In recent years, macroeconomic tides have ebbed and flowed, but one thing has remained unchanged: Americans’ dim views of the economy.In 2023, pundits warned of the “vibecession.” In 2024, concerns about the economy and inflation were top of mind for voters in the presidential race.This year, economic pessimism has persisted, as Pr...

Our universe might be chock-full of cosmic wonder, but you can observe only a fraction of astronomical phenomena with your naked eye. Meteor showers, natural fireworks that streak brightly across the night sky, are one of them.The latest event is the Ursids, a winter solstice light show. It has been active since Wednesday and will...

This is the latest in my occasional series of conversations about Christianity. Previously, I spoke with the Rev. Timothy Keller, President Jimmy Carter, the evangelical writer Beth Moore, Professor Elaine Pagels and others. Here I speak with Bart Ehrman, a prominent New Testament scholar at the University of North Carolina and the...

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. In 2019, Ismail Fofana was hit by a truck while he was crossing a street in Queens. His injuries cost hi...

When OpenAI released the pioneering artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT in late 2022, no one at the company expected much. Prior attempts at consumer-facing language models had resulted in indifference or even outright hostility. Nick Turley, ChatGPT’s project manager, figured it would last a month. “The entire thesis of ChatGP...

VideoWas 2025 the End of ‘Teflon Trump’?Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle and David French convene to discuss the year that was.As a tumultuous year comes to an end, the New York Times Opinion politics writer Michelle Cottle talks to the columnists David French and Jamelle Bouie about the year that was — the damage done by the Trump a...

At first, I loved hosting. There was the alchemy of fine-tuning a grocery list, taking it from chaotic scribbles to neat abundance. I brined turkeys in coolers in my bathtub, timed side dishes in mental spreadsheets that would make a project manager weep and once made a standing rib roast in a toaster oven so small I had to prop th...

You are watching the 2016 Republican primary campaign, trying to figure out if Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio can stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination. A man from the future steps out of a shimmering portal and informs you that the winner of the primary campaign will go on to be the Republican president who will finall...

This week, Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, traveled to Nashville to meet with Candace Owens, a podcaster who has become the premier purveyor of conspiracy theories about her husband’s murder. If the summit was meant to convince Owens to back off her paranoid and fantastical speculations, it failed. On Thursday, Owens had on her s...

The news that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be heading the inquiry into his own government’s failings ahead of the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, has drawn sharp criticism from many across Israel.Calls for a state commission of inquiry, to be led by a sitting or retired Supreme Court justice, have been omnip...

Students at the Islamic University of Gaza have returned to in-person classes for the first time in two years, navigating a campus transformed into a site of mass displacement and utter devastation as a result of Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged Palestinian enclave.This Gaza City university, which reopened following October’s...

Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, judicial authorities announced, as Tehran continues a widening crackdown on alleged collaborators following the 12-day Israel-United States-Iran war earlier this year.Aghil Keshavarz was put to death on Saturday morning after the Supreme Court uphe...

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has warned that babies and children in the Gaza Strip are dying from harsh winter weather, calling on Israel to ease its aid blockade as the military continues to violate the ceasefire and press on with its genocidal war.Citing the death of a 29-day-old premature baby, Said...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world’s cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, the Vatican said Saturday, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal the unofficial start of his pontificate.The consistory, as such gatherings are called,...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funeral Saturday of a leading Bangladeshi activist who died of gunshot wounds sustained in an attack in Dhaka earlier this month, as political tensions gripped the country ahead of elections. Sharif Osman Hadi, who took pa...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court convicted and sentenced imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi on Saturday to 17 years in prison after finding them guilty of retaining and selling state gifts, officials and his party said.The couple pleaded not guilty when th...

Cheyenne Jackson considers the Broadway comedy “Oh, Mary!” his favorite gig ever, he said, “and that is tough to say, because I’ve done some really fun things in my life.”In October, he signed on to the show — an off-the-wall fictionalization of the first lady Mary Todd Lincoln’s life — playing Mary’s teacher. He is working with Ja...

Over her decade as a curator at the Frick Collection, Aimee Ng found herself drawn to a painting of an English aristocrat, Selina, Lady Skipwith. Sir Joshua Reynolds had depicted her in 1787 wearing a constricting white dress. Scholarship focused on the artist’s technique, in particular how the loose brushstrokes that captured the...

“Avatar: Fire and Ash,” the third installment in the supersize series of sci-fi films by the director James Cameron, continues the saga of the Sully family, the clan of hardscrabble Na’vi warriors led by the former human Jake (Sam Worthington). They are still pursued, doggedly, by Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang), the bullheaded mar...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has urged Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Congo and extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, known as MONUSCO, for a year, as fighting in the region escalated despite a U.S.-mediated peace deal. The U.N.’s most powerful body...

A Russian ballistic missile strike on port infrastructure in Ukraine’s Odesa port in the south has killed at least eight people and wounded 27, as Moscow intensifies attacks on the strategic Black Sea region and talks to end the war remain in a critical stage.The attack late on Friday hit critical logistics infrastructure, with som...

Disappointed. Frustrated. Suspicious.Several of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims said Friday that Justice Department failed them with its partial release of files related to the federal investigations into Mr. Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse of teen girls and young women. They said the release of thousands of pages of photographs and...

The Justice Department, rushing under pressure from Congress to comply with a law signed by President Trump last month, released more than 13,000 files on Friday arising from investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender who died in jail in 2019 while under indictment on federal charges of sex traffi...

President Trump could have compelled the Justice Department to release all of its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on his first day back in office in January, satisfying a promise he made to fervent supporters demanding transparency. Instead, he spent much of the past year denouncing critics, deflecting blame and...

A nerdy economics essay recently went viral. It asserted that the federal measure for the poverty line was woefully outdated and that for a family of four, the income needed today to function in American society was $140,000.The essay, by Michael Green, a financial market strategist, struck a nerve and set off another round of deba...

The political operation founded by Charles and David Koch raised and spent well over half a billion dollars during the 2024 election cycle, showing that the family unit remains a financial juggernaut despite its opposition to President Trump’s re-election.Mr. Trump is no fan of the libertarian politics long pushed by Charles Koch,...

Growing up in Portugal, when all of the other children dreamed of becoming a policeman or a fireman, Nuno Loureiro wanted to be a scientist.And that he became, making startling discoveries in the world of physics while he was still in his 20s, achieving tenure by 40, and going on to lead a major research lab at the Massachusetts In...

The Trump administration is intensifying efforts to deport people to countries where they have no connections.Last month, lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security filed almost 5,000 motions to dismiss asylum cases and force applicants to seek protection elsewhere, a staggering increase from the few hundred such motions filed...

A Colorado state senator was responsible for the vehicle crash that killed her in November, officials said on Friday. An autopsy released by the local coroner’s office showed that her blood alcohol concentration after she died was more than twice the legal limit.Senator Faith Winter was driving south of Denver on Interstate 25 on N...

The rumor Steve Williams heard was that there was a body in the woods.Mr. Williams, 46, knew those woods well. The dense patch of trees, located in an area not far from Pensacola known as Floridatown, was where he had gone when he sneaked out at night as a teenager, where he had listened to Pearl Jam on the way to his friends’ home...

Donald Trump’s name has been added to the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, just one day after his hand-picked board members controversially voted to rename the arts venue, the first time a national institution has been named after a sitting US president.Workmen added metal lettering to the building’s exterior on Friday that declar...

The United States Department of the Treasury has announced new sanctions on several family members and associates of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as the Trump administration increases pressure on Caracas and continues to build up US forces on Venezuela’s borders.The sanctions announced on Friday come as the US military cont...

A judge in the United States has overturned the murder conviction of one of two men found guilty of murdering pioneering rap star Jam Master Jay in 2002, ruling that prosecutors had failed to satisfactorily prove their case.Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan Jr, the alleged shooter, were found guilty on all counts and convicted of m...

The United States is pressing for an immediate humanitarian truce in Sudan as fighting intensifies across the vast strategic Kordofan region, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio warning that the relentless violence is “horrifying” and all those involved will face lasting condemnation.Speaking at a year-end news conference on Friday...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hold public hearings in a landmark case next month accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its Rohingya community, the top United Nations court said.The proceedings are expected to set precedents that could affect South Africa’s case against Israel over the war in Gaza, as this...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has condemned Rwanda for backing a rebel offensive in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and urged it to withdraw its forces and stop supporting the M23 armed group.The UNSC unanimously adopted the resolution on Friday, and also extended the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC, known...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers will pay a record $169.4 million luxury tax after winning their second straight World Series title, raising their two-year tax bill to $272.4 million.The New York Mets have the second-highest tax assessment among the record-tying nine teams that pay at...

The writer, lawyer and human rights activist Raja Shehadeh, who is 74, has spent most of his life living in Ramallah, a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. This is where his Palestinian Christian family ended up after fleeing Jaffa, now part of greater Tel Aviv, in 1948, as Jewish paramilitary forces bombed the city. Since he w...

It wasn’t long after Paloma Lanna started Paloma Wool that her brand began to receive the type of attention many designers only dream of.Its colorful, printed clothes were featured in publications like British Vogue and The New York Times. Celebrities like Kaia Gerber and Bella Hadid became de facto ambassadors, as did a number of...

A distant webcam captured the moments the couple’s hiking trip started to unravel.The pair, a boyfriend and girlfriend, were nearing the summit of Grossglockner, the tallest mountain in the Austrian Alps, when their lights appeared on its dark peak.Around midnight, the man said, his girlfriend was struck by sudden exhaustion and co...

Canada had a big news year dominated by the country’s fractured relationship with the United States.ImageMargaret Atwood’s memoir is one of The Times’s Notable Books of 2025.Credit...Richard Drew/Associated PressWhat followed was a swell of support for all things Canadian. In that spirit, I’ve combed through the “Best of 2025” list...

Last weekend I went to see the string quartet Ethel perform a reimagining of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” including some new “seasons” by modern composers. Hearing familiar music with new additions — a keyboard player and a drummer joined in, there were EDM beats at one point — was exciting. It felt like a jazz performance, riffs on f...

The man who stabbed three people to death in Taipei, Taiwan, appeared to have prepared meticulously for his attack, police investigators said on Saturday, even as they struggled to find a motive for his spree of violence.Two days before the man began his assault with smoke grenades and a long knife in the city’s main subway station...

Bonnyrigg, a small western suburb of Sydney, has fewer than 10,000 people, and dozens of cultures among them: There is a mosque, four Buddhist temples and three churches all within a mile radius. More than 80 percent of households speak a language other than English. The neighborhood is among Australia’s most diverse.So residents w...

Lebanon’s government made a commitment a year ago to disarm Hezbollah, after a cease-fire ended a yearlong conflict between Israel and the powerful Lebanese paramilitary group.But the pace of disarmament has frustrated Israeli and American officials, and despite the truce, the Israeli military has bombed what it says are Hezbollah...

They Sang, They Danced, They Camped Out: What Fans Did for Bad BunnyThe award-winning Puerto Rican artist, the most-streamed on the planet, is performing eight concerts in Mexico. People flocked from all over the world, including the United States.By James WagnerPhotographs by Luis Antonio RojasJames Wagner and Luis Antonio Rojas r...

The barrage of airstrikes launched by the United States across Syria late on Friday underscored the challenges facing the country’s president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, as he struggles to assert control over the nation and navigate a fragile, nascent relationship with President Trump.American fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery a...

Ukraine has used drones four times in the past few weeks to hit oil tankers from Russia’s shadow fleet, escalating the war in the seas and showing that Ukraine’s security services agency feels increasingly emboldened to launch audacious attacks and claim them publicly.One ship was struck by aerial drones on Thursday night in the Me...

They survived a massacre in El Fasher, Sudan.The Sudanese city was under siege for 18 months.Many who managed to escape crossed the border into Chad.Although safe, they still battle hunger and disease.Sudan’s civil war has now displaced more than 12 million people.The capture of the city of El Fasher in late October marked a bloody...

An escalating standoff between the United States and Venezuela has led both countries’ militaries to jam satellite navigation signals in the Caribbean to guard against a potential attack, data show, putting air and sea traffic in the region at greater risk of a collision or accident.At least some of the U.S. warships that have depl...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Jordan confirmed Saturday that its air force took part in strikes launched by the United States on Islamic State group targets in Syria in retaliation for the killing of three U.S. citizens earlier this month.The U.S. launched military strikes Friday on multiple sites...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — As the number of skilled tradespeople dwindles in the United States, Walmart is trying to build up its own workforce to keep conveyor belts moving, refrigerated grocery cases cold, and drains and parking lots flowing. The nation’s largest retailer and private employe...

A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high.Severely injured in a mountain bike accident seven years ago, Michaela Benthaus became the f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not unusual for a 20-something to text Mom in a panic from the doctor’s office, seeking help answering a question. And patients of any age can struggle to recall all their medicines — or forget to mention a concern.Getting the most out of a doctor’s visit requires some...

Christmas is a Christian holiday that observes the birth of Jesus. But did you know that the earliest followers of Jesus did not annually commemorate his birth? Or that Santa Claus is inspired by the acts of kindness of a fourth-century Christian saint? And have you heard about the modern-da...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — When Idalia Bisbal moved to this Pennsylvania city synonymous with America’s working class, she hoped for a cheaper, easier life than the one she was leaving behind in her hometown of New York City.About three years later, she is deeply disappointed. “It’s worse than ev...

Bangladesh is observing a national day of mourning as the funeral was held for Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent leader of its 2024 student-led uprising, after his death triggered two days of protests across the country.Tens of thousands of people poured into the area surrounding Bangladesh’s parliament house in the capital, Dhaka, be...

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 17 years in prison after a Pakistani court found them guilty of illegally retaining and selling valuable state gifts.The sentence, handed down on Saturday, capped a years-long saga that saw the duo accused of selling various gifts – includin...

It’s easy to dislike the treadmill. The lack of scenery and variety has led some exercisers to nickname it the “dreadmill” and Satan’s sidewalk. But if you can’t get outside, it can be a lifesaver.“It’s a wonderful tool,” said Whitney Heins, a marathoner and running coach in Tennessee who relied on treadmills after her children wer...

The 212 column revisits New York institutions that have helped define the city, from time-honored restaurants to unsung dives.Every holiday season, set like a jewel among the somber limestone towers of Rockefeller Center, the ice rink commands the city’s attention. On a cold morning a few weeks before Christmas, I stood on its peri...

According to the historian David Wondrich, ice was first added to alcoholic beverages in the first half of the 19th century. “That’s when you transition from cocktail as medicinal shot to cocktail as epicurean experience,” he says. The practice soon spread — especially after ice no longer needed to be chipped from frozen lakes — an...

Perusing painkillers at CVS the morning after Thanksgiving, I should not have been surprised by the telltale clattering of horse hooves thundering over the sound system.Never mind that last night’s dinner was barely digested. Of course I would be hearing those sleigh bells jingling, ring-ting-tingling, too. Our unspoken societal co...

In T’s column 1 Piece, 10 Budgets, we share 10 perfect versions of an item in a range of prices. This time, we’re looking at the shiny or sparkly pump, a style that trades everyday practicality for a sense of occasion. Here are T contributing editor Jaclyn Bloomfield’s favorite pairs.ImageCredit...Courtesy of the brand1. Charles &...

I am a 69-year-old woman in good health. The large medical practice I have been going to for more years than I can count is struggling to recruit and retain primary-care doctors and is short-staffed in general. Wait times for appointments have grown longer, the nurse practitioner I’ve seen most regularly will be retiring soon and I...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton appears prominently in the first batch of files released Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice stemming from its investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the White House tries to keep President Donald Trump from the spotli...

LONDON (AP) — British children’s author and comedian David Walliams has denied allegations of inappropriate behavior after publisher HarperCollins dropped him. Walliams, 54, is one of the U.K.'s bestselling children’s book authors and a former judge on the TV show “Britain’s Got Talent.” In...

MIAMI (AP) — Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul in the sixth round of their heavyweight fight on Friday night.The two-time heavyweight champion displayed why he is one of the sport’s elite punchers when he dropped the fading Paul twice in the fifth round.Sensing the YouTuber was finished,...

The food of Greece has a long history, some of which has translated seamlessly to New York, in neighborhoods like Astoria, Queens, where many Greek immigrants settled in the 1960s. But at newer restaurants, it’s cutting edge.“Greek food is popular and stylish now, and perceived as healthy,” said Diane Kochilas, the food writer and...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Three police officers responding to a domestic violence call were wounded and a suspect was killed Friday night in Rochester, New York, according to officials.“Multiple shots were fired” after Rochester Police Department officers responded, the city’s Police Chief Davi...

NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione’s lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer’s parent company.Bondi wa...

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There’s a bathroom in the exclusive beach enclave of Southampton, N.Y. with fluffy wall-to-wall carpeting that abuts every leak-prone fixture from the toilet to bathtub. Further increasing the danger quotient is the fact that this carpet is a snowy shade of white.The bathroom in question can be found in the primary summer home of t...

The Department of Health and Human Services has canceled seven federal grants that supported programs aimed at reducing sudden infant deaths, prenatal substance exposure, birth defects and adolescent mental health problems, after the grants’ recipient repeatedly criticized federal vaccine policy.The grants had been awarded to the A...

President Trump on Thursday ordered cannabis to be downgraded to a lower category of drugs, a change that would allow for more widespread use by patients and permit cannabis producers to take advantage of standard business tax breaks.While the change sounds highly technical — moving it from Schedule I to Schedule III — it has a num...

President Trump on Friday announced deals with nine pharmaceutical companies to reduce some drug prices, the latest step in his bid to try to align U.S. costs with the lower drug prices in European countries.Mr. Trump has now reached deals with 14 of the 17 drugmakers to which he sent letters in July demanding that they lower price...

Over the last year, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his appointees have taken tentative steps toward his longstanding goal of remaking the childhood vaccination schedule.But emboldened by a directive from President Trump, Mr. Kennedy is now poised to make a seismic shift. He is expected to announce in the new year that A...

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York signed legislation on Friday that will establish new state rules governing the safe development of the most-advanced artificial intelligence models.The law, which state lawmakers originally approved in June, was the subject of intense lobbying before and after its passage by technology companies seekin...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma got a temporary boost from 50 Cent.The rapper performed his 2003 hit “Many Men (Wish Death)” between the third and fourth quarters of the Oklahoma-Alabama first-round College Football Playoff game. The Sooners have used it as a hype song in recent weeks. Two pla...

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Seven wild Asiatic elephants were killed and a calf was injured when a high-speed passenger train collided with a herd crossing the tracks in India’s northeastern state of Assam early Saturday, local authorities said.The train driver spotted the herd of about 100 eleph...

Eight people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, late on Friday, Ukraine’s Emergency Service said Saturday morning.Some of the wounded were on a bus at the epicenter of the overnight strike, the service said in a Telegram...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — More than a decade ago, a frenzied 5-day search for the Boston Marathon bombers left some lessons in its aftermath.One was that increasingly pervasive surveillance technology could help catch the culprits. Another was that amateur online sleuths on Reddit could not.Bu...

TEGUCIGALPA (AP) — The Trump administration restricted visas for two leftist Honduran election officials, citing interference in the Central American country’s special vote count.The U.S. State Department said in a statement Friday it revoked the visa of Mario Morazán, a magistrate of the El...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese authorities said Saturday the suspect who killed three people and injured 11 others in knife and smoke-grenade attacks in the island’s capital had planned the assaults and set fires at other locations earlier in the day. The suspect, identified as a 27-year-ol...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The only official document human rights advocate Uladzimir Labkovich had with him when he was suddenly released from a Belarus prison, blindfolded and driven to neighboring Ukraine was a piece of paper with his name and mugshot on it. “After four and half years of abu...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Maxim Kilderov works among reminders of death — scorched metal, torn fabric, and the personal debris of lives cut short by war.In a basement near Kyiv’s Maidan Square, the Ukrainian street artist has assembled a grim collection of battlefield relics which together form a...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran executed on Saturday a man convicted of spying for the Israeli intelligence and army, state media reported.State TV identified the executed man as Aghil Keshavarz, saying he had “close intelligence cooperation” with the Mossad and took photos of Iranian military and...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — At midnight on Christmas Eve, the words of the traditional hymn “The Night of Christmas” will ring out in the tiny grotto in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, built on the site where Christians believe Jesus Christ was born.“On the night of Christmas, war is bur...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The white dome of Boudhanath rises like a silent guardian over the chaotic sprawl of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, crowned by a golden spire that pierces the sky. Painted on each of the spire’s four sides are the benevolent eyes of the Buddha — wide, calm, and unblinkin...

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | SpotifyFrom political tell-alls to the continued triumph of romantasy novels, it’s been an eventful year in the publishing world. On this week’s episode, the host MJ Franklin talks with his Book Review colleagues Alexandra Alter, Tina Jordan and John Maher about the biggest book stories and most signific...

Lou Cannon, who explored the enigmas of Ronald Reagan in biographies that portrayed the 40th president as an intellectually lazy dreamer who got his worldview in part from movies but who, with intuition, charm and a principled patriotism, led the nation to relative peace and prosperity, died on Friday in Santa Barbara, Calif.He was...

Our house, not to mention the little free library in front of it, is overflowing with mysteries. My wife reads them nonstop and I do, too, whenever I find time between writing my own.I got hooked on the genre by Leroy Brown. Not the bad, bad man from the Jim Croce song, but the smartest kid in Idaville. Donald J. Sobol wrote 29 Enc...

US President Donald Trump suspended on Thursday the permanent resident card lottery program with which the suspect in the recent shootings at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology entered the United States.Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, indicated in a p...

Tua Tagovailoa could be the NFL’s next quarterback reclamation project.Now that he’s been benched by the Dolphins, Tagovailoa’s future in Miami is uncertain. The Dolphins (6-8) will take a look at rookie seventh-round pick Quinn Ewers over the final three games. They haven’t won a playoff ga...

GLOUCESTER, England (AP) — Waiting in the wings on opening night of “Beauty and the Beast,” Michael Edwards felt the nerve-wracking jitters he experienced four decades earlier staring through thick glasses down a perilously steep ski jump.The athlete-turned-performer better known as “Eddie t...

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York on Friday repealed a rule that required utilities across the state to provide free natural-gas hookups to new customers, in a move that could lower energy bills for some residents.The repeal of the provision, known as the 100 Foot Rule, halts the practice of requiring existing utility customers to subs...

At least three people have been killed and five injured after a knife-wielding attacker went on a rampage in central Taipei, before dying during a police chase, local authorities say.Taiwan’s Premier Cho Jung-tai said in a statement on Friday that the suspect had let off smoke bombs at Taipei’s main train station, and then ran to a...

The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.TOP 20 GLOBAL CONCERT TOURS1Chris Brown$7...

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in November from the previous month, but slowed compared to a year earlier for the first time since May despite average long-term mortgage rates holding near their low point for the year.Existing home sales rose 0.5% in last month from October to...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A family-owned, Chicago-based investment company has reached a “definitive agreement” to purchase a controlling interest in the Pittsburgh Penguins from Fenway Sports Group.The Penguins announced Friday that Hoffmann Family of Companies and FSG have come to terms on a sale...

Final 2025 payrolls for the 30 major league teams for purposes of the luxury tax, as defined by baseball’s collective bargaining agreement and sent to clubs by the commissioner’s office.Figures are for 40-man rosters and include the average annual values of contracts and $17,209,029 per club...

Masha Zabara marveled at what happened to the forest once deer weren’t around to decimate the understory. In the fenced 13-acre site in Southern Columbia County, in New York, wildflowers had become reestablished. Tupelo and sassafras trees rose head high. Red maple stump sprouts and oak sapl...

Outside the Paley Museum on West 52nd Street on Thursday night, about 50 fans lined barricades in hopes of spotting members of the “Stranger Things” cast. They had come from as far as Texas and started arriving at 2 p.m., clutching posters, Playbills and, in one case, a purse with Hawkins High School pins.Inside, half a dozen cast...

To spend much time with the work of Tracy Letts and Carrie Coon, one of the most intriguing couples in show business, is to explore a landscape of deep, all-American dread. Letts is the author and Coon, his wife, the star of what is sure to be one of the most alarmingly topical plays of the Broadway season, though it was written th...

Theodor Pistek, a racecar driver, painter and costume designer who won an Academy Award for his lavish work on the 1984 Mozart biopic “Amadeus,” died on Dec. 3 at his home in Mukarov, a village in the Czech Republic. He was 93.His death was confirmed by his son Jan Pistek.Descended from actors, a renowned artist and one of the firs...

Rob Reiner maintained a prolific career as a director, producer and actor until he and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were murdered on Sunday. A representative for Reiner, 78, declined to comment on his pending projects. But here’s what we know about some of them.‘Spinal Tap at Stonehenge: The Final Finale’A concert film follow-u...

Rafael Ithier, a bandleader who brought the rhythms of his native Puerto Rico to a world audience with the long-running salsa orchestra El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, giving inspiration to younger artists from the island like Bad Bunny, died on Dec. 6 in Bayamón, P.R. He was 99.Víctor Rivera, a lawyer for his family, confirmed his d...

How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.

Rachel Reid braced herself for “Heated Rivalry” to be a punchline.Her 2019 novel, about a secret romance between closeted rival hockey players, was being adapted for television by the Canadian writer and director Jacob Tierney. Early scripts were faithful where it mattered and clever where they strayed, which offered some reassuran...

President Trump’s name was affixed to the front of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday morning, transforming what was constructed as a living memorial to the slain 35th president into another Trump-branded property in the capital.The face of the building now reads: “THE DONALD J. TRUMP AND THE JOHN F. KENNE...

In 1955, Allan Ludwig, an art historian and photographer, made a wrong turn while driving to a pig roast in rural Connecticut.As evening approached, he told The New York Times years later, he and his wife, Janine, “saw this beautiful graveyard on the top of a hill.” The couple explored the Colonial-era burial site as the light stru...

Mary has landed in London, bringing her merciless merriment with her. I’m referring, of course, to Mary Todd Lincoln, the irrepressible heroine of “Oh, Mary!” — the Broadway hit that opened Thursday at the Trafalgar Theater on the West End.I first made this remarkable character’s acquaintance two summers ago on Broadway, where she...

By most conventional metrics, Romeo Santos and Prince Royce, the two biggest stars of Dominican bachata music, are global superstars.Since his time fronting the wildly successful and musically radical boy band Aventura in the 2000s, Santos, 44, has been the genre’s alpha, a radiant star and also a stylistic path breaker responsible...

President Trump’s name is rarely mentioned in the batch of Jeffrey Epstein files that his Justice Department released on Friday, based on a preliminary New York Times scan of thousands of documents and hundreds of photographs.Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein were close friends for years, The Times has reported, and Mr. Trump’s initial ref...

The Justice Department said on Friday that it would appeal the dismissals of its criminal cases against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Attorney General Letitia James of New York, two frequent targets of President Trump.The move could provide the department with a path to revive charges against Mr. Comey and Ms. Jam...

A woman who once worked for Jeffrey Epstein filed a complaint to the F.B.I. about his interest in “child pornography” in 1996, about a decade before investigators began scrutinizing his predatory behavior.The woman, Maria Farmer, has for years said that she had called federal investigators in the summer of 1996, but the F.B.I. had...

Representative Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, was willing to be the team player with the stiff upper lip.But everyone has their limits.After a series of public humiliations delivered to her by President Trump — his yanking of her nomination to serve as U.N. ambassador; his Oval Office love fest with New York City Mayor-ele...

A small passenger jet that crashed at a regional airport in North Carolina on Thursday, killing the NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife and children, and three others, was in the air for only about five minutes before it began to turn around to make a landing, National Transportation Safety Board officials said on Friday.Witnesses...

Lawmakers from both parties on Friday accused the Justice Department of failing to comply with a law requiring the release of all of its material on Jeffrey Epstein, citing extensive redactions and the department’s acknowledgment that it had not finished reviewing or making public some files.Representative Thomas Massie, Republican...

Stomachs were growling. Bladders were straining. Still, Secretary of State Marco Rubio kept on talking.It was not quite the epic, four-plus-hour performance by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during his annual news conference in Moscow. But Mr. Rubio tested the diplomatic press corps’ stamina as he fielded questions for more...

The Trump administration on Thursday scolded the Smithsonian Institution for not turning over records it had demanded in August as it sought to begin a wide-ranging review of current and planned exhibitions.In a letter to the Smithsonian secretary, Lonnie G. Bunch II, posted online by the White House, the administration said that,...

Vivek Ramaswamy, the front-running Republican candidate for Ohio governor, challenged a gathering of conservative activists in Arizona on Friday to denounce a rising tide of bigotry on the political right and reject the idea that ancestry or “heritage” defines what makes an American.“The idea that a ‘heritage American’ is more Amer...

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a Trump administration homelessness plan that would have ended support for most long-term housing programs and required more people to seek treatment for addiction or mental illness.The plan, released in November, sought the most significant changes in decades to policy affecting homele...

The University of Virginia’s Republican-controlled board voted Friday to appoint a new president weeks before a Democratic governor assumes power, a move that comes six months after the campus was rocked when its previous president resigned under pressure from the Trump administration.The board appointed Scott C. Beardsley, the lon...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s order reversing billions of dollars in funding cuts to Harvard University, extending a standoff over the White House’s demands for reforms at the Ivy League school.The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal late on...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — To tax tips or not? That is a question that will confront lawmakers in states across the U.S. as they convene for work next year.President Donald Trump’s administration is urging states to follow its lead by enacting a slew of new tax breaks for individuals and bus...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans threatened Friday to impeach embattled judge Hannah Dugan if she doesn’t resign immediately after she was convicted of obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers, saying her time serving the people of the state is over.Federal prose...

PHOENIX (AP) — Erika Kirk, widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and the organization’s new leader, endorsed a potential presidential bid by Vice President JD Vance on the opening night of the conservative youth group’s annual conference.After telling the cheering crowd that Turnin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a combat zone, ending an exercise made obsolete by simulators that mimic battlefield injuries.The prohibition on “live fire” training that includes anim...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Rep. Elise Stefanik announced Friday that she is suspending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek reelection to Congress.In a post on X, Stefanik, a Republican ally of President Donald Trump, said “it is not an effective use of our time or your generous res...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center on Friday quickly added Donald Trump’s name to the performing arts center Congress designated as a living memorial to John F. Kennedy, a day after the center’s board of trustees voted to make the change. Blue tarps were hung in front of the building to ob...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with immigration judges on Friday, rebuffing the Trump administration for now in a case with possible implications for federal workers as the justices weigh expanding presidential firing power. The decision is a technical step in a long-running case,...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Rep. Elise Stefanik suspended her campaign for New York governor on Friday and said she will not seek reelection to Congress, bowing out of what was expected to be a bruising Republican primary and ending a once-promising tenure in the House.Stefanik, an ally of President...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton featured prominently in the first batch of files released Friday by the Justice Department stemming from its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the White House seized the chance to shift the focus of the highly antici...

If you make one thing this weekendThis overnight French toast with maple apples was designed to feed a crowd, and to feed it easily and efficiently. But I am one of a two-person household (three if you count the dog as a person, which I do), and I will still be making this full recipe. That way, I have breakfast ready, yes, but als...

Young prodigies — the teenage sports stars, the high schoolers soaring up the chess ranks or making scientific discoveries — are usually not the same people who reach the pinnacles of their fields in adulthood, according to a new study. And the two groups begin their journeys in very different ways.The study, published on Thursday...

A daughter of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy denounced an “absurdly invasive pat-down” at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint Thursday on social media, suggesting that if her father were in charge of the agency, he would try to abolish it.In a series of posts on X, Evita Duffy-Alfonso claimed that she had nearl...

Ten years ago, Oscar de la Renta, the go-to designer for women seeking fabulous party dresses, was starting to think about throwing a major party of his own: the 50th anniversary of his fashion house. Before the planning could really start, however, Mr. de la Renta died.So it was only fitting that on Dec. 17, his dreams were finall...

I volunteered for the third row of the Uber, a fold-up bench crammed in the cargo area where you can’t sit up straight. My friend Ellen had a bad knee, and I was already in a funk, so when everyone else settled into the real seats, I, the tallest of the group, folded myself into the back without protest. Classic people pleaser.The...

Morgan McSweeney shouldn’t be a TikTok sensation.The algorithms don’t reward lectures on the finer points of medical science. They don’t elevate fact-checkers over misinformation. And they generally don’t make stars out of earnest goofballs in button-downs and Clark Kent glasses.But Dr. Noc, as he is known on TikTok and Instagram,...

McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Court documents detailing the divorce of Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, were released Friday by order of a judge, months after she filed citing “biblical grounds.”The initial filing showed...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for President Donald Trump urged a federal judge on Friday to rule that Trump is entitled to presidential immunity from civil claims that he instigated a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election.U.S. Distri...

Nearly 4,000 teaching positions remain unfilled in Mississippi, hundreds more than last year. The Mississippi Department of Education released results from the latest iteration of its annual teacher shortage and educator recruitment surveys Thursday at the state Board of Education’s last mee...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels reached a confidential settlement Friday with the family of late pitcher Tyler Skaggs after a lengthy trial that detailed drug use by players.The two-month trial centered on whether the Angels bore responsibility for Skaggs’ 2019 overdose death...

Former Republican state Senate President Jason Ellsworth will be charged with misdemeanor official misconduct for allegedly attempting to award $171,100 worth of government work to a longtime friend and business partner, the state Department of Justice said.Attorneys for the Department of Ju...

To get himself ready to leave the house each morning, Kingston Emilo goes through a series of to-dos outlined in little pictures on a story board. When he puts his socks on, he moves the Velcro square from “To-Do” to “Done.” He repeats the ritual when putting on his shoes, his coat, his back...

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge Friday voided the conviction of one of the two men found guilty of the 2002 killing of Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay, ruling that there wasn’t enough evidence that the man had a motive to kill the hip-hop luminary.The reversal, which came as the judge upheld the othe...

It’s the benchmark of success, a milestone of responsible adulthood, a time-tested way to amass wealth for you and your progeny. Homeownership, we’re told again and again, is a status that every right-thinking person should aspire to — the white-picket-fence-fronted embodiment of the America...

Even as the top leader of the Anglican Church in North America faces a church trial for alleged sexual misconduct, a church court has acquitted another bishop of charges of failing to carry out his duties.The court exonerated Bishop Stewart Ruch III of the Diocese of the Upper Midwest after...

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — A man convicted of battering two people at a turbulent legislative town hall was found not guilty on a count that related a woman who was seen being dragged out in a video that went viral.The Kootenai County jury returned the split verdict against Paul Trouette on...

As Idaho reckons with revelations of widespread sexual abuse by women’s prison staff, the Trump administration has cut off support meant to help states combat that kind of abuse. Funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center was abruptly cut by the U.S. Department of J...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Transit Authority bolstered security on the public transport system Friday, a day after President Donald Trump’s administration repeated its threat to withhold $50 million in federal funding if it didn’t deliver a more aggressive crime-cutting plan. The C...

PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — Sometimes kids drop the phone after hearing Santa won’t show up if they’re not asleep. Others who call the NORAD Tracks Santa hotline wonder if St. Nick will be able to find them. Adults who also remain devoted to the jolly figure said to deliver prese...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California man caught a plump canary rockfish he says weighed in at 10.25 pounds (4.65 kilograms), likely setting state and world records.Mendocino County fisherman Brendan Walsh, 26, said he caught the fish Tuesday off the coast of Albion, about 150 miles (24...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California city whose police department came under national scrutiny after it was revealed that some officers shared racist and sexist texts, used excessive force and falsified records has reached a settlement agreement to implement a series of reforms, offici...

DETROIT (AP) — A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship’s sinking in Lake Superior with 29 men aboard.The relics were discovered by a carpenter in 1975 along the shore in M...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — First-term U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming announced Friday that she won’t seek reelection in 2026, but she said she’s committed to retaining Republic control of the Senate.Lummis said her stamina “doesn’t match up” with the energy required for another term.“In the...

The full scale of the federal fraud schemes targeting Minnesota-run programs remains unknown, but prosecutors now say losses could reach into the billions.Half or more of the roughly $18 billion in federal funds that supported 14 Minnesota-run programs since 2018 may have been stolen, First...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A judge on Friday ordered special elections for the Mississippi Supreme Court after earlier finding that the electoral map used to select justices violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock in August ordered Mississippi to redraw the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation said Friday she trusts the Trump-appointed chairman of a federal planning commission to do his job and give serious review to President Donald Trump’s proposal to add a ballroom to the White House.Carol Quillen s...

Two decades after Jeffrey Epstein was first reported to police, the Justice Department has started to release its investigative files on the late millionaire, who was accused of repeatedly sexually abusing underage girls.Enacted last month, the Epstein Files Transparency Act requires disclos...

Elon Musk, already the world’s richest man, scored another huge windfall Friday when the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a decision that deprived him of a $55 billion pay package that Tesla doled out in 2018 as an incentive for its CEO to steer the automaker to new heights.Besides padding Mu...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — State Rep. Phillip Ensler of Montgomery on Friday announced his campaign for lieutenant governor, becoming the first Democrat to enter the race.Ensler, a lawyer and former teacher, was elected to the Alabama Legislature in 2022 after flipping a district that had been...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A number of Mexican train crews who had just hauled trains over the border to American rail yards in Texas had trouble understanding important safety information in English during recent focused inspections the Trump administration ordered.Railroads Union Pacific and CPKC...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota jury awarded $65.5 million on Friday to a mother of three who claimed talcum products made by Johnson & Johnson exposed her to asbestos and contributed to her developing cancer in the lining of her lungs.Jurors determined that plaintiff Anna Jean Houghton C...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday published thousands of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, a release long anticipated for its potential to reveal new details about the late sex offender and his connections to powerful people.But it was clear soon after the release that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Portuguese suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings came to the United States through a little-known pathway called the diversity immigrant visa.That program makes up to 50,000 green cards available every year by lottery to people from countries that weren’t we...

Ford is recalling more than 270,000 electric and hybrid vehicles in the U.S. because of a parking function problem that could lead to them rolling away.The Detroit automaker said that the recall includes certain 2022-2026 F-150 Lightning BEV, 2024-2026 Mustang Mach-E, and 2025-2026 Maverick...

Despite criticism that they were acting too fast, state utility regulators on Thursday approved DTE Energy’s proposal to supply power for Michigan’s first hyperscale data center — while tacking on a host of conditions that aim to protect ratepayers from subsidizing the facility.The approval,...

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s only private electric utility plans to increase power capacity by 50% after state regulators on Friday agreed 5-0 that the plan is needed to meet projected demand from data centers.It would be one of the biggest build-outs in the U.S. to meet the insatiable electrici...

More from our inbox:Trump’s Insult and Injury at the Kennedy CenterAfter Brown Shooting, Blaming Immigrants Instead of GunsImageCredit...Illustration by The New York TimesTo the Editor:Re “Democrats, Admit You Blew It on Gaza,” by Ben Rhodes (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 7):I was deeply disappointed by Mr. Rhodes’s essay about the Dem...

More than 84,000 people have fled to Burundi from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) amid a Rwanda-backed rebel offensive near the countries’ shared border, according to the latest United Nations figures.The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday that Burundi had reached a “critical point” amid the influx of refug...

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...

Two men opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 14, killing 15 people and wounding dozens of others.The authorities later identified the gunmen as Sajid Akram, 50, who was shot and killed by police, and his son, Naveed Akram, 24, who was shot by officers but survived.Two days after the sho...

Vice President Richard M. Nixon feared for his life. A mob, angry that the United States had granted asylum to a just-deposed and brutal Venezuelan dictator, had ambushed his motorcade in the capital city of Caracas, shouting “Death to Nixon!”People attacked the gridlocked vehicles with fists, rocks, pipes and so much spit that Mr....

The United States began major airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria on Friday, fulfilling President Trump’s vow to avenge the deaths of two U.S. Army soldiers and a civilian U.S. interpreter killed in a terrorist attack in the central part of the country last Saturday.American fighter jets, attack helicopters and artillery...

A Toronto man has been charged with working with the Islamic State to support and commit terrorist acts after he and two other men were arrested over episodes that the police described as “offenses motivated by hate” directed at the Jewish community, Canadian authorities announced Friday.Exactly what the man, Waleed Khan, 26, did o...

Three people were killed and at least six others were injured on Friday in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, when a man threw smoke grenades in a crowded train station and lunged at bystanders with a large knife. The assailant later died after fleeing and then falling or jumping from a building, the police said.The man, dressed in black sh...