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...

PARIS (AP) — France’s first lady has defended her use of a sexist slur to denounce feminist protesters, saying the comments were “clumsy” but made in private when “I didn’t see that someone behind me was filming.” Speaking to online media outlet Brut, Brigitte Macron acknowledged in a video...

LONDON (AP) — A driver who injured more than 130 people when he plowed his car into a crowd of soccer fans celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League championship was sentenced to over 20 years in prison Tuesday.Paul Doyle rammed his minivan through a sea of fans on May 26 and halted after a bys...

LONDON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a television documentary he claims was “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory and malicious.”Britain’s national broadcaster has apologized to Trump over the way it edited a speech in the program...

The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual list of the biggest charitable donations from individuals or their foundations totaled $5 billion in 2025. Topping the list was $2 billion from Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, followed by a $746.7 million donation from Warren Buffett an...

PARIS (AP) — French farmers are driving opposition to a massive transatlantic trade deal between five South American nations of the Mercosur bloc and the 27-nation European Union that officials say will likely lead to its delay.Farmers turned out across France this week with their heavy trac...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union envoys worked on Tuesday to narrow gaps on a plan to use billions of dollars in frozen Russian assets as collateral for a massive loan to cover Ukraine’s economic and military needs over the next two years, ahead of a crunch summit of EU leaders later this week...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sales at U.S. retailers and restaurants were unchanged in October from September as consumers moderated their spending amid worries about higher prices and other economic uncertainties after splurging over the summer.Excluding sales at motor vehicle and auto parts outlets, sa...

Thailand has demanded Cambodia must be the first to declare a halt in fighting in order to bring an end to the latest round of clashes between the southeast Asian neighbours.“As the aggressor onto Thai territory, Cambodia must announce the ceasefire first,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maratee Nalita Andamo said during a briefing...

During the deadly shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday, a bystander was filmed tackling and disarming one of the attackers.The man, identified as 43-year-old fruit-shop owner Ahmed al-Ahmed, has been hailed as a hero.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Australian police say Bondi Beach attackers inspire...

Heart transplant patients in the United States typically spend months waiting for a donated organ. But Kayoko Hira was not a typical patient.Mrs. Hira, the wife of a hotel magnate in Japan, flew to the United States in September 2021, went to the University of Chicago Medical Center and, within days, got a new heart from an America...

Nick Reiner, 32, is being held without bail on suspicion of murder after his parents, the director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their home.

President Trump’s chief of staff said she tried to get him to end his “score settling” against political enemies after 90 days in office, but acknowledged that the administration’s still ongoing push for prosecutions has been fueled in part by the president’s desire for retribution.Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, told...

President Trump filed his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC just hours before Britain’s government began on Tuesday a once-a-decade review of the broadcaster’s royal charter, which first set out its journalistic mission 98 years ago.The timing is hardly a coincidence.Mr. Trump and his conservative allies in Britain hav...

Michelle Obama said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” late Monday that she and her husband, former President Barack Obama, had plans to see the filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, on the day they were found dead in their Los Angeles home.“We were supposed to be seeing them that night — last night,” she told Jimmy Kimmel...

Hoisting guitar cases and luggage, college students headed home for the holidays early. In the shopping district just off the Woonasquatucket River, Christmas lights shone down on empty, icy streets. The wind blew flurries of snow off campus roofs as darkness settled in.Days had passed since a gunman killed two students and injured...

Brown University is an elite school, set high on a hill, with manicured greens and wrought-iron gates.But one of its special features is that those gates are often open to the larger city of Providence, R.I. — both physically and metaphorically. City residents are invited to attend many events and, students and professors said, som...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A passenger bus overturned, killing 13 people and injuring over a dozen others on a highway in central Iran, state-run IRNA news agency reported.The bus was traveling late Monday from Isfahan to the northeastern city of Mashhad when it struck the highway’s central guardra...

More storms sweeping across Washington State have prompted warnings from forecasters that the region may face additional flooding this week.Floodwaters had started to slowly retreat after downpours last week sent rivers to record levels and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes. But more rain fell as a storm moved through th...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants opened fire on a police officer guarding a team of polio workers in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing the officer and a passerby before fleeing, police said.No polio worker was harmed in the attack that occurred in Bajaur, a district of K...

The M23 armed group says it has agreed to a request from the United States to withdraw from the key town of Uvira in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after seizing it last week.Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) rebel coalition, which includes the M23 group, posted a signed statement on X...

BAYAHIBE, Dominican Republic (AP) — Oxygen tank strapped to his back, Michael del Rosario moves his fins delicately as he glides along an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, proudly showing off the “coral babies” growing on metal structures that look like large spiders....

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.

ImageImageIn an unusual move, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is expected to publish jobs data today from October and November — but key details will be missing.Credit...Andrew Kelly/ReutersIn today's newsletter:Better late than never? Senators dig into A.I. and rising electricity prices Chart of the day: Fed chair odds The gas-powe...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet officials overseeing national security are expected back on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as questions mount over the swift escalation of U.S. military force and deadly boat strikes in international waters near Venezuela.Defense Secretary Pete...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rwanda-backed M23 rebels said Tuesday they will withdraw from Uvira, the strategic city in eastern Congo seized last week, as fighting in the region escalated despite a U.S. mediated peace deal.Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance, which includes M23, sa...

On a dark December afternoon, Ellen Arkbro was sitting at the organ in the hulking Gedächtniskirche church in Berlin, conducting an acoustic experiment. While her right hand held down a chord on one of the instrument’s four keyboards, she prodded buttons on the console with her left. There were hints of silvery flutes, throbbing st...

In July, I shared my picks for the best true crime so far in 2025. To close out the year, here are four offerings that have stood out since those earlier highlights.Documentary Film‘Predators’There has been growing interest in recent years to revisit and reappraise reality-type shows from the 1990s and 2000s that essentially used h...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was injured as she made a clandestine dash to collect her Nobel Peace Prize last week, her spokesperson has said.Claudia Macero said late on Monday that the right-wing opposition figure fractured a vertebra during a choppy boat ride that had formed part of a risky cloak-and-dagger j...

Top European officials have agreed to launch an international commission to compensate Kyiv for hundreds of billions of dollars in damage from Russia’s continuing war on Ukraine.The International Claims Commission for Ukraine, established in a treaty signed by 35 countries at Tuesday’s conference in The Hague, is to assess and deci...

In 2020, two Russians, Igor Rogov and Artem Vazhenkov, were in Minsk to witness the mass protests rocking the Belarusian capital after a contested election allegedly rigged in favour of President Alexander Lukashenko.They were members of Open Russia, a Russian opposition group founded by exiled tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. On the a...

Over the past few years, scientists have learned that Ozempic and related drugs developed to treat Type 2 diabetes can improve the health of the liver, kidney and heart.Is it such a stretch to think they could also treat neurological disorders?Perhaps — at least when it comes to Alzheimer’s disease.This month, scientists from Novo...

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...

A British driver who injured more than 130 people by speeding his car into a crowd of Liverpool football fans during a championship victory parade in May has been sentenced to 21-and-a-half years.Paul Doyle, 54, rammed his minivan into the mass of fans in the city of Liverpool simply because he lost his temper, according to prosecu...

Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Sunday. The police and investigators believe the couple suffered fatal stab wounds.On Monday, police arrested the legendary director’s 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, in connection with the deaths.Recommended Stories list of...

Natural disasters caused $220bn in global economic losses in 2025, according to projections by reinsurer Swiss Re.The company, which insures insurance companies, issued its preliminary estimate for 2025 on Tuesday. Despite the staggering cost of natural catastrophes, ranging from hurricanes to wildfires, the level of the losses was...

Growing global disorder threatens to deepen humanitarian crises around the world, with Sudan and Palestine facing the greatest risk of all, according to a new report.The pair once again topped the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist, the 2026 version of which was released on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list o...

The patient’s status was affirmed by the high-profile visitors on Tuesday. The prime minister of Australia, the Australian representative of King Charles III and a high-ranking Syrian diplomat.They were all there to see Ahmed el Ahmed, the bystander who tackled one of the gunmen in Sunday’s massacre at Bondi Beach. Mr. el Ahmed was...

Boris and Sofia Gurman, longtime Bondi residents, were set to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary in January. But on Sunday, they were killed on a road just off Bondi Beach, after they tried to stop one of the suspected gunmen in the attack on a Hanukkah celebration.The bravery of the couple, along with others who confronted t...

For decades, Australians have watched in disbelief as America endured mass shooting after mass shooting. Each horrific episode touched off a familiar cycle of horror in the United States, an outpouring of grief, followed by calls for tougher gun laws that would inevitably dissolve to the status quo.Most Australians felt certain tha...

Brigitte Macron, the first lady of France, apologized on Monday night for offending feminist protesters during a private conversation last week, but she also said that she should be able to speak freely when with friends.“I am sorry if I have hurt women victims,” Ms. Macron said in a short video published by the French news outlet...

A man who drove into crowds of soccer fans celebrating Liverpool’s victory in England’s Premier League has been sent to prison for 21 years and six months after prosecutors said he acted in a fit of road rage.Paul Doyle, 54, struck more than 130 people with his car over the course of two minutes on May 26, stopping only when a form...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine expressed a tense and wary optimism on Tuesday about proposed guarantees for Ukraine’s future security, so long as they were detailed and confirmed by the U.S. Congress. But what might make them acceptable to Ukraine, he suggested, would prompt Russia to reject them.Mr. Zelensky spoke after t...

For months, European countries have struggled to agree on a bold proposal to finance Ukraine and its war effort.Now, as the United States is racing ahead to try to end the war started by Russia nearly four years ago, European leaders are working feverishly to finalize that funding plan. They hope it will help ensure that they have...

It was just after dawn, and the hills outside Ramallah, a Palestinian city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, glowed in the soft morning light.A small group of Palestinian hikers, boots crunching the gravel underfoot and jackets zipped against the chill, prepared to head down a dirt track, toward a spring used for centuries by Pale...

TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) — Residents near a breached levee in Washington state were told to evacuate early Tuesday, just hours after an evacuation alert was lifted for residents near another broken levee in the same county.Police in the city of Pacific, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Sea...

Betty Ann Hurdle spent 54 years on the Hawaiian homelands waitlist before finally receiving an award in March for property in Kapolei. Hours after signing an agreement, the 80-year-old went for a ride with her son to survey their new home. There are no houses yet on the 200-acre plot next to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Crypto.com was under siege.For more than a year, the firm had been investigated by President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration, part of an aggressive push to regulate the largely unregulated cryptocurrency industry. Financial regulators had told the company that enforce...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities knocked on doors in search of video and sifted through snow and dumpsters for other evidence that might lead them to the Brown University gunman, whose face was covered or not visible in footage captured before and after the weekend attack that killed two...

A new wave of Israeli policies is changing the reality and boundaries on the ground in the occupied West Bank.The Israeli government has approved the formalisation of 19 so-called settlement outposts as independent settlements in the occupied West Bank. This is the third wave of such formalisations this year by the government, whic...

Flu season has arrived early this year in New York City, with cases climbing dramatically during the past month.New York City and the surrounding areas — including Long Island and North Jersey — had some of the highest levels of flu-like illness in the United States as of Dec. 6, according to data from the Centers for Disease Contr...

A 27-foot-tall standing Buddha, hewed in sandstone as a symbol of peace and resilience by the artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen, has been selected for the next High Line Plinth commission, to preside over 10th Avenue at 30th Street on the elevated park in spring 2026. Titled “The Light That Shines Through the Universe,” Nguyen’s statue res...

“I am never sure of time or place on a Railroad,” Charles Dickens wrote in 1856 as rail travel was beginning to change our concept of distance. I recognized the feeling when I recently rode Amtrak’s new twice-daily Mardi Gras Service running along the Gulf Coast between New Orleans and Mobile, Ala.ImageOn its way to Mississippi and...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.In November 2024, I flew to Atlanta from my home in Berlin to cover the world championship of fantasy football. It was a strange, surprisingly glamorous competition that was typical of the alternative spor...

The first official snapshot of the U.S. labor market since the government shutdown lands Tuesday morning, a collection of data that analysts and policymakers hope will help clarify the state of the economy after months of conflicting signals.The report for November from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics is expected...

The jobs report on Tuesday will kick off a weeklong flood of economic reports that had been delayed by the federal government shutdown.But don’t expect the data deluge to paint a clear picture of the state of the U.S. economy.Federal statistical agencies stopped collecting data for more than a month during the shutdown, the longest...

To capture the writer’s brief life and enormous impact, we assembled a sampling of the wealth, wonder and weirdness she has brought to our lives.

We’ve spent this year — some might say our entire lives — diving deep into the world of Jane Austen. And as her 250th birthday approached, one fiercely debated question kept coming up: Who is the definitive Mr. Darcy?Many actors have donned the master of Pemberley’s breeches in adaptations of “Pride and Prejudice” over the years, f...

The health care reform debate has become — already was — a game of hot potato among individuals, insurers and the government over who pays. Last week, two competing plans failed to pass in the Senate: Democrats want to extend Obamacare subsidies for three years; Republicans want to directly fund health savings accounts.But the real...

It’s a perilous moment for creative life in America. While supporting oneself as an artist has never been easy, the power of generative A.I. is pushing creative workers to confront an uncomfortable question: Is there a place for paid creative work within late capitalism? And what will happen to our cultural landscape if the answer...

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Jowon Briggs was sitting in a New York Jets special teams meeting earlier this season when Chris Banjo turned to him and made a request.“I didn’t know you could sing,” said the special teams coordinator, who heard some buzz about Briggs’ vocal talents. “Man, go ahea...

SYDNEY (AP) — A judge sentenced a Sydney taekwondo instructor on Tuesday to life in prison without possibility of release for murdering a 7-year-old student and the boy’s parents.Kwang Kyung Yoo, 51, sat with his head bowed as Justice Ian Harrison said he would never be eligible for parole.H...

TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of people flocked to Tokyo’s Ueno zoo to have a last glimpse of the popular twin pandas that are set to return to China next month, worried if or when they get to see their replacement in Japan as Tokyo’s relations with Beijing sunk.The Tokyo metropolitan government an...

China will impose tariffs of up to 19.8% on pork imports from the European Union, a drastic drop from preliminary tariffs of up to 62.4%, its Commerce Ministry said Tuesday.The ministry’s announcement followed an investigation the Chinese side launched into imports of pork from the trading b...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and some 30 other countries are expected to formally approve plans Tuesday to create a compensation body to pay for damages to Ukraine caused by the Russian invasion, but questions remain about where the money will come fr...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says proposals being negotiated with U.S. officials for a peace deal to end his country’s nearly four-year war with Russia could be finalized within days, after which American envoys will present them to the Kremlin before further...

Amy Lively loves to tell people just how much her European vacation cost her and her husband. That’s because they spent $1,460 on accommodations for the 31-day trip.ImageAmy Lively, a Kindred member, allows strangers she meets on the app to stay in her Nathrop, Colo., home while she’s away.Credit...Theo Stroomer for The New York Ti...

The Nobel Peace Prize winner made her pitch by live video to a business conference in Miami attended by American executives and politicians, including President Trump.“I am talking about a $1.7 trillion opportunity,” María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s main opposition leader, said last month, weeks after winning the peace prize for c...

Three Democratic senators said on Tuesday that they are investigating whether and how the operations of technology companies are driving up residential electricity bills.In letters sent on Monday to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and three other companies, the lawmakers said the energy needs of data centers used for artificial int...

Food trends come and go, but it seems like nothing can topple the corporate bowl: a form infinitely replicated, its interchangeable parts mostly decontextualized, its contents varying only slightly.Stay at your desk. Let the chilled, undressed lettuces and room-temperature piles of rice arrive, each optimized to assist you with you...

It has been eight years since the Philippines declared victory over the Islamic State, or ISIS. But the threat from ISIS has become smaller and fragmented, with lethal attacks by militants linked to the group rocking the country intermittently.On Tuesday, that threat came under fresh scrutiny.The suspects in the Bondi Beach massacr...

The wildlife ranger was preparing to go on patrol early one April morning when a distressing call came in. A dead Bornean elephant was lying by the road and 20 elephants from its herd were gathered nearby.The ranger, Henry Jamis, raced to the scene and was shocked by what he found. The body of a young male elephant was lying 60 fee...

A white Toyota Prius parked in the driveway. Boots piled by a welcome mat. Footsteps and muffled voices. A masked man briefly emerging to collect a food delivery, before vanishing back inside.On Tuesday morning, these were the only signs of life at the family home of the Bondi suspects in Bonnyrigg, a diverse, working-class, suburb...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said two gunmen who killed 15 people at a Jewish holiday celebration were motivated by the Islamic State.

Among contemporary European writers, the novelist Michel Houellebecq is not known for his optimism. In his oeuvre spanning three decades, a leitmotif has been the inexorability of human decline, from the quality of internet pornography to European civilization itself. “France has given up on progress,” he wrote in 2014. “We are all...

Billionaires had a great thing going. The ruling in the 2010 Citizens United case, among others, invited the super rich to exert all the influence on policy and politics that their money could buy — and then enjoy all the wealth that influence secured for them in return. Thanks to ever-more-obliging tax policies, the billionaire cl...

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.Never Too MuchLate night hosts remembered Rob Reiner after he and his wife, Michele, were found fatally stabbed in their home on Sunday afternoon.Se...

It was 10 days before Christmas in 2021, and Representative Nancy Pelosi, then the speaker of the House, was asked at her weekly news conference about an issue to which she had not given much thought.“Should members of Congress and their spouses be banned from trading individual stocks while serving in Congress?” asked Bryan Metzge...

Nick Reiner, 32, is being held without bail on suspicion of murder after the bodies of the director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found in their home.

A Wisconsin judge ruled on Monday that there was sufficient evidence for two men to face trial on charges that they illegally tried to keep President Trump in power after his 2020 election loss.The two defendants are James Troupis, a lawyer and former judge who is accused of being an architect of the plan to deploy fake electors in...

The night before Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead, their son, Nick Reiner, attended a holiday party with his father at the home of Conan O’Brien and alarmed the guests with his behavior, according to two attendees who asked not to be named to maintain relationships.Rob and Nick Reiner got into a shouting match at t...

The private equity firm headed by Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, said on Monday that Mr. Kushner was withdrawing from a planned Trump-branded real estate deal in Serbia.The announcement came hours after Serbian prosecutors charged four senior government officials there with corruption in connection with the half-billi...

The U.S. military struck three boats it suspected of carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific on Monday, killing eight people, the U.S. Southern Command .The strikes, which the military said were carried out in international waters on what it deemed “designated terrorist organizations,” brought the number killed to at least 95 since t...

President Trump told attendees at a White House holiday party on Monday night that his eldest son, Donald Jr., is engaged to Bettina Anderson, a Palm Beach socialite.Andrew Surabian, a spokesman for the younger Mr. Trump, confirmed the engagement. The president’s announcement threw a spotlight on a relationship that had long been t...

United States President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit seeking at least $10bn from the BBC over a documentary that edited his speech to supporters before the US Capitol riot in 2021.The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Miami on Monday, seeks “damages in an amount not less than $5,000,000,000” for each of two counts against the...

The United States has said it killed eight people in new attacks on vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, days after the US military seized a Venezuelan oil tanker amid Washington’s continuing military buildup in Latin America.In a post on social media, the US Military Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said that “lethal kinetic strikes”...

Federal authorities in the United States have arrested four members of an antigoverment left-wing group over an alleged bomb plot targeting immigration agents and companies, among others, in California, officials have said.Announcing the arrests on Monday, US Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department and the Federal Bu...

The Australian police say the two men accused of carrying out a deadly shooting at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that killed 15 people were “inspired” by the ISIL (ISIS) group.Police also confirmed on Tuesday that they were investigating a trip the two suspects undertook to the Philippines last month.Recomme...

The last vehicle will roll off the assembly line at Volkswagen’s plant in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday, marking the first time in the automaker’s 88-year history that it has closed a plant in its home country.Volkswagen warned of potential production cuts last year, as it faced shaky demand in Europe and China, its biggest market,...

A Moscow district court has designated Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot as an extremist organisation, according to the state TASS news agency.The exiled group’s lawyer, Leonid Solovyov, told TASS that Monday’s court ruling was made in response to claims brought by the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office and that the band plans...

Israeli forces continue raids across occupied West Bank as Gaza reels from Israeli attacks and aftermath of a storm.

United States President Donald Trump has personally appealed to Chinese President Xi Jinping to release imprisoned Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, saying he was deeply concerned about the 78-year-old’s health following his conviction.On Monday, Hong Kong’s High Court found Lai guilty on three charges in his national...

New Delhi, India – A newly released Bollywood spy thriller is winning praise and raising eyebrows in equal measure in India and Pakistan, over its retelling of bitter tensions between the South Asian neighbours.Sunk in a sepia tone, Dhurandhar, which was released in cinemas last week, is a 3.5-hour-long cross-border political spy d...

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced a senior leader of a banned Islamist party to 35 years in prison for inciting violence, more than a year after the cleric publicly called for the killing of the country’s then-chief justice, court officials and a defense lawy...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan lifted a megaquake advisory for the country’s northeastern coast Tuesday, one week after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck off northern Japan that officials said had caused an increased risk of a subsequent major quake.The lifting means residents in the designated area und...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Over the course of 2025, a new reality has sunk in for Europe. The United States, long its strongest ally, has chipped away at the European Union’s unity, economies, security and even its democracies, setting the backdrop for an EU summit this week at the end of an exceptiona...

BANGKOK (AP) — Shares tumbled Tuesday in Asia and U.S. futures also fell ahead of the release of U.S. employment and inflation reports that could drive the direction of interest rates.Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 declined 1.6% to 49,383.29 as preliminary factory data showed manufacturing slowing sligh...

SYDNEY (AP) — Before the bloodshed and broken hearts, there was a little girl with a gentle soul, a loving grandmother who delivered meals to the needy and a young man dubbed a “golden person” for his kindness. And there was an 87-year-old grandfather who sought solace in Australia after sur...

Joe Ely, a singer and songwriter from the vast flatness of West Texas whose mastery of the South’s varied musical traditions and paeans to the open road earned him the nickname Lord of the Highway and made him a leading artist in the development of the modern Americana sound, died on Monday at his home in Taos, N.M. He was 78.His f...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Two dozen Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are rehabilitating in Florida after the frigid waters off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, left them struggling with frostbite, pneumonia and abrasions.The 24 endangered sea turtles arrived at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Bea...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The ongoing effort to find a man who walked onto Brown University ’s campus during a busy exam season and shot nearly a dozen students in a crowded lecture hall has raised questions about the school’s security systems and the urgency of the investigation itself.A day...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State,” Australia’s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett said Tuesday.The suspects were a father and son, aged 50...

On a recent December day, Mark Latino and a handful of his workers spun sheets of vinyl into tinsel for Christmas tree branches. They worked on a custom-made machine that’s nearly a century old, churning out strands of bright silver tinsel along its 35-foot (10-meter) length.Latino is the CE...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. job market is sluggish and confusing this fall.American companies are mostly holding onto the employees they have. But they’re reluctant to hire new ones as they struggle to assess how to use artificial intelligence and how to adjust to President Donald Trump’s unp...

Starting Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol will display a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was removed several years ago.The unveiling ceremony of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny over the boat strikes is intensifying in Congress.The military said in a statement on social media that the strike...

President Donald Trump’s contentious relationship with news organizations has led to a host of disputes and legal battles, the latest a lawsuit accusing the BBC of defamation and deceptive and unfair trade practices. The president is seeking $10 billion in damages from the British broadcaste...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police are set to present a case to prosecutors Tuesday following Nick Reiner’s arrest in the killings of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, which stunned their communities in Hollywood and Democratic politics, where both were widely beloved. Pr...

The trial of Judge Hannah C. Dugan in Milwaukee began on Monday with prosecutors painting her as an official who stepped outside the law, a judge who was furious about immigration arrests taking place in the county courthouse under the Trump administration and decided to do something about it.“She is on trial today because those st...

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — England and Australia players will wear black armbands and flags at Adelaide Oval will be flown at half-staff on Wednesday in an Ashes tribute to the victims of the Bondi beach shootings.On Sunday night, two gunmen killed 15 people and injured dozens more at the ic...

Here is where things stand on Tuesday, December 16:Fighting A Russian drone attack killed a 62-year-old Ukrainian man as he was riding a bicycle in the Velyka Pysarivka community of Ukraine’s Sumy region, Governor Oleh Hryhorov said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. Russian forces launched 850 attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than a dozen people were hurt when a San Francisco cable car abruptly stopped Monday afternoon.Fifteen people had injuries ranging from minor to moderate, the San Francisco Fire Department on social media. Two of them were immediately taken to hospitals and 11 othe...

Right now, the internet is awash in click-to-buy gift guides. They promise the perfect gift (under $100!) for everyone on your list, be it the hiking husband, the cinephile niece or the beer-loving ex-girlfriend. At a time when shopping is our self-expression, it’s easy to feel that “I love you” can be said with two-day shipping. B...

After Nick Reiner entered his first drug treatment program around the age of 15, his turbulent life veered between rehab and homelessness, sobriety efforts and relapse.At times, it appeared as though he had achieved more stability in adulthood. But any semblance of equilibrium was shattered when Mr. Reiner’s parents, the Hollywood...

Rob Reiner, who was found dead alongside his wife, Michele Reiner, at their Los Angeles home in what police are investigating as a double homicide, was not only a celebrated filmmaker but also a longtime Democratic Party supporter and one of US President Donald Trump’s most outspoken critics.Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michele, 70,...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge is ordering the release of an Iranian migrant and bodybuilder held by U.S. immigration authorities for over five months. Attorneys for Hamid Ziaei said Monday he was detained without apparent progress on deportation to a country other than Iran, where he...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says he wants restrictions on military flights approved before government funding runs out at the end of next month to prevent another midair collision like the one over Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people in January. Cruz and Democratic Sen. Ma...

FAIRFAX, Virginia (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia wasn’t an activist and he didn’t choose to become locked in to what has become one of the most contentious immigration issues of the Trump administration, his lawyer told The Associated Press on Monday. But as he experiences some of the few days...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, dis...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday blamed Rob Reiner's outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director's murder, making an unfounded claim in a shocking post that seemed intended to criticize his opponents even in the face of tragedy.The statement, even by Trump'...

▶ Get the AP Top 25 college football poll delivered straight to your inbox every week with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia has apologized for his comments after finishing second in Heisman votes behind Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendo...

The two men who killed at least 15 people on Sunday were driven by “Islamic State ideology,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Australia’s public broadcaster.

Robert J. Samuelson, an economics columnist for Newsweek and The Washington Post who explored, in reader-friendly vernacular, the perils of inflation, the fiscal consequences of entitlement spending and the slow-motion crisis of the bulging national debt, died on Saturday in Bethesda, Md. He was 79.His death, in a hospital, was cau...

President Trump sued the BBC for $10 billion on Monday evening over the editing in a documentary that the British broadcaster said had left the “mistaken impression” that he called for violent action before the storming of the U.S. Capitol.In a 46-page lawsuit filed in federal court in Miami, Mr. Trump accused the BBC of defaming h...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican unveiled its Nativity scene Monday and lit the 25-meter (82-foot) Christmas tree that towers above it in St. Peter’s Square as a band, chorus and dancers in traditional costumes from Italy’s northernmost South Tyrol province performed. The spruce tree hailed f...

The home of Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons was burglarized while he was on the road in San Francisco, the team said Monday.Simmons posted several Instagram stories that implied he returned from the Titans’ 37-24 road loss against the 49ers to discover his home had been bro...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The stands roared as Silk Eyes galloped past Mr. Thunder at the top of the stretch. Adults and children, some rushing to reach the barriers to get a better look, snapped their fingers as if willing the colt to go faster. They erupted in cheers when it crossed the fi...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A small plane crashed in central Mexico while trying to make an emergency landing Monday, killing at least seven people, Mexico State Civil Protection Coordinator Adrián Hernández said.The accident took place in San Mateo Atenco, an industrial area three miles (5 kilometer...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile has become the latest country in Latin America to veer toward the right, electing a deeply conservative veteran politician who has long attracted comparisons to Donald Trump.The president-elect, José Antonio Kast, has expressed nostalgia for the 17-year military...

London, United Kingdom – Lawyers and loved ones of hunger strikers linked to the protest group Palestine Action are warning the activists could die in prison as they accuse British prison officials of a lack of care and communication and the justice secretary of ignoring their demands for a meeting.Of 29 Palestine Action-affiliated...

Ukraine has carried out a successful underwater drone strike on a Russian submarine in the port of Novorossiysk, causing critical damage to the vessel, its domestic security service says.In a statement on Monday, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said the Kilo-class submarine was knocked out of operation in the first such attac...

High-level talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine gain momentum as the two countries exchange drone attacks.

High-level talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine gain momentum as the two countries exchange drone attacks.

High-level talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine gain momentum as the two countries exchange drone attacks.

High-level talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine gain momentum as the two countries exchange drone attacks.

Law enforcement authorities in California have arrested the son of Hollywood film director and writer Rob Reiner, who was found dead with his wife, Michele, in their Los Angeles home over the weekend.Police chief Jim McDonnell said on Monday that 32-year-old Nick Reiner was “booked for murder” and is being held on $4m bail in conne...

The trial has begun for a Wisconsin judge accused by the administration of US President Donald Trump of helping a man evade immigration authorities, and therefore obstructing the president’s mass deportation drive.The proceedings, which began with opening statements from both federal prosecutors and lawyers for Milwaukee County Cir...

US President Donald Trump has said that an agreement to end Russia’s war on Ukraine is “closer than ever” after key leaders held talks in Berlin, but several officials said that significant differences remain over territorial issues.Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that he had “very long and very good talks” with U...

Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order labelling fentanyl, and its core precursors, as a “weapon of mass destruction” (WMD), in the latest instance of his administration using increasingly militarised language to justify its operations against drug cartels and smugglers.The an...

Ahmed el Ahmed crouched behind a car in a Sydney parking lot on Sunday, feet away from one of the two gunmen who had just turned a beachside Hanukkah celebration into a massacre.Then, sirens wailing in the background, Mr. el Ahmed jumped into action.Even as the gunman fired a shot in a different direction, Mr. el Ahmed ran toward t...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday that Australia would move to strengthen the country’s strict gun laws in the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, the country’s deadliest mass shooting in almost three decades.“Leaders agreed that strong, decisive and focused action was needed on gun law reform as an immediate act...

Australia’s special envoy on antisemitism urged the government to intensify its efforts to combat threats against Jews following the Bondi Beach attacks that killed at least 15 people attending a Hanukkah celebration.Jillian Segal, who was appointed to the role by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last year following a sharp rise in...

Ukrainian underwater drones struck a Russian submarine for the first time on Monday, causing critical damage to the vessel and making it the first publicly acknowledged use of the new class of Ukrainian weapons, according to Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency.At the time of the attack, the Kilo-class submarine was docked in a R...

ImageAfter an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Saturday.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York TimesCan the Gaza peace plan move forward?One of the hardest things about covering the war in Gaza is that Israel does not allow any journalists in, except when accompanied by the military. But my colleagues in the region have built up a...

Days before Donald Trump returned to the White House, Andrew Tate received some good news.Tate and his brother Tristan, a pair of loudmouthed influencers from the so-called manosphere, had been under criminal investigation in Romania since 2022, accused of coercing women to participate in pornography. Andrew was also accused of rap...

My colleagues on the investigative team are writing about what they discovered during a long inquiry into the deaths of hundreds of Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia. It's a story about how government corruption has let down women who leave Kenya to try to make a better life for their families, and I hope you'll read it.But f...

José Antonio Kast, a conservative candidate, was elected president of Chile on Sunday, a sharp turn to the right in a country where voters are deeply concerned about security and illegal migration.Kast, a 59-year-old father of nine with ideological roots in conservative Roman Catholicism and economic neoliberalism, had campaigned w...

A video verified by The New York Times shows a bystander—called a hero by local authorities—knocking down and disarming one of the attackers who opened fire on Sunday at a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.The video shows an apparently unarmed man sneaking up on one of the attackers between two cars. She then...

The new spymaster of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service warned on Monday that Russia posed an “acute threat” to the West, plotting arson and sabotage operations, assassinations, and cyber and drone attacks across Europe.“The new frontline is everywhere,” said the chief, Blaise Metreweli, who in October became the first woman to...

José Antonio Kast had seen it coming. “Our ideas already won — they won in the United States, they won in Italy and they won in Argentina,” he said on Chilean radio one day after President Trump’s inauguration in January. “We are going to win, too.”This Sunday, he finally did. Mr. Kast was elected as Chile’s president on his third...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese vowed on Monday to toughen Australia’s already strict gun laws, after the country’s worst mass shooting in three decades killed 15 people and wounded dozens more at a Jewish holiday celebration in Sydney.“The government is prepared to take whatever action is necessary,” he said at a news conference.O...

A powerful earthquake that jolted Japan’s northern coast on Monday prompted the government to issue a rare advisory that the chance of a far larger and more destructive earthquake in the next week had increased.While scientists can’t predict when, or whether, one will strike, the chance of a so-called mega quake occurring in the fo...

The Kremlin has threatened Poland over the arrest of a Russian archaeologist on a Ukrainian warrant, saying the act “will not go unpunished.”The archaeologist, Alexander Butyagin, an employee of Russia’s State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, oversees archaeological research into an ancient Greek site on the Crimean Peninsula, w...

Our universe might be chock-full of cosmic wonder, but you can observe only a fraction of astronomical phenomena with your naked eye. Meteor showers, natural fireworks that streak brightly across the night sky, are one of them.The latest event, the Geminids, is one of the strongest and most popular meteor showers each year. It has...

To woo mates, male golden pheasants are dressed to impress. The game birds strut around with cinnamon-colored tail quills and a striped hood of orange and black feathers. Then there is its forehead crest of yellow plumage that is slightly reminiscent of a certain politician’s slicked-back coiffure.It turns out that it really isn’t...

As he lectured on animal behavior, Kaan Kerman, an instructor in the psychology department at Bilkent University in Turkey, noticed a pattern. Dog owners tend to confidently interpret their pets’ behavior, he said, “but cat owners are always puzzled.” Compared with dogs, cats have been studied less, partly because they prefer to st...

A northern giant hornet does not look like it would make a great meal. These mammoth insects are armed with a quarter-inch-long stinger and powerful venom. In humans, a giant hornet’s sting causes searing bouts of pain. A series of stings can even be fatal, earning the insects their popular “murder hornets” moniker.However, to a hu...

Charles Darwin unveiled his theory of evolution in 1859, in “On the Origin of Species.” But it took him another 12 years to work up the courage to declare that humans evolved, too.In “The Descent of Man,” published in 1871, Darwin argued that humans arose from apes. And one of the most profound changes they underwent was turning in...

Lost Science is an ongoing series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. The conversations have been edited for clarity and length. Here’s why we’re doing this.Interview by Katrina MillerYuri Ralchenko: I was with the Atomic Spectroscopy Group at the National Institut...

By most metrics, 2025 has been the worst year for the American scientific enterprise in modern history.Since January, the Trump administration has made deep cuts to the nation’s science funding, including more than $1 billion in grants to the National Science Foundation, which sponsors much of the basic research at universities and...

John Noble Wilford, a Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter for The New York Times who covered America’s first moon landing a half-century ago with the zeal of a fellow space traveler stepping onto the powdery lunar surface alongside Neil Armstrong, died on Monday at his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 92.His niece, Susan Tre...

Earlier this year, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine issued a warning about the dangers of misinformation. Social media platforms are now rife with scientific falsehoods — that the Earth is flat, that climate change is a hoax, and so on. Misinformation can lead to large-scale harm, undermining public heal...

Some 400,000 years ago, in what is now eastern England, a group of Neanderthals used flint and pyrite to make fires by a watering hole — not just once, but time after time, over several generations.That is the conclusion of a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. Previously, the oldest known evidence of humans making...

If a plant wants to reproduce, there are a number of tricks it can use to lure a pollinator insect. It can display gaudily colored flowers to catch their eyes, or appeal to their noses with sweet or pungent scents.Then there are the cycads. These 250-million-year-old tropical plants look like palms and reproduce with structures res...

Like a scarf out of a magician’s sleeve, the squid appeared. Seconds before, there had been nothing.Isis, a robotic vessel traveling more than 2.5 miles under the Pacific, saw only ocean through its front camera. Another camera, pointing toward the seabed, saw nothing but sediment and some stalks that might have been a dead sea spo...

Something ominous is happening deep below the Sea of Marmara in Turkey.A fault line beneath this inland body of water, which links the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea, has caught the attention of scientists. Over the last two decades, earthquakes of rising magnitude have occurred, steadily moving to the east.The latest in this sequen...

Resident doctors in England will go ahead with a five-day strike this week after rejecting the government’s latest offer aimed at ending a long-running dispute over pay and working conditions.Formerly known as junior doctors, the physicians, who make up nearly half of England’s medical workforce, will walk out from 07:00 GMT on Wed...

About two decades ago, the dark-eyed junco, a forest-dwelling sparrow, began to colonize urban Los Angeles. The birds proved to be remarkably successful in the city, making themselves at home on the bustling campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.They also rapidly diverged from their wildland counterparts, adopting dif...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Colombian government’s delegation in peace talks with the National Liberation Army on Monday condemned an “armed strike” — which confines civilians to their homes and restricts commercial activity — that the rebel group is conducting this week in response to the U...

On a snowy night in February, Tilda Swinton stepped onto the main stage of the Berlin International Film Festival to collect a career achievement award. Dressed in a sparkly high-collared gown, the British actress began by talking about the weather.“I’m so happy it’s snowing today,” she said after picking up her trophy during the o...

President Trump seized on the stabbing death of Rob Reiner and his wife to make a baseless attack on the Hollywood director less than a day after reports of his killing, suggesting that Mr. Reiner’s criticism of Mr. Trump may have led to his murder.The attack on Mr. Reiner, so soon after his death, prompted a rare backlash against...

ImageFrom left, Carroll O’Connor, Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers in Norman Lear’s 1970s sitcom “All in the Family.” Lear “tapped into something that nobody had ever done before or even since,” Reiner told The New York Times in 2023.Credit...CBS, via Getty ImagesImageCarl Reiner, left, with his son Rob Reiner and Struthers, around 1...

In the last scene of Rob Reiner’s 1992 courtroom drama “A Few Good Men,” two Marines, Dawson and Downey, have just been cleared of murder and conspiracy charges. They admitted involvement in the death of their fellow soldier, Willy, who died in a violent extrajudicial punishment that they say they conducted at the behest of their c...

Anthony Geary, the actor best known for portraying Luke Spencer on the popular soap opera “General Hospital,” died in Amsterdam on Sunday. He was 78.His death, in a hospital days after surgery, was confirmed by his sister Deann Geary. Mr. Geary portrayed the mafia-connected Luke on and off for decades beginning in the late-1970s, a...

Rob Reiner, who died Sunday at the age of 78 alongside his wife, Michele, had a career that was remarkable for its versatility. After breaking out as a sitcom star with “All in the Family,” Reiner, the son of the revered comedian Carl Reiner, went on to direct more than 20 films that showed a vast range. Rob Reiner never stuck to o...

Before red and blue America, before MAGA and the resistance, before our current blue-collar and white-collar political sorting, there was Archie Bunker and Michael Stivic.“All in the Family,” which stormed onto American TV sets in 1971, was a showcase for Carroll O’Connor as the blustering, bigoted Archie. But it takes two to have...

Hotels are reopening on the Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim on Wednesday after the park halted overnight accommodations for over a week due to water-line breaks, the park said Monday. The park will resume overnight stays at El Tovar, Bright Angel Lodge, Maswik Lodge, Delaware North’s...