ISTANBUL (AP) — Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrived in Turkey on Tuesday for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, following Israel’s announcement recognizing Somaliland, the breakaway region of Somalia.Turkish officials said the discussions will focus on new steps to deep...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday said his country’s answer to an attack would be harsh, which appeared to be in response to a warning by U.S. President Donald Trump over reconstruction of Iran’s nuclear program.“Answer of Islamic Republic of Iran to any crue...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Tuesday said it will suspend over two dozen humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said the organizations that will be bann...

For faith leaders supporting and ministering to anxious immigrants across the United States, 2025 was fraught with challenges and setbacks. For many in these religious circles, the coming year could be worse.The essence of their fears: President Donald Trump has become harsher with his conte...

NEW YORK (AP) — The year’s first supermoon and meteor shower will sync up in January skies, but the light from one may dim the other.The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks Friday night into Saturday morning, according to the American Meteor Society. In dark skies during the peak, skygazers typic...

MIAMI (AP) — Denver star Nikola Jokic was having another brilliant game: 21 points, eight assists and five rebounds in the first half, with behind-the-back passes to set up scores and generally doing whatever he wanted.Then came one misstep from a teammate with about three seconds left until...

Just after midnight one weekend in December, in an empty swimming pool, a D.J. descended into the deep end and began mixing tracks with cool precision as a crowd of beautiful people danced before him, sucking strawberry mojito ice pops.It was a well-known architect’s birthday party, and for the D.J., a rapidly rising star known as...

Rarely does a single study change the course of gynecological history. But a clinical trial published this year in The New England Journal of Medicine did just that, seeming to close the door on one of the great enigmas of women’s health.Bacterial vaginosis, or B.V., is the most common vaginal infection worldwide. If you have a vag...

Just as couples adopt each other’s social circles, musical tastes and catchphrases, so, too, do their microbial worlds come to resemble one another.“You get bodies close to each other, that’s what happens,” said Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, a leading vaginal microbiome researcher, who first identified the bacteria associated with bacterial...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An investigation that extended to the Philippines of two men accused of shooting dead 15 people at a Sydney Jewish festival has found no evidence that they were part of a “broader terrorist cell,” police said on Tuesday.Sydney residents Sajid Akram, 50, and his 24...

HONG KONG (AP) — By some measures, China’s economy is looking resilient, with strong exports and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. But that’s not how it feels for many ordinary Chinese, who have been enduring the strain from weak property prices and un...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister on Tuesday slammed a record U.S. arms sale to Taiwan as Beijing conducted the second day of military drills around the island it has long claimed as its own.Wang Yi, the most senior Chinese official to comment on the sales so far, also blasted the “pro...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China’s People’s Liberation Army staged a second day of large-scale military drills around Taiwan on Tuesday, unleashing a live-fire show of force as part of what it called “Justice Mission 2025” to demonstrate its ability to deter any external armed support for the sel...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish police carried out further large-scale operations against the Islamic State group across Turkey on Tuesday, detaining 357 suspects, the interior minister said.The raids came a day after a deadly clash in the northwestern province of Yalova, where three police of...

MARGRATEN, Netherlands (AP) — Ever since a U.S. military cemetery in the southern Netherlands removed two displays recognizing Black troops who helped to liberate Europe from the Nazis, visitors have filled the guestbook with objections.Sometime in the spring, the American Battle Monuments C...

DALLAS (AP) — A 21-year-old Texas man who authorities say provided bomb materials and money to people he believed were affiliated with the Islamic State group has been federally charged with international terrorism, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.John Michael Garza Jr. of Mi...

Why let New York City have all the fun with its Times Square ball drop on New Year’s Eve?Dozens of places across the U.S. will ring in 2026 by dropping a quirky assortment of fruits, vegetables, sea creatures and balls of all shapes and sizes.Many have a hometown flair.There’s the giant chee...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Some Iowans are ringing in 2026 with a special election on the final Tuesday of the year, casting ballots for a state senator in a race that offers Republicans an opportunity to reclaim two-thirds control of the chamber.Democrat Renee Hardman faces Republican Lucas Lo...

What to buy, what to serve, which events to attend — December is typically full of decisions. Here’s one more for you to contemplate: What are you going to do with your Christmas tree?According to the Nature Conservancy, some 10 million live Christmas trees end up in landfills every year. Th...

BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly lower Tuesday in Asia and U.S. futures were flat after stocks slipped on Wall Street. Crude oil prices slipped and gold and silver resumed climbing.With just two trading days left before the year ends, most big investors have closed out their positions and v...

A wild winter storm was expected to bring strong winds, heavy snow and frigid temperatures to the Great Lakes and Northeast on Tuesday, a day after a bomb cyclone barreled across the northern U.S. and left tens thousands of customers without power.The storm that hit parts of the Plains and G...

UConn has won 12 women’s basketball national championships. Tennessee has won eight. Nobody else comes close.And that’s why it should be no surprise to see those two powerhouse programs ranked atop The Associated Press Top 25 all-time rankings, part of the season-long coverag...

ImageCredit...The New York TimesThe images we can’t forgetA president returned to power in the U.S. and rattled the global order. A fragile cease-fire took hold in Gaza. A conflict in Sudan wore on. Over the course of a tumultuous year, our photographers captured those events and many others, at times putting themselves at risk to...

A thunderous boom rang out through the windless late-afternoon air. Seconds later, smoke began rising out of the sea as if the horizon were on fire.Watching from the shore on Nov. 6, Erika Palacio Fernández whipped out her phone, she said, unwittingly recording the only verified and independent video known to date of the aftermath...

Louis V. Gerstner Jr., an outsider who became the leader of IBM when that giant computer company was in a tailspin, and who engineered a remarkable revival of its fortunes in the 1990s, died on Saturday in Jupiter, Fla. He was 83.His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by Kara Klein, the executive director of Gerstner Philanthropie...

Lately I’ve been remembering a time when certain kinds of animated entertainment were niche in America. As a grade-school kid, before the internet made it easy to find anything and everything, I’d go to the mall in search of that rare gem: a poorly dubbed and roughly edited VHS film of anime I loved. Back then I couldn’t have imagi...

Melanie Watson Bernhardt, the trailblazing actress who played Kathy Gordon for four episodes on the 1980s sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes” and became one of the first disabled performers onscreen, died on Friday in Colorado Springs, Colo. She was 57.Robert Watson, Ms. Bernhardt’s brother, confirmed the news of her death to the entertainm...

One after another they fell, towering names that needed no introduction. Pope Francis. Robert Redford. Diane Keaton. Dick Cheney. Brian Wilson. Gene Hackman. Ozzy Osbourne. Jane Goodall. Roberta Flack. George Foreman. Tom Stoppard. Frank Gehry. Rob Reiner.The obituary pages track the deaths of the famous and the mighty in any given...

A veteran jazz ensemble and a New York dance company have canceled events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, intensifying the fallout at one of the nation’s pre-eminent arts centers after it was renamed to include President Trump.The center had previously promoted two New Year’s Eve performances by the Cookers a...

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. 29-Jan. 4. Details and times are subject to change.A cheers as we head into 2026.Whether you like a rowdy New Year’s party or would rather cozy up at hom...

Thailand and Cambodia ‍plan to rebuild ‍mutual trust and consolidate a ceasefire, Beijing says at the end of two days of talks in southwestern China, despite new accusations from the Thai military that its Cambodian counterparts are violating the truce with drone flights.The foreign ministers of Thailand and Cambodia met with the C...

Myanmar’s main pro-military party has claimed an overwhelming lead in the first phase of elections organised by the country’s military rulers as critics warn that the tightly controlled vote is designed to cement the position of the ruling party.The first round of voting on Sunday is to be followed by two further rounds on January...

Washington, DC – For United States President Donald Trump, 2025 was a year of crisis.Roaring into office on January 20 on the heels of a raucous political comeback, the president’s own telling describes a series of actions that have been swift and stark.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Five key takeaways from Trump’s s...

United States President Donald Trump has warned Hamas of dire consequences if it fails to disarm, while also threatening to “quickly eradicate” and “knock down” any attempts by Iran to rebuild its nuclear programme.Trump issued the threats on Monday, after holding talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-La...

With talks on ending the Ukraine war making little progress on the toughest issues, Russia issued a dramatic threat on Monday to harden its stance, linking the potential change to what the Kremlin called a failed Ukrainian drone attack overnight targeting a rural residence of President Vladimir V. Putin.Ukraine immediately denied a...

The Trump administration said on Monday that it would provide an initial $2 billion next year to fund humanitarian aid coordinated by the United Nations but urged humanitarian agencies to deeply overhaul the way they deliver assistance.The move will likely keep the United States as the biggest international aid donor in 2026, even...

The actors Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo were among those recognized by King Charles III on Monday in his New Year Honors List, an annual tradition in Britain that celebrates people who have achieved eminence in their fields or provided exceptional service to their communities.Mr. Elba, the Golden Globe-winning actor known for his r...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — The man who reportedly stabbed nine people to death in Suriname on Sunday, including four of his children, died by suicide while in custody, police said on Monday.In a statement, Suriname’s Police Corps said 43-year-old Dennis Aroma was found lifeless on Monday mo...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia bombed the port city of Mukalla in Yemen on Tuesday over what it described as a shipment of weapons for a separatist force there that arrived from the United Arab Emirates. The UAE did not immediately acknowledge the strike.The attack signals a...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, whose archrivalry with another former premier defined the country’s politics for a generation, has died, her Bangladesh Nationalist Party said in a statement Tuesday. She was 80.Zia was the first woman elected prime mini...

More from our inbox:Epstein Files Tell a Tale of Moral BankruptcyImageCredit...Ben HickeyTo the Editor:In “Tax the Rich, Like Me” (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 22), Mitt Romney argues that higher taxes on the wealthy may be necessary to avert fiscal disaster. I agree with the conclusion — but for a far more urgent reason.America is su...

In Brigitte Bardot’s death I see the passing of a generation: the Frenchwomen who tried to find a path to autonomy in the 1950s and ’60s. One of the last things Ms. Bardot did was write a book, published earlier this year in French, an abecedarium titled “Mon BBcédaire.” The book, a not very chic compendium of thoughts scrawled in...

I remember when we first met. It was 28 years ago, at the Bloomingdale’s flagship in New York. I was with my fiancé, Andy, clutching a wedding registry clipboard, bumbling my way around displays of crystal champagne glasses and platters and other fancy things that seemed to belong to some future fantasy self. I was 26 that year, li...

I disagree with the anti-immigrant, anti-feminist, bitterly reactionary right-wing pundit Matt Walsh about basically everything, so I was surprised to come across a post of his that precisely sums up my view of artificial intelligence. “We’re sleepwalking into a dystopia that any rational person can see from miles away,” he wrote i...

COMANCHE, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man firing a gun he bought as a Christmas present has been charged with manslaughter after authorities say a stray bullet left his yard during target practice and fatally struck a neighbor who was sitting on a porch blocks away.Cody Wayne Adams, 33, was cha...

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause to a December execution that was already put on hold, saying questions about the state’s clemency process must be addressed before Stacey Humphreys ' death sentence could be carried out.Humphreys, 52, was facing schedul...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The father of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin died and his mother was critically injured after a weekend fire heavily damaged the North Carolina home where they lived, officials said Monday. Firefighters arrived Sunday night at a two-story home near Stanley that was mostly en...

HOLBROOK, Ariz. (AP) — Investigators declined to reveal the suspected motive in the shooting death of a prominent California farmer’s estranged wife in eastern Arizona, but they said the couple’s prolonged divorce case arose in nearly all interviews with family and friends.Michael Abatti, 63...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — A National Guard deployment in New Orleans authorized by President Donald Trump will begin Tuesday as part of a heavy security presence for New Year’s celebrations a year after an attack on revelers on Bourbon Street killed 14 people, officials said Monday.The deploym...

Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first female prime minister, whose decades-long rivalry with another woman at the helm of a dueling political dynasty shaped the fate of the young South Asian nation, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital. She was believed to be 80.The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, of which Ms. Zia w...

A few hours before President Trump welcomed President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to his Mar-a-Lago resort on Sunday for lunch and a detailed discussion of an emerging peace plan to end a nearly four-year-long war, Russia’s foreign minister suggested that the two men might have saved themselves the effort.Sergey V. Lavrov, the Kr...

When they return to Washington next week, House Democrats plan to mark the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol with an informal hearing that will highlight Republicans’ efforts to rewrite the history of a riot by a pro-Trump mob.Because Democrats are in the minority, they cannot call an official congre...

President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel presented a united front on Monday, papering over their differences on how to carry out the Gaza peace plan while heaping praise on each other.The two leaders, who met over a multicourse lunch inside the dining room of Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club in Florida, s...

A U.S. military strike on Monday killed two more people accused by the Trump administration of trafficking narcotics in the eastern Pacific, Pentagon officials said, bringing the death toll in the U.S. campaign to at least 107.In a post on social media, the U.S. Southern Command said that the strike, conducted at the direction of D...

How has President Trump done over the course of 2025?For some voters, 2025 was a great year for the country. For others, it was a depressing, unaffordable slog. And one person definitely regretted his vote.The Times asked voters whom we have followed over the last 18 months just what they thought of the last year.Almost everyone ag...

Some members of the state’s tribal nations are beginning to slowly embrace visitors, as the South Dakota Native Tourism Alliance (SDNTA) works with tribal leaders and organizations to reframe tourism on the nine reservations as an engine for economic development.Tourism and visitors haven’t...

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said.It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the threshold set in the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — China on Monday condemned the demolition of a monument honoring the Chinese community in Panama, the latest development as the Trump administration pushes for the Central American nation to distance itself from Beijing. Panama’s president echoed the condemnation, blaming l...

Protesters took to the streets of the capital, Tehran, and other cities in Iran on Monday to decry surging inflation and the collapse of the national currency, which have thrown markets into chaos and punched holes in family budgets.The currency plunged to a record low this past weekend against the U.S. dollar and the annual inflat...

Israel’s Parliament passed new legislation on Monday formally removing diplomatic immunity from the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, part of an ongoing Israeli crackdown against the body.The legislation could potentially expose the United Nations Relief and Works Agency — widely known as UNRWA — to legal action in Is...

The Palestinian group Hamas has confirmed that its armed wing spokesperson, known as ⁠Abu Obeida, ​and Mohammed Sinwar, the group’s former leader in Gaza, were killed in Israel’s genocidal war earlier this year.In a video statement released on Monday, the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, confirmed the death of its long-ti...

Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu comes after he touted progress in achieving a resolution to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu comes after he touted progress in achieving a resolution to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu comes after he touted progress in achieving a resolution to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu comes after he touted progress in achieving a resolution to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu comes after he touted progress in achieving a resolution to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Several protests have erupted in downtown Tehran after business owners closed down their shops in reaction to a free-falling national currency, and no improvement appears in sight amid multiple ongoing crises.Shopkeepers near two major tech and mobile phone shopping centres in the capital’s Jomhouri area closed their businesses and...

Iraq’s ‍newly ‍elected parliament has chosen Haybat al-Halbousi as its speaker, a significant step in the formation of the new government after months of political turmoil.Iraqi media reported on Monday, citing parliament’s media office, that al-Halbousi, from the Taqaddum (Progress) Party, had received 208 votes, in a clear victor...

Protests have erupted across Syria’s coastal regions, marking a new wave of sectarian upheaval since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime a year ago.During the protests on Sunday, gunfire was directed at Syrian security forces at the al-Azhari roundabout in Latakia while unknown assailants threw a hand grenade at the al-Anaza...

Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, is a “direct and grave threat to international peace and security”, Somalia has said.In a letter penned to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday, Somalia rejected the move as a violation of its sovereignty, calling it “morally indefensible”.Recommende...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump have presented a united front and heaped praise on each other as they held another meeting to discuss the tensions in the Middle East.On Monday, Netanyahu paid his fifth visit to the United States since Trump’s inauguration in January, meeting the president at...

Bangladesh’s first female prime minister, Khaleda ⁠Zia, has died at a hospital in the country’s capital, Dhaka, ​after a ‍prolonged illness, according to her party.In a statement on Tuesday, the Bangladesh National Party said Khaleda died at 6am local time (00:00 GMT). She was 80 years old.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1...

Following his inauguration in January, U.S. President Donald Trump brought along a new team of advisers and a playbook for higher education. The administration unleashed a slew of demands on colleges and universities in what has been seen by higher education leaders as an “overreach” on acad...

Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel has won 10 World Series of Poker bracelets while earning tens of millions of dollars in tournaments. But like many less prominent players, he’s now rethinking his career thanks to a federal tax change that will soon make gambling less profitable.“Next year I a...

ATLANTA (AP) — Alicia Johnson will become the first Black woman elected to a statewide post that isn’t a judgeship in Georgia when she takes office on the state Public Service Commission on Thursday.Johnson held a ceremonial swearing-in Monday in the commission chambers in Atlanta, surrounde...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday that it had conducted another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people.The strike, which was announced by U.S. Southern Command on social media, has brought the total number of known boat...

More than 500 women sued a Virginia health system and its senior executives on Monday for negligence, claiming that for nearly a decade one doctor performed medically unjustified operations, including unnecessary C-sections and sterilizations without consent.The 510 plaintiffs are seeking $10 million each from the Chesapeake Region...

For the first time in 20 years, rain could be an intruder at 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 reg...

LONDON (AP) — Britons ranging from Hollywood stars Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo to a 102-year-old judo instructor have been named in King Charles III’s New Year’s honors list, an annual tradition that recognizes people for their contributions to U.K. public life.Elba, who starred as a drug d...

The undercurrents of adolescent cruelty churn queasily in Charlie Polinger’s stylish first feature, “The Plague.”The title of Polinger’s film might bring to mind Stephen King or recent global history, but “The Plague” is set entirely around the clear, chlorinated pools and shadowy hallways o...

Russia shells the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, killing at least one person and injuring five.

Russia shells the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, killing at least one person and injuring five.

Russia shells the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, killing at least one person and injuring five.

Russia shells the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, killing at least one person and injuring five.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected Russia’s claim that his country carried out an attack on a residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed on Monday that the attack had taken place on Putin’s residence in northwestern Russia’s Novgorod region, using 91 long-range str...

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

It was Sunday afternoon, our second day at sea on an expedition to Antarctica, when the announcement came over the public address system: At 9 p.m. that evening, our ship would become a time machine.We were moving one hour forward and one day back. It was the first of several jumps we’d need to make as our icebreaker passed through...

Pro-Palestine activists have sprayed red paint and smashed windows at the offices of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party in London, saying the action is in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike in British jails.The group Justice for the Hunger Strikers said on Monday that its members had targeted the governing party, citing grow...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Josh Allen sat glumly at the postgame lectern, his mood resembling the dark clouds that hung over Highmark Stadium on Sunday.Refusing to let on how sore his body might be after he was sacked five times and hit numerous others, Allen kept returning to the play that d...

GENEVA (AP) — The United States on Monday announced a $2 billion commitment to U.N. humanitarian aid, as President Donald Trump's administration continues to reduce U.S. assistance abroad and warns U.N. agencies that they must “adapt, shrink, or die” in a time of new financial realities.That...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The biggest protests broke out in Iran in three years on Monday after the country's currency fell to a record low against the dollar and the head of the Central Bank resigned.State television reported the resignation of Mohammad Reza Farzin, as merchants demonstrated on S...

States will share $10 billion for rural health care next year in a program that aims to offset the Trump administration’s massive budget cuts to rural hospitals, federal officials announced Monday.But while every state applied for money from the Rural Health Transformation Program, it won’t...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — As Jalen Carter and his Philadelphia teammates celebrated in the end zone after making one last crucial stop, Buffalo’s Josh Allen removed his helmet and yelled out in frustration.In a game decided by a 2-point conversion attempt, Allen came up short — a foot wide,...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Philip Rivers has made the postgame walk to answer tough questions dozens of times over his previous 17 NFL seasons.This time seemed different.With the Indianapolis Colts having been eliminated from the postseason for a fifth consecutive year even before Rivers and his te...

Good morning! Today we have for you:A dan dan noodle salad for laid-back (but delicious) lunches and dinnersA shrimp scampi recipe with a bit more cozy heftAnd, a crisp and colorful red cabbage salad with orange vinaigretteImageHetty Lui McKinnon’s dan dan noodle salad.Credit...Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Monic...

These easy upgrade will make that healthy vegetarian staple all the more special.

A number of member of Congress from both major parties have announced they are heading for the exits, either because they are seeking higher office, are not running again or are leaving early before the 2026 elections.Midterms are historically tough on the party of the sitting president. Wit...

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Bill Murphy has been an Indiana football season ticket holder for 66 years. He says he has rarely missed a game even though 55 of them have been losing seasons in a historic stretch of bowl-less holidays.One of those rare misses stands out: The 1968 Rose Bowl, when Indiana lost 14-3 to O.J....

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey and Armenia have agreed to simplify visa procedures as part of efforts to normalize ties, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry announced Monday, making it easier for their citizens to travel between the two countries.Relations between Turkey and Armenia have long been strai...

EL ESPINAL, Mexico (AP) — Survivors and families of the victims of a deadly train crash in southern Mexico demanded answers on Monday as the government vowed to investigate what caused a train to derail the day before on a rail line connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico.Thirte...

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

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. has “hit” a dock facility along a shore as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela, but the U.S. offered few details.Trump initially seemed to confirm a strike in what appeared to be an impromptu radio interview Fri...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court on Monday ordered the release of veteran journalist Fatih Altayli from prison pending the outcome of his appeal against a conviction for allegedly threatening President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.Altayli, 63, a longtime columnist whose YouTube programs drew hu...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s parliament on Monday elected a new speaker following overnight talks to break a political deadlock.Haibet Al-Halbousi received 208 votes from the 309 legislators who attended. He is a member of the Takadum, or Progress, party led by ousted speaker and relative Mohammed...

BEIRUT (AP) — Hamas on Monday confirmed that its longtime spokesman was killed following an Israeli strike in August in war-torn Gaza, the first time the Palestinian militant group publicly acknowledged the death of one of its more prominent figures. The confirmation comes months after Israe...

A historic theater in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol has opened its doors more than three years after it was pummeled in a Russian airstrike that killed hundreds of civilians sheltering inside.Moscow-installed authorities marked the rebuilding of the Donetsk Academic Regiona...

Movies that begin with a wedding often don’t bode well for the couple. Starting with the so-called happy ending can only really guarantee a reversal of fortune. In the case of “We Bury the Dead,” in theaters Friday, something cosmically catastrophic is coming: the accidental detonation of an...

Need something to read (or watch) this New Year’s week? This quiz brings the love.

The cheese ball is a cliché. I believe, however, that like the pig in a blanket and the baked potato, the cheese ball is so cliched it has actually become cool. Socially acceptable or not, when this dish from my cookbook “Deep Run Roots” is put out at a party of any kind, people hover over i...

Power outages can come from winter storms, heat waves, wildfires or a delivery driver backing into the power line by your house. But depending on how long they last or what the temperature is outside, they can be serious or even fatal, no matter the cause.One of the biggest factors in gettin...

The Trump administration made work requirements for low-income people receiving government assistance a priority in 2025. The departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development have worked to usher in stricter employment conditions to receive health care,...

Young cacao trees stand in an unlikely spot on the northeastern slopes of the Waianae Range, growing on a windswept point overlooking Oahu’s North Shore. “Our soil, in the summer, becomes a powdery flour,” says Max Breen of Kamananui Cacao Farm. “A lot of runoff, a lot of blowing. … Challeng...

When Nebraska’s Department of Health and Human Services announced its plan to divvy up millions in opioid settlement money, one recipient stood out: The Central Wyoming Counseling Center.The Wyoming nonprofit is the only out-of-state organization slated to receive some of Nebraska’s Opioid T...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado hired Fernando Lovo away from New Mexico to succeed Rick George as athletic director, the school announced Monday.CU Chancellor Justin Schwartz said Lovo’s hiring was approved by a unanimous vote of the Board of Regents and that Lovo would official start his ne...

What a difference a year (and a political leadership change) makes. At this time in 2024, Michigan was expecting a windfall of federal funds to fuel a transition to clean energy, along with billions of dollars’ worth of green manufacturing projects subsidized by the Biden administration’s si...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A dozen of the iconic swans that live in the heart of downtown Orlando, Florida, have died in recent days of an unknown cause, leading officials to suspect that bird flu is to blame.The deaths of the swans at Lake Eola don’t appear to be suspicious, Orlando City Commissi...

MIAMI (AP) — U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick reiterated her innocence Monday outside a Miami federal courthouse, where she faces charges of conspiring to steal $5 million in federal COVID-19 disaster funds.Cherfilus-McCormick was scheduled to be arraigned, but her attorney requested the...

John Montell “Monty” Mitchell was reeling last year. He heads into next year, though, freshly certified as a paramedic, committed to fatherhood and nurturing a dream that ends in the letters “M.D.”Between high school graduation in 2021 and today, he’s lost a sister to murder and his best fri...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal Homeland Security officials were conducting a fraud investigation on Monday in Minneapolis, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.Noem posted a video on the social platform X showing DHS officers going into an unidentified business and question...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a criminal case against a popular Los Angeles TikTok streamer, citing constitutional violations after his lawyers were denied access to him while he was in immigration detention.U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin issued a ruling Saturday dism...

A Utah judge on Monday ordered the release of a transcript from a closed-door hearing in October over whether the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk must be shackled during court proceedings.State District Judge Tony Graf said the transcript must be posted on the court docket by the end o...

The artificial intelligence boom has turned high-profile billionaires like Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the chip maker Nvidia, and Sam Altman, the chief executive of the ChatGPT maker OpenAI, into even richer billionaires.It has also produced a crop of new billionaires — at least on paper — from smaller start-ups. These ind...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said 13 people were killed and 98 others were injured when a train derailed on a rail line connecting the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.The Interoceanic Train, which links the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz, went off the tracks on S...

When turbulent weather with whipping winds and heavy snow is in the forecast, meteorologists sometimes warn that a storm could “bomb out” or become a bomb cyclone. But what exactly does this mean?According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, certain storms undergo bo...

U.S. President Donald Trump continues to claim he has ended eight wars this year, but that is exaggerated. His meeting this week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu highlights that far more work remains before any declaration of an end to the war in Gaza.Meanwhile, fresh fighting...

NEW YORK (AP) — The start of a new year usually brings new motivation to achieve goals like eating healthier or finally cleaning your basement. Many resolutions also focus on financial goals, such as paying off credit card debt, saving for a new house, or simply getting more educated about m...

NEW YORK (AP) — Silver and gold futures fell sharply Monday after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, one of the world’s largest trading floors for commodities, asked traders to put up more cash to make bets on precious metals with prices surging this year. This year, gold futures are up 65% an...

NEW YORK (AP) — Insulting the director who is making a documentary about you might not be the most diplomatic of choices. Then again, Chevy Chase has never been very diplomatic.The comedian gets snarly at the top of filmmaker Marina Zenovich’s “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not,” which airs Thu...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Text messages show that Tyler Perry and “Boo! A Madea Halloween” actor Mario Rodriguez, who recently filed a lawsuit accusing the filmmaker of sexual assault, remained in contact years after Rodriguez alleges their interactions ended.Rodriguez alleged in the lawsuit filed...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Anthony Joshua, the British boxer and former world heavyweight champion, was hospitalized Monday with “minor injuries” after a car accident that killed two other passengers in Nigeria.The Lagos state commissioner for information, Gbenga Omotoso, confirmed the accident i...

Two men who died after their helicopters collided midair in New Jersey over the weekend both received their pilot licenses later in life and would often have breakfast together at a cafe near the crash site before taking to the skies from the local airport.Authorities on Monday identified th...

A passenger train derailed in the Mexican state of Oaxaca on Sunday, killing at least 13 people, according to the Mexican authorities.Nearly 250 passengers and crew members were on board when the front engine derailed near the village of Nizanda, causing the train to partially plummet down an embankment, according to local media re...

When Marjorie Taylor Greene proclaimed in early 2021 that the Republican Party “belonged” to Donald Trump, I thought she sounded nuts. Not only did she turn out to be prescient, but the newly elected congresswoman also became a rising star in the MAGA ecosystem — and one ofTrump’s most visible cheerleaders. To understand that ecosy...

A cinema that witnessed Afghanistan's modern history—from the cosmopolitan vitality of the 1960s to the silencing and repression that followed not one, but two Taliban takeovers—has been demolished to make way for a shopping mall.The Ariana Cinema in Kabul, the capital, had been closed, except for showing occasional propaganda film...

A blockade destined to devastate Venezuela's economy. A fiery Venezuelan leader known for his unusual dance moves in times of distress. A US government that sought to assert its military supremacy in Latin America.Yes, these descriptions refer to the crisis in which Venezuela is mired.But they also apply to a military campaign agai...

Colombia is embroiled in an escalating dispute with the United States over a series of attacks on vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific — initially aimed at Venezuela — that Washington says are targeting drug traffickers.As the feud has intensified, President Donald Trump has called Colombian President Gustavo Petro an “ille...

Brigitte Bardot, the wild-haired, pouty French actress who redefined the sexual symbolism of mid-20th-century cinema in films like And God Created Woman, then stopped acting at age 39 to devote her life to animal welfare, died Sunday at her home in the south of France. She was 91 years old.The Brigitte Bardot Foundation, created by...

A passenger train derailed on Sunday in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, killing at least 13 people, according to Mexican authorities.About 250 passengers and crew members were on board when the front engine derailed near the town of Nizanda, causing the train to partially fall down an embankment, media reported locals.As of Sunday nig...

China launched military exercises around Taiwan on Monday, mobilizing naval, air, ground and missile forces for what the People’s Liberation Army described as a “stern warning” to opponents of Beijing’s claims to the island. As part of the drills, the Chinese authorities said that seven zones of ocean and air space around Taiwan wo...

China has launched live-fire drills around Taiwan, deploying air, navy and rocket troops for war games that its military said were aimed at testing combat readiness and delivering a “stern warning” against “separatist” and “external interference” forces.Taiwan on Monday detected at least 14 Chinese naval vessels, 14 coast guard shi...

A fire at a nursing home on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has killed 16 people and injured three others, according to the police.Jimmu Rotinsulu, the head of the fire and rescue agency in the city of Manado, said firefighters received a report of the blaze at the Werdha Damai retirement home at 8:31pm (12:31 GMT) on Sunday.Reco...

A special prosecutor in South Korea has accused the wife of former President Yoon ‍Suk-yeol of interfering ‍in state affairs in return for expensive valuables and money.Min Jung-ki’s comments on Monday came a day after he wrapped up a yearlong investigation into Yoon’s brief imposition of martial law and other scandals related to t...

The simple proposals can sometimes feel just as endearing as the grand ones, if not more. Many couples who were featured in The New York Times’s Weddings section in 2025 seemed to be averse to the formalities and drawn to the casual and informal engagement — but with a personal touch that makes it extra sentimental.Perhaps because...

We all know that exercise is good for us. It boosts our energy, lifts our mood, sharpens our minds and gives us a reason to get outside. But even the most passionate exercisers — and certainly the rest of us — occasionally need a little inspiration to get started.This year, our fitness reporting helped us find even more reasons to...

The way we ate in 2025 was a wild ride, a time to take chances on unexpected flavors and drink cold-foam matcha lattes and dip everything in sauce. While many Americans agonized over the price of beef, others spent like crazy on A5 Wagyu. Classic chain restaurants like Chili’s and Red Lobster were winners, but so were ingredients a...

The United States, a nation of 343 million people with a complex and overburdened health care system, is poised to adopt the childhood vaccine recommendations used in Denmark, a country of six million with universal health care. The decision has alarmed public health experts in both countries.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. health...

A new round of peace talks between President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Trump seem to have produced little beyond a promise to meet again next month and a reminder of how distant a peace deal remains.Yet for Mr. Zelensky, even a stalemate in the discussions counts as progress.After setbacks in U.S. support for Ukra...

President Trump said in a radio interview that the United States had knocked out “a big facility” last week as part of his administration’s campaign against Venezuela, an apparent reference to an American attack on a drug trafficking site.American officials said that Mr. Trump was referring to a drug facility in Venezuela and that...

A Times investigation has found that insurers are driving families into homes contaminated by smoke. Lab results show how one family was exposed to neurotoxins and carcinogens.

On a warm Saturday afternoon in November, 17-year-old Tristan Johnson grabbed his black puffer jacket and headed out to rent a scooter.He was walking a few blocks from the D.C. Armory, the staging area for hundreds of National Guard troops who had been patrolling Washington as part of President Trump’s crackdown on crime in the nat...

Artificial intelligence. Immigration. Gender-related care for minors.Across the nation,new laws will take effect at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1 in virtually every state. From cellphone bans to higher minimum wages, here are some of the important policy changes set to go into effect in 2026.Regulating A.I.An increasing number o...

During my two decades as a long-haul airline pilot, I’ve had opportunities to explore many places I might never have otherwise visited. Jeddah, for example, on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast, is a city I visit almost monthly. I’m drawn to its narrow lanes — Jeddah’s graceful old town is one of the best preserved in the Gulf States —...

For years, Kevin Hassett, an economist who advised the presidential campaigns of John McCain, George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, favored classic conservative economic principles. A longtime scholar at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, he promoted the idea that free trade was the path to national prosperity and argued th...

Like many mothers in Southern California, Paula Gartin put her twin son and daughter, Mikey and Maddy, into youth sports leagues as soon as they were old enough. For years, they loved playing soccer, baseball and other sports, getting exercise and making friends.But by their early teens, the competition got stiffer, the coaches bec...

Over 15 days in February 2023, Uber received three increasingly alarming reports about one of its drivers in Pennsylvania. One passenger said that the driver “called me the N word.” Another said he made her feel uncomfortable by asking if she wanted a drink and whether she lived alone. A third reported being “scared out of my mind”...

The United States has said it will contribute only $2bn in United Nations humanitarian assistance – a small fraction of its traditional funding scope – as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to heavily downsize its role in foreign aid.The reduced commitment, released on Monday, is a sharp contrast to the assistance of...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s decision to bring serious firepower to bear for military drills in the waters off Taiwan this week has deep roots — both in the past several weeks and the past several decades.The island is the most sensitive political subject for China. It has been ever since Taiwan s...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian traders and shopkeepers staged a second day of protests Monday after the country’s currency plummeted to a new record low against the U.S. dollar. Videos on social media showed hundreds taking part in rallies in Saadi Street in downtown Tehran as well as in the Sh...

Russia shells the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, killing at least one and injuring five others.

Dahlak Brathwaite was on the rise. He had just graduated from the University of California, Davis, and he had appeared twice as a spoken-word poet on HBO’s “Def Poetry Jam.” Then he was pulled over by a police officer, who found hallucinogenic mushrooms in his car and arrested him.Facing a possible prison sentence, Brathwaite enter...

Holiday weeks, quiet in many opera houses, are always a good time to take a detour from live performance to fully staged streaming options online.And while there’s plenty to enjoy on subscription services like Medici.tv, it’s also fun to scour the purchase-on-demand video titles offered by labels like Naxos and Dynamic. Here are fi...

Yuval Sharon was appointed artistic director of the Detroit Opera on a wave of anticipation in a city eager to raise its cultural profile. Here was an acclaimed director who had built a career with new and wildly reinvented operas, ready to establish himself in Detroit.Sharon, 46, who took the job in 2020, proceeded to transform op...

The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose what to watch. Each month, we select three nonfiction films — classics, overlooked recent docs and more — that will reward your time.‘Sketches of Frank Gehry’ (2006)Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango at Home and Google Play.It’s hard to look at...

The premise of the video game Q-UP seems ridiculously simple and simply ridiculous: an esport where every match is decided by a coin flip. “Whenever someone sees Q-UP for the first time,” said James Lantz, one of its designers, “they’re like, ‘This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.’”But hiding under the binary surface...

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. 29-Jan. 4. Details and times are subject to change.A cheers as we head into 2026.Whether you like a rowdy New Year’s party or would rather cozy up at hom...

The year brought an abundance of delight to London stages whether classic plays or cutting-edge productions. And, of course, the arrival of the newly beloved “Paddington: The Musical.”As we head into a new year, we took a moment to reflect on some highlights from 2025. Houman Barekat and Matt Wolf, two London-based theater critics...

The 21st century has not been kind to rock. Pop, hip-hop, R&B, country and Latin music have all pushed the genre out of the commercial and cultural mainstream. In retrospect, rock’s last grand heyday was in the 1990s, when grunge, nu-metal and pop-punk were all happily — well, more like furiously — blasting away.But rock was alread...

Every few hours, two furnaces in a New Hampshire office park quietly transform batches of taupe-colored powder into rough ingots.These mottled chunks of metal, about the size of a few bricks, ultimately will be used to make electric vehicle motors or maybe a fighter jet.This is what rare-earth processing looks like in the United St...

On most Monday nights, the sanctuary of All Saints Episcopal Church — with its vaulted ceilings, stone arches and stained-glass windows — seamlessly transforms into a space of quiet contemplation. It’s in this Gothic Revival church in Pasadena, California, that Betty Cole, a longtime Zen pra...

The new year is a time when many try to start new good habits and commit to improving health and wellness.But resolutions, lofty as they may be, can turn daunting quickly with all the advice and sometimes contradicting information coming at you from news reports, advertisers, influencers, fr...

LONDON (AP) — Political opposition leaders in the United Kingdom have called for a human rights activist to be stripped of his citizenship over past social media posts allegedly containing violent and antisemitic language within days of the dual national returning to Britain after years in E...

In Sunnyside, Queens, people line up outside a bakery before it opens to buy a brioche doughnut whose glaze shines a startling purple. In Paris, people sip purple-colored lattes with a mellow, nutty scent. In Melbourne, Australia, a purple tinge gives hot cross buns a gentle sweetness.The common ingredient in these items is ube, or...

Six ISIL (ISIS) fighters have been killed in a shootout in northwest Turkiye that also left three police officers dead, the Turkish Interior Ministry has said.In a speech on Monday, Minister of Interior Ali Yerlikaya said that security forces carried out 108 separate overnight raids on alleged ISIL hideouts across 13 provinces.Reco...

Syrian government troops have been deployed to the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous after demonstrations led to deadly clashes in which at least four people were killed and 108 were injured.It’s the latest turmoil to challenge President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s fledgling government, which has been pushing to stabilise the nation and...

Severe weather conditions are bringing further misery to displaced Palestinians in Gaza, who have already suffered relentless bombardment, siege and loss in Israel’s genocidal war for more than two years, as Israel continues to block critical shelter and aid supplies into the territory.Flimsy tents were flooded and makeshift camps...

Baghdad, Iraq – Iraq’s new parliament is holding its first sitting on Monday, a closely anticipated event as post-election Iraq grapples with the question of who sits in parliament and who will lead the next government.Who will be the prime minister is only one issue, although it is top of mind for incumbent Prime Minister Mohammed...