San Francisco officials on Monday called for an investigation into Waymo after its autonomous taxis blocked intersections and snarled traffic during an hourslong power outage over the weekend. The meltdown, which led Waymo to temporarily shut down its entire fleet in San Francisco, raised alarms about whether the vehicles might imp...

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...

Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana has been picked by President Trump to be the country’s special envoy to Greenland, a decision that has appeared to surprise both officials on the frozen island and residents in the deeply Southern state.The exact scope of Mr. Landry’s new role remains unclear, though he will remain in the governor’s of...

Ella Cobbs Cook, one of two students killed in the shooting on Dec. 13 at Brown University, was remembered for her “record of love” and her faith in “the belovedness of human beings” at a funeral Monday in Alabama.Ms. Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore studying math and French — and a proud Southerner known on the Brown campus by the ni...

Prominent conservative figures in the United States have clashed at Turning Point USA’s annual conference, exposing the underlying rift within the ruling Republican Party and US President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) base.The four-day conference held in Phoenix, Arizona, brought together Republican leaders, media...

Canada has named former BlackRock executive Mark Wiseman as the new ambassador to the United States, with upcoming trade and tariff negotiations likely to dominate his tenure.In a statement on Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Wiseman would help manage Canada’s relationship with the US, which has grown stormy un...

United States President Donald Trump has issued a new warning to Nicolas Maduro, saying “it would be smart” for the Venezuelan leader to step down, as Washington escalates a pressure campaign that has drawn sharp rebukes from Russia and China.Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday, flanked by Secretary of State Marc...

Israeli strikes hit Sidon district; 100 Palestinians lose homes as Israel tears down residential building.

Israeli strikes hit Sidon district; 100 Palestinians lose homes as Israel tears down residential building.

Israeli strikes hit Sidon district; 100 Palestinians lose homes as Israel tears down residential building.

Israeli strikes hit Sidon district; 100 Palestinians lose homes as Israel tears down residential building.

At least two people have been killed after clashes broke out between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Aleppo ahead of a looming deadline to integrate the SDF into Syria’s state institutions.A medical source told Al Jazeera that two civilians were killed and 11 others wounded after SDF forces ope...

The Israeli security cabinet has approved 19 new settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank as the right-wing government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moves to prevent the formation of a viable Palestinian state.As Netanyahu’s government has made the annexation of occupied Palestinian territory a priority, the Unit...

At least three people have been killed in an Israeli attack near the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, the country’s National News Agency (NNA) is reporting, in the latest Israeli breach of a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said on Monday that the three people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a...

Displaced Sudanese families in the war-torn Darfur region are grappling with a dangerous measles outbreak that is spreading rapidly, a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) official warns.Dr Ali Almohammed, an MSF emergency health manager, told Al Jazeera on Monday that the group has been “overwhelmed” by measles cases arriving each day at...

Israeli forces have killed at least two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as Israel continues to violate a ceasefire agreement and block desperately needed humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged coastal enclave.The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Monday that two people were killed after Israeli troops opened fire in the Shujayea...

MOSCOW (AP) — A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third assassination of a military commander in a year. Investigators said Ukraine could be behind the attack.Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Ar...

Barry Manilow will be having surgery to remove a cancerous spot on his lung and will reschedule his January concerts, the singer announced Monday.Manilow, 82, said doctors found the cancer after he had an extended bout of bronchitis — six weeks, then a relapse of another five weeks.“My wonde...

A transgender employee of the National Security Agency is suing the Trump administration and seeking to block enforcement of a presidential executive order and other policies the employee says violate federal civil rights law.Sarah O’Neill, an NSA data scientist who is transgender, is challe...

Perhaps you’re one of those people who are very thoughtful and assiduous about planning the Big Holiday meals. You’re on top of the appetizers, entrée, the sides, the dessert. Maybe you even iron your linen napkins. But then you slap your proverbial forehead when you realize you didn’t think...

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — On a frigid day after Mass at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in rural Nebraska, worshippers shuffled into the basement and sat on folding chairs, their faces barely masking the fear gripping their town.A pall hung over the room just as it hung over the holiday season in Lex...

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (AP) — With the blast of a shotgun, the Raleigh Moose Family Center Turkey Shoot is under way. But fear not: No gobblers were harmed in the making of this holiday fun.“The main misconception is, they think we shoot live turkeys out here,” says Glen Coplen, a past governor a...

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Heavy rain and flash flooding soaked roads in northern California, leading to water rescues from vehicles and homes and at least one confirmed death, authorities said.In Redding, police said they received numerous calls for stranded motorists on Sunday who tried to dri...

A court in Malaysia has ‍dismissed jailed ‍former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bid to serve the remainder of his sentence for corruption at his home, ruling that a royal document allowing the ⁠move was not valid.The decision by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Monday dealt another blow to Najib, who has been imprisoned since August 2...

New fighting has broken out along the Thailand-Cambodia border as foreign ministers from Southeast Asian nations met in Malaysia to find a resolution to the deadly conflict between the two neighbours.The clashes early on Monday threatened to undermine diplomatic efforts by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to reviv...

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

Japan is set to resume operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant: Kashiwazaki-Kariwa.The partial restart of the plant got the green light in a vote on Monday by the Niigata local government. Japan has reopened several nuclear facilities as it seeks to reduce emissions, reversing policy 15 years after 54 reactors were sh...

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised to the Jewish community over last week’s Bondi Beach attack, which killed 15 people at a Hanukkah ceremony, and called for stricter laws against hate speech and hardline violence.Speaking on Monday, a week after Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in decades rocked the nati...

My name is Emily Steel, and I am an investigative business reporter with The New York Times. I have a long track record of conducting sensitive reporting, including award-winning stories on sexual misconduct.For several months, I have been investigating sexual violence that has taken place during Uber and Lyft rides. My reporting s...

ImageImageI.P.O.s had a big comeback in 2025. Figma, the design software maker, was among those to make a splashy entry in the public market.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York TimesAndrew here. Breaking: Paramount Skydance just announced that it has revised its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. What’s new: The $40.4 billion port...

Paramount said on Monday that Larry Ellison, the father of Paramount’s chief executive David Ellison, is personally guaranteeing the roughly $40.4 billion in equity that the company is offering as part of its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery.The announcement of Mr. Ellison’s personal guarantee is meant to address concerns that the Wa...

After a chaotic year filled with trade wars, market gyrations and the longest government shutdown in history, the U.S. economy has, once again, proved more resilient than many forecasters feared.But “resilient” isn’t quite the same thing as “good.”Many Americans are entering 2026 worried about their jobs, stressed about their finan...

Uber says its background checks are essential for keeping passengers safe, promising that all of its drivers have passed a screening for violent crimes.The claim, made in marketing materials, ignores a critical detail: The system approves people with many types of criminal convictions, including violent felonies. That is because Ub...

In a move that drew harsh criticism from its own correspondent, CBS News abruptly removed a segment from Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes” that was to feature the stories of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to what the program called a “brutal” prison in El Salvador.CBS announced the change three hours before the...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 28-Jan. 3 :Dec. 28: Singer-keyboardist Edgar Winter is 79. TV personality Gayle King (“CBS This Morning”) is 71. Actor Denzel Washington is 71. Drummer Mike McGuire of Shenandoah is 67. Country singer-guitarist Marty Roe of Diamond Rio is 65. Actor Ma...

NEW YORK (AP) — People stop reading in adulthood for lots of reasons. But it’s never too late to turn the page on old habits and start again.Curling up with a good book can reduce stress, increase creativity and boost empathy. A recent analysis of U.S. government data found that the percenta...

London, United Kingdom – Two Palestine Action-affiliated remand prisoners on hunger strike have been taken to hospital, according to a family member and a friend, adding to fears that the young Britons refusing food in protest could die at any moment.Twenty-eight-year-old Kamran Ahmed, who is being held at Pentonville prison in Lon...

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff has hailed talks on ending Moscow’s war in Ukraine as “productive and constructive”, after holding separate meetings with Ukrainian, European and Russian negotiators in the state of Florida.The talks in Miami on Sunday were the latest in a series of meetings between the US, Russia and Ukraine on a 20-...

A Swiss court has agreed to hear a legal complaint against cement giant Holcim, accusing the company of failing to do enough to cut carbon emissions.NGO Swiss Church Aid (HEKS/EPER), which is supporting the complainants, said on Monday that the court had decided to admit the legal complaint. Holcim confirmed the decision and said i...

A car bomb blast has killed a senior Russian general in southern Moscow, investigators say.Russia’s Investigative Committee reported on Monday that it had opened an investigation into the “murder” of Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the training department within the general staff. Officials said the potential involvement...

Investigators pursue various lines of inquiry, including possibility attack was ‘linked’ to ‘Ukrainian special forces’.

Denmark has summoned the United States ambassador after President Donald Trump’s appointment of a special envoy to Greenland.Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Monday that he was “deeply angered” by the appointment of Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as envoy to the autonomous Danish territory, which Trump has sever...

Between streaming and cable, viewers have a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that are airing or streaming this week, Dec. 22-28. Details and times are subject to change.A documentary, a thriller and the fight against Vecna.Over his long career, the journalist Seymour Hersh r...

Feargus Urquhart, chief executive of Obsidian Entertainment, began a recent day in the weeds of fantasy fiction, nerding out about a helmet with an art director at the video game studio for 25 minutes. Not long after, his mind was catapulted back to the real world, as he clicked through Excel spreadsheets outlining its plans for 20...

However their lives began, the creative figures who died this year soon enough made their way to our stages, our galleries, our cinemas, our book shelves. Their ideas and personalities helped shape our culture, and they still have plenty to tell us. Here is a tribute to just some of them, in their voices.“People are like detectives...

A Rockette won’t fall in the middle of a kick line. That’s a given, a Christmas miracle you can rely on. But mid-kick one went down last month — boom! — in the “Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes,” before an audience of former Rockettes celebrating the group’s 100th anniversary.Falls don’t bother me. I’d rather...

Perhaps you’ve noticed: The seasons don’t behave like they used to. The weather is hotter and colder and increasingly out of order. The familiar has become distressingly unfamiliar.What better way to convey this operatically than through the ultrafamiliar seasonal music of Vivaldi? This is the clever idea of the playwright Sarah Ru...

Dramatic readings of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” have long been a feature of the holiday season, and Dickens himself performed the tale more than 100 times as he toured around Britain.The readings, which Dickens began in 1853 in Birmingham, England, made him perhaps even more famous than his books, and eventually they were...

When it comes to K-drama, my taste doesn’t run to elaborately costumed history or complicated rural romance. I like the hard stuff. It makes sense that two of the South Korean series that claimed my attention in 2025 start the same way: with a woman coming home and finding a man she loves bleeding out on the floor.“The Price of Con...

Twenty-nine Christmases have passed since Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery in New York jump-started a national affair with artisanal panettone, the voluptuous Italian sweet holiday bread. No fluffing agents. No binders.Now it’s pandoro’s turn.Pandoro, panettone’s much lesser-known little brother, is native to Verona, Italy. The...

Grand coffeehouses have fueled the cultural life — and caffeine cravings — of Vienna for nearly two centuries, offering plush salons where customers linger forever over newspapers and cups of frothy melange delivered by tuxedoed waiters.While I remain faithful to weathered haunts like Cafe Sperl, Vienna’s food and drink scene has a...

Some days, it feels like there’s a health scam everywhere you look. Grow more hair! Look younger! Feel younger! You can be a better you, for just a few hundred bucks.It’s easy — and wise — to say that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But every so often, a treatment with a whiff of snake oil turns out to be b...

What began as a quaint and unique nod to New England’s seafaring heritage is proliferating in Hallmarkian proportions: the lobster trap Christmas tree.At least 20 of the structures dot the coastline from Connecticut to Maine, many of them festooned with buoys, fishing nets and lights, including an anchor-shaped tree topper.The trap...

The bitter infighting over antisemitism, free speech and bigotry during Turning Point USA’s annual national conference not only exposed fissures in President Trump’s movement but also laid bare a challenge for his potential successor.How would his likely heir apparent handle an explosive debate among Republicans over whether extrem...

Tamra Call recognized an opportunity for her Christian-based clinic to reach more women than ever before.For months, Ms. Call had been hearing news reports of Planned Parenthoods closing across the country — forced to shutter amid funding cuts from the Trump administration.Now, the closures had reached her hometown, Ames, Iowa. In...

Two days before Christmas last year, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commuted the sentences of nearly all prisoners on federal death row, sparing the lives of 37 men. Among them was Brandon Council, who had been convicted of killing Donna Major, 59, and her co-worker during a bank robbery in Conway, S.C., in 2017.Both women’s relativ...

In asking the Supreme Court to let him do away with birthright citizenship, President Trump has urged the justices to restore “the original meaning” of the 14th Amendment.What the amendment meant when it was ratified in 1868, Mr. Trump’s lawyers said in a brief, was that “children of temporary visitors and illegal aliens are not U....

Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.

India and New Zealand have announced reaching a free trade agreement that is expected to boost trade between the two countries by hundreds of millions of dollars.New Delhi and Wellington confirmed the agreement on Monday, saying the deal is expected to be formally signed in the first quarter of next year.Recommended Stories list of...

China Vanke, the latest developer to teeter in the country’s long-running real estate crisis, said bondholders agreed to a plan that gave the company a 30-day grace period to negotiate repayment of a $285 million bond.Approval from bondholders after a vote on Monday provided Vanke with a temporary lifeline, preventing the company f...

Joe Biden’s immigration policies might have contributed to Donald Trump’s winning a second term, but a year later, Americans are increasingly unhappy with the president’s aggressive deportation tactics. For the final installment of the America’s Next Story series, the columnist Michelle Goldberg joins David Leonhardt, an editorial...

A few weeks ago, a group of girlfriends and I were messaging about their upcoming trip to visit me in New York City. The topic turned to what they should wear to look cool at a series of scene-y downtown bars they had heard about online and planned to visit. This was a group of stylish women who had worked in fashion and media and...

Across from the Florence Cathedral in Italy stands a much older church, the Baptistery of San Giovanni. It is a beloved center of religious life, where many Florentines are baptized to this day. Staid columns and lively arches hug its eight sides, half-camouflaged in patterns of green and white marble. Without the baptistery’s emul...

In France, it has been a frenzied fall.First, the government was toppled by an irate Parliament. Then, in a panic, President Emmanuel Macron tapped a protégé, Sébastien Lecornu, to be prime minister; he resigned less than a month later. Confusion raged. Today things are a little calmer. Mr. Lecornu, returned to the office he had so...

So much has changed in American public health under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services. Alexandra Sifferlin and Alex Ellerbeck, two editors in Opinion, convened a discussion with the public health practitioners Dr. Rachael Bedard, Dr. Michael Mina and Dr. Caitlin Rivers to take stock...

Vice President JD Vance is “a conspiracy theorist.” Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, isn’t merely a zealot; he’s a “right-wing absolute zealot.” And President Trump governs with an “alcoholic’s personality.”Ever since the publication last week of a two-part article in Vanity Fair in which Susie W...

President Trump started the year with his typical bravado as he engaged in a trade war with China. He is ending the year having largely backed down.One reason? China has powerful leverage over the United States through rare earths. The country has built an effective monopoly over these metallic elements, which are difficult to mine...

The pain of drug addiction continues to course through towns like Clarksburg, W.Va., where many babies are born withdrawing and have to be taken from their parents.

LONDON (AP) — Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft plan to bring robotaxi services to London next year in separate partnerships with Chinese tech giant Baidu, the companies said Monday. Uber said it’s teaming up with Baidu’s Apollo Go autonomous vehicle service to take part in a pilot progra...

NEW YORK (AP) — Instacart said Monday that it’s ending a program where some customers saw different prices for the same product ordered at the same time from the same store when using the delivery company’s service. The program was meant to help grocers and other retailers learn more about w...

It was an unusual romance. In the summer of 2024, Ayrin, a busy, bubbly woman in her 20s, became enraptured by Leo, an A.I. chatbot that she had created on ChatGPT.Ayrin spent up to 56 hours a week with Leo on ChatGPT. Leo helped her study for nursing school exams, motivated her at the gym, coached her through awkward interactions...

On December 16, Sudanese political parties, armed movements, civil society organisations, and prominent political figures signed a nine-point political roadmap in Nairobi, presenting it as a civilian-led initiative aimed at ending Sudan’s war and restoring a democratic transition.Framed as an antiwar, pro-peace platform, it seeks t...

Israeli forces have stormed towns in the occupied West Bank and demolished a residential building.Soldiers fired stun grenades and tear gas on Monday as they carried out the demolition in East Jerusalem. Palestinian officials accused Israel of a campaign of displacement in the city, saying the operation was part of a systematic att...

Syria’s government has cracked down on the Captagon industry, which boomed under former longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, according to a United Nations report.Since al-Assad’s ouster a year ago, Syria’s new authorities have dismantled a network of factories and storage sites, a research brief published on Monday by the UN Office on...

German prosecutors have charged a former Syrian security official with crimes against humanity, accusing him of torturing dozens of prisoners at a Damascus jail while ex-President Bashar al-Assad was in power.Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor General’s office announced the indictment on Monday, alleging the ex-prison guard, named...

Israeli strikes hit Sidon district; 100 Palestinians lose homes as Israel tears down residential building.

Heavy rains triggered flash floods in Northern California on Sunday, killing at least one person, officials said.Mayor Mike Littau of Redding said on social media on Sunday that the floods had killed one person, as parts of Shasta County saw as much as six inches of rain.Several other counties in Northern California were under a fl...

Santa had to step through slush and hop over puddles to reach the small crowd waiting for him at the holiday-themed village in downtown Leavenworth, Wash., late last week. Business in “Christmastown” was finally approaching normal, albeit soggily, after two weeks of downpours, high winds and power outages.Leavenworth and the rest o...

Getting ready for a road trip to visit the family during the holidays? Unfortunately, you’re not alone — far from it.This year, a record number of cars will hit the highways: According to AAA, 109.5 million Americans will drive at least 50 miles between Dec. 20 and Jan. 1, up 2.2 percent from last year and the highest number ever.W...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The suspect in a deadly knife and grenade attack that left three dead and 11 wounded in Taiwan’s capital meticulously planned the assault for more than a year, police said Monday.The attacker, identified as 27-year-old Chang Wen, indiscriminately stabbed passers-by and...

HONG KONG (AP) — China will impose up to 42.7% of provisional tariffs on dairy products including milk and cheese imported from the European Union, its Commerce Ministry said Monday.The elevated duties, which take effect Tuesday, were based on preliminary results from an investigation opened...

PARIS (AP) — A suspected cyberattack knocked France’s national postal service and its banking arm offline Monday, blocking and delaying package deliveries and online payments at the height of the busy Christmas season.The postal service, called La Poste, said in a statement that a distribute...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Saudi Arabia has awarded its highest national honor to Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, during his visit to Riyadh, Pakistan’s military said Monday, underscoring deepening ties between the two countries, including cooperation on counterterrorism.Munir receive...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Turkey’s top diplomat and military and intelligence chiefs visited Syria on Monday as a deadline to implement a deal between authorities in Damascus and Kurdish-led forces in the country’s northeast looms.Appearing alongside his Syrian counterpart, Turkish Foreign Mini...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to shoot up drugs.The supplies, which came from the state and were paid for with federal money,...

AP Media Writer (AP) — CBS News’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday didn’t air a planned story on Trump administration deportations of immigrants to El Salvador, pulling it only hours before airtime at the direction of new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.The story, where correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi spoke to...

The leaders of Denmark and Greenland insisted Monday that the U.S. won’t take over Greenland and demanded respect for their territorial integrity after President Donald Trump ‍announced the appointment of a ‌special envoy to Greenland.Trump’s announcement on Sunday that Louisiana Gov. Jeff L...

NEW YORK (AP) — Four years ago, New York City Mayor Eric Adams swept into office with swaggering confidence, pledging to lead a government unlike any other in history and declaring himself the “future of the Democratic Party.”On the first promise, the mayor more than delivered. But as his tu...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV urged Vatican cardinals on Monday to put their ambitions of power and personal interests aside, as he followed in Pope Francis’ footsteps and used a Christmas greeting to gently criticize his closest collaborators.“Is it possible to be friends in the Roman Curia?” Le...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The phone rings. It’s the secretary of state calling. Or is it?For Washington insiders, seeing and hearing is no longer believing, thanks to a spate of recent incidents involving deepfakes impersonating top officials in President Donald Trump’s administration. Digital fakes...

NEW YORK (AP) — Most Americans aren’t making end-of-year charitable giving plans, according to the results of a new AP-NORC poll, despite the many fundraising appeals made by nonprofits that rely on donation surges in the calendar’s final month to reach budget targets.The survey, which was c...

DETROIT (AP) — Steelers receiver DK Metcalf swiped at a fan leaning over the railing in the front row at Ford Field during the second quarter of Pittsburgh’s 29-24 win over the Detroit Lions on Sunday.Metcalf and the fan, wearing a black-and-blue shirt and a blue wig, were speaking to each o...

Friction is a force that opposes the motion of one object relative to another — and it’s always an important consideration for Junichi Yananose, a Japanese Australian puzzlemaker. The plan for a new puzzle might work perfectly within the design software, Mr. Yananose explained in an email interview, but once the pieces are machined...

President Trump’s drive to crack down on vessels moving oil from Venezuela, an escalating part of his pressure campaign against the government of Nicolás Maduro, took an unusual turn over the weekend.In the Caribbean Sea on Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard tried to intercept a tanker called the Bella 1, which officials said was not f...

The scores of remaining schoolchildren who were kidnapped at gunpoint from their dormitories in the middle of the night last month have been released, the Nigerian government said.A spokesman for the Nigerian president said on Sunday that the remaining 130 schoolchildren had been freed, but a representative for the Catholic Diocese...

The two gunmen who opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, this month also threw homemade bombs into the crowd, but the explosives did not detonate.Two days before the attack, the suspects scouted the Bondi Beach area. And sometime earlier, they filmed themselves training with firearms in the countryside. They h...

Dipu Chandra Das, 27, worked at a garment factory outside the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka. His 12-hour shifts, for a monthly salary of $150, entailed checking pants and shirts sewn by thousands of workers in the huge factory for global high street brands.But after Mr. Das, a Hindu, made a comment in a debate around the inspec...

A senior Russian general was killed on Monday in Moscow after a bomb placed under his car exploded, the country’s investigative committee said in a statement, in what appeared to be the latest high-profile assassination of Ukraine’s opponents inside Russia.The statement identified the officer as Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, who served...

Officials in Denmark and Greenland on Monday reacted with anger to President Trump’s decision to appoint a special envoy to Greenland, as he intensifies his efforts to take over the semiautonomous Danish territory.Mr. Trump announced on social media on Sunday that he was appointing Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, a political ally, t...

Some Argentines had taken buses from neighboring cities and camped outside overnight. Many others had come to a parking lot in Buenos Aires at dawn and stood in a line, a six-block stretch of baggy eyes and determination.The people in the queue were not waiting to see a pope, a king or Taylor Swift, but to be some of the first to e...

It started with “Red Comet,” an 1,118-page biography of Sylvia Plath, undertaken with far-flung friends during the pandemic (obviously). The audiobook was 45 hours long, the Mount Everest of listening. I summited, knitting a chunky striped blanket along the way. I never looked back.Listen to this article with reporter commentaryOr...

Jennifer Lawrence playing a new mother whose behavior becomes increasingly erratic in “Die My Love” and three more “Stranger Things” episodes are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as se...

MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) — Over the course of a steaming-hot Southern lunch, served family-style on a giant lazy Susan, restaurant owner Andre Davis has watched people go from perfect strangers to lifelong friends. His restaurant, The Dinner Bell in McComb, Mississippi, consists of just four table...

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — The teasing was relentless. Nude images of a 13-year-old girl and her friends, generated by artificial intelligence, were circulating on social media and had become the talk of a Louisiana middle school. The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor...

Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the manipulated photos and videos can create a nightmare for the victims. The challenge for schools was h...

Panic erupts in the McCallister household as soon as the day begins. The parents’ alarm clock never rings, bags and coats spill across the floor, and the family barrels out the door to catch a flight to Florida. The pandemonium intensifies at the airport. There, the McCallisters must dodge f...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s shoppers like Quinn Kelsey who keep department store executives up at night.The 38-year-old Denver resident gets makeup ideas from TikTok videos and other social media content, not salespeople at beauty counters. She uses an AI chatbot to get product recommendations that...

NEW YORK (AP) — December is a notable time for fragrance. The month accounts for one-quarter of the high-end perfumes, colognes, body mists and other scented beauty products sold annually in the United States, according to market research firm Circana. Fragrances of all kinds and prices also...

I call this the “So This Is Christmas Cocktail.” But the drink, from my cookbook “The Full Plate,” is perfect for any family celebration, whether it’s actually Christmas or not.In the cold winter months, the Champagne keeps you warm and the rosemary reminds you of the crisp, fresh air.First,...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian court Monday rejected former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bid to serve the remainder of his graft sentence under house arrest. The High Court ruled that a rare royal order issued by the nation’s former king was not valid as it wasn’t made in accordan...

HONG KONG (AP) — A former Hong Kong reporter at the Wall Street Journal began testifying Monday against the newspaper she accuses of terminating her due to her union activities in a trial — a closely watched case that has raised concerns about press freedom in the city. Former WSJ reporter S...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and New Zealand announced Monday they have reached a free trade deal, seeking to deepen economic ties and shore up growth at a time of mounting global trade uncertainties.The move comes as New Delhi accelerates efforts to diversify export destinations as part of a broa...

NAIVASHA, Kenya (AP) — When Dickson Ngome first leased his farm at Lake Naivasha in Kenya’s Rift Valley in 2008, it was over 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from shore. The farm was on 1.5 acres (0.6 hectares) of fertile land where he grew vegetables to sell at local markets.At the time, the lake w...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said its H3 rocket carrying a navigation satellite failed to put the payload into a planned orbit, a setback for the country’s new flagship rocket and its space launch program.Monday’s failure is the second for Japan’s new flagship rocket after its botched 2...

BANGKOK (AP) — Southeast Asian foreign ministers gathered Monday in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for a special meeting to discuss an ongoing border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia that escalated into deadly combat two weeks ago.The meeting marked the second time this year that t...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach conducted firearms training in an area of New South Wales state outside of Sydney with his father, Australian police documents released on Monday allege.The men recorded a video about their justification f...

Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield.Intelligen...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The icy ground crackling under their feet, members of an elite Ukrainian drone-hunting team set up for a long night. Antennas and sensors are clipped to a light stand. Monitors and controls are pulled from hard cases, and a game-changing new weapon is readied for deploym...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian general was killed Monday morning after an explosive device detonated underneath his car in Moscow, and investigators said Ukraine could be behind the attack, the third such killing of a senior military officer in a year.Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operationa...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump ‍on Sunday announced he ⁠is appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry to serve as the U.S. ‌special envoy to Greenland, the vast, semi-autonomous territory of Denmark that Trump has said the U.S. needs to take over.“Jeff understands how essenti...

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday will hear arguments about whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be returned to immigration custody after being free for just over a week. Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador has become a lightning rod for both sides of the im...

World shares were mixed on Monday after a rebound in AI-related stocks like Nvidia spurred a late-in-the-week rally on Wall Street. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher to 24,315.90, while the CAC 40 in Paris slipped 0.2% to 8,135.23. Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 0.3% to 9,864.71. The future for the S...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Gardner Minshew limped off the field Sunday early in the second quarter and never returned.For a second straight game, a starting quarterback for Kansas City was sidelined by a knee injury.Chris Oladokun replaced Minshew, who was making...

BALTIMORE (AP) — New England running back Tre’Veyon Henderson left Sunday night’s game at Baltimore in the second quarter with a head injury.Henderson was slow getting up after a carry in Baltimore territory. He was able to walk off the field, but then headed to the tunnel a short time later...

The third “Avatar” movie got off to a comparatively slow start at the North American box office.“Avatar: Fire and Ash” took in about $88 million at 3,800 theaters in the United States and Canada from Thursday through Sunday, according to Comscore, which compiles ticketing data. In 2022, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” the second movie...

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November, according to a presidential spokesman, after 100 were freed earlier this month.“Another 130 Abducted Niger State Pupils Released, None Left In Captivity,” Sunday Dare said in a post on X on Sunday.Recomm...

Kevin Arkadie, a screenwriter who was one of the creators of the popular police drama “New York Undercover” and a champion of representation for actors of color in the television industry, died at a Los Angeles hospital on Wednesday. He was 68.His death was confirmed by his cousin and producer, L. True Green, on Facebook, and also...

James Ransone, a character actor who starred in Season 2 of “The Wire” and appeared in horror films like “It Chapter Two” and “The Black Phone,” died on Friday in Los Angeles. He was 46.The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed his death and, according to the office’s website, was investigating it as a suicide.Repr...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A passenger bus crash killed at least 15 people on Indonesia’s main island of Java just after midnight Monday, officials said.The bus carrying 34 people lost control on a toll road and struck a concrete barrier before rolling onto its side, said Budiono, a search an...

The United States is pursuing another oil tanker in international waters near Venezuela, a US official told Al Jazeera, as Washington intensifies a pressure campaign against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.The operation on Sunday comes a day after the US coastguard seized its second vessel off the coast of Ven...

We’re doing something a little different over the next two weeks. We’ll still give you the latest news. But we’ll start each day’s newsletter by sharing some of our favorite reads of the year and some other cool end-of-2025 stuff. We hope you’ll enjoy the chance to slow down a bit.I left Germany when I was 17 to study in the United...

On the final night of Hanukkah, the candles began glowing, one by one, as the sun faded from the shores of Bondi Beach, one of Australia’s most cherished landmarks.Thousands of Australians gathered Sunday evening to mourn the victims of a mass shooting a week earlier that targeted Jewish families celebrating the first night of Hanu...

A very British holiday tradition will get an American twist this year, when the late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel offers the alternative holiday message, in which he will speak out against fascism on Britain’s Channel 4 on Christmas Day, the station announced on Sunday.“From a fascism perspective, this has been a really great...

The Kremlin on Sunday appeared to throw cold water on the results of several days of peace talks in Miami, where American representatives met separately with Russian and Ukrainian officials in the latest round of negotiations aimed at ending Russia’s war with Ukraine.Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, and Rustem Umerov...

A silver steward at the French presidential palace is facing charges of stealing “heritage property” after about a hundred precious silverware and tableware items went missing and were discovered in his locker, car and home, French prosecutors say.The objects that disappeared from the Élysée Palace collection — including copper pot...

Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, on Sunday defended the Justice Department’s public release of files related to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying the administration would not remove any mentions of President Trump in the files as they continue to be released in the coming weeks.“We are not redacting information aro...

The U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday tried to intercept an oil tanker linked to Venezuela that is now fleeing in the Caribbean Sea, according to three U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive operation, days after President Trump said he would crack down on sanctioned vessels involved in the country...

Heavy rains in Washington State this month prompted officials to warn about flooded roadways, water damage to homes and one rare potential consequence: toilet rats.The public health department for Seattle and King County issued the toilet rat warning on Thursday, telling residents that recent flooding may sweep rats into sewers and...

A paraplegic engineer from Germany became the first wheelchair user to rocket into space after a short ride on Saturday in which she felt weightlessness on a capsule that was launched from West Texas.Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old aerospace engineer at the European Space Agency who injured her spinal cord in a mountain biking acc...

An hourslong power outage in San Francisco over the weekend that caused tens of thousands of households to lose electricity also knocked out Waymo service, with the ubiquitous self-driving cars coming to a halt at darkened traffic signals, blocking traffic and angering drivers of regular vehicles that became stuck as a result.The r...

When Archbishop Timothy Dolan arrived to lead the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York in 2009, he had never lived or studied in the city.By the time Pope Leo XIV accepted his resignation on Thursday, Cardinal Dolan had become an expression of it — a gregarious, towering figure who for years represented traditional American Catho...

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

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

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

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

Israeli arms companies made record-high revenues last year, as weapons manufacturers market some of their products as “battle-tested” after their deployment in Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza.Israel’s defence exports increased 13 percent in 2024 compared with the previous year to a record of almost $15...

Gaza’s Ministry of Health has appealed for increased drug, medical consumables and laboratory supplies, warning of severe shortages after more than two years of Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza and a crippling blockade.The ministry said on Sunday that the shortages were making it difficult to provide di...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy aide says that changes made by European countries and Ukraine to the United States’s proposals for an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine do not improve the prospects for peace.“I am sure that the proposals that the Europeans and Ukrainians have made or are trying to make definitely...

Sweden’s customs service has said that authorities boarded a Russian freighter that anchored in Swedish waters on Friday after developing engine problems, and were conducting an inspection of the cargo.The owners of the vessel, the Adler, are on the European Union’s sanctions list, Martin Hoglund, spokesman at the customs authority...

France’s presidential silverware keeper and two other men are set to stand trial over the alleged theft of porcelain and other tableware worth thousands of euros, the Paris prosecution office has said.Prosecutors said the silverware keeper, Thomas M, and ‍his partner, Damien G, were arrested on suspicion of theft on Tuesday. Anothe...

Here is where things stand on Monday, December 22:Fighting A Russian attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv region killed a 49-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman, according to Governor Oleh Syniehubov. The killings took place in the village of Izyum. Russian attacks also killed one person in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, and one person in the s...

Come mid-November, a steady line of tourists forms at the foot of Central Park, each waiting their turn for a brush with luxury. One by one, with iPhones ready and clutched to their chests, visitors ascend a set of ruby red steps and surrender to the call of the Plaza Hotel.After nearly 120 years, the palatial landmark still casts...

Good morning! Today we have for you:An absolutely glorious pernil recipeSam Sifton’s no-fail prime rib roastAnd Tejal Rao’s vegetarian party wreathImageToni Chapman’s pernil.Credit...Rachel Vanni for The New York TimesHello, and happy Sunday. This past week, I took an early-morning walk to Rockefeller Center while in New York to so...

A few years ago, I was out jogging on Hampstead Heath near my home in north London when I suddenly had to stop. I didn’t feel tired or breathless in any ordinary way. It was as if my legs had been unplugged. I also had a weird fluttering sensation in my chest, like someone had dropped an Alka-Seltzer into my blood. I walked it off...

It started with “Red Comet,” an 1,118-page biography of Sylvia Plath, undertaken with far-flung friends during the pandemic (obviously). The audiobook was 45 hours long, the Mount Everest of listening. I summited, knitting a chunky striped blanket along the way. I never looked back.Listen to this article with reporter commentaryOr...

On a gold-tinged morning at Appleyard College, a senior named Miranda wakes singing a foreboding melody. Her heartbeat is hammering, and she’s caught somewhere “between lost and free.”There’s perhaps no better metaphor to encapsulate “Picnic at Hanging Rock: The Musical,” a psychedelic show based on Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel. That...

South Korean infielder Sung-mun Song and the San Diego Padres finalized a $15 million, four-year contract on Sunday.Song will receive a $1 million signing bonus in two equal installments, in 30 days and on Jan. 15, 2027, and salaries of $2.5 million next year, $3 million in 2027 and $3.5 mil...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of President Donald Trump’s “America First” priorities.The chi...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Some 130 schoolchildren and staff abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school last month by gunmen have been released, police said Sunday.Gunmen seized at least 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers in Nigeria’s north-central Niger state when they attacked St. Mary’s Catholic...

PARIS (AP) — France will build a new aircraft carrier with a capacity for 30 fighter jets and 2,000 sailors, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Sunday in what he described as “the display of our nation’s power in the service of freedom on the seas and amid the turbulence of our times...

SLATYFORK, W.Va. (AP) — The former Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 was fired from his post as a ranger at a West Virginia resort community, the fourth known time in seven years that he left a small department following public backlash.Timothy Loehmann was fi...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has suspended men’s basketball assistant coach Joe Dooley after he was arrested late Saturday on suspicion of driving under the influence and failure to stop at an accident, the school said in a statement Sunday.Jayhawks coach Bill Self said Dooley “exercised poo...

The Powerball jackpot now stands at an estimated $1.6 billion, making it one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history, Powerball officials said Sunday.No ticket matched all six winning numbers on Saturday — white balls 4, 5, 28, 52, 69 and red Powerball 20. That sets up the fifth-larges...

BOSTON (AP) — A New Jersey police chief is facing domestic violence charges in Massachusetts after prosecutors accused him of assaulting a woman at a hotel earlier this year.Carmen Veneziano, who leads Totowa, New Jersey’s police department, was indicted Thursday on one count of kidnapping a...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fired shots Sunday at a Cuban immigrant living in the U.S. illegally after the man struck the agent and another one with an SUV in Minnesota’s state capital, the Department of Homeland Security said.The man also bit an ICE a...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Ransone, the actor who played Ziggy Sobotka in the HBO series “The Wire” and appeared in many other TV shows and movies, has died. He was 46. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office said in online records that Ransone died by suicide on Friday.Ransone’s film...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis accused President Donald Trump of playing “political games” Sunday after the Trump administration denied disaster declaration requests following wildfires and flooding in the state earlier this year. Polis’ office said he received late Saturday two den...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department’s decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline as necessary to protect survivors of sexual abuse by the disgraced financier...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday was pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration appeared to be intensifying its targeting of such vessels connected to the Venezuelan government.The pursuit of the tanker, which was confir...

Melanin Bee curves her spine like a stretching cat as she lets out a maniacal, forced laugh.The quick-fire pattern of manufactured giggles —“oh, hoo hoo hoo, eeh, ha ha ha”— soon ripples into genuine laughter, and she giddily kicks her feet.She’s practicing what she calls Laughasté, a hilari...

NEW YORK (AP) — “Avatar: Fire and Ash” opened with $345 million in worldwide sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, notching the second-best global debut of the year and potentially putting James Cameron on course to set yet more blockbuster records. Sixteen years into the “Avatar” sag...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Luka Doncic suffered an injury and didn’t return after halftime of the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night.The Lakers said the NBA’s leading scorer had a left leg contusion. Doncic leads the league at 35.2 points per game, just...

Female rapper Nicki Minaj on Sunday made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona that was memorializing late activist Charlie Kirk, and used her time on stage to praise President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, calling them “role models” for young men.The r...

Al Jazeera Media Network is launching a new integrative artificial intelligence (AI) model in collaboration with Google Cloud.Al Jazeera said on Sunday that it was expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud on the network’s new initiative, dubbed “The Core”, that will integrate AI into its news operations.“The Core” aims to shif...

Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinians, including a teenage boy, during separate raids in the Jenin governorate in the occupied West Bank, officials say, with security camera footage showing soldiers shooting the victim at a “point-blank” range.The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced late on Saturday that Rayyan Abdel...

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people cheered and danced around Stonehenge as the sun rose over the prehistoric stone circle on Sunday, the winter solstice.The crowds, many in costume, had gathered before dawn, waiting patiently in the dark and cold field in southwest England. Some sang and beat...

It was October 2023, and F.B.I. agents told Hui Bo not to come to their office.For his own safety, it would be better to meet in public, he recalled them saying, so he waited near a park in Los Angeles. He was warned that he was being watched by agents of the People’s Republic of China after he commissioned sculptures in protest of...