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

The Ukrainian military says its forces have withdrawn from ​​the battle-scarred town of Siversk in the eastern Donetsk region after heavy fighting with Russian forces.In a statement on Telegram on Tuesday, Ukraine’s General Staff said that Russian troops had a “significant advantage” in manpower and equipment and had exerted consta...

Two police ⁠officers ​and another ‍person have been ‍killed in ⁠blast in southern ​Moscow, ‌near where a general was ‍killed recently by a car bomb Russia said was planted by Ukrainian intelligence, according to investigators.The two traffic police officers were killed early on Wednesday in an explosion that occurred when they atte...

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

The Libyan army’s Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, has been killed in a plane crash in Turkiye while returning from an official visit to Ankara.Turkish officials said the private aircraft, which was heading back to Tripoli on Tuesday, requested an emergency landing due to an electrical failure just m...

When you’re shopping for a high-quality vehicle, the idea of acquiring one with a luxury badge that’s packed with features can be appealing. But it can also be an expensive proposition in today’s market when the average price of a new car is approximately $50,000. Thankfully, there is an alt...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Harry Martinez has delivered The New York Times for 44 years. Once a week, he makes the long haul to West Virginia to pick up copies of The Times Magazine, which are then inserted into the Sunday paper. Th...

Jeanne started taking Zepbound, a weight-loss drug like Ozempic, in March 2024. She and her husband, Javier, spoke to me at length earlier this year about how they felt about their bodies. And about each other’s bodies. They hadn’t had sex since Jeanne started taking the medication. They became furious with each other.In one of our...

Hosted by Anna MartinProduced by Reva GoldbergEmily LangDavis LandAmy PearlSara Curtis and Elisa GutierrezEdited by Jen Poyant and Lynn LevyEngineered by Daniel RamirezOriginal music by Dan PowellAman Sahota and Diane Wong‘The problem is you can’t hold on to anything. It’s, it’s all letting go. … This life is all a letting go.’Imag...

Eating black-eyed peas augurs good luck and good fortune for the new year.That’s what they say down South. And who am I to disagree? Though I wasn’t raised there, I’ve long been partial to serving them on New Year’s Day, often preparing them a day or two in advance.Recipe: Black-Eyed Peas With Pork Belly and GreensImageCredit...Dav...

If you’re gearing up to host out-of-town guests, throw a big New Year’s Eve bash or are just trying to pick a movie with friends, these features on your phone or tablet can help.Share the Wi-FiWant an easy way to share your home network password with visiting family that doesn’t involve typing? Your phone can display a QR code they...

Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the secretary-general of the Arab League, has praised a peace plan presented by Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris to the United Nations Security Council earlier this week.Gheit said on Wednesday that the 22-member league backed the recently unveiled initiative, which calls for a ceasefire and global monitoring...

This article contains spoilers.She’s a middle-aged, blue-collar amputee who sings backup in a kitschy Neil Diamond cover band. “I don’t want to be a hairdresser,” she says with a heavy Wisconsin accent. “I want to sing and dance.”It’s not exactly a role that shouts Oscar. At first glance, it reads more like Razzie bait.But the righ...

It was early November, and the stock market had grown jittery as investors recoiled anew over the enormous bets the nation’s largest technology companies had placed on artificial intelligence.But the skittishness playing out on Wall Street that day barely registered at the White House. Asked whether he harbored any fears about an e...

ImageElon Musk, the tech billionaire, briefly joined the Trump administration in the role of cost-cutter in chief. In February, he said that the U.S. would go bankrupt without big budget cuts.Credit...Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe year in photosVolatility, shifting technology and high-stakes decisions shaped the...

In May 2022, clients of the private equity firm Clearlake Capital gathered at a California resort with dazzling views of the Pacific Ocean, where champagne and shrimp flowed freely.Perhaps even more dazzling than the setting at the Monarch Beach Resort & Club was Clearlake’s recent performance, which had blown through almost every...

When David Ellison became a teenager, his father, Larry, bought him a gift not usually bestowed on a 13th birthday: his own Katana stunt plane. The two had spent little meaningful time together. But with their own aircraft, the father and son could bond in the air, practicing aerobatic flips and ruling the skies together.Now, Larry...

A movie theater that bore witness to Afghanistan’s modern history — from the cosmopolitan vibrancy of the 1960s to the silencing and repression that followed not one but two Taliban takeovers — has been razed to make way for a shopping mall.The Ariana Cinema in Kabul, the capital, had remained closed, save for occasional propaganda...

Two weeks ago, Pheap Sreymean had just gotten up in her dorm in a scam center in the Cambodian border town of O’Smach, when she said her supervisor ran in shouting, “The bombs are coming!”Two Thai warplanes were circling overhead. Ms. Pheap, a Cambodian, was running for safety when she heard an explosion behind her. She said she sa...

The Australian state of New South Wales, of which Sydney is the capital, on Wednesday passed new laws that further restrict gun ownership and empower police to shut down protests, in response to last week’s terrorist attack on a Hanukkah celebration.The state legislation comes just 10 days after the country’s deadliest mass shootin...

China has been growing its stockpile of nuclear warheads by about 100 a year as its top leader, Xi Jinping, pushes to expand his nuclear options. But its production of warheads slowed last year, the Pentagon said, without specifying a cause.The U.S. Department of Defense’s latest annual report on China’s armed forces estimated that...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine told reporters on Tuesday that he was ready to pull his troops back from areas of the eastern Donetsk region still under Kyiv’s control and turn them into a demilitarized zone as part of a possible peace deal with Moscow.The offer was the closest Mr. Zelensky has come to addressing the thorny...

Three people, including two police officers, were killed on Wednesday by a bomb in Moscow after the officers tried to apprehend a person acting suspiciously near a police car, Russian investigators said.The blast occurred next to a police station in the same southern Moscow neighborhood where a senior Russian military commander was...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has unveiled a revised draft peace plan, developed with the United States, portraying it as Kyiv’s best effort to end the war with Russia.The 20 points included in the plan cover a broad range of issues, from the security guarantees Kyiv wants to prevent future Russian aggression to commitmen...

Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg lead a German legal aid organization that assists individuals facing online abuse and violent threats.Clare Melford runs a British group that helps identify disinformation.Imran Ahmed is a British activist who runs an organization that has chronicled anti-vaccination content on social me...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An explosive device detonated in Gaza on Wednesday, injuring one Israeli soldier and prompting Israel to accuse Hamas of violating the U.S.-backed ceasefire. It was the latest incident to threaten the tenuous truce that has held since Oct. 10 as each side accuses the other o...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem’s Manger Square on Christmas Eve as families heralded a much-needed boost of holiday spirit. The giant Christmas tree that was absent during the Israel-Hamas war returned on Wednesday, overlooking a parade of scouts playing...

Finances already looked tight for Jade Grant and her three children as she entered the year’s final months.“Everyone’s birthday is back-to-back,” the 32-year-old certified nursing assistant said. “You have holidays coming up. You have Thanksgiving. Everything is right there. And then, boom....

Suze Lopez holds her baby boy on her lap and marvels at the remarkable way he came into the world.Before little Ryu was born, he developed outside his mom’s womb, hidden by a basketball-sized ovarian cyst — a dangerous situation so rare that his doctors plan to write about the case for a med...

Burkina Faso’s interim leader, who is part of a regional alliance of military-led countries that includes Mali and Niger, has announced “large-scale” joint operations against armed groups in the coming days.Captain Ibrahim Traore’s comments came as the three countries, allied under the banner of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES),...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive on Wednesday warned that it would take action against any “unjustified measures” after the U.S. State Department barred five Europeans it accuses of pressuring U.S. technology firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.The Europeans were ch...

PARIS (AP) — A pro-Russian hacking group claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack that halted package deliveries by France’s national postal service just days before Christmas, prosecutors said Wednesday.After the claim by the cybercrime group known as Noname057, French intelligence ag...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters that he would be willing to withdraw troops from the country’s eastern industrial heartland if Russia also pulls back and the area becomes a demilitarized, free economic zone monitored by international forces. The pr...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Voters in Guinea will head to the polls on Sunday for the West African nation’s first presidential election since the military took power in a 2021 coup, with analysts predicting a likely win for junta leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya.Guinea is one of 10 African countries w...

PAPIRI, Nigeria (AP) — In a Christmas reunion, families and villagers in north-central Nigeria cried and hugged schoolchildren who were held for a month after being seized in one of the largest mass abductions in the country’s history. The 130 schoolchildren and teachers were released on Sun...

China has accused two Taiwanese nationals of leading a smuggling ‍operation involving a ‍Chinese-crewed vessel that damaged subsea cables in February, in an incident that has stoked tensions between the countries.The public security bureau in Weihai, in China’s eastern Shandong province, said on Wednesday that a probe into the inci...

The state of New South Wales (NSW) will have the toughest gun laws in Australia as well as wide-reaching new restrictions on free speech in the wake of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, which left 15 people dead.Less than two weeks after the attack on a Jewish celebration, new legislation was passed by the state’s legislative assembly...

Thailand and Cambodia have reported new fighting in their ongoing border conflict, as the first talks between the sides since the latest outbreak of violence get under way.Thailand’s military said on Wednesday that there had been clashes in the border provinces of Sisaket and Surin, Thai media reported, with Thai forces responding...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin doesn’t condone the actions that led to wide receiver DK Metcalf’s two-game suspension by the NFL following an in-game altercation with a fan, but he added that Metcalf has his full support.The league punished the two-time Pro Bowler by...

The United States has imposed visa bans on five Europeans, including a former European Union commissioner, accusing them of pressuring tech firms to censor and suppress “American viewpoints they oppose”.In a statement on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterised the individuals as “radical activists” who had “advance...

Venezuela has told the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that the United States has “continental ambitions” over much of Latin America as it wages an unofficial war to remove the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.“It’s not just about Venezuela. The ambition is continental,” Venezuela’s UN ambassador, Samuel Mon...

United States President Donald Trump has said that he expects the next chairman of the US Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low and never “disagree” with him.Trump made his remarks on Tuesday as interviewing was under way for candidates to replace outgoing Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell.Recommended Stories list of 4 items...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for a meeting with United States counterpart Donald Trump to discuss “sensitive issues” as negotiators inched closer to a final draft of a peace plan, nearly four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.Zelenskyy told reporters in an embargoed briefing on Tuesday that U...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs urged a federal appeals court in New York late Tuesday to order his immediate release from prison and reverse his conviction on prostitution-related charges or direct his trial judge to lighten his four-year sentence.The lawyers sa...

A prominent California farmer was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife in a remote mountain community in Arizona, the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office said.Michael Abatti, 63, was arrested in El Centro and booked into jail on a first-degree murder...

A Christmas Eve Powerball drawing could add new meaning to holiday cheer as millions of players hope to cash in on the $1.7 billion prize, which comes after months without a jackpot winner.The United States’ 4th-largest jackpot on record comes after 46 consecutive draws without someone claim...

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Central African Republic on Dec. 28 will hold presidential and legislative elections as concerns over armed groups have led to a growing reliance on Russia for security.President Faustin Archange Touadera has led the country since 2016 and is seen as l...

DWEIL’A, Syria (AP) — At a church in Syria where a suicide attack killed 25 people in June, hundreds of worshippers gathered before Christmas to remember those they lost and reaffirm their faith.With a small detail of security forces standing guard outside, members of Mar Elias Church held M...

California officials and weather forecasters urged holiday travelers to avoid the roads and reconsider Christmas travel as a series of powerful winter storms brought relentless rains, heavy winds and mountain snow.Storms began to move in late Tuesday evening and were expected to intensify in...

Masashi “Jumbo” Ozaki, whose 113 worldwide victories were the most of any player from Japan, died Wednesday in his home country after a battle with colon cancer, the Japan Golf Tour said. He was 78.Ozaki was revered in Japan, a big hitter with a sense of style who won 94 times over 29 years...

HONG KONG (AP) — Asian markets were mixed on Wednesday after the benchmark S&P 500 closed at another record high following a report that the U.S. economy grew at an unexpectedly strong 4.3% annual rate in July to September.The U.S. government’s first estimate of growth for the third quarter...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Search teams on Wednesday recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from the jet that crashed and killed Libya’s military chief and other senior officers, while efforts to retrieve the victim’s remains were still underway, Turkey’s interior minister said. Th...

MOSCOW (AP) — Three people, including two police officers, were killed in an explosion in Moscow on Wednesday, Russian investigators said, just days after a car bomb killed a high-ranking general not far away.The two traffic police officers were approaching a “suspicious individual” when an...

NEW YORK (AP) — A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and its inspector general over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people.Th...

Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka became the first player to defect from LIV Golf, a significant blow to the Saudi-funded league that raises questions whether the PGA Tour will find a way for him to return.LIV Golf posted an announcement to its website under a statement that Talor Gooch...

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” The university said in a statement pos...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri pass rusher Damon Wilson II claims that the athletic department at Georgia is trying to illegally punish him for entering the transfer portal in a lawsuit filed by the linebacker in state court Tuesday in Boone County, Missouri.Wilson transferred to the Tigers l...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — After a gunman shot a Delaware state trooper inside a DMV office near Wilmington on Tuesday, the wounded trooper pushed a nearby employee to safety before the gunman shot him again, killing him, authorities said. A police officer then confronted, shot and killed the g...

BRISTOL, Pa. (AP) — A thunderous explosion Tuesday at a nursing home just outside Philadelphia killed at least two people, collapsed part of the building, sent fire shooting out and left people trapped inside, authorities said.Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a news conference several...

Briana Fair, a mental health clinician with the San Mateo Police Department, received a dozen voicemails from the same distressed caller over a single weekend this month. She knew the voice. It was her client, saying that a celebrity has been hacking her phone, that she needed help moving in...

NEW YORK (AP) — Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier ’s lawyers are asking a judge to throw out sports gambling charges that have kept him off the court this season, arguing that the government overreached by turning a private dispute over bettors’ use of nonpublic information into a federal case.I...

SWANSEA, Wales (AP) — Martha Stewart has joined pal Snoop Dogg as a minority owner of Welsh soccer team Swansea.The former Premier League club, which plays in the English second division, didn’t disclose financial details in Tuesday’s announcement about the American businesswoman and media p...

After the outbreak of World War II, Robert Nakamura and his family, like 120,000 other people of Japanese descent, were forcibly removed from their home and placed in a remote internment camp.It was 1942, the year Mr. Nakamura turned 6. He would later recall that on the roughly 250-mile trip north to the camp from Los Angeles in a...

Lawyers for the music mogul Sean Combs on Tuesday appealed his conviction and sentencing on prostitution-related charges, saying that the sexual encounters at the heart of his case were consensual and that the trial judge handed down an improperly steep sentence.In a federal trial in Manhattan this past summer, a jury found Mr. Com...

The new leadership of CBS News is facing an outcry over alleged political interference in its coverage after a report on a controversial Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration has deported immigrants was pulled at the eleventh hour.Criticism of the network grew on Monday after an investigation into alleged abuses at El Sa...

A new batch of Jeffrey Epstein files that have been released contains numerous references to United States President Donald Trump, including documents detailing flights he took on his then friend’s private jet.Trump flew on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet “many more times than previously has been reported”, acc...

NEW YORK (AP) — A financier has been extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States to face allegations that he cheated investors who were promised monthly 10% gains in what was actually a Ponzi scheme, authorities said. Matthew Melton, 61, of Boulder, Colorado, has remained jailed...

Leaves and bodies fall in “No Other Choice,” Park Chan-wook’s masterfully devilish satire with a chilling autumnal wind blowing through it. “Come on, fall,” urges You Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) as he grills an eel for dinner for his family in the opening moments of Park’s film. He’s eager for th...

British prosecutors on Tuesday charged Russell Brand, the comedian, actor and YouTuber, with two counts of sexual assault, including one of rape.Mr. Brand, 50, was already facing five charges of sexual assault in Britain, including one of rape and another of oral rape, for encounters that were said to have occurred between 1999 and...

Gaza’s health system is on the brink of an unprecedented collapse, with thousands of patients facing death or disability amid a harsh Israeli siege on the enclave, a top health official has warned.Munir al-Barsh, director-general of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that the situation inside the territory’s hosp...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said the Israeli military will never fully withdraw from the Gaza Strip and that an army unit will be established inside the Palestinian enclave.Speaking on Tuesday, Katz said Israeli forces would remain deployed throughout Gaza, despite a United States-backed peace plan signed by Israel and...

Israeli forces have begun demolishing shops in the vicinity of the Qalandiya refugee camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem, as part of a wider military incursion across several Palestinian neighbourhoods, witnesses and medical officials say.The raids, which began early on Tuesday, have extended into the nearby town of Kafr Aqab, w...

The Israeli government is cracking down on critical media outlets, giving it unprecedented control over how its actions are presented to its citizens.Among the moves is the so-called Al Jazeera Law, which allows the government to shut down foreign media outlets on national security grounds. On Tuesday, the Israeli parliament approv...

The Libyan army’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, has died in a plane crash near the Turkish capital, Ankara, shortly after the private jet he was travelling in took off from an airport there.The crash on Tuesday killed everyone on board.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Turkiye jails top-tier players pend...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s parliament on Tuesday approved a measure that criminalizes a broad range of activities that can hinder navigation and commerce in the South American country, such as the seizure of oil tankers. The bill — introduced, debated and approved within two days...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s new government on Tuesday issued a decree that will allow global satellite internet companies such as Starlink or Kuiper to provide internet access across the Andean nation as it tries to upgrade its technology and speed up its notoriously slow connectivity r...

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

A federal magistrate judge in Oregon ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration could not withhold emergency preparation money from states that failed to provide updated population counts that accounted for deportations.The Federal Emergency Management Agency imposed the requirement in October, adding a hurdle for states in ord...

From the moment President Trump won re-election last year, it was clear that major upheavals were coming for the nation’s climate and energy policies. Few could have predicted just how sweeping the overhauls would be.Yesterday, my colleagues published an article detailing many of the changes. Here is a partial tally of the major en...

Relentless rains from a series of atmospheric rivers are expected to take a “dead aim” at Los Angeles, with dangerous flooding, mudslides and debris flows possible in the region through Christmas, forecasters said.Mike Wofford, a meteorologist at the Los Angeles office of the National Weather Service, said the heavy rain would arri...

Less than 24 hours after President Trump dealt a catastrophic blow to five major offshore wind farms on Monday, the Democratic governors of several Northeastern states began plotting a strategy to save them.In a hastily arranged conference call on Tuesday morning, the governors started to craft a two-pronged plan. They discussed su...

An hour’s drive north of Mumbai, India, in the middle of a swath of low green hills and small farmhouses, a large arch marks the entrance to a complex known as Keshav Srushti — or, loosely, Keshav’s Creation. Next to the arch is a tall portrait of a man with a walrus mustache and an orange blazer: Keshav Baliram Hedgewar.Dr. Hedgew...

More from our inbox:The Best Gift EverImageCredit...Maansi Srivastava/The New York TimesTo the Editor:Re “How Mamdani’s Audacious Child Care Plan Could Work,” by Rachel Cohen Booth (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 15):As an immigrant mother and literacy advocate, I read this essay with both relief and resolve. Relief, because it confirms...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Christina Chavarria had already prepared almost 200 tamales, but she was back at Amapola Market in Southern California early Tuesday morning for more masa. The dough made from ground corn was the best there, so it didn’t bother her that the line was wrapped around the park...

Ukraine returns fire as Russia says intercepted 29 drones, two days after US-led peace talks end in Miami.

Ukraine returns fire as Russia says intercepted 29 drones, two days after US-led peace talks end in Miami.

Ukraine returns fire as Russia says intercepted 29 drones, two days after US-led peace talks end in Miami.

Ukraine returns fire as Russia says intercepted 29 drones, two days after US-led peace talks end in Miami.

London, United Kingdom – Lawyers of imprisoned hunger-striking activists linked to the protest group Palestine Action have put the British government on notice as the justice secretary refuses to meet them.Imran Khan & Partners, which represents the collective, wrote a pre-claim letter to the government on Monday, warning that they...

British police have arrested Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and two other people at a pro-Palestine protest in central London, according to campaign group Defend Our Juries.The group said Thunberg was arrested on Tuesday at the Prisoners for Palestine protest held in the heart of London’s Square Mile financial district outside the...

British police have said they will take no further action over comments made by punk-rap duo Bob Vylan about the Israeli military during a performance at the Glastonbury music festival in June.Avon and Somerset Police said on Tuesday that the remarks did not meet the criminal threshold required for prosecution “for any person to be...

British authorities have brought new counts of rape and sexual assault against comedian Russell Brand, who is already facing similar charges involving four women.The United Kingdom’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Tuesday that the new charges – one count of rape and one of sexual assault – against Brand were in relation to...

Belgium has formally joined the case launched by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) alleging Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.In a statement on Tuesday, the ICJ – The Hague-based highest court of the United Nations – said Belgium had filed a declaration of intervention in the case.Recommended St...

Here is where things stand on Wednesday, December 24:Fighting Russian forces began a “massive attack” on Ukraine on Monday night, killing three people and targeting 13 regions with 650 drones and 30 missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X. Those killed in the overnight attack included a four-year-old g...

Syria’s foreign and defence ministers met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and held discussions on expanding “strategic cooperation in the military industries sector”, Syrian state media has reported.The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) ⁠said that Putin’s meeting on Tuesday with Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Asaad Hass...

We’re doing something a little different over the next two weeks. We’ll still give you the latest news. But at the top, we’ll be sharing some of our favorite reads of the year or giving you some cool end-of-2025 stuff. We hope you enjoy the chance to slow down a bit. We won’t be publishing a newsletter on Dec. 25.To those of you wh...

The United States’ aggressive campaign against tankers carrying Venezuelan crude has thrown the country’s oil industry into disarray, jeopardizing its government’s main source of revenue.President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has been struggling to adjust to President Trump’s dramatic escalation of pressure against his government, w...

For Tina Nguyen, a Canadian muralist in Belleville, Ontario, Christmas is part of another nativity story: the birth of her hair-accessory business. It all started six years ago, when Ms. Nguyen gave a cousin one of her handmade, pillowy hair scrunchies, inspiring her to sell them on the internet, where they quickly became a hit.But...

In early December, Germany’s centrist government didn’t have the votes to pass a law to save the country’s teetering pension system. A group of 18 coalition lawmakers balked at the cost, robbing the government of its parliamentary majority.The bill was rescued at the last minute by an unlikely savior: The far-left Die Linke party a...

At first glance, the candy in convenience stores across London appeared to be regular Snickers. It had familiar wrapping, with a picture of a nougat and caramel bar encased in chocolate and, for any complaints, a toll-free number to call.But the writing on the packaging was almost entirely in Cyrillic, Russia’s alphabet — and anyon...

In the hours after the massacre at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney last week, it seemed that Australia’s leaders had come together to offer a bipartisan response, as they had done for many past catastrophes.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged unity, describing the assault on the Jewish community as an attack on ev...

The French Parliament voted on Tuesday evening to pass a special law that will keep public services funded through January, after lawmakers failed — for the second consecutive year — to agree to a new national budget by the end of the legislative calendar.The failure to agree on a new budget reflected the political paralysis that h...

VideoCreditCredit...By Ruru KuoBy the end of 2024, words like slop, brat, brain rot, skibidi toilet and solo polyamory had become part of some people’s everyday life.In the deluge of unprecedented and often harrowing news this year, you may have missed an assortment of new slang terms that burst onto the scene, with help from Gen Z...

A California woman has been charged with murder after the remains of her missing 9-year-old daughter were found in Utah, authorities said Tuesday. Ashlee Buzzard, 40, was arrested Tuesday after bullet cartridges found near her daughter’s body were linked to a used cartridge case found in her...

A group of immigrant truckers sued California’s Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday, alleging the state violated thousands of workers’ rights when officials took action to revoke their commercial driver’s licenses.California officials said last month that the state notified about 17,000...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge gave a green light Tuesday to New York’s so-called Green Light Law, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to stop the state from giving people driver’s licenses without having them prove they are in the country legally.U.S. District Judge Anne M. Nardacci i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has directed five large-scale wind projects under construction off the East Coast to suspend their activities for at least 90 days, according to letters from the Interior Department obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, which provide new details...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday it was replacing its longstanding lottery system for H-1B work visas with a new approach that prioritizes skilled, higher-paid foreign workers.The change follows a series of actions by the Trump administration aimed at reshap...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s newly appointed envoy to Greenland said Tuesday that the Republican administration is looking to begin a conversation with residents of the semi-autonomous Danish territory about the best way forward for the strategically important island...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran and the United States reaffirmed their commitments to diplomacy at a contentious meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, but the gap between the Trump administration and the Islamic Republic on a nuclear deal remains wide and deep.The sixth round of negoti...

The Trump administration is deploying 350 National Guard troops to New Orleans ahead of the New Year, launching another federal deployment in the city at the same time that an immigration crackdown led by Border Patrol is underway. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Tuesday that Guard memb...

Take a 3-D tour of the president’s office, where he covered more than a third of wall space with gold.

Pro-Trump influencers have always had a lot to say about the Jeffrey Epstein files.Several called for their release before President Trump was re-elected, certain that the files would expose a cabal of Democrats who had palled around with Mr. Epstein even though he had been exposed as a convicted sex offender.And several criticized...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow President Trump to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in the Chicago area over the objection of Illinois officials, casting doubt on the viability of similar deployments in other American cities.The justices’ order is preliminary, but it blocks the Trump administration for now fro...

Two explosions at a nursing home northeast of Philadelphia killed two people and hospitalized at least five others, officials said Tuesday. Multiple people were unaccounted for, they said, cautioning that the numbers were still “in flux.”The explosions at the Bristol Health and Rehab Center in Bristol Township, Pa., also known as S...

A Delaware state trooper was killed after gunfire broke out at a motor vehicle office in Wilmington on Tuesday afternoon, leaving the gunman dead and additional people injured, the authorities said.Deputies responded to a report of an active shooter shortly after 2 p.m. at the Division of Motor Vehicles office, according to a state...

About 350 National Guard troops will arrive in New Orleans before New Year’s Eve, Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana said on Tuesday, and they will stay through at least February.Mr. Landry confirmed the deployment both in an appearance on Fox News Channel and on social media. Following Washington and Memphis, New Orleans would be the l...

Claudio Neves Valente was like a ghost.He dropped out of Brown University in the early 2000s, and friends and family have said they had no idea what happened to him until he appeared two decades later, accused of killing two students at Brown University and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor this month.Now, law enfor...

The United States military has dispatched a number of transport and cargo planes to the Caribbean this week, as President Trump continues to ramp up military pressure on President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, whom Mr. Trump has threatened with military action.Over the past week, C-17 heavy-lift cargo planes — which are largely used...

Portions of some files released from the Justice Department’s investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, were not properly redacted digitally, with some censored information easily revealed by copying and pasting blacked-out text into a separate file.The information from the failed redacti...

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor from teaching duties over her decision to fail a paper on gender that cited the Bible, in a case that has provoked a debate over academic freedom and what speech is protected in the classroom.An undergraduate student at the university had complained to the school after she receiv...

On a crisp, cold morning in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia this month, a federal judge listened as lawyers argued over racism, the Confederacy and who deserves to be honored through historical memory.The trial, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, was ostensibly about whether a school board violated t...

Yemen’s warring factions agreed on Tuesday to release thousands of prisoners in what would be the largest swap since civil war erupted in the country more than a decade ago.The deal provides for the exchange of about 2,900 prisoners between the Houthi rebels and Yemen’s internationally recognized government, according to Abdul Qade...

Libya’s highest-ranking army officer, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, and four other Libyan military officials were killed in a plane crash in Turkey on Tuesday night, according to the Libyan prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeiba.General al-Haddad, the Libyan military’s chief of general staff, had been meeting in Turkey with his...

The Trump administration will begin to garnish the pay of student loan borrowers in January, the Department of Education said Tuesday, stepping up a repayment enforcement effort that began this year.Beginning the week of Jan. 7, roughly 1,000 borrowers who are in default will receive notices informing them of their status, accordin...

One of this season’s most-talked-about “60 Minutes” investigations may be one that never made it to air.CBS News caused a controversy after it pulled a report from Sunday’s episode of the long-running news program that featured the stories of Venezuelan men who were deported by the Trump administration to a brutal prison in El Salv...

The Trump administration is barring five prominent Europeans from the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Tuesday, accusing them of being involved in online censorship of Americans, a claim they have disputed.The action sharply escalated the administration’s fight against European efforts to monitor content o...

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Texas from enforcing a new state law that requires companies that run app stores, like Apple and Google, to verify the ages of users — a win for the tech giants and a blow to parents who want more control over the apps their children download.Judge Robert Pitman of the U.S. District Court for the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. The Europeans, characterized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “radical” activists and “weaponized” n...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday he was “very disappointed” that his home state of Illinois had approved a law allowing for medically assisted suicide, and he called for greater respect of life.Leo said he had spoken “explicitly” with Gov. JB Pritzker and urged him to...

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado woman suspected of killing two of her young children during a custody dispute with her ex-husband two years ago has been returned from Britain to the United States to face charges, authorities said Tuesday.Colorado Springs-based District Attorney Michael Allen announ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Monday against Illinois Governor JB Pritzker over a series of new state laws that aim to protect immigrants inside courthouses, hospitals and day care centers.Pritzker signed a set of laws a few weeks ago that prohibit civil arrests in an...

CAPTIVES AND COMPANIONS: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World, by Justin MarozziWhen the British journalist Justin Marozzi was covering the 2011 uprising in Libya, he encountered something that profoundly confused him. Meeting in Tripoli with a group of rebels, he heard one turn to a Black comrade and say,...

Tariffs, a government shutdown, rising unemployment and persistent inflation have all added stress to the U.S. economy. And whether any of that might put a dent on consumer spending has been a subject of speculation.At least part of the answer came on Tuesday when Mastercard released its annual data on holiday spending. Shoppers sp...

The U.S. economy grew at a vigorous pace through the end of September, despite the uncertainty created by tariffs and widespread concerns about affordability among households.Economic growth rose at a 4.3 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday, an acceleration from the previous quarter.Th...

In our era of hyperpolarization, much of our art this year seemed to agree on one thing: The best vantage for exploring our times was from the political middle.It was a thought that grew as I saw works of film, stage and TV that explored ideas of racial injustice become some of this year’s biggest critical and commercial successes....

“The Queen of Versailles,” the biggest-budget production to open on Broadway this fall and the only large-scale new musical, aspired to be a cautionary tale about consumption and greed. Instead, it wound up as a cautionary tale about Broadway.The show, based on a 2012 documentary about a couple seeking to build America’s largest pr...

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State defensive coordinator Jon Heacock has retired, ending a coaching career after four-plus decades.He announced his decision on Tuesday.Heacock, known for a 3-3-5 scheme with the Cyclones, was a finalist for the Broyles Award that recognizes college football’s top a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default early next year. The department said it will send notices to approximately 1,000 borrowers the week of January 7, with more notices to come at an in...

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it had received an application for seabed mining exploration in international waters, the first in its effort to encourage the controversial industry.The federal government said it was formally considering the first permit applications from the Metals Company, which has become a forerun...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A consortium led by a Pakistani investment firm acquired a 75% stake in state-run Pakistan International Airlines on Tuesday during a televised auction, marking a major step in the government’s long-delayed effort to privatize the loss-making national carrier.The Arif Habib...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia ’s government has declared an economic state of emergency that enables President Gustavo Petro’s administration to issue taxes by decree, as the nation struggles to finance hospitals and the military while paying off record debts.Petro issued the decree late...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The death toll in South Africa ’s latest mass shooting at a pub rose to 10 on Tuesday, while police said they had identified two potential suspects.Three women and seven men were killed in Sunday’s early-morning assault in the township of Bekkersdal, 46 kilometers (28 mil...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The head of an alliance of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger declared Tuesday that the launch of a joint battalion “must be followed by large-scale operations in the coming days” in a region plagued by deadly extremism.Burkina Faso leader Capt. Ibrahim Traoré gave no details i...

TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian lawyer accused of playing a key role in an international drug smuggling network involving a former Olympic snowboarder was granted bail on Tuesday ahead of his extradition hearing to the United States.Deepak Paradkar, 62, was arrested with several other Canadians la...

PARIS (AP) — A freight lift rose up on its crane Tuesday toward the Louvre Museum — but this time it wasn’t jewel thieves. It was workers installing security bars on the window used to break into the Paris landmark’s Apollo Gallery in October’s stunning heist.The world’s most-visited museum...

CAIRO (AP) — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh was put on display Tuesday in the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall while being reassembled in real time. The cedarwood boat, one of two that were found that belong to King Khufu, was pieced together starting Tuesday morning as dozen...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A private jet carrying Libya’s military chief and four other people crashed after takeoff from Turkey’s capital, Ankara, on Tuesday, killing everyone on board. The Libyan military chief was in Ankara for high-level defense talks aimed at boosting military cooperation be...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two and a half months have passed since Gaza ’s latest ceasefire took effect, and the supplies being delivered to war-battered Palestinians are again the subject of fierce debate.The underlying question is whether Israel is upholding a key commitment under the U.S.-backed ce...

Al Michaels has achieved many milestones during his Hall of Fame broadcasting career.The one he has reached this season, though, may stand the test of time — 40 years as the play-by-play announcer for one of the NFL’s primetime packages.According to research from the 506 Sports Archive, the...

LONDON (AP) — British authorities on Tuesday brought new counts of rape and sexual assault against comedian Russell Brand, who is already facing similar charges involving four women. The U.K.'s Crown Prosecution Service said the new charges — one count of rape and one of sexual assault — aga...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Venus Williams and Andrea Preti are married, the tennis great announced Tuesday on social media.Williams and Preti became wife and husband over the weekend in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of a five-day celebration.After becoming the second-oldest woman to win a tour-l...

NEW YORK (AP) — On any given evening as the lights come up on Act 2 of “Liberation,” Bess Wohl’s intergenerational Broadway play about a women’s consciousness-raising group, you can hear supportive cheers of “Whoo!” and “Yeah!” — and sometimes, a round of applause. All before a single word h...

“When we first stepped in, we were a little shocked,” Andrea Giovanni Rossi said of the apartment he had been hired to renovate.The flat, a 215-square-foot rental in Milan’s Porta Romana neighborhood, was “kind of a challenge to design,” he said, adding that “it was kind of a sign that the market is shifting and that these very tig...

NEW YORK (AP) — Timothée Chalamet squints as he gazes out at the Manhattan shoreline. It’s a few hours before the premiere of his new movie, “Marty Supreme,” but at this moment, he’s sitting on a quiet bench at the end of a West Side pier.It’s brisk and there’s snow on the ground, but it’s s...

Jim Jarmusch invites audiences into three family gatherings of adult children in his gentle tryptic “Father Mother Sister Brother.”Don’t worry, you won’t be resentful you’re not part of any of them, not even the one where Tom Waits plays Adam Driver’s dad. To be fair, all the groupings are p...

It’s a funny time of year to be writing to you about fast and simple cooking. Is this not the moment for luxury, pageantry and scale, for projects like tamales or lumpia that require a gathering of home cooks and many hands; or Caribbean black cake, with its jeweled dried and candied fruit soaked for up to a year; or a perfect prim...

OpeningLalynOlie Sangpetpairot joins a growing list of women having a significant impact in New York’s Thai kitchens. With other projects already established — notably When in Bangkok in Flushing, Queens, and Malii Gramercy, both with mega menus — she is now drawing on Thai home cooking, the dishes she remembers from childhood. The...

Economic data never tells a perfectly clear story, but lately the contradictions have been especially jarring. Just a week apart, the government delivered two sharply conflicting messages. One report showed job growth stalling and unemployment rising. Another showed the economy expanding at a blistering 4.3 percent annual rate — mo...

ImageImageJensen Huang, C.E.O. of Nvidia, has seen his company’s value soar to more than $4 trillion on the back of investor enthusiasm for the artificial intelligence boom.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York TimesAndrew here. If there is one question that has been asked more than any other this year in the business world, it is th...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — England’s managing director of men’s cricket Rob Key says he will investigate the drinking habits of the England team following reports that their mid-Ashes beach resort break may have involved over-indulging of alcohol.England lost each of the first three tests t...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said he will be extending invitations to next year’s U.S.-hosted Group of 20 summit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as the Republican administration looks to deepen its relationship with the Central Asian nations.Trump announced the plan on Tu...

In a recent edition of The Amplifier newsletter, Lindsay Zoladz shared the music that shaped her year. She reconnected with a Lady Gaga classic after seeing her in concert, reconsidered a Beat Happening tune through the ears of a toddler and discovered an oddball Johnny Cash cover by the alternative rock band Wall of Voodoo.As Zola...

The British police announced on Tuesday that they were ending a criminal investigation into Bob Vylan, a punk-rap duo that tried to get a crowd at a music festival to chant “Death, death, to the I.D.F.,” in reference to Israel’s military.Although the chant caused international outrage, the Avon and Somerset Police said in a news re...

ImageImageTracy ChapmanCredit...Nicholas Albrecht for The New York TimesBy Lindsay ZoladzDear listeners,It’s time for one of my favorite annual Amplifier traditions: the songs that explain my year. Consider it a musical memoir of my 2025, in playlist form.A few weeks ago, when Apple Music sent me a month-by-month roundup of my most...

ATLANTA (AP) — Three inmates who escaped from a jail east of Atlanta, including one who was being held on a murder charge, used jail phones to call friends on the outside who met them and arranged a Lyft ride to whisk them out of Georgia, authorities said Tuesday.The inmates, who were captur...

Air traffic controllers lost communication for about 10 minutes with a small Mexican Navy plane carrying a young medical patient and seven others before it crashed off the Texas coast, killing at least five people, Mexico’s president said Tuesday. Authorities initially believed the plan...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman who almost killed her sixth-grade classmate to please the fictional horror villain known as Slender Man was ordered back to a state psychiatric hospital Tuesday after she escaped from her group home last month.Waukesha County Circuit Judge K. Scott Wagn...

Former Nebraska U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, a conservative who rebuked political tribalism and stood out as a longtime critic of President Donald Trump, announced Tuesday he was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer.Sasse, 53, made the announcement on social media, saying he learned of the dise...

This holiday season, many U.S. drivers are getting the gift of lower gas prices.According to data from motor club AAA, December has been the cheapest month for prices at the pump this year. The national average for unleaded gasoline has stayed below the $3 mark since Dec. 2, falling to its l...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Monday against Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker over new state laws aimed at protecting immigrants at courthouses, hospitals and day cares.Pritzker signed a set of laws earlier this month that ban civil arrests at and around courthouses state...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Now that the Chiefs are moving across the state line from their longtime home in Missouri to a $3 billion domed stadium to be built in Kansas, attention in the area has swung to the Royals, who have a similar decision to make regarding their own future.One thing is ce...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The number of states that will accept late-arriving mail-in ballots during next year’s critical midterm elections continues to dwindle, as Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine “reluctantly” signed new restrictions into law Friday, citing the uncertainty of pending litigation to ban th...

Wyoming’s lone U.S. representative is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Cynthia Lummis, who isn’t seeking reelection.Rep. Harriet Hageman, a Republican, on Tuesday became first to announce for Senate in Wyoming after Lummis, also a Republican, said Friday she isn’t seeking a...

The evolution of the Christmas Day sports calendar in the U.S. has given fans a respite if they need a break from family gatherings or just some entertainment while they sip on eggnog.This year’s major events include five NBA games and three NFL games, with games spanning more than 12 hours....

A Helena judge has allowed the wolf hunting and trapping regulations the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted earlier this year to stand, despite flagging “serious concerns” about the state’s ability to accurately estimate Montana’s wolf population.In a 43-page opinion, District Cour...

KAYENTA, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo Nation police said a suspected drunken driver struck bystanders who were waiting for a Christmas parade to start, killing one and injuring three others.The crash happened Monday evening in Kayenta, just south of Monument Valley in northeastern Arizona, as spectat...