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...

The head of the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has insisted the war, now deep into its third year, will only end with the “surrender” of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s maximalist stance against the rival paramilitary forces comes as the war-torn nation faces a collapsing humanitarian...

Alaa Abd El-Fattah, an Egyptian-British human rights campaigner, has “unequivocally” apologised after right-wing leaders in the United Kingdom dug up decade-old tweets to demand he be stripped of British citizenship.In a lengthy apology posted online, the writer and blogger – who returned to Britain this week after 12 years of impr...

Benjamin Netanyahu has been prime minister of Israel for so long that nearly everyone knows how he governs.He delays decisions. He keeps options open for as long as possible and creates new ones whenever he can. He wears down, outwaits and outlasts his adversaries — as well as his ostensible allies. He turns crises — including some...

A raid by Turkish police on a suspected safe house for Islamic State militants led to armed clashes early Monday that killed three police officers and six militants, Turkey’s interior minister said.The raid began before dawn in Yalova, a district in northwestern Turkey south of Istanbul, and was part of a broad crackdown this month...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police in Pakistan detained a teenage girl who was radicalized and recruited online by an outlawed separatist group to carry out a “major suicide attack,” authorities said Monday.No criminal charges will be filed and she will be placed under state protection as “a vi...

Claire Brosseau is desperate to die.She is 48 years old and has had a life she calls an “an embarrassment of riches.” She has a vast network of friends, a devoted family, the steadfast adoration of a small dog. She has performed to raucous laughter in some of North America’s most prestigious comedy clubs and festivals, acted in mov...

Authorities in China’s Xinjiang region are threatening detention over downloading, sharing or listening to a wide range of Uyghur-language songs, the AP has found. The policy was revealed in a leaked recording of a public meeting last October in the city of Kashgar in Xinjiang, home to 11 mi...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — It is a soulful folk song, filled with feeling and history: A love-stricken young man tells God about his hopes and dreams of happiness. Generations of Uyghurs, the Turkic ethnic minority in China’s Xinjiang region, have played it at parties and weddings. But today, if...

Israel has attacked more countries than any other country this year.In 2025, Israel attacked at least six countries, including Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria, and Yemen.It also carried out strikes in Tunisian, Maltese and Greek territorial waters on aid flotillas heading for Gaza.According to Armed Conflict Location and Eve...

This past spring, under intense pressure from the Trump administration, Harvard University pulled the plug on diversity, equity and inclusion. The administrator who had overseen D.E.I. operations announced that the university was now focused instead on helping students more freely express their views. The Office of Equity, Diversit...

What a challenging year. Many of us struggle to make sense of what’s happening in America. We cope in different ways. Some spend more time in nature. Others retreat into books or the gym.Still others turn to their keyboards, distilling this unruly world into words.It’s their work that I honor today (and that I honor regularly in Fo...

A few years ago, a colleague called to tell me our friend and fellow psychiatrist had collapsed at home and died of a cardiac arrest. She was in her early 70s, without any previously known medical illness. Within hours, a group of shocked and grief-stricken psychiatrists gathered at her home office, faced with a predicament: We had...

In ancient Greek mythology, a man who falls in love with his own reflection withers away and dies. In modern America, he gets promoted to the corner office — and sometimes even elected to the Oval Office.We should know better. Great leaders put their missions above their egos. Narcissists do the opposite — they see themselves as sp...

It was a joyous day, the fulfillment of a quarter-century of hard work and relentless fund-raising. Srinivasachary Tamirisa, a retired doctor living in Sugar Land, Texas, beamed with pride as his dream — to erect a statue of the Hindu deity Hanuman on the grounds of a temple he had helped found — came to life.A helicopter circled o...

Millions of people across New York State and New England were under winter weather warnings or advisories early Monday, as forecasters said that freezing rain from a storm that battered the Midwest over the weekend could produce significant ice accumulation in parts of the Northeast overnight.As much as seven-tenths of an inch of i...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — South Africa coach Hugo Broos isn’t getting that usual Africa Cup of Nations feeling in Morocco.Broos, who led Cameroon to the title in 2017 in Gabon and took South Africa to third place at the 2023 edition in Ivory Coast, said Sunday there was a lack of enthusiasm for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in a Democratic-leaning West Des Moines-area district will pick a new state senator Tuesday in a special election that could allow Iowa Republicans to regain a supermajority in the chamber and secure the party’s grip on state government.Democrat Renee Hardman of West...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The United States is offering Ukraine security guarantees for a period of 15 years as part of a proposed peace plan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday, though he said he would prefer an American commitment of up to 50 years to deter Russia from further...

Readers submitted more than 3,200 ideas for our 50 States, 50 Fixes series. Before the year ends, we wanted to share just a few more of them.

The Baltimore Orioles are bringing back right-hander Zach Eflin on a $10 million, one-year contract.The Orioles acquired Eflin in a trade from Tampa Bay during the 2024 season, and he pitched well down the stretch that year, but he went 6-5 with a 5.93 ERA during an injury-plagued 2025. With...

Don Bryant,a soul singer who blamed a young woman with a beautiful voice for stealing his spotlight, but who wound upbecoming her principal songwriter and marrying her, died on Friday. He was 83.A verified social media account of his announced the death but did not specify the cause or where he died.Mr. Bryant and his wife, Ann Pee...

The Times Square New Year’s Eve ball drop isn’t new — it’s been dropping since 1907 — but this year’s centerpiece is. The Constellation Ball is the ninth such orb and, according to organizers, the biggest one yet, weighing 12,350 pounds and dripping with 5,280 Waterford crystals and LEDs.To see it in person, the viewing area opens...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s that time — December’s waning days, when we prepare to turn the calendar page. Many Americans take stock, review goals accomplished and unmet, ponder hopes and plans. How’s our health? What’s up with our money? What about the country? Will the coming year look like the d...

KISKUNMAJSA, Hungary (AP) — Oszkár Nagyapáti climbed to the bottom of a sandy pit on his land on the Great Hungarian Plain and dug into the soil with his hand, looking for a sign of groundwater that in recent years has been in accelerating retreat.“It’s much worse, and it’s getting worse yea...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea is promising to shrink its reliance on coal power as part of its pledge to reduce carbon emissions that contribute to climate change, but that ambition is at odds with the Trump administration’s push for more U.S. natural gas exports.At recent United Nat...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Militants of the Islamic State group opened fire on police and wounded seven officers during a raid on the group in northwest Turkey on Monday, the country’s state-run media reported.The clash broke out in Elmali district in Yalova province, south of Istanbul, as police...

MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — A fire at an Indonesian retirement home killed 16 residents on Sunday evening, police said.The fire in the single-story house in Manado in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi Province started while the residents were asleep, police said Monday.Several people living near the n...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers recovered the body of a female victim believed to be part of the family of a Spanish soccer coach and his three children who went missing after a tour boat sank three days ago.The rescue team discovered the body just after dawn Monday, floating n...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Families of victims of the recent Sydney massacre that targeted a Jewish festival released an open letter on Monday calling for more federal action to investigate a rise in antisemitism and the security failures behind Australia’s worst mass shooting in three deca...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday commuted to Cheong Wa Dae, the country’s traditional presidential palace, for the first time since taking office in June, more than three years after his ousted predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol moved the presidential office to...

HONG KONG (AP) — Foreign ministers from Cambodia and Thailand convened with their Chinese counterpart on Monday as the Beijing government, building on its expanding presence in the world diplomatic arena, sought to play a stronger mediating role in the violent border dispute between the two...

TAMBACOUNDA, Senegal (AP) — On a blazing afternoon in Senegal, 33-year-old farmer Filly Mangassa heaved peanut plants onto a horse-drawn cart, sending clouds of dust swirling.Ten years ago, he left his village for the capital, Dakar, dreaming of becoming a professor. But the high cost of liv...

HONOLULU (AP) — Mike Lambert heard fewer illegal fireworks exploding in his suburban Honolulu neighborhood in the months after a chain of blasts at a house party last New Year’s Eve led to the deaths of six people, including a 3-year-old boy.As the director of Hawaii’s Department of Law Enfo...

Zohran Mamdani has promised to transform New York City government when he becomes mayor. Can he do it?Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, already faces intense scrutiny, even before taking office in one of the country’s most scrutinized political jobs. Republicans have cast him as a...

A potent winter storm threatened blizzard-like conditions, treacherous travel and power outages in parts of the Upper Midwest as other areas of the country braced Monday for plunging temperatures, strong winds and a mix of snow, ice, and rain.The snow and strengthening winds began spreading...

It’s the end of the year and there are fewer new streaming options headed to a device near you.But it’s a great time to catch up on some of best movies,television,music and video games of 2025. The Associated Press has comprehensive guides on the best releases of the year on its Year in Revi...

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly lower in thin holiday trading as China staged military exercises near the island of Taiwan.The prices of gold and silver fell back after recent gains, while oil prices advanced. U.S. futures were little changed.Shares in Taiwan were higher even after C...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, as Washington looks to create fresh momentum for a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza that could be in danger of stalling out before a complicated second phase.Trump cou...

GENEVA (AP) — The United States on Monday announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance and warns United Nations agencies to “adapt, shrink or die” in a time of new financial realities. The money...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — Officials said a train accident in southern Mexico killed at least 13 people and injured dozens, halting traffic along a rail line connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico.The Interoceanic Train linking the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz went off the rai...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen a test launch of long-range strategic cruise missiles and called for the “unlimited and sustained” development of his country’s nuclear combat forces, according to state media.The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Monday that Kim expressed satisfaction as the cruise missiles...

Here is where things stand on Monday, December 29:Diplomacy United States President Donald Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and said the two leaders were “getting a lot closer, maybe very close” to a deal to end the war in Ukraine. Trump and Zelenskyy reported progre...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday it fired long-range strategic cruise missiles into the sea to test the country’s nuclear deterrence, days after it showed apparent progress in the construction of its first nuclear-powered submarine.Sunday’s launches were the latest weapons d...

Niger’s military rulers have approved a general mobilisation and authorised the requisition of people and goods as they intensify the fight against armed groups across the country, according to a government statement.The decision followed a cabinet meeting on Friday and marks a major escalation by the military government, which sei...

HONG KONG (AP) — The Chinese military said Monday said it was dispatching air, navy and rocket troops to conduct joint military drills around Taiwan, a move it called a “stern warning” against separatist and “external interference” forces.The drills came after Beijing expressed anger at U.S....

Hundreds of people take to the streets in Tartous and Latakia to demand the release of former soldiers.

The leader of Yemen’s Houthi rebels has warned any Israeli presence in Somaliland would be considered a “military target”, in the latest condemnation of Israel’s move to recognise the breakaway region.“We consider any Israeli presence in Somaliland a military target for our armed forces, as it constitutes aggression against Somalia...

An Oklahoma man was doing target practice on Thursday, Christmas Day, with a handgun he had bought himself when he fatally shot a woman who was sitting with two children on a neighboring front porch, the authorities said.The man, Cody Wayne Adams, 33, was charged with first-degree manslaughter after the woman, who lived less than h...

President Trump said while hosting President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Sunday that he believed Russia and Ukraine were “maybe very close” to ending a nearly four-year war, even as Russia rejected some terms sought by Ukrainian negotiators.Mr. Trump met with Mr. Zelensky at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida to discuss a rev...

The Virginia man arrested this month on charges of placing two pipe bombs in Washington on the night before a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has given a detailed confession, according to court papers released on Sunday night.In the public first hint at a motive in the case, the documents said that the man, Brian...

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VideoJourney to Antarctica Part 31:40What do you pack for a two-month expedition to Antarctica? Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong shows us what he is bringing along for his journey.

VideoWhy We Are Going to the Fastest-Melting Glacier2:04How much time does the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica have left? Our reporter Raymond Zhong and our photographer Chang W. Lee are joining scientists and engineers who measure how much sea levels could rise as a result of melting ice.

There may be a lot of waltzing in Vienna this holiday season, but one local theater that premiered some of the world’s most famous waltzes is about to shimmy and fox trot.The MusikTheater an der Wien will mount “Benamor,” a rarely seen 1923 operatic work by the Spanish composer Pablo Luna, for nine performances from Jan. 11 to Feb....

Every year on Jan. 1, some 50 million people around the world watch the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert: a program of waltzes, polkas, marches and mazurkas. At the baton is a star conductor in formal attire.This year, it will be Yannick Nézet-Séguin — music director of the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra,...

It’s all a waltz. A few weeks after the Vienna Philharmonic performs its New Year’s Concert at the gilded Musikverein concert hall, people of all generations gather in the same venue for the orchestra’s annual ball.Vienna hosts an estimated 450 balls across the city, such as the lavish Opera Ball and the more recent HipHop Ball, in...

In the decades following her retirement from acting, Brigitte Bardot’s personal life, animal-rights activism and right-wing politics so overshadowed her filmography that it became almost easy to forget that she did make movies — and she was very good at it. The star, who died on Sunday, had what can’t be taught: charisma and attitu...

Lucien Laviscount has traveled to the Dominican Republic, Dubai, London, Los Angeles, New York City and Paris, and that’s just over the past month.“I’ve been on the road a lot,” Laviscount, 33, said in a phone interview from Dubai, where he was on a shoot for GQ Middle East, which named him one of its men of the year. “But all for...

Brigitte Bardot, the French actress and animal rights campaigner whose death was announced on Sunday, was a creature of the still image as well as the moving one. And like many female stars over the decades, she was both a master and a victim of the photographer’s gaze. She used the camera’s lens to project her personality, just as...

SEMMERING, Austria (AP) — After dominating the first four World Cup slaloms this season, Mikaela Shiffrin has only just managed to keep her winning streak intact ahead of the 2026 Olympics.Not that Sunday’s night slalom in Austria, the final event of the calendar year, could make the America...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Nick Kyrgios won the latest version of the “Battle of the Sexes” in tennis, beating top-ranked women’s player Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 6-3 in an exhibition match that represented light entertainment rather than another landmark moment for gender equality.There...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of placing two pipe bombs in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol told investigators after his arrest that he believed someone needed to “speak up” for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen and that he wanted to targ...

Crashes and flight delays were accumulating on Sunday as a major winter storm swept through Minnesota and Wisconsin, bringing “dangerous, potentially life-threatening travel conditions” at the end of the holiday weekend, weather forecasters said.The National Weather Service warned travelers about arctic air moving into the Plains o...

United States President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy have expressed optimism that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is close following their talks in Florida, even as the thorny issue of territory remains outstanding.Addressing reporters after meeting Zelenskyy at the Mar-a-Lago estate and following a...

We’re doing something a little different over the next two weeks. We’ll still give you the latest news. But at the top, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite reads of the year or giving you some cool end-of-2025 stuff. We hope you enjoy the chance to slow down a bit.At the end of December, I love to curl up with the books, movies,...

At least two people were killed Sunday when violence broke out at a protest by Syria’s minority Alawite community in the city of Latakia, according to a monitoring group and the Syrian state media.The protest was one of several held across multiple cities in Syria’s coastal provinces, the Alawite community’s traditional heartland i...

When Janet Feldman set out in 2014 to find a recliner for her father, she was dispirited by the available offerings. “The chairs were horrifying,” Ms. Feldman said. “They were large and corduroy and plaid, with side pockets all the way down. They looked ridiculous.”Ms. Feldman had identified a challenge in recliner design. To accom...

Q: I had rented a house that had an apartment built in its former garage in Darien, Conn. I later discovered that the apartment, an accessory dwelling unit that was included in our lease, was built without permits or inspections and never received a certificate of occupancy. I moved out before the lease was up for other reasons. I...

Good morning! Today we have for you:A 30-minute mushroom stroganoffA chicken and chickpea curry warm with ginger, garlic and green chilesAnd migas breakfast tacos, no forks necessaryImageHetty Lui McKinnon’s mushroom stroganoff.Credit...David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.Hello, all. Here, in the middle...

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — A knife attack outside Suriname ’s capital of Paramaribo killed at least nine people, including five children, police said Sunday.Officials said the victims included the attacker’s children and neighbors who came to their aid. Local media reported the victims were...

PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot, the French sex symbol of the 1960s who became one of the great figures of 20th-century cinema and later an animal rights activist and far-right supporter, has died. She was 91.Bardot died Sunday at her home in the south of France, according to Bruno Jacquelin of...

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | SpotifyIan McEwan’s latest novel, “What We Can Know,” is many things at once: It’s a science fiction imagining of a future world devastated by climate catastrophe; it’s a literary mystery about a scholar’s search for a long-lost poem; it’s a deep dive into complicated marriages; and it’s a meditation on...

If publishers were being truthful about their “New Year, New You” books, they’d all have the same title: “Eight Great Habits That Won’t Last a Week.” But that’s OK. Many of us really do look forward to beginning the New Year with a bit of a tuneup. Or at least trying to. Here are a couple of great places to start.ImageEat Your Ice...

THE REST OF OUR LIVES, by Ben MarkovitsEarlier this year, my fellow critics and I wrote — and spoke! — about interesting road-trip books published since Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” Pulling up on the penultimate day of 2025 after being shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Ben Markovits’s new novel, “The Rest of Our Lives,” puts a but...

In a diary entry in the summer of 1943, Anne Frank wrote that she had lost all sense of time. The bells in Amsterdam’s tallest church tower, the Westertoren, right next to her own attic hiding place in a canal house, had stopped ringing.“For a week already we’ve all been a little confused about the time, ever since our dear and pre...

The egg has become a dominant source of anxiety for many women. Human eggs are finite, declining in both quality and quantity with age. In a woman’s 30s, this starts to make it harder to get pregnant, and by menopause, a woman is without functional eggs. Growing awareness of this reproductive reality has led to a surge in egg freez...

Perry Bamonte, a guitarist and keyboard player in the Cure, the seminal post-punk band that brought a dark, gothic sensibility to sparkly, upbeat hits like “Friday I’m in Love,” died on Wednesday at his home in the west of England. He was 65.The Cure announced Mr. Bamonte’s death in a statement on its website on Friday that said he...

For more than 20 years, Gmail, the world’s largest email account provider, has made it easy for users to change the username on their email accounts.But if a user wanted to keep all their data and services — like YouTube or Google Drive — connected to their @gmail account, the email address itself always had to stay the same.Some u...

NEW YORK (AP) — In addition to being a 1960s French sex symbol, actor, singer and animal welfare activist, Brigitte Bardot was a muse to many — in particular, musicians. Her name, with its alliterative cadence, became synonymous with a kind of classic beauty. In songs, Bardot is often not Ba...

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. prime minister is facing criticism after he celebrated the return to Britain of a human rights activist who was recently released from an Egyptian prison but whose past social media posts apparently contained violent and antisemitic language.Successive British governme...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Phoenix Suns center Mark Williams and New Orleans Pelicans point guard Jose Alvarado were ejected after getting into a fight in the third quarter Saturday night.The 7-foot-1 Williams and 6-foot Alvarado exchanged punches following a foul call on Alvarado. Phoenix won 123-1...

HAMMONTON, N.J. (AP) — Two helicopters crashed midair in New Jersey on Sunday, killing one person and critically injuring another, authorities say.Hammonton Police Chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11:25 a.m. Video from the scene shows a heli...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Russia on Sunday sent three Iranian communications satellites into orbit, the second such launch since July, Iranian state television reported.The report said that a Russian rocket sent the satellites to circle the Earth on a 500-kilometer (310-mile) orbit from the Vostoc...

kyiv, Ukraine (AP) — Russia attacked Ukraine's capital with ballistic missiles and drones on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding 27 others, authorities said, a day before talks between the presidents of Ukraine and the United States.Explosions were heard across kyiv as the att...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood wrapped up a turbulent year with big ticket sales for “Avatar: Fire and Ash” and a box-office hit for Timothée Chalamet with “Marty Supreme” over a busy holiday weekend in movie theaters.As expected, James Cameron’s latest trip to Pandora dominated ticket sales, col...

NEW YORK (AP) — When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipe plastic card brought much-needed modernity to one of the world's oldest and largest transportation systems.More than three decades later, the gold fare card and its notoriously capricious magnetic s...

A powerful winter storm was sweeping east from the Plains on Sunday, driven by what meteorologists describe as an intense cyclone that is expected to impact much of the country with a mixture of snow, ice, rain and strong winds. “Part of the storm system is getting heavy snow, other parts of...

On my way to meet a friend in Silicon Valley a few weeks ago, I passed three self-driving Waymos gliding through traffic. These cars are everywhere now, moving as if they’ve been part of the landscape forever. When I arrived, the wonder of those futuristic cars gave way to a far more troubling glimpse of what lies ahead.My friend t...

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.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tyler Perry was sued for sexual assault by an actor who appeared in “Boo! A Madea Halloween,” marking the second lawsuit in recent months accusing the filmmaker and studio mogul of leveraging his power in Hollywood to make sexual advances.Mario Rodriguez filed the lawsuit...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that his country’s ties with Russia had been strengthened through “sharing blood, life and death in the same trench” in the Ukraine war, as he sent a New Year’s greeting to Russian President Vladimir Putin.Kim’s message followed President Putin’s own New Year’s greeting to the North Korean leade...

Thailand and Cambodia said they have signed a ⁠ceasefire ​agreement to end weeks of fierce fighting along their border that has killed more than 100 people and displaced more than half a million civilians in both countries.“Both sides agree to an immediate ceasefire after the time of signature of this Joint Statement,” ‍the Thai an...

Yangon, Myanmar – Voters in parts of Myanmar are heading to the polls on Sunday for an election that critics view as a bid by the country’s generals to legitimise military rule, nearly five years after they overthrew the government of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.The multi-phased election is unfolding amid a raging civil war, wi...

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Taiwan’s northeastern coastal city, the island’s weather administration said, with no immediate reports of major damage.The quake with a depth of 73km (45 miles) was felt across Taiwan and shook buildings in the capital Taipei, the administration said on Saturday, assigning it an intensity-four cat...

Polls have closed in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government in a 2021 coup.The heavily restricted election took place in about a third of the Southeast Asian nation’s 330 townships, with large areas inaccessible amid a raging civil wa...

Citizens of the Central African Republic (CAR) will vote on Sunday in highly controversial presidential and legislative elections expected to extend President Faustin-Archange Touadera’s tenure beyond two terms for the first time in the country’s history.Touadera, who helped put his country on the map when he adopted Bitcoin as one...

Somalia has demanded Israel reverse its recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland, condemning the move as an act of “aggression that will never be tolerated”.Ali Omar, Somalia’s state minister for foreign affairs, told Al Jazeera in an interview on Saturday that the government would pursue all available diplomatic means to...

The Central African Republic (CAR) is holding the presidential election, with incumbent Faustin-Archange Touadera projected to secure another term in the conflict-ridden country.Polling stations opened at 05:00 GMT on Sunday and will close at 17:00 GMT, with 2.3 million voters expected to elect their president, legislators, as well...

Guinea is holding a presidential election in which incumbent military leader General Mamady Doumbouya, who took power in a 2021 coup, is widely anticipated to secure victory.Some 6.7 million registered voters will go to the polls, which opened at 07:00 GMT on Sunday and will close at 18:00 GMT.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslis...

When you are seen on “Saturday Night Live” nearly every week, as Marcello Hernández is, you are bound to attract a few haters.Some don’t like it when your breakout character, Domingo, appears in the opening sketch of the show. Some gripe when you imitate a white guy with an exaggeratedly dorky accent, and others grumble when your d...

Reading rates are declining — a recent study showed that the number of Americans who read for pleasure had almost halved in the last two decades, while average reading scores for students are plummeting, thanks in large part to the number of digital distractions competing for our limited attention. These seven podcasts will help yo...

When Josh Safdie was researching “Marty Supreme,” his new film about an ambitious young table tennis player in the 1950s, he learned just how much the game dismissively called Ping-Pong has been disrespected.“Realizing that this sport has a history, and a rich one, just dignified the sport in a way that I found to be fascinating,”...

A second actor has sued the filmmaker and media mogul Tyler Perry, accusing him of sexual assault and seeking $77 million in damages, according to a complaint filed Thursday in the Los Angeles Superior Court.In the lawsuit, which also names the production company Lionsgate as a defendant, the actor, Mario Rodriguez, said he was sub...

Mickey Lee, a contestant on the latest season of the CBS TV show “Big Brother,” who was known for her vibrant personality and bold strategic moves to survive the game, died on Thursday. She was 35.She died after “a series of cardiac arrests,” following complications from the flu, according to a post on Friday on her official Instag...

Gary Graffman, a former child prodigy whose successful international career as a concert pianist was cut short when a rare neurological disorder cost him the use of his right hand in his 50s, setting him on a new and distinguished path as a teacher and administrator, died on Saturday at his home in New York. He was 97.His death, af...

Have you ever found yourself in a new place and realized you don’t quite fit in? Your shoes, which made sense at the office, are not quite the right ones for the date after work in a different part of the city. Your hairstyle, which felt normal when you left your hometown, suddenly labels you uncool in a new city. Or perhaps you’ve...

A.I.-generated artists topping iTunes and Billboard charts. Podcast hosts speaking fluently for hours in languages they do not know. Dead celebrities brought back to life and filling up social-media feeds.For years, artificial intelligence was a disruption on the horizon. In 2025 it arrived in tangible ways, big and small. Here are...

What if we think about humanity not as a state of being but as something we must actively practice — something we have to do? That’s the question posed by this year’s Bienal de São Paulo, on view through Jan. 11.The chief curator, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, who was born in Cameroon and lives in Berlin, writes in his curatorial...

The flakes began falling late Friday in New York City in what was expected to be the biggest snowfall in more than three years in the nation’s largest metropolitan area. The snowfall eased briefly, just before midnight, but was picking up again overnight, forecasters said. The storm was expected to drop 2 to 5 inches of snow in New...

New York City was hit with its biggest snowfall in several years on Friday and Saturday. By 7 a.m. Saturday, the National Weather Service said, 4.3 inches of snow blanketed Central Park, the first time more than four inches had fallen since January 2022.The storm dropped up to nine inches north and east of the city, in Connecticut,...

The ECHL and the Professional Hockey Players’ Association have a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement to end a strike that lasted two days.The league and union on Saturday night announced the deal that still needs to be ratified by the board of governors and the full...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsSunday, December 28COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)5 p.m.Pennsylvania at George Mason — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)4 p.m.Penn State at Iowa — BTN, Fox Sports App, Fubo SportsNBA BASKETBALL3:30 p.m.Phil...

Annette Dionne, who shared in her siblings’ fame as one of the first quintuplets known to survive infancy but who distinguished herself as the sturdiest, the most musical and generally the first in line when the girls, captured in Depression-era newsreels, were paraded here and there in identical bonnets and dresses, died on Wednes...

ImageWell team, we made it! It’s been a marathon month of baking, and I, for one, am ready to take a long winter’s nap (maybe after one more slice of Moravian sugar cake). I’ve seen some of those bronzed, dimpled beauties on your holiday tables and I’m so touched. Keep sending those photos! (By submitting photos to us via email, yo...

Good morning! Today we have for you:Air-fryer salmon, and more of our best recipes for your air fryerAli Slagle’s slow-cooker Sunday sauceAnd, “wildly delicious” roasted spiced squash with whipped feta and pistachiosImageEleanore Park’s air-fryer salmon.Credit...David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.I don...

The day before my brother’s wedding, we stood together on the concrete car park that covers a fraction of our mother’s yard. I had written my best man speech on the plane from New York, and the loss of our father featured heavily. I asked Jordan, my younger brother, whether he had thought about our fatherin the days leading up to h...

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has congratulated Honduran President-elect Nasry Asfura, whom President Donald Trump had endorsed, for his victory in the Central American country’s contentious election.The Department of State said on Friday that Rubio and Asfura in a phone call discussed collaboration on issues such as...

The state of New York will require social media platforms with infinite scrolling, autoplay and algorithmic feeds to display labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health, Governor Kathy Hochul has announced.Hochul on Friday signed a bill that mandates the warning against “addictive” features into law.Recommended...

Washington, DC – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been warning of a grave Iranian threat to Israel and the world for more than 30 years.United States President Donald Trump heeded those warnings in June and bombed Tehran’s nuclear facilities. But it appears that Netanyahu is still not satisfied and will be pushing for...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — England ended an 18-match winless streak in Australia and beat the home side by four wickets in the fourth Ashes test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday.England lost the first three tests to allow Australia to retain the Ashes in just 11 days of on-field...

Israel’s systematic campaign of violence against Palestinian journalists since October 2023 has peaked in 2025 with the targeting of dozens of members of the press, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says.In a statement released on Friday, the Freedoms Committee of the syndicate said Israel is implementing a policy of “silencing...

Thousands of flights have been cancelled and delayed in the United States due to winter storm Devin, airline monitoring website FlightAware reports, dealing a blow to air travel during peak holiday time.A total of 1,581 flights “within, into or out of the” US were cancelled and 6,883 delayed as of 4pm US Eastern Time (21:00 GMT) on...

Tensions are flaring along the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border in Central Asia with the Tajik government reporting multiple armed incursions this month, straining its fragile relationship with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders.More than a dozen people have been killed in attacks by men whom Tajik authorities call “terrorists” and the res...

Brigitte Bardot, the pouty, tousle-haired French actress who redefined mid-20th-century movie sex symbolism in films beginning with “And God Created Woman,” then gave up acting at 39 to devote her life to the welfare of animals, has died. She was 91. Fondation Brigitte Bardot, the foundation she established in Paris, announced her...

The actress, singer and activist Brigitte Bardot, who has died at 91, personified France in a literal way: In 1969, she became the first celebrity to be used as the model for Marianne, the symbol of the Republic that has adorned the country’s City Halls as well as official documents, stamps and coins since the French Revolution. Ju...

It was Christmas Day, but these weren’t the kinds of boxes you might find under a tree.A group of nearly 40 scientists spent their holiday this week boarding an icebreaker in Christchurch, New Zealand, and unpacking some seriously heavy-duty containers: wooden crates, steel chests, rugged protective cases. Inside was an arsenal of...

Once, it would have been easy to think of Antarctica as a frozen land of nothingness. A place of interest only to explorers testing their tolerance for misery. A continent covered by ice so thick as to be eternal, changing slowly if at all.Today, we know that pretty much none of that is true.As humans heat the planet by burning fos...

Christmas came early for someone who purchased a Powerball ticket at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas, worth more than $1.8 billion.The lone winner in Wednesday’s Christmas Eve drawing matched all five winning numbers and the Powerball to capture the second-largest lottery jackpot...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The attorneys for the man accused of killing rap icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 are pushing to suppress evidence obtained in what they claim was an “unlawful nighttime search.”Las Vegas criminal defense attorneys Robert Draskovich and William Brown filed a motion this week on beh...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Whether it’s stand-up comedy specials or a dramedy series, when Muslim American Mo Amer sets out to create, he writes what he knows.The comedian, writer and actor of Palestinian descent has received critical acclaim for it, too. The second season of Amer’s “Mo” document...

The California High-Speed Rail Authority has dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration over the termination of $4 billion in federal grants for the state's high-speed rail project, opting instead to pursue private investment.Attorney General Rob Bonta of California filed a notice of dismissal on Tuesday, ending the feder...

Donald J. Trump promised to drive America in a different direction. One year into his second term, he is doing so, enacting or seeking fundamental changes to policy, politics and society.He has driven illegal crossings at the border to record lows and has made clear that the United States has shut the door to most nonwhite refugees...

Dallas’s City Hall, an inverted pyramid of concrete and glass designed by the famed architect I.M. Pei, is a striking monument to municipal government in a state where government is rarely celebrated. Its imposing structure has attracted admirers and detractors since it opened as a futuristic marvel nearly 50 years ago.So it came a...

“What’s in a name?” William Shakespeare asked. Donald Trump’s answer: “ME!”President Trump’s long love affair with his own name and likeness is peaking in his second term. There’s now the Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace and the Trump Kennedy Center, the performing arts venue. There are Trump Accounts for newborn ba...

Joseph Hartzler, who led the successful prosecution of Timothy McVeigh for the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people and injured hundreds in the deadliest domestic terror attack in American history, died on Dec. 18 at his home in Chicago. He was 75.The cause was pneumonia, s...

April Flakne strides into the classroom to teach a course on “The Odyssey,” a new requirement at New College of Florida.She has taught philosophy at the small state college for 25 years, but this class is different — seven weeks on one classic book, required of all students. Normally, her focus is on philosophers like Hannah Arendt...

Texas is known for its deep devotion to private ownership and staunch aversion to government spending. So why, for much of the past year, has the state been on a land-buying spree to expand its park system?The answer might seem like a one-liner: A Republican megadonor and an environmental activist got into an argument on social med...

The ski runs above the mountain town of Telluride, Colo., sat eerily empty on Saturday. Chair lifts hung as motionless as icicles. Tourists slumped beside outdoor fire pits, trying not to think about the money they had spent on ski vacations now upended by a labor dispute.“This is the first time I’ve seen snow in six years,” Alexan...

This is the season when I customarily argue that the year just ending has been the best in human history.So I dutifully sat at my laptop and tried to write something along the lines of: Sure, democracy is eroding, politics are toxic, wars are raging, America is losing allies, the planet is burning, and young people will never affor...

To those of you resolving to clean house in the new year, a word of caution. Throw out whatever you want to throw out — the adorable snapshot of you as a 6-year-old with Roy Rogers’s horse Trigger, that jade bust of Franklin Pierce you picked up for a song at a Vermont auction — but not your old books. Never your old books. It may...

More from our inbox:Not Giving Up on FreedomA Christian Nation? No, Mr. VanceImageOver the summer, those briefed on the D.N.C.’s planned report said it planned to skirt the question of whether former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. should have run for re-election, as well as key decisions from former Vice President Kamala Harris’s ca...

N.T. Wright is one of the world’s pre-eminent New Testament scholars. A former bishop of Durham and the author of more than 80 books, he has taught at Cambridge, McGill, St. Andrews and Oxford Universities. I spoke with Dr. Wright about the meaning of the incarnation, his faith journey and why he is a follower of Jesus; when his fa...

To the Editor:Re “Where Are the Young People in the Fight for Democracy?,” by Brendan Nyhan (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 30):Professor Nyhan was correct to point out the generational factor in the No Kings movement. I attended two “No Kings” rallies where my own boomer generation was dominant.I would suggest a reason for the age disp...

On its face, 2025 looks like a year of relentless backsliding in the fight against climate change.President Trump signed a bill that will eliminate most federal funding for clean energy, and he is blocking wind and solar projects and attacking climate science institutions. Five of the states most committed to action on climate chan...

Park Chan-Wook’s latest film, “No Other Choice,” is an unflinching, bitingly funny portrayal of the moral depredation brought on by scarcity. Man-su, the film’s embattled protagonist, has lost his longtime job at a paper factory. He’s so desperate to get a new job in the same industry that he begins murdering his competitors.The U....

Some of the best career advice I’ve received didn’t come from a mentor — or even a human. I told a chatbot that A.I. was swallowing more and more of my work as a copywriter and that I needed a way to survive. The bot paused, processing my situation, and then suggested I buy a chain saw.This advice would have seemed absurd back when...

As a physician and medical journalist, I have spent years watching, with both fascination and concern, as anti-vaccine groups honed their persuasive techniques.My colleagues largely considered me eccentric for paying attention to this coterie of cranks. I remember when a prominent oncologist, Dr. Vinay Prasad, suggested a few years...

There is a children’s story I used to read to my daughters when they were 3 and 4 years old. It comes from Arnold Lobel’s “Frog and Toad” series and involves a big batch of cookies so delicious that the main characters can’t stop eating them.“We need willpower,” says Frog.“What is willpower?” asks Toad.“Willpower is trying hard not...

How do we make sense of an overwhelming year? Writing a list is a great place to start. Opinion The Year in Lists With 2025 drawing to a close, we reached out to Times Opinion contributors for their personal lists...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is to meet with his United States counterpart, Donald Trump, in Florida on Sunday to discuss territorial disputes that continue to block progress towards ending Russia’s war on Ukraine.Announcing the meeting on Friday, Zelenskyy said the talks could be decisive as Washington intensifies its e...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced that the Egyptian-British activist and blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah has returned to the United Kingdom after spending nearly 12 years as a political prisoner in Egypt.Starmer on Friday called the return of Abd El-Fattah, who was pardoned by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in S...

Here is where things stand on Saturday, December 27:Fighting The Ukrainian capital Kyiv came under a “massive” Russian attack early on Saturday, according to reports, with air defences in operation and the military warning of the impending deployment of missiles. Witnesses said air defences were in action in the city. A military Te...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of using ordinary apartment blocks on the territory of its ally Belarus to attack Ukrainian targets and circumvent Kyiv’s defences.Zelenskyy made the allegations on Friday amid revelations by intelligence experts that Moscow has likely stationed its new nuclear-capable hype...

Teenagers in the United Kingdom will be offered paid “gap years” with the armed forces under a new “whole of society” approach to national defence that aims to increase recruitment among young people, according to reports.The London-based i Paper reported on Friday that the UK’s Ministry of Defence hopes the scheme will broaden the...

Russia has carried out drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on the eve of a key meeting between the United States and Ukrainian leaders, killing at least two people and leaving a third of the city without heat, according to authorities.Russian ballistic missiles and drones rocked Kyiv from the early hours of Saturd...

Here is where things stand on Sunday, December 28:Fighting At least two people were killed in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and the surrounding region, after Russian forces launched a massive attack with hundreds of missiles and drones, ahead of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with United States President Donald Trump...

The United Kingdom has imposed visa restrictions on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, accusing its government of failing to cooperate with its new policy on the return of undocumented migrants and those who commit criminal offences.The UK Home Office announced the measures in a statement late on Saturday. It also said that Ango...

Kosovo is voting to elect a new parliament for the second time in 11 months, as nationalist Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s party seeks a majority to end a yearlong political deadlock.Polls opened at 7am local time (06:00 GMT) and will close at 7pm (18:00 GMT) on Sunday, with exit polls expected soon after voting ‌ends.Recommended Sto...

Brigitte Bardot, the French actor and singer who became a global sensation before reinventing herself as an animal protection campaigner and outspoken supporter of the far right, has died aged 91.The Brigitte Bardot Foundation announced her death on Sunday, saying “with immense sadness” that its founder and president had died.Recom...

Anthony Ramos never thought he would own a bar.But after his favorite spot, the Caribbean eatery Negril BK, closed in Park Slope in April, he was looking for a place to fill the gap when he thought: Why not start my own?“I love hosting people,” said Mr. Ramos, 34, a Brooklyn-born actor who starred as John Laurens and Philip Hamilto...

The worst moment of Garet Hil’s life, he once said, came when he discovered he couldn’t donate a kidney to his sick 10-year-old daughter. By the time the girl found a match a couple of months later, Mr. Hil, an entrepreneur, had drawn up plans to transform the world of living organ donation.His organization, the National Kidney Reg...

Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to workfriend@nytimes.com. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited.Undermined by a Future LeaderDear Work Friend,I work in a satellite office for a U.S.-based company, and my manager and I have been locked in a thre...

On a sunny evening in mid-June, a group gathered on a terrace overlooking the Tivoli Gardens amusement park in Copenhagen, sipping Ruinart and snacking on tomato-salmon puffs. Their host, a former private equity investor named Mark Masiello, moved through the crowd.Mr. Masiello was on a mission to make a 90-year-old lighting design...

Before President Trump returned to the White House in January, the titans of the tech industry went all out to win him over with inauguration donations and pilgrimages to Mar-a-Lago.Yet upon taking office, Mr. Trump vowed to continue a fight to break up Meta, imposed tariffs that would raise the costs of Apple’s supply chains and r...

In a different world, an electric vehicle would be just another car. But in today’s hyperpartisan climate, battery-powered cars carry not just passengers but a punishing load of political and cultural baggage.Supporters may view electric cars as heroes, helping halt climate change or making American automakers more competitive arou...

Forecasters had predicted that as much as nine inches of snow would fall in the New York area on Friday night and into the morning. The major airlines, fearing the worst, began to cancel hundreds of flights at the region’s big airports.That decision meant that, even as the worst of the storm missed New York, thousands of holiday tr...

Billionaires including Peter Thiel, the tech venture capitalist, and Larry Page, a co-founder of Google, are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents, according to five people familiar with their thinking.Mr....

A decade after an investment firm was created to help save Sears from its inevitable demise, both are now in their last gasps.Five Sears stores are still operating in the country, but they won’t be around much longer, industry experts predict.Neither will Seritage Growth Properties, the real estate investment trust created to cash...

Student loans have long been perceived as impossible to cast off in bankruptcy. Few borrowers dare to even try.To do so, borrowers must file a separate lawsuit, enduring a costly, stressful process that came with no guarantees. In some parts of the country, they had to prove that their financial lives were “hopeless” before a judge...

Across the United States, someone is missing.One year into President Trump’s immigration crackdown, construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters. Hospitals in West Virginia have lost out on doctors and nurses who were planning to come from overseas. A neighborhood soccer league in Memphis cannot field enough te...

They saw it coming.Before the fire ripped through their homes and raged for two days, before it killed many of their neighbors and friends, residents of the Wang Fuk Court estate spent years warning Hong Kong officials about a renovation project they feared was becoming dangerous.The government had ordered repairs on the eight agin...