Bogota, Colombia – The United States Department of State has designated Colombia’s largest criminal group, the Gaitanist Army of Colombia (EGC), a “terrorist organisation”.The EGC, also referred to as the Clan del Golfo, has a presence across Colombia and is known for its involvement in drug trafficking, illegal mining, and extorti...

A Muslim American group has sued Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for designating it a “foreign terrorist organisation”, accusing the right-wing politician of violating its free speech rights over its Palestine advocacy.The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its Florida chapter filed the lawsuit in federal court on Tuesd...

United States President Donald Trump has added five countries to the list of nations whose citizens are banned from entering the US, including Palestine and Syria.The White House announced the expansion of the ban on Tuesday, as it intensifies its crackdown on immigration.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Israel denies...

A Canadian lawmaker who was denied entry to the occupied West Bank, alongside fellow politicians and civil society leaders, has dismissed Israel’s claims that the delegation posed a threat to public safety.Jenny Kwan, a Canadian MP with the left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP), questioned whether Canada’s recognition of an indep...

United States President Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all US-sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Tuesday eveni...

US President Donald Trump said he was standing by his White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, after Vanity Fair magazine published interviews in which Wiles revealed internal tensions in Trump’s administration and painted an unflattering picture of the roles played by some of the president’s inner circle.Trump, who regularly descr...

NEW YORK (AP) — Long before the rise of podcast dramas, listeners worldwide tuned in to the audio-only narratives of radio plays. Tom Stoppard and Arthur Miller were among the many playwrights who early in their careers completed brief pieces for radio, while such memorable dramas as Harold...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rob Reiner’s son Nick Reiner is expected to make his first court appearance Wednesday on two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents. Nick Reiner, 32, was charged Tuesday with killing the 78-year-old actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele S...

While a Sydney shopowner is being hailed as a hero after disarming one of the gunmen shooting at a Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, a couple and another man who died after physically confronting the attackers are also being remembered for their heroic efforts to save those around them.Reuven Morrison, 62, was shot dead...

Military-ruled Myanmar has said the country’s jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is “in good health” amid concerns about the health of the pro-democracy leader who was removed from power by a coup in 2021.“Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is in good health,” a statement posted on the military-run Myanmar Digital News said on Tu...

Australian authorities say they have charged a man who opened fire on a Jewish Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, killing 15 people, with “terrorism” and murder charges, as mourners gathered to begin funerals for the victims.Police and local courts said on Wednesday that 59 charges are being introduced after the deadly s...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ideal model for St. Peter if he ever needed to paint the first pope.Seven years on, the man’s likeness has gone on display in the Vatican, a reunion o...

The former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the theft and sale of body parts, taken from cadavers that had been donated for medical research.Cedric Lodge, who managed the morgue for more than two decades before being arrested in 2023, was given an eight-year sentence by a...

The U.S. military campaign in Latin America is ratcheting up pressure on Colombia, a major nexus of the region’s drug trade, as tensions simmer between President Trump and Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro.In one of the deadliest days since the campaign began in September, the U.S. military destroyed three boats on Monday in the...

The attack on a Jewish celebration in Sydney was motivated by “Islamic State ideology,” Australia’s prime minister said on Tuesday as the authorities investigated whether a visit to the southern Philippines last month by the two suspected gunmen had any connection to the mass shooting.The police found two homemade Islamic State fla...

ImageA memorial at Bondi Beach yesterday. Credit...Matthew Abbott for The New York TimesThe persistent ISIS threatAfter the shooting that killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach last weekend, Australia’s prime minister revealed what investigators had learned so far about the shooters’ motivations: They were driven...

A team of marine mammal experts had spent several days in Cowichan Bay, British Columbia, searching for a sea lion with an orange rope wrapped around its neck. As the sun set on Dec. 8, they were packing up, for good, when a call came in.The tangled animal, a female Steller sea lion weighing 330 pounds, had been spotted on a dock i...

Hundreds of Louvre Museum employees went on strike on Monday, prompting its temporary closure and aggravating a sense of crisis that began in October with the theft of crown jewels valued at some 100 million dollars.Crowds of workers blocked the museum's pyramid entrance Monday morning, after about 400 of the museum's 2,100 employe...

It was the kind of Sunday afternoon treasured by Sydneysiders who call Bondi Beach: groups of friends lying on the sand, surfers in soaked wetsuits returning to land, children Laughing people laugh against the backdrop of soft crashing waves.In a grassy park, with a playground at one end of the beach, a long-standing tradition was...

The Nobel Peace Prize winner made her presentation via live video at a business conference in Miami attended by American executives and politicians, including President Donald Trump.“I'm talking about a $1.7 trillion opportunity,” María Corina Machado, main leader of the opposition in Venezuela, weeks after the peace prize was anno...

Canadian linguists and editors are not pleased.Words using British spellings have suddenly appeared in documents published by the Canadian government.Gone was the “ize” construction standard in Canadian English in favor of the “ise” spelling used in British English. So “emphasize” became “emphasise,” and “trade liberalization” beca...

Rushing to catch their after-work trains on Tuesday, commuters at one of Rome’s newest subway stations could peer at the remains of thermal baths damaged by the great fire of 64 A.D., peruse fragments of ancient stone wells and pause before a display of marble decorations erected there by ancient Roman architects.Welcome to the Col...

A 15-year old student killed a 10-year-old on Tuesday in a knife attack at a school in the Moscow area.The attacker also stabbed a security guard and a staff member, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee. The attacker pleaded guilty, Olga Vradiy, a representative for the committee was quoted as saying by Russia’s state news...

For more than a year, the effort to push budget legislation through the divided French Parliament has contributed to one of the most turbulent phases in French politics in half a century. Three successive prime ministers have fallen since last December — including the current prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, who stepped down in O...

The U.S.-European peace plan to deter future Russian attacks on Ukraine calls for a more robust Ukrainian military, the deployment of European forces inside the country and increased use of American intelligence, according to officials familiar with drafts that detail the proposal.American and European diplomats meeting with Ukrain...

The people who live beside the new airport in the coastal Crown Point neighborhood of Tobago spent the last week of November listening to the deafening rumble of enormous U.S. military jets, which they said arrived in the dead of night.They woke on Nov. 28 to see a mysterious large rotating machine pointed at the sky.One resident w...

Seven days after President Trump delivered an economic address in Pennsylvania, Vice President JD Vance visited the state on Tuesday to give a remixed version of the speech his boss had given.Whereas the president’s remarks had been long (90 minutes) and meandering (“I love the weave, the weave! You know what the weave is?”), the v...

President Trump on Tuesday expanded travel restrictions to include 20 more countries, just weeks after he promised to do so when authorities arrested an Afghan national in the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington.The revised policy, which takes effect on Jan. 1, fully blocks travel for individuals from five additiona...

The Trump administration told a federal judge on Tuesday that it would submit plans for a new White House ballroom to be built in place of the East Wing to two federal oversight entities for review by the end of the month.With that pledge in hand, Judge Richard J. Leon said he would refrain from ordering construction on the ballroo...

It was Sunday afternoon when a massage therapist arrived at the white-gated home in the affluent enclave of Brentwood for a scheduled appointment with Rob and Michele Singer Reiner. The couple was scheduled to have dinner with Barack and Michelle Obama and others in just a few hours.Getting no answer at the gate, the massage therap...

Nick Reiner, the younger son of the celebrated Hollywood director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, faces two counts of first-degree murder in the death of his parents. In California, a single conviction on that charge typically carries a maximum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years.But Mr. R...

Norman Podhoretz, the longtime editor of Commentary magazine and a lion of neoconservatism, whose intellectual odyssey took him from embracing the left to condemning a world order that in his eyes had become spineless in the face of Soviet expansionism and, later, Islamist militancy, died in Manhattan on Tuesday. He was 95.His son,...

Early on Sunday, more than 13 hours after they had scrambled to safety in basements and dorm rooms, Brown University students received reassuring news.The police had detained someone — a person of interest, they called him — in connection with the campus shooting that killed two students and wounded nine others on Saturday afternoo...

More than three days after a fatal shooting at Brown University, officials in Rhode Island released additional video of the man they believe carried out the deadly attack. But they appeared no closer to determining the killer’s name, motive or whereabouts.“We don’t yet know who we’re looking for,” Peter F. Neronha, the state’s atto...

The number of Black students entering many of the nation’s most elite law schools declined this year, according to data released on Monday by the American Bar Association.The drops, including at the University of Virginia and Northwestern University, continue a trend that began in fall 2024 after the U.S. Supreme Court banned the u...

A rebel militia backed by Rwanda announced on Tuesday that it was withdrawing from the city of Uvira in the Democratic Republic of Congo after what it said was a request from the United States.In a statement, the militia, M23, said the withdrawal was intended to give ongoing peace talks with the Congolese government in Doha, Qatar,...

In a cave thousands of years ago, giant owls scarfed down the spoils from their hunts. With eyes that were apparently bigger than their stomachs, the owls regurgitated bone-rich pellets onto the cave floor.In the process, the birds were unwittingly helping the bees. Scientists analyzing fossils from the cave, in what is now the Dom...

ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — Volunteers gripping flashlights waved them high above their heads when the clock struck 8 p.m., shining beams through the frigid night sky — and into the hospital’s windows.Exactly 10 minutes later, the enthusiastic crowd, still holding their flashlights aloft, in uni...

When a measles outbreak hit West Texas earlier this year, school absences surged to levels far beyond the number of children who likely became sick, according to a study, as students were excluded or kept home by their families to minimize the spread of the disease. Absences in Seminole Inde...

The world could lose thousands of glaciers each year over the coming decades unless global warming is curbed, leaving only a fraction remaining by the end of the century, scientists warn.A scientific study published on Monday in Nature Climate Change warned that unless governments take action now, the planet could reach a stage of...

A new report has found unprecedented temperature rises and significant loss of snow and ice in the Arctic, a region now described as “warming far faster than the rest of the planet”.The annual Arctic Report Card published by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Tuesday found that surface air temperatures...

A private equity firm owned by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is no longer backing Paramount’s hostile acquisition bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the firm confirmed Tuesday.Days after Warner agreed to be bought by Netflix in early December, Paramount launched a rival bi...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Fernando Moreno has been on dialysis for about two years, enduring an “unbearable” wait for a new kidney to save his life. His limited world of social contacts has meant that his hopes have hinged on inching up the national waiting list for a transplant.That was until...

KAKAMEGA, Kenya (AP) — It’s match day in western Kenya’s Kakamega County, locally known as the home of bullfighting, where two bulls are brought to face off in a dusty arena as thousands cheer.The derby is a rematch between a relative newcomer bull Shakahola, named after the forest where mor...

A new poll suggests that the number of people in the United States who approve of the job Donald Trump is doing as president has dropped to 39 percent as concerns grow over the state of the economy.The poll released by Reuters/Ipsos on Tuesday indicated Trump’s approval rating is down about 2 points from 41 percent earlier this mon...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The proposed $85 billion merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads has lost the support of two of their biggest unions that represent more than half the workers because they are worried the deal would increase safety risks, lead to higher shipping rates and co...

NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Podhoretz, the boastful, hard-line editor and author whose books, essays and stewardship of Commentary magazine marked a political and deeply personal break from the left and made him a leader of the neo-conservative movement, has died. He was 95.Podhoretz died “peacef...

ATLANTA (AP) — After more than a year of legal maneuvering, Fani Willis will face questions Wednesday from a Georgia state Senate committee over her prosecution of Donald Trump.The question is whether Fulton County’s Democratic district attorney will answer any of them.The Republican-dominat...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr will face Senate questioning Wednesday for the first time since he pressured broadcasters to take ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air, a stance that drew bipartisan criticism and raised concerns about governme...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will undertake one of the most solemn duties facing the commander in chief on Wednesday when he will witness the dignified transfer for two Iowa National Guard members killed in an attack in the Syrian desert.The ritual at Dover Air Force Base in Dela...

Lucknow, India – Harshit Verma believes his 50-year-old father, Vijay Kumar Verma, died because he was handling an “inhuman task”.Vijay, a contractual government teacher in Lucknow, the capital of India’s Uttar Pradesh state, was hired as a booth-level officer (BLO) to conduct a revision of the voter list in his constituency, as pa...

Australia’s prime minister blamed “Islamic State ideology” on Tuesday for motivating a father and son accused of killing at least 15 people at a Jewish holiday event in Sydney’s Bondi Beach this week.Hours later, he made a hospital visit to Ahmed el Ahmed, a Syrian immigrant who has become a national hero for grabbing a gun from on...

Ruth Kiew, a British-born, Cambridge-trained botanist who walked through remote tropical forests and climbed steep cliffs in her adopted country of Malaysia to discover and name scores of rare plant species, died on Nov. 20 in Kuala Lumpur, the capital. She was 79.Her death, in a hospital, from cancer, was in a Facebook post by th...

India’s counterterrorism agency on Monday charged militant groups based in Pakistan and six individuals in the terror attack in Kashmir that killed 26 people in April and ignited the most expansive fighting in decades between the South Asian rivals.The charges echoed recent public accusations by Indian officials that Pakistan spons...

President Trump on Tuesday ordered a “complete blockade” on sanctioned oil tankers going to and from Venezuela, an escalation of his administration’s monthslong pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela.“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,”...

Robots made by Chinese start-ups have danced on television, staged boxing matches and run marathons. When one company debuted its most recent robot last month, people online in China thought it looked so much like a human that workers cut the robot’s leg open onstage to reveal its metal pistons.Despite the public fascination, conce...

When the hotels and beach clubs were built to lure tourists to this beautiful, haunted isle, the bones emerged, white and smooth.On one stretch of palm-fringed coast on the Indonesian island of Bali, construction for a five-star resort in the 1990s unearthed enough bones to fill half a pickup truck, said the Hindu priest called in...

The surviving suspect in the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney was charged on Wednesday with murder, terrorism and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to murder, the police said.The shooting at a beachside Hanukkah celebration on Sunday left 15 people dead, including a 10-year-old girl and a Holocaust survivor who was a g...

Hundreds of mourners streamed into the Chabad of Bondi synagogue on Wednesday morning, some wiping away tears or audibly sobbing. Guarded by dozens of police officers, they filled the synagogue to capacity; dozens more waited outside.They had gathered to honor Eli Schlanger, one of the 15 people who were killed when two gunmen open...

Penguins throughout the southern seas have to worry about being picked off by seals or hunted by orcas. On land, they can find safety in numbers. But in the Patagonia region of Argentina, the flightless seabirds are becoming snacks for an unexpected land predator: pumas.New research, published Wednesday in the journal Proceedings o...

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Working at the Federal Reserve is a terrible way to make headlines. The chair — in this case, Jerome Powell, whose term expires in May — is considered newsworthy, but the other 11 members of the voting committee fade into the background. Lately, however, they have been getting restive. When the Fed decided last week to cut rates, t...

Why are young conservatives so radicalized? Why is there such a stark generation gap, something you hear about any time you talk to any Republican of any prominence, between the basically optimistic assumptions of late-middle-aged conservatives and the black-pilled doomers born after the Reagan era?There are a lot of stories you ca...

Eli Schlanger was the kind of rabbi who would come to my house to tell me crazy stories full of chance and coincidence. They usually ended with him in a remote Australian prison, reciting psalms with an unexpectedly Jewish inmate or arranging a circumcision to fulfill the final wish of a dying man. He saw the divine hand in everyth...

Though I tend to think it’s usually a waste of space to devote a column to President Trump’s personality — what more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.Markets will not...

In this case, I prefer to trust my feelings more than my memory. The only thing I’m positive about is how I felt when I heard Rob Reiner was dead: a combination of sadness and disbelief. As for the rest … Robert Stone had it right when he said “the mind is a monkey.”I think I saw “Stand by Me” in the fall of 1985. Back then it was...

General Augusto Pinochet, the strongman who imposed a reign of terror on Chile from 1973 to 1990, must be smiling in his grave.His brazen defender and admirer José Antonio Kast has just been elected president of Chile. Mr. Kast, a right-wing politician who has praised the military dictatorship and once said that if Mr. Pinochet wer...

The critics have had their say. Now it’s your turn. What movies released in 2025 do you consider the best?

The title character of Molière’s “Tartuffe” benefits from one of the greatest buildups in theater. Long before he appears, the members of a wealthy bourgeois household can’t stop picking on Tartuffe, accusing him of being a sanctimonious, lecherous con man who has somehow mesmerized the family patriarch into besotted subservience....

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.‘Future Former Chief of Staff’Vanity Fair published a revealing report on Tuesday, featuring interviews with President Trump’s top advisers.Jimmy Ki...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released shortlists in 12 categories on Tuesday, and “Sinners,” Ryan Coogler’s tale of vampires in the Jim Crow South, and “Wicked: For Good,” the follow-up to last year’s smash, both made strong showings, appearing in eight of the categories, including the new casting one.“One Battle...

A doctor who illegally obtained ketamine as part of a scheme to sell it to Matthew Perry for a sharp profit before the actor’s death was sentenced in federal court in Los Angeles on Tuesday to three years of supervised release, including eight months of home detention.The doctor, Mark Chavez, pleaded guilty last year to one count o...

Rob Reiner, the celebrated Hollywood actor and director, and his wife, the producer and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, had tried everything they could think of to help their son Nick Reiner overcome his struggles with drug addiction.For years, the younger Reiner had been caught in an endless loop of drug abuse, rehab and relap...

Few movies take possession of you like “This Is Spinal Tap,” the delightful shaggy-haired 1984 rock-n-roll parody that turned Rob Reiner into a filmmaker. The movie, about a ridiculous group of heavy-metal rockers, didn’t set the world or entertainment industry on fire on its release. Yet it kick-started an unlikely career that rap...

UKHIYA, Bangladesh (AP) — The United States’ decision to slash its foreign aid program has contributed to a sharp rise in abuses involving children trapped in Bangladesh’s refugee camps for members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority, The Associated Press found.In interviews with 37 ch...

BANGKOK (AP) — Japan’s exports climbed 6% in November from a year earlier, with shipments to the United States rising for the first time since March as uncertainties over tariffs abated following a trade deal with the Trump administration.The preliminary data released Wednesday showed Japan’...

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares advanced on Wednesday as strong buying of technology shares helped lift some benchmarks, while oil prices surged more than 1% after President Donald Trump ordered a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela.Trump’s move followed the seizure by U.S. f...

UKHIYA, Bangladesh (AP) — In moments when she is alone, when there is a break in the beatings from her husband, the girl cries for the school that was once her place of peace in a world that has otherwise offered her none.Ever since the military in her homeland of Myanmar killed her father i...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The southern Philippines once drew small numbers of foreign militants aligned with al-Qaida or the Islamic State group to train in a secessionist conflict involving minority Muslims in the largely Catholic nation.That backdrop prompted an investigation this week by...

SYDNEY (AP) — An accused gunman in Sydney’s Bondi Beach massacre was charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder on Wednesday, as hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney to begin funerals for the victims.Two shooters slaughtered 15 people on Sunday in an antisemitic mass shooting...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump's low-key but influential chief of staff, criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and offered an unvarnished view of her boss and his inner circle in a series of observations published Tuesday in Vanit...

COURCHEVEL, France (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin isn’t just winning every slalom of the Olympic season. She’s winning them by an average of more than 1.5 seconds — an eternity in ski racing.The American skiing standout claimed a record-extending 105th World Cup victory after several of her top cha...

U.S. officials excoriated the European Union for discriminating against American technology companies and threatened to penalize European tech companies in return, in on Tuesday.The pronouncement appeared to signal a rockier period for U.S.-E.U. trade relations, as the two governments work to finalize a trade framework they announ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Christine Baranski was in the playground outside St. Matthew’s Church in Bedford, New York, about three years ago when she came across Matthew Guard, artistic director of the Grammy-nominated Skylark Vocal Ensemble.“I love choral music,” she told him.An Emmy- and Tony-Award w...

A pair of mini-toothbrushes. A set of kids’ socks, fresh from the dryer. It’s often the tiniest things in the debris field of a failed relationship that trigger the most pain.Bradley Cooper clearly believes this, and repeatedly goes for the smaller-scale choice in “Is This Thing On?,” his th...

If you want to gauge the health of California’s economy, start with its community colleges. “When the economy is doing well, our enrollments are down, and when the economy is in a tough stretch or in a recession, we see our enrollments go up,” said Chris Ferguson, an executive vice chancello...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A doctor who pleaded guilty in a scheme to supply ketamine to actor Matthew Perry before his overdose death was sentenced Tuesday to 8 months of home confinement.Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence that included 3 years of supervised release to 55-year-ol...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has sued the utility company whose downed power lines sparked the largest wildfire in state history, a deadly blaze that destroyed homes and livestock and charred miles of landscape, causing more than $1 billion in damage.The lawsuit filed Tuesday by state Attorney...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Members of a secretive California religious group have been charged with murder in the deaths of a man who disappeared in 2023 and a child who died in 2010.Shelley “Kat” Martin, 62, who was described as a leader and “prophetess” of His Way Spirit Led Assemblies,...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ public transit systems got a $1.5 billion annual infusion on Friday as Gov. JB Pritzker signed a law overhauling Chicago’s web of buses and trains, sparing it from devastating service cuts and pledging upgraded performance and accountability. Dozens of gove...

To those who argue that the U.S. penny had no value: some coin collectors beg to differ. In fact, they doled out millions for the final pennies circulated in the U.S. before the government ended the cent’s production back in November.The U.S. Mint sold 232 three-cent sets for a whopping sum...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Kay Flock was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for a series of shootings in his Bronx neighborhood, derailing a music career that was just taking off before his 2021 arrest. The 22-year-old rapper, whose real name is Kevin Perez, was sentenced by U.S. District J...

A woman who allegedly pushed razor blades into loaves of bread at two Biloxi, Mississippi, Walmart stores was arrested on Tuesday. Camille Benson, 33, of Texas, has been charged with attempted mayhem. Her bond is set at $100,000.Customers reported finding the razor blades at a Walmart Superc...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — It is critical for the NBA to be perceived as having integrity, Commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday, adding that the gambling scandals that led to the arrests of Miami guard Terry Rozier, Portland coach Chauncey Billups and others are being taken with the utmost seriousnes...

The full statement about the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner by several of their close friends.The statement was released Tuesday to The Associated Press.It is signed by Billy and Janice Crystal, Albert and Kimberly Brooks, Martin Short, Alan and Robin Zweibel, Larry David and Ashley Underw...

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...

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge said Tuesday he’s optimistic that a pretrial hearing will end this week in Luigi Mangione’s New York murder case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.“Hopefully we wind up on Thursday,” Judge Gregory Carro said at the hearing, which is in its third we...

A makeshift shrine of flowers and condolence cards has gone up outside of the Brown University building where a gunman killed two students and wounded nine others, with the Ivy League school and surrounding community trying to make sense of the tragedy.As investigators pursue clues about the...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica’s legislature on Tuesday blocked an effort by the country’s electoral authority to make President Rodrigo Chaves face charges that he has been using his power to meddle in upcoming elections.The legislature rejected a request by the Supreme Electoral Tr...

SAO PAULO (AP) — A renowned Brazilian Catholic priest confirmed Tuesday that he was ordered by Sao Paulo’s archbishop to stop broadcasting his services and avoid social media postings all-together, following attacks from right-wing figures who denounce his actions as leftist.With 2.3 million...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday designated another Latin American drug cartel as a foreign terrorist organization, increasing financial pressure on its members and opening the door to potential military action against them.The U.S. State Department said Clan del G...

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Israel on Tuesday blocked a private Canadian delegation that included six members of Parliament from entering the occupied West Bank.The Israeli Embassy in Canada said the group was denied entry because of its links to Islamic Relief Worldwide, a nongovernmental organi...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was taken to a hospital emergency room twice after her arrest last week by Iranian security forces, her family said Tuesday, following what they described as severe beatings during her detention in the nor...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians in Gaza struggled to recover Tuesday from torrential rains that battered the enclave for days, flooding camps for the displaced, collapsing buildings already badly damaged in the two-year war and leaving at least 12 dead, including a two-week-old...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Joe Ely, the influential Texas-born singer-songwriter whose blend of honky-tonk, rock and roadhouse blues made him a favorite among other musicians and led to collaborations with Bruce Springsteen and the Clash, has died. He was 78.Ely died in Taos, New Mexico, of compli...

Santa left us a present this holiday season and it is exactly what we didn’t know we needed: A twisty, psychological horror-thriller with nudity that’s all wrapped up in an empowerment message.“The Housemaid” is Paul Feig’s delicious, satirical look at the secret depravity of the ultra-rich,...

Ryan Coogler’s bluesy vampire thriller “Sinners,” the big screen musical “Wicked: For Good” and the Netflix phenomenon “KPop Demon Hunters” are all a step closer to an Oscar nomination. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released shortlists for 12 categories Tuesday, including f...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some of Rob and Michele Reiner’s closest friends, including actors Billy Crystal, Albert Brooks, Martin Short and Larry David, have released a statement mourning the couple and praising their love of film and country.“Absorbing all he had learned from his father Carl and h...

Automakers Hyundai and Kia must offer free repairs to millions of models under a settlement announced Tuesday by Minnesota’s attorney general, who led an effort by dozens of states that argued the vehicles weren’t equipped with proper anti-theft technology, leaving them vulnerable to thefts....

Record-setting temperatures and rainfall in the Arctic over the past year sped up the melting of permafrost and washed toxic minerals into more than 200 rivers across northern Alaska, threatening vital salmon runs, according to a report card issued by federal scientists.The report, compiled by dozens of academic and government scie...

The Trump administration wants the European Union to exempt American oil and gas companies from a landmark law aimed at curbing emissions of methane, a powerful planet-warming gas.In recent days U.S. diplomats have verbally informed officials in European countries that the Trump administration considers the 27-member bloc’s methane...

A blast of Arctic air has plunged much of the United States into a bitter cold snap. About 202 million people — around 60 percent of the population of the contiguous United States — live in the areas expected to see freezing temperatures over the next week.Follow that frigid air north to the Arctic, and you find a region undergoing...

Scientists from the United States, Canada and Europe will soon start researchflights over the Atlantic Ocean to learn more about atmospheric rivers in the hopes of giving battered residents of both Europe and the West Coast of the United States more time to prepare for the deluges they bring.Atmospheric rivers, high-altitude plumes...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A colleague of the Milwaukee judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant evade arrest testified Tuesday that she was shocked by her fellow judge’s behavior.“Judges shouldn’t help defendants evade arrest,” Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Kristela Cervera testified at Hannah D...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Duke Rodriguez, one of New Mexico’s most successful cannabis entrepreneurs and a former state cabinet secretary, has officially announced he’s seeking the Republican nomination for governor.Rather than hosting a big party, Rodriguez made the announcement in newspaper...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona said Tuesday that the Pentagon’s escalating investigation into his remarks urging troops to refuse unlawful orders is part of an effort to silence dissent within the military.“This is just about sending a message to retired service memb...

In May 2024, Maui Mayor Richard Bissen took his self-described “bold step” to phase out 7,000 short-term vacation rentals by Jan. 1, 2026, leaning on a newly passed state law that gave the county clearer authority to do so as the island confronted a long-term housing crisis that was only exa...

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday he won’t forget the 67 people who died when an airliner collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., in January, insisting he won’t allow operations in the airspace over the nation’s capital to revert back to the way the...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Wes Moore — currently the nation’s only Black governor — that disappointed many fellow Democrats.Moore said in his veto letter in May th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Tuesday he’s leaning toward denying a preservationist group’s request to temporarily halt President Donald Trump ‘s White House ballroom project, saying the organization failed to show that “irreparable harm” would be caused if the project moves forward...

CHICAGO (AP) — Senior Border Patrol official Greg Bovino returned to the Chicago area on Tuesday, about a month after leaving to lead immigration enforcements in other cities, immigration advocates say.Bovino, the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, was photographed Tue...

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles offered an unusually candid look inside President Donald Trump’s administration in a series of interviews published Tuesday by Vanity Fair magazine, delivering details and reservations that presidential aides usually save for memoirs.From criticizing At...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is traveling to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Wednesday for a dignified transfer for the two Iowa National Guard members killed in an attack in the Syrian desert that is testing the rapprochement between Washington and Damascus.The two guardsmen...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was expanding travel restrictions to an additional 20 countries and the Palestinian Authority, doubling the number of nations affected by sweeping limits announced earlier this year on who can travel and emigrate to the U.S.The...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders are determined to push ahead with a GOP health care bill that excludes efforts to address the soaring monthly premiums millions of Americans will soon endure as pandemic-era tax credits for people who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act ex...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro in a move that seemed designed to put a tighter chokehold on the South American country’s e...

For a while, it seemed the notion that light drinking was good for the heart had gone by the wayside, debunked by new studies and overshadowed by warnings that alcohol causes cancer.Now the American Heart Association has revived the idea in a scientific review that is drawing intense criticism, setting off a new round of debate abo...

OpeningKashiIf you’ve never been to an Indian supper club, check out this lavish new Brooklyn restaurant that aims to channels the look. It has pops of color against a cream background, with varied seating areas, vintage touches, elaborate lighting and a mosaic bar. The menu has far more to do with sumptuous Mughal refinement and g...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Like many Australians strolling at Bondi Beach on long, warm summer evenings, Ahmed al Ahmed just wanted a cup of coffee with a friend. Around him, a bloody massacre erupted as two gunmen targeted Jews during Hanukkah festivities at a park close to the shore.So...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Cheikh Diouf and his father had just delivered a load of manure to the family’s fields near their village in January when Diouf, returning home for a second load, got an urgent phone call from his sister-in-law: His father, she said, was arguing with a group of herders....

LONDON (AP) — After years of minimalist, pared-back drinks, maximalism is back. Drinkers are looking for more than just a simple serve, and bartenders are dreaming up bold color palettes, layered flavors, oversize garnishes, theatrical glassware and playful twists on classic drinks.The trend...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European officials on Tuesday moved to ease their ban on sales of cars with internal combustion engines by 2035, responding to pressure from governments and automakers who argued that the industry needed more flexibility in finding ways to reduce emissions of carbon...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Thousands rallied across Slovakia on Tuesday to protest the latest moves by the government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to dismantle an independent office that protects those who report corruption and other criminal activities and amend the penal code.Ra...

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 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio, officials announ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s best known accusers, Virginia Roberts Guiffre, has sold 1 million copies worldwide two months after its release.Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Tuesday that more than half the sales for “Nobody’s Girl,” came out of North Ame...

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and four other Olympic medalists are among those owed six-figure sums by Grand Slam Track, the racing league that filed for bankruptcy earlier this month.The league resubmitted forms Monday for its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, one o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health sued the Trump administration Tuesday, saying she was illegally fired for warning that abrupt research cuts were endangering patients and public health.The NIH has cut billions of dollars in research projects s...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane quarterback Jake Retzlaff recalls being “devastated” when it became clear last spring that he would be unable to play his final season of college football at BYU.His penchant for making plays in big moments, as well as for publicly embracing his Jewish heritage, mad...

GENEVA (AP) — FIFA slashed the price of some World Cup tickets for teams’ most loyal fans following a global backlash and some will get $60 seats for the final instead of being asked to pay $4,185.It was a rare climbdown by the soccer body and its president Gianni Infantino after soaking up...

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston, and authorities said Tuesday they had launched a homicide investigation.Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his ho...

The White House on Tuesday sought to recast a dour November jobs report as a sign of economic progress, shrugging off an uptick in the nation’s unemployment rate and other potential hints of weakness now looming over the economy.Top aides to President Trump instead argued that the data showed a nation still on track, and poised to...

DETROIT (AP) — Sixteen states and the District of Columbia are suing President Donald Trump’s administration for what they say is the unlawful withholding of over $2 billion dollars in funding for two electric vehicle charging programs, according to a federal lawsuit announced Tuesday.The la...

New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, on Monday accused UPS of stealing wages from thousands of seasonal workers in the state.UPS unlawfully withheld millions of dollars of these workers’ wages by not paying minimum wage, overtime or other compensation required under state and federal law, according to a lawsuit Ms. James fil...

The combustion engine may be given another reprieve.European Union officials introduced a proposal on Tuesday to revise a wide-ranging ban on the production of gasoline- and diesel-powered cars by 2035. The move came after intense lobbying by Europe’s automobile industry, which has been confronting declining sales in China, plungin...

When Jaiden Holt was growing up, there wasn’t a whole lot in his life that made him feel good.His biological mother lost custody of him when he was young, and he entered the child welfare system, often living with his aunt and grandmother in St. Albans. Then, when he was seven, his mother re...

“Beaches,” the tearjerking 1980s novel-turned-movie about female friendship, will be staged on Broadway next spring, when the long-in-development musical arrives for a limited run before going on tour.The show, attempting an unusual strategy in response to the difficult economics of Broadway, plans to run just under 24 weeks in New...

Can a French horn be played with a fish in its bell? Or a trombone if filled with water? An experimental composer might tackle these questions in a piece about threats to ocean wildlife or rising sea levels, but, nearly two centuries ago, one young musician asked them for a less noble purpose: revenge.That man was George Frederick...

I’m always looking to give you the easiest ways to make great dinners, recipes with a good ratio of effort to deliciousness. But as I sat down to write this week’s newsletter, I noticed that the five I selected below are all really, truly, exceptionally simple and great — standouts that are satisfying, too. They’re perfect for a bu...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Australia allrounder Cameron Green became the most expensive overseas player in Indian Premier League history when he was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for $2.7 million at the 2026 auction held on Tuesday.The fee for Green, who is playing in the Ashes...

NEW YORK (AP) — Howard Stern will spend another three years on SiriusXM, telling listeners Tuesday that he’s “figured out a way to have it all.”And reps confirmed that he’s not trolling us again like he did back in August when he brought on Andy Cohen as a fake replacement host. This time, h...

The former CEO of the Kellogg Co. has been tapped to lead Kraft Heinz as it prepares to split into two companies.Kraft Heinz said Tuesday that Steve Cahillane will serve as CEO starting Jan. 1. Once Kraft Heinz becomes two companies – which is expected to happen in the second half of next ye...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsWednesday, December 17COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)6:30 p.m.St. Francis (PA) at Florida — SECN, Fubo Sports7 p.m.Binghamton at Pittsburgh — ACCNXMercyhurst at Syracuse — ACCNXYoungstown State at Robert Morris — ESPN app, ESPN Select,...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsWednesday, December 17COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)7 p.m.Olivet at Central Michigan — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)7 p.m.Central Michigan at Valparaiso — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsNHL HOCKEY7:...

NEW YORK (AP) — An on-duty Customs and Border Protection officer fired his gun several times during a confrontation with another motorist Tuesday on an access road for New York’s Kennedy Airport, police said.The CBP officer told authorities that he pulled his weapon after the other driver at...

SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) — Eleven firefighters and two other people were injured in a house fire explosion in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, officials said.Salisbury Fire Chief Bob Parnell said firefighters did not have life-threatening injuries but were getting treated for contusions, c...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — An American man has died in Slovenia apparently after falling off a climbing path in the Alps, police said on Tuesday.The 33-year-old’s family said he set off on Monday morning toward Slovenia’s highest peak, Mount Triglav, and disappeared, the STA news agency repo...

ROME (AP) — Rome opened two subway stations on Tuesday — one deep beneath the Colosseum — that mix the modernity of high-tech transport with artifacts from an ancient era.Commuters and tourists entering the station beside the iconic amphitheater can view displays of ceramic vases and plates,...

LONDON (AP) — Britain on Tuesday launched a review into foreign financial interference in U.K. politics, after a British former member of the European Parliament was jailed for taking Russian bribes.Nathan Gill was sentenced last month to more than 10 years in prison for making statements sy...

Russian authorities on Tuesday named German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle as an “undesirable organization,” effectively outlawing its operation in the country.Under Russian law, involvement with an “undesirable organization,” including sharing its content, is a criminal offense.Deutsche...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuanian authorities said Tuesday they had arrested 21 people allegedly connected to a criminal network that smuggled cigarettes using specially equipped weather balloons from Russia-allied Belarus which have violated the Baltic country’s airspace in recent weeks....

LONDON (AP) — Fans of Jane Austen celebrated the acclaimed author’s 250th birthday on Tuesday with a church service in her home village, festive visits to her house — and a virtual party for those paying tribute from afar.Thousands of enthusiasts around the world have already taken part in a...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian police said Tuesday that two officers were killed in the southwestern city of Cali in an attack by the National Liberation Army, a rebel group that stepped up attacks against the government this week.Police said the officers were patrolling a neighborhood on...

GENEVA (AP) — More than 17 million people in Afghanistan are facing crisis levels of hunger in the coming winter months, the leading international authority on hunger crises and the U.N. food aid agency warned Tuesday.The number at risk is some 3 million more than a year ago.Economic woes, r...

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan topped a watchlist of global humanitarian crises released Tuesday by an international aid group for the third year in a row as a devastating war grips the northeastern African country.The International Rescue Committee said Sudan was at the top of its annual Emergency Watc...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A leading Muslim civil rights group in the U.S. has sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over his order designating it and another organization as a “ foreign terrorist organization,” saying the directive was unconstitutional.The Council on American-Islamic Relations, known as...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s understated but influential chief of staff, criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and offered an unvarnished take on her boss and those in his orbit in a series of observations that were published...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration said in a court filing Monday that the White House ballroom construction project must continue for national security reasons and because a preservationist organization trying to stop it has no legal grounds to sue. independent reviews...

NEW YORK (AP) — There are giants, and then there is Donna Summer. The Queen of Disco and then some, known for such timeless tunes as “Love to Love You Baby,” “I Feel Love,” “Bad Girls,” “Dim All the Lights,” “On the Radio” and “She Works Hard for the Money,” has been posthumously inducted in...

Six women of various ages sit, awkwardly, on metal folding chairs placed in a semicircle on the dimly lit basketball court of a local rec center. They are completely naked, clearly uncomfortable, and talking haltingly about what they like and don’t like about their bodies.“I hate my nostrils,” says one.“I do love my brain,” says an...

Peering into the Trump mind-set — the logic underpinning his priorities, his morality, his decision making — is like opening up a garbage pail left out for days during a summer heat wave.The dominant theme is governing by narcissism: Make Trump Great Again.President Trump can be persuaded with money, the purchase of his crypto coin...

VideoWhat Does It Mean to Give Well?Elie Hassenfeld, the chief executive of the nonprofit GiveWell, makes the case for a more rigorous, transparent and accountable approach to charitable giving.CreditCredit...The New York TimesWhat Does It Mean to Give Well?Elie Hassenfeld, the chief executive of the nonprofit GiveWell, makes the c...

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. As Charina Santos’s son, Jace, approached his first birthday, he was making eye contact, waving and star...

Political memoirs tend to fall into recognizable categories.There is the sanitized precampaign memoir, gauzy life stories mixed with vague policy projects and odes to American goodness. There is the postcampaign memoir, usually by the losers, assessing the strategy and sifting through the wreckage. There are memoirs by up and comer...

The actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Reiner, were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home on Sunday. Their son Nick Reiner is being held without bail on suspicion of murder. Stephen Stromberg, an editor in Opinion, convened an online written discussion with Opinion’s columnists Jamelle Bouie and Ross Dou...

With temperatures dropping and dusk arriving early, the firepit section of my garden has been on my mind.It’s a simple setup. Eight colorful Adirondack chairs are arranged in a circle around a stacked stone hearth, surrounded, during the growing season, by easy-growing, low-maintenance butto...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon ’s judicial authorities ordered the release on $100,000 bail Tuesday of a former economy minister who had been in detention for months over alleged financial crimes, officials said.Amin Salam, who was detained in June, will be banned for traveling for six months as the...

When I came down with a cold the day after I saw the third and latest “Avatar” film, “Fire and Ash,” I half-wondered if I had picked it up on Pandora.The promise of Cameron’s 3D trilogy has always been immersion: immersion in a science-fiction world, in technological wonder, in a maybe futur...