A senior Hamas official on Sunday confirmed the death of a top commander in Gaza, a day after the Israeli military carried out a missile strike on a car in which he was riding.The killing of Raed Saad on Saturday was the most high-profile assassination of a senior Hamas figure since Israel and the militant group agreed to a cease-f...

When a lone gunman that President Trump said was linked to the Islamic State killed three Americans in central Syria on Saturday, it laid bare the mounting security challenges and precarious state of affairs confronting the country’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa.Since ousting Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, a year ago, Mr. al-Sha...

José Antonio Kast, a conservative candidate, was elected Chile’s president on Sunday, a sharp rightward swing for a country where voters have grown deeply concerned about security and illegal immigration.Mr. Kast, 59, a father of nine with ideological roots in conservative Roman Catholicism and economic neoliberalism, had campaigne...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met in Germany on Sunday with President Trump’s negotiators in what was viewed as a critical round of talks to try to agree on a plan to end the war with Russia.As Mr. Trump pushes Mr. Zelensky to take a deal, saying Ukraine is losing, Mr. Zelensky made it clear that the country was willing t...

Australian officials said the shooting at a Jewish holiday celebration had been carried out by a father and son. More than three dozen people were hospitalized, including a surviving gunman.

The hillside hamlet was built around a matriarch’s stubborn, scandalous love.Its four homes — with foundations of stone, walls of concrete and strict boundaries of discipline set by the matriarch, H.M. Koinmanike — survived tropical downpours and the ever-present stigma that followed her decision to marry a man of a different ethni...

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, welcomed home specialized soldiers this week after a deployment in Russia’s war against Ukraine, honoring nine killed in action with his country’s highest medal, state media reported on Saturday.The event was North Korea’s first public acknowledgment that it had sent specialized troops, combat eng...

The Thai government on Saturday disputed President Trump’s announcement that Thailand and Cambodia had agreed to a cease-fire, as its prime minister pledged to continue military action and the standoff between the two countries intensified.There was confusion overnight in Thailand and Cambodia after Mr. Trump said on Friday that bo...

The head of South Korea’s notoriously grueling college entrance exam resigned after apologizing for creating an English-language test so difficult that it prompted a public outcry.The 2026 English test “did not meet the appropriate difficulty level,” read a statement from the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, the organ...

Australian officials said the shooting at a Jewish holiday celebration had been carried out by a father and son. More than three dozen people were hospitalized, including a surviving gunman.

Three Americans were killed over the weekend in central Syria in what President Trump called an “ISIS attack against the U.S.” Their deaths were the first American casualties on Syrian soil since the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.The attack is a reminder that there are still U.S. troops in Syria — around 1,0...

Judges in Hong Kong will hand down a verdict in the landmark national security trial of the media tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai on Monday, bringing to a close a five-year-old case that has come to symbolize the sweeping political changes in the city.Mr. Lai, 78, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of “conspiracy to c...

Officials have cast Mr. Lai, a pro-democracy media tycoon, as the mastermind of protests that roiled the city in 2019. He could face life in prison.

In the first part of his life, Jimmy Lai rose from refugee from mainland China and child laborer to owner of a casual apparel empire, becoming a millionaire.In the second, he made a move few tycoons would, throwing his wealth and influence into backing mass pro-democracy protests and creating a popular newspaper in Hong Kong that r...

When Brown University junior Mia Tretta’s phone began buzzing with an emergency alert during finals week, she tried to convince herself it couldn’t be happening again.In 2019, Tretta had been shot in the abdomen during a mass shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California. Two s...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tens of thousands of Brazilians demonstrated Sunday against a bill that advanced in Congress this week which would reduce the time former President Jair Bolsonaro spends behind bars following his sentence of more than 27 years for attempting a coup.Protests took place i...

HONG KONG (AP) — To his supporters, former media mogul Jimmy Lai is a fighter for democracy. To his opponents, he’s a traitor to his motherland.Lai, 78, is an outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party who was arrested in 2020 under a national security law following massive anti-gove...

HONG KONG (AP) — Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court on Monday, which could send him to prison for the rest of his life.Three government-vetted judges found Lai, 78,...

SYDNEY (AP) — It was a beautiful summer evening at Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach, thronged on Sunday by thousands of people soaking up the lingering warmth or taking sunset dips in the sparkling sea. Nearby, a Hanukkah celebration attracted families of all faiths, drawn in by face painting for...

“I like to look at what everyone is doing, find some common thing that they’re all assuming implicitly,” Rodney Brooks said, “and negate that thing.”The pioneering roboticist was speaking directly to camera in the 1997 Errol Morris film “Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control,” which juxtaposes interviews of Mr. Brooks, a lion tamer, a to...

How much should an artwork tell you about itself? What does it owe you? These kinds of questions linger in Charisse Pearlina Weston’s ambitious exhibition at the Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea, her first solo show there. But before all that, some advice: Tread carefully. Weston uses materials like concrete, brick and metal, and w...

Good morning! Today we have for you:A chewy chai gingerbread cookie to impress your co-workers (true story)Yotam Ottolenghi’s chicken and chickpea tray bakeAnd, a supersimple olive-oil baked salmon recipe to flavor as you pleaseImageGenevieve Ko’s chewy chai gingerbread.Credit...Julia Gartland for The New York Times. Food Stylist:...

SEATTLE (AP) — Philip Rivers showed he still knows how to play quarterback at age 44, throwing a first-half touchdown pass for the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday after ending a nearly five-year retirement.Rivers ran the Colts’ offense effectively against the Seattle Seahawks’ stout defense. to...

A lot of book covers look alike on purpose. When a particularly striking image graces a book that catches fire in the hearts and minds of an audience, its aesthetic is inevitably, deliberately applied and reapplied, again and again, until the shorthand exhausts itself. Financially, this logic is airtight. Artistically, it encourage...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Tina Jordan, the deputy editor of The New York Times Book Review, started keeping track this year of the titles the team was considering for review.She lost count around 1,500.Working all the way from the...

When Alban Berg’s opera “Wozzeck” was first seen in Berlin 100 years ago, it jolted its audience with a musical twist.Opera fans were used to modern works that abandoned traditional ideas of form and sound. And for the most part they got that with “Wozzeck,” an unsparing and tragic thriller about a soldier driven to murder by indig...

WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (AP) — “Christmas at Pemberly Manor” and “Romance at Reindeer Lodge” may never make it to Oscar night, but legions of fans still love these sweet-yet-predictable holiday movies — and this season, many are making pilgrimages to where their favorite scenes were filmed.That’...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading candidate to be President Donald Trump’s choice for Federal Reserve chair said that he would present the president’s views to Fed officials for their consideration but they could reject them if they chose when making decisions on interest rates. Kevin Hassett, in...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final event of the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Year.The Vatican said an estimated 6,000 people signed up t...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military regime appealed to the international community on Sunday to take back hundreds of foreigners who have been detained in a crackdown on scam centers in the country’s eastern Kayin state near the Thai border.In recent months, the authorities have raided two maj...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path. “We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot sa...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man suspected of killing his wife and dumping her body in a Southern California forest has been extradited back to the U.S. from Peru to face a murder charge, Los Angeles officials said. Jossimar Cabrera, 36, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday night a...

DHARAMSALA, India (AP) — Aiden Markram helped South Africa avoid another unwanted batting record but couldn’t prevent India winning a lopsided third Twenty20 match by seven wickets on Sunday.Put into bat, South Africa rallied from 7-3 to 117 all out in 20 overs and India replied with 120-3 i...

A weekend storm sent temperatures plunging well below zero in the Midwest and dumped heavy snow on parts of the Northeast on Sunday, creating many airport delays and slick roads as the Pacific Northwest braced for more rain after days of flooding and mudslides. The storm began Saturday and b...

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — Exposure to freezing temperatures near Morocco’s border with Algeria killed nine African migrants, a tragedy that rights groups in the North African country called deeply concerning and a violation of the right to freedom of movement.The bodies of seven men and two...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González signed a polemic bill on Sunday that critics say is a blow to democracy and will make it more difficult to access public information in a U.S. territory long known for its lack of government transparency.González said the bill...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — President Gustavo Petro on Sunday asked Colombians to celebrate the Christmas season without fear after rebels announced a forced strike in parts of the country in response to his government’s actions against them, and to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to expan...

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo on Sunday said he had declared a state of emergency in two municipalities in western Guatemala a day after armed men attacked a military post and a police station, cut off roads and hijacked buses, killing at least five p...

SYDNEY (AP) — At least 11 people were killed Sunday in a shooting attack during a Jewish holiday celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, police said.Mass shootings are rare in Australia, where gun ownership has been tightly controlled since a massacre in 1996.Here is a timeline of some recent s...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy party voted Sunday to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism, marking the end of an era of the Chinese semiautonomous city ‘s once-diverse political landscape. Democratic Party chairperson Lo Kin-hei said the political environment was...

KANTHARALAK, Thailand (AP) — Thailand’s government said a rocket attack from Cambodia on Sunday killed a 63-year-old villager, its first civilian death reported as a direct result of combat over the past week along the border of the two Southeast Asian nations.Both countries confirmed that l...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski arrived for an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, direct from a dentist appointment. The 63-year-old veteran human rights advocate — looking pale, visibly tired and emaciated —...

BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his country’s bid to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees, but rejected the U.S. push for ceding territory to Russia as he held talks with U.S. envoys on ending the war.Zelenskyy sat dow...

BAGHDAD (AP) — The result of last month’s parliamentary elections in Iraq was ratified by the Supreme Federal Court on Sunday, confirming that the party of caretaker prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani won the largest number of seats — but not enough to assure him a second term.The court...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government’s archaeological events that aim at drawing more tourists to the country.The giant alabaster statues, known as the Colossi of Mem...

BEIRUT (AP) — The death of two U.S. service members and one American civilian in an attack in Syria by an alleged member of the Islamic State group has drawn new attention to the presence of American forces in the country.Saturday’s attack was the first with fatalities since the fall of Syri...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas on Sunday confirmed the death of a top commander in Gaza, a day after Israel said it had killed Raed Saad in a strike outside Gaza City.The Hamas statement described Saad as the commander of its military manufacturing unit. Israel had described him as an architect of t...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Australia’s leader on Sunday while nations expressed shock and sympathy over a mass shooting at a Jewish holiday event, saying he had warned Prime Minister Anthony Albanese that “your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antis...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — At least 11 people were killed Sunday in an attack on a Hannukah celebration at a popular Sydney beach and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was quick to call it an act of antisemitic terrorism. Antisemitism has been on the rise in Australia, fueled in part b...

At the very first rehearsal of the new Off Broadway play “This World of Tomorrow” our director, Kenny Leon, stopped us after two minutes — two minutes. “I don’t want to hear how you are saying the lines,” he told us actors. “I want to hear what you are saying.”We may have been focused on our dialects, but he was listening for the l...

They didn’t have fog like this back on the farm in Minnesota, and Anna Christopherson adores it. At nighttime on the deck of the barge her father captains, anchored off Provincetown, Mass., she soaks it in: the enveloping stillness, and the romance.Life on the water is brand new to her, but it feels like what she’d been seeking all...

NEW YORK (AP) — “Zootopia 2” regained the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office with $26.3 million in its third weekend of release, according to studio estimates Sunday, as The Walt Disney Co. animated sequel became the year’s second film to gross $1 billion worldwide.With “Avatar: Fire and...

▶ Get the AP Top 25 college football poll delivered straight to your inbox every week with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. BALTIMORE (AP) — Blake Horvath to Eli Heidenreich.That’s the connection that led Navy to such a memorable season — and the two of them came through...

SYDNEY (AP) — A bystander seen in a widely circulated video disarming a gunman during a deadly shooting rampage at a popular Australian beach is being heralded as a hero who saved lives. Video footage posted to social media shows a passerby dressed in a white T-shirt and dark pants crouching...

BEIRUT (AP) — A man who carried out an attack in Syria that killed three U.S. citizens had joined Syria’s internal security forces as a base security guard two months earlier and was recently reassigned amid suspicions that he might be affiliated with the Islamic State group, a Syrian offici...

A drone attack has hit a United Nations facility in war-torn Sudan, killing six peacekeepers, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.The attack on Saturday hit the peacekeeping logistics base in the city of Kadugli, in the central region of Kordofan, Guterres said in a statement.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Con...

NEW YORK (AP) — Haruki Murakami was in town last week to hear his words set to music and his praises literally sung.The 76-year-old Tokyo resident and perennial Nobel Prize candidate received a pair of honors in Manhattan for his long career as a storyteller, translator, critic and essayist....

A left-wing and a conservative candidate will face off in Chile’s presidential runoff vote on Sunday, in a deeply polarized election marked by concerns over security and immigration.Polls show that José Antonio Kast, a father of nine with ideological roots in conservative Roman Catholicism and economic neoliberalism, is poised to w...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest-known evidence of deliberate fire-making by prehistoric humans in Suffolk, Britain – revealing it happened some 350,000 years earlier than experts previously believed.The site, a former clay pit near the village of Barnham, contains a hearth made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago.Recommend...

The United States government must restore Rumeysa Ozturk’s student visa record, a federal court has ruled, months after the Tufts student was released from immigration detention where she was being held for speaking out against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.United States District Judge Denise Casper delivered an interim ruling on...

When Indiana adopted new U.S. House districts four years ago, Republican legislative leaders lauded them as “fair maps” that reflected the state’s communities. But when Gov. Mike Braun recently tried to redraw the lines to help Republicans gain more power, he implored lawmakers to “vote for...

A baby girl whose family was displaced by Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza has died of exposure to the winter cold as Storm Byron lashed the enclave amid Israel’s continued restrictions on essential winter supplies.Eight-month-old Rahaf Abu Jazar was reported dead on Thursday after her family’s tent in...

Supporters of 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi say she has been arrested while attending a memorial ceremony in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad.The Narges Foundation said on Friday that Mohammadi, 53, was arrested during an event honouring a human rights lawyer who recently died in unclear circumstances.Rec...

Khartoum, Sudan – Iman Abdel-Azim had to bury her brother in the courtyard of her home in Khartoum North when he died as fighting between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces raged around them.Her brother died of cholera in September last year, unable to access medical care.Recommended Stories list of 3 i...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is visiting Israel for the first time since taking office in May.His visit comes just days after Germany decided to lift a three-month suspension on arms exports to Israel that it said could be used in the Gaza Strip.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3The rise of global boycotts against I...

December 8 marks one year since the al-Assad dynasty, which lasted 54 years, was removed from power by a rebel offensive.The 14-year-long war led to one of the world’s largest migration crises, with some 6.8 million Syrians, about a third of the population, fleeing the country at the war’s peak in 2021, seeking refuge wherever they...

Heavy tropical storms and torrential monsoon rains have triggered massive floods and landslides in several parts of South and Southeast Asia.The downpours, which began late last month, have ravaged Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.As climate change exacerbates natural disasters across Asia, more than 1,800 people have be...

It has been one year since a lightning offensive by allied rebel groups led to the fall of Damascus, ending the al-Assad dynasty’s 54-year reign.Yet, as the regime collapsed, Israel seized on the instability by significantly escalating its military campaign in Syria, targeting much of its neighbour’s military infrastructure, includ...

BAB BERRED, Morocco (AP) — Since he started growing cannabis at 14, Mohamed Makhlouf has lived in the shadows, losing sleep while bracing for a knock on his door from authorities that could mean prison or his entire harvest confiscated.But after decades of operating in secret, Makhlouf final...

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A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.

Israel’s security cabinet has signed off on plans to formalise 19 illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank, in a move Palestinian officials say deepens a decades-long project of land theft and demographic engineering.Israeli media reported on Friday that the decision also revives two northern West Bank outposts dismantled...

The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly backed a resolution demanding that Israel open unrestricted humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, stop attacking UN facilities, and comply with international law in line with its obligations as an occupying power.The vote on Friday followed October’s advisory opinion from the...

United States forces raided a cargo ship travelling from China to Iran last month, according to the Wall Street Journal, in the latest reported instance of increasingly aggressive maritime tactics by the administration of US President Donald Trump.Unnamed officials told the newspaper that US military personnel boarded the ship seve...

Here’s where things stand on Saturday, December 13:Fighting Ukrainian forces said they had retaken parts of the northeastern town of Kupiansk and encircled Russian troops there, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the area and praised the operation, saying it strengthened Ukraine diplomatically. In a video clip, President Zele...

Venezuela’s oil exports have plummeted since the United States seized an oil tanker off the country’s coast this week and imposed new sanctions on shipping companies doing business with the embattled Latin American country.Oil tanker movements into and out of Venezuelan waters have almost come to a standstill, the Reuters news agen...

Colombia’s largest remaining rebel force has told civilians living under its authority to stay at home for three days while it stages military drills in response to burgeoning United States threats.The National Liberation Army (ELN), a left-wing rebel group, ordered the lockdown on Friday, instructing residents to keep off major ro...

The United States has ended temporary legal protections for thousands of Ethiopian nationals, ordering them to leave the country within 60 days or face arrest and deportation.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the decision on Friday, determining that conditions in Ethiopia “no longer pose a serious threat” to returni...

United States President Donald Trump has pledged to pursue “serious retaliation” against ISIL (ISIS) after an ambush in central Syria killed two American soldiers and one civilian interpreter.An investigation is under way to determine whether the attacker was linked to ISIL, but Trump on Saturday blamed the armed group that had sei...

Belarus has freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova, in exchange for sanctions relief from the United States.John Coale, the US special envoy for Belarus, announced the lifting of sanctions on potash on Saturday after two days of talks with Belarusian P...

Police in the US state of Rhode Island say they have detained a person of interest in connection with a shooting on Saturday at the Brown University campus that killed at least two people and wounded nine others.Colonel Oscar Perez, chief of the Providence, Rhode Island police, confirmed at a news conference on Sunday that the deta...

Police in the United States have detained a “person of interest” in connection with a shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island that killed two people and wounded nine others, according to the Providence Mayor Brett Smiley.Colonel Oscar Perez, chief of the Providence police, also confirmed the detention of a person in his 30s.Re...

Police in Providence, Rhode Island, have detained a “person of interest” after a manhunt for a gunman who killed two people at Brown University, officials say.At a news conference on Sunday, Police Colonel Oscar Perez said the individual had been detained that morning and officers were not currently looking for anyone else in relat...

Dili, East Timor – On the 50th anniversary of Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, longtime independence advocate and now the country’s President Jose Ramos-Horta reflected on the last half-century of politics and diplomacy in his country.Ramos-Horta was serving as the foreign minister of the newly declared Democratic Republic of Ea...

Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has said his country has not reached a ceasefire agreement with Cambodia and the Thai military will continue fighting on the disputed border.Earlier, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who has been a key mediator in peace talks between the two nations, said that the two countries s...

China has held a low-key memorial ceremony for the Nanjing Massacre, as a diplomatic crisis between Beijing and Tokyo over Taiwan continues to simmer.President Xi Jinping did not attend the ceremony on Saturday commemorating the 1937 attack, in which China says Imperial Japan’s troops slaughtered 300,000 people in the eastern city...

Myanmar’s military has acknowledged it conducted an air strike on a hospital in the western state of Rakhine that killed 33 people, whom it accused of being armed members of opposition groups and their supporters, but not civilians.Witnesses, aid workers, rebel groups and the United Nations have said the victims were civilians at t...

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has hugged injured soldiers in wheelchairs at a ceremony in the capital, Pyongyang, to welcome home troops who served with Russian forces in the war against Ukraine.State-run Korean Central News Agency said on Saturday that Kim praised the “mass heroism” of the returning 528th Regiment of Engineers...

Thailand’s military has launched a new offensive against Cambodia to “reclaim sovereign territory”, spurning mediation efforts including that of United States President Donald Trump.Violence between the two Southeast Asian nations continued on Sunday, a day after Phnom Penh announced that it was shutting all of its crossings with T...

The Philippines has accused Chinese coastguard ships of firing water cannon at Filipino fishermen near a disputed South China Sea shoal, injuring three people and causing “significant damage” to two fishing vessels.On Saturday, the Philippine coastguard (PCG) said that nearly two dozen Filipino fishing boats were attacked a day ear...

Two gunmen have attacked a Jewish festival at Sydney’s popular Bondi Beach, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens, according to Australian authorities.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the “devastating” mass shooting on Sunday, which police are calling a “terrorist” incident, was “a targeted attack on Jewish Australians...

Gunmen fired on Jewish holiday event at Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach, Australian authorities say.

A bystander who has been filmed tackling and disarming an assailant during a shooting in which at least 11 people were killed at a Jewish holiday event in Sydney, Australia, has been praised as a hero whose actions may have saved lives.Footage uploaded to social media on Sunday shows a man in a car park running up to a man holding...

A mass shooting at a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach in the Australian city of Sydney has killed at least 11 people and wounded 29 in what was a grisly, rare occurrence for the country.Authorities said the “terrorist” incident on Sunday was “designed to target Sydney’s Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah” as hundreds of pe...

SYDNEY (AP) — An attack on one of the most famous beaches in the world left 16 dead, including a minor, Australian authorities reported Monday, after two gunmen opened fire on a Jewish celebration in Sydney. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it an act of anti-Semitic terrorism.Hundreds...

The warm spices in gingerbread, the woodsy aroma of pine and fir trees, and the fruity tang of mulled wine are smells synonymous with the holiday season. Many people enjoy lighting candles, incense and fireplaces in their homes to evoke the moods associated with these festive fragrances.Burn...

After seven days of wind, the morning is finally calm enough on New York’s East Moriches Bay for Sue Wicks to jetty her boat to check on her oysters. Hundreds of cages pop out at odd angles from their lines, and a few float away.The retired WNBA star and Hall of Famer admits that the aquacul...

▶ Get the AP Top 25 college football poll delivered straight to your inbox every week with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The firm hired by Michigan to search for a football coach to replace Sherrone Moore has contacted representatives for Arizon...

ATLANTA (AP) — Even though Republican Brian Jack is only a first-term congressman, he has become a regular in the Oval Office these days. As the top recruiter for his party’s House campaign team, the Georgia native is often reviewing polling and biographies of potential candidates with Presi...

SYDNEY (AP) — An attack at a famous Australian beach killed 16 people, including a child, officials said Monday, after two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it an act of antisemitic terrorism.Hundreds of people had ga...

Fiction | NonfictionEach January, the editors and critics at the Book Review begin sifting through thousands of new books.By February, we’re meeting regularly to debate and discuss the standouts. All of us are passionate readers, but our tastes don’t necessarily overlap, so the conversations are lively! By September, we’re winnowin...

On an unusually warm November morning on Pitchfork Ranch in northwestern Wyoming, wranglers coaxed hundreds of cows, one at a time, into a small holding pen. They were there for their regular twice-per-year checkups. But this time, the cows got something more: GPS collars.If all goes according to plan, the collars will allow Ben An...

Getting trapped in quicksand is a corny peril of old movies and TV shows, but it really did happen to one unfortunate hiker in Utah’s Arches National Park. The park famous for dozens of natural, sandstone arches gets over 1 million visitors a year, and accidents ranging from falls to heat st...

As if the Federal Reserve’s decision about interest rates this week was not complicated enough, it is happening against the backdrop of an active search to replace the chair of the central bank, Jerome H. Powell.President Trump is potentially weeks away from naming his pick to lead the institution next year, after Mr. Powell’s term...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for a third time this year, but officials were divided over their next move. Jerome Powell, the central bank’s chair, said “we haven’t made any decision about January.”

The Federal Reserve is expected to lower its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point on Wednesday, its third cut this year.“Another Fed rate cut to close an unnervingly uncertain year is good news for borrowers,” said Matt Schulz, chief consumer finance analyst at LendingTree. “The accumulated savings from the Fed’s moves are st...

Federal Reserve officials are scheduled to release a fresh set of economic projections alongside their interest rate decision on Wednesday. Those forecasts will offer a glimpse of the path for monetary policy at a highly uncertain moment for the central bank.Policymakers are preparing to cut interest rates for a third time this yea...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for a third time this year, but officials were divided over their next move. Jerome Powell, the central bank’s chair, said “we haven’t made any decision about January.”

In early November, as Halls Chophouse was heading into the critical holiday season, its president, Tommy Hall, made a tough call: Prices at his steakhouse chain would go up.The price of the popular eight-ounce filet mignon rose to $61 from $57. A rib-eye, to $85 from $82.Beef prices had been climbing all year, and Halls found itsel...

The S&P 500 nudged to a record high on Thursday, shrugging off weak tech earnings to close above its level in October, a high point before worries over corporate spending on artificial intelligence dragged the market lower.The index rose just 0.2 percent on Thursday, after recovering from losses earlier in the day that were attribu...

Officials at the Federal Reserve shed further light on Friday on the divisions that led to this week’s fractured decision to lower interest rates, with views splintering over the risk posed by inflation and how concerned to be about a softening labor market.The central bank voted to cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage p...

When Britain became the first country to reach a trade agreement with President Trump in May, critics warned that the terms were loose and the commitments vague. Now, the risks of that ambiguity are becoming apparent.The United States informed the British government this month that it would pause fulfilling a technology-related agr...

Raul Malo, the big-voiced singer and principal songwriter for the Mavericks, a Grammy Award-winning band whose Latin-inflected sound helped broaden the boundaries of country music in the 1990s, died on Monday. He was 60.His publicist, Michelle Steele, said that the cause was cancer. She did not say where he died. Mr. Malo announced...

ImageImageTrent Reznor of Nine Inch NailsCredit...Sinna Nasseri for The New York TimesBy Lindsay ZoladzDear listeners,As I was putting together my annual list of my favorite albums of the year, I realized how much time I spent in 2025 listening to film scores. This isn’t a novel experience for me; as an incurable movie buff, I have...

Timbaland has been producing shape-shifting hip-hop, R&B and pop music since the mid-1990s. He’s won four Grammys, created iconic hits with Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake and has been a mentor to artists including Aaliyah and Missy Elliott. His latest protégée is a slight, swaggering pink-haired Asian singer who got her start in his o...

The final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, will be full of nostalgia and discovery, to judge by the lineup that organizers announced on Wednesday.The 10-day gathering in January will offer the 90,000 movie lovers who converge on the mountain town both a number of first-time filmmakers — 40 percent to be exact — and dozens...

Joseph Byrd, an avant-garde musician and composer who emerged from the anti-art Fluxus movement to rattle the flower-power sound of the 1960s with the critically acclaimed, if challenging, experimental psychedelic band the United States of America, died on Nov. 2 in Medford, Ore. He was 87.His death was announced in a paid death no...

Phil Upchurch, a prolific jazz guitarist who showcased his chops on enduring pop songs like Chaka Khan’s 1978 disco staple “I’m Every Woman” and Michael Jackson’s percolating “Workin’ Day and Night,” died on Nov. 23 in Los Angeles. He was 84.His death was announced in a statement on his professional website. It did not cite a cause...

A pair of concerts featuring the Israeli military’s official cantor planned for Sunday evening, the first night of Hanukkah, has drawn a prestigious Amsterdam concert hall into the Middle East’s divisive politics.The annual Hanukkah concert in the Concertgebouw hall has been a longstanding tradition, but this year’s event drew an o...

Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the music producer who recognized a talented singer in his young daughter Selena and managed her career as she ascended to the peak of the Tejano music world, died on Saturday. He was 86.His son, A.B. Quintanilla, announced the death in an Instagram post, but did not cite a location or cause.With Selena doi...

Jubilant Sykes, a celebrated opera singer, was fatally stabbed on Monday night in his home in Santa Monica, Calif., and his son was arrested in the attack, police officials said.After the Santa Monica Police Department responded to a call about an assault at a house around 9:20 p.m., officers found Sykes, 71, with critical injuries...

Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll find out about a performance of Handel’s “Messiah” in the church one of its first performances in the United States took place more than 250 years ago. We’ll also get details on Brad Lander’s plans to challenge Representative Dan Goldman for a House seat that covers parts of Manhattan and B...

Donald McIntyre, a bass-baritone who played a starring role in a provocative, influential new way of presenting the epic operas of Richard Wagner, died on Nov. 13 in Munich. He was 91.Mr. McIntyre’s death was announced by the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, which Wagner founded in 1876 to present his own works. The festival, where Mr...

Jim McNeely: ‘Primal Colors’Frankfurt Radio Symphony; Frankfurt Radio Bigband (Challenge Records)▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music Classical or YouTube MusicJim McNeely — jazz composer, pianist and educator, and resident writer for the Village Vanguard’s house orchestra — died in September at 76. But thankfully he remained active du...

Buckingham Nicks(Rhino; one LP, $24.98; one CD, $14.98)ImageCredit...RhinoFor nearly 50 years, the self-titled album by Buckingham Nicks — the sole release from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks’s pre-Fleetwood Mac duo — has been out of print. Its elusiveness has given the album, which was a commercial flop but nonetheless prompt...

Thirty years after Ennio Morricone composed his only opera, “Partenope,” the piece is having its world premiere at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on Friday.For some, it will be a bittersweet debut.“The great disappointment is that Ennio is no longer with us,” said Sandro Cappelletto, who co-wrote the libretto. “It would have been f...

Hip-hop was still in its nascency when Ricky Walters and Douglas Davis teamed up for the eternal classics “The Show” and its B-side, “La-Di-Da-Di.”This year, the duo, better recognized by their stage names, Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh, are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release. The single turbocharged Walters’s career as...

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concluded a year ago in Vancouver, but the pop superstar isn’t done with her record-breaking live show just yet. On Friday, she dropped the concert film “The Eras Tour: The Final Show” on Disney+ along with the first two episodes of a behind-the-scenes six-part documentary series, “The End of an Era.”While...

Some users of the smart-bed system Eight Sleep, who sleep atop a snug, temperature-regulating mattress cover in search of “zero-gravity rest,” were rousted from their slumber earlier this week for a surprising reason.Eight Sleep’s collections of smart products, which the company calls “Pods,” and include those “intelligent” mattres...

After swiping aimlessly for years on dating apps like Hinge and Tinder, Emma Inge, a 25-year-old project manager in San Francisco, decided to try something different.In September, after following an ad to the website of a start-up called Known, Ms. Inge spent 20 minutes confiding in an artificial intelligence matchmaker. The matchm...

Elon Musk is daring European authorities to take him on.The billionaire lashed out at the European Union over the past week after regulators fined X, the social media platform he owns, roughly $140 million for violating digital transparency rules.In response, Mr. Musk called for the abolishment of the 27-nation bloc, compared it to...

The fall tech season typically brings a lot of hot new hardware, but what if you’re not getting a brand-new phone anytime soon?Your current device can probably still get an internal makeover, because Apple’s new iOS 26 software update runs on an iPhone 11 or later. And while only the newest phone models can run all the artificial-i...

Need to fill out a form, scan a receipt or sign a permission slip when you’re nowhere near your office equipment?If the task involves a PDF file, you can do it all with built-in tools on your phone or tablet without having to print things out on paper first. (PDF, short for Portable Document Format, was first developed by Adobe Sys...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Burkina Faso’s Council of Ministers has adopted a bill to restore the death penalty, targeting offenses such as treason, terrorism and espionage, authorities said. “The adoption of this bill is part of reforms ... to have a justice that responds to the deep aspirations...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A mass shooting carried out Saturday by multiple suspects in an unlicensed bar near the South African capital left at least 12 people dead, police said. The victims included three children aged 3, 12 and 16.Another 13 people were wounded and being treated in th...

DOUANKARA, Mauritania (AP) — A new Russian military unit that replaced the Wagner mercenary group is carrying out abuses including rapes and beheadings as it teams up with Mali ‘s military to hunt down extremists, dozens of civilians who fled the fighting have told The Associated Press.The A...

COTONOU, Benin (AP) — Benin President Patrice Talon on Sunday condemned an attempted coup that was foiled by the country’s army in his first public comments since sporadic gunfire was heard in parts of the administrative capital, Cotonou. A group of soldiers appeared on Benin ’s state TV ear...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Benin has joined a growing list of African countries where military officers have seized power since 2020. The military takeover lasted several hours on Sunday before officials announced it was foiled.In a familiar scene across West Africa, a group of soldiers appeared...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — In a theater where a suicide bomber detonated years ago, Hassan Barre stepped forward to offer a different hallmark of Somalia: poetry.In one of the world’s most volatile nations, Somalis must be aware of their responsibility to their country and each other, he said...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim they had seized power. A few hours later, the president announced the coup had been foiled.Just two weeks earlier, soldiers seized power in anothe...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A Nigerian Air Force plane made an emergency landing in Burkina Faso late Monday due to an in-flight emergency, according to a regional alliance that called it a violation of Burkina Faso’s airspace.The Alliance of Sahel States, which includes Burkina Faso and neighbori...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a British-born zoologist and conservationist who dedicated much of his life to protecting elephants, has died, his Save the Elephants group said Tuesday. He was 83.Douglas-Hamilton was known for decades of conservation work, which included pioneer...

President Donald Trump admitted Tuesday that he used the slur “shithole countries” to disparage Haiti and African nations during a 2018 meeting with lawmakers, bragging about a comment that sparked global outrage during his first term.Back then, Trump had denied making the contemptuous state...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Two adjacent four-story buildings collapsed overnight in the Moroccan city of Fez, killing 22 people in the second fatal collapse there this year, authorities said Wednesday.Morocco’s state news agency, MAP, reported that the two buildings housed eight families. Sixteen...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Dozens of people were killed Tuesday evening in a drone strike near Sudan’s largest oil processing facility carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces, according to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.The RSF, which has been fighting Sudan’s military since 2023, said...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Jihadist insurgents in northern Mozambique have launched new attacks in recent weeks, beheading civilians, burning villages and leaving children orphaned and forced to seek help alone, the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations say.The spike in vio...

Ethiopia’s leader loves big projects. With a contentious megadam completed on the Nile, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed now plans Africa’s largest airport and a nuclear power plant. But the landlocked nation risks escalating regional tensions with its most audacious stated aim of gaining greater a...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Devotees of Mexico’s patron saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe, flooded streets overnight near the capital’s Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, carrying images of her on their backs and converging with music, bottle rockets, candles and prayers. Some say that every Dec. 12, al...

IZNIK, Turkey (AP) — Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered one of the most important finds from Anatolia’s early Christian era: a fresco of a Roman-looking Jesus as the “Good Shepherd.”The painting was discovered in August in an underground tomb near Iznik, a town in northwestern Turkey th...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A multistory building being constructed on top of a Hindu temple collapsed Friday in the South African town of Verulam, killing at least one person and leaving several others trapped under the rubble and concrete, local authorities said.The authorities did not immediately...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV met Friday with members of Italy’s intelligence services and warned them not to use confidential information for blackmailing or other nefarious purposes.Leo urged the 007s, as the Italian agents are popularly known, to do their work professionally and ethically, alw...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Five people have been detained in Turkey over a sex harassment scandal that has hit the country’s parliament, prosecutors in the capital Ankara said Friday.Allegations that young female interns working in the kitchens and restaurant of the Grand National Assembly were subject...

CAIRO (AP) — A notorious militia leader in Libya, sanctioned by the U.N. for migrant trafficking across the Mediterranean Sea, was killed on Friday in a raid by security forces in the west of the country, according to Libyan authorities. Ahmed Oumar al-Fitouri al-Dabbashi, nicknamed Ammu, wa...

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. Navy admiral who oversees military operations in Latin America handed off command responsibilities Friday as scrutiny increases over the Trump administration’s deadly strikes on alleged drug boats in the region.Adm. Alvin Holsey has retired one year into a posting t...

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo said on Friday that the first of several dozen third-country migrants has arrived from the United States under an agreement reached earlier this year with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.Kosovo agreed in June to temporarily host up to 50 migrants w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. removed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes from its sanctions list on Friday after initially adding him over his role in leading the trial against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.De Moraes’ wife and the Lex Institute, which she leads, wer...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa’s communications minister ordered a policy change Friday that allows Elon Musk’s Starlink and other foreign-owned satellite internet providers to operate in the country without selling 30% of their local equity to Black or other non-white owners.Th...

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A Bolivian court on Friday ordered the country’s former President Luis Arce to remain detained for five months while he awaits trial on corruption charges, the latest development in a case that threatens to exacerbate Bolivia’s political tensions. Arce, 62, a leader fr...

LONDON (AP) — British police said Saturday they have found no evidence that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked one of his bodyguards to investigate Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.London’s Metropolitan Police in October said it was looking into media reports that the former Prince Andr...

CAIRO (AP) — A drone strike hit a United Nations facility in war-torn Sudan on Saturday, killing six peacekeepers, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.The strike hit the peacekeeping logistics base in the city of Kadugli, in the central region of Kordofan, Guterres said in a stateme...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Eritrea on Friday withdrew from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, accusing the East African regional bloc of nations of acting against the country’s interests.At the same time, the United Nations expressed concern over renewed tensions between Eritrea and...

Uvira, CONGO (AP) — A climate of fear reigned Saturday in Uvira, a strategic city in eastern Congo, days after it fell to the Rwanda -backed M23 group, as fighting in the region escalated despite a U.S. mediated peace deal.The Associated Press gained rare access to the city, which was the Co...

PEDRO CAYUQUEO, Chile (AP) — The Mapuches, Chile’s biggest Indigenous group, have endured centuries of battle. They resisted conquest first by the ancient Incas, then by the Spanish. They fought as the nascent Chilean state annexed their territories and as military dictator Gen. Augusto Pino...

Live: Chile votes in polarising elections. SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — As Chileans vote on Sunday, even detractors of ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast say the candidate whose radical ideas lost him the past two elections is likely to become the country’s next...

BAGHDAD (AP) — United National Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was in Baghdad on Saturday to mark the end of the political mission set up in 2003 following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein.The U.N. Security Council, at Iraq’s request, voted last year to wind down...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A senior Kremlin official said Friday that Russian police and National Guard will stay on in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas and oversee the industry-rich region, even if a peace settlement ends Russia’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine. The remarks by Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushak...

SAN ISIDRO BUEN SUCESO, Mexico (AP) — In the Mexican mountain town of San Isidro Buen Suceso, Virginia Verónica Arce Arce begins her days as she has for decades: seated at her vintage Singer sewing machine, guiding bright threads into intricate patterns passed down through generations.Arce i...

The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the first time — by an American pope. The fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk as he spoke before a crowd horrified many and prompted somber conversations...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has proclaimed solidarity with U.S. farmers in recent months as they grappled with the loss of a major soybean buyer due to President Donald Trump’s trade war with China.But now, Bessent says he’s divested his holdings in North Dakota soybea...

Several prominent activists in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement are urging President Trump to fire Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, over his decisions to loosen restrictions on harmful chemicals.In a petition circulated on social media, the activists wrote that Mr. Zeldin “has prioritiz...

In the 1960s and ’70s, the Kesey brothers were both tastemakers in America.Ken Kesey (pronounced KEE-see) was a siren of the psychedelic era, a celebrated novelist and counterculture luminary who wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and popularized lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. (He died in 2001 at 66.)His younger brother,...

A man died of rabies after getting a kidney transplant from another man who died of the virus, only the fourth instance in nearly 50 years in which an organ donor passed the virus to a recipient, federal officials said.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday that an Idaho man was on his rural property in...

California health officials on Friday warned against foraging for wild mushrooms after a poison found in certain varieties killed one person and caused liver damage to others.The California Poison Control System identified 21 cases of poisoning, including the death of one adult, from a potent toxin known as amatoxin that is found i...

By Katie J.M. BakerOne morning in April 2020, Ranawaka Perera cooked fried eggs and tomatoes for his wife, Li-Meng Yan. When she said she wasn’t hungry, he pressed her to eat anyway. Lately, Dr. Yan had been so anxious that at times she felt she could barely breathe, and Dr. Perera was worried about her health.Listen to this articl...

Millions of Americans are confronting the highest health insurance costs in years. For those enrolling in Obamacare for next year, the plans will cover a considerably smaller fraction of their medical bills.More and more people are discovering that their deductibles are rising significantly, worsening fears that they will no longer...