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...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Initial drafts of U.S. proposals for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia meet many of Kyiv’s demands, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday, although he suggested that neither side in the almost four-year war is likely to get everything it wants in talk...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A 32-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting which claimed the lives of 12 people including three children at an unlicensed pub earlier this month, South African police said on Monday.The man is suspected of being one of the three people who...

MINNA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerians on Monday got their first look at 130 children and teachers released after being seized in one of the largest mass abductions in the country’s history.Some of the children appeared to be malnourished or in shock as they arrived at a government ceremony. Police...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The U.S. government has signed health deals with at least nine African countries, part of its new approach to global health funding, with agreements that reflect the Trump administration’s interests and priorities and are geared toward providing less aid and more mutual b...

Over the past five years, the attorney general’s office, with Aaron Frey at the helm, has secured for Maine more than $260 million in settlements with major pharmaceutical companies accused of “supercharging” the opioid epidemic.It has overseen the settlements’ distribution and contributed t...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for detainees at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” want a federal judge to make an unscheduled, in-person visit to the facility to see firsthand if they are getting sufficient access to their lawyers.Attorne...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former CIA Director John Brennan want the Justice Department to be prevented from steering an investigation of him and other former government officials to a “favored” judge in Florida who dismissed the classified documents case against President Donald Trump.Th...

BROADVIEW, Ill. (AP) — Four Illinois Democrats toured a federal immigration center outside Chicago on Monday, the latest members of Congress allowed inside immigration facilities after a judge last week lifted Trump administration limits on lawmaker visits.Six months after they were denied a...

The Trump administration is suing the local government of Washington, D.C., over its gun laws, alleging that restrictions on certain semiautomatic weapons run afoul of Second Amendment rights.The U.S. Department of Justice filed its lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in the District of Co...

NEW YORK (AP) — A coalition of 21 attorneys general from Democratic-led states sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its director, Russell Vought, on Monday, asserting that the White House’s argument to withhold funds from the consumer protection agency is unconstitutional. The l...

DENVER (AP) — The head of the U.S. Department of Transportation threatened Monday to withhold $24 million in federal funding from the state of Colorado for what he described as a slow response to a major violation of federal commercial driver’s license regulations. Transportation Secretary S...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday suspended leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction along the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentagon.The suspension, effective immediately, is the latest step by t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission on Monday said it would ban new foreign-made drones, a move that will keep new Chinese-made drones such as those from DJI and Autel out of the U.S. market.The announcement came a year after Congress passed a defense bill that raised nat...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security has dropped its plan to deport a Chinese national who entered the country illegally, two rights activists said Monday, after his plight raised public concerns that the man, if deported, would be punished by Beijing for helping expose huma...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration must give legal due process to Venezuelan migrants flown to a notorious prison in El Salvador, either by providing court hearings or returning them to the U.S.U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the governmen...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday delivered a new warning to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the U.S. Coast Guard steps up efforts to interdict oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea as part of the Republican administration’s escalating pressure campaign on the g...

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Monday scolded Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell for including confidential victim names in court papers seeking to set aside her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence.Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said exhibits...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced a bold plan for the Navy to build a new, large warship that he is calling a “battleship” as part of a larger vision to create a “Golden Fleet.”“They’ll be the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship e...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish intelligence agents have captured a senior member of the Islamic State group in an area along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, allegedly thwarting planned suicide attacks in Turkey and elsewhere, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Monday.Anadolu Agency said...

U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval handed drugmaker Novo Nordisk an edge over rival Eli Lilly in the race to market an o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Florida’s Catholic bishops appealed to President Donald Trump on Monday to pause immigration enforcement activities during the Christmas holidays. The White House, in response, said it would be business as usual.The appeal was issued by Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski, and sig...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Many of Waymo’s self-driving cars blocked streets of San Francisco during a mass power outage Saturday and forced the company to temporarily suspend service, raising questions about the cars’ ability to to adapt to real-world driving conditions.Social media users posted...

“Everybody wants to rule the world,” goes the Tears for Fears song we hear at a key point in “Marty Supreme,” Josh Safdie’s nerve-busting adrenaline jolt of a movie starring a never-better Timothée Chalamet.But here’s the thing: everybody may want to rule the world, but not everybody truly b...

LONDON (AP) — Chris Rea, the singer and songwriter best known for the hit “Driving Home for Christmas,” has died at 74, his family said Monday.Rea died in the hospital following a short illness, according to a statement from his family to Britain’s Press Association news agency.Rea found fam...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The NFL has suspended Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf for two games following an in-game altercation between Metcalf and a fan during the team’s victory over Detroit.The league ruled that Metcalf’s actions violated league policy, which specifies that “players m...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs announced Monday they will leave their longtime home at Arrowhead Stadium for a new, domed stadium that will be built across the Kansas-Missouri state line and be ready for the start of the 2031 season.The announcement came shortly after a council o...

Bourbon maker Jim Beam is halting production at one of its distilleries in Kentucky for at least a year as the whiskey industry navigates tariffs from the Trump administration and slumping demand for a product that needs years of aging before it is ready.Jim Beam said the decision to pause b...

More from our inbox:This Busy Judge Welcomes IntroductionsImageCredit...Jessica Craig-Martin/Trunk ArchiveTo the Editor:Re “To Love the Holidays, Give Up Hosting,” by Elizabeth Austin (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 21):Ms. Austin portrays hosting a family holiday meal as an exhausting obligation borne by the eldest daughter — chaotic,...

Six prisoners currently on remand and linked to the banned group Palestine Action have gone on hunger strike, prompting warnings from hundreds of United Kingdom healthcare professionals that they face an immediate risk to their lives.The prisoners are accused of involvement in break-ins at a UK factory operated by Israel’s largest...

Forecasters expect temperatures to soar up to 35 degrees Fahrenheit above normal across large swaths of the United States this week, with widespread record-breaking warmth expected on Christmas Day.Joe Wegman, a meteorologist at the Weather Prediction Center, said that while warm spells were not uncommon in December, the scale of t...

Fighting has resumed hours before the countries’ foreign ministers meet in Malaysia to discuss steps to de-escalate.

Fighting has resumed hours before the countries’ foreign ministers meet in Malaysia to discuss steps to de-escalate.

Fighting has resumed hours before the countries’ foreign ministers meet in Malaysia to discuss steps to de-escalate.

Fighting has resumed hours before the countries’ foreign ministers meet in Malaysia to discuss steps to de-escalate.

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to hold a meeting of defence officials later this week as regional leaders push for an end to deadly violence along the two countries’ shared border.Thailand’s Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow announced the planned talks on Monday after a special meeting in Kuala Lumpur of Southeast Asian for...

The Trump administration on Monday said it would pause leases for five wind farms under construction off the east coast, essentially gutting the country’s nascent offshore wind industry in a sharp escalation of President Trump’s crusade against the renewable energy source.The decision injected uncertainty into $25 billion worth of...

Ponche Navideño merges holiday spice with tropical fruit to make one of the season’s most festive sippers.

ImageCredit...Annie SchlechterA Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many BooksSurrounded by his expansive library and exquisite objects, a collector whose aesthetic helped shape America’s idea of minimalism has built a maximalist nirvana.VideoHouse Tour | Lilla HyttnäsA great-great-great-granddaughter of the Swedish painter Car...

It’s an old tale: A boyfriend visits his girlfriend’s parents’ house for the first time and nerves ensue. But in Michael Wilkes’s case, he arrived in Cyprus to not only a warm reception, but also a traditional Cypriot mezze: yogurty cacik, vibrant green parsley, warm pita, olives picked from a nearby tree.“It was so fresh and beaut...

Every year, there’s a surge in norovirus cases between November and April, and this holiday season is no different.Sometimes known as the stomach bug, norovirus is incredibly contagious, infecting about one in 15 people in the United States annually.Norovirus is also notorious for infecting people year after year, since the body do...

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss injectable drug Wegovy, offering patients who fear or are uncomfortable with needles a more palatable option.The medication, simply called the Wegovy pill, will be available in the United States early next year. It is roughly as effect...

Housing discrimination is on the rise in the United States, according to a new report, but fair housing advocates say the figures understate the scope of the problem.The report, by the National Fair Housing Alliance, a nonprofit, said there were 32,321 complaints in 2024, drawing on data from fair housing organizations and governme...

It was a year of extremes. Extreme close-ups, extreme colors, extreme loudness and extreme quiet. The visuals that defined the New York Times Styles section in 2025 showcasedbold choices made by the people behind and in front of camera lenses.The still and moving images photographers made on assignment this year captured rock stars...

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Jerry Kasenetz, a hit-making record producer who, with his business partner, Jeffry Katz, gained a reputation as a “king of bubblegum” by defying rock’s drift toward self-seriousness in the late 1960s, peppering the charts with sugary concoctions like “Yummy Yummy Yummy” and “Little Bit O’ Soul,” died on Dec. 6 in a hospital in Tam...

A New Jersey musician filed a lawsuit on Monday against a prominent Off Broadway theater, alleging that a discount offered to people of color to attend a recent performance of a play was racially discriminatory.The lawsuit, filed against Playwrights Horizons, a highly regarded Off Broadway theater in Midtown Manhattan, was facilita...

Chris Rea, a versatile, Grammy-nominated British singer-songwriter whose hits included the sentimental ballad “Driving Home for Christmas,” died on Monday. He was 74.His death was announced in a statement on his official Facebook account, which said it came after “a short illness.” The statement did not specify a cause or say where...

Vince Zampella, a key figure in the creation of Call of Duty, the best-selling video game franchise that has reproduced World War II battles, riffed on modern global conflicts and imagined the technology available to future soldiers, has died. He was 55.His death was confirmed by Electronic Arts, which owns Respawn Entertainment, t...

The singer Barry Manilow has been diagnosed with lung cancer and will undergo surgery, he announced in a social-media post on Monday.Manilow, 82, said he had been fighting bronchitis for more than two months when his doctors ordered an M.R.I.The test “discovered a cancerous spot on my left lung that needs to be removed,” he wrote i...

In his first year back in office, President Trump has rapidly reshaped America’s climate and energy landscape. His administration dismantled a wide range of climate and pollution regulations, began to overhaul how the federal government responds to disasters and gave a boost to fossil fuel production and nuclear power while attempt...

Mercedes-Benz Group AG will pay up to $150 million in a settlement reached with nearly all American states over its use of “defeat devices” designed to cheat emissions tests in its diesel vehicles.The announcement was the latest chapter in the sprawling “dieselgate” scandal, which has roiled the automotive industry for the past dec...

Preventing illegal road building could help protect tropical forests. New research tries to identify which areas are most at risk.A study published on Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzed 137 million hectares (about 338 million acres) of existing roads built across tropical forests in Brazi...

The Trump administration weakened protections on ​Monday for the vulnerable greater sage grouse, making it easier for oil and gas drilling, mining and grazing operations to take place on about 50 million acres of land across eight Western states.The Bureau ‍of Land Management, which oversees Western lands critical to the sage grous...

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.I can tell my girlfriends everything. And I do. At every stage of...

The anonymous British artist Banksy on Monday revealed a new mural in London, timed for the holiday season with what seems to be a message both sweet and damning, in what has become something of a Christmas tradition for the mysterious muralist.The new mural, an image of which was also posted on the artist’s Instagram account on Mo...

As the U.S. Coast Guard continued to pursue an oil tanker in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday, the Trump administration made clear that its targeting of ships carrying Venezuelan oil was intended to push Nicolás Maduro, the country’s president, from power.“We’re not just interdicting these ships, but we’re also sending a message around...

Just a few weeks after a whirlwind rebel offensive seized control of his homeland last year, a Syrian expatriate in Moscow treated himself to a meal in the city’s tallest skyscraper.With views from the 62nd floor, stylish hostesses and elaborate cocktails, the restaurant “Sixty” regularly welcomes members of Russia’s political elit...

Mark Wiseman, a high-profile financier who rose through Canada’s pension-fund world to the top of major U.S. financial institutions, has been named Canada’s new ambassador to the United States at a watershed moment in the relationship between the two countries.On Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said Mr. Wiseman would s...

A British man has been charged with drugging and raping his wife over a 13-year period, and five other men have also been charged with sexually abusing her.The man, Philip Young, 49, is set to appear in a court in Swindon, in southwest England, on Tuesday, charged with 56 offenses against the woman, Joanne Young, who has waived her...

A marching band played carols, a choir sang hymns and the lights adorning a giant evergreen blinked on, as Christmas tentatively returned to Bethlehem’s Manger Square.For the past two years, Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank have largely avoided public celebrations of Christmas out of sensitivity to the war in Gaza. Th...

The apartments at the Four Seasons in Moscow offer living rooms with crystal chandeliers, views of the Kremlin and access to a concierge ready to book anything from Bolshoi Ballet premieres to private jets.The residences, topping out at $13,000 a week, are billed as “perfect for family gatherings, cocktail parties and business even...

The Agriculture Department lost nearly one-fifth of its work force in the first half of this year, according to a watchdog report that offers a snapshot of the Trump administration’s efforts to reshape the federal bureaucracy.From January to June, more than 20,000 employees left the agency out of more than 110,000, including 15,114...

Jess Michaels, who has said that Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, said she was so upset over how the Justice Department was releasing its investigative files on the disgraced financier that she called her lawyer to draft a letter.“I was so angry, and she took my words and put them into better cont...

CBS News remained roiled on Monday by fallout from the decision by its new editor in chief, Bari Weiss, to abruptly postpone a segment of Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes” that was critical of the Trump administration.Amid a swirl of questions within her newsroom, Ms. Weiss was adamant that the segment, which featured the stories of...

A $581 dinner for two. Nearly $1,000 in laundry fees for one. A Cookie Monster toddler toy. And however many gummy bears $529 gets you.JPMorgan Chase has made it clear that it is not happy that its former managing director Charlie Javice is asking the bank to pay $73 million in legal costs for her defense. After all, she’s supposed...

Tomahawk missiles are coveted by militaries around the world because they can hit a target 1,000 miles away. That accuracy is possible because their fins use powerful magnets made of samarium — a rare-earth metal that can tolerate high heat.When China put restrictions on some rare-earth exports this year, it cut off the supply of s...

Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected by a wind-induced power outage. The clocks were off by about five-millionths of a second — way faster than a blink or a snap of the fingers.You probably didn’t notice, and the impact was minimal because other government clocks kept ti...

Google has agreed to buy Intersect, a data center and energy developer, for $4.75 billion, the tech giant said on Monday, as it pushes to build out its infrastructure for artificial intelligence.The all-cash deal is set to help Google bolster the supply of power to its data centers, the giant computing facilities that power A.I. In...

The Trump administration announced on Monday that all foreign-made drones and their components posed “unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States” and would be put on a federal blacklist of equipment makers prohibited from selling their goods freely in the country.A fact sheet released by the Federal Communicat...

A federal judge in Washington ruled on Monday that the Trump administration had to either help bring back to the United States a group of Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador in March and subsequently sent back to their homeland or give them a chance to contest their expulsions in the U.S. courts.The ruling by the...

The Mexican Navy said at least two people were killed on Monday when one of its medical aircraft crashed into Galveston Bay in Texas.The aircraft, a King Air ANX-1209, was carrying four civilians and four crew members, the navy said. By Monday afternoon, and in coordination with the U.S. Coast Guard, the Mexican Navy had rescued fo...

Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, sued President Trump on Monday seeking to force the removal of his name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The Trump administration sued Washington, D.C., on Monday in an effort to loosen the city’s strict gun laws, the latest move in its effort to reimagine public safety in the nation’s capital, where it has deployed thousands of National Guard and other federal forces.Washington has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, and t...

Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, sued President Trump on Monday, seeking to force the removal of his name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Ms. Beatty’s lawsuit names as defendants Mr. Trump and the loyalists he appointed to the center’s board. The suit contends that the board’s vote to change th...

San Francisco officials on Monday called for an investigation into Waymo after its autonomous taxis blocked intersections and snarled traffic during an hourslong power outage over the weekend. The meltdown, which led Waymo to temporarily shut down its entire fleet in San Francisco, raised alarms about whether the vehicles might imp...

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...

Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana has been picked by President Trump to be the country’s special envoy to Greenland, a decision that has appeared to surprise both officials on the frozen island and residents in the deeply Southern state.The exact scope of Mr. Landry’s new role remains unclear, though he will remain in the governor’s of...

Ella Cobbs Cook, one of two students killed in the shooting on Dec. 13 at Brown University, was remembered for her “record of love” and her faith in “the belovedness of human beings” at a funeral Monday in Alabama.Ms. Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore studying math and French — and a proud Southerner known on the Brown campus by the ni...

Prominent conservative figures in the United States have clashed at Turning Point USA’s annual conference, exposing the underlying rift within the ruling Republican Party and US President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) base.The four-day conference held in Phoenix, Arizona, brought together Republican leaders, media...

Canada has named former BlackRock executive Mark Wiseman as the new ambassador to the United States, with upcoming trade and tariff negotiations likely to dominate his tenure.In a statement on Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Wiseman would help manage Canada’s relationship with the US, which has grown stormy un...

United States President Donald Trump has issued a new warning to Nicolas Maduro, saying “it would be smart” for the Venezuelan leader to step down, as Washington escalates a pressure campaign that has drawn sharp rebukes from Russia and China.Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday, flanked by Secretary of State Marc...

Israeli strikes hit Sidon district; 100 Palestinians lose homes as Israel tears down residential building.

Israeli strikes hit Sidon district; 100 Palestinians lose homes as Israel tears down residential building.

Israeli strikes hit Sidon district; 100 Palestinians lose homes as Israel tears down residential building.

Israeli strikes hit Sidon district; 100 Palestinians lose homes as Israel tears down residential building.

At least two people have been killed after clashes broke out between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Aleppo ahead of a looming deadline to integrate the SDF into Syria’s state institutions.A medical source told Al Jazeera that two civilians were killed and 11 others wounded after SDF forces ope...

The Israeli security cabinet has approved 19 new settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank as the right-wing government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moves to prevent the formation of a viable Palestinian state.As Netanyahu’s government has made the annexation of occupied Palestinian territory a priority, the Unit...

At least three people have been killed in an Israeli attack near the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, the country’s National News Agency (NNA) is reporting, in the latest Israeli breach of a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said on Monday that the three people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a...

Displaced Sudanese families in the war-torn Darfur region are grappling with a dangerous measles outbreak that is spreading rapidly, a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) official warns.Dr Ali Almohammed, an MSF emergency health manager, told Al Jazeera on Monday that the group has been “overwhelmed” by measles cases arriving each day at...

Israeli forces have killed at least two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as Israel continues to violate a ceasefire agreement and block desperately needed humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged coastal enclave.The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Monday that two people were killed after Israeli troops opened fire in the Shujayea...

MOSCOW (AP) — A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third assassination of a military commander in a year. Investigators said Ukraine could be behind the attack.Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Ar...

Barry Manilow will be having surgery to remove a cancerous spot on his lung and will reschedule his January concerts, the singer announced Monday.Manilow, 82, said doctors found the cancer after he had an extended bout of bronchitis — six weeks, then a relapse of another five weeks.“My wonde...

A transgender employee of the National Security Agency is suing the Trump administration and seeking to block enforcement of a presidential executive order and other policies the employee says violate federal civil rights law.Sarah O’Neill, an NSA data scientist who is transgender, is challe...

Perhaps you’re one of those people who are very thoughtful and assiduous about planning the Big Holiday meals. You’re on top of the appetizers, entrée, the sides, the dessert. Maybe you even iron your linen napkins. But then you slap your proverbial forehead when you realize you didn’t think...

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — On a frigid day after Mass at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in rural Nebraska, worshippers shuffled into the basement and sat on folding chairs, their faces barely masking the fear gripping their town.A pall hung over the room just as it hung over the holiday season in Lex...

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (AP) — With the blast of a shotgun, the Raleigh Moose Family Center Turkey Shoot is under way. But fear not: No gobblers were harmed in the making of this holiday fun.“The main misconception is, they think we shoot live turkeys out here,” says Glen Coplen, a past governor a...

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Heavy rain and flash flooding soaked roads in northern California, leading to water rescues from vehicles and homes and at least one confirmed death, authorities said.In Redding, police said they received numerous calls for stranded motorists on Sunday who tried to dri...

A court in Malaysia has ‍dismissed jailed ‍former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bid to serve the remainder of his sentence for corruption at his home, ruling that a royal document allowing the ⁠move was not valid.The decision by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Monday dealt another blow to Najib, who has been imprisoned since August 2...

New fighting has broken out along the Thailand-Cambodia border as foreign ministers from Southeast Asian nations met in Malaysia to find a resolution to the deadly conflict between the two neighbours.The clashes early on Monday threatened to undermine diplomatic efforts by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to reviv...

Fighting has resumed hours before the countries’ foreign ministers meet in Malaysia to discuss steps to de-escalate.

Japan is set to resume operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant: Kashiwazaki-Kariwa.The partial restart of the plant got the green light in a vote on Monday by the Niigata local government. Japan has reopened several nuclear facilities as it seeks to reduce emissions, reversing policy 15 years after 54 reactors were sh...

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised to the Jewish community over last week’s Bondi Beach attack, which killed 15 people at a Hanukkah ceremony, and called for stricter laws against hate speech and hardline violence.Speaking on Monday, a week after Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in decades rocked the nati...

My name is Emily Steel, and I am an investigative business reporter with The New York Times. I have a long track record of conducting sensitive reporting, including award-winning stories on sexual misconduct.For several months, I have been investigating sexual violence that has taken place during Uber and Lyft rides. My reporting s...

ImageImageI.P.O.s had a big comeback in 2025. Figma, the design software maker, was among those to make a splashy entry in the public market.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York TimesAndrew here. Breaking: Paramount Skydance just announced that it has revised its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. What’s new: The $40.4 billion port...

Paramount said on Monday that Larry Ellison, the father of Paramount’s chief executive David Ellison, is personally guaranteeing the roughly $40.4 billion in equity that the company is offering as part of its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery.The announcement of Mr. Ellison’s personal guarantee is meant to address concerns that the Wa...

After a chaotic year filled with trade wars, market gyrations and the longest government shutdown in history, the U.S. economy has, once again, proved more resilient than many forecasters feared.But “resilient” isn’t quite the same thing as “good.”Many Americans are entering 2026 worried about their jobs, stressed about their finan...

Uber says its background checks are essential for keeping passengers safe, promising that all of its drivers have passed a screening for violent crimes.The claim, made in marketing materials, ignores a critical detail: The system approves people with many types of criminal convictions, including violent felonies. That is because Ub...

In a move that drew harsh criticism from its own correspondent, CBS News abruptly removed a segment from Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes” that was to feature the stories of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to what the program called a “brutal” prison in El Salvador.CBS announced the change three hours before the...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 28-Jan. 3 :Dec. 28: Singer-keyboardist Edgar Winter is 79. TV personality Gayle King (“CBS This Morning”) is 71. Actor Denzel Washington is 71. Drummer Mike McGuire of Shenandoah is 67. Country singer-guitarist Marty Roe of Diamond Rio is 65. Actor Ma...

NEW YORK (AP) — People stop reading in adulthood for lots of reasons. But it’s never too late to turn the page on old habits and start again.Curling up with a good book can reduce stress, increase creativity and boost empathy. A recent analysis of U.S. government data found that the percenta...

London, United Kingdom – Two Palestine Action-affiliated remand prisoners on hunger strike have been taken to hospital, according to a family member and a friend, adding to fears that the young Britons refusing food in protest could die at any moment.Twenty-eight-year-old Kamran Ahmed, who is being held at Pentonville prison in Lon...

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff has hailed talks on ending Moscow’s war in Ukraine as “productive and constructive”, after holding separate meetings with Ukrainian, European and Russian negotiators in the state of Florida.The talks in Miami on Sunday were the latest in a series of meetings between the US, Russia and Ukraine on a 20-...

A Swiss court has agreed to hear a legal complaint against cement giant Holcim, accusing the company of failing to do enough to cut carbon emissions.NGO Swiss Church Aid (HEKS/EPER), which is supporting the complainants, said on Monday that the court had decided to admit the legal complaint. Holcim confirmed the decision and said i...

A car bomb blast has killed a senior Russian general in southern Moscow, investigators say.Russia’s Investigative Committee reported on Monday that it had opened an investigation into the “murder” of Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the training department within the general staff. Officials said the potential involvement...

Investigators pursue various lines of inquiry, including possibility attack was ‘linked’ to ‘Ukrainian special forces’.

Denmark has summoned the United States ambassador after President Donald Trump’s appointment of a special envoy to Greenland.Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Monday that he was “deeply angered” by the appointment of Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as envoy to the autonomous Danish territory, which Trump has sever...

Between streaming and cable, viewers have a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that are airing or streaming this week, Dec. 22-28. Details and times are subject to change.A documentary, a thriller and the fight against Vecna.Over his long career, the journalist Seymour Hersh r...

Feargus Urquhart, chief executive of Obsidian Entertainment, began a recent day in the weeds of fantasy fiction, nerding out about a helmet with an art director at the video game studio for 25 minutes. Not long after, his mind was catapulted back to the real world, as he clicked through Excel spreadsheets outlining its plans for 20...

However their lives began, the creative figures who died this year soon enough made their way to our stages, our galleries, our cinemas, our book shelves. Their ideas and personalities helped shape our culture, and they still have plenty to tell us. Here is a tribute to just some of them, in their voices.“People are like detectives...

A Rockette won’t fall in the middle of a kick line. That’s a given, a Christmas miracle you can rely on. But mid-kick one went down last month — boom! — in the “Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes,” before an audience of former Rockettes celebrating the group’s 100th anniversary.Falls don’t bother me. I’d rather...

Perhaps you’ve noticed: The seasons don’t behave like they used to. The weather is hotter and colder and increasingly out of order. The familiar has become distressingly unfamiliar.What better way to convey this operatically than through the ultrafamiliar seasonal music of Vivaldi? This is the clever idea of the playwright Sarah Ru...

Dramatic readings of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” have long been a feature of the holiday season, and Dickens himself performed the tale more than 100 times as he toured around Britain.The readings, which Dickens began in 1853 in Birmingham, England, made him perhaps even more famous than his books, and eventually they were...

When it comes to K-drama, my taste doesn’t run to elaborately costumed history or complicated rural romance. I like the hard stuff. It makes sense that two of the South Korean series that claimed my attention in 2025 start the same way: with a woman coming home and finding a man she loves bleeding out on the floor.“The Price of Con...

Twenty-nine Christmases have passed since Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery in New York jump-started a national affair with artisanal panettone, the voluptuous Italian sweet holiday bread. No fluffing agents. No binders.Now it’s pandoro’s turn.Pandoro, panettone’s much lesser-known little brother, is native to Verona, Italy. The...

Grand coffeehouses have fueled the cultural life — and caffeine cravings — of Vienna for nearly two centuries, offering plush salons where customers linger forever over newspapers and cups of frothy melange delivered by tuxedoed waiters.While I remain faithful to weathered haunts like Cafe Sperl, Vienna’s food and drink scene has a...

Some days, it feels like there’s a health scam everywhere you look. Grow more hair! Look younger! Feel younger! You can be a better you, for just a few hundred bucks.It’s easy — and wise — to say that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But every so often, a treatment with a whiff of snake oil turns out to be b...

What began as a quaint and unique nod to New England’s seafaring heritage is proliferating in Hallmarkian proportions: the lobster trap Christmas tree.At least 20 of the structures dot the coastline from Connecticut to Maine, many of them festooned with buoys, fishing nets and lights, including an anchor-shaped tree topper.The trap...

The bitter infighting over antisemitism, free speech and bigotry during Turning Point USA’s annual national conference not only exposed fissures in President Trump’s movement but also laid bare a challenge for his potential successor.How would his likely heir apparent handle an explosive debate among Republicans over whether extrem...

Tamra Call recognized an opportunity for her Christian-based clinic to reach more women than ever before.For months, Ms. Call had been hearing news reports of Planned Parenthoods closing across the country — forced to shutter amid funding cuts from the Trump administration.Now, the closures had reached her hometown, Ames, Iowa. In...

Two days before Christmas last year, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commuted the sentences of nearly all prisoners on federal death row, sparing the lives of 37 men. Among them was Brandon Council, who had been convicted of killing Donna Major, 59, and her co-worker during a bank robbery in Conway, S.C., in 2017.Both women’s relativ...

In asking the Supreme Court to let him do away with birthright citizenship, President Trump has urged the justices to restore “the original meaning” of the 14th Amendment.What the amendment meant when it was ratified in 1868, Mr. Trump’s lawyers said in a brief, was that “children of temporary visitors and illegal aliens are not U....

Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.

India and New Zealand have announced reaching a free trade agreement that is expected to boost trade between the two countries by hundreds of millions of dollars.New Delhi and Wellington confirmed the agreement on Monday, saying the deal is expected to be formally signed in the first quarter of next year.Recommended Stories list of...

China Vanke, the latest developer to teeter in the country’s long-running real estate crisis, said bondholders agreed to a plan that gave the company a 30-day grace period to negotiate repayment of a $285 million bond.Approval from bondholders after a vote on Monday provided Vanke with a temporary lifeline, preventing the company f...

Joe Biden’s immigration policies might have contributed to Donald Trump’s winning a second term, but a year later, Americans are increasingly unhappy with the president’s aggressive deportation tactics. For the final installment of the America’s Next Story series, the columnist Michelle Goldberg joins David Leonhardt, an editorial...

A few weeks ago, a group of girlfriends and I were messaging about their upcoming trip to visit me in New York City. The topic turned to what they should wear to look cool at a series of scene-y downtown bars they had heard about online and planned to visit. This was a group of stylish women who had worked in fashion and media and...

Across from the Florence Cathedral in Italy stands a much older church, the Baptistery of San Giovanni. It is a beloved center of religious life, where many Florentines are baptized to this day. Staid columns and lively arches hug its eight sides, half-camouflaged in patterns of green and white marble. Without the baptistery’s emul...

In France, it has been a frenzied fall.First, the government was toppled by an irate Parliament. Then, in a panic, President Emmanuel Macron tapped a protégé, Sébastien Lecornu, to be prime minister; he resigned less than a month later. Confusion raged. Today things are a little calmer. Mr. Lecornu, returned to the office he had so...

So much has changed in American public health under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services. Alexandra Sifferlin and Alex Ellerbeck, two editors in Opinion, convened a discussion with the public health practitioners Dr. Rachael Bedard, Dr. Michael Mina and Dr. Caitlin Rivers to take stock...

Vice President JD Vance is “a conspiracy theorist.” Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, isn’t merely a zealot; he’s a “right-wing absolute zealot.” And President Trump governs with an “alcoholic’s personality.”Ever since the publication last week of a two-part article in Vanity Fair in which Susie W...

President Trump started the year with his typical bravado as he engaged in a trade war with China. He is ending the year having largely backed down.One reason? China has powerful leverage over the United States through rare earths. The country has built an effective monopoly over these metallic elements, which are difficult to mine...

The pain of drug addiction continues to course through towns like Clarksburg, W.Va., where many babies are born withdrawing and have to be taken from their parents.

LONDON (AP) — Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft plan to bring robotaxi services to London next year in separate partnerships with Chinese tech giant Baidu, the companies said Monday. Uber said it’s teaming up with Baidu’s Apollo Go autonomous vehicle service to take part in a pilot progra...

NEW YORK (AP) — Instacart said Monday that it’s ending a program where some customers saw different prices for the same product ordered at the same time from the same store when using the delivery company’s service. The program was meant to help grocers and other retailers learn more about w...

It was an unusual romance. In the summer of 2024, Ayrin, a busy, bubbly woman in her 20s, became enraptured by Leo, an A.I. chatbot that she had created on ChatGPT.Ayrin spent up to 56 hours a week with Leo on ChatGPT. Leo helped her study for nursing school exams, motivated her at the gym, coached her through awkward interactions...

On December 16, Sudanese political parties, armed movements, civil society organisations, and prominent political figures signed a nine-point political roadmap in Nairobi, presenting it as a civilian-led initiative aimed at ending Sudan’s war and restoring a democratic transition.Framed as an antiwar, pro-peace platform, it seeks t...

Israeli forces have stormed towns in the occupied West Bank and demolished a residential building.Soldiers fired stun grenades and tear gas on Monday as they carried out the demolition in East Jerusalem. Palestinian officials accused Israel of a campaign of displacement in the city, saying the operation was part of a systematic att...

Syria’s government has cracked down on the Captagon industry, which boomed under former longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, according to a United Nations report.Since al-Assad’s ouster a year ago, Syria’s new authorities have dismantled a network of factories and storage sites, a research brief published on Monday by the UN Office on...

German prosecutors have charged a former Syrian security official with crimes against humanity, accusing him of torturing dozens of prisoners at a Damascus jail while ex-President Bashar al-Assad was in power.Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor General’s office announced the indictment on Monday, alleging the ex-prison guard, named...

Israeli strikes hit Sidon district; 100 Palestinians lose homes as Israel tears down residential building.

Heavy rains triggered flash floods in Northern California on Sunday, killing at least one person, officials said.Mayor Mike Littau of Redding said on social media on Sunday that the floods had killed one person, as parts of Shasta County saw as much as six inches of rain.Several other counties in Northern California were under a fl...

Santa had to step through slush and hop over puddles to reach the small crowd waiting for him at the holiday-themed village in downtown Leavenworth, Wash., late last week. Business in “Christmastown” was finally approaching normal, albeit soggily, after two weeks of downpours, high winds and power outages.Leavenworth and the rest o...

Getting ready for a road trip to visit the family during the holidays? Unfortunately, you’re not alone — far from it.This year, a record number of cars will hit the highways: According to AAA, 109.5 million Americans will drive at least 50 miles between Dec. 20 and Jan. 1, up 2.2 percent from last year and the highest number ever.W...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The suspect in a deadly knife and grenade attack that left three dead and 11 wounded in Taiwan’s capital meticulously planned the assault for more than a year, police said Monday.The attacker, identified as 27-year-old Chang Wen, indiscriminately stabbed passers-by and...

HONG KONG (AP) — China will impose up to 42.7% of provisional tariffs on dairy products including milk and cheese imported from the European Union, its Commerce Ministry said Monday.The elevated duties, which take effect Tuesday, were based on preliminary results from an investigation opened...

PARIS (AP) — A suspected cyberattack knocked France’s national postal service and its banking arm offline Monday, blocking and delaying package deliveries and online payments at the height of the busy Christmas season.The postal service, called La Poste, said in a statement that a distribute...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Saudi Arabia has awarded its highest national honor to Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, during his visit to Riyadh, Pakistan’s military said Monday, underscoring deepening ties between the two countries, including cooperation on counterterrorism.Munir receive...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Turkey’s top diplomat and military and intelligence chiefs visited Syria on Monday as a deadline to implement a deal between authorities in Damascus and Kurdish-led forces in the country’s northeast looms.Appearing alongside his Syrian counterpart, Turkish Foreign Mini...

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to shoot up drugs.The supplies, which came from the state and were paid for with federal money,...

AP Media Writer (AP) — CBS News’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday didn’t air a planned story on Trump administration deportations of immigrants to El Salvador, pulling it only hours before airtime at the direction of new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.The story, where correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi spoke to...

The leaders of Denmark and Greenland insisted Monday that the U.S. won’t take over Greenland and demanded respect for their territorial integrity after President Donald Trump ‍announced the appointment of a ‌special envoy to Greenland.Trump’s announcement on Sunday that Louisiana Gov. Jeff L...

NEW YORK (AP) — Four years ago, New York City Mayor Eric Adams swept into office with swaggering confidence, pledging to lead a government unlike any other in history and declaring himself the “future of the Democratic Party.”On the first promise, the mayor more than delivered. But as his tu...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV urged Vatican cardinals on Monday to put their ambitions of power and personal interests aside, as he followed in Pope Francis’ footsteps and used a Christmas greeting to gently criticize his closest collaborators.“Is it possible to be friends in the Roman Curia?” Le...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The phone rings. It’s the secretary of state calling. Or is it?For Washington insiders, seeing and hearing is no longer believing, thanks to a spate of recent incidents involving deepfakes impersonating top officials in President Donald Trump’s administration. Digital fakes...

NEW YORK (AP) — Most Americans aren’t making end-of-year charitable giving plans, according to the results of a new AP-NORC poll, despite the many fundraising appeals made by nonprofits that rely on donation surges in the calendar’s final month to reach budget targets.The survey, which was c...

DETROIT (AP) — Steelers receiver DK Metcalf swiped at a fan leaning over the railing in the front row at Ford Field during the second quarter of Pittsburgh’s 29-24 win over the Detroit Lions on Sunday.Metcalf and the fan, wearing a black-and-blue shirt and a blue wig, were speaking to each o...

Friction is a force that opposes the motion of one object relative to another — and it’s always an important consideration for Junichi Yananose, a Japanese Australian puzzlemaker. The plan for a new puzzle might work perfectly within the design software, Mr. Yananose explained in an email interview, but once the pieces are machined...

President Trump’s drive to crack down on vessels moving oil from Venezuela, an escalating part of his pressure campaign against the government of Nicolás Maduro, took an unusual turn over the weekend.In the Caribbean Sea on Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard tried to intercept a tanker called the Bella 1, which officials said was not f...

The scores of remaining schoolchildren who were kidnapped at gunpoint from their dormitories in the middle of the night last month have been released, the Nigerian government said.A spokesman for the Nigerian president said on Sunday that the remaining 130 schoolchildren had been freed, but a representative for the Catholic Diocese...

The two gunmen who opened fire on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, this month also threw homemade bombs into the crowd, but the explosives did not detonate.Two days before the attack, the suspects scouted the Bondi Beach area. And sometime earlier, they filmed themselves training with firearms in the countryside. They h...

Dipu Chandra Das, 27, worked at a garment factory outside the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka. His 12-hour shifts, for a monthly salary of $150, entailed checking pants and shirts sewn by thousands of workers in the huge factory for global high street brands.But after Mr. Das, a Hindu, made a comment in a debate around the inspec...

A senior Russian general was killed on Monday in Moscow after a bomb placed under his car exploded, the country’s investigative committee said in a statement, in what appeared to be the latest high-profile assassination of Ukraine’s opponents inside Russia.The statement identified the officer as Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, who served...

Officials in Denmark and Greenland on Monday reacted with anger to President Trump’s decision to appoint a special envoy to Greenland, as he intensifies his efforts to take over the semiautonomous Danish territory.Mr. Trump announced on social media on Sunday that he was appointing Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, a political ally, t...

Some Argentines had taken buses from neighboring cities and camped outside overnight. Many others had come to a parking lot in Buenos Aires at dawn and stood in a line, a six-block stretch of baggy eyes and determination.The people in the queue were not waiting to see a pope, a king or Taylor Swift, but to be some of the first to e...

It started with “Red Comet,” an 1,118-page biography of Sylvia Plath, undertaken with far-flung friends during the pandemic (obviously). The audiobook was 45 hours long, the Mount Everest of listening. I summited, knitting a chunky striped blanket along the way. I never looked back.Listen to this article with reporter commentaryOr...

Jennifer Lawrence playing a new mother whose behavior becomes increasingly erratic in “Die My Love” and three more “Stranger Things” episodes are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as se...