In arguably its biggest decision of the year, the Maui County Council last week voted to phase out roughly 7,000 vacation rentals over the next five years to make room for sorely needed longterm housing for residents.The 5-3 decision on Bill 9 was coupled with the intention of quickly moving...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has released tens of thousands more documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, a tranche that included multiple mentions of President Donald Trump but added little new revelatory information to the long-anticipated public file on the late financier an...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The question of whether Missouri’s new congressional districts are in effect for the 2026 elections will be up to a court to decide. A lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of voters contends the redrawn map backed by President Donald Trump should have been automatically...

Things are escalating into a standoff at Montana’s state-owned ghost towns, where rising rents and theme park ambitions, along with a case of embezzlement, are frustrating the owners of some of the state’s top tourist attractions in neighboring Virginia and Nevada cites in southwest Montana...

DENVER (AP) — A prominent Colorado immigration and labor activist was released Monday after spending nine months in immigration detention, supporters said.Jeanette Vizguerra left an immigration detention center in suburban Denver a day after a judge ruled she could post a $5,000 bond, accord...

A controversial news segment that was abruptly pulled from the television show “60 Minutes,” appears to have been leaked online this week after the last minute decision to pull the story exploded into public debate about journalistic independence.The segment featured interviews with migrants...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling on Monday solidified a win f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown.The justices declined the Republican administration’s emergency request to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judg...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia can spend Christmas with his family after spending much of the year in custody. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, in Maryland, issued an order late on Monday requiring government attorneys to file a brief by Dec. 26 on whether they plan to take him back i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — George Conway, a former conservative lawyer who has become one of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken critics, is taking steps toward a run for Congress in an open New York City seat.Conway filed paperwork Monday to run as a Democrat in New York’s 12th Congressional Dis...

A series of powerful winter storms threatened to slam California with relentless rains, heavy winds and mountain snow as holiday travelers hit the road for Christmas.Millions of people are expected to travel across the state. They will likely meet hazardous, if not impossible, traveling cond...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump issued a new warning to his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, on Monday as the U.S. Coast Guard steps up its efforts to intercept oil tankers in the Caribbean, part of Washington's growing pressure campaign on Caracas.Trump was a...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Feel like you can’t focus? Like you’ll never finish a book again? Like the only way to keep your mind and hands busy is to scroll on social media for hours? You’re far from alone. One body of decades-long research found the average person’s attention span for a single screen...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers’ confidence in the economy was shaken in December as Americans grew anxious about high prices and the impact of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell 3.8 points to 89.1 in December, the...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Warriors forward Draymond Green had a heated exchange with coach Steve Kerr in the huddle during a third-quarter timeout Monday night and then went to the locker room on his own to cool down.Kerr said even once Green returned to the bench for the finish of Golden State’s...

Kosti, Sudan – The flow of displaced people fleeing the fighting in Sudan shows no sign of slowing – the latest hailing from Heglig.In early December, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the strategic Heglig oilfield in West Kordofan province after its rival, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), withdrew from the area.Ne...

Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have agreed to stop fighting in the northern city of Aleppo, after a wave of attacks left at least two civilians dead and several injured.On Monday, Syria’s state news agency cited the Ministry of Defence as saying the army’s general command issued an order to st...

Sudan’s prime minister has presented a plan to end the country’s nearly three-year war before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), calling on members to stand “on the right side of history” by backing the initiative, as fighting continued in Kordofan and North Kordofan states.Addressing the UNSC on Monday, Kamil Idris outlin...

Yemen’s internationally recognised government and the Houthi group have reached an agreement to free detainees, according to the United Nations, with officials from both sides putting the number at thousands.In a statement on Tuesday, the UN envoy on Yemen Hans Grundberg said the prisoner swap deal came after nearly two weeks of ta...

The Israeli parliament has approved an extension of a law which allows the shutdown of foreign media outlets over national security grounds for an additional two years.The bill, which replaces temporary legislation passed last April, includes several amendments aimed at eliminating judicial oversight. It can now be applied even if...

President Trump has likened himself to a king, a dictator for a day and an emperor.Now, during Christmas in Naples, he can be remade as one of the three wise men.On Via San Gregorio Armeno, a street in the center of this ancient port city in southern Italy, shops have for generations sold meticulously crafted carvings of Nativity s...

Russia unleashed an overnight barrage of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on Tuesday, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the latest American-backed proposals for a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow looked “quite solid,” even as he hinted at obstacles ahead in the talks.“There are certain things...

The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was arrested on Tuesday under terrorism laws in Britain for holding a placard that the police said showed support for the banned group Palestine Action, her lawyer and organizers of the protest said.Ms. Thunberg, 22, joined a protest in London’s financial district on Tuesday morning that opposed...

Without evidencePresident Trump doesn’t like wind farms. Never has. He thinks they’re ugly. He calls them inefficient and expensive. Years ago, he failed to stop the construction of one that’s visible from one of his golf courses in Scotland. He was apoplectic about it. He told a Scottish politician on Twitter in 2014 that “the win...

As a child, Kara never thought of her parents as the types to play favorites.Her youngest siblings always enjoyed extra attention and special privileges, like trips to Disneyland, but she had rationalized the behavior: The oldest children are meant to be more independent, she thought, and her parents probably had more money for vac...

One July day in 2011, the Apron Museum in Iuka, Miss., received a small bib apron shaped like a rabbit, its frame embroidered with front paws mischievously digging into two sewn-on pockets. The apron arrived with a typed letter from its 81-year-old owner, Nelda Young, who lived in Jacksonville, Fla. Ms. Young’s aunt had made the ap...

Jane Griffin, 71, knew that her husband was dying — he had been living with Lewy body dementia for more than a decade. But she didn’t anticipate how losing him this April would affect her.Something small, like seeing one of his favorite foods at the grocery, could “send me on a downhill spiral,” Ms. Griffin said.She would feel unex...

In ancient times, travelers in Norway avoided paths thought to be inhabited by trolls. According to Nordic folklore, these fearsome creatures lived in the mountains and threatened and harassed humans.But the Troll Trail, or Trolloypa in Norwegian, is a 100-mile cross-country skiing journey through the Rondane Mountains that finishe...

By gondola, speedboat and even a horse. Those were some of the exotic and over-the-top modes of transportation that Ashley Park’s character, Mindy Chen, used to experience Italy in this season of “Emily in Paris.”Season 5, which debuted on Dec. 18 on Netflix, is mostly set in Rome after Emily Cooper (played by Lily Collins) vacated...

We all have those moments. You’re at drinks with friends and wonder if you should order red wine instead of a cocktail “for your heart.” Or you’re back in bed after a middle-of-the-night bathroom trip and think: Is waking up to pee normal?Every week, we tackle your health questions in our Ask Well column. Our reporters pore over th...

Russian forces have struck Ukraine’s southern Black Sea port of Odesa, damaging port facilities and a ship, the region’s governor says.The attack late on Monday followed another at the weekend when Moscow carried out a sustained barrage of drones and missile attacks on the wider area around Odesa, which is home to ports crucial to...

In a storage shed beneath a cloudless Texas sky in November, Robin Grob performed open brain surgery on a monarch butterfly.Slips of tape held the butterfly’s black and orange wings open and pinned its fuzzy, white-spotted body under a microscope. Through the lens, the brain appeared as a tiny, yellowish mass, into which a tetrode...

The Trump administration is considering giving nearly 800 acres of land in a federal wildlife refuge in Texas to SpaceX, the rocket and satellite maker run by Elon Musk, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.The company would use the land to expand its rocket launch and production site in Cameron County, Texas. In e...

President Trump announced on Monday the construction of a new “Trump class” of warships that would anchor what he called a “golden fleet” for the U.S. Navy, fulfilling a long-held goal to give a personal makeover to a fleet of ships he described as “old and tired and obsolete.”The ships will augment the Navy’s more than five dozen...

Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut wants to know who is funding President Trump’s White House ballroom project, how much it is going to cost and what it is going to look like.Mr. Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a raft of letters on Monday seeking information from...

The Justice Department sued the governor and attorney general of Illinois on Monday in an effort to strike down a new state law that limits federal immigration enforcement.The law, signed by Gov. JB Pritzker in early December, prevents immigration officers from making arrests outside courthouses and makes it easier for Illinois res...

After the coughing fits, the head-to-toe body aches, the chest pains that felt similar to a heart attack, the relentless nausea, the fevers of 105, the 911 calls, the sleepless hospital nights and then the long weeks of what doctors termed “healing” — unexplained rashes, chronic fatigue, brain fog, more coughing fits — Kiley Timmon...

Rooney, a burly, middle-aged cop of few words, was starting another day of police work when an alarming call came in.Bomb threat.It was Election Day last month in Toms River, N.J., and people quickly had to be evacuated from a polling place. Voting was halted.Rooney and his partner sped down to Cedar Grove Elementary School. Within...

The Justice Department released another batch of documents from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation — a wide mix of emails, tips and records from his death.

The Department of Education said Monday that it would investigate whether Brown University violated the law by failing to provide proper campus safety before and immediately after a fatal shooting killed two students earlier this month.The department’s Office of Federal Student Aid will investigate whether the Ivy League school vio...

BRANDY STATION, Va. (AP) — On a sparkling late-fall Sunday at a rural Virginia airfield, 16 careworn passengers were getting off a flight that changed, even saved, their lives. Some looked bemused, some wary, some enthusiastic as they were carried off a small private plane onto the tarmac at...

It feels simple: You shop, find something you want and click to buy. It shows up today, overnight or tomorrow. We’ve gotten used to that speed. But that convenience comes with a climate cost.Multiple factors shape the environmental toll of a delivery. These include the distance from a fulfil...

529 education savings plans are powerful tools to help pay for the mounting costs of an education. Yet some people hesitate to use them.One common concern is oversaving. You can only use 529 funds can only cover qualified education expenses without incurring a tax penalty, but it can be hard...

NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers stepped up gift giving during the first seven weeks of the holiday shopping season, according to new data released Tuesday. But uncertainty about the economy is making shoppers more targeted in their buying. From Nov. 1 through Sunday, cash and credit card sales ros...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a surprisingly strong 4.3% annual rate in the third quarter, the most rapid expansion in two years, as government and consumer spending, as well as exports, all increased.U.S. gross domestic product from July through September — the economy’s total...

These were the updates about the Russia-Ukraine war on Monday, December 22, 2025.

These were the updates about the Russia-Ukraine war on Monday, December 22, 2025.

These were the updates about the Russia-Ukraine war on Monday, December 22, 2025.

These were the updates about the Russia-Ukraine war on Monday, December 22, 2025.

Here is where things stand on Tuesday, December 23:Fighting A car bomb killed Russian Lieutenant General ⁠Fanil Sarvarov in southern Moscow, the third such killing of a senior Russian military officer in just more than a year. Russian investors pointed the finger at Ukraine. Kyiv has not commented on the incident. Russian forces st...

The large-scale Russian attacks come two days after US-led peace talks end in Miami.

Russia has hit regions across Ukraine with missiles and drones, killing at least three people and triggering emergency power outages as United States-led talks to end the nearly four-year conflict dragged on.In a social media post, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a four-year-old in the Zhytomyr region was among those k...

Kyiv, Ukraine – Have you been on a plane during severe turbulence, fearing that the shaking aircraft is about to fall apart and tumble down? Brief moments of weightlessness stop your breath, perhaps you whisper prayers and remember everyone you love.That’s the feeling you get during a Russian air raid in Kyiv, Ukraine, and there ha...

The Trump administration has ordered nearly 30 ambassadors in embassies around the world to return to the United States within weeks, a move that would leave a large gap in the American diplomatic corps even as President Trump has said he wants to resolve conflicts through diplomacy.Many of the ambassadors were told in recent days...

NEW YORK (AP) — It was a scary good year for investors.It was scary because the U.S. stock market plunged to several historic drops on worries about everything from President Donald Trump’s tariffs to interest rates to a possible bubble in artificial-intelligence technology. In the end, thou...

At least nine people have been killed and 10 wounded in a mass shooting in the Bekkersdal township.

At least nine people have been killed and 10 wounded in a mass shooting in the Bekkersdal township.

At least nine people have been killed and 10 wounded in a mass shooting in the Bekkersdal township.

At least nine people have been killed and 10 wounded in a mass shooting in the Bekkersdal township.

May Britt, the Swedish-born actress whose marriage to the Black entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. in 1960 drew racist reactions in Hollywood and elsewhere as the civil rights movement was gathering momentum, died on Dec. 11 in Los Angeles. She was 91.Her son Mark Davis announced the death, at a hospital, in a statement to The Hollywood R...

Kate Winslet feels strongly about Christmas — British Christmas, specifically. “That’s a glorious tradition to uphold,” she said recently, including “gorgeous, but sometimes a bit naff, Christmas decorations, and tins of Cadbury’s Roses” chocolates.The two weeks before Christmas play out in the background of Winslet’s directorial d...

This year, the best-seller lists were again saturated with new releases from blockbuster authors like Dan Brown, John Grisham, James Patterson and Suzanne Collins. But amid the familiar names sat breakout novels from lesser known and first time writers that pulled in huge sales, taking the authors, and sometimes even their publishe...

Check out the list of the most popular shows on HBO Max right now, and you will see some expected titles. There is “It: Welcome to Derry,” inspired by a Stephen King novel, and “Mad Men,” the acclaimed period drama that landed on the platform earlier this month.But hovering near the top is a new series that until about a month ago...

My list of favorite animation this year includes time-traveling rainbow people, regenerative hallucinogenic mushrooms, evil spirits and, of course, demon-hunting pop stars. For some of these picks, across film and TV, it was the animation that reigned supreme; in others, it was imaginative storytelling and world-building. But all r...

Our critics and reporters have been busy making lists of the year’s best albums and songs, but we’re always listening for emerging acts destined for big things. Catch up on our latest picks here. (Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.)AnnahstasiaImageCredit...Will WilloughbyAnnahstasia Enuke — a Nigerian-American songwriter born in Wi...

Taryn Delanie Smith raced back and forth through the rows of seats at the empty Metropolitan Opera House, dressed in a cream-colored gown from the Met costume department and holding a candelabra from the Met props department. This December morning, she was playing a ghost, an online character familiar to her 1.2 million Instagram f...

New York City isn’t lacking in live holiday entertainment. The Rockettes perform four times a day in the tourist heart of Midtown, while George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” enchants audiences most nights at Lincoln Center. And just try keeping track of every “Messiah” across the five boroughs.But for holiday opera, there’s usually...

If the first two episodes of “The End of an Era” — the documentary series about Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour — were defined by how Swift weathered the brutal moments that befell her road show, the final four are marked by the pop star’s joy.The last batch of episodes, now all available to stream on Disney+, chart how Sw...

Last month, at the start of its annual “Nutcracker” tour, a small Ontario ballet company made headlines when it found itself without a set.The five-ton truck carrying the custom-made scenery of the company, Ballet Jörgen, had vanished overnight from a suburban Toronto parking lot while the company had stopped to rehearse at its hom...

What’s a “good-bad” movie? It’s the kind of flick that might have you cackling, hollering or groaning, one that is not necessarily great cinema but is great fun. It’s highly watchable even though — or maybe because — it’s memorably ridiculous. And it always has at least one element that pushes it into absurd territory.Never has the...

Early this year, Chinese automakers enthusiastically announced that they would soon be mass-producing and selling self-driving vehicles.Most of those plans have now been delayed after a deadly crash that drew broad public attention.China’s regulators finally gave the go-ahead last week to only two of the nine automakers that had su...

Heading into 2025, private equity executives were predicting a new heyday.After several years of high interest rates and a tough regulatory environment that had chilled deal making, the private equity industry was ready to start selling companies again and booking profits.“This is one of the best business environments we’ve seen in...

At Nancy Ann Ling’s house in Central Texas, the TV generally goes on around 5 a.m., and Mrs. Ling flips over to the same app each day: YouTube. For many hours after that, the app keeps running.As she prepares breakfast, Mrs. Ling and her husband stream the previous night’s monologue from Stephen Colbert or Seth Meyers. After her hu...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Through the dust kicked up by the pounding hooves of a scrum of horses and riders, a winner emerges. The victorious team gallops around the playing field, holding a flag aloft.The final of Afghanistan’s hugely popular annual tournament of buzkashi, a traditional equ...

TOKYO (AP) — The governor of Niigata on Tuesday formally gave local consent to put two reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the north-central prefecture back online, clearing a last hurdle toward restarting the plant idled for more than a decade following the 2011 meltdo...

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A Croatia man was sentenced Tuesday to 50 years in prison for fatally stabbing a 7-year-old student in an attack at a school that shocked the European Union country where such violence is rare.The attack on Dec. 20, 2024, at the Precko Elementary School in Zagreb also...

LONDON (AP) — Greta Thunberg was arrested in central London on Tuesday while supporting pro-Palestinian activists who are staging a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment while awaiting trial on charges related to a series of earlier demonstrations.The protest group Prisoners for Palest...

Patrick Hotze’s three daughters made it home safe from Camp Mystic after July’s catastrophic floods that killed 25 campers and two teenage counselors. He attended some of the funerals and says he understands the outrage over the Texas camp’s plan to partially reopen next year.He also intends...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Before setting out for the wide, white mountain, Ana Lia González Maguiña took stock of her gear: A chunky sweater to guard against the chill. A harness and climbing rope to scale the 6,000-meter summit of one of Bolivia’s tallest mountains. Aviator glasses to protect...

NEW DELHI (AP) — A protest erupted in India’s capital Tuesday in response to the death of a Hindu man who was lynched and burned by an angry mob in neighboring Bangladesh, a new sign of strain in relations between the neighboring countries.The protest in New Delhi, mainly led by Hindu nation...

PARIS (AP) — France’s fractured parliament is debating an emergency bill Tuesday designed to prevent a U.S.-style government shutdown next week, after negotiations on a 2026 budget collapsed.With just days left before the new year, President Emmanuel Macron and his Cabinet met Monday night t...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian home in the south of the Israeli-occupied West Bank overnight, breaking in and killing sheep, a Palestinian official said Tuesday. It was the latest in a surge of attacks by settlers against Palestinians in the territory in recent mont...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A former close aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that immediately following the October 2023 Hamas attack that triggered Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, the Israeli leader instructed him to figure out how the premier could evade responsibility for the security br...

CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels have reached an agreement to free 2,900 detainees held during the 11-year civil war, according to Saudi and Houthi officials.Saudi Ambassador Mohamed AlJabir said in a statement on X that the agreeme...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Before the war, Ukraine’s own “Dancing with the Stars” was a cherished and popular television show, dazzling the audiences with performances by celebrities and professional dancers. The show is now back on for one special episode — this time with Ukrainian wartime heroes...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles at Ukraine in a large-scale attack that began during the night and stretched into daylight hours Tuesday, officials said. At least three people were killed, including a 4-year-old child, two days before Christmas...

When Qatar helped secure a peace deal to end ongoing conflict between the M23 rebel group and Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) government last month, there was hope among many Congolese that a permanent ceasefire would soon emerge to end the fighting that has uprooted close to a million people in the country’s troubled east...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicaid programs made more than $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who had already died, according to a new report from the independent watchdog for the Department of Health and Human Services. But the department’s O...

NEW YORK (AP) — After a half-century immersed in the world of trade, customs broker Amy Magnus thought she’d seen it all, navigating mountains of regulations and all sorts of logistical hurdles to import everything from lumber and bananas to circus animals and Egyptian mummies.Then came 2025...

WASHINGTON (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE — This is an exclusive excerpt adapted from “Storm at the Capitol: An Oral History of January 6th” by Associated Press reporter Mary Clare Jalonick. The book draws on personal interviews by the author, testimony, court documents and other public sources to com...

TikTok took a major step toward avoiding a U.S. ban last week. Its chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, announced that the company had signed binding agreements to spin its U.S. operations into a new joint venture with American investors set to close on Jan. 22. President Trump has blessed the framework, declaring that he is “saving” Tik...

President Trump deserves credit for pushing to stabilize three Middle East flashpoints — Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Yet on all three fronts, the region’s most powerful player and ostensibly America’s closest ally, Israel, is undercutting Mr. Trump’s Middle East strategy.After the trauma of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas, Israel has embr...

VideoThe Three Forces Deranging the Economy in 2025Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal, the hosts of the economics podcast “Odd Lots,” walk through how Trump’s tariffs, A.I. and the vibecession are making for a strange close to the year.CreditCredit...The New York TimesThe Three Forces Deranging the Economy in 2025Tracy Alloway and Jo...

Back in 2005, when I was recently out of college and new to New York, one of my closest friends was a 75-year-old self-declared con man named Marty Reisman. Twenty years later, he’s the clear inspiration for the maddening, morally bankrupt, wildly entertaining Ping-Pong prodigy played by Timothée Chalamet in “Marty Supreme.”We were...

The Trump administration had adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breathe.President Trump’s attacks on the regulation of toxic chemicals in the air and water, on strong vaccination policies, on ru...

American politics has begun to remind Gray Sutanto of home — not in a good way. He grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia, and some American Christians’ comments on politics “sound a lot like Islamic nationalism to me,” Dr. Sutanto, who teaches theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington, told me. “The only times I’ve had to def...

In the photograph I’m sitting beside my father, a decorated Christmas tree behind us, as he looks at a picture book of horses. I had given it to him as a Christmas present, knowing that by his stage of Alzheimer’s, words got lost but images still made an impact. What you don’t see in the photo is that the rest of my relatives were...

Attallah Tarazi recently received Christmas presents that included socks and a scarf to shield him against the Gaza winter, and he joined some fellow Palestinian Christians in a round of hymns.“Christ is born,” the group sang in Arabic. “Hallelujah.”The presents and hymns offered the 76-year...

Arizona is still No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll, but No. 2 Michigan is closing the gap.The Wildcats topped the poll for the third straight week in the AP Top 25 released on Monday, receiving 38 first-place votes from a 58-person panel. The Wolverines had 19 first...

United States President Donald Trump has stepped up his campaign to take over Greenland, declaring the Danish territory essential to Washington’s national security and appointing a special envoy he said would “lead the charge”.Trump’s comments on Monday came as the leaders of Denmark and Greenland protested against remarks by the n...

United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to build a new “Trump-class” of battleships that he said would be larger, faster and 100 times more powerful than the biggest of any previous American-built warships.Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday, Trump said the battleships would be part of a larger v...

A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a medical patient and seven others has crashed off the southern coast of the United States, killing at least five people.In a statement on Monday, Mexico’s Navy said that four of the people on board were Navy officers, and four were civilians, including a child.Recommended Stories list of 4 i...

How well do you remember the news from this year?In this quiz, you'll face 10 random questions based on 30 major news stories from around the world.Drop a pin where you think each story happened, and see how close you get.After placing each pin, you'll receive a score out of 10 based on your accuracy. If you need a hint, just check...

The video game pioneer behind the hugely popular Call of Duty franchise, Vince Zampella, has died in a car crash in California at the age of 55, gaming giant Electronic Arts has said.The company confirmed reports on Monday that Zampella had been killed in a car crash the previous day, calling the developer and executive’s death “an...

The United States government is recalling dozens of ambassadors and other senior career diplomats to ensure embassies are aligned with President Donald Trump’s “America First” priorities, in a move some predict will erode the country’s credibility on the world stage.The State Department declined to provide a list of the diplomats b...

President Donald Trump has said the United States needs Greenland for its “national security” after naming Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as special envoy to the Danish Arctic island, prompting protests from Copenhagen.“We need Greenland for national security, not for minerals,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago residence in F...

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After living inSan Antonio for 15 years, Paula Cox began planning a move to Austin in 2018, to be closer to some of her grandchildren.“I wanted to have a strong connection with the grandkids as they grow up,” said Ms. Cox, 72, an artist.ImageMs. Cox at home with her pink fridge. Credit...Katherine Squier for The New York TimesThat...

No doubt you’ve seen your share of hollies this month — in wreaths and boughs or perhaps on holiday cards and catalog covers. But are they growing in your garden?There are hundreds of holly species and hybrids hailing from China, Japan, South America, Europe and North Africa, and more than a...

HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES VOL. 3: The Secret of the Saucer, by Kris Bertin, illustrated by Alexander ForbesDetective fiction is about getting to the bottom of things; weird fiction is about the abyss in its bottomless depths. “Hobtown Mystery Stories,” in their layered and satisfying surrealism, are about both.For “The Secret of the...

HOW TO COOK A COYOTE: The Joy of Old Age, by Betty FussellA few years ago, the food writer Betty Fussell got a call from The New York Times obituaries department. The good news, she writes in “How to Cook a Coyote,” her fond and bite-size new memoir, was that she was being interviewed for an advance obituary. She shrieked with happ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday that it had conducted another strike against a boat it said was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one person.In a social media post, U.S. Southern Command said, “Intelligence confirmed the low-profile vessel was transiting a...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s beloved former Emperor Akihito marked his 92nd birthday Tuesday as his heart condition stabilized, palace officials said, following health concerns earlier this year.Akihito, the father of Emperor Naruhito, was diagnosed in May with insufficient blood flow to the heart m...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants opened fire on a police vehicle in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing five officers before fleeing, officials said, part of a surge in violence in the region bordering Afghanistan.The attack took place in the Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunk...

The oldest baby boomers — once the vanguard of an American youth that revolutionized U.S. culture and politics — turn 80 in 2026.The generation that twirled the first plastic hula hoops and dressed up the first Barbie dolls, embraced the TV age, blissed out at Woodstock and protested the Vie...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sudan’s prime minister on Monday proposed a wide-ranging peace initiative to end a nearly 1,000-day war with a rival paramilitary force, but the United States urged both sides to accept the Trump administration’s call for an immediate humanitarian truce.Kamil Idris, who...

Good morning! Today we have for you:Rick Martínez’s tamalesThe best egg salad you’ve ever had (on buttered noodles, no less)And, the waffles my family and I make for Christmas brunchImageRick Martínez’s tamales.Credit...Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.Whatever the weather, you can hear those...

Am I allowed to throw a party in my pajamas?That’s my fantasy every year when the holiday season rolls around. Not my plaid flannels; I picture myself clad in thick silk, the kind of thing I’m sure Katharine Hepburn wore — comfortable, elegant and well-matched to a dry martini.And what kind of food goes with this vision? Easy snack...

Jim Beam, the country’s largest maker of bourbon, has announced a one-year pause in production at its flagship facility in Clermont, Ky., a stunning move that underlines the immense challenges facing the American whiskey industry after more than two decades of rapid growth.The decision by the brand, owned by the Japanese conglomera...

OK boomers: The oldest of you are turning 80 in 2026, the vanguard of a “rock n’ roll” and “TV age” generation that left an imprint on popular culture like no other. During the 18 years of the “baby boom” from 1946 to 1964, around 76 million Americans were born. The spike in births was magni...

WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump announced a bold plan for the Navy to build a new super-sized warship he calls a “battleship,” part of a broader vision to create a “Golden Fleet.”“They will be the fastest, the largest and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever bu...

VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Kamiali Abdulsalam, Kami for short, has already been in the kitchen for several hours baking a batch of 100 sugar cookies when he pulls out chilled dough for another round — which will be cut into the shapes of snowflakes, trees and holiday presents to later be toppe...

In Northern Virginia’s Data Center Alley, windowless buildings the size of aircraft hangars are powering America’s artificial intelligence industry, which is locked in a race against China.Yet, these data centers are increasingly reliant on China, America’s geopolitical rival, for a vital technology: batteries.These facilities can...

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Tom Latham took a close look at the pitch at Bay Oval Thursday and made the inspired decision to bat first.Inspired ultimately because at stumps New Zealand was 334-1 against West Indies, Devon Conway was 178 not out and nightwatchman Jacob Duffy was 9.Lat...

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Devon Conway scored his second test double century more than four years after his first to speed New Zealand to a declaration at 575-8 Friday on the second day of the third test against the West Indies.Undeterred by the New Zealand total and the need to ba...

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Kavem Hodge scored his second test century and played an anchor role for the West Indies who showed resilience with the bat again on the third day of the third test against New Zealand.Hodge was 109 not out at stumps, Anderson Phillip was 12 and the West I...

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Tom Latham and Devon Conway earned a unique place in test history Sunday when their 192-run second innings partnership paved the way for New Zealand’s declaration at 306-2 on the fourth day of the third cricket test against the West Indies.Latham made the...

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — Jacob Duffy took 5-42 as New Zealand bowled out the West Indies for 138 on a deteriorating fifth-day pitch to win the third test by 323 runs Monday and take the three-match series 2-0.Duffy surpassed Richard Hadlee’s New Zealand record of 80 wickets in a c...

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Australia retained the Ashes with two matches to spare after paceman Mitchell Starc took three of the last four wickets to blunt England’s defiant comeback Sunday in a tense fifth-day finish to the third cricket test.Australia started Day 5 needing four wickets to...

Apparently, the worst Australian cricket team in 15 years just won the Ashes with two matches to spare against the best England squad assembled since 2011.Long-time protagonist Stuart Broad lit the fuse ahead of a volatile contest for the longest-running rivalry in test cricket when he descr...

The architects of the Bazball revolution that England aimed to use to summit test cricket have conceded the preparation wasn’t quite right for the Ashes. That’s not to say the strategy will be shelved.After arriving on Australian shores with great expectations, coach Brendon McCullum and cap...

MILAN (AP) — Plans to play a Serie A match between AC Milan and Como in Australia in February have been abandoned.The Italian league and local organizers released a joint statement on Monday saying the game was off.Serie A president Ezio Simonelli said the Asian Football Confederation recent...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Todd Murphy will replace the injured Nathan Lyon as Australia’s spin bowler and captain Pat Cummins as expected will be rested for the fourth Ashes test against England beginning Friday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.Murphy is set to play his first test in Austra...

Asian shares were mostly higher on Tuesday after benchmarks on Wall Street rose at the start of what’s expected to be a relatively calm holiday week. Oil prices and U.S. futures slipped.Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 slipped 0.1% to 50,359.78 and the dollar fell against the Japanese yen after officials...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s legislature on Tuesday passed a bill mandating specialized panels in Seoul’s district and high courts for cases involving rebellion, treason and foreign subversion after complaints about the pace of the rebellion trial of jailed former President Yoon S...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A man accused of shooting dead 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in an antisemitic attack faced a lengthy delay in getting a gun license because of a bureaucratic mishap, not because he raised suspicions, a state government leader said on Tuesday.Sajid Akram, who...

NEW YORK (AP) — Flashback to February. It’s the 2025 Grammys, and Beyoncé has made history. Not only was she finally awarded the top prize of album of the year, but she also became the first Black woman to win best country album, for “Cowboy Carter.” Recent changes by the Recording Academy h...

NEW YORK (AP) — John Skelley can’t escape the pull of Harry Potter. It’s as if something magical keeps them together.The stage actor was first hired to be an understudy of the grown-up wizard in Broadway’s “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” Then he led the cast in San Francisco before the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sports were turned upside down 50 years ago Tuesday by a man who never threw or kicked a ball.A lawyer with expertise in labor relations struck down Major League Baseball’s reserve clause, which had bound players to their teams since the 1870s.No one could have predicted then...

Paramount is sweetening its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with an “irrevocable personal guarantee” from Larry Ellison, who is putting up billions of dollars to back the deal for his son’s company.On Monday, Skydance-owned Paramount announced that Larry Ellison — the founder...

DENVER (AP) — A state judge on Monday accepted plea agreements for the owners of a Colorado funeral home for the abuse of 191 corpses, many of which languished in a room-temperature building for years, over the objections of relatives of the victims.Authorities say Carie and Jon Hallford, wh...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Massachusetts college student who was deported while trying to visit family for Thanksgiving said an immigration officer told her it wouldn’t matter if she spoke to a lawyer, she was going to be removed from the country anyway.Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old fre...

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — A small town in rural Nebraska is losing its biggest employer, a Tyson Foods’ beef plant, which will be laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of around 11,000 people.Lexington, Nebraska, is expected to lose hundreds of families who will be forced to move away i...

A panel of Montana state medical board members on Friday voted unanimously to revoke the medical license of Dr. Thomas Weiner, the former Helena cancer doctor who has been accused of prescribing unnecessary treatments and harming patients. On Friday, four members of the board’s adjudication...

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — Betty Reid Soskin, who rose to national fame as the oldest National Park Service ranger and used the spotlight to talk about the African American experience during World War II, has died. She was 104.Her family and the park service announced her death through social m...

Like many young girls, Mara Berton and June Higginbotham both knew from an early age they wanted families and to become mothers. But as lesbians, they were excluded from accessing the same fertility treatment insurance benefits offered to heterosexual peers.Instead, like many other same-sex...

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — Three inmates — including one who was being held on a murder charge — have escaped from a county jail just east of Atlanta, authorities said.The breakout happened early Monday morning at the DeKalb County Jail and was discovered during a routine security check, the DeKalb...

418 Rochelle Street looks like an ordinary row house at first glance. Backed against a hillside in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Knoxville, its porch is messy, but that’s hardly unusual.A reporter walked up the front steps one windy day this November to take a closer look, peered through th...

On a recent Wednesday morning, more than a dozen seventh-grade students waded into the Waioli River on Kauai’s north shore, their bright yellow shirts standing out against the murky water. Kneeling in the sand, two girls carefully collected river water in glass vials, while fellow students l...

There are at least 140 dams in the Winooski River watershed, according to Michele Braun, executive director of the Friends of the Winooski River. Three of those dams help with flood control. Fifteen provide hydropower. A “handful” contribute to local recreation. But the rest? They “aren’t do...

KEARNY, N.J. (AP) — A man in New Jersey accused of killing a man with a bow and arrow and then barricading himself for hours and setting fires inside a house was charged Monday with murder.The 44-year-old was arrested Sunday afternoon at the house in Kearny, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) we...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Mercedes-Benz USA and parent company Daimer AG have agreed to pay $149.6 million to settle allegations that the automaker secretly installed devices in hundreds of thousands of vehicles to pass emission tests, a coalition of attorneys general announced Monday.According t...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The state of Missouri is losing its third NFL franchise and the second in the past decade, and the decision by the Chiefs on Monday to depart their longtime home at Arrowhead Stadium for a new domed facility in Kansas may hurt the most.The Chiefs announced their inten...

Vince Zampella, one of the creators behind best-selling video games such as “Call of Duty,” has died. He was 55.Video game company Electronic Arts said Zampella died Sunday. The company did not disclose his cause of death.In 2010, Zampella founded Respawn Entertainment, a subsidiary of EA, a...

A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient and seven others crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least five people and setting off a search in the waters off the Texas coast, officials said.Four of the people aboard were Navy officers and four were civilians, includ...

DENVER (AP) — A prominent Colorado immigration and labor activist was released Monday after spending nine months in immigration detention, supporters said.Jeanette Vizguerra left an immigration detention center in suburban Denver a day after a judge ruled she should could post a $5,000 bond,...

Dictionaries define things. It’s their job. So when dictionary.com pronounced “6-7” as their 2025 word of the year, you’d think they would have, well, defined it.But no. “We’re all still trying to figure out exactly what it means,” they told us of this year’s “linguistic time capsule.”But th...

From department stores to grocery stores, most retailers across the U.S. close early on Christmas Eve and shut their doors entirely on Christmas Day — while others opt to cut back hours. But there’s also a handful of businesses that will be open during the holiday.Before you run out the door...

Powerball will be drawing its winning lottery numbers Monday night for a record 46th time since its last jackpot was claimed, as a string of failed sweepstakes ballooned the top prize to $1.6 billion.So far, it’s the 5th-largest jackpot in U.S. history after more than three months without a...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new night-time holiday display featuring music, colors and more than a million twinkling lights in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is delighting children and adults.There are towering peonies and fields of lights on the mile-long ( 1.6-kilometer) illuminated trail at...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Regional Mexican band Grupo Frontera is heading to the 2026 Grammys with two nominations, following a double-nod at the Latin Grammys, where they competed for best regional Mexican song and a collaboration with Fuerza Regida.While they didn’t win a Latin Grammy, the band s...

Elusive street artist Banksy appeared to confirm Monday that a new mural in London, depicting two children lying down and pointing up at the sky, is his latest work. The artist posted two photos of the artwork on his official Instagram account Monday, hours after its appearance on a wall on...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A court in Ecuador handed lengthy prison sentences Monday to a group of eleven soldiers who were responsible for the abduction and torture of four children last year — a case that has rattled the South American nation and raised questions about President Daniel Noboa’s...

LONDON (AP) — British authorities have charged a man with repeatedly drugging and raping a woman who is now his ex-wife over a 13-year period, officials said Monday. Five other men have been charged with sexual offenses against the same woman.Philip Young, 49, has been charged with 56 offenc...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University’s president on Monday placed its campus police chief on leave as the Rhode Island university reviews its security policies after a gunman killed two students and injured nine others earlier this month.Questions surrounding Brown’s security policies ha...

Atmospheric rivers are massive plumes of moisture carried across the sky that can dump heavy rains or snow over land.Here’s a look at the phenomenon:Where do atmospheric rivers come from?Atmospheric rivers generally form in tropical regions, where warm temperatures can cause water vapor to r...

The best parts of the “Ocean’s Eleven” movies aren’t the big heists. They’re when the crew, that motley assortment of raw talent, is being put together. And that’s perhaps the best bit in “The Choral,” if you substitute George Clooney with Ralph Fiennes and Las Vegas with northern England. A...

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Monday that financier Mark Wiseman will serve as the country’s next ambassador to the United States, an appointment that comes at a critical time in relations between the two major trading partners.Wiseman will assume the role o...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian miners marched in downtown La Paz, the country’s capital, and union-organized protesters took to the streets elsewhere on Monday, the first day of a strike over the government’s scrapping of fuel subsidies that have been blamed for contributing to dollar short...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia will use drones to resume spraying of coca crops with a weed killer, the government announced on Monday as authorities grapple with record levels of cocaine production that have fueled tensions with the Trump administration. The South American country banned...

HONOLULU (AP) — Kansei Matsuzawa became an instant star this year, with game-tying and game-winning field goals in a 23-20 victory win over Stanford and a singular backstory about teaching himself to kick on YouTube. The Japan-born Matsuzawa’s near-perfect performance during the rest of Hawa...

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial Monday in the corruption case of a former aide to New York governors after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked and couldn’t reach a verdict on charges she sold her influence to China and profited from a medical equipment scheme during the p...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google’s corporate parent on Monday announced an agreement to buy data center energy specialist Intersect for $4.75 billion as part of its effort to secure the vast amounts of electricity needed to power artificial intelligence technology.Alphabet, which depends...

GIESSEN, Germany (AP) — A driver crashed his car into a bus stop in Germany on Monday, injuring three people, one of them seriously, authorities said.The driver, a 32-year-old man from Azerbaijan, was taken into custody. The crash took place in the town of Giessen, about 53 kilometers (33 mi...

ROME (AP) — Italy’s antitrust authority fined Apple 98.6 million euros ($116 million) on Monday after determining that operating one of its privacy features restricted App Store competition. Apple said it would appeal the sanction.Apple abused its dominant position with its App Tracking Tran...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A car drove into a crowd of people waiting to watch a parade in an eastern Dutch town Monday night, injuring nine, at least three of them seriously, police said.The incident did not immediately appear to be deliberate, Gelderland police said on social media, but...

Russia has accused Ukraine of carrying out a number of high-profile attacks against prominent Russians since Moscow invaded its neighbor nearly four years ago.While Kyiv has hinted at its involvement in some cases, Ukrainian officials have often stopped short of publicly claiming responsibil...