Good morning! Today we have for you:A one-pot chicken-and-rice dinner that comes together in under an hourA sausage and mushroom strata that works for breakfast or dinner (or lunch, come to think of it)And Melissa Clark’s blood orange olive oil cakeImageKay Chun’s sticky coconut chicken and rice.Credit...Sang An for The New York Ti...

The federal government on Thursday acted to put an end to gender-related care for minors across the nation, threatening to pull federal funding from any hospital that offered such treatment.The move reflects the laserlike focus on the issue by President Trump, who in his first days in office called gender treatments for minors “a s...

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Earlier this month, Samantha Haufsk, a hairdresser who lives on Long Island, enjoyed her share of the warming snacks and drinks that anchor après-ski, the cozy gatherings that follow a long day of skiing.Ms. Haufsk and her sister dipped bananas and choux pastry into chocolate fondue, shared fried zucchini and calamari, and ordered...

ImageColu Henry’s baked mushrooms and white beans with buttery bread crumbs.Credit...David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.I am embarrassingly behind on Christmas shopping, but I did get you a little something. Ahead of the holiday next week, I’m answering a couple timely reader questions for a mini Recip...

The British jeweler Joe Spiro, 33, spends his days surrounded by a glittering rainbow of gems, designing one-off, maximalist pieces for Glenn Spiro, the 11-year-old private jewelry house he runs with his father. After work, however, the native Londoner leaves all that sparkle and color behind, retreating to a first-floor apartment...

By now, you’ve surely seen our esteemed critics’ lists of the best dishes, restaurants and desserts of 2025. Then there’s the Where to Eaties. Our slightly off-the-rails awards celebrating the intangible or overlooked aspects of restaurant culture are back for a second year. Some categories are returning (Most Likely to Scare Your...

Nearly 25 years ago, the writer Jonathan Franzen published “The Corrections,” a novel that tracked a family’s dysfunction along the arc of the mother trying to get all the adult children back home for Christmas. In that story line, Mr. Franzen reveals the insidious side of holding too tightly to holiday traditions, the potential sp...

So much of what is wrong with the college application process comes down to this: You often don’t know what a school will ask you to pay until you get in.While the people running colleges didn’t build this flawed system, they’re not doing enough to fix it.It’s time to ask them to try harder. And early decision — where you agree to...

In cities like New York, where buildings are constantly reinvented, Olde Good Things makes big money from what is ripped out. Much of its quirky inventory comes from salvaging architectural treasures from businesses being demolished or renovated.Listen to this article with reporter commentaryThe company has worked on the Waldorf As...

The pretrial hearings of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing the UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, have finally come to an end. The judge will most likely issue his rulings later, possibly even in January, when Mr. Mangione will be back in a different court for the scheduling of his federal trial. But this hea...

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...

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Long before Pantone announced Cloud Dancer as the Color of the Year, the interior designer Leanne Ford was making her mark on homes across the nation with a white-on-white palette. In addition to restoring residential properties to glory on HGTV, Ms. Ford became known for putting an edgy-yet-elevated spin on Buck Mason’s retail sto...

After a long stint in Europe, a Texas couple brought their two young daughters home and searched for a house in a good school district with room for grandparents and friends.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Senate has passed a bill that could significantly reduce the 27-year prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was arrested in November for attempting a coup. The Chamber of Deputies had already approved the text, and it now goes to President Luiz Inác...

When the term “conspicuous consumption” joined the language during the Gilded Age, it didn’t specifically apply to food. But it certainly does at many of the new restaurants opening in Manhattan’s current gold rush.At Le Chêne, a cozy new bistro in the West Village where you might expect to find boeuf bourguignon and bouillabaisse,...

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel carried out a series of airstrikes on southern and northeastern Lebanon on Thursday as a deadline looms to disarm the militant Hezbollah group along the countries’ tense frontier.The strikes came a day before a meeting of the committee monitoring the enforcement of a U.S...

BEIRUT (AP) — The head of the U.N. refugee agency in Lebanon said Thursday that the move by the United States to lift sweeping sanctions on Syria could encourage more refugees to return to their country.The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to permanently remove the so-called Caesar Act sanctions...

VideoDavid Brooks, E.J. Dionne and Robert Siegel Take Stock of 2025Trump is giving himself an A-plus-plus-plus, but the rest of America is anxious.The Conversation convenes this week with the Opinion columnist David Brooks, the contributing Opinion writer E.J. Dionne Jr. and the former host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” Robert S...

From a young age, Anton Osika wanted to build things. That interest drew him to computer programming in high school and to working in start-ups after college in his native Sweden.Osika doesn’t think he is alone. “Humans were born to build,” he said in a recent interview with DealBook. That belief set in motion Lovable, the Stockhol...

Elon Musk has long had a vision for schools. Learning should be interactive and “as close to a video game as possible,” he once said. Schools should let children go at their own pace, he has added, tailoring “the education to match their aptitudes and abilities.”Since 2023, Mr. Musk has tried to build his dream of a better educatio...

It’s been called an “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation. The “bowling alone” phenomenon.By any name, it refers to Americans’ growing social disconnection by many measures.Americans are less likely to join civic groups, unions and churches than in recent generations. They have fewer friend...

It has never been unusual for the leader of the host country to show up for one of the biggest moments of soccer’s World Cup — the gala where the team pairings are revealed.What made President Donald Trump’s appearance this month different was the “FIFA Peace Prize.” The newly created honor...

Jaipur — India’s Pink City — is a place where history, culture and vibrant colors come alive in the most magical way. From the moment you arrive, the city, with its majestic forts and bustling bazaars, envelops you in its old-world charm. Walking through the streets, you witness artisans creating exquisite block-printed fabrics and...

FEAR LESS: Poetry in Perilous Times, by Tracy K. SmithPoems never really sleep, do they? Just when you thought it was safe to make a quesadilla or go out to the garage and sort nails, here comes one poem or another to delight or baffle you or, like as not, leave you indifferent. Poems, like people, are everywhere: from weddings and...

It was the final event of November’s crowded literary awards season — French publishing’s Oscars, Emmys and Tonys rolled into just a few weeks— and the elegant Salle Goncourt of Paris’s storied Restaurant Drouant was filled with creative luminaries, TV cameras and members of the press.But one of the most anticipated honorees could...

This year we began adding a new feature to our articles — including our monthly previews and weekly editors’ choice columns — enabling people to save the books they’ve read and the ones they want to read. Thousands of you have made good use of it by adding titles to your personal reading lists. Here are the books published this yea...

Family estrangement is a hotter topic than ever on social media, where scores of confessional videos discuss the virtues and challenges of going “no contact” with problematic kin.But estrangement doesn’t simply affect those directly involved; it is almost always a “cataclysmic event in a family system,” said Joshua Coleman, a psych...

My parents got divorced when I was little. They do not have a good relationship and rarely speak. I’m in my 20s, and when I come home for the holidays I like to spend time with my dad’s family. My aunts and grandparents have always made me feel loved, and I enjoy being around them. The problem is that my mom wants me to spend an eq...

Kristin Cabot has come to believe that her silence no longer serves her. It made sense in the beginning, after she appeared on the Jumbotron, aghast, in the arms of her boss at a Coldplay concert on July 16, 2025, a moment that caused an international furor. The original TikTok received 100 million views within days. Cabot retreate...

DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced an Australian citizen to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of smuggling cocaine to the tourist island of Bali.Lamar Aaron Ahchee, 43, from Cairns in north Queensland, was arrested in May when police raided his ren...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Thursday formally removed the country’s impeached police chief for deploying hundreds of officers to support ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.The court said Cho Ji-ho “acti...

It might surprise people that my husband and I pay a financial planner, given that I spend a lot of time on financial, tax, and investment planning at work. However, hiring a planner has delivered a return that can’t be quantified: peace of mind. Here are some key reasons we pay for financia...

SHELBYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — When the funding for Shannon Johnson’s job as a school mental health counselor came to an abrupt end, two years into a five-year grant, she thought about the work left to be done.Johnson taught elementary and middle-school students in rural Kentucky how to navigate co...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell by 13,000 last week, remaining in the same historically healthy range of the past few years even as concerns grow about the health of the labor market.The number of Americans applying for jobless claims for the week ending De...

LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England on Thursday cut its key interest rate for the first time in four months as stubbornly high inflation that has plagued British consumers and businesses starts to ease.The central bank’s policymakers voted 5-4 to reduce the base rate by a quarter of a percenta...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. inflation slowed unexpectedly last month, the government said in a report that was delayed and likely distorted by the government shutdown. The Labor Department reported Thursday that its consumer price index rose 2.7% in November from a year earlier. Yet, year-over-ye...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Staging the Africa Cup of Nations from Sunday is another major step in Morocco’s road to becoming a global soccer power and a dry run as a co-host for the 2030 World Cup.Three years after reaching the semifinals of the 2022 World Cup, the North African kingdom will host...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Union’s top court ruled on Thursday that Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal was not “independent and impartial” because of politicized appointments made under the previous conservative Polish government. In its ruling, the EU’s Court of Justice said the Polis...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s federal prosecutor brought charges Thursday against eight suspects for their alleged membership in a “right-wing extremist terrorist” group that allegedly aimed to destabilize the country’s democratic system by carrying out attacks on migrants and political opponents....

LONDON (AP) — Police in London arrested two people who called for “intifada” during a pro-Palestinian protest, which followed a decision by authorities to toughen enforcement of hate speech laws after a deadly attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Australia.The arrests Wednesday came hours aft...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has warned Russia and Ukraine to exercise greater caution regarding Black Sea security after its air force shot down a drone that entered Turkish airspace, the defense ministry said Thursday.F‑16 fighter jets were dispatched on Monday after an “out of control” dr...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged Thursday for the fourth meeting in a row as the economy in the 20 countries that use the euro increasingly looks strong enough to get by without the stimulus of lower borrowing costs for businesses and consumer...

VIENNA (AP) — In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that the U.S. would resume nuclear testing, a U.S. government representative defended the stance at a global nuclear arms control meeting and pointed to nuclear provocations from Russia, China and North K...

The latest Consumer Price Index was below what economists had expected and likely reflects what they called distortions caused by the government shutdown.

The latest Consumer Price Index was below what economists had expected and likely reflects what they called distortions caused by the government shutdown.

ImageImagePresident Trump went on the offensive in a prime time address on Wednesday night, seeking to reframe the discussion around America’s affordability crunch.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesIn today's newsletter:Crunch time Oracle’s slump rekindles A.I. jitters The A.I. start-up Lovable secures a big raise Andrew here....

Trump Media & Technology will merge with a fusion power company in an all-stock deal that the companies said Thursday is valued at more than $6 billion. Devin Nunes, the Republican congressman who resigned in 2021 to become the CEO of Trump Media, will be co-CEO of the new company with TAE T...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Parliament approved new legislation Thursday that enables opening the tightly controlled civil nuclear power sector to private companies.The government termed it a major policy shift to speed up clean energy expansion while the opposition political parties argued tha...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand on Thursday helped launch a global effort to fight the spread of online scams that include criminal enterprises based largely in Southeast Asia estimated to bilk billions of dollars annually from victims around the world.Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the...

In an email interview, the Mountain Goats frontman also shared his rationale for hosting a 15th-century French poet at a literary dinner party. SCOTT HELLERDescribe your ideal reading experience.Midmorning; either on my back porch or on an airplane; a book in translation by an author I hadn’t heard of but whose book is knocking me...

Rock ’n’ roll bands with strong lead singers often have to go to some pains to remind their fans that they are, in fact, bands. Witness the buttons and T-shirts from the 1970s proclaiming “Blondie Is a Group” or the 1994 Rolling Stone cover line “Hole Is a Band, Courtney Love Is a Soap Opera.”The new documentary “Counting Crows: Ha...

Thomas Adès: Orchestral SuitesLondon Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Adès, conductor (London Philharmonic Orchestra)▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music Classical or YouTube MusicComposers don’t always make the best conductors, but happily that does not apply to Thomas Adès. In a program of pieces that adapt his stage works into viscera...

For more than 150 years, the 20-inch-thick bluestone walls of Pentridge Prison saw it all. On one side lay the quiet suburb of Coburg, in Melbourne, Australia, while on the other, some of the country’s most infamous criminals — including Mark Read (a gangster known as Chopper who asked a fellow inmate to slice off his ears) and Ned...

This June, like so many pop stars before her, Sabrina Carpenter graced the cover of Rolling Stone. She appeared nearly nude beneath a cascade of Rapunzel locks, in a sun-kissed portrait shot by the renowned photographer David LaChapelle.As an astute connoisseur of pop’s past, Carpenter, 26, is likely familiar with LaChapelle’s most...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Rainfall on Iran’s Hormuz Island briefly transformed the coastline of its famed Red Beach into a striking natural scene this week, as red soil flowed into the sea and turned the water shades of deep red.The beach is known for its vivid red sand and cliffs, created by high...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Flights were cancelled, children were told to stay indoors and outdoors construction work was banned in Sarajevo Thursday as a thick layer of fog enveloped the Bosnian capital.Sarajevo traditionally faces severe pollution during winter, mostly from house h...

WOLFBERRY WHOOPING CRANE SANCTUARY, Texas (AP) — Carter Crouch has been fascinated by the whooping crane’s conservation story for as long as he can remember. The white bird, named for its “whooping” call, is one of the rarest in North America and was among the first to be protected by the En...

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A lion and bear rescued from captivity in northern Albania arrived in animal sanctuaries in Germany in early December after authorities in Tirana discovered they were being illegally kept as pets on a private estate.Erion, a 3-year-old lion, and Flora, a 2-year-old be...

A recent article in Art in America magazine offered readers a primer on “Five Essential Books About Anti-Fascist Art History.” Timing is everything, of course, as pundits debate whether our current era is actually fascist. But if you were to look around the art world today, who would be included, 50 years from now, in such a histor...

It might seem a little stodgy for a group that glorified the spontaneous and the illogical to be celebrating its centenary. But remember that contradiction is baked into Surrealism’s bones.Today when people talk about the movement, they think first of visual artists, especially Salvador Dalí. and René Magritte. Both painters are re...

Wineries and boutique hotels have sprouted along the backroads and once-sleepy main streets of this Central Coast county.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Burkina Faso on Wednesday released 11 personnel of the Nigerian Air Force who were detained Dec. 8 after their aircraft made an emergency landing, Nigeria’s foreign minister said.“Through sustained dialogue, we also resolved the matter concerning Nigerian Air Force pilo...

Interview by Austyn GaffneyLost Science is an ongoing series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. The conversations have been edited for clarity and length. Here’s why we’re doing this.Ana Vaz: I worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s South...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Thursday made his most important U.S. appointment to date, naming a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the biggest U.S. archdioceses as it navigates relations with the Trump administration and its immigration crackdown.Bisho...

Across the country, small groups are working to rebuild social connection amid rising loneliness in their own modest ways.It sounds simple — building relationships. But they’re up against powerful cultural forces.By many measures, Americans are socially disconnected at historic levels.They’r...

Lee esta historia en español PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (AP) — A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral.Last Saturday, Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, De...

NEW YORK (AP) — The last major meteor shower of the year, known as the Ursids, peaks soon, bringing glowing streaks to nighttime and early morning skies. Compared to other meteor showers, it’s more subdued, but experts say it’s still worth a glimpse.Meteor showers happen when space rocks hit...

The Louvre management has said the landmark Paris museum was partially reopened on Wednesday amid an ongoing strike by workers in the wake of purportedly difficult conditions after the stunning jewel heist in October.“The museum is open, but some areas are not accessible due to the industrial action,” a spokeswoman said.Recommended...

Kyiv, Ukraine – Back in the 1990s, China’s nascent capitalism triggered demand for Ukrainian steel slabs and iron ore, corn and sunflower oil.However, the most prized export items from impoverished Ukraine were the Soviet-era arsenal of weapons it did not think it needed any more.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Ukrain...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow will achieve its objectives and rejected war with the West as the European Union considers seizing Russian monies to fund Ukraine, as the war is now in its fourth punishing winter.During a high-level meeting on Wednesday with Ministry of Defence officials, Putin was quoted by state...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has left Oslo after travelling to Norway in secret last week to collect her Nobel Peace Prize, her spokesperson says.Machado, a right-wing opposition figure, fractured a vertebra while fleeing Venezuela by boat to receive the award, according to the spokesperson. She was examined by...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has warned he may abandon a long-awaited trade deal between members of the South American bloc Mercosur and the European Union after key countries sought a delay.The Brazilian leader issued the threat on Wednesday after Italy joined fellow heavyweight France in saying it was not ready t...

Ukraine has hit Russia’s southern region of Rostov with an overnight drone attack that killed three people, as European countries strive to unlock Russian assets to help Kyiv and United States-led efforts to end the war have yet to yield any tangible results.Yury Slyusar, the acting regional governor of the Rostov region, said on T...

European leaders gather in Brussels to decide on using frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine for the next two years.

There is no evidence the suspected gunmen in the deadly Bondi Beach attack received military training in the southern Philippines, Manila’s national security adviser has said, as Australia announced plans to introduce measures to tighten the country’s hate speech laws.In a Wednesday statement, Philippine National Security Adviser E...

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies have condemned the prosecution of pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai by Hong Kong authorities, in a move that Chinese officials have dismissed as “crude interference in China’s internal affairs”.On Monday, a panel of three judges found the 78-year-old media tycoon gu...

Cambodia’s defence ministry has accused Thailand’s military of bombing the casino hub of Poipet, a major land crossing between the two nations, which are engaged in renewed clashes along their border.The ministry said in a statement on Thursday that Thai forces had “dropped 2 bombs” in the municipality of Poipet, located in the nor...

Hosted by Anna MartinProduced by Reva GoldbergEmily LangDavis LandAmy PearlSara Curtis and Elisa GutierrezEdited by Jen Poyant and Lynn LevyEngineered by Daniel RamirezOriginal music by Dan PowellSonia HerreroRowan Niemisto and Marion Lozano‘You don’t have to guard what you say or how you say it or what you look like. And at the en...

ImageCredit...Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Sophia Eleni Pappas.The other day, I was having an impassioned discussion with a friend about the purpose of dessert, beyond pleasure. Just two pastry chefs engaging in a little harmless “back in my day,” regretting that the meal we had ju...

The flu constantly morphs and mutates. Often, it surprises researchers a little.This year, the virus is surprising them a lot.They are bracing for a brutal season, driven by a new and alarming variant that is expected to circulate widely.The main version of flu spreading in the United States right now is H3N2 subclade K. H3N2 is a...

In a large new study published today, researchers found that eating high-fat cheese or cream was associated with a lower risk of developing dementia.Cheese lovers may cheer. But be careful about celebrating with an entire block of your favorite Cheddar.Cheese and cream are high in saturated fats, and nutrition guidelines have long...

Last summer, I was dating a man in our weekender community outside New York City who seemed like a wonderful guy. A month after we became intimate, he told me that he was married but that he had been separated from his wife for a year. He explained that the reason he has not gotten a divorce is that she has cancer and is on his hea...

ImageCredit...Brian ReaThe Baddie on the BusHarriette was the one friendly face on the bus of our Maryland private school. I asked if I could sit next to her? “Yes!” she said. Both of us were band nerds, scholarship kids. Harriette was the badass who threw a note out our bus window to a boy waiting for the bus to another school. We...

ImageImageWarner Bros. Discovery has officially rejected Paramount’s hostile buyout offer.Credit...Mario Tama/Getty ImagesIn today's newsletter:An “illusory” offerHow Trump’s Venezuela clash could rock China How Epstein made his money “I said: ‘This is where we’re going to end up. So figure out how you can work into what he’s alrea...

When the world’s tallest bridge opened in China’s Guizhou Province in September, a state-run political talk show filmed an episode from its summit to showcase what it called “the remarkable story of China’s path to modernization.”A Canadian influencer on the panel marveled, “You have projects like this the West could only dream of....

Back in September, a big subprime auto lender filed for bankruptcy amid allegations that the company had defrauded its bank lenders.Three months later, federal prosecutors in New York announced criminal fraud charges against two top executives of the company, Tricolor Auto, and said two other executives had already pleaded guilty t...

Warner Bros. Discovery went on the attack against Larry and David Ellison on Wednesday, urging shareholders to reject their hostile takeover offer and saying the Ellisons have “consistently misled” them.Paramount, which is controlled by the Ellisons, has said that its proposed transaction has a “full backstop” from the billionaire...

Tariffs are unpopular, prices remain stubbornly high and Americans are souring on President Trump’s handling of the economy.So Mr. Trump has reprised a familiar political strategy: promise people cash.The White House is trying to tamp down Americans’ economic anxieties by dangling the prospect of checks and other paydays next year,...

Resident doctors in England have begun a five-day strike in a long-running dispute over pay and working conditions.Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed the strike during Prime Minister’s Questions in parliament on Wednesday, describing the walkout as “dangerous and utterly irresponsible”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 o...

Israel has continued to launch attacks across Gaza in violation of the ceasefire with Hamas, injuring at least 11 people

Israel has continued to launch attacks across Gaza in violation of the ceasefire with Hamas, injuring at least 11 people

Israel has continued to launch attacks across Gaza in violation of the ceasefire with Hamas, injuring at least 11 people

Israel has continued to launch attacks across Gaza in violation of the ceasefire with Hamas, injuring at least 11 people

Fifteen years ago, a Tunisian fruit seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, despairing at official corruption and police violence, walked to the centre of his hometown of Sidi Bouzid, set himself on fire, and changed the region forever.Much of the hope triggered by that act lies in ruins. The revolutions that followed in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt an...

Yemen’s separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) is trying to create facts on the ground with its recent advances in the country’s eastern governorates of Hadramout and al-Mahra.Its military push this month highlights that Yemen’s conflict – ongoing for more than a decade – cannot be reduced to one simply between the internat...

Qatar’s prime minister has warned that daily Israeli breaches of the Gaza ceasefire are threatening the entire agreement, as he called for urgent progress towards the next phase of the deal to end Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged Palestinian enclave.Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani made the appeal following...

Over his six-decade tenure as a ranger, Douglas Follett explained the wonders of nature to park visitors.

Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at a city that made the buses free. We’ll also get details on a lawsuit challenging a new city law about tips for delivery workers.ImageCredit...Annick Sjobakken for The New York TimesFree buses have been talked about in New York since Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic prim...

In a 19-minute address to the nation on Wednesday night, United States President Donald Trump made no major announcements, as presidents are usually wont to do. Instead, he took the opportunity to further denigrate immigrants, highlight his perceived personal achievements and make grandiose promises of prosperity to come.“Our natio...

The authorities said on Tuesday that they had opened a homicide investigation after a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Mass.The professor, Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was a member of the departments of nuclear science and engineering and physics, as well as the director o...

After 11 months of tumult and downsizing, NASA will have a permanent leader. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur who traveled to orbit twice on private space missions, to the post of administrator on Wednesday by a 67-30 vote.As Mr. Isaacman assumes his post, some believe NASA has an opportunity f...

The United States has dramatically intensified its military air campaign in Somalia, carrying out at least 111 strikes against armed groups, since President Donald Trump returned to office, according to the New America Foundation, which monitors the operations.In the most recent one, the US Africa Command conducted an air strike on...

The M23 armed group has begun pulling out its forces from the key town of Uvira in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), its spokespeople say, in accordance with a request from United States mediators in the conflict.Footage aired exclusively on Al Jazeera on Wednesday appeared to show dozens of fighters from the grou...

Arabic is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages with at least 400 million speakers, including 200 million native speakers and 200 million to 250 million non-native speakers.Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) serves as the formal language for government, legal matters and education, and it is widely used in international and rel...

For Rob Reiner, politics was much too personal and important a project to be left to politicians. Like Michael Stivic, the “All in the Family” character that made him a star, he was a passionate, crusading liberal. And like his mentor Norman Lear, the show’s creator, he put his money — and his creative muscle — where his mouth was....

This month Dr. Mikhail Varshavski, the New Jersey-based family medicine physician and medical social media influencer better known as Dr. Mike, appeared on the popular YouTube channel Jubilee. As part of its series “Surrounded,” he debated a bunch of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supporters, one at a time. (Other examples in this series: B...

More from our inbox:How Farmers Can Slow the Climate CrisisImageCredit...DagouTo the Editor:Re “My Patient Was Making a Fatal Decision, and I Couldn’t Stop Him,” by Daniela Lamas (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 5):As a physician, now retired after 43 years of practice, I admire Dr. Lamas’s thoughtful and sensitive writings on the challe...

I was afraid to see “The Voice of Hind Rajab.” I knew that the movie is based on the recordings of a 5-year-old Gazan girl, trapped in a car with the bodies of her family members, speaking with rescue workers. I knew that the girl — Hind Rajab — was eventually killed, too. And I knew that the film was made by Kaouther Ben Hania, th...

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. On a chilly fall afternoon in Far Rockaway, Queens, Deborah Otts, 75, parked her wheelchair in front of...

There are two competing visions now emerging on the American right, and they are incompatible. One vision of American identity is based on lineage, blood and soil: Inherited attributes matter most. The purest form of an American is a so-called heritage American — one whose ancestry traces back to the founding of the United States o...

There is a presidency at work in Washington, but it is not clear that there is a president at work in the Oval Office.Ask Donald Trump about the goings on of his administration, and there is a good chance he’ll defer to a deputy rather than answer the question. “I don’t know her,” he said when asked about his nominee for surgeon ge...

After Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were stabbed to death, President Trump went off on a social media tear denouncing Rob Reiner for supposedly having a “mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.” Asked about the comment, Trump doubled down, saying that Reiner was “a deranged person” who “was very bad for our...

Strong winds battered several Western states on Wednesday, leaving 200,000 people without power in a region where flooding over the past week has forced tens of thousands of evacuations.The winds developed in the wake of yet another wet storm that moved through the Pacific Northwest late Tuesday. On Wednesday, the storm was bringin...

For three weeks, David Mas Masumoto, a peach farmer in California’s San Joaquin Valley, has worked under a dense fog that has blocked nearly all sunshine.It has been good for the fruit trees, which benefit from the cool, clammy weather, Mr. Masumoto said, “but it can get depressing for humans.”“It’s like going into a dream stage wh...

Morocco has launched a nationwide emergency relief operation to support families affected by severe winter weather as communities across the country grapple with deadly floods and plunging temperatures.The aid program was announced on Tuesday and will reach approximately 73,000 households across 28 provinces hit by freezing conditi...

A nature photographer seeking shots of bearded vultures and red deer in the Italian Alps discovered a cache of dinosaur footprints that scientists are calling “remarkable.”The finding in Stelvio National Park, near the Swiss border, that was unveiled Tuesday consists of thousands of fossilized footprints more than 200 million years...

Finland’s prime minister apologized on Wednesday to China, South Korea and Japan in an effort to quash a growing racism scandal in the country.Over the past few days, lawmakers in Finland’s most prominent anti-immigration party have posted pictures of themselves pulling back their eyelids, apparently in support of a Finnish beauty...

BP, the London energy giant, said late Wednesday that it would replace the company’s chief executive, Murray Auchincloss, with Meg O’Neill, an industry veteran who leads Woodside Energy, Australia’s largest oil and gas company.The change comes after a long period of investor discontent over BP’s performance, particularly an ill-fat...

The atmosphere in the neighborhood around the Reiners’ home in Brentwood on Wednesday was somber. Christmas ornaments swung gently from the boughs of an enormous evergreen just behind the house’s main gate.Several small bouquets of flowers, two candles and a small box of white hydrangeas had been left by well-wishers below Christma...

Rob and Michele Reiner were found fatally stabbed in the master bedroom of their home, a police official said. Their younger son, Nick Reiner, appeared in court on Wednesday to face murder charges, but did not enter a plea.

President Trump delivered an 18-minute prime time speech to the nation Wednesday evening, arguing that the economy under his leadership is in better shape than many Americans believe.The president has been on the defensive recently over the issue of affordability, which congressional Democrats hope to use to sweep back into power d...

President Trump delivered an address on the economy from the White House on Wednesday night. The following is a transcript of his remarks, as recorded by The New York Times.Good evening, America.Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I’m fixing it. When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years, and some would say in t...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia announced on Thursday new measures to combat antisemitism, including legislation that would “crack down on those who spread hate, division and radicalization.”The measures come days after two gunmen opened fire at a beachside Hanukkah celebration on Sunday, killing 15 people, including a...

President Trump praised what he portrayed as the economic gains under his administration in an address from the White House on Wednesday, even as consumers express concerns about affordability and voice discontent over how he has handled the economy.“I am bringing those high prices down and bringing them down very fast. Let’s look...

The U.S. military announced on Wednesday that it had struck a boat earlier in the day that it suspected of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific, killing four people.In a post on social media, U.S. Southern Command said that the strike, conducted at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, had targeted a boat sailing along...

President Trump gave an 18-minute speech intended to defend his accomplishments in the first year, and argue that the “Golden Age” he promised in his presidential campaign last year was building steam.The speech was, in typical form, largely strung together from familiar lines he uses at White House events, rallies and speeches. An...

The Trump administration asked Congress on Wednesday to approve an arms package for Taiwan valued at more than $11 billion, in what would be a huge injection of military aid to the self-governing democratic island bracing for a long-feared invasion by China.If approved by Congress, as is likely given Taiwan’s strong bipartisan supp...

Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., was unrepentant about her failed elections case against President Trump during a combative hearing on Wednesday, calling Mr. Trump and his former co-defendants “criminals” and “crooks” before members of the Republican-led State Senate.The hearing, in a packed room at the...

Five days after a shooting at Brown University killed two people and injured nine others, state and federal authorities were still seeking the gunman whose identity remains unknown.“He could be anywhere,” Col. Oscar Perez, the chief of police in Providence, R.I., said at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon.He added that invest...

In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.Listen to audio obtained of the call between President Trump and David Ralston, former speaker of the Geo...

Harvard officials have opened a secret disciplinary investigation into at least two students for their roles in drawing scrutiny to the relationship between the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the school’s former president, Larry Summers, according to three people briefed on the matter.The students posted videos online showing Mr....

Outside the Regal Times Square on Tuesday night, about 50 people in orange beanies — some of whom had been waiting more than three hours — lined barricades and faced 20-degree temperatures to catch a glimpse of cast members as they arrived at the New York premiere of “Marty Supreme,” Josh Safdie’s new screwball sports dramedy.“I’m...

On Inauguration Day in 2021, Melania Trump left Washington as first lady. She wore a blue-and-orange caftan, a pair of navy flats and a face-swallowing pair of sunglasses —the fashion equivalent of an out-of-office message. Given that the events of Jan. 6, 2021, had not yet been rewritten, she and her husband were as close to becom...

Ceal Floyer, a conceptual artist whose elegant installations and performances charted the surprisingly heartfelt territory where philosophical propositions meet comic one-liners, died on Dec. 11 in Berlin. She was 57.Her death, in a hospital, was caused by a malignant brain tumor, her half brother James Floyer said.By the time Ms....

Christine Choy, a bold filmmaker whose influential documentaries, including the Oscar-nominated “Who Killed Vincent Chin?,” probed social-justice issues involving Asian Americans and other marginalized people, died on Dec. 7 in the Bronx. She was 76.Her death, at a hospital, was confirmed by her son, Fleeta Siegel, who said the cau...

What doesn’t James Barnor remember? The photographer, who is 96, with an archive of more than 32,000 images and a mind like an encyclopedia, remembers Ghana before it was called Ghana, when it was still the Gold Coast, a British colony. He remembers each of the times he met and took pictures of Kwame Nkrumah, the country’s first pr...

Hans van Manen, a former dancer who was chief choreographer of the Dutch National Ballet for more than 50 years, creating more than 150 avant-garde works for the company, died on Wednesday. He was 93.His death was announced in a statement by Ted Brandsen, the director of Dutch National Ballet. It did not say where he died.Mr. Van M...

The novelist Dinaw Mengestu was elected president of PEN America on Wednesday, taking the helm as the organization navigates rising challenges to free speech across the country along with continuing fallout from criticism of its own response to the war in Gaza.Mengestu, 47, was born in Ethiopia and moved to the United States when h...

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.‘Liar-side Chat’President Trump delivered a last-minute live address on Wednesday night, pre-empting late night shows and season finales of the real...

After Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl, was found dead in Gaza City on Feb. 10, 2024, she quickly became one of the most visible victims of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Twelve days earlier, on Jan. 29, Hind had spent hours trapped in a car, surrounded by dead family members, as she awaited an ambulance. Two paramedi...

There’s no rest for the wicked, or for those who write about them. Ask Geneva Robertson-Dworet, a creator and showrunner of the Amazon series “Fallout.” Season 2, which debuted on Tuesday on Prime Video, was still a week away from premiering, and her mind was already gazing even further into the show’s postapocalyptic future.“We’re...

The Oscars are going online.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Wednesday that it would move the Academy Awards to YouTube under an exclusive five-year deal beginning with the 101st ceremony in 2029. The agreement will end an exclusive run on ABC that started in 1976.In choosing YouTube as its distribution partn...

In “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” Rose Byrne plays Linda, a frazzled therapist under constant siege: Her clients won’t listen, her daughter won’t eat, her husband is out to sea and her apartment is caving in. As her situation grows worse, Linda begins to lash out, though her entirely justified anger only serves to make things worse....

Every year The New York Times’s critics put out a list of their Top 10 movies of the year. But there are a lot of film experts in the newsroom, and in a terrific year for the big screen, we wanted to get a sense of what stuck with them the most. So we polled the 16 staffers who play important roles in shaping our movie coverage. He...

Rob Reiner created some of the most memorable film comedy moments.From the band members getting lost on their way to the stage in “This Is Spinal Tap” ...... to the famous orgasm scene in “When Harry Met Sally ...”... to the masterfully gross “Stand By Me” pie-eating contest.In ancient times, audiences expressed wonderment by slapp...

Leaders in Latin America and the United Nations have voiced concerns about the spiralling tensions between the United States and Venezuela over the future of oil exports from the South American country.The high-profile remarks on Wednesday come as Venezuela’s National Assembly convenes to discuss US President Donald Trump’s threat...

Former Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith has defended the two criminal prosecutions he led against President Donald Trump, in an appearance before a committee in the United States House of Representatives.Testifying in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, Smith took questions from the House Judiciary Committee about the...

Stephen Miller, a top aide to United States President Donald Trump, has suggested that Venezuela’s oil belongs to Washington, describing the nationalisation of the South American country’s petroleum industry as “theft”.Miller’s comments on Wednesday raise further questions over the Trump administration’s claim that drug smuggling i...

Winter storms are worsening conditions for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, as aid agencies warn that Israeli restrictions are preventing lifesaving shelter assistance from reaching people across the besieged enclave.The United Nations has said it has tents, blankets and other essential supplies ready to ent...

An expanded federal healthcare subsidy that grew out of the pandemic looks all but certain to expire on December 31, as Republican leaders in the United States faced a rebellion from within their own ranks.On Wednesday, four centrist Republicans in the House of Representatives broke with their party’s leadership to support a Democr...

These were the updates from US President Donald Trump’s address to the nation on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.

Here is where things stand on Thursday, December 18:Fighting Ukrainian drones have hit a tanker vessel in the southern Russian port of Rostov-on-Don, killing and injuring a number of people and igniting a fire, the city’s mayor, Alexander Skryabin, said. “Emergency teams are extinguishing the fire on the tanker that was struck whil...

Ghislaine Maxwell, former girlfriend and accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has asked a federal judge in the United States to set aside her sex trafficking conviction and quash her 20-year prison sentence.Maxwell made the long-shot legal bid in a Manhattan court on Wednesday, saying “substantial new evidence” had...

The United States military said it killed four people in its latest attack on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, announcing the “lethal” strike after resolutions seeking to rein in President Donald Trump’s aggression towards Venezuela were voted down by US lawmakers.US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which is leading the burgeonin...

United States President Donald Trump has delivered an address to the nation from the White House, highlighting achievements, demonising immigrants and attacking his Democratic predecessor.Although presidents usually reserve White House addresses to the nation for major announcements, Trump used his 19-minute speech on Wednesday to...

The United States has approved $11.1bn in arms sales to Taiwan, one of Washington’s largest-ever weapons packages for the self-ruled island, which Beijing has promised to unify with mainland China.The US State Department announced the deal late on Wednesday during a nationally televised address by President Donald Trump.Recommended...

The annual Academy Awards will be livestreamed on YouTube from 2029, the event’s organisers have announced, with the ABC network losing the rights to broadcast the illustrious movie awards ceremony for the first time in more than 50 years.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer and President Lynette Howell T...

The United States Senate has passed a $901bn bill setting defence policy and spending for the 2026 fiscal year, combining priorities backed by President Donald Trump’s administration with provisions designed to preserve congressional oversight of US military power.The National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA) was approved in a 77-2...

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares slipped further on Thursday after declines for AI stocks dragged the U.S. market to its worst day in nearly a month. Traders were waiting for an update later in the day on U.S. inflation, and on a decision Friday by Japan’s central bank on interest rates. The Bank...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, drawing an angry response from China.The State Department announced the sales late Wednesday during a...

MBERA, Mauritania (AP) — The men move in rhythm, swaying in line and beating the ground with spindly tree branches as the sun sets over the barren and hostile Mauritanian desert. The crack of the wood against dry grass lands in unison, a technique perfected by more than a decade of fighting...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Silence used to prevail in the forest of a private Caribbean islet until environmentalists transformed it into a love nest for the critically endangered Lesser Antillean iguana.Now, the sounds of iguanas plopping on the ground and scurrying about as they multiply...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India has accelerated a push to finalize several free trade agreements over the next few months to offset the impact of steep U.S. import tariffs and widen export destinations during growing global trade uncertainties.New Delhi is in advanced talks with the European Union, N...

SYDNEY (AP) — Hundreds of mourners bearing bright bouquets and clutching each other in grief gathered at a funeral in Sydney on Thursday for a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.Matilda, whose last name is being withhe...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Farmers in tractors blocked roads and set off fireworks in Brussels on Wednesday outside a European Union leaders’ summit, prompting police to respond with tear gas and water cannons as protesters rallied against a major free-trade deal with South American nations.Farmers fea...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Arab female film directors have helped change the landscape of Arab cinema in recent years, presenting stories that haven’t been told before and claiming space in an industry in a region that rarely makes room for women to grow. Four influential female directors t...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are gathering Thursday for a summit aimed at agreeing on a massive loan to cover Ukraine’s military and other financial needs for the next two years.The leaders will also discuss migration, the bloc’s enlargement policy, trade and economies, but working...

BOSTON (AP) — Brian Walshe is expected to be sentenced Thursday in the grisly killing of his wife, whom he was found guilty of murdering.Ana Walshe, a real estate agent who immigrated from Serbia, was last seen early Jan. 1, 2023, after a New Year’s Eve dinner at the couple’s home. Two days...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and woman during home invasion robbery and later confessing to three other killings is scheduled to be executed Thursday evening.Frank Athen Walls, 58, is set to receive a lethal injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Priso...

Even the most dedicated doomscrollers smile once in a while. Here’s a look back at some of the Associated Press stories that captured attention around the world and provided moments of brightness throughout 2025:Art and intrigueThe brazen heist at the world’s most visited museum in November...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant evade federal authorities is set to present her case as her trial on obstruction and concealment charges winds down.Prosecutors rested their case against Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on Wednesday after t...

PHOENIX (AP) — Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization that Charlie Kirk turned into a political juggernaut, will convene its flagship conference on Thursday for the first time since the assassination of its charismatic founder, testing the durability of a fractious movement t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has launched a months-long effort to prosecute people accused of assaulting or hindering federal officers while protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and military deployments. Attorney General Pam Bondi has vowed such offenders wil...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal agent described her wounds as “boo-boos.”Nevertheless, the Justice Department aggressively pursued the alleged perpetrator. They jailed Sidney Lori Reid on a charge of felony assault, accusing her of injuring the agent during a July protest of President Donald T...