My children often try to negotiate for “sofa nights.”“Can we eat in front of the TV?” they ask, as if they’re requesting something transgressive, and, most of the time, they hear a resounding no. I am selfish like that: Sitting around the table with them is the best part of my day.On the occasions I do say yes, it’s usually because...

Eve Tilley-Coulson, a Los Angeles lawyer and a millennial, made a TikTok video last year pointing out that Generation Z will never know the horror of the 100-calorie snack pack, in which stale brownie thins cosplayed as an indulgent dessert.“It’s such a throwback, like the old days of Lean Cuisines,” she said in an interview. “It w...

Cabbage is a shape-shifter among vegetables. Unlike kale, with its recognizable ruffle, or collards, which are always their leafy green selves, cabbage can transform in a cook’s hands. Slice it into crunchy slaw. Ferment it into bracing sauerkraut or kimchi. Broil it until charred and sweet. Simmer it into silky submission. Cabbage...

While discussing the protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in American cities, David Marcus wrote in a Fox News Opinion piece last week that “organized gangs of wine moms” were using “antifa tactics to harass and impede” ICE agents. He also referred to those mothers as “self-important white women,” a comment echoed b...

It was by chance that I first encountered Springbank, a singular Scotch whisky from Campbeltown, a decade or so ago.I don’t drink a lot of spirits or cocktails. I prefer to save my limited alcohol capacity for wine. But I do have a taste for single malts, as well as Haitian clairin and agave spirits, and occasionally I indulge myse...

ImageImageCredit...Kelly Marshall for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Samantha Seneviratne.When I first started working in food, I thought I had to go full “chef mode” and forswear anything in my kitchen that didn’t feel refined or advanced. Goodbye, boxed mac and cheese. See you never, frozen veggies!Of course, a lot of the thin...

Marcelle Malkin wakes up at 3 a.m. to start work in her sourdough bakery in Fort Mill, S.C. But she doesn’t have to go far. While her husband and children sleep, she mixes dough, shapes loaves and bakes bread, all in the basement of her home.It’s not a small operation. The bakery produces 400 loaves a week, distributed at 11 locati...

Since the publication of the first “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book in 1993, more than 275 titles of the series have come out. Worldwide, more than 500 million copies have sold in over 100 countries, speaking as much to the desire for feel-good stories as to the universal understanding that chicken soup soothes, body and soul.Recip...

Dinnertime at Mister Jiu’s and there’s bound to be a group of friends celebrating a birthday or a family toasting some milestone anniversary at one of the big round tables by the window. Grandparents and little children with glittering barrettes and bow ties marvel over an enormous, gleaming, cartoonishly perfect roast duck and all...

In the last part of a monthlong series, Pete Wells and experts suggest how to sidestep the perils of alcoholic or sugary beverages.

In October, as planeloads of evacuees from Alaska villages leveled by Typhoon Halong touched down in Anchorage, Tim Ackerman set about organizing a tribal hunting party.They gathered their rifles and left out of the town of Haines on Alaska’s southeast panhandle, driving north along the rocky shore, scouting for sleek, dark heads b...

Throughout my two-decade career as a cook — working in restaurants and test kitchens, developing recipes and writing cookbooks — I have been aware of limitations. Carrots, for example, must be prepared a certain way to harness their natural sweetness, coaxing out the sugars by roasting them to a robust depth.So it is with my body,...

LAKSHMIPUR, Bangladesh (AP) — A labor recruiter persuaded Maksudur Rahman to leave the tropical warmth of his hometown in Bangladesh and travel thousands of miles to frigid Russia for a job as a janitor.Within weeks, he found himself on the front lines of Russia’s war in Ukraine.An Associate...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Seven foreign-born players for Malaysia’s national soccer team have been cleared to keep competing after the Court of Arbitration for Sport temporarily halted FIFA-imposed bans while their appeal is reviewed, Malaysia’s soccer federation said Tuesday.Last Septem...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Tuesday, according to its neighbors, as the North heightens animosities with rival South Korea ahead of a major political meeting.South Korea’s military said it detected liftoffs of sev...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Holocaust survivors, politicians and regular people commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, gathering at somber events across Europe and beyond to reflect on Nazi Germany’s killing of millions of people.International Holocaust Remembrance Day is...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials on Tuesday grounded the entire fleet of passenger ships belonging to a company that owned a ferry that sank in the south and left at least 18 people dead, with more than 300 others rescued.Ten people, mostly crew members and the captain of the...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Parts of Australia sweltered in record temperatures of close to 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday as the country sweated through a prolonged heat wave.The rural towns of Hopetoun and Walpeup in Victoria state registered preliminary highs of...

PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers approved a bill banning social media for children under 15, paving the way for the measure to enter into force at the start of the next school year in September, as the idea of setting a minimum age for use of the platforms gains momentum across Europe.The bill,...

LONDON (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson’s politically charged action thriller “One Battle After Another” leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, securing 14 nominations Tuesday including acting nods for five of its cast.Ryan Coogler’s blues-steeped vampire epic “Sinners” is close behi...

BARA, Pakistan (AP) — More than 70,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled a remote region in northwestern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan over uncertainty of a military operation against the Pakistani Taliban, residents and officials said Tuesday.Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja...

PARIS (AP) — A former French senator was sentenced Tuesday to 1 1/2 years in prison for drugging a fellow lawmaker in order to abuse her, an experience she described as terrifying and leaving long-lasting trauma effects. Joël Guerriau, 68, has admitted serving Sandrine Josso a drink spiked w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Families of two Trinidadian nationals killed in a Trump administration boat strike last October sued the federal government on Tuesday, calling the attack a war crime and part of an “unprecedented and manifestly unlawful U.S. military campaign.”The lawsuit is thought to be...

NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist Megha Majumdar, one of this year’s winners of medals presented by the American Library Association, doesn’t only visit libraries for the reading.There’s the jigsaw puzzle table in midtown Manhattan and the telescope she borrowed from the central branch of Brooklyn Pu...

PARIS (AP) — Fashion powerhouse Chanel stacked the Paris front row like a movie premiere Tuesday: Nicole Kidman, Dua Lipa, Penélope Cruz, A$AP Rocky, Gracie Abrams, Margaret Qualley.Then, it handed the spotlight to its new designer, Matthieu Blazy, for his much-anticipated couture debut buil...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Thousands gathered in Serbia ‘s capital on Tuesday accusing the government of a crackdown on universities which have been a main force behind a campaign that has shaken autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic ‘s rule. Protesters rallied outside the headquarters of the U...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia on Tuesday blasted Ecuador’s decision to hike up transportation fees for Colombian oil, calling the move an act of “aggression,” as a trade war between the two Andean nations intensifies.Ecuador announced Monday a tenfold increase in fees for Colombian compan...

Censorship claims, technical problems and a report of a surge in app deletions are just some of the challenges TikTok is facing as it adjusts to a new ownership structure in the United States that was finalized last week. The company said Monday it was experiencing a “major infrastructure is...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Trump-backed businessman Nasry Asfura was sworn in Tuesday as president of Honduras, and pledged to create jobs, crack down on crime and improve key social services like education and health care. The 67-year-old president said he would lead the country “with the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump warned Iraq on Tuesday that the U.S. would no longer support the country if its former prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, returns to power.Trump made the threat days after the dominant political bloc known as the Coordination Framework, a collection of...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Iga Swiatek picked up a privacy theme that Coco Gauff left the Australian Open with after the 21-year-old American’s racket-smashing, frustration-releasing moments away from the court went viral.Gauff said “maybe conversations can be had” about the seemingly limit...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, a similarly rapid resolution seemed possible.After all, Trump’s lawyers told the court that speed was of the essence on an issue central to the Republican president’s economic a...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — It may be out of place on a busy downtown street and it may be a bit run down, but this small mansion in central Belgrade is thriving.Its walls crumbling and shutters closed, a 19th century house filled with period furniture is keeping a piece of the Serbian capital’s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Being a night owl can be bad for your heart.That may sound surprising but a large study found people who are more active late at night — when most of the population is winding down or already asleep — have poorer overall heart health than the average person.“It is not like,...

BERLIN (AP) — Lawmakers in an eastern German state elected a new governor on Wednesday as mainstream parties try to prevent a victory for the far-right Alternative for Germany in a regional election that is only seven months away.The state legislature in Saxony-Anhalt elected Sven Schulze, a...

NAGPUR, India (AP) — Abhishek Sharma scored 84 off 35 balls as India beat New Zealand by 48 runs Wednesday in the opener of a five-match T20 series.Sharma, the world’s number one T20 batter, hit eight sixes and five fours as India notched up 238-7 in 20 overs. It was the third highest T20 sc...

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — Opener Abhishek Sharma hit a whirlwind 68 not out off 20 balls as India beat New Zealand with ease, winning the third Twenty20 match by eight wickets on Sunday with 10 overs to spare.India took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.Sharma reached his 50 off...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Mark Tully, a longtime BBC correspondent who was widely known as the “voice of India” for his reporting on the South Asian nation, has died, the broadcaster said. He was 90.Tully died Sunday at a New Delhi hospital after a brief illness.Born in India’s Kolkata city in 1935,...

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) — Qatar scored a win in Olympic politics Monday, with the emirate also aiming to host the 2036 Summer Games.Olympic Council of Asia members elected Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani as their president to complete the term in office of Randir Singh of India, who steppe...

Three Texas siblings who perished in an icy pond were among several dozen deaths in U.S. states gripped by frigid cold as crews scrambled Tuesday to repair hundreds of thousands of power outages in the shivering South and forecasters warned the winter weather is expected to get worse. Brutal...

WASHINGTON (AP) — National Transportation Safety Board members were deeply troubled Tuesday over years of ignored warnings about helicopter traffic dangers and other problems, long before an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk collided a year ago, killing 67 people near Washington,...

A third round of “No Kings” protests is coming this spring, with organizers saying they are planning their largest demonstrations yet across the United States to oppose what they describe as authoritarianism under President Donald Trump.Previous rallies have drawn millions of people, and org...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man sprayed an unknown substance on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and was tackled to the ground Tuesday during a town hall in Minneapolis, where tensions over federal immigration enforcement have come to a head after agents fatally shot an intensive care nurse and a mo...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — One year after M23 militants stormed into Goma, the rebel group still controls the main city in eastern Congo and is tightening its grip. The scars from the fighting between the Congolese army and M23 in January 2025 remain visible, but life has gradually returned to...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court convicted an Eritrean man on Tuesday of people smuggling and extortion and sentenced him to the maximum 20 years imprisonment, saying that he and his accomplices subjected migrants to “cruel, violent, and degrading treatment.”Tewelde Goitom, also k...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — American streamer and YouTuber IShowSpeed is on the final leg of a 28-day tour of Africa aimed at showcasing the continent’s cultural diversity, which is often overshadowed by images of poverty and violence.The 20-nation tour across southern, eastern and North Africa be...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Where is Bobi Wine? In a recent video shared from hiding, the Ugandan opposition leader walks in a family graveyard in central Uganda, taunting the army chief who has failed to find him and lamenting what he calls the injustice that has befallen him.The 43-year-old mus...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — South Sudan’s army, following territorial losses in recent weeks, has announced a major military operation against opposition forces, raising fears for civilian safety.In a statement on Sunday, army spokesman Lul Ruai Koang said Operation Enduring Peace would commence a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has strong-armed many of America’s biggest trading partners into pledging trillions of dollars of investment in the United States. But a study out Tuesday raises doubts about whether the money will actually materialize and questions how it would be sp...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The announcement that the remains of the last hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili, were recovered Monday ended a painful saga that had transfixed Israel for two and a half years and stalled its ceasefire agreement with Hamas.There was an outpouring of emotion in Israel after the reco...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday her government has at least temporarily stopped oil shipments to Cuba, but struck an ambiguous tone, saying the pause was part of general fluctuations in oil supplies and that it was a “sovereign decision” not made under pre...

HAVANA (AP) — It’s almost noon in Havana when a handful of tourists tumble out of a small yellow bus and rush toward a row of shiny classic cars, cameras in hand.Nearby, under the shade of a beach almond tree, a group of drivers jump to their feet, some hoping for their first customer of the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has notified Congress that it is taking the first steps to possibly reopen the shuttered U.S. Embassy in Venezuela as it explores restoring relations with the South American country following the U.S. military raid that ousted then-President Nicolás...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a full-throated defense Wednesday of President Donald Trump’s military operation to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, while explaining to U.S. lawmakers the administration’s approach to Greenland, NATO, Iran and China.As R...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian authorities said they had contained a Nipah virus outbreak after confirming two cases in the eastern state of West Bengal, as several Asian countries tightened health screenings and airport surveillance for travelers arriving from India.India’s Health Ministry said Tu...

NEW DELHI (AP) — A private plane carrying a senior state official crashed in western India on Wednesday, killing all five people on board, aviation authorities said. The Learjet 45 was en route from India’s financial capital of Mumbai to Ajit Pawar’s home city Baramati when it crash-landed a...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will unveil plans to further bolster its nuclear program at the upcoming ruling party congress, as he observed the North’s latest weapons launch, state media reported Wednesday.The Korean Central News Agency said Nort...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve pushed the pause button on its interest rate cuts Wednesday, leaving its key rate unchanged at about 3.6% after lowering it three times last year.Chair Jerome Powell said at a news conference after the central bank announced its decision that the economy...

NEW YORK (AP) — Few ripples washed through Wall Street Wednesday after the Federal Reserve decided to hold its main interest rate steady, just like investors expected.The U.S. stock and bond markets each remained at a virtual standstill, while the U.S. dollar stabilized following its sharp...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The ambitious free trade agreement between the European Union and India underscores the EU’s efforts to ink new global partnerships at a time when the Trump administration has rattled a continent deeply tied to Washington on trade, defense and diplomacy.The agreement announce...

LAKSHMIPUR, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladeshi workers were lured to Russia under the false promise of civilian work and then forced to fight in the Ukraine war, an Associated Press investigation has found.In interviews with three men who escaped Russia, and the families of three others who are m...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A heavy Russian drone bombardment of Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa killed at least three people and wounded 23, including two children and a pregnant woman, officials said Tuesday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for speedier U.S. efforts to end Russ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Three French tourists drowned in Oman after the boat they were in capsized in waters off the sultanate’s capital city of Muscat, police said Tuesday. The Royal Oman Police said the ship carried 25 French tourists, as well as a tour guide and a boat captain,...

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Russian forces have begun pulling out of positions in northeast Syria in an area still controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces after the group lost most of its territory in an offensive by government forces.Associated Press journalists visited one base n...

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — Fighting this month between Syria’s government and Kurdish-led forces left civilians on either side of the frontline fearing for their future or harboring resentment as the country’s new leaders push forward with transition after years of civil war.The fighting ended w...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has pledged an investigation after two Italian security officers were held up by an Israeli soldier with an automatic weapon in the occupied West Bank.The Israeli ambassador to Italy, Jonathan Peled, made the pledge Monday in Rome after he was summoned by Foreign Mini...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — In the last months of World War II, Lola Kantorowicz tried her best to hide her pregnancy. She succeeded because most of the prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had bellies that were distended and bloated from extended starvation. As she went into labor...

JERUSALEM (AP) — For more than two years, Israelis wore yellow ribbons to remember the hostages abducted during the deadliest day in the country’s history. On Tuesday, they finally could remove those ribbons and shut down a haunting clock in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, marking the end of a p...

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte insisted Monday that Europe is incapable of defending itself without U.S. military support and would have to more than double current military spending targets to be able to do so.“If anyone thinks here … that the European Union or Europe as...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A group of lawyers and family members of important cartel figures accused Mexico’s government on Monday of breaking the law by sending nearly a hundred Mexican citizens to the United States without an extradition order. It comes less than a week after the administration of...

MILAN (AP) — Italy’s Ladin minority settled a millennium ago in the Dolomite mountain hamlet of Anpezo — now the two-time Olympic host city of Cortina d’Ampezzo. But members of this ancient ethnolinguistic group are disappointed that the Winter Games will not spotlight their culture.Instead,...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The wife of South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 months in prison for corruption, as her husband awaits a verdict on a high-stakes rebellion charge that could result in the death penalty or life imprisonment.Seoul Central Dis...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian officials reached out to the wider Middle East on Wednesday over the threat of a possible U.S. military strike on the country, while the value of Iran’s currency reached a new low a month since the start of protests that spread nationwide and sparke...

Zach Klempf, a software company executive from San Francisco, never felt like he had enough time to visit the places on his bucket list, such as the Egyptian pyramids. But after experimenting with what have become known as “microvacations,” or “microcations” — quick trips, often to far-flung destinations — Mr. Klempf pulled off his...

Rosie Rios, the chair of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, doesn’t yet know what she’ll be doing on July 4.“But here’s the beauty of it,” she said. “I have options.”Indeed, 50 years after the Bicentennial celebration in 1976, America is throwing itself a yearlong birthday party, with festivities planned from sea to shining se...

More than 13,000 flights were canceled this weekend, as a powerful winter storm hit much of the United States, delivering freezing rain, sleet, treacherous ice and major snowfall to cities including New York.The giant storm, which swept east from Texas through the mid-South and up to the Northeast, has disrupted transportation and...

Airlines and airports on Friday were preparing for widespread disruptions this weekend as a powerful storm threatened to blanket large parts of the country in ice and snow.The storm was expected to hit much of the Southern United States on Friday, prompting some targeted flight cancellations. Delta Air Lines had proactively cancele...

Leah Goodridge was sitting at home in New York late last year, laptop open, planning a train trip to Washington at a reasonable hour as she had many times before.She clicked, waited and leaned in.The Amtrak fare appeared on her screen: $572 round trip.She checked again, thinking she had missed something. Then she checked flights. F...

A private jet crashed on Sunday evening at Bangor International Airport in Maine, killing all six people on board.The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the plane, a Bombardier Challenger 600, crashed as it was taking off from the airport around 7:45 p.m., as a winter storm was bringing heavy snow and wind acr...

Air travel was slowly beginning to recover on Monday, though thousands of flights across dozens of airports remained canceled and delayed after a winter storm brought heavy snow and ice to much of the Eastern United States over the weekend.More than 5,100 flights in the United States were canceled and another 5,700 were delayed by...

For the past 40 years or so, the name Costes has been synonymous with fashion week.In the decades since Jean-Louis Costes opened Café Costes, in 1984, and his brother Gilbert followed with Café Beaubourg, in 1987, the family-owned galaxy of buzzy bars and restaurants has expanded to several dozen.The press-shy Jean-Louis owns the G...

With a water-cannon salute, balloons and commemorative bag tags, Southwest Airlines on Tuesday officially retired its decades-old practice of open seating. For the first time, passengers received assigned seats, a major shift for the carrier, which also introduced a new group boarding process and premium seat options.The first two...

We’ve all encountered that traveler with an iron stomach — the one who never gets queasy, much less sick, even after slurping down lukewarm oysters at a street stall, or who can effortlessly endure rough seas and twisty roads.But for the rest of us, gut problems can complicate, even ruin, an otherwise enjoyable trip. Fortunately, a...

From the must-see locations to the most frequently asked questions, our guide has all you need to plan your next visit.

The snowy capital of the island of Hokkaido offers a quieter alternative to Japan’s congested “Golden Route” of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto.

Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic have transformed millions of lives with easily administered treatments and quick results.Now it turns out the dropped pounds may have a surprising perk for airlines, too: lower fuel costs, as slimmer passengers lighten their aircraft’s loads.According to a study published last week by Jefferies, a fin...

Scores of dolphins followed our boat, a flotilla of fins and sleek surfacing bodies. Cued by the captain, six of us passengers plunged into the sea to meet them. I looked through my mask to see two of the creatures 10 feet away, one locking eyes with me while another rolled over playfully.Of the many wildlife encounters I’ve had du...

Global travel is surging. So is international apprehension. Here’s a look at what travelers can expect in the coming year.

Dear Tripped Up,In January 2024, my husband and I rented a car from a Thrifty agency in Sydney, Australia, waiving the insurance and instead counting on the collision damage waiver benefit from my Chase Sapphire Preferred card. We still had to put a $4,195 security deposit on the card. That same day, we were involved in an accident...

The Mexican capital is constantly changing, uncommonly warm and never less than thrilling.

When President Trump revived his desire to acquire Greenland for the United States early in his second term, it initially came as a boon to Casper Frank Moller and his co-founders at Raw Arctic. The three Greenlanders had begun their adventure tour company in mid-2024 and discovered that it benefited from the global focus on their...

As I inched up a frozen waterfall on the outskirts of Yellowstone National Park, kicking my crampon spikes into milky columns of ice and swinging an ax above my head, I heard just one thing over my own breathing: The tapping of a woodpecker that matched my cadence.Sweating in 40-degree weather, clinging to the vertical pitch and fe...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy late Friday that chastised U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserted the Trump administration’s focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere above a longtime goal of countering China....

REAM NAVAL BASE, Cambodia (AP) — The USS Cincinnati arrived at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base on Saturday, marking the first time a U.S. Navy warship has docked at the facility since its Chinese-funded renovation was completed early last year.The completion of a new pier and dry dock at Ream has...

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese military’s top general is being investigated for suspected serious violations of discipline and law the Defense Ministry said Saturday,Zhang Youxia, the senior of the two vice chairs of the powerful Central Military Commission, is the latest figure to fall in a lon...

The new U.S. National Defense Strategy released by President Donald Trump’s administration is the first since 2022 and contrasts with its predecessor, issued under former President Joe Biden. Here’s a look at how the two Pentagon strategies address some of the traditional concerns of U.S. se...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to impose a 100% tariff on goods imported from Canada if America’s northern neighbor went ahead with its China trade deal, intensifying a feud with Prime Minister Mark Carney, a rising voice in the West’s pushback to Trump’s new...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese panda fans gathered Sunday for the final public viewing at Tokyo’s Ueno zoo before twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei return to China this week.Their departure on Tuesday will leave Japan with no pandas for the first time in half a century, and the chances of getting a replace...

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday his country has no intention of pursuing a free trade deal with China. He was responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 100% tariff on goods imported from Canada if America’s northern neighbor went ahead with...

BEIJING (AP) — China made a major announcement over the weekend, saying it was investigating the army’s top general for suspected serious violations of discipline and law. Gen. Zhang Youxia was the highest military member just below President Xi Jinping.The Defense Ministry said Saturday tha...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines told China on Monday that it is alarmed about heated exchanges with Chinese diplomats in Manila over the long-standing, seething territorial dispute between the two countries in the South China Sea.The Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila said wi...

The U.S. is taking a minority stake in an Oklahoma rare earth miner, the latest government investment in the sector as it seeks to minimize its reliance on imports of a material used prevalently in smartphones, robotics, electric vehicles and many other high tech products.China processes mor...

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is heading to China, seeking a thaw in relations with Beijing at a time of strained ties with the United States.He’s hoping for an economic boost to Britain, but risks the wrath of China hawks at home — and of U.S. President Donald Trump, who’s...

BANGKOK (AP) — Japan’s last pair of pandas have returned to China, leaving Japan without the lovable bears for the first time in half a century.The bears are heading back as diplomatic relations between the two countries are at their lowest point in years over the new Japanese Prime Minister...

BEIJING (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that his country doesn’t have to choose between relations with the United States and China as he started a four-day trip to China aimed at repairing ties and expanding opportunities for British companies in the world’s second-...

CEBU, Philippines (AP) — Southeast Asia’s top diplomats met Wednesday under growing pressure to push a peace plan that has so far failed to end Myanmar’s civil war, and to beat a deadline to conclude talks on a nonaggression pact with China this year.The Association of Southeast Asian Nation...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch semiconductor chip machine maker ASML recorded a record net profit of 9.6 billion euros ($11.5 billion) in 2025 on sales of 32.7 billion euros fueled by AI-driven demand, the company reported Wednesday as it also announced plans to slash its workforce by a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A groundswell of voices have come to the same conclusion: Kristi Noem must go.From Democratic Party leaders to the nation’s leading advocacy organizations to even the most centrist lawmakers in Congress, the calls are mounting for the Homeland Security secretary to step asi...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain’s government announced Tuesday it will grant legal status to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants living and working in the country without authorization, the latest way the country has bucked a trend toward increasingly harsh immigration policies imp...

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has turned the Arctic island of Greenland into a geopolitical hotspot with his demands to own it and suggestions that the U.S. could take it by force. The island is a semiautonomous region of Denmark, and Denmark’s foreign minister said...

MILAN (AP) — In honor of the Milan Cortina Olympics, Milan cultural officials are for a brief time only allowing visitors access to a long-hidden wall and ceiling painting by Leonardo da Vinci while restoration work is underway.The vast painting of a pergola covered with intertwined flowerin...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A massive winter storm made for a brutal travel day Sunday, with widespread cancellations and delays at some of the nation’s busiest airports.Widespread snow, sleet and freezing rain threatened nearly 180 million people — more than half the U.S. population — in a path...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pressured many of the United States' largest trading partners to commit to investing trillions of dollars in the country. However, a study released Tuesday raises doubts about whether the money will actually materialize and questions how it would...

Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped spark a shift in the White House this week after expressing displeasure with the administration's characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal agent in Minneapolis, as responsible for his own death for...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump's immigration policy contributed to a year-over-year decline in the country's growth rate, as the U.S. population reached nearly 342 million people in 2025, according to population estimates released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.The 0.5% growth rat...

Several faith leaders called urgently for protecting the rights of worshippers while also expressing compassion for migrants after anti-immigration enforcement protesters disrupted a service at a Southern Baptist church in Minnesota.About three dozen protesters entered the Cities Church in S...

A group of Buddhist monks and their rescue dog are striding single file down country roads and highways across the South, captivating Americans nationwide and inspiring droves of locals to greet them along their route. In their flowing saffron and ocher robes, the men are walking for peace....

American religious history is rife with protest movements and civil disobedience. Yet it is rare for political protests to happen inside a house of worship. That is part of what makes the new case against anti-ICE protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota, unusual. The group interrupted a service la...

Every type of pasta has a purpose, and often a sauce to match. This recipe, which comes from the cookbook “The Talisman of Happiness,” matches tortiglioni with peppers and eggplant.Of course, many pasta types are interchangeable. To cook and prepare dried pasta, there are a series of steps t...

Shoveling in single-digit temperatures after the colossal winter storm this weekend, I dumped mounds of snow onto my garden beds, knowing it would protect my trees, shrubs and dormant perennials.When the ground repeatedly freezes and thaws, as it does over winter in cold climates, that can s...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Shallow dishes crowded with tiny, drought-resistant plants in shades of green, red and purple are pretty much all most people know about indoor succulents gardening.But there’s another way to bring the warmth of the desert into your home when it’s too cold to garden outs...

NEW YORK (AP) — As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, it looks nothing like the sleek and intimidating humanoids built by companies like Tes...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — TikTok agreed to settle a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff’s attorneys confirmed. The social video platform was one of three companies — along with Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube — facing claims that their platf...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Trump administration has not shied away from sharing AI-generated imagery online, embracing cartoonlike visuals and memes and promoting them on official White House channels.But an edited — and realistic — image of civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong in tears a...

In the early hours of the morning on June 1, 2025, Katie Gowell went into labor at her home in Patten, a town on the outskirts of Maine’s northern wilderness containing Mount Katahdin, where her family doctor was prepared to deliver her fifth child.Shortly after her water burst, a complicati...

Digging out from the weekend’s massive snow and ice storm could be hazardous to your heart.Pennsylvania health officials announced three snow-removal related deaths Sunday. All were between the ages of 60 to 84. The Lehigh County coroner’s office cautioned people to take breaks and avoid ove...

NEW YORK (AP) — Drugs that treat Type 2 diabetes, HIV and arthritis are among 15 new medications chosen for a Medicare drug price negotiation program that allows the federal government to haggle directly with drug manufacturers, the Trump administration said Tuesday.The drugs selected includ...

Meteorologists say that water rapidly freezing in the soil amid bitterly cold temperatures can make a startling noise and even cause small vibrations. These noises are known as frost quakes or cryoseisms, a cold-weather phenomenon that occurs when rain or melted snow in the ground quickly fr...

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge said Tuesday that a nearly completed Massachusetts offshore wind project can continue, as the industry successfully challenges the Trump administration in court.At U.S. District Court in Boston, Judge Brian Murphy halted the administration’s stop work order for...

Earth is closer than it’s ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic,” a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds till midnight.The Bulletin of t...

LA GUAIRA, VENEZUELA (AP) — Matias Delacroix is a Chilean-raised photojournalist currently based in Panama who has been photographing the U.S. attack in Venezuela and its aftermath.Here’s what he had to say about this extraordinary photo.Why I shot this photoWhen I saw an armed woman riding...

Protein just got a big boost from U.S. health officials.The latest federal dietary guidelines tell Americans to “prioritize protein foods at every meal” and advise increasing daily intake — up to double the amount of previous recommendations.“We are ending the war on protein,” Health Secreta...

ATLANTA (AP) — Your watch says you had three hours of deep sleep. Should you believe it? Millions of people rely on phone apps and wearable devices like rings, smartwatches and sensors to monitor how well they’re sleeping, but these trackers don’t necessarily measure sleep directly. Instead,...

Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone stuck in his throat. Michael Berkheimer was dining with his wife an...

A huge black bear that made its den in the crawl space under a Los Angeles area man’s house for more than a month has finally been evicted.Altadena resident Ken Johnson said the animal began denning beneath his home around Thanksgiving, twisting gas lines and toppling bricks as he came and w...

Multiple monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis, and AI-generated images are complicating the effort to find them. The Vervet monkeys were first spotted Thursday near a park in the northern part of the city, prompting “rumor after rumor,” said city Department of Health spokesperson Willie Spr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence declined sharply in January, hitting the lowest level since 2014 as Americans grow increasingly concerned about their financial prospects.The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index cratered 9.7 points to 84.5 in January, fa...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and the European Union reached a free trade agreement Tuesday that could affect as many as 2 billion people after nearly two decades of negotiations.The accord, which the head of the EU’s executive branch described as the “mother of all deals,” will see free trade on a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said this week that it was closing almost all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations within days as it narrows its focus on food delivery and its grocery chain, Whole Foods Market. Some of the shuttered stores will be converted into Whole Foods locations, the Seat...

NEW YORK (AP) — From her house up high in Colorado’s Elk Mountains, author Shelley Read can only look out in amazement at the worldwide success of her debut novel, “Go as a River.”“There were upward of 30 translations already secured before the novel was introduced in the U.S.,” says Read, a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Young is giving the people of Greenland the gift of song — his songs, that is.The veteran rocker announced Tuesday on his blog that he is providing free access to his entire music catalog to residents of Denmark’s semiautonomous territory, whose futures have lately becom...

NEW YORK (AP) — Prize-winning composer Philip Glass has called off a scheduled world premiere at the Kennedy Center of a symphony about Abraham Lincoln, the latest in a wave of cancellations since President Donald Trump ousted the previous leadership.Glass’ Symphony No. 15, “Lincoln,” was to...

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the “Snow Stadium” — on the exact same grounds where the curling arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics now stands.The shooting range for the military patrol event — the precursor to biathlon — was held wh...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Sean Payton said at his season-ending news conference Tuesday that Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix had a preexisting ankle condition that made a fracture inevitable.Nix broke a bone in his right ankle on Denver’s game-winning drive in the Broncos’ 33-30 overtime vic...

DENVER (AP) — With a blizzard bearing down on Empower Field at Mile High, coach Sean Payton went for the jugular instead of the points, short-circuiting the Denver Broncos’ drive to Super Bowl 60.“There will always be second thoughts,” Payton said in the anguished aftermath of Denver’s 10-7...

Alex Vindman, who became a key player along with his twin brother in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, announced on Tuesday that he is running for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat in Florida. Vindman, an Army veteran, was serving on the National Security Council in 2019 when the Repub...

▶ Follow live updates on federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this mont...

A man who authorities say was involved in a human smuggling operation was shot Tuesday in an exchange of gunfire with the U.S. Border Patrol and after firing at a federal helicopter near the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said.Federal agents were attempting to apprehend the 34-year-old Ariz...

BONHAM, Texas (AP) — Three brothers — ages 6, 8 and 9 — died in Texas during the massive winter storm gripping the U.S. after falling through an icy pond across the street from a house where they were staying, authorities said Tuesday. Their mother said she jumped into the freezing water but...

▶ Follow live updates on federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis WASHINGTON (AP) — Two federal officers fired shots during the encounter that killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti over the weekend in Minneapolis, a Customs and Border Protection official told Congress in a notic...

For average wage earners in Russia, it’s a big payday. For criminals seeking to escape the harsh conditions and abuse in prison, it’s a chance at freedom. For immigrants hoping for a better life, it’s a simplified path to citizenship.All they have to do is sign a contract to fight in Ukraine...

▶ Follow live updates on federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis MILAN (AP) — News that a unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be present during the upcoming Winter Games has set off concern and confusion in Italy, where people have expressed outrage...

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he told U.S. President Donald Trump that he meant what he said in his speech at Davos, and told him Canada plans to diversify away from the United States with a dozen new trade deals. Carney rolled his eyes and rejected U.S. Tre...

“One Battle After Another” dominated nominations to the Actor Awards on Wednesday, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s ragtag revolutionary saga landing a record seven nods in the annual SAG-AFTRA honors.In the 31 years of the Actor Awards, formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards, no movie...

The United States says it will control sales of Venezuelan oil “indefinitely” and decide how the proceeds of those sales are used, as President Donald Trump’s administration consolidates control over the South American country after abducting its president.The US Department of Energy said on Wednesday that it had “begun marketing”...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsThursday, January 8COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)6:30 p.m.Northwestern at Michigan State — BTN, Fox Sports App, Fubo SportsCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)6 p.m.Michigan at Penn State — Big Ten Plus9 p.m.Michigan State at Washington — Big...

The administration of United States President Donald Trump  has reaffirmed that it plans to dictate terms to the interim government of Venezuela, following the abduction of leader Nicolas Maduro over the weekend.On Wednesday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed the US attack on Venezuela for the first time in a news briefing...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad, state media reported Wednesday.The official IRNA news agency identified the man as Ali Ardestani, saying he relayed sensitive information to Mossad officers in return for financial rewards in the form of cryptoc...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged calm on Wednesday after a bus driver ran over and killed a teenage boy during a protest by thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators against a law seeking to draft them into Israel’s military.“I call for restraint to pr...

Yemen is threatening to fracture even further, exposing a growing rift between Middle East powers Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The latest friction is among members of the Saudi-led coalition based in Yemen’s south that for years has been fighting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels ba...

Ukrainian ‍President ‍Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s new chief of staff has reported “concrete ​results” have already been reached in ongoing talks over an end to the war and post-conflict security guarantees with Western allies.Kyrylo Budanov offered the update on Telegram on Wednesday, as talks continued in Paris at the largest-ever summi...

Here is where things stand on Wednesday, January 7:Ukrainian allies meeting in Paris More than two dozen countries from the so-called “coalition of the willing”, along with Ukraine and the United States, issued a joint declaration, noting that “any settlement” to end Russia’s war on Ukraine “will have to be backed up by robust secu...

European leaders, including in France and Germany, have announced they are working on a plan in the event the United States follows through on its threat to take over Greenland as tensions soar.French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told France Inter radio on Wednesday that while nations want to act if the US moves to seize Green...

An international media association has denounced the Israeli government’s continued refusal to lift its ban on unrestricted media access to Gaza, despite the ceasefire in the embattled enclave.The Foreign Press Association (FPA) issued a statement on Tuesday expressing its “profound disappointment” with the government, which had to...

The Syrian army has declared Aleppo’s Kurdish areas ‘closed military zones’ and ordered civilians to leave.

The killing of 14-year-old Yosef Eisenthal, who was run over by a bus during an anti-recruitment protest in an Orthodox district of West Jerusalem on Tuesday night, has brought renewed attention to one of the most contentious issues in Israeli politics: the exemption of ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service.According to numerou...

Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in Aleppo after the Syrian army declared two Kurdish neighbourhoods “closed military zones” amid a second day of clashes with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).The directorate for social affairs said on Wednesday night that more than 45,000 people had been displaced fro...

The United Nations human rights office has called on Israel to “dismantle all settlements” in the occupied West Bank, saying its “oppression and domination” of Palestinians resembles “apartheid”.In a new report on Wednesday, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights slammed Israel’s “systemic discrimination” against Pale...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Overpowering Speaker Mike Johnson, a bipartisan coalition in the House voted Wednesday to push forward a measure that would revive an enhanced pandemic-era subsidy that lowered health insurance costs for roughly 22 million people, but that had expired last month.The tally o...

The NFL averaged 18.7 million viewers per game during the regular season, the second-highest since audience averages began being kept in 1988.The per-game average on TV and digital platforms was a 10% increase from last season’s 17.5 million and up 7% from 2023, according to the league and N...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine is joining Venezuela’s president and the man charged with gunning down United Healthcare’s CEO in a notorious federal lockup in New York City.The embattled 29-year-old artist, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, reported to the Metropolitan Detention C...

When we first glimpse Noah Wyle’s Michael Robinavitch — aka Dr. Robby, of course — in Season 2 of “The Pitt,” he’s looking darned good, truth be told. The beloved ER doc is riding his motorcycle to work, wearing nice shades, hair rustling in the early-morning Pittsburgh breeze.Wait — hair ru...

It plays a little loose with facts but the righteous rage of “Dog Day Afternoon” is present enough in Gus Van Sant’s “Dead Man’s Wire,” a based-on-a-true-tale hostage thriller that’s as deeply 1970s as it is contemporary.In February 1977, Tony Kiritsis walked into the Meridian Mortgage Compa...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — On the first anniversary of the most destructive wildfires in the L.A. area, the scant home construction projects stand out among the still mostly flattened landscapes.Fewer than a dozen homes have been rebuilt in Los Angeles County since the Jan. 7, 2025, Palisades and Ea...

GameStop is providing details on a new compensation package for CEO Ryan Cohen that is dependent on him meeting certain “significant” performance targets.The video game retailer said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that Cohen would have to grow its market capitalization to $100 billion a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s strong start to the year slowed on Wednesday.The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% from its latest all-time high for its first loss in four days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 466 points, or 0.9%, from its own record set the day before, while the Nasdaq composite...

Affordability is a hotter topic than ever in 2026. Many people are struggling to manage rising costs and live within their means, making it harder to justify splurging on things they want but don’t need. That applies to car shopping decisions too. If you need a new vehicle and your budget is...