Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Mr. Musk himself.Those details were disclosed in the Musk Foundation’s tax filing for 2...

Kingsley Wilson, the Pentagon’s press secretary, approached the lectern on Tuesday morning. “Welcome to the Department of War,” she said.The greeting was wholly appropriate, considering that Ms. Wilson was speaking to a briefing room of people undergoing something of an orientation program this week at the Pentagon. Most of them ar...

In July, David Sacks, one of the Trump administration’s top technology officials, beamed as he strode onstage at a neo-Classical auditorium just blocks from the White House. He had convened top government officials and Silicon Valley executives for a forum on the booming business of artificial intelligence.The guest of honor was Pr...

On Tuesday, Michael Dell of Dell Technologies and his wife, Susan, announced that they were donating $6.25 billion to benefit roughly 25 million children, through the vehicle of the new Trump accounts created in this year’s tax bill. It is one of the largest donations ever to go straight to Americans. Many of the details are still...

I taught my older son to drive the same way my father taught me, with equal doses of caution and paranoia. Sometimes, riding shotgun on the interstate, I would spy the speedometer creeping above the limit and hear my dad’s words tumbling out.“Hey, pal,” I would say to Max. “How fast are you going?”I found myself recalling one of th...

The lanky green-pink lights danced wildly across the horizon, pulsating like an incandescent curtain in the breeze.I thought it was the closest I had been to God since the birth of my children. I cried.My experience was far from unique. Each year tens of thousands of people flock to Arctic and sub-Arctic destinations seeking that n...

The British government announced on Tuesday plans to restrict the rights of some defendants to a jury trial in England and Wales, as it seeks to reduce a yearslong backlog of cases in the criminal courts.In a statement to Parliament, David Lammy, the justice secretary, said he would create new “swift courts” for defendants facing a...

ImageIt’s Cookie WeekYou’ll get a new holiday cookie recipe and video each day this week. Read, watch, bake and enjoy!ImageClaire Saffitz’s mortadella cookies.Credit...Rachel Vanni for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Samantha Seneviratne. Prop Stylist: Megan Hedgpeth.When the cookie says “Ciao bella!”Like it’s meaty mortadellaTha...

All seven hotels at the Grand Canyon will close temporarily beginning on Saturday, dealing another blow to the wildfire-scarred national park, one of the most popular attractions in the United States.In a statement, the park service blamed “a series of significant breaks” in the South Rim’s water supply system for the move. The clo...

This Friday through Sunday, in its 23rd edition, Art Basel Miami Beach will gather works from around the world and debut Zero 10, a major digital art program — a first at any of the Basel fairs.The locationThe Miami Beach edition of Art Basel is unique in that it takes place on a single floor, rather than in a multistory location a...

An installation made from 300 kilos of hippopotamus dung, arranged to look like seized cocaine. A 12-ton rock, carved into an Olmec head, crushing the roof of a Tesla car. The monstrous torso of a woman, molded from clay and then captured in a hyperrealistic oil portrait.The painters, sculptors and assorted object-makers showing in...

The lighting is regally dim, the huge gallery shadowy.Small ceiling spotlights set the faces in the paintings aglow. The fine wrinkles, the whiskers and the granular stitching in the gowns and jackets are framed and highlighted by broad, dark brush strokes, the hallmark of artists in the Netherlands in the 1600s.The illuminated fac...

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It might sound implausible for someone to claim they can list the 2,500 books that have most shaped them. But the English artist and set designer Es Devlin insists she can.There are the titles she studied as an English literature major, she said, and the books and plays she has absorbed over some 30 years of designing sets — first...

For authors like Charles Dickens or Franz Kafka, the modern office worker mired in mind-numbing bureaucracy served as a model for the human condition. For the Korean artist Ayoung Kim, the 21st-century urban delivery worker serves that role. In a series of breakneck-paced videos and haunting sculptures at MoMA PS1, and a recent per...

ImageImageLeaders in politics, business and culture will gather in New York for the DealBook Summit today to speak with The Times’s Andrew Ross Sorkin. He interviewed Jeff Bezos of Amazon at last year’s event.Credit...Jeenah Moon for The New York TimesAndrew here. Today, Wednesday, is the day: The DealBook Summit begins in a couple...

VideoCreditCredit...Tess Smith-RobertsBy Brian X. ChenHello! We’re back with another bonus edition of On Tech: A.I., a pop-up newsletter that teaches you about artificial intelligence, how it works and how to use it.Last week, I walked you through how to turn artificial intelligence into a tutor and research assistant. In the final...

In St. Louis, a team of students aboard a well-equipped van visits senior centers, a nursing home, a church and other sites, learning to conduct comprehensive, hourlong geriatric assessments.The team — future doctors, social workers, psychologists and therapists — looks for such common problems as frailty, muscle weakness and cogni...

Ronald Klein was biking around his neighborhood in North Wales, Pa., in 2006 and tried to jump a curb. “But I was going too slow — I didn’t have enough momentum,” he recalled.As the bike toppled, he thrust out his left arm to break the fall. It didn’t seem like a serious accident, yet “I couldn’t get up.”At the emergency room, X-ra...

Kitty Grutzmacher had contended with poor hearing for a decade, but the problem had worsened over the past year. Even with her hearing aids, “there was little or no sound,” she said.“I was avoiding going out in groups. I stopped playing cards, stopped going to Bible study, even going to church.”Her audiologist was unable to offer M...

A sprawling winter storm dumped snow from the Poconos in Pennsylvania to parts of New Brunswick in Canada on Tuesday, and it intensified across New England and Eastern Canada as the day went on. The storm posed a risk for drivers through the evening commute as state troopers across New England and the Northeast responded to hundred...

A cascade of unusually destructive storms has torn through South and Southeast Asia, killing at least 1,200 people — a toll that is likely to rise — and displacing millions more.The region is no stranger to such giant storms, referred to as cyclones, hurricanes or typhoons, which tend to accompany monsoon rains in November and Dece...

Interview by Rebecca DzombakLost Science is an ongoing series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. The conversations have been edited for clarity and length. Here’s why we’re doing this.My first memory is of the Earth shaking, things flying everywhere, my neighbor’s...

President Trump said on Wednesday that South Africa would not be invited to next year’s Group of 20 summit in the United States, just days after South Africa finished hosting the annual gathering, in the latest of a series of attacks on Africa’s largest economy.Mr. Trump did not attend the meeting, a gathering of the world’s larges...

Here’s where things stand on Thursday, December 4:Fighting Russian forces have taken control of the village of Chervone in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence. Ukraine’s military said it struck a Russian oil depot in the Tambov region and another one in the Oryol region on Tuesday....

The European Commission has proposed an unprecedented use of frozen Russian assets or international borrowing to raise 90 billion euros ($105bn) to support Ukraine’s war effort against Russia, though critical reservations about the plan from key stakeholder Belgium appear unresolved.The announcement by the European Union’s executiv...

A majority of citizens in Germany, France, the Netherlands and several other European Union member states believe there is a high chance of Russia going to war with their country, a survey has found.Across nine European countries surveyed, just over half of respondents said the risk of war was “high” or “very high”, the survey by F...

The Pentagon’s inspector general has reportedly determined that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth improperly used the messaging app Signal to convey sensitive information, thereby putting a United States military operation at risk.Media reports, released on Wednesday, offered a preview of the inspector general’s report, slated to b...

New Delhi, India – Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in the Indian capital on Thursday evening for his first visit to the country since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago, even as a renewed push by the United States to end the conflict appears to have stalled.Indian Prime Minister Narendra...

The United States is expanding its vetting process for highly skilled H-1B visa applicants to include more social media checks, as applicants working in fields like misinformation and disinformation will also face enhanced scrutiny.The US Department of State said Thursday that all H-1B applicants and their dependants must make all...

Smartphone photography has come a long way since the first iPhone’s single 2-megapixel camera in 2007. With phones now boasting multiple cameras with 48-, 50- or even 200-megapixel resolutions, the camera software has also gotten more complex, with more fine-tuned controls and features. Some are even boosted by artificial intellige...

Residents of Hong Kong had a perfectly natural response after a devastating fire in an apartment complex killed at least 159 people last week: They mourned the tragedy, which left thousands homeless, and tried to make sense of what had happened. They demanded an independent investigation and official accountability.What they got fr...

HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu’s city council on Wednesday authorized $1 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police. The fatal shooting of Iremamber Sykap in 2021 came amid a national reckoning over police use of force, but the case also highlighted racism toward Micronesians in Hawai...

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut police said Wednesday that they found a decomposed body and numerous explosives inside a home in the aftermath of an hours-long standoff with a man who had barricaded himself and exchanged gunfire with law enforcement officers.Stamford police responded to the house Tuesday morning after a state ma...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. Marine died during a training exercise Wednesday at Camp Pendleton in Southern California, military officials said.The Marine died of injuries sustained in a “tactical vehicle mishap” in the afternoon, the I Marine Expeditionary Force said in a statement. The Marine’s name was not released, and the cause o...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Ann Bedsole, a trailblazer in Alabama politics who became the first woman elected to the Alabama Senate, has died. She was 95.The Alabama Republican Party on Tuesday announced Bedsole’s death.Bedsole served 16 years in the Alabama Legislature. In 1978, she became the first Republican woman elected to the Ala...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s Republican-controlled House officially kicked off the first meeting of its select committee on congressional redistricting Thursday, as the state becomes the latest to consider redrawing electoral maps amid a partisan battle for every edge in next year’s midterm elections.But the prospect of mid-d...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s effort to install political loyalists as top federal prosecutors has run into a legal buzz saw lately, with judges ruling that his handpicked U.S. attorneys for New Jersey, eastern Virginia, Nevada and Los Angeles were all serving unlawfully.On Thursday, another federal judge heard an ar...

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration WASHINGTON (AP) — A Navy admiral commanding the U.S. military strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean told lawmakers Thursday that there was no “kill them all” order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, but a stark video of the attack left grave q...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsFriday, December 5COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)7 p.m.Mercyhurst at Lafayette — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)6 p.m.Bucknell at Vermont — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsCOLLEGEICE HOCKEY9:05 p.m.Robert Morris at Air Force — Altitude 2, Fubo...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsFriday, December 5COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)7:30 p.m.Cleary University at Eastern Michigan — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)5 p.m.Defiance at Eastern Michigan — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsCOLLEGEICE HOCKEY8:30 p.m.Michigan at Michiga...

NEW YORK (AP) — Minutes after police approached Luigi Mangione in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, he told an officer he didn’t want to talk, according to video and testimony at a court hearing Thursday for the man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Although Mangione signaled he wasn’t interested in speaking, polic...

Venmo announced early Thursday that an issue impacting the payment service had been fixed and it was “back up and running,” after users reported trouble sending and receiving money for hours.“We’re sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate you bearing with us while our team addressed this,” the company said in a post on the social...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump and has planted the president’s name on its headquarters despite an ongoing fight over control of the institute.It’s the latest twist in a seesaw court battle over who controls the U.S. Institute of Peace, a nonprofit thi...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market held near its records in a quiet day of trading on Thursday, continuing its relatively calm run following weeks of sharp and scary swings.The S&P 500 inched up by 0.1% and is just 0.5% below its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 31 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composit...

Shopping assistant chatbots were a novelty a year ago. Now, they’re everywhere. After rolling out AI-powered assistants, online retailers and tech companies have been adding more artificial intelligence features to make online shopping easier and more convenient.The latest crop of AI-powered shopping services and tools made their d...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s energy minister issued a call for the supply of oil and gas in the Black Sea to be protected after three Russian tankers were targeted off the Turkish coast.Alparslan Bayraktar said Turkey was concerned not just by the threat to shipping but also to two undersea pipelines, Blue Stream and Turk Stream, that...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — For 35 years, American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia, hoping conservationists never have to use them. But she worries that the world’s fastest land animal might be on the brink of extinction one day and need artificial reproduction...

APATZINGAN, Mexico (AP) — On a steamy night, a farmer from a village of modest tin-roofed homes surrounded by rolling lime orchards in western Mexico’s coastal mountains approached Rev. Gilberto Vergara for help.The drug cartels were extorting him and other growers so heavily that the math no longer worked to harvest all his limes,...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A seal walked into a bar. Or to use a technical term, it galumphed.The creature was apparently lost, curious and well below New Zealand ’s legal drinking age. It lodged itself under the dishwasher and showed no interest in calling a cab.It was a wet, lazy Sunday evening when the baby fur seal waddled...

TOKYO (AP) — The pledge by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to “work, work, work, work and work” for her country has been named the catchphrase of the year, recognizing the effort Japan’s first female leader had to make to reach the top.The ultraconservative Takaichi uttered the phrase in October when she was elected as head...

BEIJING (AP) — China and France pledged deeper cooperation on global issues like the war in Ukraine and trade, as France prepares to take on the presidency of the Group of Seven next year. French President Emmanuel Macron met with China’s Xi Jinping on Thursday morning as part of a three-day state visit focusing on trade and diplom...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — When it comes to financial security for Iran’s jittery public after the 12-day war with Israel, all that glitters is gold — and for many, it remains the most trusted hedge against inflation, sanctions and a weakening rial currency.Traders in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar say every new headline about United Nations “snap...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras’ former President Juan Orlando Hernández thanked U.S. President Donald Trump Wednesday for pardoning him in his first communication since being released from a U.S. prison.Hernández was one year into a 45-year prison sentence for helping drug traffickers move hundreds of tons of cocaine to the...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong residents, construction professionals and former senior officials are pushing back against the idea that bamboo scaffolding was a main reason flames spread so quickly in the city’s deadliest blaze in decades, as a debate flares over whether it should be replaced.Authorities were quick to focus on the trad...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Remains that militants in Gaza handed to Israel were those of Thai agricultural worker Sudthisak Rinthalak, Israeli and Thai officials said Thursday. The confirmation brought the first phase of Gaza’s tenuous 8-week-old ceasefire a step closer to completion, with one more hostage’s remains still to be returned.The...

TEGUCIGALPA (AP) — The conservative candidate Salvador Nasralla continued on Wednesday night leading the Honduran presidential election on Sunday with a slight advantage of about 13,927 votes over the also conservative Nasry Asfura, while the Central American country was still waiting for the outcome. Both presidential candidates s...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shake-up of Google’s search engine in an attempt to curb the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the U.S. government’s attempt to break up the company and impose other restraints.The 226-page decision made by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Front Row Motorsports owner Bob Jenkins testified Wednesday in the federal antitrust case against NASCAR that he was “honestly very hurt” by a “take-it-or-leave-it” offer on a new charter agreement that came with a deadline of mere hours to sign the 112-page document. Front Row, alongside...

ImageRosie Schaap’s margaritas.Credit...Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.Good morning, and Happy Thanksgiving!This is it, the grand finale, the closing stretch of the home-cooking marathon that is Thanksgiving dinner. Or maybe it’s just a dinner party, and you’re making the margaritas.Margs? Y...

Rajiv Joseph’s arrestingly titled “Gruesome Playground Injuries” skips back and forth through the decades, tracking a couple of friends over 30 years. But it starts at the very beginning, with the two of them as 8-year-olds in the school nurse’s office, trading stories of illness and injury.If this is a competition, Kayleen stands...

OVER THE PAST decade, the Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, 54, has developed a vibrant, unexpected sideline: interior design. His films, including “Call Me By Your Name” (2017) and “Queer” (2024), are distinguished by their sumptuous, minutely observed scenic design, as well as by their ability to communicate visceral desire, so...

“A man can’t be a Jesus in this world,” pleads the embattled wheeler-dealer Joe Keller in Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.” Joe sold dud aircraft parts to the U.S. military during World War II, resulting in the deaths of many pilots, and left his innocent business partner to take the rap. Rumbled at last, he begs his idealistic son, C...

In an unusually large commitment to the support of individual artists, the FLAG Art Foundation in New York and Serpentine in London have established a new prize that will be awarded every two years and will equally distribute a million British pounds among five artists (£200,000 each). This would be “the largest contemporary art pr...

This week’s Disney+ debut of “The Beatles Anthology” is, for many fans of the Fab Four, a cause for celebration. The “Anthology” series is the only authorized Beatles documentary, originally produced in 1995 with the full cooperation and participation of Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, then the surviving band membe...

Children’s literature is lousy with dead parents. Also nefarious and neglectful ones. Adulticide is often crucial if a story’s wee fictional humans are going to have adventures worth reading about. The allure of “The Boxcar Children,” for instance, about four orphans living in an abandoned train car, diminishes if the kids are play...

As Sean Combs awaited his expected arrest on sex-trafficking charges in September 2024, he asked a videographer to capture what would ultimately become his last days of freedom for some time.While staying at the Park Hyatt hotel in Manhattan, Mr. Combs was filmed visiting a restaurant in Harlem and talking strategy with his lawyers...

Much of America’s musical heritage is stored on artists’ studio tapes.But as they age, many of those reels are slowly deteriorating …… putting work by 20th-century masters like Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac and Bruce Springsteen at risk.One audio engineer, armed with unconventional machinery, is trying to solve that problem before it’s...

HOUSE OF DAY, HOUSE OF NIGHT, by Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Antonia Lloyd-JonesOne of the minor subplots of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel “House of Day, House of Night” involves a drifter named Leo, who was injured in a mining accident as a young man and lives off state compensation. He is something of an astrologer, obsessed with the...

As New Yorkers scrolled, surfed and searched their way to digital deals on Black Friday, they had certain unique protections.This month, New York became the first state to enact a law targeting a practice, typically called personalized pricing or surveillance pricing, in which retailers use artificial intelligence and customers’ pe...

Shortly after takeoff from Istanbul after completing the first leg of his inaugural international trip, Pope Leo XIV said he had spoken with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey about serving as a “mediating voice” to help Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories negotiate a two-state solution.“We all know that right now...

Thousands of young men and women, hair uncovered and dressed in jeans and short-sleeve tops, jumped up and down, dancing and singing at a packed outdoor pop concert. In another part of town, young people bobbed to the beat of a hard rock street band. And scores of people traversed the city to experience Design Week, a festival of g...

As a young girl, Oniria Correa never really had a place to call home. She was born in Cuba and adopted by a local family, who left her in the care of a Catholic boarding school after they moved to Puerto Rico.While Mrs. Correa’s schoolmates went home to their families over the summer, she was left to assist the nuns with chores lik...

ImageImageMarkets are slipping despite signs of resilient consumer spending.Credit...Brendan McDermid/ReutersIn today's newsletter:All eyes on the consumer and the Fed A bet on embedding A.I. in business “Electricity is the new price of eggs.” Trump’s A.I. czar under scrutiny Andrew here. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend....

In just a few short years, new diabetes and weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro have taken the world by storm. In the United States, one in eight adults say they’ve tried one of these medications, which are known as GLP-1 drugs, and that number seems sure to rise as prices fall and new oral formulations hit the mark...

Just two weeks ago, President Trump set a Thanksgiving deadline for Ukraine to agree to a peace treaty with Russia, putting on the table a proposal with elements that could have been drafted by the Kremlin.Now, it seems clear he will have to wait — maybe weeks, maybe past the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in la...

Washington, DC – A White House committee organising the 2026 World Cup in the United States says the event will be a “global moment of unity”.“We want to make sure that we’re as welcoming as possible,” Andrew Giuliani, the executive director of the White House Task Force on the World Cup, told reporters on Wednesday.Recommended Sto...

Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in the United States for her involvement in an alleged sex trafficking ring run by billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, has said she is planning to file a petition seeking her release.The plan was revealed in a court filing on Wednesday and did not provide details about...

The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee in the United States has subpoenaed former Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith, who led the two federal prosecutions of President Donald Trump.The announcement on Wednesday came despite Smith previously volunteering to appear for an open meeting with the Republican-led panel...

Nablus, occupied West Bank – The Sanoubar family say the Israeli soldiers only gave them two minutes to leave their homes. Then, the apartment block the extended family lived in was demolished.The explosion in Nablus on Tuesday shook the area as huge clouds of dust and smoke billowed out of the building’s floors.Recommended Stories...

Over Thanksgiving week the talk of the economically focused internet was a viral essay claiming, absurdly, that the real poverty line in America for a family of four is $140,000 a year.If you were inclined to generosity, you would say that the essay resonated because it emphasized real problems, from the rising cost of child care a...

More from our inbox:Rubio’s Cruel Deportee DealBeyond Tech BansImagePresident Trump complained about Somali immigrants at the White House on Tuesday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesTo the Editor:Re “In Outburst, Trump Calls Somali Immigrants ‘Garbage’” (news article, Dec. 3):Every day, we are subjected to President Trump’s ou...

Lately a lot of what I’ve been doing is driving around in the psychedelic late fall splendor of upstate New York thinking about Lily Allen’s song about discovering her ex’s purported sex toys in a Duane Reade bag.It’s one of the most tabloidy details in Ms. Allen’s breakup record, “West End Girl.” Many have speculated that the lyri...

President Trump said on Monday that he had accepted an invitation from Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to visit Beijing in April. That occurred while the two leaders discussed several major issues between their nations, including Taiwan, the Ukraine war and lackluster Chinese purchases of American soybeans, according to separate offici...

In April 2024, the prestigious journal Nature released a study finding that climate change would cause far more economic damage by the end of the century than previous estimates had suggested. The conclusion grabbed headlines and citations around the world, and was incorporated in risk management scenarios used by central banks.On...

Israel said on Wednesday that it would begin allowing some Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip for Egypt “in the coming days” through the Rafah border crossing.Such an opening would be a lifeline for Gazans hoping to flee the devastated enclave, particularly the sick and wounded.Israel’s military liaison on humanitarian affairs, w...

Hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey NewtonProduced by Whitney Jones and Rachel CohnEdited by Jen PoyantEngineered by Alyssa MoxleyOriginal music by Dan Powell and Diane WongLast year we debuted Hard Fork’s 100 Most Iconic Technologies list, in which we ranked the technologies from across all of history that best define life as we know...

David Lerner, a high school dropout and self-taught computer geek whose funky foothold in New York’s Flatiron district, Tekserve, was for decades a beloved discount mecca for Apple customers desperate to retrieve lost data and repair frozen hard drives, died on Nov. 12 at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 72.The cause was complicatio...

This summer, lawyers at United Airlines noticed that someone had built an almost perfect replica of the company’s website.This digital clone offered all the same buttons and menus for booking flights, hotels and rental cars. It included the same blue links for tracking frequent flier miles and browsing discount deals. It even used...

For the entirety of my life, I thought I understood how to cut a cake.If it’s a sheet cake, well, the process is so obvious it’s embarrassing to talk about. But a round cake seemed equally uncomplicated: Simply cut it into wedges, like a pie chart or a pizza. Isn’t that what a cake slice is?Online, the answer is a resounding absolu...

It was a meeting of the minds.In 1981, when Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, met Issey Miyake, the Japanese designer, the two connected on the power of functional dressing. Mr. Jobs, inspired by the uniforms Mr. Miyake designed for Sony employees, commissioned the designer to create similar attire for his team in Cupertino. The id...

ImageCredit...Brian ReaA Knock at the DoorSeveral weeks before Thanksgiving my mother, a physician, suffered a massive heart attack and for weeks was kept in the I.C.U. At 15, I was too young to visit her. Doctors said she probably wouldn’t make it. My father, needing her like air, disappeared in his camper van. I stopped going to...

The first thing I learned to cook after moving to Italy in 2007 was pesto Genovese, blending fragrant basil with pine nuts, olive oil, cheese and salt in the kitchen of a complete stranger.I’d tagged along with a neighbor to a cooking class organized by the International Women’s Club of La Spezia, which was led by a local with an a...

AMERICAN CANTO, by Olivia NuzziWhen the journalist Olivia Nuzzi was let go from New York magazine following revelations of her affair with an interview subject, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (who has denied it), I was seriously bummed.Hers was a byline I’d always looked forward to, the prose that followed conveying access to some of most p...

ImageImageThe ReplacementsCredit...Paul Natkin/Getty ImagesBy Lindsay ZoladzDear Listeners,The first time the Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg met one of his musical heroes, Alex Chilton of the underappreciated power-pop band Big Star, Westerberg suffered a sudden lapse in memory: “I’m in love with that one song of yours — wha...

Just before the musician and producer Dijon kicked into the amniotic title track off his 2025 album “Baby” at a sold-out Brooklyn show on Monday night, he played a stitched-together collage of samples featuring artists intoning that familiar word. Baby is one of popular music’s most common epithets, Dijon was suggesting, but his re...

Welcome to Late Night Roundup, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.That’s a LotEven for President Trump, it was a busy night on social media: He made 160 posts (and reposts) on his Truth Social platform, according t...

Mel Leipzig, an acclaimed figurative painter whose passion for detail transformed depictions of fellow New Jerseyans in mundane settings into mesmerizing enigmas, died on Nov. 1 in Princeton, N.J. He was 90.Mr. Leipzig (pronounced LIPE-zug), who long resided in Trenton, died in a nursing home, said his daughter, Francesca Leipzig P...

ATLANTA (AP) — Prison officials in Georgia have scheduled an execution later this month for a man convicted of fatally shooting two real estate agents in Atlanta’s suburbs two decades ago.Stacey Humphreys is scheduled to be put to death at 7 p.m. on Dec. 17, according to the Department of Corrections. Humphreys was convicted of mal...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo said a “line was crossed” when his New Jersey home was vandalized because the incident stretched beyond football and into his personal life.Patullo’s home was vandalized with eggs over the weekend in the wake of the Eagles’ loss on Black Friday to the Chica...

A safety volunteer accused of fatally shooting a man taking part in a “No Kings” protest last June in Salt Lake City while firing at another man he believed to be a potential mass shooter has been charged with manslaughter, prosecutors announced Wednesday.Matthew Alder allegedly fired three shots — one hitting a man who had been se...

One of the last things air traffic controllers heard as a small plane carrying a Christian missionary father and his daughter descended rapidly over Florida last month was heavy breathing and grunting before the plane crashed.The National Transportation Safety Board described the plane’s fatal Nov. 10 flight in its preliminary repo...

An instructor at the University of Oklahoma has been placed on leave after a student complained that she received a failing grade on a paper that cited the Bible to assert that the “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”Samantha Fulnecky, 20, filed a complaint with the administration, the latest flashpoint in the ongoing debate...

TRONA, Calif. (AP) — A fighter jet with the Air Force’s elite Thunderbirds demonstration squadron crashed in the Southern California desert Wednesday, but the pilot managed to eject safely, the military said. The pilot was being treated at a hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening, according to the San Bernardino Count...

A monkey who spent several days on the lam after escaping from a truck that crashed on a rural Mississippi highway earlier this year now has a permanent home at a New Jersey wildlife refuge.Forrest, a young adult rhesus macaque, was among 21 monkeys being transported for biomedical research when the truck they were in overturned Oc...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The University of Alabama has suspended the publication of two student-run magazines — one primarily focused on Black students and another on women’s issues — citing recent federal guidance against diversity, equity and inclusion programs on college campuses. The editors of Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice magaz...

CLAYMONT, Del. (AP) — A University of Delaware student was arrested after police found a handgun, ammunition and written plans for an attack in his vehicle that included references to “martyrdom” and named a campus police officer as a target, authorities say.Luqmaan Khan, 25, had a notebook containing writings about “urban warfare,...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Three Omaha police offers were wounded and a suspect in an earlier shooting was killed Wednesday in an exchange of gunfire at a gas station.The suspect, a man in his 20s, had earlier shot a 61-year-old man several times in the chest about noon at a grocery store, Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said. Officers obtain...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to take a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of an immigrant rights group arguing that it is illegal for local jails to hold immigrant detainees at the request of federal authorities.The Wisconsin lawsuit comes as federal agents hav...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A man who wore a clown mask and brandished a chain saw during a frightful episode in an upstate New York neighborhood was convicted Wednesday of two felony charges.A jury in Albany County Court found the 35-year-old man guilty of first-degree menacing and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connectio...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics “Green Onions,” "(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” and “In the Midnight Hour,” has died. He was 84.Pat Mitchell Worley, president an...

NEW YORK (AP) — If there were any doubt, the first few days of Hollywood’s year-end awards has already made it abundantly clear: Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” is the Oscar front-runner.On Monday, “One Battle After Another” won best film at the 35th Gotham Awards. On Tuesday, it was named best film by the New Yor...

NEW YORK (AP) — For Eric Adams, one unwritten perk of being mayor of New York City has been the chance to live out his boyhood “dream of traveling the globe.”He would hold onto that wanderlust through his federal indictment — focused, in part, on allegations that he accepted improper travel benefits from foreign nationals — and a l...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The redrawing of California’s congressional map to boost Democrats’ chances has left Republicans scrambling for political survival. Some are digging in for tough races, but one is considering a particularly audacious step — moving to Texas.Rep. Darrell Issa, a wealthy car alarm magnate, could make the jump from t...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas’ attorney general is seeking to have a former nursing home operator who was pardoned by President Donald Trump serve time in state prison for Medicaid fraud and tax evasion.Tim Griffin asked a Pulaski County judge in a court motion Tuesday to order Joseph Schwartz to report to prison to serve 31 da...

A former missionary with an Ohio-based ministry has been indicted on federal charges of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with four different minors in Haiti over multiple years.Jeriah Mast, 44, of Millersburg, Ohio, was indicted for alleged actions during his multiple visits to Haiti between 2002 and 2019. Mast — who according to...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, an icon of New York City’s holiday season, was lit up Wednesday night in midtown Manhattan as crowds of people wearing Santa hats and Christmas light necklaces cheered.This year’s towering evergreen is illuminated by more than 50,000 multicolored LED lights and topped by a Swar...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After riding the artificial intelligence craze to new heights, business software maker Salesforce has been pummeled by a wave of investor skepticism that’s intensified the pressure on its persuasive CEO Marc Benioff to reverse the tide.Benioff, who helped spearhead the transition to cloud computing after foundi...

Americans gave $4 billion to nonprofits on GivingTuesday in 2025, an increase from the $3.6 billion they gave in 2024, according to estimates from the nonprofit GivingTuesday. More people also volunteered their time on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving this year, which fell on Dec. 2 and has become a major fundraising day for nonprofi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man alleged to be the founder and leader of a Haitian gang was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for orchestrating the kidnapping of 17 people, including five children, who were on a missionary trip to the Caribbean country.Joly Germine declined to say anything before U.S. District Judge John Bates in Was...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The family of a Colombian man has filed the first formal challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, arguing in a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas that his death was an extrajudicial killing.The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the milita...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A single HPV vaccination appears just as effective as two doses at preventing the viral infection that causes cervical cancer, researchers reported Wednesday.HPV, or human papillomavirus, is very common and spread through sex. Most HPV infections clear up on their own but some linger, causing cancers that appear y...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. military still carried out a follow-up strike, according to two people familiar with the matter.The rationale for the second strike was that it was needed to sink the vessel, according to the p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met separately with President Donald Trump and Republican senators Wednesday as tech executives work to secure favorable federal policies for the artificial intelligence industry, including the limited sale of Nvidia’s highly valued computer chips to U.S. rivals like China.Huang’s closed-do...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Even for a president who has long made clear he’s no fan of Somalia, the latest round of White House contempt was a shock Wednesday in the country’s largest Somali community.“They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country,” President Donald Trump told reporters during a Tuesday Cabinet meeting. “We can...

NEW YORK (AP) — One of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ‘s most vocal accusers urged judges on Wednesday to grant the Justice Department’s request to unseal records from their federal sex trafficking cases, saying “only transparency is likely to lead to justice.”Annie Farmer weighed in through her lawyer, Sigrid S. McCawley, a...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Dozens of farmers drove their tractors in a caravan to Mexico City and blocked an entrance to Mexico’s Congress on Wednesday to protest a new national water law that imposes stricter controls on water use. The farmers amassed outside the congressional chamber to protest the General Water Law proposal, which they...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate on Wednesday selected Ernestina Godoy, a longtime legal adviser to President Claudia Sheinbaum, as the country’s next attorney general.The appointment came after Alejandro Gertz Manero stepped down last week. Godoy had been filling in on an interim basis since then.Prior to that, Godoy, 70, had se...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The United States inaugurated a massive new consulate compound Wednesday in Irbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region.The move highlighted Washington’s diplomatic and strategic engagement in the Kurdish region, particularly as the U.S. moves troops that had been stationed elsewhere in Ir...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A dozen prior leaders of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — appointed by Republicans and Democrats alike — issued a scathing denunciation of new FDA assertions casting doubt on vaccine safety.The former officials say the agency’s plans to revamp how life-saving vaccines for flu, COVID-19 and other respiratory...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx introduced them in the 1960s.Towards the end of its life — which can span between 40 and 80 years — the palm tree sends up a central plu...

President Donald Trump has long praised tariffs as key to increasing wealth in the United States, idealizing Gilded Age policies that preceded the implementation of a modern federal income tax.Among the potential benefits, Trump claims, is the ability to replace revenue from federal income taxes with money the U.S. is taking in fro...

Chris Paul’s return stint with the Los Angeles Clippers has come to an abrupt and stunning end, the franchise parting ways with one of its greatest players in a late-night meeting that will add another layer of drama to the team’s terrible start this season.The news was delivered in a meeting in Atlanta that ended around 2 a.m. Wed...

City of LightsIf you want to avoid the masses at this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony (Dec. 3), you can watch it on NBC and Peacock starting at 8 p.m. Or you can attend other such celebrations throughout the boroughs, like at the Dumbo Archway in Brooklyn (Dec. 4); at Historic Richmond Town on Staten Isla...

A year ago, Instagram made sweeping changes to the account settings of its teenage users after growing scrutiny from parents and lawmakers over child safety issues.On Tuesday, it took them a step further.Instagram, which is owned by Meta, said it would begin limiting the content its teenage users can see, based on the PG-13 ratings...

Israel’s military has killed seven Palestinians, including two children, in Gaza and announced that it will allow the Rafah crossing to open exclusively for the exit of people from the war-torn territory.The killings on Wednesday mark the latest Israeli violations of a United States-brokered ceasefire in Gaza and came after the mil...

In recent months, United States President Donald Trump has sharply escalated his attacks on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, accusing him of fuelling drug trafficking and driving mass migration from the Caribbean nation into the US.More recently, Trump has piled increased pressure on Venezuela with a military buildup in the Car...

Ukraine’s desire to join NATO was a “key question” discussed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and senior American officials during talks in Moscow, the Kremlin says.Putin’s top aide, Yury Ushakov, made the comment on Wednesday, the day after a five-hour meeting between Putin and Washington officials Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushn...

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has announced its latest immigration crackdown in the country, this time targeting the Louisiana city of New Orleans.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday said the administration had launched “Operation Catahoula Crunch”, which used the name of both a paris...

The family of a Colombian man killed in a United States military strike on an alleged drug smuggling vessel in the Caribbean Sea has filed a complaint with an intergovernmental agency charged with monitoring human rights.The complaint, reported by the AFP news agency on Wednesday, was submitted to the Inter-American Commission on H...

United States President Donald Trump has pardoned Democratic US Congressman Henry Cuellar, claiming he had been targeted by the administration of former President Joe Biden.While Trump has made liberal use of his pardon authority since taking office, his Wednesday pardoning of Cuellar, who was indicted in 2024 alongside his wife on...

Calls to abolish billionaires, or at least curb their growth, have gained traction across many capitals in the West, where extreme wealth has risen to unprecedented levels.Elon Musk’s pay award of a potential $1 trillion in November will make the Tesla owner not just the richest person in the world, which he already is. If Musk get...

US President Donald Trump launched a verbal attack on Somali immigrants on Tuesday, as federal authorities prepared to launch a major immigration crackdown targeting hundreds of undocumented Somalis in the state of Minnesota.In a long rant to reporters, Trump said he did not want Somali immigrants in the United States, claiming tha...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels released mariners held since a July attack on a cargo ship in the Red Sea, an assault that killed at least four on board and sank the vessel.The Houthis, who have targeted ships during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, said via their Al Masirah TV news channel that Oman had taken custody of the seamen, who were...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The next Olympic doping scandal could be delivered right to your doorstep.A trove of so-called research chemicals known as peptides, many of them banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and some not approved for human use in the United States, are available with the simple click of a button through onl...

COVINGTON, Ga. (AP) — An inmate who touched off a massive search when he escaped from an Atlanta hospital and allegedly stole a car with a handgun inside it has been captured, authorities announced early Wednesday.Timothy Shane, 52, was apprehended in a residential area of Covington, Georgia, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) outside...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The draw for the 2026 World Cup takes place Friday at the Kennedy Center, for the purpose of dividing the 48-team field into 12 groups of four. Once the tournament starts, 32 teams will advance from those preliminary groups to the single-elimination knockout rounds.The 12 round-robin World Cup groups are designate...

Northern Michigan’s rural counties have the highest suicide rates in the state, in some cases at least double the risk in more populated areas.Data released recently by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reveals rising rates of suicide overall in the state, with the highest among Michigan’s middle-aged.More than 1...

NEW YORK (AP) — A record 64 nations will be in Friday’s World Cup draw, more than 30% of FIFA’s members, as soccer’s leaders insist a bigger tournament is better.FIFA expanded the field from 32 teams to 48, and just 42 spots have been determined going into the convoluted ceremony in which balls representing nations are plucked from...

When Michigan officials this year lauded a record-high 82.8% high school graduation rate in 2024, special education advocates pointed out a vastly different outcome: only 61% of students with disabilities graduated. That is one of several metrics showing what students with disabilities are up against in Michigan: They score below t...

As an elementary school student, Daniela Gutierrez didn’t have a teacher who tried to get close and form a connection with her. That experience stayed with Gutierrez, who is now a senior at Mojave High School in North Las Vegas, and inspired her aspirations for the future. “Since I didn’t have great teachers, I thought I could make...

The Oakland Police Department has declined to provide the public with access to police body camera videos that would show what happened on Oct. 18, the morning former Oakland Raiders running back Doug Martin died while in the custody of several OPD officers.In response to a public records request by The Oaklandside, the department...

A former suburban St. Louis police officer admitted that over several months last year, he pulled over 20 women’s vehicles and searched their phones for nude photos and videos.In a deal with federal prosecutors entered Tuesday, former Florissant Officer Julian Alcala pleaded guilty to 20 counts of willfully depriving someone of the...

Ira Sachs’ “Peter Hujar’s Day,” which recreates an interview with the 1970s photographer, led the Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations with five nods, including best feature, director, as well as lead and supporting performances for Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall. The organization announced nominees for the 41st edition of the...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has selected its 10 best albums of the year, presented in no particular order and with a legend describing who might particularly enjoy them, in the vein of our revamped music reviews.Like our picks and want more? Enjoy bonus recommendations accompanying each entry.“Ego Death at a Bachelorette P...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has selected the 10 best songs of the year, presented in no particular order.Read on and then listen to all of the tracks on our Spotify playlist.“Lo que le pasó a Hawaii,” Bad BunnySelecting just one song from Bad Bunny’s pivotal 2025 album “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” is a fool’s errand. Most would...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said this week that the federal government would start withholding money to help run the SNAP food aid program from states that don’t provide data on participants, including their immigration status.The department said the government needs the data to spot fraud in the Supplemental Nutritio...

Republicans held onto a reliably conservative U.S. House district in Tennessee’s special election, but only after a late burst of national spending and high-profile campaigning helped them secure a margin less than half of last year’s race. Even with that victory, the outcome contributed to a gloomy outlook for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s decision to build a big ballroom where the East Wing once stood has significantly altered the visitor experience at the White House. Tourists enter through a different door now, and the tour is shorter because there are fewer historic rooms to see.But some people who took the self-guided t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith for a closed-door interview later this month even though he had earlier volunteered to appear for an open hearing about his prosecutions of President Donald Trump.Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the committee’...

A deadly UPS cargo plane crash in Kentucky stemmed from from corporate choices that favored profits over safety, according to a lawyer who filed two wrongful death lawsuits Wednesday, which allege the company kept flying older aircraft without increasing maintenance beyond what’s regularly scheduled.Last month’s fiery crash happene...

The longest government shutdown on record cost Delta Air Lines an estimated $200 million, CEO Ed Bastian said Wednesday in the first disclosure by a U.S. airline regarding the shutdown’s financial impact.Bastian told investors that refunds “grew significantly” while bookings slowed amid the uncertainty in air travel caused by the 4...

LONDON (AP) — The final two deals have been completed for the eight teams in The Hundred cricket competition, the England and Wales Cricket Board said Wednesday.The remaining deals were for Oval Invincibles and Trent Rockets.Surrey County Cricket Club and Reliance Strategic Business Ventures announced their partnership on Wednesday...

Plans to stay and soak in the wintry wonderland at the Grand Canyon’s South Rim? You will have to wait.Visitors won’t be able to stay overnight in the national park’s oldest hotel or its lodges starting Saturday because of multiple breaks in the park’s only water line. With no water being pumped to the South Rim, park officials say...

OpenAI has awarded $40.5 million to more than 200 nonprofits in the first round of grants it has made since it rebranded its nonprofit as the OpenAI Foundation in October.The foundation has committed $25 billion to fund health research and what it calls AI resilience, meaning ways to minimize the risks of these technologies. It has...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Kendrick Lamar began his Super Bowl halftime show earlier this year, he picked a stage design likely familiar to anyone tuning in: a square, triangle, cross and circle.The Grammy-winning rapper — in front of more than 133 million people — chose to perform on a massive, industrialized grid of flashing lights res...

NEW YORK (AP) — The end of 2025 is near. And the season of unwrapping our online lives — or at least a glimpse of what they looked like over the past year — is well underway.Music streamers, social media sites and a host of other apps have already started delivering their annual recaps into customers’ inboxes. That gives users a pe...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a proposal to weaken vehicle mileage rules for the auto industry, loosening regulatory pressure on automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and trucks.The plan, if finalized next year, would significantly reduce fuel economy requirements, which set ru...

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday he would push a new requirement that the Federal Reserve’s regional bank presidents live in their districts for at least three years before taking office, a move that could give the White Ho...

PARIS (AP) — Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and helped save lives, died on Wednesday. He was 101.Shay died at his home in Bretteville-L’Orgueilleuse in France’s Normandy region, his longtime friend and carer Marie-Pascale Legrand said.Sh...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany on Wednesday inaugurated the first elements of the sophisticated Arrow 3 missile defense system, which it is buying from Israel as it moves to strengthen its air defenses following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Arrow 3 is designed to intercept long-range ballistic missiles. The first part of the system was inau...

MADRID (AP) — With his reputation in tatters, Spain’s former King Juan Carlos I abdicated in favor of his son in 2014 and left Spain years later for self-imposed exile in the United Arab Emirates. Now, he is trying to rehabilitate his image — but struggling to make headway.The disgraced former monarch published a memoir on Wednesda...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has confirmed she will attend the draw for the 2026 World Cup at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.Friday’s event will also include U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as the three countries are co-hosting next summer’s tournament. On Wednesd...

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Yemen’s Houthi militants,...

MOSCOW (AP) — An American imprisoned in Russia after being convicted of beating a police officer had his sentence extended Wednesday when he was found guilty of assaulting prison guards, news reports said.Robert Gilman, who was identified in Russian media as a former U.S. Marine, was initially handed a 3 1/2-year sentence in 2022 w...

TIZI OUZOU, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian appeals court upheld Wednesday a seven-year prison sentence for a French sports writer convicted of “glorifying terrorism,” quashing hopes for an early release.Christophe Gleizes was sentenced six months ago over an interview with a soccer official accused of ties to a banned separatist moveme...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions Wednesday on alleged affiliates of the Tren de Aragua gang and increased the reward to as much as $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of one of the leaders of the criminal group that the Trump administration has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. T...