A controversial pipeline across the Dakotas — which is at the center of a dizzying array of lawsuits that threaten to bankrupt Greenpeace — has received a major endorsement from the federal government.On Friday, the Army Corps of Engineers, which manages land that the pipeline, the Dakota Access Pipeline, crosses at Lake Oahe, rele...

American science is wobbling right now.After cuts to federal funding and the firing or early retirement of thousands of government scientists this year, another blow to scientific research landed this week. The Trump administration on Tuesday night announced a plan to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulde...

If life is a numbers game, ants are winning. There are around 20 quadrillion individual ants on Earth (more than two million per human), representing over 15,000 species, according to one estimate. Their omnipresence bolsters their global importance as aerators of soil, recyclers of dead matter and dispersers of seeds.A new paper i...

At the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, N.Y., visitors wander through extinct ecosystems that start at the dawn of complex life on Earth and then run to the steppes of ice age mastodons.But the museum now faces a battle for its survival as a financial crisis threatens to permanently shutter it. The Paleontological Research Institutio...

Happiness is taking control of a beloved comic strip. Sony is buying a 41% stake in the Charles M. Schulz comic “Peanuts” and its characters including Snoopy and Charlie Brown from Canada’s WildBrain in a $457 million deal, the two companies said Friday. The deal adds to Sony’s existing 39%...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Authorities on Friday opened an investigation into an unmanned aerial vehicle that crashed in northwest Turkey, just days after the country shot down another drone that entered its airspace from the Black Sea.Residents in Kocaeli province discovered the damaged UAV in a...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A United Nations staff member was found dead in South Sudan days after being taken into custody by security personnel, the world body said in a statement.Army Lt. Lino Mariak Chol and two other soldiers were arrested after admitting to the killing and disclosing the whe...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio was hopeful but clear about the challenges facing the Trump administration’s Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas peace efforts and defended increasing U.S. military pressure on Venezuela during a marathon end-of-year news conference Friday.In a fr...

MOSCOW (AP) — The young journalist in a red bow tie stood during President Vladimir Putin’s annual news conference Friday and displayed a sign saying he wanted to get married. But his main question wasn’t directed at Putin — it was to his girlfriend, Olga, proposing marriage.Putin compliment...

TORONTO (AP) — A Toronto man has been arrested on terrorism charges and is also facing charges for two failed kidnappings of women. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Waleed Khan, 27, in late November for providing property knowing it would be used by the the Islamic State group and...

AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — India won the Twenty20 series from South Africa 3-1 after taking the last match by a comfortable 30 runs on Friday.Second fifties in the five-match series by Tilak Varma and Hardik Pandya powered India to 231-5. South Africa’s chase shrivelled from 120-1 to a flatteri...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that nine drugmakers have agreed to lower the cost of their prescription drugs in the U.S. Pharmaceutical companies Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis and Sanofi will now rein in Med...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Thirty years ago, Claudio Neves Valente and Nuno F.G. Loureiro were classmates with bright futures. Both excelled in physics and made their way from their home country of Portugal to the U.S., settling on the campuses of prestigious East Coast universities.But Neves V...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Just before Thanksgiving, Claudio Neves Valente checked into a Boston hotel and traveled to Brown University, where he had studied physics 25 years earlier.The drive to Providence was short, and in the days that followed, the 48-year-old Portuguese national returned t...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It’s been a grim week at the end of a tough year for the United Nations: Six U.N. peacekeepers were killed in a drone attack in Sudan. A U.N. interpreter died while in the custody of South Sudan’s security personnel. And 10 more U.N. staff were detained by Yemen’s Houth...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been serving a 27-year prison sentence for an attempted coup since November, was granted permission on Friday to leave prison for a hernia surgery. The date of the surgery has not been announced.Brazilian Supreme Court Justic...

QUITO (AP) — Ecuadorian police have arrested two suspects in the killing of soccer player Mario Pineida, who was shot in an attack this week that also killed his partner and wounded his mother, underscoring the rising violence in the Andean nation.The 33-year-old Barcelona de Guayaquil defen...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The streets of Bolivia’s largest cities, La Paz and Santa Cruz, were brought to a standstill on Friday as public transportation workers went on strike against a 100% fuel price increase ordered by the new government in the South American country.Food and transportation...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide car bomber and three gunmen attacked a military post near a village in northwest Pakistan on Friday, triggering an hourlong gunbattle that killed four soldiers and wounded at least 15 civilians, including women and children, authorities said.The attack took place i...

CRAIGHEAD ESTATE, Sri Lanka (AP) — Arumugam Manikavalli, awakened by ferocious rain and rumbling earth, fled her home for the safety of a nearby temple on the tea estate where she works. That same November evening, tea worker Kumaran Elumugam’s small home was crushed by a landslide, killing...

ROME (AP) — Tourists visiting the Trevi Fountain are now going to pay more than just the legendary coin toss over their shoulder to get the Instagrammable selfie in front of one of the world’s most celebrated waterworks.Starting Feb. 1, the city of Rome is imposing a 2-euro ($2.35) fee for t...

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court on Friday rejected a government request to suspend Chinese fast-fashion platform Shein in France after authorities found illegal weapons and child-like sex dolls for sale on the fast-fashion giant’s website.Shein welcomed the decision, saying it remains committed t...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s government and its allies on Friday welcomed the final lifting of the most draconian sanctions imposed on the country in recent decades.The U.S. Congress imposed the so-called Caesar Act sanctions on Syria’s government and financial system in 2019 to punish the...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The top Catholic leader in the Holy Land visited the Gaza Strip’s only Catholic church on Friday to share a message of Christmas hope and support as conditions in the war-torn territory slowly improve while the Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds into its third month.C...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to “eliminate” Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two U.S. troops and an American civilian interpreter almost a week ago. A U.S. official described...

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — As December’s chill settled over Gaza, the family’s nylon tent offered little refuge. So each night, Eseid Abdeen covered his frail newborn son with four blankets, periodically shining a flashlight on the baby’s eyes to confirm he was all right.Until Wednesday...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops fired over the ceasefire line in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, killing at least five Palestinians, including a baby, according to a local hospital that received the casualties. The killings came as the tenuous Israel-Hamas truce has stalle...

In one of the most iconic scenes of Federico Fellini’s 1960 classic film “La Dolce Vita,” the Swedish actress Anita Ekberg wades into the Trevi Fountain in Rome and turns to Marcello Mastroianni to coo “Marcello, come here. Hurry Up.”Nowadays, she’d probably be arrested: Wading in the fountain is strictly forbidden (or förbjuden, i...

A utility company shut off power to more than 100,000 of its customers around Denver early Friday morning after the National Weather Service issued a dire warning that parts of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska faced a dangerously high risk of wildfires through the day.The Weather Service said Friday’s weather conditions — a potent co...

Beauty School answers common beauty questions with help from creative people who’ve become experts on the job. Sign up here to find us in your inbox once a month, and send any questions of your own to tmagazine@nytimes.com.Winter, with its cold temperatures, dry air and windiness, is notoriously rough on skin. And “if your skin is...

Attacks continue as US gets set to host senior officials from Qatar, Egypt and Turkiye to discuss next phase of deal.

Attacks continue as US gets set to host senior officials from Qatar, Egypt and Turkiye to discuss next phase of deal.

Attacks continue as US gets set to host senior officials from Qatar, Egypt and Turkiye to discuss next phase of deal.

Attacks continue as US gets set to host senior officials from Qatar, Egypt and Turkiye to discuss next phase of deal.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the detention of 10 more UN staff members by the Houthis in Yemen.Stephane Dujarric, a spokesperson for Guterres, confirmed on Friday that the previous day’s arrests had brought the total of detained local staffers to 69, calling for their immediate release.Recommended...

A shell company with ties to Israel exploited desperate Palestinians and facilitated their forced evacuation from Gaza, charging them large sums of money to covertly exit the country in what may be an official plan to ethnically cleanse the territory.In an exclusive digital investigation, Al Jazeera probed last month’s mystery flig...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door interview Wednesday that his team of investigators “developed evidence beyond a reasonable doubt” that President Donald Trump criminally conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 electi...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday named the Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, currently pastor of a predominantly Hispanic church in the Queens borough of New York City, as bishop of Palm Beach, Florida.The diocese is home to the Mar-a-Lago estate of President Donald Trump, whose get-tough immigration po...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has awarded a $1.6 million, no-bid contract to a Danish university to study hepatitis B vaccinations on newborns in Africa that is raising ethical concerns.The unusual contract was awarded to scientists who have been cited by anti-vaccine activists an...

One of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s daughters said she experienced an “absurdly invasive” pat-down Thursday at an airport security checkpoint and suggested her father would limit or eliminate the Transportation Security Administration if it was under his authority.Evita Duffy-A...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs appear to be mere days away from taking a big step toward a move across the state line, and eventually leaving their longtime home at Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri for a new and likely covered stadium in Kansas.With a year-end deadline approach...

MIAMI (AP) — A U.S. Army Reserve lawyer detailed as a federal immigration judge has been fired barely a month into the job after granting asylum at a high rate out of step with the Trump administration’s mass deportation goals, The Associated Press has learned.Christopher Day began hearing c...

Just before 3 a.m. on Friday, the news began to percolate through the European Union’s cavernous headquarters in central Brussels. After more than 16 hours of negotiations, leaders from across the 27-nation bloc had come up with a plan to finance a desperate Ukraine through 2027.It wasn’t the plan that officials had been talking up...

The two freight rail companies hoping to create the United States’ first transcontinental railroad sought to convince regulators on Friday that their merger was good for the country and would not give them outsize power in the industry.Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern’s plan to combine, announced in the summer, would put around 4...

The N.B.A. wants to make it harder for gamblers to profit from inside information about players’ health.Starting Monday, teams will be required to submit an injury report between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on the day of games, a move designed to catch any changes made after a team’s morning shootaround, according to three people familiar w...

A Trump-sponsored business is once again betting on an industry that the president has championed, further entwining his personal fortunes in sectors that his administration is both supporting and overseeing.This one is in the nuclear power sector. TAE Technologies, which is developing fusion energy, said on Thursday that it planne...

Milk had “Got Milk?” Beef had “Beef: It’s what’s for dinner.”But Christmas trees don’t have anything, and, “Uh, please don’t buy a fake tree?” is a bit choppy.“All these fake trees coming from out of the country have really taken a bite out of our industry,” said Ben Stone, one of three brothers who own BTN of Oregon, a Christmas t...

Elon Musk secured a major victory on Friday when the Delaware Supreme Court reinstated his 2018 pay plan at Tesla, now worth $139 billion.It was Mr. Musk’s second significant financial win at the carmaker in two months. He will get to keep the Tesla stock options he earned for managing the company over the past several years, while...

Nearly 540 asylum seekers have been rescued from a fishing boat south of the island of Crete, Greece’s coastguard says.The people were found some 16 nautical miles (29.6km) off Gavdos during a Greek search operation on Friday, the coastguard said in a statement, without specifying where the boat had set sail from.Recommended Storie...

Here is where things stand on Saturday, 20 December :Fighting Russian attacks targeting ports in Ukraine’s Odesa killed seven people and wounded 15, Governor Oleh Kiper said in a post on Telegram. Kiper described the attack as “massive” and said it involved Russian ballistic missiles, which targeted trucks that caught fire. The Kyi...

These were the updates from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s year-end news conference on Friday, December 19, 2025.

These were the updates from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s year-end news conference on Friday, December 19, 2025.

These were the updates from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s year-end news conference on Friday, December 19, 2025.

These were the updates from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s year-end news conference on Friday, December 19, 2025.

The committee tasked with overseeing a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah has held talks in southern Lebanon, as Israel and the United States ramp up pressure to disarm the Lebanese group.Civilian and military delegations from Israel and Lebanon met in the southern Lebanese town of Naqoura on Friday for closed-door di...

The top United States diplomat says progress has been made in efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, but more work is needed, as Ukrainian officials travelled to the US for a new round of negotiations.Speaking during a year-end news conference in Washington, DC, on Friday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington is not tr...

The United States Department of Justice has begun to release part of its trove of files documenting the life and crimes of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.But Friday’s much-anticipated release is expected to fall short of the full publication of the Epstein file mandated under a recently passed law.Recommended Stori...

Top United States diplomat Marco Rubio has laid out the foreign policy priorities under President Donald Trump, saying that the administration is focused on advancing Washington’s interests across the world.In a two-hour briefing to reporters on Friday, the US secretary of state reiterated Trump’s hard line against Venezuela and de...

The United States military is “striking very seriously against ISIS [ISIL] strongholds in Syria”, President Donald Trump said, a week after two US soldiers and an interpreter were killed in Syria’s Palmyra city.“Because of ISIS’s vicious killing of brave American Patriots in Syria… I am hereby announcing that the United States is i...

The administration of President Donald Trump has announced it will halt the visa lottery programme that allowed the suspect in the Brown University shooting to enter the United States.The lottery awards approximately 50,000 immigrant visas each year, according to the US government.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Brown...

Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo – On the roads of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s South Kivu province, rebels are pulling back from the key city they seized last week. But not all residents of the area they occupied appear glad to see them go.The latest surge in violence in the DRC’s east began more than a week ago....

When Lee Mayer launched the interior design platform Havenly in 2014, she used technology to help make design more affordable to the masses.The site connects clients to professionals who manage most of the design process online, using Havenly’s site to host video consultations and chats, exchange measurements and mood boards, or sh...

The National Weather Service on Friday issued a rare warning for part of Colorado’s Front Range as hurricane-force winds and tinder dry conditions boosted the threat of wildfire across several counties, while flood warnings were issued in Oregon as rivers there swelled from heavy rain.It mar...

A central question to TikTok’s potential shutdown saga has been whether the popular social video platform would keep its algorithm — the secret sauce that powers its addictive video feed — after it’s divested from Chinese parent company ByteDance. Now, it appears that it can. Wang Jingtao, d...

Pete Davidson and Elsie Hewitt have announced the birth of their “perfect angel girl.”They took to Instagram on Thursday to herald the Dec. 12 birth of Scottie Rose Hewitt Davidson, accompanied by several photos of the couple cradling and caring for their newborn. Hewitt wrote under the phot...

Earth isn’t a perfect sphere. The rotation of our planet causes it to bulge ever so slightly at the equator, making it about 0.3 percent wider there than from pole to pole.But that’s nothing compared with PSR J2322-2650b, an object the mass of Jupiter studied recently by the James Webb Space Telescope. This planet’s equatorial diam...

Australia will launch a national gun buyback scheme, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced, as the country continues to come to terms with the deadly attack on a Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that left 15 people dead.Albanese called the plan the country’s biggest gun buyback since 1996 – the year of Australia...

John S. Koch, a radio reporter in North Florida, has been witnessing state executions since the serial killer Ted Bundy’s in 1989, not missing one in nearly 37 years.He has never been busier. Florida has executed 19 men this year, shattering the state’s previous record of eight executions, set in 1984 and matched in 2014. The 19th...

The U.S. Army for years put inexperienced pilots in aging helicopters and flew them over the nation’s capital.And even though the airspace above Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington is one of the most complex in the country, Army aviators operated there in a way that suggested they were unfamiliar with some of its dangers,...

Zach Panther hadn’t yet figured out his future: whether to pursue college, or find a job in a nearby city. To put away some money, his mother encouraged him to work at a hog farm outside his hometown, St. Edward, Neb.Pulling early morning shifts, the 17-year-old helped with maintenance at Beaver Valley Pork, one of the nearly 100 f...

The federal government has known for years that wildfire fighters, who spend weeks at a time in poisonous smoke, can develop deadly cancers from the exposure.Now, they will be eligible for a payment of nearly $450,000 and college tuition for their family if they die or become debilitated from a smoke-related cancer, under a law sig...

In Prospect, N.C., a speck of a community where most of the residents were members of the Lumbee Tribe, Ruth Locklear grew up immersed in her people’s struggle to secure the full recognition of the federal government.It was a step that would not only open up the prospect of much-needed federal benefits, but would also come with out...

The authorities pointed to a single suspect in the two shootings, one on Brown’s campus and the second at a professor’s home. Any motive remains unclear.

The Trump administration is suspending the immigrant visa program under which the man suspected of killing two Brown University students and an M.I.T. professor moved to the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday night.Claudio Manuel Neves Valente was issued a diversity visa in 2017 and became a legal...

Claudio Neves Valente, the suspect in the killing this week of an M.I.T. professor in Massachusetts, studied physics with the victim in the 1990s and graduated at the top of their class, according to the university.A spokesman for Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal’s premier school for science and engineering, said by phone that...

Hannah C. Dugan, a Wisconsin state judge, was found guilty on Thursday of obstructing federal agents, a high-profile victory for the Justice Department in a prosecution of a judge who it said was illegally aiding an undocumented immigrant. Judge Dugan faces up to five years in prison and, as a person who has been convicted of a fel...

Hamas official says Israel’s “blatant and outrageous violations” threaten the ceasefire agreement.

Hamas official says Israel’s “blatant and outrageous violations” threaten the ceasefire agreement.

Hamas official says Israel’s “blatant and outrageous violations” threaten the ceasefire agreement.

Hamas official says Israel’s “blatant and outrageous violations” threaten the ceasefire agreement.

NEW YORK (AP) — With Labubus hanging from our bags, Dubai chocolate in our bellies and “6-7” ringing in our ears, it’s almost time to bid farewell to a few things that went hard in 2025.Scat. Don’t follow us into the new year. You’ve had your 15 minutes. We’re over you.Deep six the ‘6-7’ gri...

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,...

It’s normal to fret every once in a while, but new research suggests that people are worrying more than usual.This fall, Gallup released a report titled “State of the World’s Emotional Health,” which drew from 145,000 interviews conducted across 144 countries in 2024.The top concern? Worry, followed closely by stress.Nearly four in...

52 Places to Go, the Travel section’s annual list of recommended destinations, lands every January. Each short entry is a snapshot into a different possible adventure.Some Travel editors were intrigued enough to design their own personal vacations around the list: Amy Virshup described staying in the inns atop Italy’s Dolomite Moun...

Matthew Fleming has spent the last 25 years as a chaplain, counseling people through grief and trauma, including after disasters like Sept. 11 and Hurricane Katrina. Yet despite all of his experience and training, he was blindsided when his father died.When Dr. Fleming, a psychologist and former naval officer, was steeped in grief,...

I first noticed how charming ChatGPT could be last year when I turned all my decision-making over to generative A.I. for a week.Listen to this article with reporter commentaryI tried out all the major chatbots for that experiment, and I discovered each had its own personality. Anthropic’s Claude was studious and a bit prickly. Goog...

Hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey NewtonProduced by Whitney Jones and Rachel CohnEdited by Jen PoyantEngineered by Chris WoodOriginal music by Dan PowellElisheba Ittoop and Diane WongThis week, iRobot, the pioneering American robotics company behind the Roomba, filed for bankruptcy and announced that it would be taken over by its Chi...

Bangladesh’s security forces have moved onto the streets of the capital, Dhaka, and other major cities after overnight violence erupted over the murder of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent youth leader of the 2024 uprising, raising fears of further unrest ahead of February’s national elections.Police and paramilitary units increased p...

Violent protests have erupted in multiple cities in Bangladesh after prominent youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi died at Singapore’s General Hospital on Thursday.Hadi died from gunshot injuries sustained during an assassination attempt in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, last week.Here is what we know so far.Who was Sharif Osman Hadi?Hadi...

Three days after the deadly shooting at Brown University, officers received an anonymous tip that stuck out from a flood of information. It directed the authorities to a post on Reddit.“I’m being dead serious. The police need to look into a grey Nissan with Florida plates, possibly a rental,” the Reddit user posted, according to an...

When Emily Cooper, the titular character in the Netflix show “Emily in Paris,” burst onto the scene, her bold personality, heavily accented French and wardrobe of colorful prints were met with jeers and sneers onscreen and off.Despite Emily’s icy reception, the character (played by Lily Collins) wormed her way into the hearts of bo...

DENVER (AP) — When a massive event center was being developed in Denver, planners had to contend with two existing 6-foot (1.8 meters) wide sewer pipes that emptied into the river, creating an unsightly dilemma. Developers wanted to bury them. The utility said the wastewater needed to vent h...

EDWARDS, Colo. (AP) — Ski resorts are struggling to open runs, walk-through ice palaces can’t be built, and the owner of a horse stable hopes that her customers will be satisfied with riding wagons instead of sleighs under majestic Rocky Mountain peaks. It’s just been too warm in the West wi...

Federal prosecutors said Thursday that the suspect in the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor was his former classmate.Claudio Manuel Neves Valente had attended the same academic program in Portugal as Nuno F.G. Loureiro, the M.I.T. professor, from 1995 to 2000. Dr. Loureiro, 47, graduated with a degree in...

A man, who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others in a Brown University mass shooting in the US state of Rhode Island, and of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility where he had rented a unit, officials said.Claudio Neves Valente, 48,...

United States forces have killed five more people on board vessels in the Pacific Ocean, bringing the death toll from the Trump administration’s military campaign against alleged seaborne drug traffickers to at least 104 since September.The US military’s Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said on Friday that it carried out “lethal kinetic...

Trump’s administration prepares to release a cache of records tied to convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.

Facing mounting criticism from their Democratic rivals and rights advocates, allies of United States President Donald Trump are increasingly invoking the so-called “war on terror” to justify his deadly strikes on boats around Latin America.But legal experts have stressed that the analogy between the bombing of alleged drug boats an...

At least 16 people have been killed in an artillery bombardment of a besieged city in Sudan’s embattled Kordofan region, adding to a mounting civilian death toll as the country’s brutal civil war enters a critical phase deep into its third year.The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allies in the Sudan People’s Liberation Movemen...

Few expected United States President Donald Trump to abandon Israel during his second term in office, considering how supportive he had been of the Middle Eastern country in his first term.And yet, considering the still-mounting death toll from Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, and the international condemnation that has accompanied...

The United States Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, will hold talks in Miami, Florida, with senior officials from Qatar, Egypt and Turkiye as efforts continue to advance the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire, even as Israel repeatedly violates the truce on the ground.A White House official told Al Jazeera Arabic on Friday that Witko...

In a territory where 81 percent of buildings lie damaged or destroyed, a small community of young Palestinians is fighting to preserve what remains of Gaza’s digital world.Coders, repair technicians and freelance workers are labouring under impossible conditions to keep the besieged enclave connected to the outside world.Recommende...

US envoy Steve Witkoff to meet senior officials from Qatar, Egypt and Turkiye in Miami to discuss next phase of deal.

PARIS (AP) — The Louvre in Paris reopened fully on Friday after staff voted to suspend a strike that had disrupted access to the world’s most visited museum, management and unions said.The decision was taken during a general assembly of museum workers, who voted unanimously to pause the stri...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s deputy prime minister on Friday accused neighboring India of “weaponizing water” by releasing water from Indian dams without warning, saying the move violates a World Bank-brokered water-sharing treaty and threatens peace and stability in the region.Ishaq Dar made...

Danish authorities say in a new assessment published this week that Russia carried out cyberattacks against infrastructure and websites in Denmark in 2024 and 2025, describing new cases which had not previously been reported.Denmark’s Defense Intelligence Service said in a statement Thursday...

LONDON (AP) — The British government said Friday it is investigating a “cyber incident” following news reports that hackers linked to China have gained access to thousands of confidential documents held by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.Trade Minister Chris Bryant said the...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore’s government said Friday that scammers will face mandatory caning of up to 24 strokes from Dec. 30, under changes to criminal law to deter surging fraud cases.The changes, passed by Parliament last month, strengthen penalties that already include impri...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — At least nine people were injured in an indiscriminate smoke grenade and knife attack in Taiwan’s capital on Friday, and the suspect appeared to have jumped from a building to avoid arrest, Taipei’s mayor said. Police said the suspect was certified dead after being sent...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV named a new archbishop of Westminster on Friday in another high-profile appointment that signals a generational shift in the English-speaking Catholic hierarchy.Leo tapped Bishop Richard Moth, 67, to replace the retiring Cardinal Vincent Nichols, 80, as the London-ba...

SAO PAULO (AP) — “The Secret Agent,” a Brazilian feature shortlisted for the Oscars, is all about ordinary people. It follows an unassuming scientist and widowed father who becomes a target of Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1970s — not because he is an activist or revolutionary, but b...

SYDNEY (AP) — In the first full day of opening since a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Australia’s famed Bondi Beach on Sunday, thousands of people returned to the waterfront Friday to commemorate the losses and try to heal through a sense of community.In a hastily o...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Ukrainian and Polish presidents met in Warsaw on Friday to underline their countries’ unity in the face of Russia. They also signaled progress on historical reconciliation, which had caused tension in bilateral relations in the past. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Ze...

BEIRUT (AP) — Egypt is doing all it can to prevent further escalation between Lebanon and Israel amid tension between the two neighbors over the disarmament process of the militant Hezbollah group, the country’s prime minister said Friday during a visit to the Lebanese capital.Egypt, which s...

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin emphasized Friday that Moscow’s troops were advancing across the battlefield in Ukraine and voiced confidence the Kremlin would achieve its goals militarily if Kyiv doesn’t agree to Russia’s conditions in peace talks.Speaking at his tightly orchestrated...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders agreed on Friday to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years.The 27-nation bloc’s heads of state had planned to use some of the 210 billion euros ($246 billion) worth of Russian asset...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The spread of famine has been averted in the Gaza Strip, but the situation remains critical with the entire Palestinian territory still facing starvation, the world’s leading authority on food crises said Friday.The new report by The Integrated Food Security Phase Cla...

In what has become an annual tradition, this month’s guide to the hidden gems of your subscription services spotlights indies, genre movies and documentaries released this year — potential critics’ list or even award season contenders, available to stream at this very moment.‘Sorry, Baby’Stream it on HBO Max.Eva Victor (“Billions”)...

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...

Tom Wolfe was a fast talker. Eudora Welty had a musical Southern drawl. Kurt Vonnegut’s jokes got belly laughs.Each of these authors once spoke to audiences at the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center in New York City, which has hosted some of the most celebrated writers of the past several generations, from Isaac Asimov to Anaïs...

You can tell a lot about a cultural moment from the movies it produced. And by that measure, the mid-1970s were both harrowing and exhilarating. In 1975, you could see “Jaws,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Nashville” or “Three Days of the Condor” at the theater. The next year, you could catch “All the President’s Men,” “Taxi...

Welcome to Late Night Roundup, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.Inheriting a MessPresident Trump delivered a prime-time address to the nation about the economy on Wednesday night, in a speedy, defensive manner th...

Squeals of delight filled the Metropolitan Opera on a recent afternoon as the chandeliers rose before the final dress rehearsal of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Even an audience of schoolchildren could appreciate this crowd-pleasing Met ritual.For the next 90 minutes, the children — nearly 2,100 of them, brought from public, private...

Vivid world-building but not world- changing.ImageOona Chaplin as the villainous Varang in the third installment of the “Avatar” franchise. Credit...20th Century Studios‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’James Cameron returns to the lush alien world of the Na’vi for the third installment in this franchise.From our review:For all their visual po...

When the German choreographer Marco Goecke bumped into a dance critic in 2023 shortly after she had savaged his work, he took out his anger on her by smearing feces from his dachshund, Gustav, on her face.That incident, at the Hanover State Opera, prompted an immediate reckoning for Goecke, who was then the company’s ballet directo...

Boxing was once synonymous with cable networks and pay-per-view. Showtime and HBO beamed fights featuring Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Floyd Mayweather into living rooms for nearly 40 years, a golden age when heavyweight championship bouts felt like must-see events.In the past five years, the sport has become a digital nomad....

With the release of “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” it’s time to return to Pandora, the spectacularly detailed world invented by the director James Cameron. In the original “Avatar” (2009), the long-limbed blue Na’vi of the moon Pandora are forced to deal with humans — or “sky people” — when they arrive to mine for a substance known as Uno...

The brazen daylight heist at the Louvre has left many American museums reassessing their security measures, focusing on perimeter control, the adequacy of their security cameras and the timely availability of armed responders, security consultants and museum officials say.Like all crimes, the Paris theft had its idiosyncratic facto...

The United States routinely tops the list of foreign travelers’ dream destinations. They can’t seem to get enough of Manhattan’s skyscrapers, the mountains of Vermont, the hedonistic nightlife of Las Vegas, Hawaii’s pristine beaches and the dreamscapes of Disney parks.But that’s changing.ImageThe Brooklyn Bridge is a must-see for m...

Wall Street experts are forecasting where the S&P 500 will close at the end of the next calendar year. Why shouldn’t I do the same?You might object that I have no idea where the market is going, and you would be right. But so what? Nobody else knows, either, and that’s never stopped Wall Street.The professional strategists are spew...

Days after a division chief at the Food and Drug Administration resigned amid accusations that he used his federal power to seek revenge on a former business associate, the scandal took on a new life.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, and his top deputies brought the matter to the White House as evidence that the...

Holiday spending this year is expected to surpass $1 trillion for the first time, according to the National Retail Federation. But it’s the very wealthy, making expensive purchases, who will be driving much of that spending while many lower-income Americans will buy discounted versions of items or finance them with credit cards. Ca...

ImageImagePresident Trump saw his paper fortunes soar on the back of his namesake media and tech company forging a nuclear fusion deal.Credit...Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesIn today's newsletter:The politics of fusion C.P.I.-dunno How the new defense bill may trip up U.S. investors Talking A.I. with the C.E...

Speaking this month at an international finance conference in Tokyo, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan used an unusual turn of phrase to sell the assembled crowd on her plan to revive the economy.“Just shut your mouths and invest everything in me,” Ms. Takaichi declared, quoting a line from the popular manga series “Attack on...

Earlier this month Tehran, a city of 10 million people, was questioning its viability. After six years of drought and the driest autumn in over 50 years, the reservoirs that supply the city fell to around 10 percent of capacity, and in some cases lower still. In late November and early December rainfall was down by roughly 90 perce...

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. Monica-Grace Mukendi has two vivid memories from her first year in the United States. She remembers blowing o...

Since 2014, I’ve led a study-abroad writing course for Yale University in Auvillar, a village in the southwest of France. For many of those years, I’ve experimented with requiring these students to go completely offline for our month together. No texting, no Googling, no posting photos of duck confit on Instagram. Most of my studen...

“I think the country is more than ready.”It’s Saturday morning and Nancy Pelosi is on the phone from California, sharing her thoughts on America’s readiness for a female president.The speaker emerita of the House of Representatives knows this topic is generating angst among her fellow Democrats. She has heard the frustrated chatter...

When you are reading aloud to a 7-year-old, once you start using a particular voice for a character’s dialogue, you are stuck with that voice for the rest of the book. When that book is J.R.R. Tolkien’s high fantasy epic “The Lord of the Rings,” there is plenty of time to regret a careless choice in an early chapter. My father, wis...

President Trump ordered marijuana to be rescheduled under federal law on Thursday, shifting it out of the most restrictive drug category. The move would make it easier to conduct medical research on the drug, though it stops short of federal legalization. It has reignited familiar arguments about whether cannabis is harmless or dan...

In 2012, political ads suggested that some of my policy proposals, if enacted, would amount to pushing grandma off a cliff. Actually, my proposals were intended to prevent that very thing from happening.Today, all of us, including our grandmas, truly are headed for a cliff: If, as projected, the Social Security Trust Fund runs out...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The livestream of a YouTube content creator talking about investments mysteriously appeared to take over a White House website, raising questions about whether the site was hacked. The livestream appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on whitehouse.gov/live, wher...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump launched a law enforcement operation in Washington, D.C., four months ago, he billed it as a mission to fight rampant crime.But activists and local leaders say that description belies what has emerged as a simultaneous crackdown on immigrants, wh...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Julia Dvorak is worried her 83-year-old mother’s emergency room trips for seizures are depleting her retirement savings and will soon force her to go on Medicaid. At the same time, Dvorak, who’s 56 and suffers from a chronic knee condition that keeps her on state and federa...

NEW YORK (AP) — The last big meteor shower of the year, known as the Ursids, will peak soon, bringing bright flashes to the night and early morning skies. Compared to other meteor showers, it's more moderate, but experts say it's still worth a look.Meteor showers occur when space rocks hit E...

European Union leaders have agreed to provide an interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs in its war with Russia for the next two years, EU Council President Antonio Costa has said.The leaders decided early on Friday ‍to borrow cash on capital markets to fund Ukraine’s defence against Russia rather than...

European Union leaders agreed not to use frozen Russian assets to help fund Ukraine’s defence in the ongoing war with Russia early on Friday.Instead, 90 billion euros ($106bn) will come from an interest-free loan provided by 23 out of the 27 EU member states. Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were granted an exemption in ord...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has filed a criminal complaint in Sweden against the Nobel Foundation, challenging the organisation’s decision to award its Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.Assange said this year’s awarding of the prize to Machado represented a “gross misappropriation” of funds and t...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at his highly choreographed annual question-and-answer session in Moscow, has said his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy refuses to discuss territorial concessions.The comments were made on Friday during the “Results of the Year” event, where Putin fielded questions from millions o...

Despite being swatted about like a tetherball by ever-shifting trade wars, shortages of critical minerals and tense standoffs between the United States and China, the global economy has turned out to be more resilient than predicted.But don’t think that it’s time to take a breath. The whirligig shows no sign of stopping.“We are liv...

When Claudia Sheinbaum was elected president of Mexico last year, some cartels might have celebrated.She is a climate scientist, not a cop. More important, she was the handpicked successor of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftist leader whose “hugs not bullets” security strategy led to one of the worst waves of violence Mexico h...

Responding to a deadly terrorist attack, the authorities in the Australian state of New South Wales promised on Friday to introduce a law that would give officials enormous powers to restrict speech and assembly.Chris Minns, the state’s premier, said the attack, which killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Syd...

Britain’s last military force dedicated to defending the homeland was disbanded in 1992, after NATO leaders hailed a “promising era” of peace in Europe at the end of the Cold War and the government began scaling back military spending.More than three decades later, Britain is again preparing for potential attacks on its soil.With S...

The men accused of carrying out the deadly mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia on Sunday stayed at a budget hotel in the southern Philippines for much of the month before the massacre, rarely leaving a room that they extended week by week and paid for in cash, according to the hotel.The two suspects, Naveed Akram,...

The Australian government will launch a gun buyback program to take hundreds of thousands of firearms off the streets, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday, following a shooting rampage at a Jewish holiday festival that killed 15 people.Speaking at a news conference, Mr. Albanese also declared that Sunday will be a nation...

President Trump signed a law late Thursday repealing a final batch of crippling economic sanctions on Syria, raising hopes for the country’s recovery a year after the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad ended the family’s half-century of autocratic rule.The repeal of the measure, known as the Caesar Act, follows the earlier removal of...

The death on Thursday of a politically prominent student leader attacked in Bangladesh ignited a wave of unrest in Dhaka, the capital, with mobs setting newspaper offices ablaze in a nation with a shaky hold on democracy.Sharif Osman bin Hadi, 32, died at a hospital in Singapore, where he had been flown for medical care. He had lai...

Ukrainian officials breathed a sigh of relief on Friday after European leaders agreed to keep their country funded with a $105 billion loan, which will cover a large portion of Kyiv’s financial needs over the next two years and help sustain its war effort against Russia.“Ukraine has received a financial security guarantee for the c...

A panel of global experts said that hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza still faced major difficulties accessing food, but found that famine conditions previously reported in Gaza City had been alleviated since October’s cease-fire.In a report published on Friday, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or I.P.C., ac...

For as long as anyone can remember, the highlight of the annual Christmas market in Augsburg, a wealthy 2,000-year-old city in southern Germany, was the magnificent Christmas tree at the market’s center.This year, the most popular attractions are the removable security bollards at the market’s edge, newly installed to prevent cars...

After a pack of assailants shot Omar García Harfuch three times in 2020, he began sleeping in his office.He was Mexico City’s police chief at the time and said a powerful cartel tried to assassinate him. Now Mr. Harfuch is Mexico’s top security official, tasked with dismantling those very groups. And he still spends many nights sle...

We spent a day at a secret front-line drone command center in Ukraine, where soldiers prepared their deadly munitions in dread that Russian’s own drones might find them.

Wondering if it’s worth it to downsize? New research from StorageCafe found that in some cities, it can save hundreds of thousands of dollars over time, while in others it can actually cost thousands.StorageCafe analyzed 90 of the country’s largest cities and estimated what a homeowner would gain (or lose) over the course of a deca...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Thursday that it had conducted two more strikes against boats it said were smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing five people.U.S. Southern Command posted on social media, “Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along k...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The Africa Cup of Nations begins Sunday with host Morocco aiming to put on a spectacle befitting its quest to become a global soccer power.The four-week tournament has been framed as a high-visibility dress rehearsal for the World Cup in 2030, when Morocco will be one o...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kongers offered flowers and bowed outside a funeral parlor on Friday to pay tribute to a firefighter who was among the 160 people killed by the city’s deadliest fire in decades. Ho Wai-ho lost his life battling the massive blaze that engulfed seven buildings of a housin...

TORONTO (AP) — Canada and the U.S. will launch formal discussions to review their free trade agreement in mid-January, the office of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said. The prime minister confirmed to provincial leaders that Dominic LeBlanc, the country’s point person for U.S-Canada tr...

Asian shares were moderately higher and U.S. futures were mixed after the Bank of Japan raised its key policy rate Friday to its highest level in 30 years and U.S. inflation cooled more than expected.The 0.25 percentage point increase by the BOJ was widely expected. It took the benchmark rat...

The Bank of Japan raised its key policy rate to a 30-year high on Friday to help curb inflation, as widely expected, and financial markets took the move in stride. The 0.25 percentage point hike took the BOJ’s benchmark short-term rate to 0.75%, its highest level since September 1995. It wil...

PHOENIX (AP) — Camdyn Glover used to be a quiet conservative. She worried what her teachers would think or if she would lose friends over her convictions. But she said something changed when Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September, and she started crying in her classroom at Indiana Univer...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two Los Angeles-area 15-year-old gang members pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and attempted murder charges, admitting they were acting as hired hitmen for Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, officials said.During two attempts to kill the cartel’s target, they wounded two people and...

TREMONTON, Utah (AP) — A large rock bearing petroglyphs created more than 1,000 years ago by the ancestors of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation is finally back home in the mountains of northern Utah.The repatriation effort, which began in 2011, culminated earlier this month when t...

FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) — An Army sergeant charged with attempted murder in the shootings of five people at a Georgia base last summer faces arraignment Friday before a military judge.Sgt. Quornelius Radford, 28, is scheduled to appear in a courtroom at Fort Stewart a week after Army prosecut...

A nearly 100-year-old bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin is scheduled to be imploded Friday, an unusual spectacle that will make way for a modern replacement.The Mississippi River Bridge, also known as the Black Hawk Bridge, was completed in 1931. It connects Lansin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department faces a Friday deadline to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world’s most influential people, including Donald Trump, who as president had tried to keep the fi...

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (AP) — She had worked 22 days straight in her job as a technician at an engine plant to save up, and now Daijah Bryant could finally do what she was putting off: Christmas shopping. Bryant pushed her cart out of a Walmart in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and loaded her sedan...

ATLANTA (AP) — When Donald Trump delivered the first White House address of his second presidency Wednesday night, all major U.S. networks beamed his image and voice onto their airwaves, cable feeds and online platforms.Americans ended up watching the Republican president stand in the Diplom...