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...

The United States has launched “powerful and deadly” strikes against groups it claims are affiliated with ISIL (ISIS) in Nigeria, President Donald Trump said on Thursday.The unprecedented Christmas Day strikes came after weeks of accusations from Trump and top Republicans about an alleged “Christian genocide” they say has been enab...

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...

At the end of every year, I like to reflect by asking myself a question. This year, I’m mulling one recommended by Kandi Wiens, the author of “Burnout Immunity.”Dr. Wiens told me to ask myself, What is worth remembering from 2025?Not a list of milestones, she said, but the “real stuff” that gave the year meaning. “It’s the conversa...

“I want a casual wedding,” he said, his hands wrapped around a paper coffee cup. “Outside, in the mountains, with bluegrass music.”From Cuddling to Cold Shoulder and Back Again (and Again)“Me too,” I whispered.I could see our wedding as I stared into his brown eyes. Me in a flowing gown under a maple tree standing barefoot next to...

The Hindu right’s vision of a muscular, Hindu-first India was once a far-off dream. But it has now largely become mainstream in the vastly diverse country of 1.4 billion people, as the secular identity of the republic has been greatly transformed over the past decade under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The biggest force behind this...

A Malaysian court on Friday sentenced former Prime Minister Najib Razak to 15years in prison and ordered him to pay a hefty fine in a case related to the looting of the multibillion-dollar government fund 1MDB, a scandal that has already brought prison time for the disgraced leader.The latest ruling involved the depositing of more...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Friday that he would meet soon with President Trump, as Ukraine and the United States try to keep momentum going in American-led efforts to end the war with Russia.There was no immediate confirmation from the White House. Mr. Zelensky did not say when or where the meeting — which he h...

The target was a drug trafficker turned F.B.I. informant who didn’t stand a chance. As he had lunch with friends at a restaurant in Medellín, Colombia, a hit man in a dark hoodie sneaked up behind him and shot him five times in the head.The man who had ordered the hit quickly received a photograph of the body, the authorities said....

Gree Say recognized the suspicious spots down the toddler’s throat only from her textbooks. She has been working as a nurse for more than a decade, but had never been confronted with a case of diphtheria, a potentially fatal disease.“This isn’t something we have seen here before,” she said.The Mae Tao Clinic, where Ms. Gree Say wor...

In Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most important speech of the year, his annual Independence Day address in August, he used the stage to honor the group that changed his life and is remaking India.That it was Mr. Modi’s most forceful and public nod in his 11 years in office to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh — the far-right Hindu n...

I knew my efforts to learn Japanese before my trip to Japan last fall would be no match for a fire ritual at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo, so at the beginning of the ceremony, I discreetly slipped in one earbud.Two monks pounded giant taiko drums as others chanted in unison under a cloud of fragrant smoke. Then the priest delivered c...

By Kevin RooseCasey Newton and Rachel CohnThe leaders of the biggest A.I. labs argue that artificial intelligence will usher in a new era of scientific discovery, which will help us cure diseases and accelerate our ability to address the climate crisis. But what has A.I. actually done for science so far?To understand, we asked Sam...

Venezuela has been commandeered by a group of criminals masquerading as a government. A nation that continues to be run by Nicolás Maduro and his cronies will continue to sow instability, encourage migration and enable illegal armed groups that endanger the United States. A free and democratic Venezuela, on the other hand, could be...

Many Americans have heard that they should worry about the staggering size of the national debt. For the first time in modern history, America is paying more interest on its debt, now more than $30 trillion, than it spends on national defense. And there is no end in sight, with our deficits running larger than we’ve seen outside a...

President Trump took pardon abuse to a new level this year with a string of dubious clemencies that together present a unique case study in how this unfettered executive power can be used to degrade, corrupt and politicize the justice system.The president pardoned one of his supporters, Michele Fiore, a Nevada politician who was co...

Test your knowledge of current events with the latest — though not the last — Gail Collins quiz.

Welcome to the 21st edition of the Sidney Awards. Every year, I give out extremely nonlucrative prizes, in honor of the philosopher Sidney Hook, celebrating some of the best nonfiction essays of the year, especially the ones published in medium-size and small magazines. I figure this is a good time to take a step back from the Trum...

It has been a gruesome year for those who see Donald Trump’s kakistocracy clearly. He returned to office newly emboldened, surrounded by obsequious tech barons, seemingly in command of not just the country but also the zeitgeist. Since then, it’s been a parade of nightmares — armed men in balaclavas on the streets, migrants sent to...

In early October, Hoda Abu al-Naja, age 12, landed in a hospital in Gaza because severe malnutrition was ravaging her body.In six months, she had lost a third of her weight, her doctors said. Her limbs were spindly, her ribs visible, and her shoulder blades jutted from her back like fins. Her brown hair had become wispy and turned...

At least six people were killed and 21 others injured in an explosion during Friday Prayer at a mosque in the Syrian city of Homs, Syria’s interior ministry said.The blast struck the Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib Mosque in the Wadi al-Dahab neighborhood, the ministry said in a statement on social media.Preliminary investigations indicated...

An attacker from the Israeli-occupied West Bank killed two people in a car ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel on Friday, the Israeli authorities said.The Israeli police said a preliminary investigation indicated that the attack, in Israel’s Galilee region, was terrorism.The attack comes amid heightened tensions between...

WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) — A strong storm system that brought relentless winds, rain and snowfall to California this week was expected to ease Friday, but there was still a risk of high surf along the coast, flash flooding near Los Angeles and avalanches in the Sierra Nevada.Waves near the Sa...

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — When Fernando Dávila was 8 years old in Colombia, he failed a drawing class because he painted donkeys red.There was a reason for that: He is colorblind.Now the 72-year-old Dávila is an established and respected artist whose vibrant paintings have been exhibited in South A...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still standing to entertain Afghans with Bollywood movies and American action flicks. Now, it is no more. On Dec. 16, demolition crews began to te...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An independent counsel on Friday demanded a 10-year prison term for South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol in the first of seven criminal cases related to his ill-fated attempt to impose martial law in 2024 and other allegations that flared when he was in offi...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country’s fragile democracy undone by a 2021 army takeover, nor end a devastating civil war triggered by the nation’s harsh...

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Imprisoned former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted Friday following a corruption trial tied to multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund.The nation’s High Court found Najib, 72, guilty on four counts of abuse of power. Rulings...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government said it plans to end its waning foreign adoptions of Korean children, while United Nations investigators voiced “serious concern” over what they described as Seoul’s failure to ensure truth-finding and reparations for widespread human rights...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The United States airstrikes that targeted Islamic State militants in northwestern Nigeria’s on Thursday marked a major escalation in an offensive that Nigeria’s overstretched military has struggled with for years.U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media that th...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump will happen “in the near future,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday, signaling progress in talks to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine.“We are not losing a single day. We have agreed on a m...

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Throngs of feral cats emerge from the shade of parked trucks and bushes as soon as the familiar Subaru Forester pulls into a dump on Hawaii’s Big Island. They run after the vehicle to a certain meal — a gravy train that might not be around much longer.A Hawaii Coun...

GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. (AP) — Graphite mines in the United States largely closed down seven decades ago. Mining the ubiquitous mineral found in everything from nuclear reactors to pencils seemed to make little sense when it could be imported inexpensively from other nations, especially China.That...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Separatists in southern Yemen accused Saudi Arabia on Friday of targeting their forces with airstrikes, something not immediately acknowledged by the kingdom after it warned the forces to withdraw from governorates they recently took over.The Southern Trans...

While much of the world has Christmas in the rearview mirror by now, people in some Eastern Orthodox traditions will celebrate the holy day on Sunday.Certain Eastern Orthodox churches, including those in Russian and other traditions, follow the ancient Julian calendar, which runs 13 days lat...

LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — Like many retirement communities, The Terraces is a tranquil retreat for a core of seniors who can no longer travel to far-flung places or embark on daring adventures.But they can still find themselves transported when caretakers at the community in Los Gatos, Califo...

BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. futures edged lower and Asian shares were mixed Friday, with Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 leading gains. The prices of gold and silver surged to records, extending their sharp gains for the year as investors including central banks have stocked up on the precious metals, which are...

NEW YORK (AP) — “Heated Rivalry” is scoring big with hockey romance fans. Since its Thanksgiving weekend debut, the steamy television adaptation of Rachel Reid’s 2019 novel has dominated social media feeds and inspired a growing fanbase devoted to the queer romance at its center.The story tr...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — England pace bowler Josh Tongue took three early wickets as Australia limped to lunch at 72-4 Friday on the first day of the fourth Ashes test.Tongue claimed 3-24 from eight overs including removing Australia captain Steve Smith for nine at a sold-out Melbourne Cr...

New York City is expecting its biggest snowfall in more than three years during the next few days, although that may not be saying all that much in an increasingly snow-starved city.The broader metropolitan region, including parts of southern Connecticut, North Jersey and southeast New York, could see total snow accumulations as hi...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming year, aiming to fortify its strike-back capability and coastal defense with cruise missiles and unmanned arsenals as tensions rise in the region.The draft budget...

Acclaimed Palestinian actor and filmmaker Mohammad Bakri has died in northern Israel, ending a five-decade career that established him as one of the most influential voices in Palestinian cinema.Bakri died on Wednesday at Galilee Medical Centre in Nahariya after suffering from heart and lung problems, hospital officials said.Recomm...

Officials from Libya and Turkiye have stepped up coordination over the investigation into a plane crash near Ankara that killed Libya’s army chief and seven other people as forensic work and preparations for repatriating the bodies are conducted.Libya’s Criminal Investigation Department chief, Major General Mahmoud Ashour, led a de...

Syrian authorities say security forces have carried out a second operation against ISIL (ISIS) fighters near Damascus, killing a senior figure described as the group’s governor of Hauran.In a statement on Thursday, the Ministry of Interior said the raid killed Mohammed Shahadeh, also known as Abu Omar Shaddad, calling him one of IS...

A senior official in Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) has ruled out any negotiations with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as fighting continues to devastate the country.“There is no truce and no negotiation with an occupier, and that the just peace that Sudan desires will be achieved through the roadmap an...

Five people have been killed in a firefight between border guards and intruders on Tajikistan‘s border with Afghanistan, the Tajik border protection agency says.Heavily armed raiders from Afghanistan crossed into Tajikistan at the village of Kavo in the Shamsiddin Shokhin district on Tuesday and were located on Wednesday, according...

An annual Christmas Eve jazz concert scheduled for Wednesday at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was canceled by its host after a board appointed by President Trump added his name to the building.Chuck Redd, a musician who has hosted the show for nearly two decades, said that he decided last Friday to call off the...

On Christmas Eve, one Powerball ticket in Arkansas delivered a gift worth $1.817 billion.A single ticket sold in Arkansas matched all six numbers in Wednesday night’s drawing, winning the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever, lottery officials said. The jackpot run had stretched to a record 47 drawings, officials said.The winni...

Back in 2021, as Kabul fell to the Taliban following the chaotic U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, Republicans in Congress were among the loudest voices in Washington arguing that the United States had to throw open its doors to those Afghans who had assisted Americans during roughly two decades of war.At the time and in t...

All year, top Democrats have shown a striking awareness of one of their biggest problems.The party, Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland told NPR this month, needs to show how it will “shake up the status quo.”“Embrace change,” Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan urged on “The Daily Show” in May. “The Democratic Party should be lead...

When the Trump administration announced plans last month to redistribute billions of dollars in homelessness aid, the move capped a conservative attack on the once-bipartisan philosophy that has guided federal work for a generation, an approach called Housing First.The administration called the policy a permissive approach that had...

Here are some of the most consequential, illuminating or just plain remarkable moments from Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House.

A federal judge in New York on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from detaining a British researcher whom it accused of promoting the online censoring of American viewpoints.Imran Ahmed, the founder and chief executive of a nonprofit organization that works to stop the spread of online hate and disinformation, w...

The United States launched a number of strikes against the Islamic State in northwestern Nigeria, President Trump announced on Thursday, the latest American military campaign against a nonstate adversary — in this case, Islamic jihadis who the president asserts have been slaughtering Christians.Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Soc...

Five Israeli settlers have been arrested over their alleged involvement in an attack on a Palestinian home that wounded an eight-month-old baby in the occupied West Bank.The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the infant suffered “moderate injuries to the face and head” in the attack that took place late on Wednesday involvi...

Authorities in Venezuela have released at least 60 people arrested during protests against President Nicolas Maduro’s re-election, according to a human rights advocacy group, though campaigners say hundreds remain behind bars.The releases began early on Thursday, over Christmas, according to the Committee for the Freedom of Politic...

The United ‍States ‍has carried out an air strike against ISIL (ISIS) fighters in northwest Nigeria, US ⁠President Donald Trump ​said.“Tonight, ⁠at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and ​deadly strike ‌against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria,” ‌Trump said in a post on his Truth Socia...

Season's greetings from a plush couch in suburbia, where I’m taking a week off from dining out in the city. If you’re staying in town, let this be a reminder of your great luck: It’s the best few weeks of the year to walk into those “impossible-to-get-a-table” restaurants.And for those following along from Not New York, let this be...

In 2025, Hollywood faced something of an existential crisis — and that was before the news that Netflix was attempting to purchase Warner Bros., one of the movie industry’s most storied studios.Box office sales have flagged since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and they have recently suffered the worst October in decades, exclu...

John Carey, a critic and professor of literature at the University of Oxford who lobbed contrarian hand grenades at high-culture snobs and ossified elites who, in his view, revered lofty affectation over accessibility and saw appreciating the arts as a path to moral superiority, died on Dec. 11 in Oxford, England. He was 91.His dea...

As President Trump and his Republican allies scramble to address affordability concerns, they have touted the giant tax-cut bill that was signed into law this summer.Mr. Trump and his advisers have promised Americans that they will see bigger tax refunds next year, in part because of new tax breaks that were included in the bill. O...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. launched a “powerful and deadly” strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country’s government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians. In a Chris...

When Estonia’s liaison to Congress meets lawmakers, his standard icebreaker line is, “Estonians like to wear their love for America on their sleeve.”It is a fitting introduction for Karl-Gerhard Lille, because he regularly sports an American flag blazer and a matching bow tie as he walks the marbled corridors on Capitol Hill, butto...

Four members of the advocacy group Palestine Action have pledged this week to continue their hunger strike amid grave medical warnings and the hospitalisations of their fellow protesters.The group’s members are being held in five prisons in the United Kingdom over alleged involvement in break-ins at a facility of the UK’s subsidiar...

The Kremlin said Thursday that it was in contact with French authorities about the fate of a French political academic who is serving a three-year sentence in Russia and reportedly facing new espionage charges.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russia has made “an offer to t...

From Juicy Couture sweat sets and low-rise, bedazzled jeans to chunky belts and baby tees, early 2000s fashion is all the rage again. That potentially makes that old box of clothes in the back of your closet a sitting cash cow.Generation Z — born from about 1997 to 2012 — has taken to the Y2...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tyler Kolek sprinted back to chase down Donovan Mitchell and had enough energy left to gloat about his defensive stop afterward.“Right when Donovan Mitchell was on the ground I told him that was all ball,” Kolek said.He was right. A replay review turned what was originally ca...

Mikaela Shiffrin has plenty to celebrate this Christmas.The American skiing standout is off to a perfect start in slalom during the Olympic season — with four wins in four World Cup races. And she’s regaining her form in other disciplines, too, following the two biggest crashes of her career...

Rumors flew in the hours after a shooting at Brown University killed two students on Dec. 13. One falsehood had it that one of the victims, a leader of the college Republican Club, was “targeted for her conservative beliefs, hunted, and killed in cold blood.”Another was that it had been a terrorist attack, a claim that made the rou...

Pope Leo XIV surprised the rain-soaked faithful in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday night with an apology, delivered in both English and Italian, to those who were unable to get inside the basilica for the American-born pontiff’s first Christmas Eve Mass.“Welcome!” he said in English, greeting the thousands who were packed into the...

Few wardrobe items are as Brazilian as a brand of bright rubber flip-flops.Millions of people slip on the ubiquitous sandals — made by the Brazilian company Havaianas — to go to the beach or lounge at home, to run errands or meet friends at the bar.Even as political divisions have splintered Latin America’s largest nation, its unwa...

The end of the year is a time to take stock — not just of what has happened to us, and the world, but also the absence of those we’ve lost.My colleagues at The New York Times Magazine have a beautiful annual feature called The Lives They Lived, which looks at some of the famous and not-so-famous people who have died in the past yea...

Five years ago, the United States played a pivotal role in Myanmar’s general election. Washington assisted with voter education programs, supporting civil society in the name of strengthening global democracy and countering China’s influence in the region.It was one of the few truly contested elections in Myanmar, which has largely...

One of Bangladesh’s top contenders to be prime minister, who had been in exile for nearly two decades as he faced legal troubles at home, returned to the capital, Dhaka, on Thursday, just as the country’s election season got into full swing.The return of the politician, Tarique Rahman, who had managed the political affairs of the B...

Five people, including foreign tourists on a climbing trip, were killed when their helicopter crashed while descending Africa’s highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, the Tanzanian authorities said on Thursday.Tanzanian aviation and transportation officials were investigating the cause of the crash, which occurred late Wednesday afternoo...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday used his first Christmas message as pontiff to call for “peace and consolation for the victims of all current wars in the world” as well as for those suffering from “injustice, political instability, religious persecution and terrorism.”Leo echoed many of the concerns of his predecessor, Pope Francis, urgin...

Jimmy Kimmel, the American late night host, appeared on British television screens on Christmas Day to deliver a so-called “alternative Christmas message,” in which he said tyranny was “booming” in the United States.Mr. Kimmel was asked to give the speech on the public broadcaster Channel 4, which each year chooses a different high...

King Charles III used his annual Christmas message to make a plea for “compassion and reconciliation,” saying that in times of global uncertainty, people can find strength in diversity “to ensure that right triumphs over wrong.”At a time when the United States has been alienating European leaders and pulling back from the post-Worl...

Hondurans awoke Christmas Day to the risk of political unrest, as a presidential candidate disputed the election results after weeks of vote counting and fraud claims.A day earlier, Honduran election officials declared Nasry Asfura, a former mayor endorsed by President Trump, as the president-elect of the Central American nation of...

The arms race between North and South Korea has expanded underwater as the North ​on Thursday condemned the South’s plan to build a nuclear-powered submarine as a security threat and unveiled​ the completed hull of its ​own nuclear sub, which is under construction.North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, ​had designated building a nuclea...

Many thousands of Venezuelans have found themselves stranded abroad or alone at home this holiday, prevented from gathering with relatives after President Trump declared the airspace around Venezuela closed more than three weeks ago.International airlines have almost entirely halted service, leaving only a few dozen aging aircraft...

When she hears explosions, Tetiana Rybak does the only thing she can: She lies in her bed and waits. Ms. Rybak cannot walk, cannot go to the shelter. Recently, she asked a social worker to tape over the windows of her apartment with festive red gift wrap, old military posters and a version of the Lord’s Prayer.That way, she no long...

Daniya Stambekova doesn’t mean to make ugly drawings — they just come out that way.Her portraits of celebrities, memes and social media influencers have a way of turning anyone into a “Beavis and Butt-Head” character.Ms. Stambekova, 31, is the artist behind the Instagram account lemme_draw_you. A violinist from Kyrgyzstan, she bega...

MARACAY, Venezuela (AP) — This was not the Christmas that Mariela Gómez would have imagined a year ago. Or the one that thousands of other Venezuelan immigrants would have thought. But Donald Trump returned to the White House in January and quickly ended their American dream. So Gómez f...

LONDON (AP) — Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel took aim at U.S. President Donald Trump as he warned Thursday about the rise of fascism in an address to U.K. viewers dubbed “The Alternative Christmas Message.”The message, aired on Channel 4 on Christmas day, reflected on the impact from the second...

The Kremlin on Thursday said it was in contact with the French authorities over the fate of a French political scholar serving a three-year sentence in Russia and reportedly facing new charges of espionage. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russia has made “an offer to the...

A court in Russia on Thursday convicted a pro-war activist and critic of President Vladimir Putin of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison. Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front movement that opposes Putin and is affiliated with the Communist Party, was arrest...

Good morning! Today we have for you:Sweet-salty popcorn and peanuts to eat by the happy handfulCoquito (and Negronis and mulled wine)And peanut butter blossomsImageYewande Komolafe’s gúgúrú àti epà (sweet-salty popcorn and peanuts).Credit...Kelly Marshall for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Roscoe Betsill. Prop Stylist: Sarah Sma...

ImageHetty Lui McKinnon’s hoisin garlic noodles.Credit...Rachel Vanni for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Monica Pierini.Merry Christmas to those celebrating. I hope Santa brought you whatever you asked for, be that a new robe, a mountainous dessert or just a good night’s sleep. I wished for all three, greedy as that may be.What...

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It’s no surprise that buildings these days are burdened by cardboard boxes. “In 2005, the average New York City household was putting out 35 pounds of cardboard a year,” said Joshua Goodman, spokesman for the Department of Sanitation. “In 2023, it was 97 pounds.”But a more notable factoid emerged from the department’s most recent w...

More from our inbox:Regulating A.I., or NotImageCredit...Louis De Belle/Connected ArchivesTo the Editor:Re “Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith,” by David French (column, Dec. 23):While reading Mr. French’s column, my thoughts went immediately to Soren Kierkegaard, a 19th-century philosopher whose life was itself a long meditation on...

A little learning may be a dangerous thing — but that hasn’t stopped us from asking respondents in our weekly By the Book column for specific details about what they learned from their reading in 2025. Here’s a sampling of their fascinating, eccentric and not-so-dangerous answers, edited for length and clarity.ImageCredit...Pol Mon...

Robert Lindsey, a journalist whose award-winning nonfiction spy thriller “The Falcon and the Snowman” was adapted into a movie starring Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton, and who ghostwrote autobiographies for former President Ronald Reagan and Marlon Brando, died on Dec. 19 in Carmel, Calif. He was 90.His daughter, Susan McCabe, confir...

Winter is settling in across much of the U.S., erasing the freshness and vibrancy of months past. But the chilly season doesn’t have to usher in weeks of lifeless, colorless dinner plates. Dieticians and food experts say winter is a great time to experiment with your food, try out underappre...

Jordan’s military has launched strikes on drug and weapons smugglers in the country’s northern border regions with Syria, targeting sites used as “launch points” by trafficking groups into Jordanian territory, according to reports.The Jordan News Agency, Petra, said the strikes on Wednesday “neutralised a number of arms and drug tr...

Many of the remaining churches across Gaza either scaled back or cancelled Christmas activities altogether.

Many of the remaining churches across Gaza either scaled back or cancelled Christmas activities altogether.

Many of the remaining churches across Gaza either scaled back or cancelled Christmas activities altogether.

Many of the remaining churches across Gaza either scaled back or cancelled Christmas activities altogether.

Many of the remaining churches across Gaza either scaled back or cancelled Christmas activities altogether.

Saudi Arabia has publicly called on Yemen’s main southern separatist group to withdraw from two eastern provinces they seized this month, in a move that threatens to deepen divisions within the governing coalition opposed to the Houthi rebels.Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the demand on Thursday, describing milit...

Two people have been killed in an Israeli drone strike on a minibus in eastern Lebanon as near-daily ceasefire violations continue, Lebanese state media reported.Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said on Thursday that the drone hit the vehicle on the Hosh al-Sayyed Ali road in the Hermel district.Recommended Stories list of 3 it...

Turkish security forces have disrupted planned attacks on Christmas and New Year celebrations after arresting more than 100 suspected ISIL (ISIS) operatives in Istanbul, officials said.Authorities conducted raids across 124 locations on Thursday, apprehending 115 suspects they were seeking, the Istanbul chief prosecutor’s office sa...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has hit out at a new nuclear submarine deal between the United States and South Korea, describing it as a threat to the stability of the Korean Peninsula as he toured his country’s submarine production facility, according to North Korean state media.Kim said the deal between Seoul and Washington was...

I became the United Nations high commissioner for refugees in January 2016, when violence in Syria was in full spate. That conflict, which began in 2011 and lasted until the ouster of Bashar al-Assad’s regime one year ago, killed hundreds of thousands and sent millions fleeing for their lives.This summer I stood on the border betwe...

It is still the most shattering event in history.For more than two billion Christians, the birth of Jesus is the story of one person, at once fully human and fully divine, entering the world. He put a face to a God who was, before Jesus arrived, incorporeal, beyond human senses and human comprehension. In the words of the apostle P...

I have long been skeptical of the current hysteria about how our phones are addictive machines destroying our previously pristine analog world. But a few months ago, even I began to be vaguely worried that I was devoting too many hours to an embarrassing medley of political commentary and makeup application TikTok videos. So when I...

Rob Reiner was my friend, and so was Michele. From now on, I’ll have to use the past tense, and that fills me with such profound sadness. But there’s no other choice.Rob and I got to know each other in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. I had a good friend in New York named Bill Minkin, a legendary comedian, radio host and actor. Bill...

Things being what they are in the world today, get-togethers with the relatives are often fraught with pick-your-side political debates. Sometimes it might feel as if your family dinner would last forever.If only we could be so lucky.That unexpected viewpoint — that the best family dinner might be one that lasts a lifetime or even...

Russian attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region kills at least one and injures three, according to its governor.

Russian attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region kills at least one and injures three, according to its governor.

Russian attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region kills at least one and injures three, according to its governor.

Russian attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region kills at least one and injures three, according to its governor.

A majority of Russians expect the war in Ukraine to end in 2026, a state-owned research centre said, as Russian forces make advances on the battlefield and efforts intensify to reach a ceasefire deal between Kyiv and Moscow.VTsIOM, Russia’s leading public opinion research centre, said on Wednesday that its annual survey of sentimen...

Russia is doubling down on its claims on Ukraine, in an apparent effort to demonstrate some military achievement in 2025 at home and to influence peace talks with the United States.Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters last Friday in a year-end news conference that Moscow’s forces had seized Siversk in the eastern region...

Pope Leo has decried conditions ‍for Palestinians in ‍Gaza in his first Christmas sermon as pontiff, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.Leo, the first American ⁠pope, said on Thursday that the story of Jesus bei...

On Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine presented a 20-point peace plan formulated by Ukrainian and American officials that was a significant departure from a plan drawn up in October that would have essentially forced Ukraine to cede territory and rule out NATO membership.Mr. Zelensky presented the new proposal as a re...

Pope Leo XIV surprised the rain-soaked faithful in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday night with an apology, delivered in both English and Italian, to those who were unable to get inside the basilica for the American-born pontiff’s first Christmas Eve Mass.“Welcome!” he said in English, greeting the thousands who were packed into the...

The Ukrainian singer Maryna Krut, wearing a flak jacket, sat by the entrance sign to the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk and plucked the strings of her bandura, a traditional Ukrainian instrument. The distinctive opening notes of “Shchedryk,” a Ukrainian song known in English as “Carol of the Bells,” filled the air.It was a mome...

Two people were injured in a suburb of Baltimore after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents fired shots at a moving vehicle whose driver was allegedly evading arrest, according to US authorities.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said ICE agents had attempted to arrest two men from Portugal and El Salvador – who...

This is the first Christmas without Brendan Costello sitting there sipping a bourbon or a beer and cracking wise about holiday rituals, while at the same time embodying its spirit of good will. But now he is gone, his absence like a decorated tree missing its glowing star.That is one way of looking at the death of Brendan, and whil...

A bizarre plant was discovered near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on the periphery of a forest preserve’s picnic area.This plant, called a fairy lantern, is a parasite that steals all its energy and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that dwell within the soil. Usually hidden underground, the fairy lantern periodically produces a pinkish f...

Clockwise from top left: Sara Sugihara in Manhattan; Crissy Spivey and John Richie with their daughter and Ms. Spivey's mother, Annie Spivey, in Brooklyn; Katie Israel and her children in Gallatin, Tenn.; Mike and Maria Francis in Berkeley, Calif.; Rahul Barua and Winnie Wong in central Connecticut; and Adam Stone and Jordan Fenlon...

For 11 months, Haitham Salem, an electrician from northern Gaza, languished in Israeli prisons and a detention facility, enduring harsh conditions and, by his account, violent abuse.He says he was frequently beaten, including in the area of his genitals; attacked by muzzled dogs; subjected to deafening music and denied adequate med...

Santa arrived by water skis, snorkel or a boat. There were celebrations jubilant and somber. Christmas Day has arrived, and the world has been preparing for days and weeks.In Ukraine, graves of soldiers killed in the country’s existential fight against Russia were decorated for the holiday. In Ecuador, fireworks punctuated a celebr...

Fourteen countries, including Britain, Canada, Denmark and France, have condemned Israel’s approval of 19 new ⁠settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying ​the move was illegal and jeopardised the Gaza ceasefire and “long-term peace and security across the region”.The countries said Israel’s actions “violate international law” an...

More than 2,000 acres of new ski area add to the allure of this sporty mecca with a thriving cultural scene.

This year, from a distance, the cultural phenomenon that revealed the most about K-pop’s place in the global zeitgeist was the Netflix animated film “KPop Demon Hunters.” Among the most consumed cultural products of 2025, this parable about good and evil — framed as a tug of war between competing K-pop groups — became the most watc...

ImageIn the “Sixties Surreal” exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, there are works by more than 100 artists on display.Credit...Janice Chung for The New York Times‘Sixties Surreal’Through Jan. 19 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Manhattan; whitney.org.The 1960s were an era of social unrest, consciousness raising...

The title “Sixties Surreal” is redundant. What wasn’t surreal about the decade that drove popular music to its least commercial conclusions, ceded birthrates to women and armed the Black Panthers so visibly that the NRA cried for gun control?It is the first provocation of this fascinating and revisionist exhibition, which is closin...

Capitalism giveth and capitalism taketh away. That’s one of the cold, familiar truths in Park Chan-wook’s cruelly, ostentatiously comic “No Other Choice.” A modern-day freakout, the movie centers on a middle-class family man who comes with the usual fixings, including a loving wife, two cute kids and a prettily situated house. Outs...

Critic’s PickStrives for greatness and achieves it.ImageTimothée Chalamet in “Marty Supreme,” set in 1952 New York and directed by Josh Safdie with electrifying flourish.Credit...A24‘Marty Supreme’Timothée Chalamet plays a scrappy, hustling table tennis player in this sports drama directed Josh Safdie.From our review:A hyper-charge...

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...

Police in South Africa say they have arrested 11 people, including many suspected of being undocumented miners, in connection with Sunday’s shooting at a tavern that killed 10 people.Nine citizens of Lesotho and one Mozambican were among those arrested on Wednesday after police and security stormed two houses outside Johannesburg.R...

Residents of Somalia’s capital are casting ballots in local council elections, marking the first time in more than 50 years that voters will directly choose their representatives, a milestone overshadowed by opposition boycotts.Polling stations across Mogadishu opened at 6am local time (03:00 GMT) on Thursday, with lines forming ea...

Five people have been killed in a helicopter crash on Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, authorities say.The accident took place on Wednesday evening on one of the most popular tourist climbing routes in what police said was a rescue mission to pick up patients on the mountain.Recommended Stories list of 3 i...

Much of Southern California remained at risk of flooding on Christmas Day as heavy rains that have triggered flash floods and evacuations since the weekend showed little sign of easing.The National Weather Service placed portions of southwest California, including Los Angeles, under a flood warning until 6 a.m. local time on Thursd...

Gaza City – The Holy Family Church in Gaza has lit its Christmas tree for the first time after two years of Israel’s genocidal war on the Strip. It is Christmas Eve mass, and the worshippers have packed the main prayer hall. Many of them are excited and happy – not just because it is Christmas but because they are still alive.The g...

Palestinian Christians have gathered at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem for the first time since Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza began in 2023 to celebrate Christmas.Bethlehem’s mayor says the municipality has chosen to restore the city’s festivities after a long period of darkness and silence.At a Christmas market, Safaa Th...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv is willing to turn the parts of the Donbas region that his troops currently control into a demilitarised zone (DMZ) if Russia also commits to keeping its soldiers out of this eastern region of Ukraine.Zelenskyy’s comments represent Ukraine’s biggest territorial concession so far as...

Most teenagers know that baseless conspiracy theories, partisan propaganda and artificially generated deepfakes lurk on social media. Valerie Ziegler’s students know how to spot them.At Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco, she trains her government, economy and history students to consult a variety of sources, recognize ra...

Tesla’s share price hit a record this month in part because many investors believe promises that the carmaker is poised to dominate the emerging market for driverless taxis worth trillions of dollars.But a visit to Austin, Texas, where Tesla is operating a small fleet of autonomous cars, quickly makes clear that the company is ente...

ISTANBUL (AP) — The technical analysis of the recovered black boxes from a jet crash that killed eight people, including western Libya’s military chief, began as the investigation proceeded in cooperation with Libyan authorities, the Turkish Ministry of Defense said Thursday.The private jet...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Legislators in Algeria voted to declare France’s colonization of the North African country a crime, approving a law that calls for restitution of property taken by France during its 130-year rule, among other demands seeking to redress historical wrongs.France slammed...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is undergoing double hernia surgery on Thursday at a hospital in the country’s capital, his family said. Bolsonaro, who has been hospitalized since Wednesday, has been serving a 27-year prison sentence since November for an attempted...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Mohammad Bakri, a Palestinian director and actor who sought to share the complexities of Palestinian identity and culture through a variety of works in both Arabic and Hebrew, has died, his family announced. He was 72.Bakri was best known for “Jenin, Jenin,” a 2003 do...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Officers from the Istanbul Police Counter-Terrorism Department launched simultaneous raids on Thursday at 124 locations and detained over a hundred suspected members of the Islamic State group who were allegedly planning attacks against Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.T...

Three Palestinians have been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a Christmas tree and damaging part of a Nativity scene at a Catholic Church in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian Authority police said.Police said late Wednesday that the arrests were made after rev...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day message on Thursday urged the faithful to shed indifference in the face of those who have lost everything, like in Gaza, those who are in impoverished, like in Yemen, and the many migrants who cross the Mediterranean Sea and the...

The heir to Bangladesh’s longtime ruling family and head of the powerful Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Tarique Rahman, has returned to the country after nearly 17 years in exile.Rahman, 60, an aspiring prime minister who had lived in London since he fled Bangladesh in 2008 over what he called politically motivated persecution...

After 17 years in exile, Tarique Rahman, leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and frontrunner to be the South Asian nation’s next prime minister, returned to Dhaka on Thursday to a rousing welcome by thousands of his party’s supporters.Rahman, long seen as a prince of Bangladeshi politics, got down at the Hazrat Shahjal...

A Powerball player in Arkansas won a $1.817 million grand prize in Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing, ending the lottery's three-month streak without a top prize winner.The winning numbers were 04, 25, 31, 52 and 59, with the Powerball number 19.Final ticket sales pushed the grand prize high...

HONOLULU (AP) — Backup quarterback Luke Weaver threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to Nick Cenacle with 10 seconds left, and Hawaii rallied for a 35-31 comeback victory over California in a thrilling Hawaii Bowl on Wednesday night.Weaver entered the game after Micah Alejado took a hard hit on the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rain from a powerful winter storm that swept across Southern California has begun to taper off, but another storm system was on the horizon for Christmas Day with showers and possible thunderstorms.Forecasters said Southern California could see its wettest Christmas in yea...

NEW YORK (AP) — Days after Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to immediately free her from a 20-year prison sentence, the public release of grand jury transcripts from her sex trafficking case returned the spotlight to victims whose allegations helped land her behind bars.The disclosure of the...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The son of a former prime minister of Bangladesh returned home Thursday after more than 17 years in self-imposed exile as a frontrunner to become the nation’s next leader in upcoming elections.Tarique Rahman moved to London in 2008 for medical treatment with permissi...

NEWCASTLE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced plans Thursday for a national bravery award to recognize civilians and first responders who confronted “the worst of evil” during an antisemitic terror attack that left 15 dead and has cast a heavy shadow over t...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Thursday formally called on Emirati-backed separatists in Yemen to withdraw from two governorates their forces now control in the country, a move that threatens sparking a confrontation within a fragile coalition battling the Houthi rebels....

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — Five people have died after a helicopter crashed on Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania.The accident Wednesday evening happened on one of the most popular tourist climbing routes, in what police said was a rescue mission to pick up patient...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Residents of Somalia’s capital are set to vote Thursday in a controversial local election that marks the country’s first-ever one-person, one-vote poll since 1969. Analysts say it is a major departure from clan-based power-sharing negotiations.The voting of local co...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A bomb exploded during prayers at a mosque in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday night, killing five people in what police described as a likely suicide attack. Police said that 35 people were also injured in the attack.Nahum Daso, spokesperson for po...

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Thursday in thin holiday trading, with most markets in the region and elsewhere closed for Christmas.In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 edged 0.1% higher to 50,407.79. It has gained nearly 30% this year. The dollar slipped to 155.85 Japanese yen from 155.94 yen....

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III has chosen Westminster Abbey as the site of his Christmas Day speech on Thursday, reflecting the idea of pilgrimage that is expected to be a theme of the annual address to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.The central London landmark, known for the lavish...

TEGUCIGALPA (AP) — The National Electoral Council announced on Wednesday that conservative Nasry Asfura, backed by US President Donald Trump, won the November 30 presidential elections in Honduras by defeating Salvador Nasralla with 40.27% of the votes, after a delayed scrutiny that generate...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday upheld New York's so-called Green Light Law, rejecting the federal government's attempt to prevent the state from issuing driver's licenses to people without proving they are in the country legally.District Judge Anne M. Nardacci, in Albany, ruled t...

LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — Like many retirement communities, The Terraces serves as a tranquil refuge for a nucleus of older people who no longer can travel to faraway places or engaging in bold adventures.But they can still be thrust back to their days of wanderlust and thrill-seeking wheneve...

Ten teams are in the NFL playoffs. Eight more are battling for the final four spots.The playoff picture will become more clear in Week 17.The Eagles-Bills matchup is a potential Super Bowl preview. Texans-Chargers, Bears-49ers and Seahawks-Panthers could end up playing again in the playoffs....

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A grand jury has declined to indict the father of two Kentucky State University students who was charged with murder in an on-campus shooting that killed one student and critically injured another.In a social media post after the Tuesday hearing, defense attorney Scott...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The remains of two Iowa National Guard members killed in an attack in the Syrian desert were welcomed back to Des Moines on Wednesday, marking a solemn Christmas Eve for their grieving families.Several loved ones approached the caskets carrying Edgar Brian Torres-Tova...

GLEN BURNIE, Md. (AP) — Federal immigration agents shot at a moving vehicle on Wednesday morning during an enforcement and removal action, striking one person and injuring another, officials said.A spokesperson for the Anne Arundel County Police Department said neither person had life-threat...

Matt and Ross Duffer, the creators of the Netflix hit “Stranger Things,” have never been coy about their many sources of inspiration. Centered on a group of misfit adolescents in the 1980s, the horror-fantasy series had immediate cross-generational appeal, owing in no small part to its nostalgic evocations of 1970s and ’80s pop cul...

The makers of “Anaconda” got at least one thing right: Rebooting the shlocky, widely-panned creature-feature of the same name from 1997 is a goofy idea. Enter Jack Black and Paul Rudd as two losers from Buffalo with an outsize affection for the 1990s artifact, a film so bankably bad-it’s-good to have spawned multiple sequels and ev...

Marty Mauser, the irrepressible hero of Josh Safdie’s electrifying new movie, is rocketing toward his American dream at the speed of sound, running and racing while working every conceivable angle. It’s 1952 New York, and Marty — played with ferocious verve and pinwheeling arms by Timothée Chalamet — is a table-tennis shark and asp...

Phyllis Lee Levin had been a fashion reporter at The New York Times for several years in 1960 when she detoured from her beat by writing a provocative essay for the newspaper about the frustrations of college-educated women torn between what was expected of them as housewives and their desire for something more.“The road from Freud...