CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Former Ryder Cup captains Darren Clarke and Thomas Bjorn won the modified alternate-shot round as Europe took the lead over the Americans and Internationals after the first day of the Skechers World Champions Cup.Points are award for each hole in the nine-hole matches at Feather Sound Country Club, with bett...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, a Tokyo-born actor known for his roles in the film “Mortal Kombat” and TV series “The Man in the High Castle” has died. He was 75.Tagawa died surrounded by his family in Santa Barbara from complications due to a stroke, his manager, Margie Weiner, confirmed on Thursday. “Cary was a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump lit the National Christmas Tree on a chilly Thursday night in the nation’s capital.At the annual tree lighting on the Ellipse, just south of the White House, President Donald Trump told the crowd, “The first lady is going to do the honors.” He counted down from five to zero. Melania then s...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Trump administration is making good on a promise to send more water to California farmers in the state’s crop-rich Central Valley.The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on Thursday announced a new plan for operating the Central Valley Project, a vast system of pumps, dams and canals that direct water southward...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Athletics are on track to open their approximately $2 billion Las Vegas stadium on time, officials said Thursday at the Las Vegas Stadium Authority meeting.The A’s, who are scheduled to move to Las Vegas before the 2028 season, met their year-end goals of beginning the concrete phase, having cranes in place and...

NEW YORK (AP) — They snooze in parking garages, on side streets before the afternoon school run, in nap pods rented by the hour or stretched out in bed while working from home.People who make a habit of sleeping on the job comprise a secret society of sorts within the U.S. labor force. Inspired by famous power nappers Winston Churc...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Police said Friday they have recovered a James Bond-inspired Fabergé pendant after six days of closely watching the man accused of swallowing the jewelry in an Auckland store. They said the pendant was recovered Thursday night after it exited the suspect’s gastrointestinal tract naturally...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Southern Command announced that it had conducted another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, following a pause of almost three weeks.It is the 22nd strike the U.S. military has carried out against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean that the Trump administrat...

ST. PAUL, Minn, (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tim Walz denounced President Donald Trump on Thursday for calling Minnesota’s Somali community “garbage” and dismissing the state as a “hellhole.”Walz said Trump slandered all Minnesotans and that his expressions of contempt for the state’s Somali community — the largest in the U.S. — were “un...

HONG KONG (AP) — The deadliest fire in Hong Kong in decades is piling pressure on Beijing’s “patriots-only” governance system, casting a shadow on elections widely seen as a further step to tighten control over the city’s legislature.Sunday’s vote to elect new lawmakers to Hong Kong’s 90-member Legislative Council comes just 11 day...

TEGUCIGALPA (AP) — The conservative candidate Nasry Asfura led the presidential election in Honduras on Thursday with a slight advantage of just 22,748 votes over the also conservative Salvador Nasralla, while the Central American country was still waiting for the outcome of the count. Preliminary results gave Asfura, of the Nation...

The Trump administration is prioritizing the deportation of Afghan nationals who were previously ordered to leave the United States, part of a broader crackdown on refugees from Afghanistan after last week’s shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, according to internal documents reviewed by The New York Times.“It has b...

Mandy Patinkin always seems to be thinking about music, even when he is discussing a part that never required a note from his celebrated tenor. While other actors might need to feel a certain chemistry before committing to a role, he has to hear an inner melody.“Can I sing with him?” Patinkin, who is 73, said last month. He was rec...

Holiday movies are an escapist bunch, but this season, reality has a way of peeking through the cracks. Of course, the stories continue to have happy resolutions — don’t worry, the Grinch still doesn’t win — but instead of glittery princesses, mindless consumption and oblivious displays of wealth, we see people who struggle to live...

I spent the last week talking with university officials, teachers and high school seniors about the dreaded college admissions essay.I cover education technology at The Times. And I’ve been thinking a lot about how artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, which can manufacture school essays and other texts, might reshape the col...

Mollie Kerr, a 26-year-old New Yorker living in London, was rattled this summer when her bloodwork showed hormone imbalances.After seeing the results in her patient portal, she felt too scared to wait to talk to her doctor. So, with some unease, she pasted the full report into ChatGPT. Her lab results could indicate a number of con...

A public inquiry has found that Russian President Vladimir Putin bears “moral responsibility” for the death of a British woman in a nerve agent attack in the English city of Salisbury in March 2018, with the UK government responding by sanctioning the Russian intelligence agency (GRU) accused of carrying it out.Speaking on Thursday...

Authorities in the United States have arrested a suspect believed to be involved in leaving pipe bombs near two major political headquarters in Washington, DC, during the night before the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.On Thursday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice identified the suspect as Br...

Bogota, Colombia – The last international airlines flying to Venezuela have suspended routes to the country, days after United States President Donald Trump declared the South American country’s airspace closed.Panamanian carrier Copa and its Colombian budget subsidiary Wingo announced Wednesday evening that routes to Caracas would...

Somalis and Somali Americans have rejected United States President Donald Trump’s characterisation of their community as “garbage” with a mixture of outrage and creative mockery that has lit up social media platforms.The pushback this week came after Trump closed his final cabinet meeting of the year on Tuesday with a venomous atta...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has questioned Washington’s stance on India’s oil purchases from Moscow, pointing to US imports of Russian nuclear fuel as he began a state visit aimed at strengthening ties between the two nations.Putin arrived in New Delhi on Thursday evening to a warm airport reception from Indian Prime Minister...

Israeli forces have escalated their attacks across the northern occupied West Bank with fresh assaults on the town of Qalqilya.The Israeli military stormed the eastern entrance of Qalqilya at dawn on Thursday morning before deploying soldiers through several neighborhoods and establishing what local reports have described as a tigh...

Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain have said they will boycott next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, following the decision to allow Israel to compete.The response on Thursday came immediately after the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which runs the competition, said there would not be a vote on whether to exclude Israe...

Gary Goldman raced to see “Zootopia 2” as soon as it arrived in theaters last week. He loved the first installment, especially its exploration of whether a meritocracy is attainable. And the critters were cute.But Mr. Goldman, 72, left the theater deeply unsettled — feeling that a major new character, a venomous pit viper named Gar...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An effort to regulate college sports backed by the NCAA, the U.S. Olympic organization and the White House has faltered in Congress, with opponents raising concerns over the wide-reaching power it gives the NCAA and its most powerful programs.House Republican leaders had planned to push the bill, known as the SCOR...

The focus in the murder trial of Brian Walshe turned Thursday to an affair his wife was having before he allegedly killed and dismembered her on New Year’s Day 2023. Ana Walshe, a real estate agent who immigrated from Serbia, was last seen early on Jan. 1, 2023, following a New Year’s Eve dinner at her Massachusetts home. Her body...

This summer, Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center opened a 24-unit Permanent Supportive Housing community on their property in the East Phillips and Ventura Village neighborhood of Minneapolis. Named Oshki-Gakeyaa, which means “New Way” in Ojibwe, its newly renovated apartments were instantly occupied by unhoused Native individ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A California animal welfare activist who took four chickens from a major Perdue Farms poultry plant was sentenced to 90 days in jail after being convicted of felony conspiracy, trespassing and other charges. Zoe Rosenberg, 23, did not deny taking the animals from Petaluma Poultry but argued she wasn’t brea...

The board that oversees Nevada public colleges and universities is voting Friday on whether to raise student tuition and fees over the next three years to make up a $46.5 million annual shortfall primarily attributed to “long-overdue” faculty pay raises.During a meeting at UNLV, the Board of Regents will consider whether to raise t...

A judge refused to dismiss the murder indictment against a former Kentucky sheriff accused of gunning down a judge in his courthouse chambers, but will allow a bond hearing for the ex-lawman now jailed for more than a year, according to rulings released Thursday.At the upcoming bond hearing, defense attorneys cannot discuss the con...

MORRO BAY, Calif. (AP) — On a jagged coastline in Central California, brown pelicans gather on rock promontories, packed in like edgy commuters as they take flight to feed on a vast school of fish just offshore. The water churns in whitecaps as the big-billed birds plunge beneath the surface in search of northern anchovies, Pacific...

▶ Follow live coverage of the World Cup draw WASHINGTON (AP) — FIFA has invited more teams than ever for a World Cup priced largely for fans in the 1%. The process of figuring out which teams in the expanded 48-nation field will play where begins with Friday’s draw at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Cape Verde, Cur...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jo Ann Allen Boyce, who as part of the “Clinton 12” helped integrate one of the first public schools in the South, died on Wednesday at her Los Angeles home. She was 84. Her death was confirmed by her daughter, Kamlyn Young, who said her mother died from pancreatic cancer after living with it for a decade.Cl...

DETROIT (AP) — RoboCop has finally found a permanent home in Detroit.A statue looming 11 feet tall (3.3 meters) and weighing 3,500 pounds (1,587 kilograms) has been drawing fans since it began standing guard over the Motor City on Wednesday afternoon, after about 15 years in the making. Even in a snowstorm in the dark, people were...

Law enforcement would be barred from making civil arrests — including immigration arrests of suspected noncitizens — in state and local courtrooms under a proposal being considered by the Michigan Supreme Court.The proposed rule change announced last month would prohibit civil arrests of people “attending a court proceeding or havi...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Wednesday proposed a state program to give every baby born in Texas $1,000 invested in the stock market, modeling the idea off a federal plan created as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation.Patrick said on social media he would prioritize a measure during the 2027 legislative session...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After flirting with the idea of leaving California to run for Congress in Texas, Republican Rep. Darrell Issa said Thursday he’s staying put.“I can hold this seat. I’m not quitting on California and neither should anyone else,” Issa, who represents a district anchored in San Diego County, said in a statement.Issa...

CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) — Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is allowed to loan $10 million to his campaign for governor, Georgia’s ethics panel said Thursday.Attorney General Chris Carr, who is running against Jones, alleged it evaded campaign finance restrictions. But Georgia Ethics Commission decided in a meeting in Carrollton, Georgia...

Sleep is a rare commodity at Lindsay Crain’s house. Most nights, she and her husband are up dozens of times, tending to their daughter’s seizures. The 16-year-old flails her arms, thrashes and kicks — sometimes for hours.But these days, that’s not the only thing keeping Crain awake. The Culver City mother worries about how Presiden...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New investigative reports into a series of high-profile and costly Navy mishaps during a U.S.-led campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels reveal that the most intense running sea battle that the military service has faced since World War II took a toll on ships and personnel.The four reports released Thursday cover...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge signaled Thursday that the U.S. Justice Department might be right in its argument that fired prosecutor Maurene Comey’s wrongfully termination claims don’t belong in court just yet.Judge Jesse M. Furman in Manhattan declined at a hearing to let lawyers for Comey immediately gather evidence to learn w...

NEW YORK (AP) — A defense lawyer cited President Donald Trump’s recent pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández on Thursday as she asked a judge who once presided over a civil sex abuse case against Trump to treat a former Honduran congressman leniently for his drug conspiracy conviction.Attorney Kristen Santillo...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As a leader of the College Democrats at Vanderbilt University, Luci Wingo knew the odds of a Democrat winning one of Nashville’s three U.S. House seats weren’t great. Yet her hope grew as the party mounted an aggressive campaign for its candidate, Aftyn Behn, in a special election to replace a Republican who...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is expected to submit plans for President Donald Trump’s new ballroom to a federal planning commission before the year ends, about three months after construction began.Will Scharf, who was named by Trump as chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, said at the panel’s monthly meeting T...

Washington (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is imploring his fellow Republicans to stop venting their frustrations in public and bring their complaints to him directly. “They’re going to get upset about things. That’s part of the process,” Johnson told reporters Thursday. “It doesn’t bother me. But when there is a conflict or conc...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday temporarily paused a lower court ruling that had called for an end to the deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C.“The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the motion for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Thursday came to the rescue of Texas Republicans, allowing next year’s elections to be held under the state’s congressional redistricting plan favorable to the GOP and pushed by President Donald Trump despite a lower-court ruling that the map likely discriminates on the basis of race.Wit...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Justice Department failed Thursday to secure a new indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge dismissed the previous mortgage fraud prosecution encouraged by President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. Prosecutors went back to a grand jury in Virginia a...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri appeals court panel ordered new wording Thursday for a ballot measure seeking to roll back abortion rights in the state, ruling that voters must be told the amendment would repeal “reproductive healthcare rights” they approved just one year ago. The ruling marks the latest twist in a lengthy ba...

A strong quarter at Build-A-Bear Workshop in a bounce back year for the retailer was overshadowed by the growing weight of tariffs in an ongoing trade war waged by President Donald Trump.The mall staple was able to get ahead of tariff impacts during the first half of the year through preemptive actions, Chief Financial Officer Voin...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people to stop using certain types of glucose monitor sensors after the company that makes them, Abbott Diabetes Care, said the devices were linked to seven deaths and more than 700 injuries.Certain FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors may provide incorrect low glucos...

ROME (AP) — Creative director Dario Vitale is leaving Italian fashion brand Versace only eight months after he was appointed, the company said in a statement Thursday.Vitale’s exit comes just two days after Prada Group finalized its $1.375 billion cash acquisition of Versace, starting a new era for the brand.“We would like to since...

JATUN RUMI, Ecuador (AP) — High in the mountains of the Ecuadorian Andes, a group of young Otavalo Indigenous people is using anime to inspire pride in their ancient culture and language, especially among Otavalo children.They produced an animated short film titled “We’re Aya” that follows the adventures of Aya, a mythical Otavalo...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s national team coach will attend the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, despite an earlier announcement by the country’s soccer federation that it would boycott the event, Iranian media reported Thursday.The Iranian soccer federation said last week that the U.S. denied visas to members of it...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy on Thursday released investigative reports into four mishaps that all involve the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman while it was dispatched to counterattacks on shipping by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.The four reports cover a friendly fire incident in December 2024 that saw the cruiser USS Gettysburg shoot a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department imposed a $7.1 million fine on a New York-based property management firm Thursday, accusing it of violating sanctions by managing luxury real estate properties for oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Contro...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The fifth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival, one of the Middle East’s largest film festivals, opened Thursday in the coastal city of Jeddah, marking a significant moment for the kingdom’s growing film industry.Running from Dec. 4 to 13, the Red Sea International Film Festival brings toge...

A bipartisan group in Congress sent a letter Thursday to the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency criticizing that group for opening an investigation into who leaked information that led to the agency clearing 23 Chinese swimmers after they tested positive for performance enhancers before the Olympics in 2021.“While WADA claims tha...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday outlined a strategy to expand its use of artificial intelligence, building on the Trump administration’s enthusiastic embrace of the rapidly advancing technology while raising questions about how health information would be protected.HHS billed the plan as...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Trump administration officials overseeing the immigration crackdown launched this week in New Orleans are aiming to make 5,000 arrests, a target that some city leaders who oppose the operation say is unrealistic and would require detainining more than just violent offenders. It’s an ambitious goal that would surp...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has arrested a suspect five years after an unidentified person placed two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington.Agents arrested Brian J. Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, on explosive charges. Calls to relatives of Cole listed in public rec...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. troops at risk by sharing sensitive plans about an upcoming military strike in Yemen on his personal phone, according to a Pentagon inspector general’s report made public Thursday that criticized the use of unapproved messaging apps and devices across the Defense Department....

PRAGUE (AP) — Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš said on Thursday he would get rid of his major businesses by moving them to an independent trust in order to be able to become the prime minister again.Babiš said he believed the move would help him avoid a conflict of interest that could arise from his private dealings and his politi...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s government on Thursday retracted a terror designation for Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group and Yemen’s Houthi rebels, just weeks after imposing the measure it now says was a mistake.The government’s retraction came hours after reports first circulated about the designation, which was an error made “before re...

The latest U.S. push to end Russia’s nearly 4-year-old war in Ukraine has unleashed a frenzy of diplomatic activity.Negotiators and officials from the U.S., Ukraine and Russia have crisscrossed the globe in recent weeks in a flurry of meetings to discuss a potential deal.Here is a timeline of key talks.Nov. 19: Ukrainian President...

CARACAS (AP) — The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, spoke on Wednesday for the first time about a conversation he had with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, ensuring that it was developed in a “tone of respect”, but without offering details amid the growing tension due to the large deployment of US warships a...

The playing surfaces at every NFL stadium will have to meet new enhanced standards set through lab and field testing by the start of the 2028 season. NFL field director Nick Pappas detailed the plans for a program on Thursday that will provide each team “a library of approved and accredited NFL fields” before the start of next seas...

A recently recognized form of dementia is changing the understanding of cognitive decline, improving the ability to diagnose patients and underscoring the need for a wider array of treatments.Patients are increasingly being diagnosed with the condition, known as LATE, and guidelines advising doctors how to identify it were publishe...

The session was called “Defeating Impostor Syndrome.” Dr. Marianna Papageorge, a 35-year-old fellow in thoracic surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, had a question.“Impostor syndrome can often be tied to confidence,” she said when she came up to the microphone. “So as an early career surgeon, especially as...

The White House released a letter from President Trump’s physician on Monday about the results of “advanced imaging tests.” The statement, by Dr. Sean P. Barbabella, said the tests on his cardiovascular system and abdominal region showed the president “remains in excellent overall health.”Some medical experts said it was unclear wh...

You’re ready to leave the hospital, but you don’t feel able to care for yourself at home yet.Or, you’ve completed a couple of weeks in rehab. Can you handle your complicated medication regimen, along with shopping and cooking?Perhaps you fell in the shower, and now your family wants you to arrange help with bathing and getting dres...

In the summer of 1911, Belgium’s Ministry of Colonies sent two postimpressionist artists to Matadi, a port city on the Atlantic coast of what was then the Belgian Congo.The artists, Alfred Bastien and Paul Mathieu, were to capture images of the colony’s landscape and people for a painting to be displayed at the 1913 Ghent World Fai...

The surging popularity of prediction markets helped Kalshi, one of the biggest players in the sector, raise money this fall at a $5 billion valuation.Less than two months later, it has collected yet more funds — and more than doubled its valuation.Kalshi plans to announce on Tuesday that it has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion v...

NINETEEN-NINETY-FOUR WAS THE year I graduated from high school, and the year Kurt Cobain died. I remember coming home from school in suburban Illinois on that April afternoon, turning on the TV and seeing the MTV News anchor Kurt Loder report that the 27-year-old lead singer and guitarist for Nirvana had been found dead by suicide...

Given all of the conspiratorial noise about the Jeffrey Epstein story, we understand why some Americans are tempted to look away at this point. Still, it deserves attention because it has become a case study in the ways that President Trump and his aides manipulate the public and abuse power. Even if the Epstein files that the Just...

In November, Mahira Rivers and Ryan Sutton — names likely familiar to in-the-know New York diners — started as contributing restaurant critics at The Times, writing brief reviews that award stars to New York City restaurants. Their work first appears on Tuesdays in the Where to Eat newsletter (subscribe here), and each month those...

In the latest example of how the art world is reordering itself in response to challenging gallery economics, three major players are joining forces to sell artwork on the secondary market (as opposed to sales of new work).On Monday, Pace Gallery, with Emmanuel Di Donna of Di Donna Galleries and David Schrader, an executive vice pr...

A bot may soon be booking your vacation.Millions of travelers already use artificial intelligence to compare options for flights, hotels, rental cars and more. About 30 percent of U.S. travelers say they’re comfortable using A.I. to plan a trip. But these tools are about to take a big step.Agentic A.I., a rapidly emerging type of a...

The United Nations has warned that the Kordofan region of Sudan could face another wave of mass atrocities as fierce fighting between rival armed forces threatens a humanitarian catastrophe.UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Thursday that history was “repeating itself” in Kordofan following last month’s fall of el-Fasher, th...

The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell again this week, slipping close to its low point so far this year.The decline brings the average long-term mortgage rate to 6.19% from 6.23% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.69%.This is the second straight weekly drop in the average...

The bean counters might say otherwise, but 2025 was a good year for movies.Filmmakers working in and out of the studio system managed to make bold, personal, wildly imaginative and singular works. Some of them even broke through to the mainstream — how extraordinary that “Sinners” is among the highest earning of the year in North A...

JERUSALEM (AP) — There were hundreds, then dozens, and then just a few. Now there’s one Israeli hostage left in Gaza: Ran Gvili.Gvili, a 24-year-old police officer known affectionately as “Rani,” was killed while fighting Hamas militants during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war. After a series of ceasefire-mandated ex...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump is hosting the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda on Thursday for a deal-signing aimed at ending the conflict in Congo.The Central African nation has been battered by decades-long fighting with more than 100 armed groups, the most potent being the Rwanda-backed M...

▶ Get the AP Top 25 college football poll delivered straight to your inbox every week with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Mississippi athletic director Keith Carter, members of the football team and even the state’s top public safety officer are challenging the veracity of Lane Kiffin’s portrayal of the events surroundi...

When she set out to build a custom house on Bailey Island in Maine, Natasha Durham didn’t just want a home to live in. “I wanted to build a sculpture,” she said.Ms. Durham, 62, the founder of Rough & Tumble, a boutique handbag company, already owned other homes in Maine with her husband, Steve Durham, 76, a boat captain. Those prop...

There’s an adage floating around social media about grief that posits it is love in another form, accumulating as a knot in the chest, a lump in the throat, tears in the eyes. “Grief is just love with no place to go,” the saying ends. But if you’re Jennifer Packer, it goes on canvas, made known through the brushstrokes of one of th...

President Trump on Wednesday threw the weight of the federal government behind vehicles that burn gasoline rather than electric cars, gutting one of the country’s most significant efforts to address climate change and thrusting the automobile industry into greater uncertainty.Flanked by executives from major automakers in the Oval...

Cuba has suffered another blackout that temporarily knocked out power to the western side of the Caribbean island, a region that includes the capital Havana.The country’s Ministry of Energy and Mines announced on Wednesday that the blackout began around 5am local time (10:00 GMT). It then declared all systems restored at around 1:2...

England’s Joe Root conquered his final frontier with a first Ashes century in Australia as the tourists pushed past 300 on the first day of the second Test in Brisbane despite a six-wicket haul from pace spearhead Mitchell Starc.Root marched off unbeaten on 135 off 202 balls after a late flogging of the pink ball under the Gabba fl...

From Russia’s perspective, Ukraine’s refusal to accept its terms to end the war is the main obstacle to peace.According to Kyiv and many of its European allies, it is Russian President Vladimir Putin who is standing in the way of a truce deal.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Putin visits India amid Ukraine peace push:...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said recent talks with United States negotiators over ending the war with Ukraine were “very useful”, while doubling down on the maximalist demands and territorial designs that are standing in the way of a solution.In advance of a trip to New Delhi on Thursday, Putin told India Today TV that he...

As the United States ramps up strikes on Venezuelan boats and threatens a land invasion to fight alleged drug trafficking networks, President Donald Trump has pardoned Honduras’s former President Juan Orlando Hernandez and released him from a 45-year prison sentence in the US for weapons and drug trafficking offences.Since Septembe...

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that US President Donald Trump has been personally overseeing efforts to bring an end to the war in Sudan, now deep into its third year of acute suffering for the civilian population.Speaking during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Wednesday, Rubio said that Trump is “the...

Public broadcasters are meeting to discuss whether Israel should be excluded from the Eurovision Song Contest over alleged interference in last year’s competition and its continued genocidal war on Gaza.The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which brings together member broadcasters organising the feel-good music contest, launched...

Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of a gang in the Gaza Strip that was accused of working with Israel to counter Hamas and of looting humanitarian aid, has been killed, according to his group.His militia, which calls itself the Popular Forces, said in a Facebook post on Thursday evening that Abu Shabab was shot “as he tried to resolve...

Tunisian police have arrested top opposition figure Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, his family says, as a crackdown on critics of President Kais Saied widens in the North African country, once a beacon of fledgling democracy in the years after the Arab Spring.Chebbi was arrested at his home on Thursday, days after he was sentenced to 12 years...

United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put defence personnel and their missions at risk when he used the messaging app Signal to discuss sensitive information about military strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, a classified Pentagon watchdog report has found.In a report provided to Congress on Tuesday, the Pentagon inspector general s...

Israel’s military has launched air strikes on at least three towns in southern Lebanon, Mahrouna, Jbaa, and al-Majadel, despite the ceasefire in place since last November.According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, the attack on Jbaa on Thursday destroyed a building in a densely populated residential area and caused extensive dama...

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks for nearly five hours Tuesday night with Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's special envoy, and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, negotiating with the two American emissaries as Washington pushed to end Russia's war against Ukraine.The negotiators debated the substance of the...

ROME (AP) — A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to Catholic women who hope one day to be able to preside at weddings, baptisms and funerals.The Vatican on Thursday took the unusual step of publishing a synthesis of the commission’s findings, includin...

BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — U.S. ski racing greats Ted Ligety and Picabo Street made yet another Olympic team.On this occasion, as TV reporters.Ligety and Street join the NBC broadcasting crew that will cover ski racing at the Milan Cortina Winter Games in February. The team also includes longtime NBC broadcaster Dan Hicks and analy...

George Clooney is not Jay Kelly. That much he is sure of.But when a famous movie star of a certain age decides to take on a role as a famous movie star of a certain age, full of regrets and realizing that he’s missed out on so much of his own life in pursuit of greatness and fame, it does invite some questions.Clooney, 64, wasn’t t...

How do you top “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” the video game movie adaptation about murderous anthropomorphic robots? If it’s a battle for insipid nonsense, the answer is blindingly clear: “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.”The sequel builds on the un-scary, un-funny bones of the 2023 original by expanding the Freddy’s Cinematic Universe with...

ROGERS, Ark. (AP) — Northwest Arkansas has emerged as a hot spot in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, the result of one county’s partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and aggressive traffic stops by police.The region offers a window into what the future may hold in places where law enforcem...

NEW YORK (AP) — Turning Point USA leader Erika Kirk will speak about the aftermath of her husband Charlie’s killing in a prime-time “town hall” event televised by CBS News on Dec. 13, the network said on Thursday.The event will be moderated by Bari Weiss, the network’s new editor-in-chief and founder of the Free Press website.Charl...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Pentagon, attempting to overturn new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that have led to most mainstream media outlets being banished from the building.The newspaper said the rules violate the Constitution’s freedom of speech and due process provis...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Matt Van Epps of Tennessee was sworn Thursday as the newest House member, two days after winning a closely watched special election that helped maintain his party’s slim grip on power.“I come to this distinguished body as a Christian, a husband and a father and an Army special operations helicopter pilo...

A few years ago, Kurt Neesley of Redondo Beach, California, was brainstorming where to put his family’s Elf on the Shelf for his three kids to find the next morning.He decided to make it look like the doll, named Elfie, had painted on their kitchen wall. Neesley used Tootsie Rolls to build an elf-size climbing wall, posed Elfie on...

NEW YORK (AP) — The first full-length book by Pope Leo XIV to come out in the U.S. will be published next year.HarperOne announced Wednesday that it had acquired world rights to “Peace Be with You! My Words to the Church and to the World,” scheduled for release on Feb. 26. “Peace Be With You” includes sermons and addresses he has g...

LONDON (AP) — The British body that funds Olympic and Paralympic sports has launched an app powered by artificial intelligence to try and protect athletes from social media abuse.The app, called Social Protect, detects and removes abusive comments on social media in real time, UK Sport said on Thursday.The app allows “athletes to s...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ralph Lauren revealed Team USA’s Milan Cortina Winter Olympics looks Thursday, complete with Americana knit sweaters and plenty of vintage call-backs.The formal opening ceremony look pairs a patterned red, white and blue knit sweater with tailored cream trousers and a matching wool coat. Moving sportier, the closing...

Two Black men who were fired by President Donald Trump from the National Transportation Safety Board and U.S. Surface Transportation Board accused the administration on Thursday of discriminating against them as part of a pattern of dismissing Black leaders across the government.Robert Primus on the STB and Alvin Brown on the NTSB...

WASHINGTON (AP) — AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron suffered a minor stroke last month but is recovering rapidly and will continue to lead the world’s biggest movie theater chain, the company said Thursday. Aron, 71, suffered the stroke while on a business trip in London, where he immediately received emergency medical care, the comp...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in more than three years during Thanksgiving week, potentially complicating the Federal Reserve’s upcoming decision on interest rates.The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits for the week ending Nov. 29 fell to 191,000 from the pre...

LONDON (AP) — WhatsApp faces an antitrust investigation in the European Union, where regulators said Thursday that they’re looking into the messaging service’s artificial intelligence policy. The European Commission said it opened the formal investigation because of concerns about WhatsApp’s move to limit access for third-party AI...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special tribunal in Bangladesh’s capital on Thursday issued an arrest warrant against Sajeeb Wazed, the son of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, over alleged crimes against humanity during last year’s mass uprising that ended his mother’s 15-year rule.Wazed, who lives in the United States, was an advis...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities on Thursday named a Chinese executive of a metal smelting company as a suspect in a cesium-137 contamination case that resulted in the recall of some exports to the U.S.Lin Jingzhang, who is a director of PT Peter Metal Technology (PMT), has been designated as a suspect, Bara Hasibua...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s former foreign policy chief resigned on Thursday as head of a prestigious institute of European studies after becoming embroiled in a fraud investigation over a training program for junior diplomats.Federica Mogherini said she was stepping down as Rector of the College of Europe, based in the Be...

▶ Follow live updates on the 2025 FIFA World Cup draw WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will take center stage at Friday’s World Cup draw in Washington, rolling out the welcome mat for teams and fans from around the globe at a time when his administration is expanding restrictions on travel to the United States for peo...

PESHSWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan will allow the United Nations to deliver relief supplies into Afghanistan through two key border crossings that have been closed for nearly two months, a government official said Thursday.Mohammad Anas, a spokesperson for the Khyber district administration in the northwest, told The Associated Pre...

PRAGUE (AP) — Theodor Pištěk, a Czech costume and stage designer and painter who won an Academy Award for his work on the 1984 film “Amadeus,” has died. He was 93.His death was announced on Thursday by the town of Mukařov, just east of Prague, where he lived and was confirmed by his family to the local CTK news agency. They said he...

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police on Thursday said they had broken up a criminal network linked to smuggling 300 workers into the country, mostly from Nepal.The workers were placed illegally on farms in central and eastern Spain.Police arrested 11 people and are investigating two others. A total of 322 people, most from Nepal, were amon...

ROME (AP) — Italian prosecutors have asked 13 luxury fashion firms to provide documents on governance, internal controls and audits as part of an investigation into the alleged exploitation of Chinese workers at subcontractors, judicial documents showed on Thursday.According to the documents obtained by The Associated Press, the in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to travel to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to highlight his efforts to reduce inflation even as fears mount about a worsening job market and amid signs that Americans are still feeling squeezed by high prices.A White House official said Trump would be making the trip to discuss ending the in...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s widely popular army chief was confirmed to the newly created post of chief of defense forces, a position that was established last month to improve coordination among the army, navy and air force.Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s office said in a statement that a summary for the appointment of Field Marsha...

A federal vaccine advisory committee on Thursday voted to delay a decision on whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, meeting in Atlanta, voted to delay the decision until Friday after committee members voiced confusion about voting language...

ROGERS, Ark. (AP) — She was already separated from her husband, the family breadwinner and father of her two youngest children, and had lost the home they shared in Arkansas. Then Cristina Osornio was ensnared by the nation’s rapidly expanding immigration enforcement crackdown just months after her husband was d...

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI on Thursday arrested a man accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack, an abrupt breakthrough in an investigatio...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma and his co-accused, the French arms manufacturer Thales, returned to court on Thursday to appeal for the dismissal of the long-running corruption case against them.Zuma, one of the key figures of the South African liberation struggle who served as president from 2009 to...

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to keep fighting for the release of a sports journalist held in Algeria.An Algerian appeals court upheld on Wednesday a seven-year prison sentence for French sportswriter Christophe Gleizes, who was convicted of “glorifying terrorism,” quashing hopes for an early release.Mac...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan national charged in the shooting of two U.S. National Guard members last week had been previously trained by American forces, and his actions should not reflect on the people of Afghanistan, the country’s foreign minister said. The remarks by Amir Khan Muttaqi were the first public comments o...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in India Thursday on a state visit aimed at bolstering bilateral and economic ties between the two countries.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the Russian leader at an airport in New Delhi, giving a bear hug and a tight handshake with the gusto of an old friend.Mod...

LONDON (AP) — Britain sanctioned Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency and summoned Moscow’s ambassador on Thursday after an inquiry concluded that President Vladimir Putin was responsible for a nerve agent attack on British soil in 2018.The government said that the GRU was being sanctioned in its entirely for “reckless” acts i...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A delegation of representatives from the 15 member states of the United Nations Security Council visited Syria Thursday for the first time since the council’s founding in 1945.The visit comes just ahead of the one-year anniversary of the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad in a lightning rebel offens...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has signed the first in what are expected to be dozens of “America First” global health funding agreements that will prioritize combating infectious diseases in countries deemed to be aligned with the president’s broader foreign policy goals and positions. The five-year, $2.5 billion agree...

MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Acclaimed Iranian film director Jafar Panahi said on Thursday he plans to return home after touring with his new film, “It Was Just an Accident,” and that he has never contemplated exile despite the threat of prison he faces back in Iran.A court in Tehran earlier this week sentenced Panahi to a year in pri...

Russian authorities said Thursday they have imposed restrictions on Apple’s video calling service FaceTime, the latest step in an effort to tighten control over the internet and communications online.State internet regulator Roskomnadzor alleged in a statement that the service is being “used to organize and conduct terrorist activi...

PANAMA CITY (AP) — The Panamanian airline Copa Airlines, one of the few that maintains flights to Venezuela, announced on Wednesday night the temporary suspension of all its flights to and from Caracas scheduled for December 4 and 5, after pilots reported intermittencies in one of the navigation signals.“Copa Airlines informs that,...

As wintry weather settles in, it brings risks for pets as well as people. Pet owners can take steps to keep their animals warm and safe, including learning about the dangers of extreme temperatures, buying weather-resistant accessories, and stocking up on extra supplies in case of power outages or storms.“The best time to prepare f...

It is common nowadays for playwrights to go back and forth between stage and screen assignments, but Tom Stoppard, whose death at 88 was announced on Saturday, was an early adopter of the practice, with TV credits going back to the early 1960s.Some entries in his impressively lengthy collection of screenplays were originals, but he...

Tech giant Meta has begun removing minors below 16 years of age in Australia from its platforms Instagram, Threads and Facebook ahead of the country’s world-first youth social media ban.“While we are working hard to remove all users who we understand to be under the age of 16 by 10 December, compliance with the law will be an ongoi...

French President Emmanuel Macron told Xi Jinping that their two countries must overcome their “differences” during a trip to Beijing focused on economic and geopolitical cooperation.The two leaders met in China’s capital Beijing on Thursday, holding wide-ranging talks at the Great Hall of the People that ranged from ending the war...

More than 50 years ago, in the summer of 1971, US President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse “public enemy number one” and announced what would soon be known as the country’s “war on drugs”.The policy promised to cleanse streets across the United States of narcotics, dismantle trafficking networks and deliver a safer environment f...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the way Israel has waged its war on Gaza, describing it as “fundamentally wrong” and saying “there are strong reasons” to believe that Israeli forces have committed war crimes in the Palestinian territory.Guterres made the comments on Wednesday in an interview with Reu...

Local sources have reported armed clashes between the Yemeni army loyal to the internationally recognised government and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) forces during an attempt by the separatist group to advance towards the strategically located al-Ghuraf area in the oil-rich Hadramout governorate.Videos posted by local ac...

An international campaign to free popular Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, who has been jailed in Israel since 2002, is gathering pace, with more than 200 A-listers, from Margaret Atwood to Javier Bardem, lending their support.“We express our grave concern at the continuing imprisonment of Marwan Barghouti, his violent mistreat...

A United Nations Security Council (UNSC) delegation has arrived in Syria for its first-ever trip to the country, reported state media, just days before the war-ravaged nation marks the first anniversary of the ousting of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.The UNSC delegation arrived via the Jdeidet Yabous border crossing between Lebano...

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has reached the conclusion that his party needs to embrace the mainstream after spending the year examining why Democrats suffered steep losses in 2024. “We have to be more culturally normal,” Mr. Newsom said Wednesday at the DealBook Summit. “We have to be a little less judgmental.”Mr. Newsom has lo...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The attorney for the two teams suing NASCAR portrayed series chairman Jim France as “a brick wall” in negotiations over the new revenue-sharing model that has triggered the Michael Jordan-backed federal antitrust case against the top form of motorsports in the United States.23XI Racing, owned by Basketball Ha...

LONDON (AP) — London’s Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square was lit up Thursday as part of a British tradition with roots in the Norwegian forest.The tree symbolizes the friendship between London and Oslo in an annual ceremony that highlights the history of the countries’ alliance.Here’s how the tradition began:Token of thanksThe bon...

ROME (AP) — The Olympic flame for the Milan Cortina Winter Games landed in Rome on Thursday following a handover in Greece.The flame was carried in a small lantern aboard an ITA Airways flight between the Greek and Italian capitals.Tennis player Jasmine Paolini — an Olympic gold medalist — and local organizing committee president G...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The mood is grim in The Hague as hundreds of diplomats, lawyers and activists gather this week for the annual meeting of the International Criminal Court to discuss unprecedented challenges including U.S. sanctions, Russian arrest warrants and worries over the court’s future. During her opening address...

DALLAS (AP) — From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year’s news also left some Americans struggling with pronunciations. That’s put both the name of New York City’s incoming mayor and the famed Paris museum on a list of the most mispronounced words in 202...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump praised the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda for their courage as they signed onto a deal on Thursday aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Congo and opening the region’s critical mineral reserves to the U.S. government and American companies.The moment offered Trump...

GENEVA (AP) — Public broadcasters in Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and Slovenia on Thursday pulled out of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest after organizers decided to allow Israel to compete, putting political discord on center stage over a usually joyful celebration of music.The walkouts came after the general assembly of the...

PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia surged past 1,500 Thursday as rescue teams raced to reach survivors isolated by the disaster with hundreds of people still unaccounted for across the region.The latest figure came as meteorologists warned of renewed rainfall...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — A Lithuanian court on Thursday convicted the leader of one of the parties in the country’s coalition government for making antisemitic comments and fined him 5,000 euros (about $5,800).The district court in the capital, Vilnius, found that Remigijus Žemaitaitis incited hatred against Jews, grossly downplay...

CAIRO (AP) — The UN’s top human rights official issued a stark new warning Thursday about Sudan, saying he fears “a new wave of atrocities” amid a surge in fierce fighting in the Kordofan region. UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk urged “all states with influence over the parties to take immediate action to halt the fighting, and st...

LONDON (AP) — Britain and Norway will mount joint naval patrols to protect undersea cables from Russia, the U.K. said Thursday, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Støre held talks on defense.The U.K. government says a combined fleet of at least 13 warships will “hunt Russian submarines and protect c...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says some proposals in a U.S. plan to end the war in Ukraine are unacceptable to the Kremlin, indicating in comments published Thursday that any deal is still some ways off.U.S. President Donald Trump has set in motion the most intense diplomatic push to stop the fighting since Russia launched the f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty-two-year-old Dinam Bigny sank into debt and had to get a roommate this year, in part because of health insurance premiums that cost him nearly $900 per month.Next year, those monthly fees will rise by $200 — a significant enough increase that the program manager in Aldie, Virginia, has resigned himself to fi...

Elden Campbell, a center who played 15 seasons in the NBA — including nine with the Los Angeles Lakers — and later won a championship with the Detroit Pistons, has died. He was 57.Campbell’s family informed the Pistons of the death, telling the team that he died on Monday. No cause was given.The 6-foot-11 Campbell was born in Los A...

It was around 2 a.m. on a Saturday when a hoarse voice from a fast car called me a faggot.It was 1998, and I was walking home alone after making heart eyes at go-go boys at the Lucky Horseshoe on Halsted Street, Chicago’s main gay strip. The car didn’t slow down. I did, cold with fear but hot from shame for being clocked as not jus...

Advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appear poised to make consequential changes to the childhood vaccination schedule, delaying a shot that is routinely administered to newborns and discussing big changes to when or how other childhood immunizations are given.Decisions by the group are not legally binding, but they h...

When Pan Am introduced its first jetliner, a Boeing 707 named “America,” with an inaugural flight on Oct. 26, 1958, a marching band performed for the 111 passengers who followed a red carpet to their Paris-bound plane. The women on the tarmac at Idlewild Airport, now John F. Kennedy International in New York, wore heels and pearls....

Traveling without a Real ID-compliant form of identification is now going to cost travelers.As of Feb. 1, 2026, passengers without one will be required to pay a $45 fee in order to fly from U.S. airports, the Transportation Security Administration announced on Monday.Travelers will be able to pay the fee, valid for a 10-day period,...

Tourists visiting the Louvre Museum in Paris already have to cope with long entry lines, overcrowded galleries and, occasionally, robbers stealing masterpieces from its halls.Now, some also face a sharp jump in ticket prices.On Thursday, the Louvre’s board agreed to increase prices by 45 percent for visitors outside the European Ec...

Just after Christmas in 1984, a struggling young photographer named Jonathan Pierson, fresh out of art school, took an impromptu road trip from New York to Miami Beach with his friend and infatuation, André Laroche.Drawn to the city’s cheap and easy beach life, thrift shops and seedy glamour, Pierson stayed on for six months workin...

If visitors to Art Basel Miami Beach, which runs Friday through Sunday, venture beyond the fair tents, they will find a city with a wealth of culture and history — and an area that could be described as an exclave of Cuba. Here is a selection of sights and shows.Little HavanaThe year 1959 was revolutionary for Cuba: Fidel Castro to...

When Franklin Sirmans became director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) in 2015, the art world looked a lot different than it does today.The global franchising of name-brand art fairs was just getting started, museum websites were largely dull affairs and the Covid era’s pressure on museum attendance and budgets was yet to come....

On the slim chance you get invited to dinner at the sprawling Beverly Hills home of the former Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz, it’s best to think twice before suggesting you could produce a white painting as layered as Robert Ryman’s or a Kelly green crescent as elegant as Ellsworth Kelly’s.He owns examples of both and, as Ov...

What a difference a star can make. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is experiencing a remarkable surge in sales this fall thanks to the clever casting of Tom Felton as an adult version of the character he played in the films: Draco Malfoy.The play’s producers said Monday that the show grossed $2.973 million last week, which is m...

Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades had barely been extinguished when the city’s authorities began working to contain something else: public anger at the government.National security police have arrested at least two people for demanding more government accountability in the blaze that engulfed seven apartment towers and killed a...

Nearly 35 million people in Nigeria could face severe hunger by the middle of next year, according to projections by the United Nations — one of the highest numbers ever forecast in the country and a major increase from the 27 million experiencing it today.Widespread violence — including banditry and terrorism — is largely driving...

About a decade ago, a wave of populism crashed across Europe. Reeling from the financial crisis, voters flirted with risky alternatives to mainstream parties, threatening tumult in the continent’s usually stable politics. It was an unsettling time for Europe’s leaders. But pundits assured them that the risk of a far-right takeover...

It’s not a good year to be a turkey, or a turkey eater.With avian flu devastating flocks nationwide, the wholesale cost of turkey as of last week stood at $1.66 a pound, up about 70 percent from 98 cents a pound at this time last year.“That’s a huge increase,” said Mark Jordan, the executive director of Leap Market Analytics, a res...

India’s government sent a notice to private companies last week giving them 90 days to ensure that a government app was “preinstalled on all mobile handsets manufactured or imported for use in India.”The order said the requirement was meant “to identify and report acts that may endanger telecom cybersecurity.” On Tuesday, the gover...