PHILLIPS STATION, Calif. (AP) — California is seeing ample rain and water stored in the state’s reservoirs but only about half the snow levels of a year ago, officials said Tuesday, adding it’s too soon to know how that could impact water supplies in the coming year.Officials at Phillips Sta...

Isiah Whitlock Jr., an actor who made frequent memorable appearances on the HBO series “The Wire” and “Veep” and in five films with director Spike Lee, died Tuesday. He was 71. Whitlock’s manager Brian Liebman told The Associated Press in an email that the actor died in New York after a shor...

A federal judge has blocked the administration of President Donald Trump from stripping temporary protections from deportations for South Sudanese citizens living in the United States.US District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston, Massachusetts, granted an emergency request on Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by several South Sudanese nationa...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned Israel’s decision to recognise Somaliland as a sovereign state, calling the move “illegitimate and unacceptable”.At a joint news conference with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Ankara on Tuesday, Erdogan warned that Israel’s recognition of the breakaway region of Somali...

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has signed a deal committing $480m in public health aid to the Ivory Coast.The agreement, signed in the West African nation’s capital, Abidjan, on Tuesday, is the latest turn in the Trump administration’s America First Global Health Strategy.Recommended Stories list of 3 it...

Guinea coup leader ⁠Mamady Doumbouya has ​been ‍elected president, according ‍to provisional results, paving the way for a ​return ‌to civilian governing after a military takeover nearly five years ago.The provisional ‌results announced on Tuesday showed Doumbouya winning ‌86.72 percent of the vote, held on ⁠December 28, an absolut...

Protests driven by worsening economic conditions in Iran have spread to universities in several cities on Tuesday, with students chanting for freedom and clashing with the security forces near some campuses, according to local news media and videos posted on social media.The student demonstrations added a youthful contingent to pro...

More than three dozen humanitarian groups will have their authorizations to operate in the Gaza Strip suspended on Jan. 1 and will have to clear out by March after failing to comply with new registration rules, Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday.Israeli officials say the new rules are meant to prevent militants f...

As podcasts became an undeniable force in mainstream politics and culture — figuring heavily in both “Zootopia 2” and the White House press strategy — these were the shows and episodes that made us put down our laundry, or sit in the car long after arriving at our destination, and keep listening.The Return of ‘Heavyweight’ImageWe s...

Carmen de Lavallade, a dancer who defied boundaries of race and age and touched almost every realm of the performing arts in a career of over six decades, died on Monday in Englewood, N.J. She was 94.Her death, in a hospital after a short illness, was confirmed by her son, Léo Holder.Long and willowy in flowing jersey skirts and wi...

After soaking storms Christmas week, forecasters said Southern California should get more rain beginning on New Year’s Eve, bringing potential mudslides, downed trees and localized flooding.The heaviest rainfall is expected on Wednesday night and through New Year’s Day, potentially disrupting holiday events, including the Rose Para...

Officials were still working on Tuesday to recover and identify the bodies of three hikers who were confirmed dead near a Southern California trail known for its sharp drop-offs and physically demanding terrain, after high winds complicated efforts.The bodies of the hikers were spotted on Monday near Devil’s Backbone, a trail on Mo...

Sapang Kawayan, Philippines – Two hours north of the capital, Manila, on the vast grounds of a former United States military base, the Philippine government is pushing ahead with plans for a multibillion-dollar “smart city” that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr hopes to turn into a future “mecca for tourists” and a “magnet for investo...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — National Guard members arrived in New Orleans Tuesday to help with safety measures ahead of New Year’s celebrations as city officials are still seeking permanent security solutions nearly a year after a truck attack on Bourbon Street left 14 dead. The rampage, in which a m...

Now comes even more frigid weather in the U.S. Midwest.Extreme cold with near-zero degree wind chills descended upon parts of Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin, forecasters said Tuesday, even as utilities worked to restore power to thousands of customers after heavy snow and strong win...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Colombian city of Cartagena began replacing its iconic horse buggies with electric carriages Tuesday, following years of protests by animal rights activists, who argued that horses pulling 19th-century-like coaches for tourists suffered from exploitation and poor...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian miners set off dynamite sticks and launched fireworks at police on Tuesday, the eighth consecutive day of protests against economic reforms decreed by incoming President Rodrigo Paz. Police in La Paz, a city located 12,000 feet (3,660 meters) above sea level,...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Two trains taking tourists to Peru’s famed archaeological site of Machu Picchu crashed on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring around 30 passengers.The person killed was a railroad worker, according to Jhonathan Castillo Gonzalez, a captain with the Cuzco polic...

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — Hundreds of prisoners of war from Allied countries were held at brutal Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago.Their presence during the Aug. 9, 1945, bombing is little known, and family and researchers have been collecting...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Tuesday that nearly 25 operatives of the Islamic State group were killed or captured in Syria this month following an ambush that killed two U.S. troops and an American civilian interpreter. U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, said i...

Russia says it will take a more hardline stance in negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine after claiming Kyiv tried to attack a Russian presidential residence – allegations Ukraine says Moscow has fabricated to justify further aggression.Accusations and counteraccusations are rife as the war rages and the push for peace remains...

Power problems and a stuck train interrupted rail traffic flowing through the undersea tunnel connecting the UK to continental Europe with passenger train operator Eurostar indefinitely suspending its services during the busy holiday period.Passengers were left scrambling on Tuesday to find alternatives after the operator postponed...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Imagine the buffet.Forty-thousand oysters, lobster worth $400,000 and a cache of crabmeat all were stolen in separate incidents within weeks of each other in New England.The first seafood vanished on Nov. 22 in Falmouth, Maine, where authorities suspect someone stole 14...

A week after immigrant groups filed a lawsuit, California said Tuesday it will delay the revocations of 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses until March to allow more time to ensure that truckers and bus drivers who legally qualify for the licenses can keep them.California decided to revoke t...

TOKYO (AP) — Major Asian stock markets, including Tokyo and Seoul, were closed Wednesday for the yearend and New Year’s holidays, while trading was mixed in those bourses that remained open. In China, the Hang Seng index dipped 0.5% in early trading to 25,715.16, while the Shanghai Composite...

Lee Enterprises announced a compromise Tuesday with billionaire investor David Hoffmann, who offered to take over the nation’s third-largest newspaper chain this year, to help stabilize the company’s finances with a $50 million investment and set Lee up for the future.Hoffmann, whose family...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — The United States and Ivory Coast signed a health deal Tuesday requiring the U.S. to commit $480 million to the West African nation’s health sector as part of “America First” global health funding pacts that mirror the Trump administration’s foreign policy.The sig...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Mali and Burkina Faso said late Tuesday they would ban U.S. citizens from entering their countries in retaliation for U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to ban Malian and Burkinabe citizens from entering the United States. The announcements, made in separate statement...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Junta leader Gen. Mamdi Doumbouya was declared the winner of Guinea’s presidential election held over the weekend, according to incomplete results released late on Tuesday, the country’s first election since a 2021 coup.Doumbouya won 86.72% of the votes counted so far,...

As President Trump sought a peace deal and Vladimir V. Putin sought victory, factions in the White House and Pentagon bled the Ukrainian war effort.

At least 83 times during his campaign to return to power, President Trump pledged to negotiate an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours, even before taking office.After nearly a year of painful on-again, off-again negotiations, Mr. Trump would come to acknowledge a hard reality. As he put it on Sunday after meet...

United States President Donald Trump said the US carried out a land-based strike on Venezuela on Monday, marking a sharp escalation in Washington’s recent military activity against the South American nation.Trump said the operation had targeted a docking facility being used to load boats carrying narcotics. Venezuelan authorities,...

Hundreds of people from South Sudan may be able to live and work in the United States legally, while a federal judge on Tuesday weighs whether President Donald Trump’s move to revoke temporary protected status for immigrants from the East African country was illegal.The termination was set t...

President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Tuesday that it is freezing child care funds to Minnesota and demanding an audit of fraud schemes involving government programs.Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill said on the social platform X that the move is in res...

DENVER (AP) — Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the former senator and U.S. representative of Colorado known for his passionate advocacy of Native American issues, died Tuesday. He was 92.Campbell died of natural causes surrounded by his family, his daughter, Shanan Campbell, confirmed to The Associa...

PHOENIX (AP) — Former Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona on Tuesday announced his withdrawal from public life following a dementia diagnosis. Kyl, 83, represented Arizona in both chambers of Congress for nearly three decades. Most of those years were in the Senate including a term as mi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Flu is rising rapidly across the U.S., driven by a new variant of the virus — and cases are expected to keep growing with holiday travel.That variant, known as “subclade K,” led to early outbreaks in the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada. In the U.S., flu typically begins it...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Fifty-two bears were killed during Florida’s first black bear hunt in a decade, state wildlife officials said Tuesday.The bear hunt, which started Dec. 6 and ended on Sunday, had been restricted to 172 permit holders who had won their vouchers through a random lottery in...

A push to ban sugary drinks, candy and more from the U.S. program that helps low-income families pay for nutritious food has been tried before — but it may soon get a boost from new Trump administration officials. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the newly confirmed health and human services secretary...

WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Nestled in forests around the world, a gentle army of giant wooden trolls want to show humans how to live better without destroying the planet. The Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo and his team have created 170 troll sculptures from discarded materials such as woode...

LONDON (AP) — Fondly known as AJ, Anthony Joshua is one of Britain’s most popular sports personalities.Just 10 days before being injured in a highway crash that killed two of his friends in Nigeria, the former heavyweight world champion knocked out YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a Netfli...

Israel says it will suspend more than three dozen humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules for aid groups working in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.Organisations facing bans starting on Thursday didn’t meet new requirements for sharing information on their staffs, funding and oper...

We often talk about climate change as a long, gradual process, with rising temperatures barely perceptible from one year to the next. But scientists also keep an eye on a handful of global tipping points, thresholds that, if crossed, could lead to sudden and cascading changes across the natural world.Among the most mysterious of th...

ImageCredit...The New York TimesOverlooked storiesby Adam B. KushnerHere is one of the most frustrating things that can happen to you as a journalist: You write or edit what you think is a gem. You gather incredible reporting, spit-polish the prose, showcase stunning videography. And when you publish … crickets.The reasons vary. So...

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

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

ImageImageBrian WilsonCredit...Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesBy Lindsay ZoladzDear listeners,This June, in an eerie and sad coincidence, we lost two visionaries of American popular music at exactly the same age within days. Brian Wilson and Sly Stone were both 82, and the proximity of their deaths invited people to find some st...

When the soprano Lisette Oropesa sang the role of Elvira in a production of “I Puritani” in Paris earlier this year, her face was caked in ghostly white makeup and she spent much of the evening navigating stairs on the set’s revolving frame of a house. That sparse frame, with its Escher-like maze of steps, was meant to suggest a de...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama woman who was sentenced to 18 years in prison following a stillbirth that her attorneys argued was caused by an infection rather than drug use.Lee County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Tickal vacated Brooke Shoemaker’s 2020 convic...

Kimberly Wamba realized what she wanted to do with her life in watching members of her family die.She always had a desire to help people, a desire that started in childhood watching her grandmother work as an aide.“My grandma used to go to different clients’ homes and take care of them,” Wam...

TRENTON, Ky. (AP) — A derailed CSX train leaked a flammable chemical and sparked a fire in a rural part of southern Kentucky on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue a shelter-in-place order that was later lifted for nearby residents.No injuries were reported after 31 rail cars derailed at...

With the second-oldest population in the country, Vermont needs its nursing homes. Yet, while Vermonters rapidly age, the state’s long-term care capacity has dwindled, losing 900 beds in the last two decades. To keep the struggling system afloat, the state has bailed out nursing homes with a...

BOSTON (AP) — New England Patriots star wide receiver Stefon Diggs is facing strangulation and other criminal charges in connection with a dispute with his former private chef, police said.News of the charges emerged after a court hearing Tuesday in Dedham, Massachusetts. Diggs is charged wi...

ATLANTA (AP) — A group of Buddhist monks is persevering in their walking trek across much of the U.S. to promote peace, even after two of its members were injured when a truck hit their escort vehicle.After starting their walk in Fort Worth, Texas, on Oct. 26, the group of about two dozen mo...

As college costs continue to worry current and future students, what if students had some peace of mind that they would be able to pay back their loans? Enter EMU Advantage. At Eastern Michigan University, students pursuing education degrees can get help paying their loans back if they make...

PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. (AP) — A swimmer who went missing after being attacked by a shark last week off the Northern California coast and whose body was found days later was identified as an open ocean swimmer from Pebble Beach.Authorities recovered Erica Fox’s body Saturday from the ocean sou...

The crew of an oil tanker fleeing U.S. forces in the Atlantic Ocean recently painted a Russian flag on the side of the vessel, in an apparent attempt to claim Russian protection, two American officials said on Tuesday.It’s the latest twist in a bizarre odyssey that began on Dec. 21 when the U.S. Coast Guard tried to intercept the s...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Rescue crews responding during high winds to a report of an injured hiker who fell down a slope near a Southern California mountain trail found the man and two of his companions dead, authorities said. The three bodies were discovered Monday evening along the De...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsWednesday, December 31COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)2 p.m.Virginia at Virginia Tech — ACCNStony Brook at William & Mary — CBSSNGeorge Mason at La Salle — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo Sports8 p.m.St. John’s at Georgetown — FS1COLLEGE BA...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsWednesday, December 31COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)12 p.m.Army at Lehigh — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo Sports2 p.m.NJIT at Pennsylvania — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsBucknell at Holy Cross — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsGe...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.On a recent afternoon at The New York Times’s studio kitchen, the actors Finn Wolfhard and Natalia Dyer, who play siblings on Netflix’s megahit horror series “Stranger Things,” surveyed a smorgasbord of u...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it’s suspending humanitarian organizations that have failed to meet its new rules to vet international groups working in the Gaza Strip. They include some of the world’s most prominent and outspoken aid organizations, including Doctors Without Borders.The suspens...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions on 10 people and firms from Iran and Venezuela over allegedly contributing to Iran’s drone trade and ballistics program which the Trump administration says threatens the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East. The Treasury Department said the late...

Over the next seven years, the U.S. Navy estimates its ships will injure or kill just two whales in collisions as it tests and trains in Hawaiian waters, and it concluded those exercises won’t significantly harm local marine mammal populations, many of which are endangered.However, the Navy...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s path to the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Day concert started when he replaced a banned Russian conductor at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2022 with the help of a pianist who traveled trans-Atlantic after practicing all night in a Berlin hotel bar.Just four days befor...

For the first time in 20 years, rain is expected to intrude on the Rose Parade in Southern California, a venerable New Year’s Day event that attracts thousands of spectators and is watched by millions more on TV.Storms caused Christmas week flooding, mudslides and other miseries across the r...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A surge of federal officers in Minnesota follows new allegations of fraud by day care centers run by Somali residents.President Donald Trump has previously linked his administration’s immigration crackdown against Minnesota’s large Somali community to a series of fraud cas...

BOSTON (AP) — Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 35.Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, revealed she had terminal cancer in a November 2025 essay in The...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A newly unsealed order in the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia reveals that high-level Justice Department officials pushed for his indictment, calling it a “top priority,” only after he was mistakenly deported and then ordered returned to the U.S. Abrego Gar...

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Thieves stole tens of millions of euros worth of property from safety deposit boxes inside a German bank vault that they drilled into Monday during the holiday lull, police said.Some 2,700 bank customers were affected by the theft in Gelsenkirchen, police and th...

Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and a daughter of Caroline Kennedy — and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy — whose harrowing essay about her rare and aggressive blood cancer, published in The New Yorker magazine in November, drew worldwide sympathy and praise for Ms. Schlossberg’s courage and raw honesty,...

GRAND RAPIDS, by Natasha StaggGrand Rapids is one of those Midwestern cities that is often described, a bit insistently, as “vibrant.” It’s the second largest city in Michigan, a former industrial center whose downtown revitalization was partly subsidized by the DeVos family and is now home to no less than four Christian colleges....

RADICAL UNIVERSALISM: Beyond Identity, by Omri BoehmWhen the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the pulpit of the Riverside Church in Manhattan and condemned the war in Vietnam, some of his closest allies decried it as a terrible betrayal.It was April 4, 1967. The Voting Rights Act was not yet two years old; the civil rights...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least 41 young men have died as a result of circumcision procedures as part of traditional initiation activities in South Africa in November and December, authorities said Tuesday.Traditional initiation is a rite of passage into manhood for young men that is practiced...

ROME (AP) — Italy’s Parliament on Tuesday approved the government’s 2026 budget, including deficit-cutting measures. The budget of about 22 billion euros ($25.9 billion) aims to reduce the 2026 deficit to 2.8% of gross domestic product, down from the previously targeted 3%, in line with the...

An Idaho-based company is recalling nearly 3,000 pounds of raw ground beef that may have been contaminated with E. coli bacteria.The recall involves 16-ounce vacuum-sealed packages labeled “Forward Farms Grass-Fed Ground Beef.” Affected packages were produced Dec. 16 and have a label telling...

The Professional Hockey Players’ Association announced Tuesday that its membership had ratified a new, five-year collective bargaining agreement with the ECHL following a strike that forced the postponement of 41 games since last week.The new agreement will run through the 2029-30 season for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The standard mileage rate for the business use of a car, truck, van or other vehicle will increase by 2.5 cents in 2026. The IRS announced Monday that beginning Jan. 1, the standard mileage rate for a qualifying vehicle will be 72.5 cents per mile, up 2.5 cents from 2025. T...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Greg Abel faces the challenge of taking over Berkshire Hathaway from the legendary Warren Buffett later this week.Many regard Buffett as the world’s greatest investor after he grew Berkshire from a struggling New England textile mill that he starting buying up for $7.60 a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Federal Reserve officials who supported cutting a key interest rate earlier this month could have instead backed keeping the rate unchanged, minutes released Tuesday show, underscoring the divisions and uncertainty permeating the central bank. At their December 9-10 me...

Luxury and simplicity aren’t mutually exclusive. Take, for example, spaghetti carbonara, which requires no fancy ingredients but is salty, silky and abundantly satisfying. There’s an outrageousness to how delicious it is and a disheveled quality that only makes the dish taste better. It’s a meal to get excited about. (Picture yours...

For $27 at Johnny’s in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the whole rotisserie chicken arrives neatly quartered, with lacquered skin and juicy, seasoned meat. Stephanie Tang, an owner, is no stranger to a good rotisserie chicken. In 1973, her grandfather opened Peking BBQ, a Peruvian and Cantonese rotisserie spot in Woodside, Queens, which st...

In November, Mahira Rivers and Ryan Sutton — names likely familiar to in-the-know New York diners — started as contributing restaurant critics at The Times, writing brief reviews that award stars to New York City restaurants. Their work first appears on Tuesdays in the Where to Eat newsletter (subscribe here), and each month those...

Few home improvement projects inspire as much as excitement as a kitchen renovation. Once hidden away as a service space, the kitchen has come a long way over the past century to claim its place as the heart of most homes.Frequently larger, more open and more central than it was decades ago, the kitchen now has an outsize impact on...

The actress reflects on her “dream come true” house as she prepares to decamp for London.

DETROIT (AP) — Meta is buying artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the owner of Facebook and Instagram continues an aggressive push to amp up AI offerings across its platforms.The California tech giant declined to disclose financial details of the acquisition. But The Wall Street Journa...

LIMA (AP) — A group of shamans gathered Monday on a sacred hill overlooking the capital of Peru to carry out an annual ritual in which they make their predictions for the coming year.Dressed in ponchos and traditional Andean headdresses, the shamans performed their ceremony on the top of the...

Nebraska is the first state to receive a federal waiver to ban the purchase of soda and energy drinks under the benefit program for low-income Americans long known as food stamps.The move, announced Monday by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, would affect about 152,000 people in Neb...

Starting Thursday, Americans in five states who get government help paying for groceries will see new restrictions on soda, candy and other foods they can buy with those benefits.Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah and West Virginia are the first of at least 18 states to enact waivers prohibiting...

NEW YORK (AP) — The White House cannot lapse in its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal district court judge ruled on Tuesday, only days before funds at the bureau would have likely run out and the consumer finance agency would have no money to pay its employees. J...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — A little battered and visibly frustrated, Josh Allen can use a rest. And the Bills quarterback is expected to get one Sunday in what’s essentially a meaningless regular-season finale against the New York Jets.Aside from taking the opening snap to extend his streak o...

MIAMI (AP) — Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton is going to miss the entire season because of the torn Achilles he suffered in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. Boston’s Jayson Tatum — who hopes otherwise — might also miss the whole season after tearing his Achilles in the playoffs last spring. Milwaukee’s...

More artists have canceled scheduled performances at the Kennedy Center following the addition of President Donald Trump’s name to the facility, with jazz supergroup The Cookers pulling out of a planned New Year’s Eve concert, and the institution’s president saying the cancellations belie th...

Families of victims of the deadly attack on a Jewish celebration at Australia’s Bondi Beach earlier this month have called for a national inquiry into rising anti-Semitism.In an open letter published on Monday, relatives of 11 of the victims of the attack called on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to hold a royal commissi...

China has fired rockets towards Taiwan as it pressed ahead with a second day of large-scale military drills, in which it also rehearsed a blockade of the self-governed island.China’s military said on Tuesday it had deployed navy destroyers, bombers and other forces as part of the war games, which Beijing claims are aimed at “separa...

Thailand has said it is delaying the transfer of 18 captured Cambodian soldiers amid the Southeast Asian nations’ simmering border conflict due to alleged breaches of a renewed truce agreement, as the ceasefire passed the 72-hour mark that was supposed to trigger their release.Thai Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nikorndej Balankura...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the whirlwind first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, some of the most polarizing changes have taken place within the Department of Health and Human Services, where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has openly rebuffed the medical establishment as he converts the ideas o...

Katherine Maher knew that running NPR was going to be difficult. But since taking over as chief executive last year, she has confronted one crisis after another.Right-wing activists dredged up her old posts on social media and tried to get her fired. Congress stripped more than $500 million in annual funding from public media.She h...

This year brought more blockbuster books about sex and magic along with best sellers nobody saw coming. Yet while sales are solid and bookstores are generally flourishing, the book business still faces a dizzying set of challenges.Rising costs ate into profits. Nonprofit presses lost federal funding. A.I. disrupted online search re...

ImageThe First Time I Saw Himby Laura DaveOwen is back! Five years after his disappearance activated the smash page-turner “The Last Thing He Told Me,” the tech exec with a shady past makes contact with his wife, Hannah, and her stepdaughter, Bailey. In staccato bursts of dialogue and description, the plot hurtles from there: Hanna...

Simon Rattle once said that “there’s probably a point, somewhere around 70, when conductors start getting competent.” Sometimes, though, it feels like it takes at least that long to appreciate how competent a conductor has always been.Such may well have been the case with Charles Mackerras. Born 100 years ago, Mackerras brought fre...

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTubeEven after listing the best albums and the best songs of the year, some indelible 2025 music slipped through the cracks. Timothée Chalamet rapping U.K. drill while promoting a table tennis movie? That did happen. The Atlanta swag-rap renaissance? It was bubbling....

If you dislike the shortened daylight of winter, please know that you are luckier than Helene Schjerfbeck. A Finnish painter of copious gifts, she spent most of her life in or around Helsinki, contemplating cold skies and winters that lasted for more than half the year. On the other hand, she found an alternate light source through...

Breath is the key. Movement flickers in Amanda Seyfried’s eyes before flowing through her body as she exhales, her breath, tentative at first, becoming stronger and more emphatic. She tosses one arm into the air and then the other before twirling and joining in the collective rhythm of the people around her whose hands, like bounci...

As the 1960s began, Sammy Davis Jr. was one of the most revered and highly paid live entertainers in America. He headlined in Las Vegas. He starred in prime time variety specials. He had even broken ground as a Black leading man in several dramatic television shows.But as Davis — who would have turned 100 on Dec. 8 — put it, he wan...

Something I appreciate most about photographing style around the world is the recurring motifs that emerge among outfits worn by different people at different times in different places. Take denim, for instance, which I spotted in the seven cities on three continents where I brought my camera this year. That fact might not be surpr...

Saudi ‍Arabia has said its national security ⁠is a “​red line” ‍it would defend, hours after a coalition it leads struck vehicles and cargo in Yemen that it said had been supplied by a foreign military to separatists in that country’s south.The coalition’s “limited military operation” at Mukalla port came days after it warned the s...

Statement comes after Saudi accuses UAE of supporting separatists, strikes on southern Maukalla port.

Statement comes after Saudi accuses UAE of supporting separatists, strikes on southern Maukalla port.

Statement comes after Saudi accuses UAE of supporting separatists, strikes on southern Maukalla port.

Statement comes after Saudi accuses UAE of supporting separatists, strikes on southern Maukalla port.

Statement comes after Saudi accuses UAE of supporting separatists, strikes on southern Maukalla port.

The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) has warned of an “unprecedented level” of child malnutrition in the war-torn region of North Darfur and called for immediate access to children and families trapped by the conflict.The warning on Monday came amid intensified fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Force...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called on his government to listen to protesters’ “legitimate demands” and pledged to protect their livelihoods following two days of demonstrations in Tehran against the plummeting national currency and dire economic conditions.In comments on social media that were also reported by the gover...

A United Nations team has described Sudan’s el-Fasher as a “crime scene” after gaining access to the largely deserted city for the first time since its takeover, marked by mass atrocities, by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in October.International aid staff visited el-Fasher on Friday following weeks of negotiations, f...

Israeli forces have carried out strikes across the Gaza Strip as they continue with their near-daily violations of the ceasefire agreement, with Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged enclave continuing apace and displaced Palestinians enduring the destruction of their few remaining possessions in flooding brought about by heavy wi...

After six years of one of the world’s worst financial crises, Lebanon’s cabinet has approved a draft law that could give depositors back their money.In 2019, the Lebanese currency began spiralling. Banks locked their doors and prevented depositors from accessing their money.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Israeli stri...

Iran has promised to respond harshly to any aggression after United States President Donald Trump threatened further military action, should Tehran attempt to rebuild its nuclear programme or missile capabilities.President Masoud Pezeshkian issued the warning on X on Tuesday, a day after Trump met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

The thing about space is that you have to be patient. The universe does not bend to earthly time scales, and events are governed by the unalterable realities of physics and engineering. They will happen when they are good and ready.Sometimes we have to wait much longer than expected for events in our solar system, and beyond. Espec...

PARIS (AP) — Call them Monsieur and Madame Clooney. France’s government says that George Clooney, his wife Amal and their twins Ella and Alexander have been awarded French citizenship.The naturalizations of the Kentucky-born star of the “Ocean’s” series of heist movies and his family were an...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Tributes have been paid after the crash that injured British former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed two close associates on Monday, amid growing concern over Nigeria’s roads following the deadly incident near Lagos.Joshua, a two-time heavyweight champion...

Russia’s nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system has entered active service in Belarus, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday, as the U.S. efforts to broker a deal to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine have entered a pivotal stage.The ministry released a video showing combat vehicles t...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Leaders from Europe and Canada held talks Tuesday on U.S.-led peace efforts to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine, as Moscow and Kyiv sparred over Russian claims, denied by Ukraine, of a mass drone attack on a lakeside residence used by President Vla...

Ismet Booley, a dentist in Cape Town, had a serious problem a few years ago. Patients showed up for appointments, only to find the power had gone out.No power meant no X-rays, no fillings, no root canals. “I just couldn’t work,” Dr. Booley said.South Africans like Dr. Booley have found a remedy for power cuts that have plagued peop...

Here is one of the most frustrating things that can happen to you as a journalist: You write or edit what you think is a gem. You gather incredible reporting, spit-polish the prose, showcase stunning videography. And when you publish … crickets.The reasons vary. Sometimes urgent news crowds out a beautifully crafted feature. The se...

Scientists have never loved the scary nickname that journalists have given the glacier where the current Antarctic expedition is headed: the “Doomsday Glacier.”Yes, the Thwaites Glacier is the size of Florida, and if it melted away completely, it would add two feet to global sea-level rise. The researchers aboard the icebreaker Ara...

Most United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members have slammed Israel’s recognition of Somaliland at a meeting convened in response to the move, which several countries said may also have serious implications for Palestinians in Gaza.The United States was the only member of the 15-member body not to condemn Israel’s formal recogn...

Protests have erupted across Somalia following Israel’s formal world-first recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland, with demonstrators taking to the streets in multiple cities, including the capital, Mogadishu.On Tuesday morning, large crowds gathered at locations including Mogadishu’s main football stadium and around the...

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said it carried out a “limited” airstrike on Tuesday targeting an arms shipment bound for a group of separatists who are backed by the United Arab Emirates, a significant escalation in a growing rift between two Gulf allies.The Saudi-led coalition has supported Yemen’s internationally recognized gov...

A year after rebels toppled the Assad dictatorship, Syrians are still seeking answers to what happened to the more than 100,000 people who vanished into the government’s secret prisons.Bashar al-Assad’s security agencies kept meticulous records of every Syrian they arrested, once-hidden ledgers that many hoped would offer clues to...

The heads of the security agencies arrived in convoys of black S.U.V.s to Bashar al-Assad’s presidential palace, a maze of marble and stone on a hillside overlooking Damascus.Leaks about his regime’s mass graves and torture facilities were mounting — and top Syrian leaders wanted them to stop. So in the fall of 2018, they summoned...

Here’s some good news as the holidays wrap up: Many New Year’s resolutions people already make — eating healthier, saving money, getting organized — double as climate-friendly habits.Whether you want to spend less, declutter or eat right, here are a few choices that could make a difference f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has transformed the Environmental Protection Agency in its first year, cutting federal limits on air and water pollution and promoting fossil fuels, a metamorphosis that clashes with the agency’s historic mission to protect human health and the envi...

BANGKOK (AP) — The political party backed by Myanmar ’s ruling military claimed Tuesday it won a commanding lead in the initial round of the first general election in five years, even though the state election body has not named the winners.Voting is taking place in three phases due to ongoi...

By Christine Cyr ClissetCaira BlackwellRosie Guerin and Abigail KeelFeaturing Kevin RooseKevin recently joined the hosts of “The Wirecutter Show” for a conversation about the artificial intelligence products he’s using, strategies to make chatbots work better and his beloved robot vacuums Bruce Roose and Bruce Roose Deuce. It’s a c...

PARIS (AP) — The funeral for Brigitte Bardot will be held next week in Saint-Tropez, the glamorous French Riviera resort she helped make famous and where she lived for more than a half-century, local authorities said.The cinema star and animal rights activist died Sunday at the age of 91 at...

Here is where things stand on Tuesday, December 30:Alleged attack on Putin’s residence Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said that an attack took place on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence in northwestern Russia’s Novgorod on Sunday, “practically immediately after” talks in Florida between US President Donald Trum...

On January 1, 2026, Bulgaria will bid farewell to its lev currency and become the 21st European nation to adopt the euro.The Balkan country of 6.7 million people has been a European Union (EU) member since January 1, 2007, and joined the Schengen Area in March 2024, both of which marked pivotal moments in its integration into Europ...

Russia has threatened to retaliate against Ukraine after alleging that nearly 100 drones had targeted one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residences.The threat on Monday was made as United States President Donald Trump tries to broker a peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine, which will enter its fifth year in February.Rec...

As a lifelong resident of Yonaguni, a remote island that is Japan’s westernmost point, Himeyo Ukemasu remembers the distant days when life was measured by the bright stars, the tides and the ripening of mulberry trees.Today, the stars have been obscured by radar towers, and Ms. Ukemasu, a 70-year-old volunteer at a tourist site, ha...

China intensified military exercises near Taiwan on Tuesday, firing long-range rockets into waters around the island. The People’s Liberation Army also sent out new amphibious assault ships while its vessels and aircraft practiced repelling an approaching enemy force, displaying its ability to both strike and isolate the island.Chi...

The K-pop band NewJeans plunged deeper into turmoil this week after its management label said it had dropped one member of the five-person girl group, one of the genre’s most influential acts in recent years.The announcement on Monday by the group’s label, Ador, that it was terminating the contract of Danielle Marsh, who performs a...

The 61-second video of Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain would be shocking, if it were true.“The United Kingdom is set to introduce a nationwide curfew, beginning at 11 p.m. each night,” he appears to say on one of thousands of TikTok videos of him posted in the last six months. “Under this new rule, no one will be permitted t...

France has granted citizenship to Hollywood star George Clooney and his wife, the human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, according to government decrees issued over the weekend.The orders of naturalization for the couple and their 8-year-old twins came in documents published by France’s Ministry of Justice. Mr. Clooney, who was born in...

As President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine traveled back from Florida on Monday, he could breathe a sigh of relief. His meeting with President Trump to discuss a peace plan seemed to have passed without drama — the American leader had neither berated him nor echoed Kremlin talking points, at least publicly. By the standards of past...

Eurostar, the high-speed train service connecting Britain and continental Europe, said all of its trains to and from London were canceled until further notice after a major power failure inside the Channel Tunnel, disrupting plans for thousands of people during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year.The disruption, caused by a...

Andreas Birch’s very first job as a young boy was sticking postage stamps on envelopes. Week after week, he helped his father, the veterinarian in a rural village in central Denmark, mail bills to clients.The post office where his father used to drop off bags full of letters is now a kindergarten. And like many Danes, Mr. Birch, no...

Cecilia Giménez, an amateur painter in Spain whose attempt to restore a church fresco of Jesus in 2012 ricocheted across social media, turning her town into a tourism hot spot, has died. She was 94.The authorities in Borja — Mrs. Giménez’s hometown, in the Zaragoza region of northeastern Spain — said that she died on Monday. Eduard...

A “food web”diagram typically lays out nature’s chain of consumption: Phytoplankton gets eaten by krill, which in turn gets gobbled up by squid, which then gets devoured by a seal, which finally becomes dinner for a shark. And so on, in the endless cycle of life. But what if we map out the pecking order of our current, distracted,...

On Dec. 24, 2008, President George W. Bush revoked the pardon he had granted a day earlier to Isaac Robert Toussie, a developer in Brooklyn who pleaded guilty to mail fraud and making false statements to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.What prompted Bush’s change of mind? Among other things, The Daily News had...

In the days before Christmas, as measles, whooping cough and influenza continued to spread and surge across the country, the Department of Health and Human Services came perilously close to scrapping the nation’s longstanding list of recommended childhood vaccines.As CNN reported, the agency’s plan was to go with a shorter list, al...

Times Opinion asked eight working Palestinian artists about the role of art in the war in Gaza.

At the end of the 1990s, a Swedish company called Lundin Oil started drilling in a war-torn region of what was then Sudan. To secure the drilling sites, the company contracted with the Sudanese government. Over the next several years, the price of oil skyrocketed, and Sudanese government and allied forces displaced, as human rights...

Tourists celebrating the new year in Hawaii could become the first to be taxed to address the consequences of climate change. In Utah, people who party too heartily — and get caught driving drunk — could be among the first to have their driver’s licenses striped red with the label: “No Alcoh...

DENVER (AP) — Young gymnasts and their parents started raising red flags about a coach as far back as 2017 — the same year a watchdog agency was created in the wake of the Larry Nassar sexual-abuse scandal that nearly eviscerated USA Gymnastics and damaged the country’s entire Olympic moveme...

DENVER (AP) — There was an eight-year gap between the time young gymnasts and their parents started sounding warnings about a coach in 2017 and when he was arrested earlier this year on federal child pornography charges.It took the U.S. Center for SafeSport — the agency formed by Congress to...

NEW YORK (AP) — They’re ready to embark on 2026.Three more dog breeds joined the American Kennel Club’s roster of recognized breeds on Tuesday, making them eligible for many U.S. dog shows and likely increasing their visibility to the pet-loving public.One of the newcomers is a terrier named...

If history is a guide, Republicans stand a good chance of losing control of the House of Representatives in 2026. They have just a slim majority in the chamber, and the incumbent party usually gives up seats in midterm elections.President Donald Trump, whose loss of the House halfway through...

BEIJING (AP) — As China staged live-fire military drills around Taiwan featuring aircraft, warships and rocket launches, the Chinese foreign minister reiterated Beijing’s aim to achieve “ complete reunification ” with the island it claims as its own. Taipei pushes back against those sovereig...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said it will formally end its dwindling yet much-criticized bear bile farming industry this week, though about 200 bears are still kept in pens and raised for their gallbladders.The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment announced Tuesday it will ba...

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say they will drop an investigation of Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, over possible breaches of sanctions and money laundering rules after he agreed to pay a 10 million euro (about $11.8 million) fine.The Uzbekista...

PARIS (AP) — Power problems and a stuck train interrupted rail traffic that flows through the undersea tunnel connecting the U.K. to continental Europe on Tuesday, with passenger train operator Eurostar indefinitely suspending its services to and from London during the busy end-of-year holid...

I recently dug into the pros and cons of dividend reinvestment. Readers of the article sent me questions about other dividend-related topics. Here are some of the most common questions I got:What should I know about reinvested dividends and wash sales?Reinvesting dividends means purchasing a...

Memories from players who competed against Tiger Woods and the shots that stand out in honor of Woods turning 50 on Dec. 30:Nick Price, 2005 Match Play Championship, La Costa Resort“He’s in grass I promise you is this deep,” Price said, holding his hands about 6 inches apart. “It was 230 yar...

United States President Donald Trump has claimed an attack on a dock in Venezuela that he said was used to load “boats up with drugs”, marking the first known land strike by US forces in the Latin American country since Washington launched its pressure campaign four months ago.The announcement on Monday came as the US military said...

China has held two-day military drills – Justice Mission 2025 – around Taiwan, marking the sixth round of large-scale war games since 2022, when then-Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi visited the island.The exercise included 10 hours of live fire drills on Tuesday as Chinese forces practised encircl...

The Justice Department sued Virginia on Monday over its policy of granting unauthorized immigrants in-state financial aid at public colleges and universities, saying that the assistance violates federal law because it discriminates against U.S. citizens living in other states.The complaint came as Virginia’s term-limited Republican...

The C.I.A. conducted a drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela last week, according to people briefed on the operation, a development that suggests an aggressive new phase of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against the Maduro government has begun.The strike was on a dock where U.S. officials believe Tren de Aragua...

For months, Chancellor Berrong, a 26-year-old in prison for assault and kidnapping, has been trying to tell the authorities that he killed a man in a Mississippi jail seven years ago.He told a prison guard that he had information about the crime, attempted to confess to a detective and gave a written confession to a prison warden,...

The death of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has prompted an outpouring of condolences around the world, with leaders highlighting her service to the nation as its first female premier.Khaleda died in a hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday after a prolonged illness. She was 79 years old.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslis...

Our nutrition reporting this year taught us a ton about healthy eating and drinking.After sifting through scientific studies and spending hours on the phone with experts, we have focused on eating more sourdough bread, chia seeds and Greek yogurt this year, and we’re enjoying our morning coffee more than ever. We also have a greate...

As 2025 comes to a close, and another busy holiday season wraps up, pause to spare a thought for your brain. Does it need some T.L.C.? These tips can help you take care of — and improve — your mental and cognitive health now and throughout 2026.Here is some of the best advice we learned from experts this year about showing ourselve...

Most couples — even the unicorns among us who claim they “never fight” — need regular relationship maintenance. And the effort comes with major payoffs: Strong romantic partnerships are good for your mental and even physical health.As reporters who write about relationships, we spend our days talking to sex researchers, couples cou...

A relatively new decision has become part of the travel calculus: to drink or not to drink.According to a recent Gallup poll, 54 percent of Americans say they consume alcohol, down from 64 percent 10 years ago. That is the lowest level since Gallup began tracking alcohol consumption in 1939.The decision to abstain is an even more p...

A few months ago, I searched through New York Times Cooking looking for my jalapeño Cheddar cornbread. I’d made it dozens of times and wanted to send the link to a friend.That’s when I realized that I’d never actually published the recipe.Recipe: Jalapeño Cheddar CornbreadInstead, I’d been riffing on a decade-old brown butter skill...

As a tech journalist for the last 20 years, I’ve had a front-row seat to the slow death of the English language, driven by the engineers and marketers of Silicon Valley who use clunky abbreviations, awkward jargon and meaningless superlatives to describe the latest innovations.Let’s chat about U.G.C.! Did you know Google’s assistan...

Q: I’ll have a cigarette at parties, especially when other people are partaking. Is it really that bad for me?By some estimates, about 10 percent of people in the United States consider themselves “social smokers” who only light up when they’re with other people.There isn’t much research on those of us who bum a cigarette every so...