MILAN (AP) — A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the Cortina 2026 Milan Winter Olympics site in Bormio, authorities anno...

The Christmas holiday season is a time to step back from the busy pace of modern life and connect with our nearest and dearest instead of screens, apps and chatbots. Here are some suggestions on how to unplug from the online world for the next few weeks as you sit down for a festive meal, ex...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s glowing account of progress under his watch Wednesday was out of tune with the experience of price-squeezed Americans and the story told by some of his government’s own statistics.In a speech from the White House, Trump assailed the record of his De...

Yes the darkest day of the year is here, but that means brighter days are ahead. Sunday is the shortest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical winter. It’s the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the longest day of the year and s...

ImageAhmed al-Sharaa, a former rebel commander and now president of Syria. Credit...Daniel Berehulak/The New York TimesA militant’s transformationYears before Ahmed al-Sharaa became president of Syria, he was the commander of a jihadist rebel group allied with Al Qaeda. He dispatched suicide bombers to blow up military posts and pl...

The population of Canada has declined, driven by a drop in immigration, new census data shows, as the federal government tries to limit the number of international students allowed into the country. Canada’s population now stands at just under 41.6 million people, decreasing by about 76,000 people, or 0.18 percent, over the last qu...

China’s experiments in clean energy can feel like living in the future. Even when things don’t quite work.

President Trump and his top advisers could not be more blunt in their claims: The United States created Venezuela’s oil industry. Venezuela stole American oil fields through nationalizations. Now, the United States wants those assets back.Those assertions have been used to justify the U.S. blockade on sanctioned tankers going to an...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Wednesday said that he had approved the “largest gas deal” in the country’s history, granting an export permit for a $37 billion agreement allowing Chevron and other energy companies to significantly expand gas deliveries to neighboring Egypt.Mr. Netanyahu trumpeted the agreement, sayi...

Peter Arnett, an intrepid Associated Press combat correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Vietnam War and became one of the world’s best-known television reporters on the scene of wars and insurrections for 18 years with CNN, died on Wednesday in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 91.Mr. Arnett’s daughter, Elsa, confir...

Are pets crowding out babies?As concern grows over the global fertility crisis, people who chose to have dogs or cats but not children have become a popular scapegoat. In many cities, it’s not uncommon to see pets dressed in fancy outfits, pushed around in strollers.These pampered animals, the theory goes, have become replacements...

Over the weekend, families took selfies next to a giant pink Styrofoam pig that stood on the street in front of the National Assembly; a vestige of last week's huge protests that filled the main square and adjacent avenues and toppled the government.“This is the Bulgarian politician who is robbing Bulgaria,” said Emily Yordanova, 2...

People living next to the new airport in the coastal neighborhood of Crown Point, Tobago, spent the last week of November listening to the deafening roar of huge US military planes, which they said arrived in the dead of night.They woke up on November 28 to see a mysterious, large rotating machine pointing towards the sky.One resid...

Britain is rejoining a Europewide student exchange program that it abandoned to the disappointment of many young Europeans in the fractious aftermath of Brexit.The British government said on Wednesday that it would pay approximately 570 million pounds, or about $760 million, to take part in the program in 2027, adding that longer-t...

Two of Britain’s largest police forces announced that they would arrest protesters for using the phrase “globalize the intifada,” saying in a joint statement that a “more assertive” approach was needed after the terrorist attack in Australia and a previous assault on a synagogue in England.Palestinians and their supporters have sai...

When China’s rulers ordered tens of thousands of soldiers to crush pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing in 1989, Gen. Xu Qinxian was the commander who famously said no. He refused to lead his troops into the capital to help clear the protesters in Tiananmen Square by armed force. For decades, the story of his defiance remained m...

The authorities in South Africa said on Wednesday that they had arrested and would deport seven Kenyan nationals who were working illegally at a center processing refugee applications for the United States.President Trump has drastically cut the number of refugees that the United States will accept but has prioritized white Afrikan...

At first, Stephen Samuel thought he was dreaming.He heard voices and banging inside the dormitory at the Catholic school in northwest Nigeria where he is a student, he said. He opened his eyes. A gunman was walking past his bed.Stephen, 18, scrambled under the bed, but it was too late.The gunman forced him outside, where his sister...

Every mourner entering the funeral home in one of Sydney’s oldest Jewish neighborhoods received a sticker that said “Matilda” in purple script, above a smiling bumblebee holding a menorah. A woman in a long, black skirt wiped tears from under her glasses as she placed it on her black blouse.A grandfather, carrying flowers and a can...

When Ueno Zoo in Tokyo announced this week that its most famous residents, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei — twin 4-year-old giant pandas on loan from China — would go home in late January, a frenzy broke out in Japan.Thousands of people descended on the zoo after seeing news alerts warning that Japan would soon be panda-less for the first t...

European Union leaders are convening on Thursday for a meeting that will show whether they can face head-on many of the largest challenges confronting them: an aggressive Russia, an increasingly unfriendly United States, and a costly land war in Ukraine.Officials hope that by the end of the European Council meeting that kicks off T...

A few years ago, Dr. Leah Tatum, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Austin, noticed a shift among her patients.Texas had passed a law in 2021, commonly known as the Heartbeat Act, banning abortion after about six weeks. Soon after, more young, child-free women were coming to her clinic for sterilization surgeries.Dr. Tatum noticed a s...

Let’s get this out of the way: If you’re a regular runner, the best thing you can do to prevent injury is start strength training. Building stronger muscles helps you generate power, provides stability for your joints and improves your mobility, said Vikash Sharma, the owner of Perfect Stride Physical Therapy in New York City.But s...

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said in a hearing on Wednesday that the agency was not independent, stunning Democratic lawmakers concerned that President Trump could use the government office as a tool for censorship.The Republican chair, Brendan Carr, said in an agency oversight hearing by the Senate Commerc...

Gil Gerard, who played television’s hunky sci-fi hero William “Buck” Rogers soon after the Star Wars franchise took hold in the late 1970s, has died. He was 82. Gerard died Tuesday in hospice as a result of a rare, aggressive form of cancer, said his manager, Tina Presley Borek. His wife, Ja...

SpongeBob SquarePants just wants to be a big guy. For our bubble blowing, Bikini Bottom resident (voiced by Tom Kenny ), that means reaching the coveted height of 36 clams tall so that he can finally ride the big roller coaster at Captain Booty Beard’s Fun Park.In the new feature-length movi...

The Netherlands returned a set of prehistoric bones known as “Java Man” — from a species long considered a “missing link” between humans and other apes — to Indonesia on Wednesday, the first in the planned repatriation of about 40,000 fossils removed by the Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois during colonial rule.The parts of the skeleto...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Second Amendment clash has erupted between the federal government and the U.S. Virgin Islands.The U.S. government sued the U.S. territory, its police department and Police Commissioner Mario Brooks on Tuesday, accusing them of obstructing and systematically den...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans rejected a pair of Democratic-backed resolutions Wednesday that would have put a check on President Donald Trump’s power to use military force against drug cartels and the nation of Venezuela.Democrats forced the votes using war powers resolutions as Trump...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorian police said on Wednesday that Mario Pineida, a 33-year-old Barcelona de Guayaquil defender, was shot dead in an apparent attack as violence escalates in the Andean nation. Another person who police did not identify was also killed in the incident, and a third...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off Venezuelan oil sales could devastate a country already wrangling with years of spiraling crises.The prospect added to Venezuelans’ collective anxiety over their country’s future on Wednesday. But after years of politic...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops fired a mortar shell over the ceasefire line into a Palestinian residential area in the Gaza Strip, in the latest incident to rock the tenuous ceasefire with Hamas. Health officials said at least 10 people were wounded, and the army said it was investigating.T...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Veteran defender Thiago Silva ended his stay at Fluminense on Wednesday and reportedly wants a move back to Europe to revive his hopes of playing for Brazil at the World Cup.Fluminense announced the termination of the 41-year-old defender’s contract six months early. He...

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — The fourth Twenty20 match between India and South Africa was called off without a ball being bowled on Wednesday due to excessive fog.The umpires made the decision to abandon the match after several inspections of the ground.India leads the five-match series 2-1 with th...

Kyrgyzstan’s newly elected parliament convened on Wednesday for the first time since a snap election last month cemented the grip of President Sadyr Zhaparov, who has sought to suppress dissent in what was once Central Asia’s most democratic country.Results announced last week showed that no...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has charged more than 200 people with violating the Southeast Asian country’s voting law ahead of a general election at the end of the month, keeping up pressure on opponents of the polls.Critics of the election — which starts on Dec. 28 — claim i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate gave final passage Wednesday to an annual military policy bill that will authorize $901 billion in defense programs while pressuring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide lawmakers with video of strikes on alleged drug boats in international water near Venezu...

A Wisconsin woman who almost killed her sixth-grade classmate to please horror villain Slender Man and then fled a group home won’t fight the state’s attempt to revoke her release privileges. Waukesha County Circuit Judge Scott Wagner signed off on a plan in July to release 23-year-old Morga...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the National Guard deployment in the nation’s capital can continue for now, staying a lower-court ruling that had ordered an end to the troops’ presence.The three-judge panel for U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colum...

An internal watchdog in the U.S. Department of Energy will investigate the Trump administration’s termination of $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects across 16 states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.The move is espe...

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and was forced to reconcile the realities of hi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. senator said Wednesday that she is pausing the nomination for the top Coast Guard job because leaders appeared to have “backtracked” on a commitment to ensure that swastikas and nooses are considered hate symbols and prohibited from being displayed.Sen. Jacky Rosen,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Wednesday that it attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people on the same day the House rejected efforts to limit President Donald Trump’s power to use military force against drug cartels.U.S. Southern...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump demanded Wednesday that Venezuela return assets that it seized from U.S. oil companies years ago, justifying anew his announcement of a “blockade” against oil tankers traveling to or from the South American country that face American sanctions.Trump c...

PARIS (AP) — France’s counterespionage agency is investigating a suspected cyberattack plot targeting an international passenger ferry, authorities said Wednesday.A Latvian crew member is in custody facing charges of having acted for an unidentified foreign power, French officials said. But...

As Greenpeace and the pipeline company Energy Transfer have fought a series of bruising court battles — including one that could bankrupt Greenpeace in the United States — a little-known organization filed what’s known as a “friend-of-the-court” brief with the North Dakota Supreme Court.The organization, Grow America’s Infrastructu...

The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, one of the world’s leading Earth science research institutions.The center, founded in 1960, is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in humanity’s understanding of weather and climate. Its research aircra...

The musical was already one of theater’s biggest success stories. Then came Hollywood.

Roald Dahl probably didn’t have stage adaptation in mind when he published his much-loved children’s story “The BFG” in 1982. The titular “big friendly giant” — an endearingly inarticulate vegetarian who spends his nights dispensing happy dreams to sleeping children through a magical “dream blower” — is 30 feet tall. And his antago...

Authorities are searching for a suspect in the killing of Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a prominent physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was shot at his home near Boston. Loureiro, a married 47-year-old from Portugal, was shot Monday night and died Tuesday at a local hosp...

SEATTLE (AP) — High winds toppled trees and power lines across parts of Washington state and Idaho, killing one adult and critically injuring two children, knocking out power to thousands and compounding the damage already wrought by more than a week of heavy rains and flooding. Wind gusts r...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former University of Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron announced Wednesday that he is ending his campaign for lieutenant governor of Alabama to pursue a sports-related opportunity.McCarron did not disclose the details of the new position but said “football is calling my...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina achieved a goal more than a century in the making on Wednesday when it secured federal recognition as a tribal nation through the passage of a defense bill in Congress.The state-recognized tribe, whose historic and genealogical claims have been called into...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A 33-year-old antitrust lawyer with ties to major Democratic politicians is challenging U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson to represent Mississippi’s 2nd congressional district.Evan Turnage is the latest in a trend of young Democrats looking to oust the party’s old guard and reb...

The countdown is on for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. The torch relay is already underway and some of the top athletes are already making headlines. There are 16 sports in all, including some never seen before, and 116 gold medals are waiting to be awarded.This will be the most spread-o...

For three years, the fate of poor people accused of crimes in San Benito County lay in the hands of attorneys who barely spoke with their clients and seldom filed legal motions on their behalf. While defendants asked them to contest the prosecution’s evidence, to interview witnesses, to do a...

In a rare move that could delay progress on NV Energy’s large-scale transmission line planned for the Highway 50 corridor, the federal Bureau of Land Management has ordered its Nevada office to address some environmental groups’ protests against the project.In May, the BLM’s Nevada State Off...

The lunchroom at Central High School in St. Paul is loud, filled with students talking across the table or waiting in line to buy hot chocolate at student group stands. But it was not always this lively. “Last year it was a very common occurrence to just look over to the side and the entire...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Veteran police officer Jeffery Carroll will take over as interim chief of Washington’s police force, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday, after it was announced earlier this month that the department’s leader was stepping down.Carroll, who joined the Metropolitan Police Depa...

A Democrat is running in every state and federal race on the Texas ballot next year, the first time in modern state history that either party has fielded a full slate of candidates, according to the Texas Democratic Party.The complete field is the result of a recruitment campaign run by a ne...

Even as gun deaths in Hawaii have increased at a rate faster than most states over the past decade, the group meant to bring public health officials and law enforcement together to share and discuss trends hasn’t met in over a year.The Gun Violence and Violent Crimes Commission, created by l...

A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue in Boston was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts “as if they were baubles.”Authorities said Cedric Lodge was at the center of a ghoulish scheme in which he shipped brains, skin, hands and faces to buyer...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two Nevada men were given lengthy prison sentences Tuesday after pleading guilty to the fatal hit-and-run of a man who had been biking alongside a road in Las Vegas. They recorded the collision on video and laughed as they drove off.A judge sentenced 20-year-old Jesus Ayala...

As a search continues for the person behind this weekend’s mass shooting, Brown University was planning to issue early-decision admission offers to applicants Wednesday evening.The Ivy League school delayed the release of the decisions, originally scheduled for Monday, after the shooting lef...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge on Wednesday to set aside her sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence, saying “substantial new evidence” has emerged proving that constitutional v...

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A pilot was taken to the hospital with injuries Wednesday after a small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in southern New Hampshire, authorities said.Emergency crews found the aircraft upside down in a snow bank in the parking lot of a wooded condominium compl...

The U.S. government admitted Wednesday that the actions of an air traffic controller and Army helicopter pilot played a role in causing a collision last January between an airliner and a Black Hawk near the nation’s capital, killing 67 people.It was the deadliest plane crash on American soil...

DETROIT (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked Michigan’s ban on conversion therapy for minors who are LGBTQ+, declaring it violates the First Amendment rights of therapists and counselors.In a 2-1 opinion, the court said the law illegally restricts speech that reflects the mora...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to dissolve a research lab that a top White House official described as “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.″White House budget director Russ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in the nation’s capital has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing policies limiting Congress members’ access to immigration detention facilities.The judge ruled on Wednesday that it is likely illegal for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enf...

Minneapolis’ police chief is criticizing federal immigration agents after a confrontation with protesters and an attempted arrest of a woman in which an officer kneeled on her back as she lay atop a snow bank and then tried to drag her to a car.Tensions have been rising in the Minneapolis-St...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91. Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international re...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The shooting at Brown University on Saturday happened inside an engineering building at the eastern edge of campus, where the Ivy League school blends into a residential neighborhood.Hours before the attack, security camera footage captured a person of interest police...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The investigation into the Brown University mass shooting has dragged on for more than four days with no named suspect, motive, weapon or even a clear image of the assailant’s face that might help bring them to justice. Investigators have been hobbled by the lack of c...

Good morning! Today we have for you:Dip for dinner (specifically hot honey whipped ricotta)Caramelized brussels sprouts pasta with toasted chickpeasAnd a beef tenderloin recipe that proudly, happily gilds the lilyImageAli Slagle’s hot honey whipped ricotta dip.Credit...Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Monic...

On the first night of November this year, shoppers at the Daly City, Calif., location of Seafood City cheerfully sang the introduction to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” As if on cue, the merry band of revelers gathered around a D.J. booth set up in the checkout aisle and broke into the signature up-tempo verse.Th...

How well do you remember what happened in 2025? Test your knowledge with 25 questions about some of the year’s biggest stories.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The instructions on Wednesday were clear: no serious, sad or long faces. And the crowd filing into a gymnasium in Jamaica’s capital largely obliged as they honored reggae giant Jimmy Cliff.“Jimmy didn’t want a sad or somber occasion,” said Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s cu...

CAIRO (AP) — More than 1,600 people have been killed in attacks on medical facilities and health care centers in war-torn Sudan so far this year, the United Nations health chief said Wednesday — the latest daunting statistic in the devastating conflict in the African nation.Tedros Adhanom Gh...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels claimed to have begun a withdrawal from the city of Uvira in eastern Congo late Wednesday night, according the leader of the rebel group and local authorities. Bertrand Bisimwa, leader of the M23, spoke to The Associated Press via telephone and sai...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Africa has been the hardest hit by the Trump administration’s decision to add 20 countries to a list of travel restrictions but reactions on the continent of some 1.5 billion people were largely muted on Wednesday as affected nations mulled the implications of the mea...

Chevrolet versus Ford. Regardless of the vehicle type, car shoppers often find themselves comparing choices from these iconic American brands. And if you’re thinking about buying a new three-row crossover SUV, you could very well end up cross-shopping the 2026 Chevrolet Traverse and 2026 For...

It looked like a turning point in the global fight against scams. Myanmar’s military leadership, under growing international pressure, vowed to wipe out the industrial-scale cyberscam centers that have taken root in the country. They started by raiding and then bombing KK Park — a notorious...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Italy signaled on Wednesday that it might not support a massive transatlantic free trade deal between the European Union and South American countries, casting further doubt on the agreement as European leaders gather for a summit in Brussels and farmers enraged by the trade p...

Nebraska will become the first state to implement new work requirements for some people with Medicaid health insurance under a law President Donald Trump signed last year.Gov. Jim Pillen, a Republican, announced Wednesday that the requirement would take effect in the state May 1 and could im...

The U.S. Treasury asked major philanthropic donors to contribute to new investment accounts for children Wednesday as part of what Secretary Scott Bessent called a “50 State Challenge” to raise funds for the Trump Accounts program. “The president is calling on our nation’s business leaders a...

Connecticut’s largest water company, Aquarion, announced its intention to seek a 42% rate increase after state regulators last month blocked a deal that would have transformed the company into a nonprofit quasi-public entity.The proposed rate hike, worth $88 million annually, would be first...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he has approved a $35 billion natural gas export deal to Egypt, the biggest gas deal in Israeli history. The agreement could also help repair relations between the two countries strained during the two-year war...

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ‘s attempt to shut down an aging oil pipeline running beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes, finding that only the federal government can regulate interstate pipeline safety.Whitmer, a Democrat, ordered regulators...

The Senate moved quickly Wednesday afternoon to close a loophole that could allow military aircraft to fly without broadcasting their locations just like an Army helicopter was doing last January before it collided with an airliner over Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.Just hours after pa...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Republican push to make drilling cheaper on federal land is creating new fiscal pressure for states that depend on oil and gas revenue, most notably in New Mexico as it expands early childhood education and saves for the future.The shift stems from the sweeping law Pr...

The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday it intends to open its “last-mile” delivery network, the most expensive part of the shipping process, to large and small shippers, expanding beyond current arrangements with giants such as Amazon and UPS.The goal is to diversify and boost revenue throug...

MIAMI (AP) — Some oil vessels are diverting away from Venezuela after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened a “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving the South American country, a dramatic escalation in the White House’s pressure campaign on leader Nicolás Maduro.Trump said...

Myanmar’s military government has announced a new “zero tolerance” policy against the industrial-scale cyberscam centers that have taken root in the country. As a sign of commitment, they raided and bombed KK Park — a notorious compound that has become a symbol of impunity in the battle agai...

In a seismic shift for one of television’s marquee events, the Academy Awards will depart ABC and begin streaming on YouTube beginning in 2029, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday.ABC will continue to broadcast the annual ceremony through 2028. That year will...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California regulators are threatening to suspend Tesla’s license to sell its electric cars in the state early next year unless the automaker tones down its marketing tactics for its self-driving features after a judge concluded the Elon Musk-led company has been misleadi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator on Wednesday, placing him atop the agency after a monthslong saga where President Donald Trump revoked his nomination as part of a feud with tech billionaire Elon Musk. Isaacm...

NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Bros. is telling shareholders of the company that it believes a $72 billion buyout offer from Netflix is superior, and to reject a hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skydance. Paramount went hostile with its bid last week, asking shareholders to reject the deal with N...

President Trump announced last week that he would allow China to buy an advanced artificial intelligence chip, the H200, from the American company Nvidia, doubling down on a misguided decision he made over the summer to sell China another advanced chip, the H20. The H200 is about six times as powerful and will be an even greater bo...

New York (AP) — It jolted the winter, came alive in the spring, dominated the summer and went three-times platinum in the fall. Alex Warren’s bombastic ballad “Ordinary” is, by many measures, a defining song of 2025. It’s also an unusual hit: slower than a traditional song of the summer, ful...

Four moderate House Republicans — from swing districts Democrats are already eyeing for next year’s midterms — have broken ranks with Speaker Mike Johnson, signing on to Democrats’ petition to force a vote on extending health care subsidies that expire at the end of this year.From battlegrou...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s top prosecutor said China is suing after the state pressed federal officials for help collecting on a roughly $25 billion court judgment related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway said Tuesday in a news release that China is demand...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Recent remarks about pollution from two Indian officials have increased frustration among residents who say policymakers are unwilling to acknowledge the severity of India’s air quality crisis. When Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav told Parliament earlier this month that...

ImageImageBad Bunny made both Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz’s lists of the year’s best albums.Credit...Erika Santelices/ReutersBy Lindsay ZoladzDear listeners,The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 highlight by either me or my colleague Jon Caramanic...

In a seismic shift for one of television's most marquee events, the Academy Awards will leave ABC and begin streaming on YouTube starting in 2029, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday.ABC will continue to broadcast the annual ceremony through 2028. That year wi...

NEW YORK (AP) — Teen use of alcohol, nicotine and marijuana remains at record lows, according to national survey results released Wednesday.They consume a lot of energy drinks, though. And there are slight, but concerning, increases in heroin and cocaine use.But overall, the findings indicat...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Saturn’s giant moon Titan may not have a vast underground ocean after all.Titan instead may hold deep layers of ice and slush more akin to Earth’s polar seas, with pockets of melted water where life could possibly survive and even thrive, scientists reported Wedne...

The story of Mike and Claire Sardina — a struggling husband-and-wife Neil Diamond tribute act from Milwaukee — was never the stuff of Hollywood movies. Unfortunately, it’s been made into one.Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson are slumming to play the slightly batty couple in the big-hearted but mi...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Knicks will not raise a banner at Madison Square Garden to commemorate their NBA Cup championship, a person with knowledge of the decision said Wednesday.The Knicks do plan to celebrate the title in front of their fans Friday, when they play their first home game...

ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — Football coach Brian Smith was fired Wednesday by Ohio University, which cited “serious professional misconduct.”Smith had been placed on indefinite leave on Dec. 1. The university said it terminated Smith’s contract for cause following an administrative review that found...

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration WASHINGTON (AP) — Four centrist Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhanced pand...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is set to become the latest state to legalize medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill under a deal reached between the governor and state legislative leaders announced Wednesday. Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul plans to sign the proposal next year after pu...

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Police intensified their search Wednesday for a suspect in the killing of professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, two days after he was shot to death at his home outside Boston.Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist,...

A former manager of the morgue at Harvard Medical School who stole body parts that had been donated for research and sold them for thousands of dollars was sentenced on Tuesday to eight years in prison.The former Harvard employee, Cedric Lodge, 58, and his wife, Denise Lodge, 65, stole and sold human remains to several people, who...

India’s exports increased by nearly 20 percent in November year-on-year, the country’s fastest growth in three years, driven primarily by exports to the United States and China.The rise comes at a time when many countries are struggling to protect exports from the impact of steep US tariffs introduced by US President Donald Trump....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change. Now it only mentions natural phenomena, even though scientists calculate that nearly all o...

South Africa has arrested and ordered the deportation of seven Kenyan nationals who were illegally working at a centre processing refugee applications for a highly controversial United States resettlement programme aimed at only white Afrikaners.The arrests on Tuesday in Johannesburg followed intelligence reports that the Kenyans h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Months after President Donald Trump refashioned a West Wing walkway into what he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame, he has added partisan and subjective plaques to the display, deepening his fingerprints on the White House’s aesthetic and continuing his effort to bend the...

The Miami Dolphins are benching Tua Tagovailoa for rookie seventh-round pick Quinn Ewers, a person with knowledge of the quarterback change told The Associated Press on Wednesday.The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team hasn’t announced the switch.Dolphins coach Mike McDan...

In Australia, a father and son gunned down 15 people celebrating a Jewish holiday at the beach. In England, a Syrian-born British citizen rammed a car into people and attacked others with a knife outside a synagogue on Yom Kippur. On Tuesday, the Polish authorities arrested a law student suspected of plotting to attack a Christmas...

Israeli authorities are expected to advance plans to build 9,000 new housing units in an illegal settlement on the site of the abandoned Qalandiya airport in occupied East Jerusalem, in another attempt to cut off Palestinian lands from each other and block any possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state ever emerging.The so-calle...

United States President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, who is known for operating from well behind the scenes, has suddenly come under the media spotlight as candid interviews with Vanity Fair magazine have stirred controversy.In the interviews, Susie Wiles was quoted as describing Trump as having an “alcoholic’s personality”, tech...

Washington, DC – For the past two years, weekdays for Susanna have meant thumbing through picture books, organising cubby holes and leading classroom choruses of songs.But her work as a pre-school teacher came to a screeching halt in October, when she found out her application to renew her work permit had been denied.Recommended St...

John Fogerty has written some of the most instantly recognizable songs in rock ‘n’ roll history. After all, what’s a wedding reception without “Proud Mary” or a Vietnam War film that leaves “Fortunate Son” off the soundtrack? But on a bright, blustery November day in Manhattan, the question was not whether anyone could recognize th...

There are four minutes of Ravel that I hope I never get over.“Le Jardin Féerique,” usually translated as the enchanted or fairy garden, barely breathes into life as the apotheosis of the childhood stories that Ravel gathered under the title “Ma Mère l’Oye,” or “Mother Goose.” Ravel wrote nothing more magical, and perhaps nothing so...

This summer, a group of executives pitched a business plan to Anthony Scaramucci, the Wall Street financier and short-lived adviser to President Trump.They wanted Mr. Scaramucci to join a publicly traded company with a peculiar strategy: accumulating enormous quantities of cryptocurrency to make its business more appealing to inves...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s information minister said Wednesday that his country has been the victim of a coordinated online disinformation campaign following the mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach.Attaullah Tarar accused “hostile countries,” including India, of spreading false claims...

ArtThis genteel comedy by the French playwright Yasmina Reza (“God of Carnage”) has always been a magnet for boldface-name casts, and this revival is no exception. Neil Patrick Harris plays Serge, a dermatologist whose purchase of an exorbitantly expensive white-on-white painting becomes a point of conflict among him and his old fr...

On a recent night at the Savoy Theater in London, the 1,100-capacity audience burst into applause when a crowd of actors rushed into the wings, leaving a tiny figure alone onstage.It was a 4-foot-tall bear from Peru with a sign around his neck asking someone to “please look after” him.As the set behind him transformed into a bustli...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will order a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” headed to Venezuela, increasing pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with a move that appears designed to further suffocate the South American country's economy.The...

There’s a lot of luck involved in traveling to the Big Island of Hawaii to see a volcanic eruption. When Kilauea blew in early October, with lava spewing up to 1,300 feet in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, viewing it at night, from a campsite some 30 miles away, was the second-best thing about taking an off-the-grid approach to tou...

It was one of the year’s biggest stories — the selection of the first American pope — and an Associated Press journalist was interviewing the pope’s brother at his home in suburban Chicago. Suddenly, they heard a ringing coming from the basement. “That might be the pope,” the new pontiff’s b...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — At the movies this fall, Josh O’Connor plays a hot priest with a complicated past, Keanu Reeves is an angel who lost his wings and Elizabeth Olsen has a romantic dilemma in the afterlife.Hollywood, it seems, has found God.But it’s not just starry big-budget Netflix films o...

Republicans criticized the Biden administration for years for allowing Chevron to export oil from Venezuela, arguing that it helped finance President Nicolás Maduro’s totalitarian and corrupt government.After returning to power, President Trump halted and then changed the terms of Chevron’s operations in Venezuela, contending that...

Consumers already tapped out from rising home energy costs face yet another strain on their pocketbooks — surging heating costs.Higher electricity and natural gas prices coupled with forecasts for unusually cold temperatures across parts of the country are expected to drive up bills as winter takes hold. The average U.S. household...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith is set for a closed-door interview with House Republicans on Wednesday after lawmakers rebuffed his offer to testify publicly about his investigations into President Donald Trump.The private deposition is part of an ongoi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump intends to preview his agenda for next year and beyond in a live speech from the White House on Wednesday night. His remarks are coming at a crucial time as he tries to rebuild his steadily eroding popularity.The White House offered few details about...

LONDON (AP) — The Duke of Marlborough, a British aristocrat with a troubled past, has been charged with choking someone, police said Wednesday.Charles James Spencer-Churchill, 70, was ordered to appear Thursday in Oxford Magistrates’ Court on three counts of nonfatal intentional strangulatio...

BADALONA, Spain (AP) — Police in northeastern Spain carried out eviction orders Wednesday to clear an abandoned school building where around 400 mostly undocumented migrants were living in a squat north of Barcelona.Knowing that the eviction in the middle of winter was coming, most of the oc...

LONDON (AP) — Britain will rejoin the European Union’s flagship Erasmus student-exchange program, it was announced Wednesday, in a major step for efforts to reset the U.K.'s post-Brexit relations with the 27-nation bloc.British university and college students and apprentices will be able to...

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Moscow will seek to extend its gains in Ukraine if Kyiv and its Western allies reject the Kremlin’s demands in peace talks.U.S. President Donald Trump has unleashed an extensive diplomatic push to end nearly four years of fighting follow...

PARIS (AP) — The ongoing strike at the Louvre is no longer just a labor dispute. It has become a test of how securely, credibly and competently the world’s most visited museum is being run.Behind the walkout are not only frayed labor relations, but a building itself under strain, with crumbl...

PARIS (AP) — Employees at the Louvre Museum voted to extend a strike that has disrupted operations at the world’s most visited museum, though the attraction partially opened Wednesday to allow visitors to enjoy the “Mona Lisa” and other highlights.The museum said that visitors have started e...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are about to attempt something they’ve never tried before. The chances of failure are significant. Their actions this week could set dangerous precedents and a wrong move could undermine trust among the bloc’s 27 member countries for years to come.At a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Welcome to exhausted America 2025: Most adults are more than a little fine with doling out cash as gifts, and many plan to be asleep before midnight on New Year’s Eve, according to a new AP-NORC poll.About 6 in 10 Americans say cash or gift cards are “very” acceptable as holi...

NEW YORK (AP) — Mega billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, former news anchor Lauren Sánchez Bezos, are awarding $5 million to the founder of a neurodivergent student support network, a recognition that the lesser-known recipient credits to the students powering his fast-growin...

NEW YORK (AP) — The founder of Tricolor Holdings and other executives of the subprime auto lender were charged Wednesday with what federal authorities say was a massive fraud that led the company into bankruptcy.Daniel Chu, the company’s founder and chief executive, was charged in an indictm...

LONDON (AP) — Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has been given a final chance to turn over the 2.5 billion pounds ($3.25 billion) that he promised to give victims of Russia’s war in Ukraine from the sale of Premier League club Chelsea, the British government said Wednesday.Abramovich was...

WASHINGTON (AP) — China is exploiting partnerships with U.S. researchers funded by the Department of Energy to provide the Chinese military with access to sensitive nuclear technology and other innovations with economic and national security applications, according to a congressional report...

NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Bros. is telling shareholders to reject a takeover bid from Paramount Skydance, saying that a rival bid from Netflix will be better for customers. “Today the Warner Bros. Discovery Board sent a clear message to you, their stockholders,” the company said in a letter to...

Thomas Paine published “Common Sense,” in January 1776, to help persuade the 13 British colonies to leave monarchy behind and declare independence, as they did the following July. Two hundred and fifty years later, Paine’s fiery pamphlet remains as relevant as ever. Last spring and this fall, demonstrators protesting the actions of...

FURIOUS MINDS: The Making of the MAGA New Right, by Laura K. FieldLaura K. Field has been writing about the intellectuals of what she calls the MAGA New Right since 2019, and when she tells people about her beat, the responses are often incredulous: “Trumpy intellectuals? Now that’s an oxymoron!” or “Hahaha, I think you mean dumb f...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The Indian prime minister called for a strategic relationship with Ethiopia Wednesday during his first visit to the country, one of Africa’s most populous.“The Global South is writing its own destiny, and India and Ethiopia share a vision for it,” Prime Minister...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African immigration authorities raided a United States refugee processing center in Johannesburg and seven Kenyans working there illegally were arrested and given deportation orders, South Africa’s Home Affairs Ministry said Wednesday, as the U.S. called the action...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Like many Australians strolling along Bondi Beach on long, warm summer nights, Ahmed al Ahmed just wanted a cup of coffee with a friend. Around him, a massacre broke out when two gunmen attacked Jews during the Hanukkah festivities in a park near the coast.Soon...

The Sudanese paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have carried out a systematic, weeks-long campaign to erase evidence of mass killings in the city of el-Fasher, according to a recent report released by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL).“RSF’s mass killing campaign targeted civilians at...

Fifteen years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor whose cart was confiscated by the police, set himself on fire to protest against police harassment and the authorities’ neglect.His act of desperation triggered nationwide protests by millions facing a crushing reality of increased unemployment,...

At least 104 civilians have been killed in drone attacks across Sudan’s Kordofan region as fighting between rival military factions reached deadly new heights in the brutal civil war deep into its third year.The attacks have battered the central region since early December, right up to Friday, following the capture of a significant...

Rescuers save six Palestinians, including two children, in Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp after family home collapses.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Plans to “carry out an attack” in New Orleans were thwarted after an ex-Marine was arrested while on the way to the Louisiana city with guns and body armor in the car, according to court documents obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. Micah James Legnon, 28, was c...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities have asked the public for any footage they might have of the gunman who fatally shot two students and wounded nine others at Brown University, even as they released a new video timeline and a slightly clearer image of a possible suspect. Investigators prov...

Employers added 64,000 jobs in November, according to data delayed by the government shutdown. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.6 percent, the highest level in four years.

The number of video podcasts set to flood Netflix next year is growing.On Tuesday, the streaming giant announced a partnership with iHeartMedia, furthering its long-awaited push into podcasting — and yanking a few more shows off YouTube, its rival in the modern entertainment wars.Under the deal, at least 15 podcasts produced by iHe...

On a recent Monday, Dougal Keith drove an electric car out of his dealership’s showroom in Leeds, in northern England, and hit the accelerator.The car, a Chinese-made BYD Seal Excellence, can reach 60 miles per hour in 3.8 seconds — a key selling point. Another is the price tag, about 48,000 pounds ($64,400), which is 20 percent ch...

Jared Kushner’s private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is no longer participating in a bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, a spokesman for the firm said Tuesday.Affinity Partners emerged as a small investor in Paramount’s roughly $108 billion offer, which Warner Bros. Discovery has rejected in favor of a deal with Netflix. Para...

The star of “The Housemaid” and “The Testament of Ann Lee” met up with Melissa Clark in the New York Times kitchen studio for a lesson in soup.

Q: My rosacea flare-ups have gotten more intense in my 40s. Why is that, and what can I do about it?If you have rosacea, you might notice that by the time you reach your 40s or 50s, your symptoms have gotten worse, said Dr. Julie C. Harper, a dermatologist in Birmingham, Ala.Frequent flushing, acne-like breakouts and dilated blood...

In bars and ballrooms all around the country, young conservative women are gathering. They are toasting to a future that seems gauzy, protein-rich and pressure-free. Surrounded by disco balls in a D.C. bistro, they sipped drinks called “God and Country.” Under technicolor lights at a Dallas resort, they clipped on pins that read: “...

A Palestinian infant has frozen to death in the Gaza Strip, local authorities say, as Israel continues to restrict the entry of shelter supplies and other humanitarian aid to the enclave despite the harsh winter conditions there.The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Tuesday that the two-week-old baby, Mohammed Khalil A...

The United Kingdom is launching an independent investigation into foreign interference in British politics, just weeks after a former Reform UK lawmaker was jailed for more than 10 years for taking bribes to make pro-Russia statements.Steve Reed, the UK’s secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, said on Tue...

Russia has labelled Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) an “undesirable organisation”, essentially banning its operation in the country.The designation appeared in a Ministry of Justice register on Tuesday after Vasily Piskarev, head of the Russian parliament’s Commission for the Investigation of Foreign Interfe...

Thousands of people have rallied across Slovakia to protest against changes to the judicial system that opposition politicians and critics say are destroying the rule of law, Slovak media reported.Protesters filled much of a central square in the capital of Bratislava, and there were protests in eight other cities on Tuesday.Recomm...

Here is where things stand on Wednesday, December 17:Fighting Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital and warned people to stay in shelters late on Tuesday night as air defences worked to repel a Russian attack. Russian forces launched a “massive” drone attack on Ukraine’s Sumy region, targe...

US President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that an agreement to end Russia’s nearly four-year war against Ukraine is “closer than ever” after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks with several European leaders and US diplomats in the German capital, Berlin.During the two days of high-level talks in Berlin, diplomats d...

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has suggested that the United States military’s attacks on alleged drug boats around Latin America aim to ultimately topple Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.In comments published by Vanity Fair magazine on Tuesday, Wiles appeared to contradict the Donald Trump administration’s stated ration...

Israel has denied entry to a group of Canadian lawmakers who were seeking to reach the occupied West Bank to hold talks with Palestinian officials and human rights advocates, Canadian civil society groups say.Six members of Canada’s Parliament were trying to reach the West Bank from neighbouring Jordan when the Israeli authorities...