as dozen...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A private jet carrying Libya’s military chief and four other people crashed after takeoff from Turkey’s capital, Ankara, on Tuesday, killing everyone on board. The Libyan military chief was in Ankara for high-level defense talks aimed at boosting military cooperation be...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two and a half months have passed since Gaza ’s latest ceasefire took effect, and the supplies being delivered to war-battered Palestinians are again the subject of fierce debate.The underlying question is whether Israel is upholding a key commitment under the U.S.-backed ce...

Al Michaels has achieved many milestones during his Hall of Fame broadcasting career.The one he has reached this season, though, may stand the test of time — 40 years as the play-by-play announcer for one of the NFL’s primetime packages.According to research from the 506 Sports Archive, the...

LONDON (AP) — British authorities on Tuesday brought new counts of rape and sexual assault against comedian Russell Brand, who is already facing similar charges involving four women. The U.K.'s Crown Prosecution Service said the new charges — one count of rape and one of sexual assault — aga...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Venus Williams and Andrea Preti are married, the tennis great announced Tuesday on social media.Williams and Preti became wife and husband over the weekend in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of a five-day celebration.After becoming the second-oldest woman to win a tour-l...

NEW YORK (AP) — On any given evening as the lights come up on Act 2 of “Liberation,” Bess Wohl’s intergenerational Broadway play about a women’s consciousness-raising group, you can hear supportive cheers of “Whoo!” and “Yeah!” — and sometimes, a round of applause. All before a single word h...

“When we first stepped in, we were a little shocked,” Andrea Giovanni Rossi said of the apartment he had been hired to renovate.The flat, a 215-square-foot rental in Milan’s Porta Romana neighborhood, was “kind of a challenge to design,” he said, adding that “it was kind of a sign that the market is shifting and that these very tig...

NEW YORK (AP) — Timothée Chalamet squints as he gazes out at the Manhattan shoreline. It’s a few hours before the premiere of his new movie, “Marty Supreme,” but at this moment, he’s sitting on a quiet bench at the end of a West Side pier.It’s brisk and there’s snow on the ground, but it’s s...

Jim Jarmusch invites audiences into three family gatherings of adult children in his gentle tryptic “Father Mother Sister Brother.”Don’t worry, you won’t be resentful you’re not part of any of them, not even the one where Tom Waits plays Adam Driver’s dad. To be fair, all the groupings are p...

It’s a funny time of year to be writing to you about fast and simple cooking. Is this not the moment for luxury, pageantry and scale, for projects like tamales or lumpia that require a gathering of home cooks and many hands; or Caribbean black cake, with its jeweled dried and candied fruit soaked for up to a year; or a perfect prim...

OpeningLalynOlie Sangpetpairot joins a growing list of women having a significant impact in New York’s Thai kitchens. With other projects already established — notably When in Bangkok in Flushing, Queens, and Malii Gramercy, both with mega menus — she is now drawing on Thai home cooking, the dishes she remembers from childhood. The...

Economic data never tells a perfectly clear story, but lately the contradictions have been especially jarring. Just a week apart, the government delivered two sharply conflicting messages. One report showed job growth stalling and unemployment rising. Another showed the economy expanding at a blistering 4.3 percent annual rate — mo...

ImageImageJensen Huang, C.E.O. of Nvidia, has seen his company’s value soar to more than $4 trillion on the back of investor enthusiasm for the artificial intelligence boom.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York TimesAndrew here. If there is one question that has been asked more than any other this year in the business world, it is th...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — England’s managing director of men’s cricket Rob Key says he will investigate the drinking habits of the England team following reports that their mid-Ashes beach resort break may have involved over-indulging of alcohol.England lost each of the first three tests t...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said he will be extending invitations to next year’s U.S.-hosted Group of 20 summit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as the Republican administration looks to deepen its relationship with the Central Asian nations.Trump announced the plan on Tu...

In a recent edition of The Amplifier newsletter, Lindsay Zoladz shared the music that shaped her year. She reconnected with a Lady Gaga classic after seeing her in concert, reconsidered a Beat Happening tune through the ears of a toddler and discovered an oddball Johnny Cash cover by the alternative rock band Wall of Voodoo.As Zola...

The British police announced on Tuesday that they were ending a criminal investigation into Bob Vylan, a punk-rap duo that tried to get a crowd at a music festival to chant “Death, death, to the I.D.F.,” in reference to Israel’s military.Although the chant caused international outrage, the Avon and Somerset Police said in a news re...

ImageImageTracy ChapmanCredit...Nicholas Albrecht for The New York TimesBy Lindsay ZoladzDear listeners,It’s time for one of my favorite annual Amplifier traditions: the songs that explain my year. Consider it a musical memoir of my 2025, in playlist form.A few weeks ago, when Apple Music sent me a month-by-month roundup of my most...

ATLANTA (AP) — Three inmates who escaped from a jail east of Atlanta, including one who was being held on a murder charge, used jail phones to call friends on the outside who met them and arranged a Lyft ride to whisk them out of Georgia, authorities said Tuesday.The inmates, who were captur...

Air traffic controllers lost communication for about 10 minutes with a small Mexican Navy plane carrying a young medical patient and seven others before it crashed off the Texas coast, killing at least five people, Mexico’s president said Tuesday. Authorities initially believed the plan...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman who almost killed her sixth-grade classmate to please the fictional horror villain known as Slender Man was ordered back to a state psychiatric hospital Tuesday after she escaped from her group home last month.Waukesha County Circuit Judge K. Scott Wagn...

Former Nebraska U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, a conservative who rebuked political tribalism and stood out as a longtime critic of President Donald Trump, announced Tuesday he was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer.Sasse, 53, made the announcement on social media, saying he learned of the dise...

This holiday season, many U.S. drivers are getting the gift of lower gas prices.According to data from motor club AAA, December has been the cheapest month for prices at the pump this year. The national average for unleaded gasoline has stayed below the $3 mark since Dec. 2, falling to its l...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Monday against Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker over new state laws aimed at protecting immigrants at courthouses, hospitals and day cares.Pritzker signed a set of laws earlier this month that ban civil arrests at and around courthouses state...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Now that the Chiefs are moving across the state line from their longtime home in Missouri to a $3 billion domed stadium to be built in Kansas, attention in the area has swung to the Royals, who have a similar decision to make regarding their own future.One thing is ce...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The number of states that will accept late-arriving mail-in ballots during next year’s critical midterm elections continues to dwindle, as Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine “reluctantly” signed new restrictions into law Friday, citing the uncertainty of pending litigation to ban th...

Wyoming’s lone U.S. representative is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Cynthia Lummis, who isn’t seeking reelection.Rep. Harriet Hageman, a Republican, on Tuesday became first to announce for Senate in Wyoming after Lummis, also a Republican, said Friday she isn’t seeking a...

The evolution of the Christmas Day sports calendar in the U.S. has given fans a respite if they need a break from family gatherings or just some entertainment while they sip on eggnog.This year’s major events include five NBA games and three NFL games, with games spanning more than 12 hours....

A Helena judge has allowed the wolf hunting and trapping regulations the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted earlier this year to stand, despite flagging “serious concerns” about the state’s ability to accurately estimate Montana’s wolf population.In a 43-page opinion, District Cour...

KAYENTA, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo Nation police said a suspected drunken driver struck bystanders who were waiting for a Christmas parade to start, killing one and injuring three others.The crash happened Monday evening in Kayenta, just south of Monument Valley in northeastern Arizona, as spectat...

In arguably its biggest decision of the year, the Maui County Council last week voted to phase out roughly 7,000 vacation rentals over the next five years to make room for sorely needed longterm housing for residents.The 5-3 decision on Bill 9 was coupled with the intention of quickly moving...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has released tens of thousands more documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, a tranche that included multiple mentions of President Donald Trump but added little new revelatory information to the long-anticipated public file on the late financier an...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The question of whether Missouri’s new congressional districts are in effect for the 2026 elections will be up to a court to decide. A lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of voters contends the redrawn map backed by President Donald Trump should have been automatically...

Things are escalating into a standoff at Montana’s state-owned ghost towns, where rising rents and theme park ambitions, along with a case of embezzlement, are frustrating the owners of some of the state’s top tourist attractions in neighboring Virginia and Nevada cites in southwest Montana...

DENVER (AP) — A prominent Colorado immigration and labor activist was released Monday after spending nine months in immigration detention, supporters said.Jeanette Vizguerra left an immigration detention center in suburban Denver a day after a judge ruled she could post a $5,000 bond, accord...

A controversial news segment that was abruptly pulled from the television show “60 Minutes,” appears to have been leaked online this week after the last minute decision to pull the story exploded into public debate about journalistic independence.The segment featured interviews with migrants...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling on Monday solidified a win f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown.The justices declined the Republican administration’s emergency request to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judg...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia can spend Christmas with his family after spending much of the year in custody. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, in Maryland, issued an order late on Monday requiring government attorneys to file a brief by Dec. 26 on whether they plan to take him back i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — George Conway, a former conservative lawyer who has become one of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken critics, is taking steps toward a run for Congress in an open New York City seat.Conway filed paperwork Monday to run as a Democrat in New York’s 12th Congressional Dis...

A series of powerful winter storms threatened to slam California with relentless rains, heavy winds and mountain snow as holiday travelers hit the road for Christmas.Millions of people are expected to travel across the state. They will likely meet hazardous, if not impossible, traveling cond...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump issued a new warning to his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, on Monday as the U.S. Coast Guard steps up its efforts to intercept oil tankers in the Caribbean, part of Washington's growing pressure campaign on Caracas.Trump was a...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Feel like you can’t focus? Like you’ll never finish a book again? Like the only way to keep your mind and hands busy is to scroll on social media for hours? You’re far from alone. One body of decades-long research found the average person’s attention span for a single screen...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers’ confidence in the economy was shaken in December as Americans grew anxious about high prices and the impact of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell 3.8 points to 89.1 in December, the...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Warriors forward Draymond Green had a heated exchange with coach Steve Kerr in the huddle during a third-quarter timeout Monday night and then went to the locker room on his own to cool down.Kerr said even once Green returned to the bench for the finish of Golden State’s...

Kosti, Sudan – The flow of displaced people fleeing the fighting in Sudan shows no sign of slowing – the latest hailing from Heglig.In early December, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the strategic Heglig oilfield in West Kordofan province after its rival, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), withdrew from the area.Ne...

Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have agreed to stop fighting in the northern city of Aleppo, after a wave of attacks left at least two civilians dead and several injured.On Monday, Syria’s state news agency cited the Ministry of Defence as saying the army’s general command issued an order to st...

Sudan’s prime minister has presented a plan to end the country’s nearly three-year war before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), calling on members to stand “on the right side of history” by backing the initiative, as fighting continued in Kordofan and North Kordofan states.Addressing the UNSC on Monday, Kamil Idris outlin...

Yemen’s internationally recognised government and the Houthi group have reached an agreement to free detainees, according to the United Nations, with officials from both sides putting the number at thousands.In a statement on Tuesday, the UN envoy on Yemen Hans Grundberg said the prisoner swap deal came after nearly two weeks of ta...

The Israeli parliament has approved an extension of a law which allows the shutdown of foreign media outlets over national security grounds for an additional two years.The bill, which replaces temporary legislation passed last April, includes several amendments aimed at eliminating judicial oversight. It can now be applied even if...

President Trump has likened himself to a king, a dictator for a day and an emperor.Now, during Christmas in Naples, he can be remade as one of the three wise men.On Via San Gregorio Armeno, a street in the center of this ancient port city in southern Italy, shops have for generations sold meticulously crafted carvings of Nativity s...

Russia unleashed an overnight barrage of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on Tuesday, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the latest American-backed proposals for a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow looked “quite solid,” even as he hinted at obstacles ahead in the talks.“There are certain things...

The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was arrested on Tuesday under terrorism laws in Britain for holding a placard that the police said showed support for the banned group Palestine Action, her lawyer and organizers of the protest said.Ms. Thunberg, 22, joined a protest in London’s financial district on Tuesday morning that opposed...

Without evidencePresident Trump doesn’t like wind farms. Never has. He thinks they’re ugly. He calls them inefficient and expensive. Years ago, he failed to stop the construction of one that’s visible from one of his golf courses in Scotland. He was apoplectic about it. He told a Scottish politician on Twitter in 2014 that “the win...

As a child, Kara never thought of her parents as the types to play favorites.Her youngest siblings always enjoyed extra attention and special privileges, like trips to Disneyland, but she had rationalized the behavior: The oldest children are meant to be more independent, she thought, and her parents probably had more money for vac...

One July day in 2011, the Apron Museum in Iuka, Miss., received a small bib apron shaped like a rabbit, its frame embroidered with front paws mischievously digging into two sewn-on pockets. The apron arrived with a typed letter from its 81-year-old owner, Nelda Young, who lived in Jacksonville, Fla. Ms. Young’s aunt had made the ap...

Jane Griffin, 71, knew that her husband was dying — he had been living with Lewy body dementia for more than a decade. But she didn’t anticipate how losing him this April would affect her.Something small, like seeing one of his favorite foods at the grocery, could “send me on a downhill spiral,” Ms. Griffin said.She would feel unex...

In ancient times, travelers in Norway avoided paths thought to be inhabited by trolls. According to Nordic folklore, these fearsome creatures lived in the mountains and threatened and harassed humans.But the Troll Trail, or Trolloypa in Norwegian, is a 100-mile cross-country skiing journey through the Rondane Mountains that finishe...

By gondola, speedboat and even a horse. Those were some of the exotic and over-the-top modes of transportation that Ashley Park’s character, Mindy Chen, used to experience Italy in this season of “Emily in Paris.”Season 5, which debuted on Dec. 18 on Netflix, is mostly set in Rome after Emily Cooper (played by Lily Collins) vacated...

We all have those moments. You’re at drinks with friends and wonder if you should order red wine instead of a cocktail “for your heart.” Or you’re back in bed after a middle-of-the-night bathroom trip and think: Is waking up to pee normal?Every week, we tackle your health questions in our Ask Well column. Our reporters pore over th...

Russian forces have struck Ukraine’s southern Black Sea port of Odesa, damaging port facilities and a ship, the region’s governor says.The attack late on Monday followed another at the weekend when Moscow carried out a sustained barrage of drones and missile attacks on the wider area around Odesa, which is home to ports crucial to...

In a storage shed beneath a cloudless Texas sky in November, Robin Grob performed open brain surgery on a monarch butterfly.Slips of tape held the butterfly’s black and orange wings open and pinned its fuzzy, white-spotted body under a microscope. Through the lens, the brain appeared as a tiny, yellowish mass, into which a tetrode...

The Trump administration is considering giving nearly 800 acres of land in a federal wildlife refuge in Texas to SpaceX, the rocket and satellite maker run by Elon Musk, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.The company would use the land to expand its rocket launch and production site in Cameron County, Texas. In e...

President Trump announced on Monday the construction of a new “Trump class” of warships that would anchor what he called a “golden fleet” for the U.S. Navy, fulfilling a long-held goal to give a personal makeover to a fleet of ships he described as “old and tired and obsolete.”The ships will augment the Navy’s more than five dozen...

Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut wants to know who is funding President Trump’s White House ballroom project, how much it is going to cost and what it is going to look like.Mr. Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a raft of letters on Monday seeking information from...

The Justice Department sued the governor and attorney general of Illinois on Monday in an effort to strike down a new state law that limits federal immigration enforcement.The law, signed by Gov. JB Pritzker in early December, prevents immigration officers from making arrests outside courthouses and makes it easier for Illinois res...

After the coughing fits, the head-to-toe body aches, the chest pains that felt similar to a heart attack, the relentless nausea, the fevers of 105, the 911 calls, the sleepless hospital nights and then the long weeks of what doctors termed “healing” — unexplained rashes, chronic fatigue, brain fog, more coughing fits — Kiley Timmon...

Rooney, a burly, middle-aged cop of few words, was starting another day of police work when an alarming call came in.Bomb threat.It was Election Day last month in Toms River, N.J., and people quickly had to be evacuated from a polling place. Voting was halted.Rooney and his partner sped down to Cedar Grove Elementary School. Within...

The Justice Department released another batch of documents from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation — a wide mix of emails, tips and records from his death.

The Department of Education said Monday that it would investigate whether Brown University violated the law by failing to provide proper campus safety before and immediately after a fatal shooting killed two students earlier this month.The department’s Office of Federal Student Aid will investigate whether the Ivy League school vio...

BRANDY STATION, Va. (AP) — On a sparkling late-fall Sunday at a rural Virginia airfield, 16 careworn passengers were getting off a flight that changed, even saved, their lives. Some looked bemused, some wary, some enthusiastic as they were carried off a small private plane onto the tarmac at...

It feels simple: You shop, find something you want and click to buy. It shows up today, overnight or tomorrow. We’ve gotten used to that speed. But that convenience comes with a climate cost.Multiple factors shape the environmental toll of a delivery. These include the distance from a fulfil...

529 education savings plans are powerful tools to help pay for the mounting costs of an education. Yet some people hesitate to use them.One common concern is oversaving. You can only use 529 funds can only cover qualified education expenses without incurring a tax penalty, but it can be hard...

NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers stepped up gift giving during the first seven weeks of the holiday shopping season, according to new data released Tuesday. But uncertainty about the economy is making shoppers more targeted in their buying. From Nov. 1 through Sunday, cash and credit card sales ros...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a surprisingly strong 4.3% annual rate in the third quarter, the most rapid expansion in two years, as government and consumer spending, as well as exports, all increased.U.S. gross domestic product from July through September — the economy’s total...

These were the updates about the Russia-Ukraine war on Monday, December 22, 2025.

These were the updates about the Russia-Ukraine war on Monday, December 22, 2025.

These were the updates about the Russia-Ukraine war on Monday, December 22, 2025.

These were the updates about the Russia-Ukraine war on Monday, December 22, 2025.

Here is where things stand on Tuesday, December 23:Fighting A car bomb killed Russian Lieutenant General ⁠Fanil Sarvarov in southern Moscow, the third such killing of a senior Russian military officer in just more than a year. Russian investors pointed the finger at Ukraine. Kyiv has not commented on the incident. Russian forces st...

The large-scale Russian attacks come two days after US-led peace talks end in Miami.

Russia has hit regions across Ukraine with missiles and drones, killing at least three people and triggering emergency power outages as United States-led talks to end the nearly four-year conflict dragged on.In a social media post, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a four-year-old in the Zhytomyr region was among those k...

Kyiv, Ukraine – Have you been on a plane during severe turbulence, fearing that the shaking aircraft is about to fall apart and tumble down? Brief moments of weightlessness stop your breath, perhaps you whisper prayers and remember everyone you love.That’s the feeling you get during a Russian air raid in Kyiv, Ukraine, and there ha...

The Trump administration has ordered nearly 30 ambassadors in embassies around the world to return to the United States within weeks, a move that would leave a large gap in the American diplomatic corps even as President Trump has said he wants to resolve conflicts through diplomacy.Many of the ambassadors were told in recent days...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was a scary good year for investors.It was scary because the U.S. stock market plunged to several historic drops on worries about everything from President Donald Trump’s tariffs to interest rates to a possible bubble in artificial-intelligence technology. In the end, thou...

At least nine people have been killed and 10 wounded in a mass shooting in the Bekkersdal township.

At least nine people have been killed and 10 wounded in a mass shooting in the Bekkersdal township.

At least nine people have been killed and 10 wounded in a mass shooting in the Bekkersdal township.

At least nine people have been killed and 10 wounded in a mass shooting in the Bekkersdal township.

May Britt, the Swedish-born actress whose marriage to the Black entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. in 1960 drew racist reactions in Hollywood and elsewhere as the civil rights movement was gathering momentum, died on Dec. 11 in Los Angeles. She was 91.Her son Mark Davis announced the death, at a hospital, in a statement to The Hollywood R...

Kate Winslet feels strongly about Christmas — British Christmas, specifically. “That’s a glorious tradition to uphold,” she said recently, including “gorgeous, but sometimes a bit naff, Christmas decorations, and tins of Cadbury’s Roses” chocolates.The two weeks before Christmas play out in the background of Winslet’s directorial d...

This year, the best-seller lists were again saturated with new releases from blockbuster authors like Dan Brown, John Grisham, James Patterson and Suzanne Collins. But amid the familiar names sat breakout novels from lesser known and first time writers that pulled in huge sales, taking the authors, and sometimes even their publishe...

Check out the list of the most popular shows on HBO Max right now, and you will see some expected titles. There is “It: Welcome to Derry,” inspired by a Stephen King novel, and “Mad Men,” the acclaimed period drama that landed on the platform earlier this month.But hovering near the top is a new series that until about a month ago...

My list of favorite animation this year includes time-traveling rainbow people, regenerative hallucinogenic mushrooms, evil spirits and, of course, demon-hunting pop stars. For some of these picks, across film and TV, it was the animation that reigned supreme; in others, it was imaginative storytelling and world-building. But all r...

Our critics and reporters have been busy making lists of the year’s best albums and songs, but we’re always listening for emerging acts destined for big things. Catch up on our latest picks here. (Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.)AnnahstasiaImageCredit...Will WilloughbyAnnahstasia Enuke — a Nigerian-American songwriter born in Wi...

Taryn Delanie Smith raced back and forth through the rows of seats at the empty Metropolitan Opera House, dressed in a cream-colored gown from the Met costume department and holding a candelabra from the Met props department. This December morning, she was playing a ghost, an online character familiar to her 1.2 million Instagram f...

New York City isn’t lacking in live holiday entertainment. The Rockettes perform four times a day in the tourist heart of Midtown, while George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” enchants audiences most nights at Lincoln Center. And just try keeping track of every “Messiah” across the five boroughs.But for holiday opera, there’s usually...

If the first two episodes of “The End of an Era” — the documentary series about Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour — were defined by how Swift weathered the brutal moments that befell her road show, the final four are marked by the pop star’s joy.The last batch of episodes, now all available to stream on Disney+, chart how Sw...

Last month, at the start of its annual “Nutcracker” tour, a small Ontario ballet company made headlines when it found itself without a set.The five-ton truck carrying the custom-made scenery of the company, Ballet Jörgen, had vanished overnight from a suburban Toronto parking lot while the company had stopped to rehearse at its hom...

What’s a “good-bad” movie? It’s the kind of flick that might have you cackling, hollering or groaning, one that is not necessarily great cinema but is great fun. It’s highly watchable even though — or maybe because — it’s memorably ridiculous. And it always has at least one element that pushes it into absurd territory.Never has the...

Early this year, Chinese automakers enthusiastically announced that they would soon be mass-producing and selling self-driving vehicles.Most of those plans have now been delayed after a deadly crash that drew broad public attention.China’s regulators finally gave the go-ahead last week to only two of the nine automakers that had su...

Heading into 2025, private equity executives were predicting a new heyday.After several years of high interest rates and a tough regulatory environment that had chilled deal making, the private equity industry was ready to start selling companies again and booking profits.“This is one of the best business environments we’ve seen in...

At Nancy Ann Ling’s house in Central Texas, the TV generally goes on around 5 a.m., and Mrs. Ling flips over to the same app each day: YouTube. For many hours after that, the app keeps running.As she prepares breakfast, Mrs. Ling and her husband stream the previous night’s monologue from Stephen Colbert or Seth Meyers. After her hu...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Through the dust kicked up by the pounding hooves of a scrum of horses and riders, a winner emerges. The victorious team gallops around the playing field, holding a flag aloft.The final of Afghanistan’s hugely popular annual tournament of buzkashi, a traditional equ...

TOKYO (AP) — The governor of Niigata on Tuesday formally gave local consent to put two reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the north-central prefecture back online, clearing a last hurdle toward restarting the plant idled for more than a decade following the 2011 meltdo...

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A Croatia man was sentenced Tuesday to 50 years in prison for fatally stabbing a 7-year-old student in an attack at a school that shocked the European Union country where such violence is rare.The attack on Dec. 20, 2024, at the Precko Elementary School in Zagreb also...

LONDON (AP) — Greta Thunberg was arrested in central London on Tuesday while supporting pro-Palestinian activists who are staging a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment while awaiting trial on charges related to a series of earlier demonstrations.The protest group Prisoners for Palest...