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...

Patrick Hotze’s three daughters made it home safe from Camp Mystic after July’s catastrophic floods that killed 25 campers and two teenage counselors. He attended some of the funerals and says he understands the outrage over the Texas camp’s plan to partially reopen next year.He also intends...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Before setting out for the wide, white mountain, Ana Lia González Maguiña took stock of her gear: A chunky sweater to guard against the chill. A harness and climbing rope to scale the 6,000-meter summit of one of Bolivia’s tallest mountains. Aviator glasses to protect...

NEW DELHI (AP) — A protest erupted in India’s capital Tuesday in response to the death of a Hindu man who was lynched and burned by an angry mob in neighboring Bangladesh, a new sign of strain in relations between the neighboring countries.The protest in New Delhi, mainly led by Hindu nation...

PARIS (AP) — France’s fractured parliament is debating an emergency bill Tuesday designed to prevent a U.S.-style government shutdown next week, after negotiations on a 2026 budget collapsed.With just days left before the new year, President Emmanuel Macron and his Cabinet met Monday night t...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian home in the south of the Israeli-occupied West Bank overnight, breaking in and killing sheep, a Palestinian official said Tuesday. It was the latest in a surge of attacks by settlers against Palestinians in the territory in recent mont...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A former close aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that immediately following the October 2023 Hamas attack that triggered Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, the Israeli leader instructed him to figure out how the premier could evade responsibility for the security br...

CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels have reached an agreement to free 2,900 detainees held during the 11-year civil war, according to Saudi and Houthi officials.Saudi Ambassador Mohamed AlJabir said in a statement on X that the agreeme...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Before the war, Ukraine’s own “Dancing with the Stars” was a cherished and popular television show, dazzling the audiences with performances by celebrities and professional dancers. The show is now back on for one special episode — this time with Ukrainian wartime heroes...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles at Ukraine in a large-scale attack that began during the night and stretched into daylight hours Tuesday, officials said. At least three people were killed, including a 4-year-old child, two days before Christmas...

When Qatar helped secure a peace deal to end ongoing conflict between the M23 rebel group and Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) government last month, there was hope among many Congolese that a permanent ceasefire would soon emerge to end the fighting that has uprooted close to a million people in the country’s troubled east...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicaid programs made more than $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who had already died, according to a new report from the independent watchdog for the Department of Health and Human Services. But the department’s O...

NEW YORK (AP) — After a half-century immersed in the world of trade, customs broker Amy Magnus thought she’d seen it all, navigating mountains of regulations and all sorts of logistical hurdles to import everything from lumber and bananas to circus animals and Egyptian mummies.Then came 2025...

WASHINGTON (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE — This is an exclusive excerpt adapted from “Storm at the Capitol: An Oral History of January 6th” by Associated Press reporter Mary Clare Jalonick. The book draws on personal interviews by the author, testimony, court documents and other public sources to com...

TikTok took a major step toward avoiding a U.S. ban last week. Its chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, announced that the company had signed binding agreements to spin its U.S. operations into a new joint venture with American investors set to close on Jan. 22. President Trump has blessed the framework, declaring that he is “saving” Tik...

President Trump deserves credit for pushing to stabilize three Middle East flashpoints — Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Yet on all three fronts, the region’s most powerful player and ostensibly America’s closest ally, Israel, is undercutting Mr. Trump’s Middle East strategy.After the trauma of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas, Israel has embr...

VideoThe Three Forces Deranging the Economy in 2025Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal, the hosts of the economics podcast “Odd Lots,” walk through how Trump’s tariffs, A.I. and the vibecession are making for a strange close to the year.CreditCredit...The New York TimesThe Three Forces Deranging the Economy in 2025Tracy Alloway and Jo...

Back in 2005, when I was recently out of college and new to New York, one of my closest friends was a 75-year-old self-declared con man named Marty Reisman. Twenty years later, he’s the clear inspiration for the maddening, morally bankrupt, wildly entertaining Ping-Pong prodigy played by Timothée Chalamet in “Marty Supreme.”We were...

The Trump administration had adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breathe.President Trump’s attacks on the regulation of toxic chemicals in the air and water, on strong vaccination policies, on ru...

American politics has begun to remind Gray Sutanto of home — not in a good way. He grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia, and some American Christians’ comments on politics “sound a lot like Islamic nationalism to me,” Dr. Sutanto, who teaches theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington, told me. “The only times I’ve had to def...

In the photograph I’m sitting beside my father, a decorated Christmas tree behind us, as he looks at a picture book of horses. I had given it to him as a Christmas present, knowing that by his stage of Alzheimer’s, words got lost but images still made an impact. What you don’t see in the photo is that the rest of my relatives were...

Attallah Tarazi recently received Christmas presents that included socks and a scarf to shield him against the Gaza winter, and he joined some fellow Palestinian Christians in a round of hymns.“Christ is born,” the group sang in Arabic. “Hallelujah.”The presents and hymns offered the 76-year...

Arizona is still No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll, but No. 2 Michigan is closing the gap.The Wildcats topped the poll for the third straight week in the AP Top 25 released on Monday, receiving 38 first-place votes from a 58-person panel. The Wolverines had 19 first...

United States President Donald Trump has stepped up his campaign to take over Greenland, declaring the Danish territory essential to Washington’s national security and appointing a special envoy he said would “lead the charge”.Trump’s comments on Monday came as the leaders of Denmark and Greenland protested against remarks by the n...

United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to build a new “Trump-class” of battleships that he said would be larger, faster and 100 times more powerful than the biggest of any previous American-built warships.Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday, Trump said the battleships would be part of a larger v...

A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a medical patient and seven others has crashed off the southern coast of the United States, killing at least five people.In a statement on Monday, Mexico’s Navy said that four of the people on board were Navy officers, and four were civilians, including a child.Recommended Stories list of 4 i...

How well do you remember the news from this year?In this quiz, you'll face 10 random questions based on 30 major news stories from around the world.Drop a pin where you think each story happened, and see how close you get.After placing each pin, you'll receive a score out of 10 based on your accuracy. If you need a hint, just check...

The video game pioneer behind the hugely popular Call of Duty franchise, Vince Zampella, has died in a car crash in California at the age of 55, gaming giant Electronic Arts has said.The company confirmed reports on Monday that Zampella had been killed in a car crash the previous day, calling the developer and executive’s death “an...

The United States government is recalling dozens of ambassadors and other senior career diplomats to ensure embassies are aligned with President Donald Trump’s “America First” priorities, in a move some predict will erode the country’s credibility on the world stage.The State Department declined to provide a list of the diplomats b...

President Donald Trump has said the United States needs Greenland for its “national security” after naming Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as special envoy to the Danish Arctic island, prompting protests from Copenhagen.“We need Greenland for national security, not for minerals,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago residence in F...

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After living inSan Antonio for 15 years, Paula Cox began planning a move to Austin in 2018, to be closer to some of her grandchildren.“I wanted to have a strong connection with the grandkids as they grow up,” said Ms. Cox, 72, an artist.ImageMs. Cox at home with her pink fridge. Credit...Katherine Squier for The New York TimesThat...

No doubt you’ve seen your share of hollies this month — in wreaths and boughs or perhaps on holiday cards and catalog covers. But are they growing in your garden?There are hundreds of holly species and hybrids hailing from China, Japan, South America, Europe and North Africa, and more than a...

HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES VOL. 3: The Secret of the Saucer, by Kris Bertin, illustrated by Alexander ForbesDetective fiction is about getting to the bottom of things; weird fiction is about the abyss in its bottomless depths. “Hobtown Mystery Stories,” in their layered and satisfying surrealism, are about both.For “The Secret of the...

HOW TO COOK A COYOTE: The Joy of Old Age, by Betty FussellA few years ago, the food writer Betty Fussell got a call from The New York Times obituaries department. The good news, she writes in “How to Cook a Coyote,” her fond and bite-size new memoir, was that she was being interviewed for an advance obituary. She shrieked with happ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday that it had conducted another strike against a boat it said was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one person.In a social media post, U.S. Southern Command said, “Intelligence confirmed the low-profile vessel was transiting a...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s beloved former Emperor Akihito marked his 92nd birthday Tuesday as his heart condition stabilized, palace officials said, following health concerns earlier this year.Akihito, the father of Emperor Naruhito, was diagnosed in May with insufficient blood flow to the heart m...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants opened fire on a police vehicle in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing five officers before fleeing, officials said, part of a surge in violence in the region bordering Afghanistan.The attack took place in the Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunk...

The oldest baby boomers — once the vanguard of an American youth that revolutionized U.S. culture and politics — turn 80 in 2026.The generation that twirled the first plastic hula hoops and dressed up the first Barbie dolls, embraced the TV age, blissed out at Woodstock and protested the Vie...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sudan’s prime minister on Monday proposed a wide-ranging peace initiative to end a nearly 1,000-day war with a rival paramilitary force, but the United States urged both sides to accept the Trump administration’s call for an immediate humanitarian truce.Kamil Idris, who...

Good morning! Today we have for you:Rick Martínez’s tamalesThe best egg salad you’ve ever had (on buttered noodles, no less)And, the waffles my family and I make for Christmas brunchImageRick Martínez’s tamales.Credit...Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.Whatever the weather, you can hear those...

Am I allowed to throw a party in my pajamas?That’s my fantasy every year when the holiday season rolls around. Not my plaid flannels; I picture myself clad in thick silk, the kind of thing I’m sure Katharine Hepburn wore — comfortable, elegant and well-matched to a dry martini.And what kind of food goes with this vision? Easy snack...

Jim Beam, the country’s largest maker of bourbon, has announced a one-year pause in production at its flagship facility in Clermont, Ky., a stunning move that underlines the immense challenges facing the American whiskey industry after more than two decades of rapid growth.The decision by the brand, owned by the Japanese conglomera...

OK boomers: The oldest of you are turning 80 in 2026, the vanguard of a “rock n’ roll” and “TV age” generation that left an imprint on popular culture like no other. During the 18 years of the “baby boom” from 1946 to 1964, around 76 million Americans were born. The spike in births was magni...

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump announced a bold plan for the Navy to build a new super-sized warship he calls a “battleship,” part of a broader vision to create a “Golden Fleet.”“They will be the fastest, the largest and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever bu...

VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Kamiali Abdulsalam, Kami for short, has already been in the kitchen for several hours baking a batch of 100 sugar cookies when he pulls out chilled dough for another round — which will be cut into the shapes of snowflakes, trees and holiday presents to later be toppe...

In Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley, windowless buildings the size of aircraft hangars are powering America’s artificial intelligence industry, which is locked in a race against China.Yet, these data centers are increasingly reliant on China, America’s geopolitical rival, for a vital technology: batteries.These facilities can...

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Tom Latham took a close look at the pitch at Bay Oval Thursday and made the inspired decision to bat first.Inspired ultimately because at stumps New Zealand was 334-1 against West Indies, Devon Conway was 178 not out and nightwatchman Jacob Duffy was 9.Lat...

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Devon Conway scored his second test double century more than four years after his first to speed New Zealand to a declaration at 575-8 Friday on the second day of the third test against the West Indies.Undeterred by the New Zealand total and the need to ba...

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Kavem Hodge scored his second test century and played an anchor role for the West Indies who showed resilience with the bat again on the third day of the third test against New Zealand.Hodge was 109 not out at stumps, Anderson Phillip was 12 and the West I...

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Tom Latham and Devon Conway earned a unique place in test history Sunday when their 192-run second innings partnership paved the way for New Zealand’s declaration at 306-2 on the fourth day of the third cricket test against the West Indies.Latham made the...

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Jacob Duffy took 5-42 as New Zealand bowled out the West Indies for 138 on a deteriorating fifth-day pitch to win the third test by 323 runs Monday and take the three-match series 2-0.Duffy surpassed Richard Hadlee’s New Zealand record of 80 wickets in a c...

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Australia retained the Ashes with two matches to spare after paceman Mitchell Starc took three of the last four wickets to blunt England’s defiant comeback Sunday in a tense fifth-day finish to the third cricket test.Australia started Day 5 needing four wickets to...

Apparently, the worst Australian cricket team in 15 years just won the Ashes with two matches to spare against the best England squad assembled since 2011.Long-time protagonist Stuart Broad lit the fuse ahead of a volatile contest for the longest-running rivalry in test cricket when he descr...

The architects of the Bazball revolution that England aimed to use to summit test cricket have conceded the preparation wasn’t quite right for the Ashes. That’s not to say the strategy will be shelved.After arriving on Australian shores with great expectations, coach Brendon McCullum and cap...

MILAN (AP) — Plans to play a Serie A match between AC Milan and Como in Australia in February have been abandoned.The Italian league and local organizers released a joint statement on Monday saying the game was off.Serie A president Ezio Simonelli said the Asian Football Confederation recent...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Todd Murphy will replace the injured Nathan Lyon as Australia’s spin bowler and captain Pat Cummins as expected will be rested for the fourth Ashes test against England beginning Friday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.Murphy is set to play his first test in Austra...

Asian shares were mostly higher on Tuesday after benchmarks on Wall Street rose at the start of what’s expected to be a relatively calm holiday week. Oil prices and U.S. futures slipped.Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 slipped 0.1% to 50,359.78 and the dollar fell against the Japanese yen after officials...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s legislature on Tuesday passed a bill mandating specialized panels in Seoul’s district and high courts for cases involving rebellion, treason and foreign subversion after complaints about the pace of the rebellion trial of jailed former President Yoon S...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A man accused of shooting dead 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in an antisemitic attack faced a lengthy delay in getting a gun license because of a bureaucratic mishap, not because he raised suspicions, a state government leader said on Tuesday.Sajid Akram, who...

NEW YORK (AP) — Flashback to February. It’s the 2025 Grammys, and Beyoncé has made history. Not only was she finally awarded the top prize of album of the year, but she also became the first Black woman to win best country album, for “Cowboy Carter.” Recent changes by the Recording Academy h...

NEW YORK (AP) — John Skelley can’t escape the pull of Harry Potter. It’s as if something magical keeps them together.The stage actor was first hired to be an understudy of the grown-up wizard in Broadway’s “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” Then he led the cast in San Francisco before the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sports were turned upside down 50 years ago Tuesday by a man who never threw or kicked a ball.A lawyer with expertise in labor relations struck down Major League Baseball’s reserve clause, which had bound players to their teams since the 1870s.No one could have predicted then...

Paramount is sweetening its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with an “irrevocable personal guarantee” from Larry Ellison, who is putting up billions of dollars to back the deal for his son’s company.On Monday, Skydance-owned Paramount announced that Larry Ellison — the founder...

DENVER (AP) — A state judge on Monday accepted plea agreements for the owners of a Colorado funeral home for the abuse of 191 corpses, many of which languished in a room-temperature building for years, over the objections of relatives of the victims.Authorities say Carie and Jon Hallford, wh...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Massachusetts college student who was deported while trying to visit family for Thanksgiving said an immigration officer told her it wouldn’t matter if she spoke to a lawyer, she was going to be removed from the country anyway.Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old fre...

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — A small town in rural Nebraska is losing its biggest employer, a Tyson Foods’ beef plant, which will be laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of around 11,000 people.Lexington, Nebraska, is expected to lose hundreds of families who will be forced to move away i...

A panel of Montana state medical board members on Friday voted unanimously to revoke the medical license of Dr. Thomas Weiner, the former Helena cancer doctor who has been accused of prescribing unnecessary treatments and harming patients. On Friday, four members of the board’s adjudication...

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — Betty Reid Soskin, who rose to national fame as the oldest National Park Service ranger and used the spotlight to talk about the African American experience during World War II, has died. She was 104.Her family and the park service announced her death through social m...

Like many young girls, Mara Berton and June Higginbotham both knew from an early age they wanted families and to become mothers. But as lesbians, they were excluded from accessing the same fertility treatment insurance benefits offered to heterosexual peers.Instead, like many other same-sex...

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — Three inmates — including one who was being held on a murder charge — have escaped from a county jail just east of Atlanta, authorities said.The breakout happened early Monday morning at the DeKalb County Jail and was discovered during a routine security check, the DeKalb...

418 Rochelle Street looks like an ordinary row house at first glance. Backed against a hillside in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Knoxville, its porch is messy, but that’s hardly unusual.A reporter walked up the front steps one windy day this November to take a closer look, peered through th...

On a recent Wednesday morning, more than a dozen seventh-grade students waded into the Waioli River on Kauai’s north shore, their bright yellow shirts standing out against the murky water. Kneeling in the sand, two girls carefully collected river water in glass vials, while fellow students l...

There are at least 140 dams in the Winooski River watershed, according to Michele Braun, executive director of the Friends of the Winooski River. Three of those dams help with flood control. Fifteen provide hydropower. A “handful” contribute to local recreation. But the rest? They “aren’t do...

KEARNY, N.J. (AP) — A man in New Jersey accused of killing a man with a bow and arrow and then barricading himself for hours and setting fires inside a house was charged Monday with murder.The 44-year-old was arrested Sunday afternoon at the house in Kearny, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) we...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Mercedes-Benz USA and parent company Daimer AG have agreed to pay $149.6 million to settle allegations that the automaker secretly installed devices in hundreds of thousands of vehicles to pass emission tests, a coalition of attorneys general announced Monday.According t...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The state of Missouri is losing its third NFL franchise and the second in the past decade, and the decision by the Chiefs on Monday to depart their longtime home at Arrowhead Stadium for a new domed facility in Kansas may hurt the most.The Chiefs announced their inten...

Vince Zampella, one of the creators behind best-selling video games such as “Call of Duty,” has died. He was 55.Video game company Electronic Arts said Zampella died Sunday. The company did not disclose his cause of death.In 2010, Zampella founded Respawn Entertainment, a subsidiary of EA, a...

A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient and seven others crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least five people and setting off a search in the waters off the Texas coast, officials said.Four of the people aboard were Navy officers and four were civilians, includ...

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 should could post a $5,000 bond,...

Dictionaries define things. It’s their job. So when dictionary.com pronounced “6-7” as their 2025 word of the year, you’d think they would have, well, defined it.But no. “We’re all still trying to figure out exactly what it means,” they told us of this year’s “linguistic time capsule.”But th...

From department stores to grocery stores, most retailers across the U.S. close early on Christmas Eve and shut their doors entirely on Christmas Day — while others opt to cut back hours. But there’s also a handful of businesses that will be open during the holiday.Before you run out the door...

Powerball will be drawing its winning lottery numbers Monday night for a record 46th time since its last jackpot was claimed, as a string of failed sweepstakes ballooned the top prize to $1.6 billion.So far, it’s the 5th-largest jackpot in U.S. history after more than three months without a...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new night-time holiday display featuring music, colors and more than a million twinkling lights in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is delighting children and adults.There are towering peonies and fields of lights on the mile-long ( 1.6-kilometer) illuminated trail at...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Regional Mexican band Grupo Frontera is heading to the 2026 Grammys with two nominations, following a double-nod at the Latin Grammys, where they competed for best regional Mexican song and a collaboration with Fuerza Regida.While they didn’t win a Latin Grammy, the band s...

Elusive street artist Banksy appeared to confirm Monday that a new mural in London, depicting two children lying down and pointing up at the sky, is his latest work. The artist posted two photos of the artwork on his official Instagram account Monday, hours after its appearance on a wall on...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A court in Ecuador handed lengthy prison sentences Monday to a group of eleven soldiers who were responsible for the abduction and torture of four children last year — a case that has rattled the South American nation and raised questions about President Daniel Noboa’s...

LONDON (AP) — British authorities have charged a man with repeatedly drugging and raping a woman who is now his ex-wife over a 13-year period, officials said Monday. Five other men have been charged with sexual offenses against the same woman.Philip Young, 49, has been charged with 56 offenc...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University’s president on Monday placed its campus police chief on leave as the Rhode Island university reviews its security policies after a gunman killed two students and injured nine others earlier this month.Questions surrounding Brown’s security policies ha...

Atmospheric rivers are massive plumes of moisture carried across the sky that can dump heavy rains or snow over land.Here’s a look at the phenomenon:Where do atmospheric rivers come from?Atmospheric rivers generally form in tropical regions, where warm temperatures can cause water vapor to r...

The best parts of the “Ocean’s Eleven” movies aren’t the big heists. They’re when the crew, that motley assortment of raw talent, is being put together. And that’s perhaps the best bit in “The Choral,” if you substitute George Clooney with Ralph Fiennes and Las Vegas with northern England. A...

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Monday that financier Mark Wiseman will serve as the country’s next ambassador to the United States, an appointment that comes at a critical time in relations between the two major trading partners.Wiseman will assume the role o...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian miners marched in downtown La Paz, the country’s capital, and union-organized protesters took to the streets elsewhere on Monday, the first day of a strike over the government’s scrapping of fuel subsidies that have been blamed for contributing to dollar short...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia will use drones to resume spraying of coca crops with a weed killer, the government announced on Monday as authorities grapple with record levels of cocaine production that have fueled tensions with the Trump administration. The South American country banned...

HONOLULU (AP) — Kansei Matsuzawa became an instant star this year, with game-tying and game-winning field goals in a 23-20 victory win over Stanford and a singular backstory about teaching himself to kick on YouTube. The Japan-born Matsuzawa’s near-perfect performance during the rest of Hawa...

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial Monday in the corruption case of a former aide to New York governors after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked and couldn’t reach a verdict on charges she sold her influence to China and profited from a medical equipment scheme during the p...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google’s corporate parent on Monday announced an agreement to buy data center energy specialist Intersect for $4.75 billion as part of its effort to secure the vast amounts of electricity needed to power artificial intelligence technology.Alphabet, which depends...

GIESSEN, Germany (AP) — A driver crashed his car into a bus stop in Germany on Monday, injuring three people, one of them seriously, authorities said.The driver, a 32-year-old man from Azerbaijan, was taken into custody. The crash took place in the town of Giessen, about 53 kilometers (33 mi...

ROME (AP) — Italy’s antitrust authority fined Apple 98.6 million euros ($116 million) on Monday after determining that operating one of its privacy features restricted App Store competition. Apple said it would appeal the sanction.Apple abused its dominant position with its App Tracking Tran...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A car drove into a crowd of people waiting to watch a parade in an eastern Dutch town Monday night, injuring nine, at least three of them seriously, police said.The incident did not immediately appear to be deliberate, Gelderland police said on social media, but...

Russia has accused Ukraine of carrying out a number of high-profile attacks against prominent Russians since Moscow invaded its neighbor nearly four years ago.While Kyiv has hinted at its involvement in some cases, Ukrainian officials have often stopped short of publicly claiming responsibil...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Initial drafts of U.S. proposals for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia meet many of Kyiv’s demands, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday, although he suggested that neither side in the almost four-year war is likely to get everything it wants in talk...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A 32-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting which claimed the lives of 12 people including three children at an unlicensed pub earlier this month, South African police said on Monday.The man is suspected of being one of the three people who...

MINNA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerians on Monday got their first look at 130 children and teachers released after being seized in one of the largest mass abductions in the country’s history.Some of the children appeared to be malnourished or in shock as they arrived at a government ceremony. Police...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The U.S. government has signed health deals with at least nine African countries, part of its new approach to global health funding, with agreements that reflect the Trump administration’s interests and priorities and are geared toward providing less aid and more mutual b...

Over the past five years, the attorney general’s office, with Aaron Frey at the helm, has secured for Maine more than $260 million in settlements with major pharmaceutical companies accused of “supercharging” the opioid epidemic.It has overseen the settlements’ distribution and contributed t...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for detainees at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” want a federal judge to make an unscheduled, in-person visit to the facility to see firsthand if they are getting sufficient access to their lawyers.Attorne...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former CIA Director John Brennan want the Justice Department to be prevented from steering an investigation of him and other former government officials to a “favored” judge in Florida who dismissed the classified documents case against President Donald Trump.Th...

BROADVIEW, Ill. (AP) — Four Illinois Democrats toured a federal immigration center outside Chicago on Monday, the latest members of Congress allowed inside immigration facilities after a judge last week lifted Trump administration limits on lawmaker visits.Six months after they were denied a...

The Trump administration is suing the local government of Washington, D.C., over its gun laws, alleging that restrictions on certain semiautomatic weapons run afoul of Second Amendment rights.The U.S. Department of Justice filed its lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in the District of Co...

NEW YORK (AP) — A coalition of 21 attorneys general from Democratic-led states sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its director, Russell Vought, on Monday, asserting that the White House’s argument to withhold funds from the consumer protection agency is unconstitutional. The l...

DENVER (AP) — The head of the U.S. Department of Transportation threatened Monday to withhold $24 million in federal funding from the state of Colorado for what he described as a slow response to a major violation of federal commercial driver’s license regulations. Transportation Secretary S...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday suspended leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction along the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentagon.The suspension, effective immediately, is the latest step by t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission on Monday said it would ban new foreign-made drones, a move that will keep new Chinese-made drones such as those from DJI and Autel out of the U.S. market.The announcement came a year after Congress passed a defense bill that raised nat...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security has dropped its plan to deport a Chinese national who entered the country illegally, two rights activists said Monday, after his plight raised public concerns that the man, if deported, would be punished by Beijing for helping expose huma...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration must give legal due process to Venezuelan migrants flown to a notorious prison in El Salvador, either by providing court hearings or returning them to the U.S.U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the governmen...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday delivered a new warning to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the U.S. Coast Guard steps up efforts to interdict oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea as part of the Republican administration’s escalating pressure campaign on the g...

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Monday scolded Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell for including confidential victim names in court papers seeking to set aside her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence.Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said exhibits...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced a bold plan for the Navy to build a new, large warship that he is calling a “battleship” as part of a larger vision to create a “Golden Fleet.”“They’ll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship e...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish intelligence agents have captured a senior member of the Islamic State group in an area along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, allegedly thwarting planned suicide attacks in Turkey and elsewhere, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Monday.Anadolu Agency said...

U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval handed drugmaker Novo Nordisk an edge over rival Eli Lilly in the race to market an o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Florida’s Catholic bishops appealed to President Donald Trump on Monday to pause immigration enforcement activities during the Christmas holidays. The White House, in response, said it would be business as usual.The appeal was issued by Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski, and sig...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Many of Waymo’s self-driving cars blocked streets of San Francisco during a mass power outage Saturday and forced the company to temporarily suspend service, raising questions about the cars’ ability to to adapt to real-world driving conditions.Social media users posted...

“Everybody wants to rule the world,” goes the Tears for Fears song we hear at a key point in “Marty Supreme,” Josh Safdie’s nerve-busting adrenaline jolt of a movie starring a never-better Timothée Chalamet.But here’s the thing: everybody may want to rule the world, but not everybody truly b...

LONDON (AP) — Chris Rea, the singer and songwriter best known for the hit “Driving Home for Christmas,” has died at 74, his family said Monday.Rea died in the hospital following a short illness, according to a statement from his family to Britain’s Press Association news agency.Rea found fam...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The NFL has suspended Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf for two games following an in-game altercation between Metcalf and a fan during the team’s victory over Detroit.The league ruled that Metcalf’s actions violated league policy, which specifies that “players m...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs announced Monday they will leave their longtime home at Arrowhead Stadium for a new, domed stadium that will be built across the Kansas-Missouri state line and be ready for the start of the 2031 season.The announcement came shortly after a council o...

Bourbon maker Jim Beam is halting production at one of its distilleries in Kentucky for at least a year as the whiskey industry navigates tariffs from the Trump administration and slumping demand for a product that needs years of aging before it is ready.Jim Beam said the decision to pause b...

More from our inbox:This Busy Judge Welcomes IntroductionsImageCredit...Jessica Craig-Martin/Trunk ArchiveTo the Editor:Re “To Love the Holidays, Give Up Hosting,” by Elizabeth Austin (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 21):Ms. Austin portrays hosting a family holiday meal as an exhausting obligation borne by the eldest daughter — chaotic,...

Six prisoners currently on remand and linked to the banned group Palestine Action have gone on hunger strike, prompting warnings from hundreds of United Kingdom healthcare professionals that they face an immediate risk to their lives.The prisoners are accused of involvement in break-ins at a UK factory operated by Israel’s largest...

Forecasters expect temperatures to soar up to 35 degrees Fahrenheit above normal across large swaths of the United States this week, with widespread record-breaking warmth expected on Christmas Day.Joe Wegman, a meteorologist at the Weather Prediction Center, said that while warm spells were not uncommon in December, the scale of t...

Fighting has resumed hours before the countries’ foreign ministers meet in Malaysia to discuss steps to de-escalate.

Fighting has resumed hours before the countries’ foreign ministers meet in Malaysia to discuss steps to de-escalate.

Fighting has resumed hours before the countries’ foreign ministers meet in Malaysia to discuss steps to de-escalate.

Fighting has resumed hours before the countries’ foreign ministers meet in Malaysia to discuss steps to de-escalate.

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to hold a meeting of defence officials later this week as regional leaders push for an end to deadly violence along the two countries’ shared border.Thailand’s Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow announced the planned talks on Monday after a special meeting in Kuala Lumpur of Southeast Asian for...

The Trump administration on Monday said it would pause leases for five wind farms under construction off the east coast, essentially gutting the country’s nascent offshore wind industry in a sharp escalation of President Trump’s crusade against the renewable energy source.The decision injected uncertainty into $25 billion worth of...

Ponche Navideño merges holiday spice with tropical fruit to make one of the season’s most festive sippers.

ImageCredit...Annie SchlechterA Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many BooksSurrounded by his expansive library and exquisite objects, a collector whose aesthetic helped shape America’s idea of minimalism has built a maximalist nirvana.VideoHouse Tour | Lilla HyttnäsA great-great-great-granddaughter of the Swedish painter Car...

It’s an old tale: A boyfriend visits his girlfriend’s parents’ house for the first time and nerves ensue. But in Michael Wilkes’s case, he arrived in Cyprus to not only a warm reception, but also a traditional Cypriot mezze: yogurty cacik, vibrant green parsley, warm pita, olives picked from a nearby tree.“It was so fresh and beaut...

Every year, there’s a surge in norovirus cases between November and April, and this holiday season is no different.Sometimes known as the stomach bug, norovirus is incredibly contagious, infecting about one in 15 people in the United States annually.Norovirus is also notorious for infecting people year after year, since the body do...

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss injectable drug Wegovy, offering patients who fear or are uncomfortable with needles a more palatable option.The medication, simply called the Wegovy pill, will be available in the United States early next year. It is roughly as effect...

Housing discrimination is on the rise in the United States, according to a new report, but fair housing advocates say the figures understate the scope of the problem.The report, by the National Fair Housing Alliance, a nonprofit, said there were 32,321 complaints in 2024, drawing on data from fair housing organizations and governme...

It was a year of extremes. Extreme close-ups, extreme colors, extreme loudness and extreme quiet. The visuals that defined the New York Times Styles section in 2025 showcasedbold choices made by the people behind and in front of camera lenses.The still and moving images photographers made on assignment this year captured rock stars...

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Jerry Kasenetz, a hit-making record producer who, with his business partner, Jeffry Katz, gained a reputation as a “king of bubblegum” by defying rock’s drift toward self-seriousness in the late 1960s, peppering the charts with sugary concoctions like “Yummy Yummy Yummy” and “Little Bit O’ Soul,” died on Dec. 6 in a hospital in Tam...

A New Jersey musician filed a lawsuit on Monday against a prominent Off Broadway theater, alleging that a discount offered to people of color to attend a recent performance of a play was racially discriminatory.The lawsuit, filed against Playwrights Horizons, a highly regarded Off Broadway theater in Midtown Manhattan, was facilita...

Chris Rea, a versatile, Grammy-nominated British singer-songwriter whose hits included the sentimental ballad “Driving Home for Christmas,” died on Monday. He was 74.His death was announced in a statement on his official Facebook account, which said it came after “a short illness.” The statement did not specify a cause or say where...

Vince Zampella, a key figure in the creation of Call of Duty, the best-selling video game franchise that has reproduced World War II battles, riffed on modern global conflicts and imagined the technology available to future soldiers, has died. He was 55.His death was confirmed by Electronic Arts, which owns Respawn Entertainment, t...

The singer Barry Manilow has been diagnosed with lung cancer and will undergo surgery, he announced in a social-media post on Monday.Manilow, 82, said he had been fighting bronchitis for more than two months when his doctors ordered an M.R.I.The test “discovered a cancerous spot on my left lung that needs to be removed,” he wrote i...

In his first year back in office, President Trump has rapidly reshaped America’s climate and energy landscape. His administration dismantled a wide range of climate and pollution regulations, began to overhaul how the federal government responds to disasters and gave a boost to fossil fuel production and nuclear power while attempt...

Mercedes-Benz Group AG will pay up to $150 million in a settlement reached with nearly all American states over its use of “defeat devices” designed to cheat emissions tests in its diesel vehicles.The announcement was the latest chapter in the sprawling “dieselgate” scandal, which has roiled the automotive industry for the past dec...

Preventing illegal road building could help protect tropical forests. New research tries to identify which areas are most at risk.A study published on Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzed 137 million hectares (about 338 million acres) of existing roads built across tropical forests in Brazi...

The Trump administration weakened protections on ​Monday for the vulnerable greater sage grouse, making it easier for oil and gas drilling, mining and grazing operations to take place on about 50 million acres of land across eight Western states.The Bureau ‍of Land Management, which oversees Western lands critical to the sage grous...

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.I can tell my girlfriends everything. And I do. At every stage of...

The anonymous British artist Banksy on Monday revealed a new mural in London, timed for the holiday season with what seems to be a message both sweet and damning, in what has become something of a Christmas tradition for the mysterious muralist.The new mural, an image of which was also posted on the artist’s Instagram account on Mo...

As the U.S. Coast Guard continued to pursue an oil tanker in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday, the Trump administration made clear that its targeting of ships carrying Venezuelan oil was intended to push Nicolás Maduro, the country’s president, from power.“We’re not just interdicting these ships, but we’re also sending a message around...

Just a few weeks after a whirlwind rebel offensive seized control of his homeland last year, a Syrian expatriate in Moscow treated himself to a meal in the city’s tallest skyscraper.With views from the 62nd floor, stylish hostesses and elaborate cocktails, the restaurant “Sixty” regularly welcomes members of Russia’s political elit...

Mark Wiseman, a high-profile financier who rose through Canada’s pension-fund world to the top of major U.S. financial institutions, has been named Canada’s new ambassador to the United States at a watershed moment in the relationship between the two countries.On Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said Mr. Wiseman would s...

A British man has been charged with drugging and raping his wife over a 13-year period, and five other men have also been charged with sexually abusing her.The man, Philip Young, 49, is set to appear in a court in Swindon, in southwest England, on Tuesday, charged with 56 offenses against the woman, Joanne Young, who has waived her...

A marching band played carols, a choir sang hymns and the lights adorning a giant evergreen blinked on, as Christmas tentatively returned to Bethlehem’s Manger Square.For the past two years, Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank have largely avoided public celebrations of Christmas out of sensitivity to the war in Gaza. Th...

The apartments at the Four Seasons in Moscow offer living rooms with crystal chandeliers, views of the Kremlin and access to a concierge ready to book anything from Bolshoi Ballet premieres to private jets.The residences, topping out at $13,000 a week, are billed as “perfect for family gatherings, cocktail parties and business even...

The Agriculture Department lost nearly one-fifth of its work force in the first half of this year, according to a watchdog report that offers a snapshot of the Trump administration’s efforts to reshape the federal bureaucracy.From January to June, more than 20,000 employees left the agency out of more than 110,000, including 15,114...

Jess Michaels, who has said that Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, said she was so upset over how the Justice Department was releasing its investigative files on the disgraced financier that she called her lawyer to draft a letter.“I was so angry, and she took my words and put them into better cont...

CBS News remained roiled on Monday by fallout from the decision by its new editor in chief, Bari Weiss, to abruptly postpone a segment of Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes” that was critical of the Trump administration.Amid a swirl of questions within her newsroom, Ms. Weiss was adamant that the segment, which featured the stories of...

A $581 dinner for two. Nearly $1,000 in laundry fees for one. A Cookie Monster toddler toy. And however many gummy bears $529 gets you.JPMorgan Chase has made it clear that it is not happy that its former managing director Charlie Javice is asking the bank to pay $73 million in legal costs for her defense. After all, she’s supposed...

Tomahawk missiles are coveted by militaries around the world because they can hit a target 1,000 miles away. That accuracy is possible because their fins use powerful magnets made of samarium — a rare-earth metal that can tolerate high heat.When China put restrictions on some rare-earth exports this year, it cut off the supply of s...

Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power outage. The clocks were off by about five-millionths of a second — way faster than a blink or a snap of the fingers.You probably didn’t notice, and the impact was minimal because other government clocks kept ti...

Google has agreed to buy Intersect, a data center and energy developer, for $4.75 billion, the tech giant said on Monday, as it pushes to build out its infrastructure for artificial intelligence.The all-cash deal is set to help Google bolster the supply of power to its data centers, the giant computing facilities that power A.I. In...

The Trump administration announced on Monday that all foreign-made drones and their components posed “unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States” and would be put on a federal blacklist of equipment makers prohibited from selling their goods freely in the country.A fact sheet released by the Federal Communicat...

A federal judge in Washington ruled on Monday that the Trump administration had to either help bring back to the United States a group of Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador in March and subsequently sent back to their homeland or give them a chance to contest their expulsions in the U.S. courts.The ruling by the...

The Mexican Navy said at least two people were killed on Monday when one of its medical aircraft crashed into Galveston Bay in Texas.The aircraft, a King Air ANX-1209, was carrying four civilians and four crew members, the navy said. By Monday afternoon, and in coordination with the U.S. Coast Guard, the Mexican Navy had rescued fo...

Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, sued President Trump on Monday seeking to force the removal of his name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The Trump administration sued Washington, D.C., on Monday in an effort to loosen the city’s strict gun laws, the latest move in its effort to reimagine public safety in the nation’s capital, where it has deployed thousands of National Guard and other federal forces.Washington has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, and t...

Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, sued President Trump on Monday, seeking to force the removal of his name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Ms. Beatty’s lawsuit names as defendants Mr. Trump and the loyalists he appointed to the center’s board. The suit contends that the board’s vote to change th...