During his two and a half years as director of the National Gallery of Canada, Jean-François Bélisle has stayed largely out of the news — which is perhaps a welcome relief.ImageJean-François Bélisle with “Winter Woodland” by Lawren S. Harris.Credit...Ian Austen/The New York TimesHe took up the post during a tumultuous time for the...

I try to follow the maxim “all unsolicited advice is self-serving” and ask before I offer my opinion on what I think someone else should do. I think we all love receiving well-meaning guidance; we just bristle when it arrives unbidden, when it lands as thinly disguised criticism.Each fall, I solicit advice from readers of The Morni...

Lost Science is an ongoing series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. The conversations have been edited for clarity and length. Here’s why we’re doing this.By Interview by Carl ZimmerMarina Vance: I’ve been working on air quality since I was an undergraduate stude...

Russia pounded the Ukrainian capital with waves of missiles and attack drones on Saturday, an hourslong assault that came the day before President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine’s scheduled meeting in Florida with President Trump to discuss a plan to end the war.Two people were killed — one person in the suburbs of Kyiv and one in t...

A frustrated father in Spain, whose teenage daughter regularly sidesteps parental controls that block social media, wants the government to ban apps like TikTok and Instagram for children.In France, a mother of three worries about social media’s effect on young people and will not give her children smartphones until they are 15. Bu...

Prof. Brian Cox flashed a wide smile toward the crowd, picked up an iPad, looked up at the enormous screen behind him and started to write out a complex equation. “This is what I call a live math solo,” he said.The audience chuckled. Many in the packed theater that night last month in the small English town of Redditch seemed to be...

The soldier suspected early on that this frontline rotation would be difficult. But 472 days straight, in a bunker, under fire?“I didn’t expect it to last so long,” the soldier, Sgt. Serhii Tyschenko, said one recent afternoon at his home outside Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, his wife glued to his side. “I hoped it would be a month, two...

A blockade aimed at ravaging Venezuela’s economy. A fiery Venezuelan leader known for his unusual dance moves at times of distress. A U.S. government seeking to assert military supremacy in Latin America.Yes, these descriptions refer to the crisis now engulfing Venezuela.But they also apply to a military campaign against Venezuela...

Colombia is locked in an escalating dispute with the United States over a series of boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific — initially aimed at Venezuela — that Washington claims are targeting drug smugglers.As the feud has intensified, President Trump has called Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, an “illegal drug lead...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine will visit Mar-a-Lago on Sunday for a much-anticipated meeting with President Trump, bearing a revised 20-point peace plan aimed at ending the war with Russia.The proposal, developed by Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators, covers a wide range of issues, including security guarantees that Kyiv seek...

Gaza City – Dr Hussam Abu Safia, 52, remains in an Israeli prison a year after Israel detained him without charges or trial.His family and supporters are demanding his release as his health deteriorates amid reports of the inhumane conditions under which he is being held.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Who are the 95...

Israeli forces have carried out mass arrests and forced dozens of families from their homes in the town of Qabatiya in the occupied West Bank, on the second day of a sweeping military operation ordered by Israel’s defence minister.Israeli forces sealed off entrances to Qabatiya while rounding up and interrogating dozens of resident...

Istanbul, Turkiye – Turkish authorities and Libyan officials are conducting an investigation into the crash of a private jet that killed Libya’s army chief, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, and seven other people near Ankara.The probe, coordinated by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, is focusing on technical evidence, fligh...

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen says it will respond to any separatist military movements that undermine de-escalation efforts in the southern region, as Riyadh doubles down on calls for the group to “peacefully” withdraw from recently seized eastern provinces.Saudi Arabia’s Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman said on X on Saturday...

The Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the African Union (AU), and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have joined numerous countries and foreign ministers in decrying Israel’s formal recognition of the Somali breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent state.Somaliland, a region in the Horn of Africa,...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says that the United States, Israel and Europe are waging a “full-fledged war” against his country.The president’s remarks on Saturday came ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting on Monday with US President Donald Trump.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Trump dec...

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, surrounded by tents and debris, are suffering through more winter rains after two years of Israeli bombardment destroyed much of the Strip.A polar low-pressure system accompanied by heavy rain and strong winds swept across the Gaza Strip on Saturday. It is the third polar low to...

Israel has killed at least 706 family members of Palestinian journalists since the start of its genocidal war in Gaza in October 2023, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.The syndicate’s Freedoms Committee said in a report released late on Saturday that Israeli forces are systematically targeting the families of jour...

Misrata, Libya – After days of mourning, Libya is laying to rest its army chief, General Mohammed al-Haddad, and four other prominent military figures.Al-Haddad, his senior adviser, Mohamed al-Essawi, and his military cameraman, Mohamed al-Mahjoub, were transported to their hometown in Misrata on Saturday evening for burial.Also ki...

Somalia’s president has condemned Israel’s recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland as a “naked invasion”, warning that the move threatens to ignite separatist movements elsewhere.Addressing an emergency joint session of parliament on Sunday, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ha...

A Palestinian woman in Gaza has died as a winter storm threatens the lives of nearly 900,000 Palestinians living in tents across the devastated coastal enclave.The 30-year-old, identified as Alaa Marwan Juha, died on Sunday when a wall collapsed onto her tent in the Remal neighbourhood to the west of Gaza City, Al Jazeera Arabic re...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the United States to meet with President Donald Trump as regional turmoil approaches a boiling point amid Israel’s attacks in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria and mounting tensions with Iran.Netanyahu is to hold talks with Trump at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Mond...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — California this week dropped a lawsuit officials filed against the Trump administration over the federal government’s withdrawing of $4 billion for the state’s long-delayed high-speed rail project.The U.S. Transportation Department slashed funds for the bullet train ai...

A federal judge this week canceled the trial of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported, and scheduled a hearing on whether the prosecution is being vindictive in pursuing a human smuggling case against him.Abrego Garcia has become a centerpiece of the debate ove...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the Kennedy Center on Friday fiercely criticized a musician’s sudden decision to cancel a Christmas Eve performance at the venue days after the White House announced that President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the facility.“Your decision to withdra...

The defense ministers of Thailand and Cambodia said on Saturday that they had agreed to a 72-hour cease-fire, possibly paving the way for an end to a brutal 20-day border war that killed dozens of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.The surprise announcement followed two days of tense negotiations between the two countr...

Myanmar’s military government is holding elections for the first time since it seized power in a coup five years ago, but Western governments and human rights groups regard the polls as a sham.Voting will begin on Sunday amid a raging civil war, as pro-democracy forces and armed ethnic groups fight to overthrow the junta. The main...

In 2021, when Myanmar’s generals staged a coup, she was 11 years old. With the nation’s economy shattered, there was no choice but to stop school and start working.So the girl, Ma Moe Moe San, found an occupation of sorts: she began detangling human hair, sold by the ponytail or from brushes by women as desperate for pennies as her...

Park Chan-wook is one of Asia’s most famous directors, an auteur beloved as much for his complex, often critical visions of his home country of South Korea as for scenes of stomach-churning horror. But when Park started work on “No Other Choice,” he really wanted to direct it as an American film, so much so that he spent 12 frustra...

On a spring night in the Oval Office, President Trump asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio how to get tougher on Venezuela.It was just before Memorial Day, and anti-leftist Cuban American lawmakers whose votes Mr. Trump needed for his signature domestic policy bill were urging him to tighten a vise on Venezuela by stopping Chevron’...

As voters went to the polls on Sunday for the first round of a heavily stage-managed election in Myanmar, the outcome was all but assured. The military junta that has ruled the country since seizing power in 2021 was almost certain to maintain its iron grip on power.Some still hoped there was room for change.“We have to do somethin...

A year after the worst plane crash on South Korean soil killed 179 people, the families of some of the victims are still camped out in tents on the second floor of Muan International Airport, desperately seeking answers despite multiple continuing investigations.“I wonder why we keep facing the same questions, feel the same sadness...

In a remote corner of the island of Borneo on a recent Monday, a runner breezed down the middle of a freshly paved six-lane road. There was no traffic. Nearby, a gigantic eagle-like bird, made of thousands of copper bars, was perched on a hill.This is the heart of Nusantara, a new, green metropolis rising from scratch from a forest...

A Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said Saturday that it would intervene to defend the internationally recognized government there unless a group of separatists peacefully withdraws from parts of the country it has seized in recent weeks.Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki, a senior Saudi military official and a spokesman for the coalition, which...

David Guttenfelder/The New York TimesFor more than a decade, war has ravaged the Middle East.From Syria to Lebanon, Israel to Gaza, hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded.After so much bloodletting, the region now stands at a crossroads.Will it persist in conflict, or forge a brighter future?Zero Hour for the Middle East...

TOKYO (AP) — A massive crash involving 67 vehicles in snowy weather killed two people and injured 26 on an expressway in Japan late on Friday as the country kicked off its end-of-year holiday season.The Gunma prefectural highway police said Saturday that the pileup on the Kan-etsu Expressway...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — For 10 hours a day, Rahimullah sells socks from his cart in eastern Kabul, earning about $4.5 to $6 per day. It’s a pittance, but it’s all he has to feed his family of five.Rahimullah, who like many Afghans goes by only one name, is one of millions of Afghans who re...

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Voters in Kosovo will cast their ballots in a second election this year in a bid to resolve a political deadlock that has threatened to push the small Balkan nation into a prolonged crisis. The snap parliamentary vote on Sunday was scheduled after Prime Minister Albin...

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya on Saturday held a military funeral for the western Libya’s military chief and four of his officers who died in a plane crash in Turkey. The bodies arrived at Tripoli International Airport in caskets draped with Libyan flags and were carried in a funeral processio...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Officials from Myanmar’s Union Election Commission prepped polling stations on Saturday for the following day’s election. In these images from photographer Thein Zaw at one school-turned-polling place in the capital, Yangon, workers tested voting machines and made sure...

ROME (AP) — Italian authorities arrested nine people linked to three charitable organizations on suspicion of raising millions of euros in funds for the Palestinian militant group Hamas, anti-terrorism prosecutors said in a statement Saturday. The suspects are accused of sending about 7 mill...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit Taiwan just off its northeast coast late Saturday.The earthquake took place at 11:05 p.m. local time, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from the coastal town of Yilan. Tremors were felt across the island, including i...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Three people, including a one-year-old child, died when a two-story building collapsed in South Africa’s Soweto township, west of Johannesburg, in the early hours of Sunday morning, authorities said.Three others sustained injuries during the incident and were receiving tr...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — A debate over how to bring back surfing in Germany’s landmark English Garden escalated on Sunday after city workers removed a beam surreptitiously deployed over Christmas to restore a surfable wave in the river that runs through the park. For years, the site had bee...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s protesting university students on Sunday collected signatures throughout the country for their request for an early parliamentary election that they hope would oust the autocratic government of President Aleksandar Vucic from office.Braving freezing weather,...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The moon and sun share top billing in 2026.Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a caravan of robotic lunar landers including Jeff Bezos’ new supersized Blue Moon. A supermoon loom...

NEW YORK (AP) — When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity into one of the world’s oldest and largest transit systems.Now, more than three decades later, the gold-hued fare card and its notoriously finicky magn...

ATLANTA (AP) — It’s the biggest mystery in Georgia politics right now: Who’s paying for the attacks on Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones?Someone operating under the name “Georgians for Integrity” has dumped around $5 million into television ads, mailers and texts. The attacks claim Jones, who a...

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — When Sudan player Ammar Taifour first heard gunfire outside his hotel room, he shrugged it off and went back to sleep. He had a soccer match to play.But hours later, gunfire erupted again and gunmen surrounded the hotel in Omdurman, central Sudan, trying to seize c...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Men who were part of the group of Venezuelan migrants that the United States government transferred earlier this year to a prison in El Salvador demanded justice on Friday, days after a federal judge in Washington ruled that the Trump administration must give them l...

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) — An intermunicipal bus veered off a road in Guatemala and fell into a deep ravine, killing 15 passengers and injuring at least 15 others, authorities said Saturday, and declared three days of national mourning.The accident happened Friday night outside the tow...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An ultralight plane pulling an advertising banner crashed into the sea off Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday afternoon, killing the pilot, local authorities said. The pilot’s body was sent to a medical examiner’s office for identification, officials said.Fi...

SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian judge on Saturday issued house arrest orders for 10 people who have been convicted and sentenced for participating in a plot to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in power after he lost the 2022 election.The decision by Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes c...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers searched for a Spanish soccer coach and his three children on Saturday after a tour boat carrying 11 people sank overnight near Padar Island, a popular destination within Komodo National Park, officials said.The boat was carrying a family of six,...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand and Cambodia signed a ceasefire agreement on Saturday to end weeks of fighting along their border over competing territorial claims.The agreement took effect at noon and calls for a halt in military movements and airspace violation for military purposes. Only Thailand...

BANGKOK (AP) — Political parties in Thailand on Sunday registered their candidates for the next prime minister, marking the unofficial start of campaigning for the Feb. 8 general election.Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved Parliament earlier this month to call early polls, after th...

BEIJING (AP) — Top diplomats from Thailand and Cambodia kicked off two days of talks in China on Sunday as Beijing seeks to strengthen its role in mediating the two countries’ border dispute, a day after they signed a new ceasefire. The ceasefire agreement signed on Saturday calls for a halt...

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Voters in Kosovo cast ballots on Sunday in an early parliamentary election in hopes of breaking a political deadlock that has gripped the small Balkan nation for much of this year. The snap vote was scheduled after Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s governing Vetevendosje,...

HOMS, Syria (AP) — Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday in the rain and cold outside of a mosque in the Syrian city of Homs for the funeral of eight people killed in a bombing, as an imam warned that the attack could spark more sectarian violence. The crowd assembled next to the Imam Ali i...

MISRATA, Libya (AP) — Hundreds of people on Sunday mourned western Libya’s military chief and four others who were killed in a plane crash in Turkey. The coffins of Gen. Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad and two others were brought into a stadium in the coastal city of Misrata, their hometown, fo...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza ’s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents on Saturday for another round of winter rain.Some families in the central town of Deir al-Balah said they had been living in tents for about two years,...

LATAKIA, Syria (AP) — Clashes broke out on Syria’s coast between protesters from the Alawite religious minority and counterdemonstrators on Sunday, two days after a bombing at an Alawite mosque in the city of Homs killed eight people and wounded 18 others during prayers.Thousands of proteste...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with ballistic missiles and drones on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding 27, a day before talks between the leaders of Ukraine and the United States, authorities said.Explosions boomed across Kyiv as the attack began in e...

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Voters in the Central African Republic are electing a new president and federal lawmakers Sunday, with incumbent President Faustin Archange Touadéra seen as likely to win a third term after trying to stabilize the country with the help of Russian merce...

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Rain lashed the Gaza Strip over the weekend, flooding makeshift encampments with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by the two-year war attempted to stay dry in tents frayed by months of use.Muddy water soaked blankets and mattresses in tents in a cam...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Voters went to the polls Sunday for the initial phase of Myanmar’s first general election in five years, held under the supervision of its military government while a civil war rages throughout much of the country.Final results won’t be known until after two more round...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guineans are voting Sunday to elect a new president in the country’s first election since a 2021 coup, as analysts say a weakened opposition will result in a likely win for junta leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya.Sunday’s election is the culmination of a transition process...

After the U.S. military launched airstrikes on sites in northwestern Nigeria on Thursday, President Trump said the targets were Islamic State terrorists “who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.”But analysts say that the situation on the ground is more complicated.Sokoto State, which was hit by...

Israel on Friday became the first country to formally recognize Somaliland, an autonomous region that broke away from Somalia decades ago, in a reciprocal agreement that expands recognition of the Jewish state in the Muslim world.Somaliland, in northwestern Somalia, has long been in conflict with the central government, declaring i...

Voters in Guinea go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president as the leader of the ruling military junta, Col. Mamady Doumbouya, seeks legitimacy after a four-year transition in which he tightened his grip on the West African country.Colonel Doumbouya, who came to power after staging a coup in 2021, had promised to step down...

Abdul Aziz Adamou carried his son Mohammadou urgently through the crowded hospital, and the child did not stir. A wisp of a 3-year-old, Mohammadou was so sick he barely flinched when a nurse pricked his finger and squeezed out a drop of blood for a malaria test. His mother, Nafisa, looked on, her long blue veil fluttering as she sh...

In 2020, Eric Gilbertson, a mechanical engineering professor at Seattle University, climbed the 100 highest mountains in Colorado. Or so he thought.In 2021, he found something concerning in data published by the United States Geological Survey about a summit called Crestone Peak. It’s one of Colorado’s famous 14ers, mountains that...

BOSTON (AP) — More than 1,000 flights were canceled or delayed in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions of the United States due to snowfall, as thousands of people headed to the roads and airports during the busy Christmas-New Year's travel period.New York City received about 4 inches (10.2...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran seized a foreign oil tanker sailing through the Strait of Hormuz, state media reported Friday.Mojtaba Ghahramani, head of the provincial justice department, said the ship was carrying about four million liters, or 25,000 barrels, of smuggled fuel when Revolutionary G...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dallin H. Oaks, a former Utah Supreme Court justice, was named Tuesday as the new president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its more than 17 million members worldwide. Oaks’ selection to lead what is widely known as the Mormon church follows the r...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Jeffrey R. Holland, a high-ranking official in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was next in line to become the faith’s president, has died. He was 85.Holland died early Saturday morning from complications associated with kidney disease, the church ann...

As technology distracts, polarizes and automates, people are still finding refuge on analog islands in the digital sea.The holdouts span the generation gaps, uniting elderly and middle-aged enclaves born in the pre-internet times with the digital natives raised in the era of online ubiquity....

The sun would rise over the Rockies, and Robin Gammons would run to the front porch to grab the morning paper before school.She wanted the comics and her dad wanted sports, but the Montana Standard meant more than their daily race to grab “Calvin and Hobbes” or baseball scores. When one of t...

LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — Photis Gaitanos’ rough fingers adroitly untangle the venomous spikes of a lionfish from a net, throwing the exotic-looking creature into an ice-filled rubber bin along with other fish from the day’s catch. Unlike a few years ago when he would have mostly caught local s...

Many consumers feel pride in avoiding the glazed pastries in the supermarket and instead opting for “all natural” granola that comes packed with extra protein. Same goes for low-fat yogurts “made with real fruit,” “organic” plant-based milks and bottled “superfood” smoothies.Buyer beware: He...

PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot felt each pop of the flashbulb like the impact of a high-powered rifle bullet. And so it was, she said, that years of implacable hounding by the world’s paparazzi turned a woman idolized as a sultry sex kitten into a militant animal rights crusader.Bardot, who di...

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

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Maxx Crosby’s season is over, and whether his time with the Las Vegas Raiders is finished remains to be seen.The Raiders placed their star pass rusher, who has dealt with a knee injury much of the season, on injured reserve on Saturday, meaning he won’t play in their f...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Arsenal resisted a late fightback from Brighton on Saturday to keep hold of first place in the Premier League, but Manchester City and Aston Villa are in hot pursuit.It is a three-way fight at the top with just three points separating first and third in the standin...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — With their backs against the wall, the Baltimore Ravens made sure they wouldn’t underutilize Derrick Henry again. The five-time Pro Bowl running back responded by delivering one of the greatest performances of his brilliant career to keep the Ravens’ playoff hopes aliv...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump will host his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Sunday to try to close out a peace agreement that would end nearly four years of war sparked by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s capital a...

A fire tore through the historic Old Port waterfront in Portland, Maine, the day after Christmas, damaging aging buildings and several boats.Flames and smoke spread easily through structures along the Custom House Wharf, a 19th- and 20th-century hub for Portland’s fishing industry that now i...

BOSTON (AP) — More than a thousand flights were canceled or delayed across the Northeast and Great Lakes regions due to snow as thousands took to roads and airports during the busy travel period between Christmas and New Year’s. New York City received about 4 inches (10.2 centimeters)...

CAIRO (AP) — The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen warned Saturday it would immediately respond to any military movements of separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates that undermine de-escalation efforts in the southern region of Yemen, as the United States urged diplomacy. “Any military mov...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A growing number of countries on Saturday rejected Israel’s recognition of Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent nation a day earlier, the first by any country in more than 30 years.It wasn’t known why Israel made the declaration Friday or whether t...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday his country is in a full-scale war with the U.S., Israel and Europe ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s meeting Monday with U.S. President Donald Trump.Pezeshkian said in an interview published on the web...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsSaturday, December 27COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)2 p.m.Cleary University at Duquesne — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsNHL HOCKEY7 p.m.Detroit at Carolina — FDSN Detroit, FDSN South, ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsThe Associate...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsSaturday, December 27COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)2 p.m.Cleary University at Duquesne — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsCOLLEGE FOOTBALL11 a.m.Pittsburgh at East Carolina — ESPN, ESPN Deportes, ESPN app, ESPN Unlimited, Fubo Sports...

NEW YORK (AP) — Asmik Grigorian is reaching a new low – in a positive way — and doing it on one of the world’s top stages.A star soprano, she will sing the title role next summer in Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” a mezzo-soprano touchstone, at the Salzburg Festival.“I thought if I want to do ‘Car...

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Bold repeating lines in colors that could be pulled straight from a birthday hat are injecting a bit of happiness into households across the country.In the last year, optimistic-looking stripes have overrun an American home décor market that had, for decades, been focused on minimal fuss and solid shades of beige, white and gray. F...

Michał Urbaniak, a Polish violinist and jazz fusion pioneer who in the 1970s became one of the first jazz musicians from his Eastern bloc country to gain an international following, eventually playing with luminaries like Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, died on Saturday. He was 82.His wife, Dorota Dosia Urbaniak, con...

A man accused of fatally shooting a Delaware State Police trooper at a DMV office allowed customers to leave and then fired at approaching officers before being killed, investigators said Friday.State Police Cpl. Matthew Snook was working an overtime assignment at the New Castle DMV receptio...

MINT HILL, N.C. (AP) — A man was shot and killed Friday after firing at police in a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, during a child custody exchange, authorities said.Two Mint Hill police officers were also wounded in the shooting and are in critical condition, Mint Hill Police said in a...

Allegheny County will use a controversial legal tool for involuntary mental health care in the community starting Jan. 1, according to a letter county officials sent Tuesday to the state’s Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. Called assisted outpatient treatment (AOT), it’s...

Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump disrupted the country’s research landscape with a series of executive orders and administrative actions aimed at slashing key funding sources and limiting the subjects of federally backed study. His administration terminated hundreds of...

John Parker Campbell describes the wild pigs on his family farm as “a constant headache.” Hogs will eat up corn and peanuts that have just been planted, damaging acres of crops in a night. Some years the hog damage is worse than others but it has been a problem since his father started farmi...

After years of a marriage that had little sex in it, Greg Carter had largely accepted that his wife no longer had any interest. The last thing he expected was that right around the time that they both were nearing 50, his wife would have a complete change of heart. “She was pouncing on me,” he said. His wife had recently started ta...

NEW YORK (AP) — The shopping rush leading up to Christmas is over and in its place, like every year, another has begun as millions of people hunt for post-holiday deals and get in line to return gifts that didn’t fit, or didn’t hit quite right. Holiday spending using cash or cards through Su...

Champagne for the New Year is such a cliché, shouldn’t we drink something else?No. Well, not really. As wonderful as sparkling wines are regardless of the occasion, celebrations would not be complete without them. But Champagne is not the only option.Almost any place that makes wine makes sparkling wine as well. They can be cheap c...

Good morning! Today we have for you:The perfect soup to make if you have some leftover ham lying aroundA French lentil salad to nibble on all weekAnd, Melissa Clark’s new French onion baked BrieImageNaz Deravian’s ham and bean soup.Credit...Christopher Testani for The New York TimesYou can, as Fleetwood Mac urges, go your own way,...

For Sue Minter, Vermont’s newly appointed climate superfund specialist, the floods started early.Back in 2011, when Tropical Storm Irene thrashed Vermont, Minter — serving as the state’s deputy secretary of transportation — helped rebuild the 600 miles of destroyed road and hundreds of damag...

Courage is not the exclusive domain of caped crusaders and first responders. When it comes to taking a stand, it’s often young people, with their starry eyes and stubborn wills, who prevail over grown-up cynicism and doubt. In two newly published children’s books — one an English translation of an Italian classic and the other an e...

Welcome to the Book Review Book Club! Every month, we select a book to discuss with our readers. Last month, we read “What We Can Know,” by Ian McEwan. (You can also go back and listen to our episodes on “Hamnet,” “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” and “Pride and Prejudice.”)Xenobe Purvis’s slim but powerful debut novel, “The Hounding,” o...

ImageThe Writing in the Waterby John Ajvide Lindqvist; translated by Michael MeigsThe latest novel by Lindqvist, the author of “Let the Right One In,” is both a stylish Scandi-noir mystery and a sly sendup of Swedish publishing. THE WRITING IN THE WATER (Amazon Crossing, 466 pp., paperback, $16.99) stars Julia Malmros, a cop turned...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan summoned Britain’s deputy high commissioner on Friday after a viral video showed a woman at a rally in a northern English city saying the Pakistani army chief would die in a possible attack.The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Matt Cannell to demand an i...

NEW YORK (AP) — Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died. He was 65.The band made the announcement on their official website on Friday. “It is with enormous sadness that we confirm the death of our great friend and bandmate...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two sisters testified at Harvey Weinstein’s most recent criminal trial. Kaja Sokola accused the disgraced movie mogul of sexual assault. Ewa Sokola was called as a witness to boost her claims, but ultimately ended up helping the defense.Now, Ewa Sokola is suing Kaja for defam...

Kwanzaa has become a nationally recognized celebration of African culture and community in the United States since its founding in 1966 and also is celebrated in countries with large African descendant populations. The holiday, which serves as a nationwide communal event reinforcing self-det...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand and Cambodia were engaged in combat along their border on Friday, even as the two countries held talks to try to put an end to armed clashes that erupted in early December, breaking a ceasefire that had been reached five months earlier.Cambodia’s Defense Ministry said...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Several key issues remain unresolved in ongoing negotiations between Ukraine and the United States over a potential framework to end Russia’s war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said last week. Speaking about a 20-point plan under discussion, Zelenskyy outlined...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft law to determine the extent of losses suffered by Lebanese banks during the country’s financial meltdown in 2019 and provide a mechanism to return depositors’ funds that were wiped out at the time. The financial collapse, which wiped...

LONDON (AP) — After a sprawling hacking campaign exposed the communications of an unknown number of Americans, U.S. cybersecurity officials are advising people to use encryption in their communications. To safeguard against the risks highlighted by the campaign, which originated in China, fe...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The developers of a Virginia offshore wind project are asking a federal judge to block a Trump administration order that halted construction of their project, along with four others, over national security concerns.Dominion Energy Virginia said in its lawsuit filed late T...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns and influencer Jordyn Woods are engaged, the couple announced Thursday.In a joint Instagram post captioned with the pun “Marry Christmas” and a few emojis, the couple shared 15 proposal photos taken on a rooftop in New York.Woods, presc...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jared Goff and the Detroit Lions formally gifted the division rival Green Bay Packers a spot in the playoffs, with six turnovers that sealed their fate in a loss to the Minnesota Vikings.Detroit’s grip on the NFC North, though, had been slipping all season.With their 23-10...

JABO, Nigeria (AP) — Sanusi Madabo, a 40-year-old farmer in the Nigerian village of Jabo, was preparing for bed Thursday night when he heard a loud noise that sounded like a plane crashing. He rushed outside his mud house with his wife to see the sky glowing a bright red.The light burned bri...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish authorities said Friday that they have apprehended a suspected member of the extremist Islamic State group who was planning attacks on New Year’s celebrations.State-run Anadolu Agency reported that Ibrahim Burtakucin was captured in a joint operation carried out by po...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian attacker rammed his car into a man and then stabbed a young woman in northern Israel Friday, killing both, police said, as the Israeli defense minister quickly ordered military retaliation on what he said was the attacker’s West Bank hometown.The attack began F...

Lee Becquet doesn’t like to leave the house with his 2-year-old son, Eugene.That’s because their home in Miami, Ariz., is downhill from an industrial facility that is one of the country’s largest sources of pollution containing lead, a powerful neurotoxin that can harm children’s health.“I have a toddler, and I’m not putting him ou...

Despite the high stakes, the tiny caterpillar in the Albuquerque lab was not given a name.It’s the last known individual of its kind, the critically endangered Sacramento Mountains checkerspot. If the caterpillar survives, it will transform into a butterfly with wings of stenciled orange, black and cream. Scientists hope to breed i...

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

Southern California will receive more rain on Friday after several days of downpours, adding to the risk of flooding before the weather improves, forecasters said.A new wave of precipitation arrived Thursday night and was expected to last until Friday afternoon, bringing another inch or so of rain to Los Angeles, and twice that to...

As 2025 wraps up, The Associated Press has curated a list of memorable stories and enjoyable reads published this year that you may have missed in the flurry of news and the busyness of living.There are storybook endings and heartbreak. Some are stranger than fiction, and others take you beh...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A man injured in last month’s fiery UPS cargo plane crash in Kentucky died on Christmas Day, raising the death toll from the crash to 15, officials announced late Thursday.Alain Rodriguez Colina worked at a scrapyard that was devastated when the departing cargo plane,...

When the ball drops on New Year’s Eve in New York City, it will sparkle in red, white and blue, ushering in 2026 and kicking off months of celebrations for the nation’s upcoming 250th birthday.The patriotic touches at this year’s Times Square gathering, including a second confetti drop, will...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran seized a foreign oil tanker as it traveled the strategic Strait of Hormuz, state media said Friday.Mojtaba Ghahramani, a provincial chief of the justice department, said the oil tanker was carrying some 4 million liters, or 25,000 barrels, of smuggled fuel when the R...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Cami Teacoach’s son turned three she set out to find volunteer opportunities they could do together. He made Valentine cards for senior citizens. They hiked and picked up trash. He helped harvest produce at community gardens and made seed balls out of mud, throwing them...

The holiday season will soon come to a close, but the busiest time of the year for product returns is just beginning.The National Retail Federation estimates 17% of holiday purchases will be sent back this year. More retailers are reporting extended return windows and increased holiday staff...

TOKYO (AP) — A man was arrested after stabbing eight people and injuring seven others with what was believed to be bleach at a tire factory in central Japan on Friday, officials said. There was no immediate explanation of his motive.Eight people were taken to hospitals after being stabbed by...

A man has died from injuries he sustained more than a month ago, when a UPS cargo plane crashed in Louisville, Ky., killing three crew members on board and 12 people on the ground, officials said Thursday.The man, Alain Rodriguez Colina, died on Christmas Day, Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky and Mayor Craig Greenberg of Louisville sa...

A dozen rice farmers ate chili and munched on sandwiches on a recent afternoon at the Richvale Cafe, a lunch spot that was bustling by local standards and brought more people face to face in one sitting than each might see in an entire week.Richvale, population 234, has a cluster of ranch-style homes surrounded by a flat expanse of...

A chat with a political door-knocker is typically a pretty well-scripted affair. There’s an introduction, a reminder about the election and, the door-knockers hope, a few talking points, if they can keep the door from closing.Keeping canvassers as on-script as the politicians they represent has long been seen as a best practice. Bu...

The laptop was cracked open well after midnight, as was a bottle of Sprite. Then, Daniel DiDonato, a college freshman, got to work.But he wasn’t pulling an all-nighter to complete his assignments at the University of Alabama. Instead, fueled by soda and an unusual teenage interest in the wonky workings of redistricting, he set out...

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing imposed sanctions on Friday against 20 U.S. defense-related companies and 10 executives, a week after Washington annoucned large-scale arms sales to Taiwan. The sanctions entail freezing the companies’ assets in China and banning individuals and organizations from deal...

Life is difficult in the cold, high-altitude desert of Ladakh, India, in the Western Himalayas.Vegetation is sparse, food is scarce and the air is thin.But an array of rare and unique species — including Tibetan argali, or mountain sheep, snow leopards ... ... and black-necked cranes — have managed to carve out a life in a region o...

MARACAY, Venezuela (AP) — This was not the kind of Christmas Mariela Gómez would have imagined a year ago. Nor what thousands of other Venezuelan immigrants would have thought. But Donald Trump returned to the White House in January and quickly ended his American dream.So Gómez found himself...

IDLIB, Syria (AP) — A bombing at a mosque located in the Syrian city of Homs during Friday prayers killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others, authorities said.Images released by Syria’s state-run Arab News Agency showed blood on the mosque’s carpets, holes in the walls, shattered wi...

It’s been a rollercoaster of a year for U.S. trade policy.President Donald Trump launched a barrage of new tariffs in 2025, plunging the U.S. into trade wars with nearly every country in the world. Volley after volley of threats and steeper import taxes often arrived erratically — with Trump...

Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building a wall of tariffs around what used to be a wide open economy.His double-digit taxes on imports from almost every country have disrupted global commerce and strained th...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — If Thursday night was the last game Travis Kelce played inside Arrowhead Stadium, he sure tried to make it a memorable one.The Chiefs tight end only had five catches for 36 yards against Denver, playing alongside third-string quarterback Chris Oladokun while his good...

A cohort of 168 Palestinian doctors have received their advanced medical certifications in Gaza amid the rubble of what was once the Palestinian territory’s largest hospital.The graduation took place in front of the destroyed facade of the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City on Thursday. It was a symbolic act of resilience as the...

The United Arab Emirates has welcomed Saudi ‍Arabian efforts ‍to support security and stability in Yemen and remains committed to backing stability in the country, the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.The UAE statement on Friday came a day after Saudi Arabia said it hopes Yemen’s main southern separatist group, the ⁠Southern...

At least eight people ‍have been killed and more than 18 injured when an explosion ⁠struck a mosque ​in Syria’s Homs province, according to local officials.The attack targeted the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in the Wadi al-Dahab neighbourhood of Homs during Friday prayers, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.Recommended S...

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group says the country’s army struck a fuel market in the city of Nyala, the RSF’s administrative capital, as part of an intensified aerial campaign against its positions in South Darfur.For three consecutive days ending Thursday, military drones and warplanes pounded strategic RSF si...

Tehran, Iran – Iran’s currency has been registering new lows amid ongoing economic turmoil that is also reflected in a planned budget for next year that effectively shrinks public spending.Each United States dollar was priced at about 1.36 million rials in the open market on Wednesday in Tehran, its highest rate ever, before the Ir...

Two people have died in a stabbing and car-ramming attack in northern Israel, officials say.Israeli police and emergency workers said a Palestinian from the Israeli-occupied West Bank attacked and killed a man and a woman on Friday before he was shot and wounded.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Infant, adults wounded i...

Cambodia has accused Thai forces of carrying out “ruthless” aerial attacks against it, even as the two sides hold new talks aimed at easing their long-running border conflict.Thai fighter jets dropped dozens of bombs near the northwestern Cambodian village of Chouk Chey early on Friday morning, causing “extensive destruction to civ...

Japan’s cabinet has approved a record defence budget proposal of more than 9 trillion yen ($58bn) for the coming fiscal year, reflecting a push to strengthen military and coastal defences amid rising tensions in East Asia.The plan still requires parliamentary approval by March and forms part of a broader 122.3 trillion yen ($784bn)...

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison in his second major trial involving the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal.The ruling was handed down by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Friday, where Najib, 72, was found guilty on all 21 counts of money laundering and four counts of...

Taiwan’s opposition parties have moved forward with an impeachment campaign to remove President William Lai Ching-te and Premier Cho Jung-tai from office, in what observers say is the latest sign of deepening political polarisation within the self-ruled island.The Kuomintang (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) began impeachment p...

A man has carried out a mass stabbing attack at a Japanese tyre factory, also spraying victims with a chemical substance, according to local officials.Eight people were stabbed and seven others were injured after being sprayed by a bleach-like agent at the Yokohama Rubber Co tyremaker in Japan’s Mishima, southwest of Tokyo, on Frid...

Here is where things stand on Friday, December 26:Fighting Officials in Russia’s Krasnodar region reported a huge fire following a Ukrainian drone strike on two storage tanks holding oil products in the southern Russian port of Temryuk. The blaze spread across roughly 2,000 square metres (some 21,500 square feet). Long-range Ukrain...

Poland said its air force intercepted a “Russian reconnaissance aircraft” flying near the border of its airspace just hours after tracking suspected smuggling balloons coming from the direction of neighbouring Belarus.“This morning, over the international waters of the Baltic Sea, Polish fighter jets intercepted, visually identifie...

Kyiv, Ukraine – Russian soldiers are terrified of Ukrainians, says Vasily, a burly officer limping uneasily on the cobblestones of Kyiv’s Sophia Square, where Ukraine’s largest Christmas tree stands“I’ve jumped into their trenches. They’re really afraid of us,” he told Al Jazeera.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4A Ukra...

Five weeks into a strike at the crowdfunding site Kickstarter this fall, employees were getting anxious. Their union’s strike fund was dwindling, making it harder for some to cover living expenses, and they were unsure if the company would make more concessions.In a sign of their desperation, some employees redoubled their efforts...

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, was striding across a stage in New Delhi, extolling his company’s $17.5 billion investment in artificial intelligence and the benefits it would bring to his native country’s 1.4 billion people. While he was speaking, Amazon made a rival announcement, promising to throw $35 billion into A....

Investors in the A.I.-fueled stock market have largely shrugged off warnings about a tech bubble, an optimism that has pushed up share prices to repeated new highs this year.But the debt market is telling a different story, some investors say. New artificial intelligence companies looking to raise funds to supercharge their nascent...

The director Josh Safdie had very specific casting guidelines for his new film, “Marty Supreme”: He wanted everyone to look as if they were from the 1950s, naturally. That meant no Mohawks. No bright white teeth. No shaved heads.“Josh was, like, obsessed with hair,” said Jennifer Venditti, the film’s casting director and a longtime...

Some places are synonymous with certain years. If I say 1933, 1945 or 1989, where else but Berlin?The Berlin Apartment is a game about different kinds of people whose lives are buffeted by the political forces of their times.Visually, its fine lines and flat colors were inspired by the French cartoonist Moebius, whose work has serv...

WinterImage“Doom,” a three-hour performance that was put on at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan, was the brainchild of the German artist and choreographer Anne Imhof.Credit...George Etheredge for The New York TimesVideoBritt Lower was one of the breakout stars during the first season of “Severance” and the second season continue...

By the 1980s, most of the drama that took place on West 42nd Street was the kind that theater-loving New Yorkers would never applaud. Drug deals, prostitution and pornographic movies dominated the block between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, which had deteriorated steadily since the Depression. It took the founding of a creative nonpr...

In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You can also watch our collection of more than 150 videos on YouTube and subscribe to our YouTube channel.A new villain aligns with a familiar one in “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” the...

Dave Chappelle, ‘The Unstoppable’(Stream it on Netflix)Dave Chappelle has a theory about what went wrong with America. It started more than a century ago and involves a series of echoing historical narratives that describe everything from the rise of the early 20th-century boxer Jack Johnson to the death of the rapper Nipsey Hussle...

Last week, Republican Ohio gubernatorial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy challenged other Republicans over their idea that ancestry or heritage is what makes someone truly American.“The idea that a ‘heritage American’ is more American than another American is un-American at its core,” Ramaswamy, who was born to Indian immigrant parents, sa...

Four years after military leader General Mamady Doumbouya led a coup that toppled the civilian government of the day and derailed the country’s fragile democracy, Guineans will head to the polls in a Sunday vote that will likely not deliver any surprises.The young military leader, known for his signature wraparound sunglasses, is w...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered his officials to step up production of missiles and artillery shells and construct more factories to meet his military’s growing need for the weapons, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) has reported.In a visit to munitions plants accompanied by top officials, Kim ordered the...

Dhaka, Bangladesh — Standing amid a sea of people on the outskirts of Dhaka, Tarique Rahman, the acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), declared that he had “a plan for the people and for the country”.It’s a plan that has been 17 years in the making. On Thursday, the son of the critically ill BNP chairperson and...

Islamabad, Pakistan – After seven decades as Pakistan’s state airline, the government sold a majority stake in Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) earlier this week for $482m in a publicly televised auction, ending years of failed privatisation attempts.Arif Habib Limited (AHL), a Karachi-based securities brokerage, led the winni...

Nigeria says US claims that Christians face persecution ignore efforts by authorities to safeguard religious freedom.

The White House wants to move beyond phase one of the Gaza ceasefire process in January, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed back, creating friction with United States President Donald Trump’s senior team, according to Israeli media reports.Israel’s Channel 12 quoted senior White House officials as saying the U...

China has sanctioned a group of United States defence companies and senior executives over weapons sales to Taiwan, the latest move against Washington’s support for the self-governed island that Beijing claims as its own.China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the measures on Friday, targeting 20 US defence firms and 10 indiv...