Earlier this month, I walked in a patch of protected Amazon rainforest and caught a glimpse of the world as it once was.Enormous Ipê trees burst through the canopy, towering above the rest of the forest. Hundred-year-old vines tied the ground to the sky. Thousands of leafcutter ants swarmed in and out of their subterranean colonies...

Our warming world has many ways of inflicting damage. Heat is a killer. Storms are getting more intense. And right now, floods are wreaking havoc across parts of Asia.Floods have killed more than 1,350 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam in recent weeks. Hundreds more are missing and millions have been displaced.He...

The Trump administration has spent much of the year dismantling federal climate policy and attacking the clean power industry. As a result, the growth of renewable energy like wind and solar power has slowed across the United States.Installations of solar, wind and batteries grew this year, but at the slowest rate in more than a de...

Power ⚡︎ MovesClean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It.Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the U.S. wants private industry to lead the way. The winner could reshape civilization.Envisioning a fusion-powered future: renderings of an American start-up's experimental devic...

Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, flashed a smile as he addressed a webcast hosted by the Make America Healthy Again movement.“We want to make sure,” Mr. Zeldin said, “that your members have a seat at the table, and that we’re able to directly engage and communicate.”It was in many ways a hostile...

The plane ferrying Friedrich Merz to Berlin looked as if someone had spruced up Air Force One and then shrunk it in the wash.It was painted white, with the gold, red and black of the German flag blazed across the side like a racing stripe. The cabin was paneled in dark, laminated wood and fitted with wide leather seats. Mr. Merz, t...

The lobby of the state-owned theater beside the Neris River in Vilnius, Lithuania, drips with yellow glass — its 72 chandeliers were shipped from the former East Germany 50 years ago. Jurgita Dronina, the new artistic director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater’s ballet company, sipped Champagne beneath this matrix...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was set to meet in Berlin on Monday with the American envoy Steve Witkoff and senior European leaders in the second day of high-level talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.Mr. Witkoff’s office that he would continue talks with Mr. Zelensky; Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany; and Jared...

Families were taking selfies over the weekend beside a giant pink polystyrene pig on the street in front of the National Assembly, a leftover from the enormous protests last week that filled the main square and adjoining avenues and toppled the government.“This is the Bulgarian politician who is stealing from Bulgaria,” said Emily...

Hundreds of employees at the Louvre Museum went on strike on Monday, prompting its temporary closure and compounding a sense of crisis that began with the theft in October of crown jewels worth roughly $100 million.Crowds of striking workers blocked the museum’s pyramid-shaped entrance Monday morning, after a daylong strike was cal...

To the Editor:“Our Housing Crisis, in One Chart,” by Ezra Klein (column, Nov. 30), shows clearly how years of underbuilding have left millions without stable, affordable homes. But the chart also hides a design problem: We still picture housing mainly as a line of units to produce, not as living habitats where community, wellness a...

There is a particular horror in violent attacks on holy days and in holy places. This is terror in its purest form, rendering a people not only fearful to express their faith, but also to forever associate those sacred days with loss and sorrow.The holiday of Simchat Torah, the Jewish celebration of the joyful embrace of Torah, wil...

A strange thing happened to me a few years ago.I was eating dinner with my family when I got a message from a friend that there was a Clubhouse discussion happening about me. Clubhouse is a social media app that enjoyed a brief period of prominence during the pandemic. It allows people to host online conversations, and I’ve describ...

There is a measure of comfort to be taken in the fact that Sunday’s terrorist attack at a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, which left at least 15 people dead and many more injured, also produced a hero. A man described in news accounts — but not yet confirmed by The Times — as a local shopkeepernamed Ahmed al-Ahmedsingle-han...

One wonders what goes on in the minds of the architects of President Trump’s foreign policy. It seems as if they have all taken time to study the classic history books on the causes of the world wars — Margaret MacMillan’s “The War that Ended Peace,”or E.H. Carr’s “The Twenty Years’ Crisis” — and then said to themselves: That’s exa...

The Republican Party’s wholesale embrace of Donald Trump has left traditional conservatives like the Times Opinion columnist Bret Stephens without a political home. But what happens after Trump leaves office? Will the party return to its Reaganite roots? In this conversation, Stephens and David Leonhardt, an editorial director in T...

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. The decline of literacy rates over the past decade is a national emergency. Fewer than a third of the na...

There I was, recording my students’ end-of-semester grades and worrying about how many A-minuses I was handing out, when President Trump came to the rescue and showed me I was being not soft but stern. I was denying those students one of the many, many marks higher than that.Like an A. Or an A-plus. Or an A-plus-plus. Or an A-plus-...

Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong newspaper publisher who spent decades fighting for the territory’s democratic freedoms, has been convicted on national security charges and may spend the rest of his life behind bars. He may not have much time left. Mr. Lai marked his 78th birthday in prison on Dec. 8. Once a large and robust man, he has lo...

The participants discuss public service, their perception of military service and the state of America in 2025.

It was on an October flight from the Middle East to Miami that everything-envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, decided it was time to turn to Ukraine.Through sheer chutzpah, the duo had just clinched an unlikely cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas just after the war’s second anniversary. Could the...

For most people, the tax cuts that President Trump signed into law this summer have yet to materialize. Only after Americans file their taxes next year will the savings become apparent, launching what Republicans hope will be a “refund boom” that lifts the public’s view of the economy.Many of America’s largest companies have not ha...

The attorneys general of 20 states including California and New York sued the Trump administration on Friday over its decision to impose a $100,000 fee on visas for skilled foreign workers.President Trump signed a proclamation in September imposing the fee. His administration has argued that some employers had abused the program to...

Alang, India – Standing on the windswept coastline of the Arabian Sea in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Ramakant Singh looks towards the empty, endless horizon.“In the olden days, ships lined up at this yard like buffaloes before a storm,” says the 47-year-old. “Now, we count the arrivals on our fingers.”Recommended Stories l...

Your brain is amazing. Its 86 billion neurons enable you to dance and sing, read a book, solve an equation, fall in love, remember the name of your fifth grade teacher and learn the name of your son’s new girlfriend. Throughout your life, your brain never stops changing.It should come as no surprise that how you treat your brain is...

About 13 years ago, Kyle Edmondson woke up after a night of drinking with friends and felt an intense pain on the top of his foot. Climbing out of bed, he could barely walk.His doctor told Mr. Edmondson, then a product designer in his 20s living in Kentucky, that he must have banged it up and advised him to stay off it. The pain su...

“It’s not me — it’s 100% about you. Unless you turn into a different person, this will never work.”Tricia Cramblet, Seattle“I know it sounds selfish,” he said, “but your family just doesn’t have enough money.”Lucile Jackson, Charlotte, N.C.Image“It wasn’t anything you did,” my first real girlfriend said. “You were a great boyfriend...

Thinking about donating to your favorite charity before the new year? You may want to consider tax law changes arriving in 2026 before deciding whether to make your gift in December or wait until next year.Changes this summer to the federal tax law, effective Jan. 1, mean that high earners who itemize deductions may see more of a b...

When claiming Social Security, the best financial move you can make is to wait until age 70.That’s the gold-standard advice from experts, who point to the substantial annual increase in your benefit for each year you delay claiming it after you reach what the government calls your full retirement age, either 66 or 67. Add Social Se...

The stock market has been sustained lately by expectations that the Federal Reserve is about to cut interest rates again. But that could change in an instant.It already has, several times. At the end of October, the markets deemed a Fed rate cut in December a near certainty, and that conviction bolstered stocks. On Nov. 19, though,...

Starting in January, millions of disabled Americans will become eligible to save and invest for current expenses and future needs without jeopardizing their federal benefits like Medicaid.About six million more people, including about a million veterans, may qualify for the so-called ABLE accounts run by most states, according to a...

I’ve been part of a small circle of friends for decades. We’ve shared everything: children, divorces, work struggles, the care of aging parents. But over time, the deep intimacies we once shared have now flattened, and our conversations have become mostly exchanges about food and travel and cattiness about specific family members.T...

Over the past five years, a close friend has been through a cascade of upheavals: a rushed marriage, two pregnancies, a lost job, a failed move to another state, a move back home, postpartum depression, more depression and constant blowups with her family. She says she’s “very against” medication and can’t afford therapy. Through a...

My wife and I have a 24-year-old son, our only child. He was different from the start, and we home-schooled him for a time, before moving to a smaller school district where he managed socially and academically. By high school he was doing respectably and taking medication for his attention issues.This changed during his senior year...

Q: When I exercise in frigid temperatures, my muscles and joints feel stiff and slower to react. Does this increase my risk of injury?When you spend time in cold weather, your body snaps into action to keep you warm. The blood vessels in your extremities narrow to send more blood to your core. You may also shiver — a survival mecha...

Q: I’ve heard that I should avoid working out before bed, since it might make it harder to fall asleep. But right now, the only free time I have to exercise is in the evening. Should my treadmill really be off-limits after 7 p.m.?Sleep guidelines have long advised against exercising in the hours before bed. But the latest research...

Q: I tend to run cold, especially in my hands and feet. Is that something to worry about?When you get cold, it’s normal to first feel it in your fingers and toes. They’re farthest from the body’s core, where most heat is generated.Cold hands and feet are usually nothing serious, said Dr. Nicholas Morrissey, a vascular surgeon at Co...

ImageCredit...Brian ReaThe Best Advertising CampaignA stoplight. A white truck. Pete’s eyes through the window. Instantly, I want to tell him everything. I keep seeing him: at church, Pete’s picture on an advertisement that arrives in my mailbox. He finds my number; we meet. I am cracked open. This won’t be easy. Both divorced, I h...

Last year, everything in my life unraveled. My marriage of 16 years ended abruptly. Menopause hit hard. I underwent an urgent hysterectomy after cancer markers caused me and an oncologist to contemplate my mortality. And in January, most of the Malibu neighborhood I called home for over a decade turned to ash. My Rebound Relationsh...

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ImageCredit...Brian ReaUnintentional IntendantThe new superintendent moved to our building one October. A single father of a 6-year-old girl, he charmed his way into the residents’ hearts. For Christmas he bought a fir tree for the lobby, but the old lights failed. I rushed to my apartment, dug out my box of decorations, brought th...

“I can’t imagine what you’re going through,” she said, yet another acquaintance who had heard the news about my son. “I’m so sorry.”“Here we go again,” I thought. “Right in the produce aisle.”Why It’s Best to Imagine the WorstI didn’t know whether to smile or cry. Reaching for something to lean on, I found only a hard-knobbed ginge...

On a brisk afternoon in Washington Square Park, a petite 76-year-old woman wearing Versace sunglasses and a hoodie studied the scene around her. She goes by Judi Jupiter, and as buskers strummed guitars and New York University students read books on benches, she was searching for something.“It’s just a feeling,” she said. “When I k...

My wife has become an eco-warrior. She has strong feelings about the environment and other people’s carbon footprints. She challenges our friends repeatedly about their lifestyle choices. I agree with her in principle, but I can’t support her moral outrage. It’s become clear to me that her behavior is off-putting to many people we...

On March 18, Mayar Kabaja faced another close call. She was on a WhatsApp video chat with her boyfriend, Hatem Saadallah, late at night while her family slept. Suddenly, she heard loud explosions near her apartment in the central Gaza town of Nuseirat. The window beside her shattered.Ms. Kabaja, 24, went into shock. “I didn’t feel...

Take a quick trip through online spaces where young conservatives gather, and one somewhat clunky term is likely to appear again and again: H-1B. The characters refer to the relatively obscure immigration policy that allows up to 85,000 foreign workers to fill specialized roles in the United States every year, and it has become a h...

When James Cameron swept the Oscars in 1998 for “Titanic” — the epic he called “Romeo and Juliet,” but wet — he got up onstage and crowed that he was “the King of the World.”“That was a big eye-roll on the part of the audience,” he recalled with a rueful smile.Going overboard is Mr. Cameron’s modus vivendi. Many in Hollywood had ex...

TOKYO (AP) — I speak decent Spanish, picked up working several decades ago as a news and sports reporter in Spain, Mexico and Argentina.Now I report from Tokyo. After seven years, I still can’t grasp Japanese. My weekly language classes have taught me humility more than anything else.Ayaka O...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The fight over California’s new congressional map designed to help Democrats flip congressional House seats will go to court Monday as a panel of federal judges considers whether the district boundaries approved by voters last month can be used in elections. The hearing in...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When actor Amy Baik was cast in a South Korean commercial last year, she thought she had landed a promising gig.But after filming wrapped, she was shocked to learn that both the director and advertiser had cut her scenes — not because of her performance, but because...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Afghanistan’s neighbors met in Iran and agreed to deepen regional coordination to address political, economic and security challenges, as well as calling for sanctions on Afghanistan to be lifted. The only absent party? Afghanistan itself. China, Pakistan, Pakistan, Tajik...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand will hold an early election on Feb. 8, the country’s election regulator said Monday, days after Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved the country’s parliament. Anutin, who has been in office for only three months and is seeking another term, disbanded the legis...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Cyclist Barnaby Wickham has collected more than 700 lost hubcaps, mostly on bike rides around Baltimore. They have inspired a quest to turn litter into art, including Christmas wreaths, a giant fish and a large head of Snoopy. It is a hobby that developed nearly two years ag...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space.Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles (269 million kilometers) of our planet on Friday,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators were questioning a family member of director-actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele after they were found dead at their home in Los Angeles, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.Investigators believe they suffered stab wounds, s...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Almost from the moment that Glenn Youngkin became Virginia’s governor four years ago, the political world has wondered what’s next for a Republican who seemed to keep one foot in the MAGA movement and the other in the party’s traditional country club establishment. He’s...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Dense toxic smog blanketed India’s national capital Monday, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks, disrupting travel and causing authorities to impose the strictest containment measures.More than 40 flights were cancelled and several dozens delayed. Ove...

America’s regional theaters are facing difficult times: staging fewer shows, employing fewer workers, and running deficits more frequently than before the pandemic.But not all of them are struggling. Some are booming.In Wisconsin, Milwaukee Repertory Theater has finished the first phase of an $80 million renovation of its three-the...

‘A Christmas Carol’Stream it at Summoners Ensemble Theater in New York City and the Alley Theater in Houston.In New York, an immersive production of the holiday classic from London’s Old Vic offers storytelling and song-singing to audiences at the Perelman Performing Arts Center. And the annual, intimate staging returns at the Merc...

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” the last song to become a holiday standard, arrived in 1994 — and didn’t top the charts until 25 years later. That hasn’t stopped artists from all corners of popular music from giving it a go. This year brings entries from country stars, comedians and a supermodel.Herb Alpert, ‘Chri...

As a girl in 1940s Chicago, Jeanette Winter found pleasure but also confusion in telling stories through drawing.This, she knew, was her passion — but how could it ever be her life?Jeanette never read about the lives of artists. What artists she knew about were not women. And people who did what she loved professionally — illustrat...

Within 50 years of independence, America built two competing heavens: the rapture and the American dream. One was driven by the end-of-days fervor of the Second Great Awakening; the other was drawn from the unruly optimism of founders like Thomas Jefferson. One promised the righteous would rise; the other swore everyone could.But t...

A quarterly survey of major Japanese manufacturers released Monday shows business sentiment improving to its best level in four years, even after President Trump raised tariffs on goods from the U.S. ally to a baseline level of 15%. The Bank of Japan is bound to take the results of its quart...

There were beers in Honolulu and coffees in Vienna; lengthy drives across the southwestern United States and repeat visits to Los Angeles on a countrywide journey. Eventually, the airports to gain access to faraway cities like Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, and São Paulo, Brazil,started blurring together.After a year of cons...

In an era of niche culture, algorithmic bubbles and online echo chambers, it’s harder than ever to have broad appeal, but these 10 performers managed to turn heads by being bold, breaking away from the pack.TelevisionOwen CooperImageIn an episode of “Adolescence,” Jamie squares off against a psychologist (Erin Doherty, who won an E...

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The year Jaden Lander turned 16 he went to his first car race. It sparked something in him. When he came home all aglow, his mother suggested he enter an amateur race.Five months later, unfortunately, he failed his first driver’s license test.“I hit the curb,” he recalled. “And I almost failed the second one for going too slow.”But...

Q: I own an apartment in a 75-unit condominium building in Harlem, where the management company and the board have a serious problem with transparency. The building’s most pressing and costly financial issues are two lawsuits and rising property taxes. Some owners learned that the building had settled one of the lawsuits, but manag...

PRAGUE (AP) — A new Czech coalition government led by populist billionaire Andrej Babiš took office on Monday with an agenda to steer the country away from supporting Ukraine and reject some key European Union policies.President Petr Pavel swore in the Cabinet at the Prague Castle, ending a...

BERLIN (AP) — European leaders are expected to cement support for Ukraine Monday as it faces Washington’s pressure to swiftly accept a U.S.-brokered peace deal.Peace talks between U.S. envoys and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as Ukrainian and European officials, continued...

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Floods triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 37 people in the Moroccan coastal city of Safi, the Interior Ministry said Monday.Authorities said heavy rain and flash floods overnight inundated about 70 homes and businesses and swept away 10 vehicles. Th...

Reactions to the death of actor-director Rob Reiner, who was found dead with his wife Michele Reiner at their home in Los Angeles on Sunday. The acclaimed director and Emmy winner was also a major Democratic booster, leading many prominent politicians to share tributes.Here’s a look at some...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities on Monday launched the final nationwide anti-polio vaccination campaign of the year, aiming to protect 45 million children after more than two dozen cases of the potentially paralyzing disease were reported, officials said.According to the World Health...

LONDON (AP) — British pop star Cliff Richard said Monday he has been given the all-clear after treatment for prostate cancer.The 85-year-old singer joined calls for Britain to introduce a national screening program for the disease.Richard told “Good Morning Britain” that he was diagnosed a y...

Winter is fast approaching, and at these five festive new and renovated escapes — including A-frame cabins in Vermont, a country estatein New Jersey and an Art Nouveau hotel in the heart of Vienna — you can kick off the cozy season. Apple cider toddies, cookie decorating and winter-theme spa treatments arrive amid the long evenings...

When my husband and I followed our GPS to the charming Maine saltbox home we’d rented on Airbnb last July, we blew right past. We circled back, finally accepting that we’d arrived. Surely, this sad shack on top of a retaining wall at the back of an empty lot was not where we’d planned to spend our summer vacation, was it?The listin...

Around 2 a.m., Joseph felt the withdrawal coming on, sudden and hard. He fell to the floor convulsing, vomiting ferociously. The delirium and hallucinations were starting.He shook awake his friend, who had let him in earlier to shower, wash his clothes and grab some sleep. “Do you have a few dollars?” he pleaded. “I have to get rig...

LONDON (AP) — The new head of the MI6 spy agency is set to warn on Monday of how Russian President Vladimir Putin’s determination to export chaos around the world is rewriting the rules of conflict and creating new security challenges.Blaise Metreweli will use her first public speech as chief of the United Kingdom’s foreign intell...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Ah Louis Store in San Luis Obispo, California, turns into a winter wonderland every holiday season.Green garlands, giant nutcrackers, baubles and bows go up in early November on the historic downtown building that houses the gift shop. Inside, customers can choose from ov...

TOKYO (AP) — Popular twin pandas at a Tokyo zoo are set to return to their homeland in China in late January, officials said Monday, leaving Japan without a panda for the first time in about half a century. Prospects for their replacement are not favorable either as ties between the two coun...

MONGKOL BOREY, Cambodia (AP) — Heavy combat between Thailand and Cambodia entered a second week on Monday, with Phnom Penh claiming that Thai bombing is hitting deeper into its territory, coming close to shelters for people who had already fled dangerous areas along the border.According to C...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s ousted conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol plotted for over a year to impose martial law to eliminate his political rivals and monopolize power, investigators concluded Monday. Yoon’s martial law decree in December 2024 lasted only several hours and r...

SYDNEY (AP) — A father and son are suspected by officials to have killed 15 people on a popular Australian beach, shocking a country where gun violence is rare. The government on Monday, a day after the shootings, proposed tougher new gun laws amid criticism that officials didn’t take seriou...

SYDNEY (AP) — As the sounds of bullets rang out and the bodies fell, the young mother threw herself on top of her 5-year-old son and prayed.“Please don’t let us die,” 33-year-old Rebecca begged God from her hiding place under a table in a park overlooking Bondi, Australia’s most iconic beach...

They said she “should see a psychologist,” had “gone completely mad” and hadn’t “recognized the meaning and purpose of her other life” away from skiing.Well, Lindsey Vonn’s return to downhill racing on her titanium knee doesn’t seem so crazy now.Not after she dominated the opening speed week...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Sunday unveiled the renovation of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in a series of government archaeological events aimed at attracting more tourists to the country.The giant alabaster statues, known as the Colo...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes tore the ACL in his left knee while trying to keep the Kansas City Chiefs’ postseason hopes alive in the waning seconds of a 16-13 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday, and the two-time MVP quarterback was considering surgical options.It’s the mo...

Russian drones and missiles pummeled Odesa, Ukraine, overnight on Friday into Saturday in one of the biggest attacks of the war on the southern port, causing major power outages that plunged parts of the city into darkness.The attack targeted energy, industrial and other infrastructure in several regions of southern Ukraine, leavin...

The Syrian gunman who killed two U.S. Army soldiers and an American civilian interpreter on Saturday was a member of Syria’s security forces slated for dismissal over his extremist views, according to Syrian and American officials.The attack in the central city of Palmyra marked the first U.S. casualties in Syria since the Syrian s...

Director-actor Rob Reiner and his wife have been found dead at their home in Los Angeles, according to United States media reports.The LA Police Department said in a statement on Sunday that they were investigating the deaths of two people in an apparent homicide.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Why the huge bidding wa...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr lamented that he was again speaking about gun violence before a game in Portland seven years after he addressed the horrific mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. Kerr spoke Sunday night before Golden State’s game at the Trail Blazer...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal prosecutors were set to start presenting their case Monday against a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant evade federal authorities.Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan’s trial on obstruction and concealment charges was scheduled to begin...

BANGKOK (AP) — Shares fell Monday in Asia as China reported investment fell in November in the latest signal that demand in the world’s second largest economy remains weak. The retreat followed a dismal end to last week, when declines for superstar artificial-intelligence stocks knocked Wal...

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday proposed tougher national gun laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, leaving at least 15 people dead.Albanese said he would propose new restrictions, including limiting the number...

HEFEI, China (AP) — Volkswagen is making a major bet in China, the largest and one of the most cutthroat auto markets in the world. The question is whether it will work.The German carmaker, which once dominated the market with a more than 50% share, has invested 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion...

PARIS (AP) — Workers at the Louvre in Paris will on Monday vote to go on strike or continue talks with the government after months of mounting pressure on the world’s most visited museum, which unions have described as being “in crisis.”Hundreds of employees will gather behind closed doors i...

BEIRUT (AP) — Qassim Hamadeh woke to the sounds of gunfire and explosions in his village of Beit Jin in southwestern Syria last month. Within hours, he had lost two sons, a daughter-in-law and his 4-year-old and 10-year-old grandsons. The five were among 13 villagers killed that day by Israe...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police said Monday they arrested a man in connection with the alleged stabbing of two people at an entertainment complex housing the female pop music group HKT48 in the southern city of Fukuoka, leaving them with non-life-threatening injuries.Fukuoka police said they ar...

Marlon Wayans starring in the Jordan Peele-produced football thriller “Him” and the iHeartRadio Z100’s Jingle Ball 2025 featuring Conan Gray, Ed Sheeran, Jelly Roll and Olivia Dean are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.Also among the streaming off...

Rob Reiner, the son of a comedy giant who went on to become one, himself, as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation with movies such as “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally …” and “This Is Spinal Tap,” has died. He was 78. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found de...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two former attorneys and an aide who all worked on President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign were scheduled to appear Monday for a preliminary hearing in Wisconsin on felony forgery charges related to a fake elector scheme.The Wisconsin case is moving forward even as others...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year.“It’s such an illustrative word,” said Greg Barlow, Merri...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the rest of the world rushes to harness the power of artificial intelligence, militant groups also are experimenting with the technology, even if they aren’t sure exactly what to do with it.For extremist organizations, AI could be a powerful tool for recruiting new membe...

MIAMI (AP) — On a warm Sunday morning in Miami, Sen. Ruben Gallego stepped out of a car and approached parishioners exiting a church beneath palm trees, handing out flyers in this Dominican neighborhood. Gallego left some of his staff members behind as he drummed up support for a fellow Demo...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Director-actor Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were the two people found dead Sunday at a Los Angeles home owned by Reiner, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.The official could not publicly discuss details of the investigation and spoke t...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The final images of the Kansas City Chiefs’ postseason pursuit were Patrick Mahomes getting helped to the locker room with what turned out to be a torn ACL in his left knee, a white towel draped over his head, and backup quarterback Gardner Minshew throwing an interce...

The developer of a popular app used to monitor and share alerts about immigration enforcement activities has sued the administration of United States President Donald Trump for pressuring Apple to remove it.ICEBlock, whose name refers to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had one million users before it was dropped from App...

The United Kingdom’s domestic intelligence agency MI5 protected an IRA double agent who committed murders during Northern Ireland’s Troubles and later avoided prosecution, a major investigation has found.The findings are from Operation Kenova, a nearly decade-long police probe into “Stakeknife” – the codename for a senior IRA figur...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says it is in the process of filing a lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for designating the civil rights group as a “foreign terrorist” organisation.Hiba Rahim, the interim executive director of the state chapter of CAIR, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that while DeSantis’s d...

United States Congressman Randy Fine, an ally of President Donald Trump, has suggested that “mainstream Muslims” should be destroyed, boasting that he is not afraid to be called Islamophobic.During a congressional hearing on Tuesday, Fine – who has a long history of Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian statements – cited the myth that...

Venezuela’s National Assembly has voted to peel back the South American country’s commitment to the Rome Statute, the international treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC).On Thursday, top Venezuelan lawmakers applauded the vote as a strike against an antiquated institution – one that has sought to investigat...

Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the pebbly coast in 2019, rock climbers explored steep slabs of limestone — remnants of an ancient seabed. They found thousands of curious imprints in the rock: moon-shaped marks that appeared in pairs and round divots.Now, researchers have surveyed the marks a...

Inside a makeshift tent in the heart of the besieged Gaza Strip, Israel’s genocidal war, which has destroyed neighbourhoods, schools and hospitals, decimated families and shattered lives for more than two years, no longer exists.Virtual reality technology is taking Palestinian children struggling with physical and psychological wou...

At least three people have been killed and nine others wounded, when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a drone attack on a central Sudanese city, as fighting intensifies across the vast strategic region of Kordofan that could determine the war’s outcome.The strike hit a square near a police station in the Tayba n...

The Israeli military says it has killed senior Hamas commander Raed Saad in an attack near Gaza City.The attack on Saturday killed five people and wounded at least 25, according to Gaza health authorities.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Fourteen Palestinians, including children, die in Gaza amid Storm Byronlist 2 of 3...

Hamas has confirmed the killing of senior commander Raed Saad in an Israeli attack in Gaza in the highest-profile assassination of a senior figure in the Palestinian group since the October ceasefire.The Israeli military had said it killed Saad in an attack on Saturday near Gaza City. At least 25 people were wounded.Recommended Sto...

Ziad Mahmoud Amayri sat with photographs of his 10 lost family members laid out in front of him.“There are two options: Either the government gives me justice, or I take justice myself.”Amayri’s threat is directed at one man: Fadi Saqr.Saqr was a commander of the National Defence Forces (NDF), a militia loyal to Bashar al-Assad tha...

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – After a night of relentless rain, Arafat al-Ghandour and his wife, Nour, finally exhaled in relief as the morning sun emerged, if only briefly, over the soaked displacement camp.The couple, parents of five, live in a worn tent riddled with holes. They spent the night battling water pouring in from every direct...

Santiago, Chile – Sitting on a bench in the centre of the capital Santiago, Fernando Carrasco peers over his shoulder as a man with a large duffel bag takes a seat nearby.The 62-year-old grandfather clutches his cellphone tightly. He lowers his voice.“These days you can’t wander the streets after nine at night in the [urban] core,”...

Nearly 1,000 people have been killed, and close to one million displaced, Indonesia has said a week after torrential rains triggered catastrophic floods and landslides.The National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) reported late on Sunday that 961 people had been killed, with 234 people missing and about 5,000 injured across the Ac...

The year 2025 is on track to be the second hottest on record, Europe’s climate monitor has said, in the latest warning that the planet’s climate is headed towards a catastrophic point of no return.The global average temperature from January to November was 1.48 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, m...

Storm Byron has swept across the Gaza Strip, killing at least 14 people and injuring others as harsh winds, relentless rain and collapsing structures crush families already displaced by Israel’s devastating assault on the enclave, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Interior and National Security.The ministry said five people died over...

Thousands of flights operated by India’s largest airline, IndiGo, have been cancelled in the past week, disrupting air travel during peak travel season in the world’s most populous nation.The chaos started last week due to a pilot shortage after the private carrier failed to adapt to a new government guideline on the rest and duty...

The United States is planning to require some visitors to provide their social media history from the past five years, according to US President Donald Trump’s administration.This requirement will apply to visitors who do not need a visa to enter the US.Here is a closer look at this proposal:What is the US planning to do?The propos...

The United States has announced sanctions on three nephews by marriage of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and six Venezuela-flagged oil tankers and shipping firms linked to them, amid ongoing political conflict between Washington and Caracas.This latest move by Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday came just one day after U...

Russian attacks have left thousands without power in Ukraine, while a drone attack killed two people in Russia, as United States-led peace talks on ending the war, deep in its fourth year, press on.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that Russian night-time attacks damaged more than a dozen civilian facilities, di...

Tens of thousands of Hungarians have taken part in a demonstration in Budapest demanding Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s resignation over his inaction towards repeated child-abuse scandals in the country.Since returning to power in 2010, Orban has promised to prioritise the protection of children in Hungary, but multiple high-profile...

Here is where things stand on Sunday, December 14:Fighting Two people were killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian city of Saratov, regional Governor Roman Busargin said in a statement on Telegram. An unspecified number of people were also injured in the attack. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it hit Ukrainian industria...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has indicated that Kyiv is prepared to drop its long-held ambition of joining NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees, as he held meetings with US envoys and European allies in Berlin.The talks on Sunday came amid pressure from US President Donald Trump to reach a settlement. Trump’s...

France has urged the European Union to postpone a vote on a trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur, saying conditions are not yet in place for an agreement.In a statement from Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu’s office on Sunday, Paris said that EU member states cannot vote on the trade agreement in its current state.Recom...

These are updates for Monday, December 15, 2025, as Australia grapples with the aftermath of the Bondi Beach shooting.

These are updates for Monday, December 15, 2025, as Australia grapples with the aftermath of the Bondi Beach shooting.

These are updates for Monday, December 15, 2025, as Australia grapples with the aftermath of the Bondi Beach shooting.

These are updates for Monday, December 15, 2025, as Australia grapples with the aftermath of the Bondi Beach shooting.

Supporters of Hong Kong democracy activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai have begun queuing overnight outside a Hong Kong court ahead of a verdict in his lengthy trial.The verdict will be delivered by a three-judge panel in a hearing that begins at 10am local time (02:00 GMT) on Monday and comes amid international calls to release Lai,...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the country’s largest political party, is decisively breaking its decades-long alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami, the South Asian nation’s biggest Islamist group, repositioning itself instead as a liberal, democratic force before national elections.The shift comes 16 months after the toppling...

An attack on a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan has killed six soldiers, according to officials.An armed group stormed the checkpoint in the tribal district of Kurram in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province overnight on Monday-Tuesday, leading to a heavy exchange of fire, police and security sources said.The attack comes as tension...

Israel killed more journalists in 2025 than any other country, according to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).Israeli forces carrying out the genocidal war in Gaza were responsible for the deaths of 29 Palestinian reporters, RSF said in its annual report published on Tuesday. It was the third year running that Israel was...

Colombo, Sri Lanka – Sundaram Muttupillai, 46, had been working on a tea estate in Thalawakelle in Sri Lanka’s central district of Nuwara Eliya since he turned 17.However, a devastating cyclone last week, the worst to hit the Indian Ocean island in a century, has left him without work or a home.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsli...

Bangladesh will hold a parliamentary election on February 12, authorities said, in what would be the country’s first national vote since last year’s student-led uprising that removed former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.In a televised address on Thursday, the chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin confirmed the date and said a...

For the sake of global security and freedom, the world’s democracies must collaborate better.

Preventing a world where dictators can attack at will requires a military that has the right tools, the right tactics and the right culture.

The Rapid Support Forces’ control of the Heglig oilfield means that the most important functioning oil facility in Sudan has fallen outside the control of the central government, with production halted and workers evacuated towards neighbouring South Sudan.The importance of this event is not merely symbolic; Heglig is a strategic h...

France’s National Assembly is set to vote on a major social security budget bill, in a critical test for the embattled Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, who has pledged to deliver the country’s 2026 budget before the end of the year.Debate on the legislation began on Tuesday afternoon. Lecornu governs without a majority in parliame...

United States President Donald Trump has raised tariffs by 5 percent on imports from Mexico, accusing the country of failing to uphold a cross-border water treaty.The tariff hike was revealed in a social media message late on Monday, as tensions simmer between the two North American neighbours.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslis...

The United States government has issued sanctions against four Colombian nationals and the four businesses they help run, accusing them of forming a “transnational network” to profit from Sudan’s civil war.On Tuesday, the US Treasury published a statement identifying Alvaro Andres Quijano Becerra, Claudia Viviana Oliveros Forero, M...

The United States House of Representatives has voted forward a bill that would end the restrictive Caesar Act sanctions on Syria, originally imposed during the rule of former leader Bashar al-Assad.The bid to repeal the sanctions was passed on Wednesday as part of a larger defence spending package, known as the National Defense Aut...

About 200,000 people have fled their homes in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in recent days, the United Nations says, as Rwanda-backed rebels swarm a strategic town just days after a United States-led peace effort, which now appears under severe threat.The M23 armed group pushed into and around the strategic cit...

The United Nations’ top human rights official says his office is struggling to operate after major funding cuts from donor governments, even as rights abuses escalate across the globe.Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said on Wednesday that the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has $90m less tha...

South Sudan’s military has moved into the Heglig oilfield under an unprecedented agreement between the country and neighbouring Sudan’s warring parties to safeguard critical energy infrastructure from the country’s civil war.The deployment on Wednesday came after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the strategic si...

More than 400 civilians have been killed following the recent surge in fighting as the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group continues its offensive in South Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to regional officials.The M23 consolidated control over the strategic town of Uvira in South Kivu on Thu...

Human activity has caused some rainforests to switch from being a solution for climate change, to a source of it, a new study has found.The study, published in the scientific journal Nature, discovered that Africa’s forests and woody savannas, which “historically acted as a carbon sink, removing atmospheric carbon and storing it as...

Cotonou, Benin – The Dantokpa market in Cotonou is once again a whirlwind of activity, just days after a failed bid to topple the Beninese government.Pedestrians and cart pushers jostle in the narrow streets, a sign that daily life is returning to normal following the brief but intense crisis.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist...

Congolese refugees have recounted harrowing scenes of death and family separation as they fled intensified fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where Rwanda-backed M23 rebels captured a strategic city despite a recent United States-brokered peace agreement.M23 has cemented control over Uvira, a key lakesi...

A cautious calm has settled over the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Uvira in South Kivu province, as residents begin emerging from their homes following its capture by M23 rebels.The capture earlier this week threatens to derail a United States-brokered peace agreement, signed with much fanfare and overseen...

Bill and Hillary Clinton’s lawyer writes a letter on Dec. 10 to the House Oversight Committee opposing their live testimony regarding the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

Bill and Hillary Clinton’s lawyer writes a letter on Nov. 3 to the House Oversight Committee opposing their live testimony regarding the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

Bill and Hillary Clinton’s lawyer writes a letter on Oct. 6 to the House Oversight Committee opposing their live testimony regarding the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

Two suspects opened fire from a footbridge at hundreds of people who had gathered for a Hanukkah celebration.

When a U.S. general publicly declared that Mexico was a haven for Russian spies, Mexico's then-president immediately dismissed it.“We have no information about that,” said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to journalists the next day, in March 2022.It was not true.His top advisers had received repeated warnings from Washington...

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 triggered tsunami warnings in some areas of Japan's northern coast on Monday and led to evacuation notices as authorities investigated the extent of the damage and whether there had been any casualties.The Japan Meteorological Agency said the earthquake occurred off Aomori pre...

Faithful people, dressed in kimonos and tailored belts, took their places inside a sacred Shinto shrine. One by one, they received blessings from a priest and obediently listened to ancient chants. Then they started barking.It was a Friday morning at the Ichigaya Kamegaoka sanctuary in Tokyo, and a parade of poodles, Pomeranians, C...

Since Israeli forces withdrew from parts of Gaza in October under a ceasefire agreement, Hamas has moved quickly to fill the void.Its police forces have taken to the streets again. Its fighters have executed opponents. And, according to local businessmen, its officials have charged taxes on some expensive products imported into the...

There are an estimated 440,000 Australian teenagers, aged 13 to 15, on Snapchat. On Instagram, 350,000 of that age group are active users, and on TikTok, 200,000. Even Facebook, not exactly in the spirit of Generation Alpha, has 150,000.On Wednesday, those numbers are supposed to change dramatically under a landmark law that will r...

On a recent windy November evening, the town’s sheriff and a handful of his deputies, clad in duster coats and Stetson hats, smoked on the porch outside the county jail, their Colt revolvers holstered and their Winchester rifles stowed away.The men knew they were powerless against the trouble headed their way.On the opposite side o...

The actors stepping in front of the camera were amateurs, but they were hardly new to show business.There was a bearded rancher who had played a bounty hunter in a Western-style action flick. A soft-spoken cook who had moonlighted as a dancer in an art-house drama. And a chatty grandmother who made her silver screen debut in a belo...

The matinee was coming to a gruesome ending on the screen, but in the seats casual conversation mixed with a salvo of ringtones, several of which resulted in long phone calls. Dozens of patrons wandered in and out of the auditorium. One man stopped in the aisle to stretch, his puffer jacket emitting loud polyester swishes with ever...

As a teenager growing up during years of war in the Western Balkans, Dijana Hrka learned to live with hunger. There was no food, no electricity and little water when her Serbian community went into hiding under enemy bombardment, but she survived.Now Ms. Hrka, 48, is again without food — this time by choice.She is two weeks into a...

The Rev. Numa Molina wields unusual power for a parish priest in a working-class commuter town near the Caribbean coast.The Venezuelan Jesuit is on a first-name basis with the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. He conducts private Masses for Mr. Maduro’s family and advises his son, a ruling party lawmaker, on his outreach to the...

When her husband was dying, the woman who would become bishop of Oslo did not try to save his soul.Sunniva Gylver remained by her husband’s side as he succumbed to lung cancer in the summer of 2021. But though a longtime pastor, she never tried to impose her Lutheran faith on her partner, a lifelong atheist.“My experience is that y...

Nestled in the sky-high plateaus of the Chilean Andes, amid grazing alpacas and clear water streams, the squat adobe houses of Indigenous farmers now had tall aluminum gates and iron grilles welded to their windows.“I live in fear,” said Erika Moscoso, 57, a baker born in the village, who recently installed locks on her doors for t...

In the latest step in a growing thaw with the United States, Belarus on Saturday freed more than 100 prisoners, including two opposition leaders and a Nobel laureate, as the Trump administration announced it would lift sanctions on potash fertilizer, one of Belarus’s largest sources of cash.The deal with the Belarusian strongman Al...

The Israeli military said it killed one of Hamas’s top commanders in Gaza in a targeted strike on a car on Saturday, in what would be the most high-profile assassination of a senior figure in the militant group since the cease-fire began two months ago.The target of the attack was Raed Saad, a senior commander in the Qassam Brigade...

It was close to midnight, and Rino Barillari was prowling Rome’s back streets in a taxi, hunting for celebrities.Approaching a cluster of smokers outside a restaurant, Mr. Barillari, known in Italy as the “king of paparazzi,” barked out instructions to the cabby.“Slow down, go slow. Who are these people,” he said, rapidly raising h...

Kenya is staking its economy on women like Purity Marangu, who left her family to work in Saudi Arabia.They work as housekeepers, normally a safe job. But many have been assaulted, starved and worse. Hundreds have been killed.Betty Awino said her boss had beaten and raped her.Others ended up stranded for years, unable to get home.T...

One far-right lawmaker demanded that the German authorities reveal the exact routes used by the German military to take supplies to Ukraine.A second pushed the government to disclose whether it had provided Ukraine with a long-range rocket system capable of striking deep inside Russia.A third wanted officials to reveal if the Germa...

Tents flooded as rain poured down outside. Children huddled around campfires in buildings half-smashed by fighting. Roads torn up by two years of war turned to muddy tracks.For Gazans, the storm that battered the enclave this week was a reminder that while the bombs may have stopped falling for now, life is still far from normal.Pa...