MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) — Over the course of a steaming-hot Southern lunch, served family-style on a giant lazy Susan, restaurant owner Andre Davis has watched people go from perfect strangers to lifelong friends. His restaurant, The Dinner Bell in McComb, Mississippi, consists of just four table...

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — The teasing was relentless. Nude images of a 13-year-old girl and her friends, generated by artificial intelligence, were circulating on social media and had become the talk of a Louisiana middle school. The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor...

Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the manipulated photos and videos can create a nightmare for the victims. The challenge for schools was h...

Panic erupts in the McCallister household as soon as the day begins. The parents’ alarm clock never rings, bags and coats spill across the floor, and the family barrels out the door to catch a flight to Florida. The pandemonium intensifies at the airport. There, the McCallisters must dodge f...

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s shoppers like Quinn Kelsey who keep department store executives up at night.The 38-year-old Denver resident gets makeup ideas from TikTok videos and other social media content, not salespeople at beauty counters. She uses an AI chatbot to get product recommendations that...

NEW YORK (AP) — December is a notable time for fragrance. The month accounts for one-quarter of the high-end perfumes, colognes, body mists and other scented beauty products sold annually in the United States, according to market research firm Circana. Fragrances of all kinds and prices also...

I call this the “So This Is Christmas Cocktail.” But the drink, from my cookbook “The Full Plate,” is perfect for any family celebration, whether it’s actually Christmas or not.In the cold winter months, the Champagne keeps you warm and the rosemary reminds you of the crisp, fresh air.First,...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian court Monday rejected former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bid to serve the remainder of his graft sentence under house arrest. The High Court ruled that a rare royal order issued by the nation’s former king was not valid as it wasn’t made in accordan...

HONG KONG (AP) — A former Hong Kong reporter at the Wall Street Journal began testifying Monday against the newspaper she accuses of terminating her due to her union activities in a trial — a closely watched case that has raised concerns about press freedom in the city. Former WSJ reporter S...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and New Zealand announced Monday they have reached a free trade deal, seeking to deepen economic ties and shore up growth at a time of mounting global trade uncertainties.The move comes as New Delhi accelerates efforts to diversify export destinations as part of a broa...

NAIVASHA, Kenya (AP) — When Dickson Ngome first leased his farm at Lake Naivasha in Kenya’s Rift Valley in 2008, it was over 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from shore. The farm was on 1.5 acres (0.6 hectares) of fertile land where he grew vegetables to sell at local markets.At the time, the lake w...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said its H3 rocket carrying a navigation satellite failed to put the payload into a planned orbit, a setback for the country’s new flagship rocket and its space launch program.Monday’s failure is the second for Japan’s new flagship rocket after its botched 2...

BANGKOK (AP) — Southeast Asian foreign ministers gathered Monday in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur for a special meeting to discuss an ongoing border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia that escalated into deadly combat two weeks ago.The meeting marked the second time this year that t...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach conducted firearms training in an area of New South Wales state outside of Sydney with his father, Australian police documents released on Monday allege.The men recorded a video about their justification f...

Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield.Intelligen...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The icy ground crackling under their feet, members of an elite Ukrainian drone-hunting team set up for a long night. Antennas and sensors are clipped to a light stand. Monitors and controls are pulled from hard cases, and a game-changing new weapon is readied for deploym...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian general was killed Monday morning after an explosive device detonated underneath his car in Moscow, and investigators said Ukraine could be behind the attack, the third such killing of a senior military officer in a year.Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operationa...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump ‍on Sunday announced he ⁠is appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry to serve as the U.S. ‌special envoy to Greenland, the vast, semi-autonomous territory of Denmark that Trump has said the U.S. needs to take over.“Jeff understands how essenti...

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday will hear arguments about whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be returned to immigration custody after being free for just over a week. Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation to El Salvador has become a lightning rod for both sides of the im...

World shares were mixed on Monday after a rebound in AI-related stocks like Nvidia spurred a late-in-the-week rally on Wall Street. Germany’s DAX edged 0.1% higher to 24,315.90, while the CAC 40 in Paris slipped 0.2% to 8,135.23. Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 0.3% to 9,864.71. The future for the S...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Gardner Minshew limped off the field Sunday early in the second quarter and never returned.For a second straight game, a starting quarterback for Kansas City was sidelined by a knee injury.Chris Oladokun replaced Minshew, who was making...

BALTIMORE (AP) — New England running back Tre’Veyon Henderson left Sunday night’s game at Baltimore in the second quarter with a head injury.Henderson was slow getting up after a carry in Baltimore territory. He was able to walk off the field, but then headed to the tunnel a short time later...

The third “Avatar” movie got off to a comparatively slow start at the North American box office.“Avatar: Fire and Ash” took in about $88 million at 3,800 theaters in the United States and Canada from Thursday through Sunday, according to Comscore, which compiles ticketing data. In 2022, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” the second movie...

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school in November, according to a presidential spokesman, after 100 were freed earlier this month.“Another 130 Abducted Niger State Pupils Released, None Left In Captivity,” Sunday Dare said in a post on X on Sunday.Recomm...

Kevin Arkadie, a screenwriter who was one of the creators of the popular police drama “New York Undercover” and a champion of representation for actors of color in the television industry, died at a Los Angeles hospital on Wednesday. He was 68.His death was confirmed by his cousin and producer, L. True Green, on Facebook, and also...

James Ransone, a character actor who starred in Season 2 of “The Wire” and appeared in horror films like “It Chapter Two” and “The Black Phone,” died on Friday in Los Angeles. He was 46.The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed his death and, according to the office’s website, was investigating it as a suicide.Repr...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A passenger bus crash killed at least 15 people on Indonesia’s main island of Java just after midnight Monday, officials said.The bus carrying 34 people lost control on a toll road and struck a concrete barrier before rolling onto its side, said Budiono, a search an...

The United States is pursuing another oil tanker in international waters near Venezuela, a US official told Al Jazeera, as Washington intensifies a pressure campaign against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.The operation on Sunday comes a day after the US coastguard seized its second vessel off the coast of Ven...

We’re doing something a little different over the next two weeks. We’ll still give you the latest news. But we’ll start each day’s newsletter by sharing some of our favorite reads of the year and some other cool end-of-2025 stuff. We hope you’ll enjoy the chance to slow down a bit.I left Germany when I was 17 to study in the United...

On the final night of Hanukkah, the candles began glowing, one by one, as the sun faded from the shores of Bondi Beach, one of Australia’s most cherished landmarks.Thousands of Australians gathered Sunday evening to mourn the victims of a mass shooting a week earlier that targeted Jewish families celebrating the first night of Hanu...

A very British holiday tradition will get an American twist this year, when the late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel offers the alternative holiday message, in which he will speak out against fascism on Britain’s Channel 4 on Christmas Day, the station announced on Sunday.“From a fascism perspective, this has been a really great...

The Kremlin on Sunday appeared to throw cold water on the results of several days of peace talks in Miami, where American representatives met separately with Russian and Ukrainian officials in the latest round of negotiations aimed at ending Russia’s war with Ukraine.Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, and Rustem Umerov...

A silver steward at the French presidential palace is facing charges of stealing “heritage property” after about a hundred precious silverware and tableware items went missing and were discovered in his locker, car and home, French prosecutors say.The objects that disappeared from the Élysée Palace collection — including copper pot...

Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, on Sunday defended the Justice Department’s public release of files related to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying the administration would not remove any mentions of President Trump in the files as they continue to be released in the coming weeks.“We are not redacting information aro...

The U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday tried to intercept an oil tanker linked to Venezuela that is now fleeing in the Caribbean Sea, according to three U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive operation, days after President Trump said he would crack down on sanctioned vessels involved in the country...

Heavy rains in Washington State this month prompted officials to warn about flooded roadways, water damage to homes and one rare potential consequence: toilet rats.The public health department for Seattle and King County issued the toilet rat warning on Thursday, telling residents that recent flooding may sweep rats into sewers and...

A paraplegic engineer from Germany became the first wheelchair user to rocket into space after a short ride on Saturday in which she felt weightlessness on a capsule that was launched from West Texas.Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old aerospace engineer at the European Space Agency who injured her spinal cord in a mountain biking acc...

An hourslong power outage in San Francisco over the weekend that caused tens of thousands of households to lose electricity also knocked out Waymo service, with the ubiquitous self-driving cars coming to a halt at darkened traffic signals, blocking traffic and angering drivers of regular vehicles that became stuck as a result.The r...

When Archbishop Timothy Dolan arrived to lead the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York in 2009, he had never lived or studied in the city.By the time Pope Leo XIV accepted his resignation on Thursday, Cardinal Dolan had become an expression of it — a gregarious, towering figure who for years represented traditional American Catho...

One Palestinian killed by Israeli army in Gaza, while two Palestinians, including a child, are shot dead in West Bank.

One Palestinian killed by Israeli army in Gaza, while two Palestinians, including a child, are shot dead in West Bank.

One Palestinian killed by Israeli army in Gaza, while two Palestinians, including a child, are shot dead in West Bank.

One Palestinian killed by Israeli army in Gaza, while two Palestinians, including a child, are shot dead in West Bank.

Israeli arms companies made record-high revenues last year, as weapons manufacturers market some of their products as “battle-tested” after their deployment in Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza.Israel’s defence exports increased 13 percent in 2024 compared with the previous year to a record of almost $15...

Gaza’s Ministry of Health has appealed for increased drug, medical consumables and laboratory supplies, warning of severe shortages after more than two years of Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza and a crippling blockade.The ministry said on Sunday that the shortages were making it difficult to provide di...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy aide says that changes made by European countries and Ukraine to the United States’s proposals for an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine do not improve the prospects for peace.“I am sure that the proposals that the Europeans and Ukrainians have made or are trying to make definitely...

Sweden’s customs service has said that authorities boarded a Russian freighter that anchored in Swedish waters on Friday after developing engine problems, and were conducting an inspection of the cargo.The owners of the vessel, the Adler, are on the European Union’s sanctions list, Martin Hoglund, spokesman at the customs authority...

France’s presidential silverware keeper and two other men are set to stand trial over the alleged theft of porcelain and other tableware worth thousands of euros, the Paris prosecution office has said.Prosecutors said the silverware keeper, Thomas M, and ‍his partner, Damien G, were arrested on suspicion of theft on Tuesday. Anothe...

Here is where things stand on Monday, December 22:Fighting A Russian attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv region killed a 49-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman, according to Governor Oleh Syniehubov. The killings took place in the village of Izyum. Russian attacks also killed one person in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, and one person in the s...

Come mid-November, a steady line of tourists forms at the foot of Central Park, each waiting their turn for a brush with luxury. One by one, with iPhones ready and clutched to their chests, visitors ascend a set of ruby red steps and surrender to the call of the Plaza Hotel.After nearly 120 years, the palatial landmark still casts...

Good morning! Today we have for you:An absolutely glorious pernil recipeSam Sifton’s no-fail prime rib roastAnd Tejal Rao’s vegetarian party wreathImageToni Chapman’s pernil.Credit...Rachel Vanni for The New York TimesHello, and happy Sunday. This past week, I took an early-morning walk to Rockefeller Center while in New York to so...

A few years ago, I was out jogging on Hampstead Heath near my home in north London when I suddenly had to stop. I didn’t feel tired or breathless in any ordinary way. It was as if my legs had been unplugged. I also had a weird fluttering sensation in my chest, like someone had dropped an Alka-Seltzer into my blood. I walked it off...

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...

On a gold-tinged morning at Appleyard College, a senior named Miranda wakes singing a foreboding melody. Her heartbeat is hammering, and she’s caught somewhere “between lost and free.”There’s perhaps no better metaphor to encapsulate “Picnic at Hanging Rock: The Musical,” a psychedelic show based on Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel. That...

South Korean infielder Sung-mun Song and the San Diego Padres finalized a $15 million, four-year contract on Sunday.Song will receive a $1 million signing bonus in two equal installments, in 30 days and on Jan. 15, 2027, and salaries of $2.5 million next year, $3 million in 2027 and $3.5 mil...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of President Donald Trump’s “America First” priorities.The chi...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Some 130 schoolchildren and staff abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school last month by gunmen have been released, police said Sunday.Gunmen seized at least 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers in Nigeria’s north-central Niger state when they attacked St. Mary’s Catholic...

PARIS (AP) — France will build a new aircraft carrier with a capacity for 30 fighter jets and 2,000 sailors, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Sunday in what he described as “the display of our nation’s power in the service of freedom on the seas and amid the turbulence of our times...

SLATYFORK, W.Va. (AP) — The former Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 was fired from his post as a ranger at a West Virginia resort community, the fourth known time in seven years that he left a small department following public backlash.Timothy Loehmann was fi...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has suspended men’s basketball assistant coach Joe Dooley after he was arrested late Saturday on suspicion of driving under the influence and failure to stop at an accident, the school said in a statement Sunday.Jayhawks coach Bill Self said Dooley “exercised poo...

The Powerball jackpot now stands at an estimated $1.6 billion, making it one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history, Powerball officials said Sunday.No ticket matched all six winning numbers on Saturday — white balls 4, 5, 28, 52, 69 and red Powerball 20. That sets up the fifth-larges...

BOSTON (AP) — A New Jersey police chief is facing domestic violence charges in Massachusetts after prosecutors accused him of assaulting a woman at a hotel earlier this year.Carmen Veneziano, who leads Totowa, New Jersey’s police department, was indicted Thursday on one count of kidnapping a...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fired shots Sunday at a Cuban immigrant living in the U.S. illegally after the man struck the agent and another one with an SUV in Minnesota’s state capital, the Department of Homeland Security said.The man also bit an ICE a...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Ransone, the actor who played Ziggy Sobotka in the HBO series “The Wire” and appeared in many other TV shows and movies, has died. He was 46. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office said in online records that Ransone died by suicide on Friday.Ransone’s film...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis accused President Donald Trump of playing “political games” Sunday after the Trump administration denied disaster declaration requests following wildfires and flooding in the state earlier this year. Polis’ office said he received late Saturday two den...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department’s decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline as necessary to protect survivors of sexual abuse by the disgraced financier...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday was pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration appeared to be intensifying its targeting of such vessels connected to the Venezuelan government.The pursuit of the tanker, which was confir...

Melanin Bee curves her spine like a stretching cat as she lets out a maniacal, forced laugh.The quick-fire pattern of manufactured giggles —“oh, hoo hoo hoo, eeh, ha ha ha”— soon ripples into genuine laughter, and she giddily kicks her feet.She’s practicing what she calls Laughasté, a hilari...

NEW YORK (AP) — “Avatar: Fire and Ash” opened with $345 million in worldwide sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, notching the second-best global debut of the year and potentially putting James Cameron on course to set yet more blockbuster records. Sixteen years into the “Avatar” sag...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Luka Doncic suffered an injury and didn’t return after halftime of the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night.The Lakers said the NBA’s leading scorer had a left leg contusion. Doncic leads the league at 35.2 points per game, just...

Female rapper Nicki Minaj on Sunday made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona that was memorializing late activist Charlie Kirk, and used her time on stage to praise President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, calling them “role models” for young men.The r...

Al Jazeera Media Network is launching a new integrative artificial intelligence (AI) model in collaboration with Google Cloud.Al Jazeera said on Sunday that it was expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud on the network’s new initiative, dubbed “The Core”, that will integrate AI into its news operations.“The Core” aims to shif...

Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinians, including a teenage boy, during separate raids in the Jenin governorate in the occupied West Bank, officials say, with security camera footage showing soldiers shooting the victim at a “point-blank” range.The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced late on Saturday that Rayyan Abdel...

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people cheered and danced around Stonehenge as the sun rose over the prehistoric stone circle on Sunday, the winter solstice.The crowds, many in costume, had gathered before dawn, waiting patiently in the dark and cold field in southwest England. Some sang and beat...

It was October 2023, and F.B.I. agents told Hui Bo not to come to their office.For his own safety, it would be better to meet in public, he recalled them saying, so he waited near a park in Los Angeles. He was warned that he was being watched by agents of the People’s Republic of China after he commissioned sculptures in protest of...

Guns waving in the air, the partygoers danced inside a recording studio on a fashionable city block, near a bar with craft cocktails like “Espresso Yourself” and a boutique hotel with what a Michelin Guide called a “bohemian-baroque aesthetic.”Then, just after midnight, three rival gang members descended on the alley behind the stu...

At least nine people have been killed and 10 wounded when armed men opened fire at a tavern in a township near the city of Johannesburg in South Africa, police said, adding that some victims were “randomly shot in the streets”.In a statement on Sunday, the police said a manhunt by Gauteng Serious and Violent Crime Investigations in...

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

LONDON (AP) — Prince William and his eldest son, Prince George, put on aprons to help make Christmas lunch at a homeless shelter, a charity that the Prince of Wales first visited as a child with his mother, the late Princess Diana.The royal father and son were seen decorating a Christmas tre...

A mass shooting killed at least nine people and injured 10 more at a tavern near Johannesburg, the police said on Sunday morning.Nearly a dozen assailants arrived at the tavern around 1 a.m. on Sunday in a white van and silver sedan, and then opened fire at random at the people inside, Captain Tintswalo Sibeko of the police said in...

Australia is observing a National Day of Reflection in tribute to the victims of the gun attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach last week, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announcing a review into the country’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies.Indigenous leaders began the commemorations on Sunday morning with a traditional smo...

More from our inbox:Australia Acts on Guns. The U.S. Should Follow.ImageCredit...The New York TimesTo the Editor:Re “How Can We Afford $27,000 a Year for Health Insurance?,” by Zack Cooper (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 13):In his essay on rising health care spending and the escalating costs of health insurance, Dr. Cooper should have...

Peak shopping season is upon us. And so what? Shopping has become a drag. A bore. An obligation. A thing you do alone on your phone, not out in the world, which is where you want to be in your new Christmas coat, making a grand entrance … somewhere.I am someone who has always enjoyed shopping. To be clear, I’ve never been a shopaho...

This is part of an Opinion series on The New York Times Communities Fund, which assists nonprofits that provide direct support to people and communities facing hardship. Donate to the fund here. For working parents, the hours between the end of the school day and the end of their working day provid...

At a New Orleans Hilton along the banks of the Mississippi River this month, rice farmers met to discuss agricultural futures. High school football players roamed the lobby.On the third floor, the topics turned toward leftist political theory, with people debating ways to tax the rich and holding sessions with names like Socialists...

Religion is one of the most dangerous forces on earth.If you’ve ever encountered true fundamentalists, you know why. When you combine eternal stakes with absolute certainty, it produces the kind of people who are happy to be cruel in the name of God.In fact, they can view their cruelty as a form of kindness. If they treat you with...

When I was 24, I traveled to India and had a hard time of it. There were canceled flights in Delhi, a trip to a tiny hospital in Kerala and a rickshaw ride next to a man holding a very large rifle in Agra. When I came home, shaken and sporting stitches in one leg (not from the rifle), I gallantly told everyone about my adventure, a...

In January, I made a prediction: “I suspect we are at or near the peak of Trump vibes.” Now, as this long year grinds to its end, I think it can be said more declaratively: The Trump vibe shift is dead. And there are already glimmers of what will follow it.The Trump vibe shift was American culture and institutions moving toward Pre...

On the sixth floor of the Pompidou Center, generations of art lovers have stood transfixed before paintings by Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall and Andy Warhol.Walking down its corridors recently, I found only boxes,exposed pipes and the sound of my heels echoing off the barren walls.A floor down, where rooms were recently dedicated to...

Just days ago, Ales Bialiatski, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was blindfolded, bundled into a car and driven from a notorious penal colony in his native Belarus to Lithuania’s border. There, his blindfold was untied.Mr. Bialiatski had been serving a 10-year sentence on charges of “smuggling” and “financing public disorder,” charges...

A heritage of dark sky preservation means residents of Flagstaff welcome the season’s longer nights with prolonged views of the stars.

Victims of Jeffrey Epstein have criticised the United States government after it released a partial trove of documents from cases against the late convicted sex offender with heavily redacted pages and blacked-out photos.The growing outcry on Saturday came as US media reported that at least 16 files from the tranche, which were pub...

PARIS (AP) — Three men will stand trial next year after a silver steward employed at the official residence of the French president was arrested this week for the theft of items of silverware and table service worth thousands of euros, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The Élysée Palace’s...

In Rebecca Di Veroli’s 33 years of growing up Jewish in Australia, a sense of precarity had always been in the background, as much a part of life here as the sun, surf and sand.Armed guards stood outside every synagogue, every day care center, even the Jewish nursing home where she visited her grandfather. Towering walls surrounded...

Officers barged in on a Sunday church service.They handcuffed a pastor during a retreat for elderly church members.They showed up at that pastor’s home in the middle of the night.This is how the Chinese police cracked down on one of the country’s biggest underground church networks.One pastor was at an airport in Shanghai. Another...

The father-and-son attackers accused of carrying out the deadly shooting on Australia’s famous Bondi Beach appeared to have met with local Muslim religious leaders during their sojourn to the Philippines last month, intelligence authorities said on Sunday.Sajid Akram and his son, Naveed, slipped out of the southern city of Davao to...

Hyderabad is a city in southern India whose residents have long gone abroad in search of greater wealth and opportunity. But it has come under scrutiny after one of its own was named in connection with an atrocity far away.Sajid Akram, who died in attacking a Hanukkah celebration in Australia last Sunday, was born and grew up in a...

Steps away from some of New York City’s most storied retail corridors, a different kind of vendor has recently been setting up shop. And this time of year, it’s make or break.Hundreds of small-business owners have been hunkered down in aisles of cramped, often chilly stalls that have remade several Manhattan parks into festive mark...

The phone vibrated just as Arash Singh curled onto a mattress in the sleeper cab of his semi truck parked in a lot off Interstate 5 in Northern California. As on most evenings, his parents were calling at the start of their day in a tiny village in Punjab, India.“It’s winter almost. Please always wear a coat,” his mother gently imp...

When President Trump announced tariffs this spring, toymakers immediately began to worry about Christmas.A majority of toys sold in the United States are produced abroad, mainly in China. With American consumers already squeezed by stubborn inflation, pricier toys could put a damper on the crucial holiday shopping season.Sales at M...

President Trump dominates our collective consciousness. The Times broke down how he has relentlessly pursued attention in the first 329 days of his second term.

The Supreme Court is set to decide this term whether states can count mail-in ballots received after Election Day. The case centers on a law in Mississippi, but a total of about 18 states and territories accept such late-arriving ballots as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.Should the court rule that all ballots nationwid...

Luis Martinez was still trying to figure out how to tell his 11-year-old son that his cancer might be back when his phone rang. He squinted to make out the name of his son’s soccer coach.Listen to this article with reporter commentaryThe coach wanted to know if Luis could drive his son, Rooney, to a tournament in Seattle, three hou...

Credit...New York Times Photographs by Kenny Holston, Eric Lee, and Haiyun JiangWhen President Trump hosted the crown prince of Saudi Arabia last month, he pulled out all the stops. To the traditional pomp of a formal White House visit, he added a few even fancier touches: a stirring military flyover, a procession of black horses a...

Michele Singer Reiner did not hesitate to clink her glass at the dinner table. This was never a call for attention, never a setup for a toast.It was a reminder that the singular rule of the Reiner dinner table was not being followed.“One conversation at a time,” Ms. Singer Reiner would say, warmly yet firmly. “One. Conversation.”Ev...

When federal agents descended on Louisiana this month to pursue their aggressive deportation campaign, a group of Roman Catholic priests privately brought the Eucharist to the homes of immigrants too worried to step outside.But Lewis Richerson, the pastor of Woodlawn Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, planned to take an opposite approa...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s Cabinet approved a proposal for 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, the far-right finance minister said on Sunday.It is the latest step by the far-right government to push ahead with a construction binge in the occupied territory that further threat...

Negotiators from Russia and the United States have met in the US city of Miami as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Washington to ramp up the pressure on Moscow to end its war on Ukraine.The meeting on Saturday took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, and US President Donald...

Tens of people gathered in central London on Saturday to call for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, drawing attention to those detained under what Israel calls ”administrative detention” — a system under which people can be held for indefinite renewable periods of time without a charge and without having c...

PHOENIX (AP) — The next presidential election is three years away, but Turning Point USA already knows it wants Vice President JD Vance as the Republican nominee.Erika Kirk, leader of the powerful conservative youth organization, endorsed him on opening night of its annual AmericaFest conven...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the dawn rose on President Donald Trump’s second term, one key figure from his first administration stood back, content to focus on his personal business interests and not retake a formal government role.Now, nearly a year into Trump 2.0, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner...

Let’s face it: The holidays aren’t always the happiest time of the year.We’re busier than usual, scurrying around buying presents, mailing cards and attending events. We’re battling the nasty winter illnesses that pop up in December. And we’re often navigating complicated family dynamics while feeling pressured to create perfect me...

American Airlines Flight 27 was hundreds of miles out to sea on its way from Los Angeles to Tokyo this month when a passenger had a medical emergency.The flight’s captain called Mike Doran, a dispatcher for the airline in Texas. Mr. Doran connected him to a doctor employed by American. After that consultation, the pilot changed cou...

Year after year, Mary Bucklew strategized with a nurse-practitioner about losing weight. “We tried exercise,” like walking 35 minutes a day, she recalled. “And 39,000 different diets.”But five pounds would come off and then invariably reappear, said Ms. Bucklew, 75, a public transit retiree in Ocean View, Del. Nothing seemed to mak...

Lawmakers in Algeria have begun debating a draft law that would criminalise France’s colonisation of the North African country amid a period of tense ties between the two countries, according to the People’s National Assembly.French colonial rule in Algeria lasted for more than 130 years, which was marked by torture, enforced disap...

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has released thousands more documents relating to the prosecution of the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, including photographs of prominent figures he spent time with. But campaigners behind the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which compelled the Justice Department on F...

Warner Bros. Discovery is in the middle of a Hollywood tug-of-war between Netflix and Paramount. And chances are it’ll be a long, bumpy regulatory road ahead for either buyer.Warner’s board on Wednesday urged shareholders to back the deal it struck with Netflix to sell its studio and streami...

“Kablooey!” That’s the word U.S. Geological Survey volcanic experts used to describe a muddy eruption at Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone National Park on Saturday morning. Video shared by the USGS on social media shows mud spraying up and out from the pool just before 9:23 a.m. in Biscuit...

ATLANTA (AP) — Millennial and Generation Z Christian influencers are increasingly filling a void in American religion, growing audiences across digital platforms by steering young people to biblical answers to tough questions that aren’t always answered in Sunday sermons.“I can be that in-be...

BEKKERSDAL, South Africa (AP) — Nine people have died and at least 10 others were wounded after a group of gunmen carried out a shooting at a South African pub during the early hours of Sunday, authorities said.The incident occurred just before 1 a.m. in the township of Bekkersdal which is l...

There were some highs amid a lot of lows in a roller coaster year for clean energy as President Donald Trump worked to boost polluting fuels while blocking wind and solar, according to dozens of energy developers, experts and politicians.Surveyed by The Associated Press, many described 2025...

A Kremlin envoy said peace talks on a proposed U.S. plan to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine were progressing “constructively” in Florida, while the Ukrainian president said they were moving “quickly.”The talks are part of the Trump administration's efforts in recent months to seek pe...

The Minnesota Vikings had some travel trouble Saturday getting to northern New Jersey for their game Sunday at the New York Giants.Their team plane experienced mechanical issues that required turning around shortly after departing Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, according to a te...

Move over Karen and snowflake. There’s a new go-to political put-down: Theater kid.Last month, the comedian Tim Dillon referred to New York City’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, as a “theater kid,” arguing that Mr. Mamdani’s victory speech was “a little cringe.” After Mr. Mamdani appeared in the Oval Office for a surprisingly cordial...

Some of the most memorable farewells to “Saturday Night Live” cast members over the years have been musical ones: Kristen Wiig got Mick Jagger and Arcade Fire to play “She’s a Rainbow” and “Ruby Tuesday” to her on her final episode in 2012, and Cecily Strong shared a duet of “Blue Christmas” with Austin Butler when she departed in...

Look just about anywhere on the internet and it’s clear that Sydney Sweeney drives people crazy. Not in the sense that her buxom looks have them acting like cartoon wolves, eyes bulging from faces, but in the way that her existence seems to cause many to come down with a severe case of brain worms.Sweeney’s every move has become a...

One Palestinian killed by Israeli army in Gaza while two Palestinians, including a child, are shot dead in West Bank.

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsMonday, December 22COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)1 p.m.Defiance at Western Michigan — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo Sports7 p.m.Eastern Michigan at Wright State — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo Sports8 p.m.Central Michigan at Wisconsin — B...

A Kremlin envoy says peace talks on a U.S.-proposed plan to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine were pressing on “constructively” in Florida.The talks are part of the Trump administration’s monthslong push for peace that also included meetings with Ukrainian and European officials in Ber...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Political factions in Iraq have been maneuvering since the parliamentary election more than a month ago to form alliances that will shape the next government.The November election didn’t produce a bloc with a decisive majority, opening the door to a prolonged period of negotia...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia has quietly expanded access to its only store that sells alcohol, allowing wealthy foreign residents to buy booze in the latest step in the once-ultraconservative kingdom’s experiment in liberalization.There’s been no official announcement of the deci...

PHOENIX (AP) — When Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest convention reached its halfway point, Erika Kirk tried to put a smiling face on things. “Say what you want about AmFest, but it’s definitely not boring,” said Kirk, who has led the influential conservative organization since her husb...

LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — The heated rivalry between the Eagles and Commanders boiled over in the fourth quarter Saturday night, when three players were ejected after a fight broke out among several members of both teams in the aftermath of Saquon Barkley’s 2-point conversion that increased Phila...

The actor and comedian Bowen Yang will leave “Saturday Night Live” after this weekend’s episode, he announced in a post on Instagram on Saturday, an unexpected midseason departure for the five-time Emmy nominee.“I loved working at S.N.L., and most of all I loved the people,” Yang wrote in his post, adding, “I’m grateful for every m...

Here is where things stand on Sunday, December 21:Fighting The death toll from a Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s port city of Odesa rose from seven to eight, with at least 30 others wounded, according to Ukrainian authorities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the situation in Odesa as “harsh” and accused Russia...

The United States has seized a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, enforcing a “blockade” ordered by President Donald Trump, and prompting anger in Caracas, with officials there denouncing the move as “theft and hijacking”.US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed the interception on Saturday, saying in a post...

Israeli forces have advanced into the Quneitra area of Syria’s occupied Golan Heights and set up two military checkpoints, an Al Jazeera correspondent on the ground reports.The Israeli military operation on Saturday took place in the villages of Ain Ziwan and al-Ajraf in the southern part of the country.Recommended Stories list of...

Lebanon is close to completing the disarmament of Hezbollah in the south of the Litani River before a year-end deadline as part of a ceasefire deal with Israel, according to Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.Saturday’s statement comes as the country races to fulfil the key demand in the US-backed deal agreed in November last year and ende...

The United States, Egypt, Qatar and Turkiye have urged the parties to the Gaza ceasefire to honour their commitments and show restraint, the chief US envoy says after talks in the US city of Miami.Senior officials from the four mediator countries met Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, on Friday to review the...

Senator Cynthia Lummis, Republican of Wyoming, said on Friday that she would not seek re-election next year after serving one term.In a statement, Ms. Lummis, who has served in the Senate since 2021, attributed the decision to the grueling weeks in session this year on Capitol Hill. Her departure will tee up a primary in the conser...

One photo shows him sitting on a private plane, smiling and slightly red-faced, with a young blonde draped across the arm of his chair. In another image, he is relaxing, shirtless, in a hot tub with his arms behind his head, the face of the person beside him redacted in a black box.There he is, grinning next to Mick Jagger in a but...

Last summer, when President Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the release of grand jury testimony in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking case, it kicked off months of speculation about what those records might show.The answer is not much new.Transcripts and other records from closed-door proceedings in the Epstein cas...

More than a dozen photos — including one featuring President Trump — were removed without explanation from the large collection of files connected to the investigations of Jeffrey Epstein that the Justice Department released on Friday.A total of 16 photos were taken down at some point on Saturday from the website that the departmen...

Since 2021, Turning Point USA’s annual gathering, AmericaFest, has featured a star-studded roster of conservative influencers and politicians who have been virtually unified in their focus on a common foe, one that Charlie Kirk, the group’s co-founder, called the “woke” left.But this weekend in Phoenix, speakers at AmericaFest have...

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.Seismology in the 1930s was a small world, almost entirely male. Inge Lehmann, a Danish scientist who had eschewed marriage for her career and who worked largely alone in Copenhagen, was c...

If you watched the president’s address on Wednesday, you know it was less a speech than it was a harangue — an unbroken stream of angry shouting, as Donald Trump berated the American people for its ingratitude. “One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead,” Trump said. “Now we’re the hottest country anywhere in the...

Israeli seizure of Palestinian lands in the West Bank, often brutally, has accelerated, raising doubts about the prospects of a peaceful solution to the conflict.

A passenger train in India hit a herd of elephants, killing seven of them, injuring one and partly derailing the train, according to railway and forest authorities. The accident happened early Saturday in a forested part of Assam, a state in northeastern India known for its wildlife and its tea plantations. No humans were injured i...

The U.S. Coast Guard stopped and boarded a Panamanian-flagged tanker carrying Venezuelan oil late Friday or early Saturday, according to a U.S. official and two people inside Venezuela’s oil industry.All three spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic. The boarding represents the United States’ second action this...

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Kenny Dillingham insisted he had no interest in leaving Arizona State. All he wanted was for his program and assistant coaches to get the resources they needed to be successful.Dillingham got his wish on Saturday, signing a five-year contract extension that will raise his...

Nearly one-third of San Francisco went dark on Saturday in a power outage that began in the morning and knocked out electricity in more and more neighborhoods as the day wore on.At least 125,000 out of 414,000 customers were without power as of Saturday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.com and Pacific Gas & Electric, the utility...

Robert E. Mnuchin, a Goldman Sachs partner who used trading-floor savvy, Wall Street connections and a deep love of art to build a second act as one of New York’s foremost gallerists and art dealers, died on Friday at his home in Bridgewater, Conn. He was 92.His death was confirmed by his stepdaughter, Lisa Hedley Wick.Under Goldma...

After multiple weeks of mostly dry weather, California saw a weather shift this weekend with the first in what will be a parade of storms arriving off the Pacific Ocean and pulling in a river of moisture.The lashing of rain, snow and wind could continue for seven days, with forecasters warning of travel delays as well as flooding i...

Heather Sterling stepped into the ring at the Texas Game Warden Training Center, ready to face an ambush by instructors acting as violent assailants.The four-on-one drill is a rite of passage for those training to be game wardens, sworn officers who enforce state conservation laws. Nationwid...

When recruits were repeatedly punched and tackled during a role-playing exercise at the Texas game wardens academy last year, they were taking part in a longstanding police training tradition that critics say should be retired.By the end of the day, at least 13 of the cadets reported injurie...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The owner of a South Dakota hotel who said Native Americans were banned from the establishment was found liable for discrimination against Native Americans on Friday.A federal jury decided the owner of the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City will pay tens of thousands...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he’s endorsing Nassau County’s Republican executive for governor in next fall’s New York race, just a day after the president’s longtime ally Rep. Elise Stefanik announced she was suspending her candidacy.The endorseme...

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105. Daughter Kimberlee Heinrichs told The Associated Press that Schab died at home early Saturday in the presence of her and her husband.With hi...

AJACCIO, France (AP) — A man armed with a knife who threatened bystanders and shopkeepers was shot dead in Corsica on Saturday, police said, as French authorities reinforced security measures during the festive season.Police said they received a call around noon about an individual threateni...

SYDNEY (AP) — The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing to ban public displays of Islamic State group flags or extremist symbols after a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.Under draft laws to be debated by the state Parliament, publicly d...

ISTANBUL (AP) — The chair of Fenerbahce, one of Turkey’s leading sports clubs, was called to give testimony Saturday as part of an ongoing drug investigation involving high-profile entertainment and media figures.Sadettin Saran, who holds dual Turkish and U.S. citizenship, gave a statement i...

A massive outage knocked out power to 130,000 homes and businesses in San Francisco on Saturday, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said.The power failure left a large swath of the northern part of the city in the dark, beginning with the Richmond and Presidio neighborhoods and areas around Golden...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Saturday he hopes the massive free-trade deal between South American bloc Mercosur and the European Union will be signed in January. Protests on Friday by European farmers and opposition from France and Italy threatened to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces on Saturday stopped an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela for the second time in less than two weeks as President Donald Trump continues to ramp up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.The pre-dawn operation comes days after Trump announced a “bloc...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australians will light candles at 6:47 p.m. on Sunday (7:47 GMT) to collectively commemorate the moment the first shots rang out a week earlier at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in an attack on a Jewish festival that left 15 dead.The federal and New South Wales state govern...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Saturday reiterated calls for structural changes in the U.N Security Council to grant Africa a larger role in shaping global decisions.El-Sissi made the plea for a “more pluralistic” world order at a conference of the Russia-Africa part...

Q: I rent an apartment in a 55+ “luxury” apartment complex in New Jersey. When we moved in back in May, we were told the intercom system to allow visitors into the building was out of order, but that it would be repaired within a month. The management company is still “working on it.” We’ve since learned that the issue predates our...

HAVANA (AP) — Thousands of Cubans flocked to the Rincón Sanctuary on Tuesday, on the outskirts of Havana, to pay promises or pay tribute to San Lázaro or Babalú Aye during a pilgrimage that combines the Catholic and Afro-Cuban traditions of Santería.Saint Lázaro or Babalú Aye or simply “The...

A paraplegic engineer from Germany took off Saturday on a rocket ride that made her dream come true, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space as she gazed down at Earth from above.Severely injured in a mountain bike accident seven years ago, Michaela Benthaus became the first wheelcha...

NEW YORK (AP) — Bowen Yang, coming off a huge year or two of projects, will depart “SNL” mid-season after Saturday’s episode hosted by his “Wicked” buddy Ariana Grande.He joined the show as a writer in 2018, became a featured player the following season and was promoted to the main cast two...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer heard the critics and the questions heading into his team’s College Football Playoff game against Oklahoma on Friday.There was the sentiment that maybe Alabama shouldn’t have made the field. The Crimson Tide lost badly to Georgia in the Southea...

MIAMI (AP) — Jake Paul’s jaw was broken in two places in his loss to former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in Miami.Joshua scored a sixth-round knockout victory over Paul, who posted on Saturday an X-ray of his damaged jaw.“Double broken jaw,” the YouTuber wrote on Instagram. “Giv...

NEW YORK (AP) — At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the p...

ImageImageA slice of heaven with little pockets of jammy sweetness.Credit...Andrew Bui for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Kaitlin Wayne.The promise of presents makes waking up on Christmas morning exciting, but the promise of breakfast makes getting out of bed worth it in the Vreeland household. Growing up, the smell of shrimp a...

Good morning! Today we have for you:Sticky toffee pudding!A baked salmon recipe from “some kind of flavour wizard”And Melissa Clark’s mushroom BourguignonImageSimon Hopkinson’s sticky toffee pudding, adapted by Mark Bittman.Credit...Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Monica Pierini.There are some desserts I l...

Singapore has reported a growing number of “rogue” or “shadow fleet” tankers operating off its shores in and around one of the world’s busiest maritime corridors.According to Lloyd’s List Intelligence data cited by international maritime authorities, at least 27 such ships transited the Singapore Strait in early December, with anot...

It starts innocently enough: a check to cover the rent after a job loss, an invitation to move back home after earning a degree, an offer to take over student loan payments until a new graduate can land a better-paying job.It’s natural for parents to want to lend a hand as their children make the sometimes-bumpy transition to adult...