BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — More than 300 people have fled Colombia’s volatile Catatumbo region to escape fighting by rebel groups, and have now sought shelter in Cúcuta, a city near the border with Venezuela that was already bracing for a possible influx of refugees.In a message posted on X Mon...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana has threatened to deport more than 100 Brazilian miners and suspended their licenses after accusing them of producing large amounts of raw gold but not declaring or failing to sell most of it to the government or authorized buyers.Authorities accused Brazilia...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has made broad but vague assertions that the United States is going to “run” Venezuela after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro but has offered almost no details about how it will do so, raising questions among some lawmakers and former officials about the...

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Central African Republic President Faustin Archange Touadéra won a third term in last month’s election, provisional results showed.The major opposition coalition boycotted the vote after a referendum allowed the removal of term limits. Touadéra, 68, fa...

HAVANA (AP) — The names, ranks and ages of the 32 Cuban military personnel killed during the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces were published Tuesday by the Cuban government, which announced two days of mourning.Among the deceased are colonels, lieutenants, majors...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — At least 24 Venezuelan security officers were killed in the dead-of-night U.S. military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro and spirit him to the United States to face drug charges, officials said Tuesday.Venezuela’s Attorney General Tarek William Saab said overall...

TOKYO (AP) — A strong earthquake shook western Japan on Tuesday, but no major damage or life-threatening injuries were reported.The magnitude 6.4 quake struck in Shimane prefecture in northwestern Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. There was no risk of a tsunami from the in...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A curfew was imposed on a key border city in southern Nepal after Hindu and Muslim groups began protesting against each other following the vandalism of a mosque over the weekend, officials said Tuesday. The curfew orders issued by the Parsa District Administration sa...

Location, location, location: Greenland’s position above the Arctic Circle makes the world’s largest island a key part of security strategy. But for whom?Increasing international tensions, global warming and the changing world economy have put Greenland at the heart of the debate over global...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The Israeli foreign minister visited Somaliland in the Horn of Africa on Tuesday and promised Israel would foster flourishing ties as the first country to recognize the breakaway republic’s independence from Somalia.On his first official visit to Somaliland, Foreign...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Protesters angry over Iran’s ailing economy conducted a sit-in Tuesday at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, witnesses said, with security forces ultimately firing tear gas and dispersing demonstrators as the rest of the market shut down. The protest at the Grand Bazaa...

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — The deadliest clashes so far broke out Tuesday between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in a contested area of the northern city of Aleppo, as efforts to merge the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces with the national army have shown little progress.Syria ’...

The search for mountain lions along a remote trail in Colorado where a solo hiker was fatally attacked ended Monday after authorities killed two of the predators — including one with human DNA on its paws — but could not find a third.The victim of the New Year’s Day attack was identified as...

Pipeline safety regulators on Monday assessed their largest fine ever against the company responsible for leaking 1.1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf off the coast of Louisiana in 2023. But the $9.6 million fine isn’t likely to be a major burden for Third Coast to pay. This single fine...

CISARUA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s conservation park on Tuesday released a video showing the progress of a giant panda cub, 40 days after his birth in the country. The panda named Satrio Wiratama and nicknamed “Rio” was examined for the first time outside the incubator while veterinarians...

MANADO, Indonesia (AP) — Flash floods triggered by torrential rain killed at least 16 people in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province, officials said Tuesday.Days of monsoon rain burst riverbanks early Monday, triggering fast-moving torrents of water mixed with mud, rocks and debris that swept...

MARATHON, Greece (AP) — As Orthodox Christians around the world attended Epiphany ceremonies on Tuesday to commemorate the baptism of Christ, worried officials in Greece used the moment to highlight growing water scarcity.A priest cast a wooden cross into the visibly depleted waters of Lake...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Snow, ice and freezing temperatures hit parts of Europe on Tuesday, causing treacherous traffic conditions that left at least five people dead in France and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights from one of the continent’s busiest airports.Authorities...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — From the smoldering wreckage of two catastrophic world wars in the last century, nations came together to build an edifice of international rules and laws. The goal was to prevent such sprawling conflicts in the future.Now that world order — centered at the Unit...

BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday banned exports of dual-use goods that can serve military purposes to Japan, a move that comes at time of heightened tensions between the two countries over Taiwan, a self-ruled island Beijing claims as its sovereign territory. The Chinese commerce ministry sai...

I’ve been growing herbs in the garden long enough to know they don’t require much. Just water, sunlight and my best intentions.In the garden, herbs are forgiving plants. They aren’t fussy about soil pH, almost never need fertilizer, and can power through if you occasionally forget to water t...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nvidia, AMD and Intel all had important chip and AI platform announcements on the first day of CES 2026, but all audiences wanted to see more of was Star Wars and Jensen Huang’s little robot buddies.CES is a huge opportunity annually for companies both large and small to par...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials made broad changes to childhood vaccine recommendations Monday, alarming pediatricians and other medical experts who say they will sow confusion and undermine children’s health. The overhaul is effective immediately, meaning that the U.S. Centers for D...

A golden phone that President Donald Trump’s family business promised to release last year remains mysteriously under wraps as the technology industry serves up a glut of new gadgets at CES in Las Vegas this week.When the Trump Organization launched a mobile phone service last June, it was s...

Palestine Action activist Teuta Hoxha has paused her hunger strike in the United Kingdom after more than two months without food while demanding immediate bail and the right to a fair trial.The group Prisoners For Palestine wrote on Instagram on Monday that Hoxha is in serious condition and needs to be hospitalised. It alleged the...

Here is where things stand on Tuesday, January 6:Fighting Russia carried out five missile strikes on Ukraine’s second-biggest city, Kharkiv, on Monday, damaging energy infrastructure and wounding one person, according to Mayor Ihor Terekhov. “This ⁠is not just an attack on facilities. It’s ​an attack on heating, on water, on ‍peopl...

Eva Schloss, the Auschwitz survivor who dedicated decades to educating people about the Holocaust, and who was the stepsister of diarist Anne Frank, has died aged 96, according to her foundation.The Anne Frank Trust UK, of which Schloss was the honorary president, said on Sunday that she died on Saturday in London, where she lived....

A meme has gone viral on Russian social media networks with a quote from President Vladimir Putin, “We don’t give up on our own,” placed next to his photos with the leaders he once declared Moscow’s “key allies”.There were Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, who was toppled and killed in 2011, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, who was toppled and fled...

Ukraine’s key allies are meeting in Paris to discuss security guarantees for Kyiv in the event of a ceasefire with Russia as national leaders and diplomats work to bring an end to the nearly four-year war through a United States-brokered peace plan.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was joined by representatives from 35 countr...

No safety inspections had been carried out for more than five years at a Swiss bar where 40 people were killed during New Year’s celebrations, local authorities have revealed.Crans-Montana Mayor Nicolas Feraud said at a news conference on Tuesday that no fire checks had taken place at the Le Constellation ski bar since 2019.Recomme...

Key European allies pledged to send a “reassurance force” to Ukraine in a move described as a significant step in the effort to end Russia’s nearly four-year invasion.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, French President Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a declaration of intent on Tuesday for the d...

ATLANTA (AP) — A congressional ethics watchdog said in a report released Monday that there’s substantial reason to believe the former chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Mike Collins hired his girlfriend as an office intern and that she “did not perform duties commensurate with her compensation.”Th...

PHOENIX (AP) — A former Republican lawmaker who questioned the integrity of Arizona’s elections and served as a leader for the conservative group Turning Point Action was sentenced Tuesday to probation and a five-year ban on running for public office for using nominating petitions that conta...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A year after twin infernos tore across opposite ends of Los Angeles County, the scars are still visible. Thousands of homes were reduced to rubble, with rebuilding slow, and the death toll showed how a wildfire under extreme weather conditions can turn catastrophic.The Pal...

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — An avalanche in California’s Sierra Nevada on Monday buried a snowmobiler in snow and killed him, authorities said. Rescuers responded after a 911 call around 2:20 p.m. reported a possible avalanche near Johnson Peak and Castle Peak in Truckee. The snowmobiler was init...

NEW YORK (AP) — Broad gains led by technology stocks pushed Wall Street to more records. The S&P 500 set another all-time-high Tuesday. The gains mirror much of the action from the previous year, when big technology stocks often drove the market to a series of records. The S&P 500 climbed 0....

NEW YORK (AP) — George Conway, who was once married to a former adviser to the president before becoming a prominent anti-Trump voice, announced on Tuesday that he is running for a U.S. House seat in New York City, testing whether he can turn his strong social media following into votes in a...

For retirement savers and retirees, the new year brings more than the usual inflation adjustments to retirement contributions. The retirement legislation known as Secure 2.0 will also continue to phase in, and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will have impacts too.Here’s a roundup of three key...

Deaths of on-duty law enforcement officers in the U.S. decreased by nearly 25% in 2025, according to an annual report.The report from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, shared with The Associated Press ahead of its release Tuesday, shows a drop in all categories of fataliti...

ATLANTA (AP) — A second former Georgia state House member has been accused of lying to collect federal unemployment benefits during the pandemic.Federal prosecutors filed charges Monday against Karen Bennett of Stone Mountain, accusing her of one count of making false statements to collect $...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro set another campaign finance record for Pennsylvania with $30 million on hand as he seeks a second term this fall, his campaign said Tuesday. Pennsylvania has emerged as the nation’s premier presidential battleground state, and Shapiro’s st...

LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is facing a backlash from governments around the world after a recent surge in sexualized images of women and children generated without consent by the artificial intelligence-powered tool. On Tuesday, Britain’s top technology official demanded that...

Indiana U.S. Rep. Jim Baird is expected to make a full recovery after his vehicle was struck in a car accident that hospitalized him, the Republican’s office said Tuesday. “He is extraordinarily grateful for everyone’s prayers during this time,” Baird’s congressional office said in a stateme...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man accused of sending the state Supreme Court’s chief justice intimidating emails has been sentenced to probation after prosecutors dropped a felony stalking charge. Ryan Thornton, 37, of Racine, was initially charged in October in Dane County with stalking...

Gov. Phil Scott made two appointments to the Vermont Supreme Court, naming one former top federal prosecutor and another currently serving in that role for Vermont to fill the open spots on the state’s high court. Scott, a Republican, announced in a press release Monday the appointments of C...

A Detroit suburb has agreed to a $3.25 million settlement with the family of a young woman who had been declared dead at home but then gasped for air and opened her eyes when her body bag was unzipped at a funeral home.Southfield paramedics were accused of gross negligence in how they respon...

Surging Medicaid costs and dramatically shrinking federal aid are a recipe for fiscal crisis, state Comptroller Sean Scanlon warned.And while Connecticut’s chief fiscal watchdog didn’t call for changing state budget caps that hamper the General Assembly’s ability to solve the Medicaid dilemm...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Joseph E. McGettigan III, a Pennsylvania prosecutor who obtained criminal convictions against Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and chemical heir John du Pont, has died at age 76. McGettigan, who lived in the Philadelphia suburb of Media, died on Dec....

ATLANTA (AP) — Voters in northwest Georgia will go to the polls to select a successor to U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on March 10.Gov. Brian Kemp set the election date on Tuesday, a day after Greene resigned from Congress following a tumultuous five years.The field to succeed Greene in G...

A Texas teachers union sued the state’s education department on Tuesday, accusing it of an improper “wave of retaliation” against public school employees over their social media comments following the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.The lawsuit says the free spe...

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s largest Greek Orthodox community gathered Tuesday for its 120th Epiphany celebration, where dozens of teens dove into chilly water to retrieve a cross in front of thousands of spectators.Athos Karistinos, 18, found the cross before 73 other boys after it...

It’s only been days since an audacious U.S. raid snatched Nicolás Maduro from a Venezuelan military base and sped him to a Brooklyn prison, yet Detroit-area Trump supporter Aaron Tobin can already see it all playing out on the big screen.It’ll be the subject of movies for years to come, he p...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An individual accused of vandalizing the Ohio home of Vice President JD Vance in the dark of night and causing other property damage was behind bars Tuesday, awaiting action in separate state and federal cases. William D. DeFoor, 26, appeared in two different courtrooms...

From their home on Charleston’s, West Virginia’s West Side, Tina and Matt Glaspey watched the house on the corner of First Avenue and Fitzgerald Street go downhill fast. A family with a young daughter left because they didn’t feel safe. The next owner died. After that, the police were respon...

U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz promised to explore new ways for migrants to work legally in the construction industry.The Edinburg Republican announced on Monday her plans to meet with the U.S. Department of Labor, after South Texas builders voiced frustration with how immigration arrests at co...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that two laws barring the procedure, including the country’s first explicit ban on abortion pills, violate the state constitution.The justices sided with the state’s only abortion cli...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities have released security footage of a person of interest in the killing of an Ohio couple who were found shot to death in their home last week.Police in Columbus found Dr. Spencer Tepe, a 37-year-old dentist, and Monique Tepe, 39, with gunshot wounds on the se...

The Alaska Airlines pilot who has been universally praised as a hero for safely landing a jet after a door plug panel flew off shortly after takeoff is suing Boeing because he believes the plane maker wrongly tried to blame him and the rest of the crew in past legal filings.Captain Brandon F...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Five years ago outside the White House, outgoing President Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters to head to the Capitol — “and I’ll be there with you” — in protest as Congress was affirming the 2020 election victory for Democrat Joe Biden.A short time later, the world wat...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — In the crucial, chaotic minutes after a gunman in Uvalde, Texas, began firing inside an elementary school, a police officer now accused of failing to protect the children stood by without making a move to stop the carnage, a prosecutor told a jury Tuesday.School...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — From the smoking remains of the last century's two catastrophic world wars, nations came together to build a web of international rules and laws. The goal was to prevent a repeat of such devastating conflicts in the future.Now, that world order—the epicenter of...

NEW YORK (AP) — A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself “the president of my country” while protesting his capture and said he was innocent Monday of federal drug trafficking charges that the U.S. government used to justify his removal from power in Venezuela.“I was captured,” Maduro decla...

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Sitting on the pelt of a polar bear hunted by her family, Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq says she’s proud to be part of a movement of Greenlanders reclaiming their Inuit traditions and spirituality. The shaman, who has Inuit facial tattoos, works with spiritual healing p...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday closed out the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Year by denouncing today’s consumerist and anti-foreigner sentiment, capping a Jubilee that saw some 33 million pilgrims flock to Rome and a historic transition from one American pontiff to another.With cardinals...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The fallout from NASCAR’s federal antitrust trial continued into the new year as NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps on Tuesday announced his resignation after more than 20 years with the top racing series in the United States.His resignation comes after last month’s tria...

NEW YORK (AP) — After just two and half weeks of release, the Sydney Sweeney box-office hit “The Housemaid” is getting a sequel. Lionsgate announced Tuesday that it will start production on “The Housemaid’s Secret” later this year. The film will be based on the second of Freida McFadden’s be...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Sergio “Checo” Pérez says being a teammate of Max Verstappen was “the worst job there is in Formula 1.”Pérez was beside Verstappen for four years at Red Bull before being dropped at the end of 2024 with two years left in his contract. Pérez is returning to F1 this year wit...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There are few signs that President Donald Trump’s supporters wanted the United States to become more embroiled in foreign conflicts ahead of its military actions in Venezuela — even as many Republicans show initial support for his military strike there, according to an Asso...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration has added seven countries, including five in Africa, to the list of nations whose passport holders must post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.Thirteen countries, all but two of them in Africa, are now on the...

A Minnesota hotel that wouldn’t allow federal immigration agents to stay there this month is apologizing and saying the refusal violated its own policies. The Department of Homeland Security had accused the global Hilton hotel chain of a “coordinated” effort to refuse service to its employee...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Republican Doug LaMalfa, a California rice farmer who served seven terms in the U.S. House and was a reliable vote on President Donald Trump’s agenda, has died at age 65. His death trims the Republicans’ narrow margin of control of the House to 218 seats to Dem...

Washington, DC – It has become a familiar pattern. United States presidents conduct unilateral military actions abroad. Congress shrugs.On Saturday, in the hours after the US military abducted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, Democrats in the Senate pledged to raise yet another resolution to rein in US President Donald Trump’s mil...

Colombia’s Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has warned that her country would answer any breach of its sovereignty with a military response, in the wake of threats from United States President Donald Trump.At a news conference on Tuesday, Villavicencio underscored that, under international law, countries have the right t...

New Delhi, India – India’s Supreme Court has granted bail to five Muslim students and activists in prison for more than five years in connection with the 2020 religious riots in the capital, New Delhi.But the top court denied bail to two high-profile scholars – Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam – who will remain in the high-security Ti...

President Donald Trump has warned Republicans in the United States House of Representatives that, if the party fails to win a majority in November’s midterm elections, he will get impeached.Speaking to legislators at a Republican retreat in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, Trump stressed the importance of keeping control of the chambe...

How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

Syrian government forces engaged in deadly clashes with Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Aleppo governorate, with at least four people killed in artillery fire and gun battles.Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said a soldier was killed and three injured in an attack by SDF fighters on Tuesday.Recom...

In a small tent overshadowed by the sound of nearby gunfire, seven-year-old Tulin prepares for her first day of school in two years.For most children, this would be a moment of excitement. For Tulin and her mother, it is a chapter of terror.The relentless Israeli war has destroyed the vast majority of Gaza’s educational infrastruct...

Yemeni government troops backed by Saudi Arabia have completed the handover of all military sites in Hadramout and al-Mahra governorates, which they successfully reclaimed from the United Arab Emirates-backed secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC) in recent days, according to Yemeni media.A delegation led by STC leader, A...

After more than two years of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the daily unbearable churn of mass death and mourning, with homes, hospitals and schools destroyed, the besieged Palestinian territory also faces the fastest and most damaging economic collapse on record.That is according to the United Nations, which says Gaza’s unemploym...

The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Doha is engaged with mediators to reopen the Rafah crossing into besieged Gaza and deliver aid while Israel creates roadblocks.Communications are ongoing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said at a news conference on Tuesday, although more details were not immediately available....

A raw material – not gold – is having an outsized influence on the fighting in Sudan as it is smuggled to help fund the war effort of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).It is gum arabic, an essential, unsung hero in many products around the world.So what is gum arabic? Why is it important? And how is it helping fund the RS...

Syrian army and Kurdish-led forces trade blame for the deadly clashes, which came after SDF-gov’t talks in Damascus.

Syrian army and Kurdish-led forces trade blame for the deadly clashes, which came after SDF-gov’t talks in Damascus.

Syrian army and Kurdish-led forces trade blame for the deadly clashes, which came after SDF-gov’t talks in Damascus.

Dozens of people were wounded after Israel’s army opened fire with live rounds, sound grenades, and tear gas at a prominent university in the occupied West Bank as students sat in classrooms and roamed the campus.Israeli soldiers smashed open the university’s gates as panicked students and staff watched in shock on Tuesday.Recommen...

Our list for the new year features an eclipse, a revolution and a tiger reserve. What’s on yours?

Israel and Syria agreed to set up a joint mechanism for sharing intelligence and coordinating military de-escalation under United States supervision.The “dedicated communication cell”, as Tuesday’s joint statement described the mechanism, will also facilitate “diplomatic engagement and commercial opportunities”.Recommended Stories...

More housing and public toilets. Fewer trucks. We canvassed dozens of experts on ideas for making the built city more livable. What do you think?

Egypt says it’s aligned with Saudi Arabia on the conflicts in Yemen and Sudan at a time of heightened regional instability and a growing rivalry with the United Arab Emirates (UAE).During talks in Cairo, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud stressed on Monday their coun...

Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar arrived in Somaliland for the first high-level diplomatic visit since it became the first country in the world to recognise the breakaway region’s independence, triggering condemnation and concerns that Palestinians may be forcibly expelled by Israel there.Saar landed in the capital Hargeisa on...

Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera has won a third term in office, securing an outright majority in the presidential election held on December 28, according to provisional results.The results announced on Monday showed Touadera received 76.15 percent of the vote, while former Prime Minister Anicet-Georges...

Leading medical groups in the United States have raised alarm after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under President Donald Trump took the unprecedented step of cutting the number of vaccines it recommends for children.Monday’s sweeping decision, which advances the agenda of Trump-appointed Secretary of Health R...

Americans are evenly split in their support for the US military operation to abduct Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, an opinion poll has found.Thirty-three percent of Americans support Maduro’s abduction, compared with 34 percent who are against it and 32 percent who are not sure, the Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Monday.Recomme...

Members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), including key US allies, have warned that the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife by US special forces could be a precedent-setting event for international law.The 15-member bloc met for an emergency meeting on Monday in New York City, where the Venezu...

A number of European leaders have hit back at United States President Donald Trump’s repeated calls for the US to take over Greenland, as reverberations from Washington’s military attack on Venezuela and the abduction of its leader are felt across the globe.Seven European leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, German...

Following the abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, United States President Donald Trump said Washington would “run” the Latin American country until a transition was complete, but a day later, his top diplomat said the US does not want to govern the country.Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that th...

Two days after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, 63, was abducted by special forces of the United States during an operation in the Latin American country, he appeared in a courthouse in New York.On Monday, Maduro pleaded not guilty to federal charges, including narcoterrorism and conspiring to import cocaine. In a blue and oran...

Bangladesh has revealed that enforced disappearance cases connected to ousted leader Sheikh Hasina could number a staggering 4,000 to 6,000 people.A new report by the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances on Sunday said a total of 1,913 complaints were filed with it over disappearances, of which 1,569 were considered to...

Seoul, South Korea – Chinese President Xi Jinping and his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jae Myung, held their second summit in two months on Monday in a bid to steer the complex ties between their nations amid rising tensions in their neighbourhood.Lee had hosted Xi for talks on the sidelines of the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Coope...

The city was left in darkness. The air defenses were disabled. Explosions rang out. And under the night sky, a fleet of American helicopters swooped in and captured the president.Hours later, celebrating the U.S. government's capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump mentioned Venezuela's oil 20 times.The...

Danielo Janjic has lost skin on his cheeks, forehead, nose and ears. His hands are buried under layers of bandages, his face covered in ointments. Doctors have assured him that, with time and surgery, the burns will heal.The searing trauma, however, will remain.“I'm going to be scarred for life,” Janjic, 20, said recently from his...

Cindy Blaney stood at the top of a ladder with moss in her hair.She had spent the morning checking bat boxes, wisps of greenery getting tangled in her wiry gray locks. So far, she had come up short on her annual survey.Then she let out a cry: “Oh, we have bats!”This was a big deal even for Ms. Blaney, 62, who may be one of Britain’...

President Trump and his allies have reiterated that the United States wants to take over Greenland, prompting Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark to urge him to “stop the threats” and to warn that an attack on the semiautonomous Danish territory would lead to the end of NATO.On Sunday, Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has appointed Chrystia Freeland, a former Canadian deputy prime minister, as an adviser on economic development, giving a role in his government to a prominent Western advocate for Ukraine’s cause.In a statement issued Monday, Mr. Zelensky cited Ms. Freeland’s expertise in attracting foreign...

In its third full day, a widespread power failure in Berlin resulting from an arson attack started to tug on the nerves of tens of thousands of people making do without heat, electricity, cellphone service and warm food or drinks.It also had them questioning their infrastructure and security. The power cuts started on Saturday when...

Shortly after U.S. forces captured Venezuela’s leader, President Trump said that Cuba’s days were numbered and that his administration may turn its sights on the Communist island next.“Cuba looks like it is ready to fall,” Mr. Trump said to reporters on Air Force One. “I don’t know if they’re going to hold out, but Cuba now has no...

The Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7, 2023, is widely regarded as the worst military, intelligence and policy failure in Israel’s history. But for many Israelis, the question of who was responsible for those failings is far from settled.The assault took the Israeli government, military and security services by surprise, and Israel has no...

When he woke up in his bamboo shelter on New Year’s Day, hundreds of Facebook notifications were awaiting Mohammed Faruque on his phone. It was his birthday. It was his wife’s birthday, too. And that of his five brothers and sisters, his parents, and his best friend, Mohammad Ullah. And most fellow residents of Camp 7.He had alread...

Iran’s president ordered an investigation into violence at recent protests in the western province of Ilam, after video surfaced that appeared to show security forces shooting at demonstrators and storming a hospital.The interior ministry said Tuesday that it was sending a delegation to investigate the skirmishes, which began after...

As Ukraine peace talks have stretched on for nearly a year, through fits and spurts and dozens of rounds, President Volodymyr Zelensky has accentuated the positive. The talks are now “90 percent complete,” he said. Ukraine works every minute to end the war, he insisted.But in recent days, with the question mark of Russia’s willingn...

Syria and Israel resumed U.S.-mediated talks about reducing tensions along their border, Syria’s state news agency reported, the latest effort to reset relations between the two countries after decades of hostilities.The talks were held in Paris on Tuesday, according to a Western diplomat and French, Israeli and Syrian officials wh...

Just hours before American commandos seized President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in a daring raid, a senior Chinese official had met the Venezuelan leader at the presidential palace, a show of support for one of Beijing’s closest partners in the Western Hemisphere.The speed with which U.S. forces acted afterward to capture Mr. Mad...

The local authorities failed to carry out yearly safety inspections between 2020 and 2025 at the bar in the Swiss Alps that suffered a deadly fire last week, Swiss officials acknowledged on Tuesday, amid mounting accusations that lax oversight had set the stage for the disaster.“We bitterly regret this,” said Nicolas Féraud, the ma...

European leaders began meeting on Tuesday in Paris for the latest round of talks on peace for Ukraine, focusing on security commitments for the country in a potential cease-fire with Russia.National leaders and representatives of 35 countries gathered at the Élysée Palace for the meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing to...

Even before American forces blasted their way into Venezuela’s capital and seized President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, the nation was already facing dire economic prospects.The partial blockade imposed by the United States on Venezuela’s energy exports was expected to shutter more than 70 percent of the country’s oil production th...

Venezuela’s attorney general urged steadfastness in the face of U.S. “state terrorism.” After President Trump’s renewed threats on Greenland, some European leaders pushed back against his might-makes-right vision.

To read or not to read? Where literary adaptations are concerned, that is the eternal question. If you land firmly in the “read the book first” camp, then now is the perfect time to dive into the source material for some of this year’s most anticipated series and films. Here are some of the thrillers, romances, sci-fi page turners...

“How did you sleep?” You might answer that question by weighing how many hours you slept or how often you woke up throughout the night.But there is a third, often neglected, element of sleep to consider, experts say. It’s the consistency of your sleep schedule.Sleep consistency refers to how well you maintain the same bedtime and w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that he censured Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over the former Navy pilot’s participation in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders.Hegseth said the censure — by itself simply a forma...

Over the past 50 years, Iran has been shaken by a series of protests.Beginning with the demonstrations that led to the founding of the Islamic Republic to now, here’s a brief look at the protests and what fueled them. 1979 Islamic RevolutionIn the lead-up to Iran’s 1979 Islamic R...

THIS IS WHERE THE SERPENT LIVES, by Daniyal Mueenuddin“The relation between the chauffeur and the chauffeured can be curiously intense,” Iris Murdoch wrote in “The Sea, the Sea.” This was true in David Szalay’s Booker Prize-winning novel “Flesh” (2025) and it is also true in Daniyal Mueenud...

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike in Gaza on Monday hit a tent housing displaced people, killing a 5-year-old girl and her uncle and wounding two other children, hospital officials said.The strike took place in the Muwasi area northwest of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza St...

The auto industry is facing some big challenges. Tariffs have raised the prices of cars and auto parts. Economic strains have pushed up defaults on car loans to people with less than stellar credit.Yet sales of new cars in the United States are expected to have risen modestly in 2025, to about 16.3 million. Several large automakers...

Interested in a Broadway backstage tour, hard-to-get sports tickets or dinner at a booked-solid Michelin-starred restaurant, but don’t have deep pockets or connections?Well, how many airline miles or credit card points do you have?Airlines, banks and hotels are transforming formerly bread-and-butter loyalty programs, allowing membe...

Susannah Ray, a teacher at a Manhattan high school, was supposed to be in class on Monday morning, welcoming her photography students back on the first day of the winter quarter. Her daughter, Bettina, 14, should have been at her own high school to start the second semester of her freshman year.Instead, they waited in Barbados, tak...

The Department of Homeland Security on Monday accused the Hilton hotel company of a “coordinated campaign” to refuse service to its law enforcement officers in Minneapolis.A post on the official Homeland Security X account said that Hilton “maliciously canceled” reservations made at the Hampton Inn Lakeville Minneapolis, in a subur...

SILVERSTONE, England (AP) — New Formula 1 team Cadillac made another experienced hire Monday with the choice of former Sauber driver Zhou Guanyu as its reserve.The only driver from China in F1 history, Shanghai-born Zhou hasn’t raced since 2024 but spent last season as reserve with Ferrari,...

Robert Heide, who began his career as a playwright and ended it granting interviews to historians and becoming part of countless anecdotes in books and articles about the cultural life of downtown Manhattan, died on Dec. 17. He was 91.His death, at a Manhattan nursing home, was caused by complications of dementia, his spouse, John...

Good morning! I hope your 2026 is off to a good start. Today we have:A new salmon dish for your folder of weeknight fish dinnersInspiring recipes for pantry ingredients like chickpeas, spices and tomatoesAnd, the wok expert Grace Young’s technique for keeping shrimp juicy, tender and crisp in stir-friesImageAshley Lonsdale’s salmon...

Pete Wells tells how he recovered from an out-of-control diet. And each week in January, he and experts will suggest ways to reset your own appetite.

Electricity rates for people across the country are rapidly increasing, especially in West Virginia, as the state has one of the fastest-rising residential power rates in the country. In West Virginia, the average price of electricity for residential ratepayers increased by nearly 34% betwee...

The plea was desperate: Help!Lorena Brown gasped for air on Sept. 12, 2022, turning blue, at the SKLD Muskegon nursing home. Her roommate called for help from a nurse. The response: “Mind your own business.”Using a washcloth, the roommate scooped vomit from the 68-year-old’s mouth, begging a...

Driving up a dirt road to the small produce stand at Bear Butte Gardens just outside Sturgis, one would never imagine the incredibly diverse ways that the organic farm is capitalizing on the rising consumer interest in healthy foods and the farm-to-table movement.The seasonal vegetables sold...

DETROIT (AP) — A program that provides cash to help expectant mothers cope with bills, expenses and the high cost of taking care of children is coming to Detroit.Democratic Mayor Mary Sheffield announced Monday that Michigan State University’s Rx Kids program is expected to open in the city...

Four people hurt when an explosion ripped through a Pennsylvania nursing home two weeks ago sued the facility and a natural gas utility on Monday, claiming their negligence was to blame.Two workers at Bristol Health & Rehab Center LLC, a resident of the suburban Philadelphia facility and a c...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon cafe that takes orders in sign language has become a cherished space for the Deaf community, providing a unique gathering place as well as employment for those who are deaf or hard of hearing.American Sign Language, or ASL, is the primary language at Woodstock...

It’s Gavin Newsom’s final year in office as California governor — and his last chance to use his role as governor to audition for the national stage. The governor, who will address the Legislature and present his budget proposal this week, has spent the past seven years pushing an ambitious...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday reduced a prison sentence to probation for a former Tennessee lawmaker whose testimony helped convict the former state House speaker and his onetime aide of public corruption.Although her cohorts were pardoned by President Donald Trump, Repub...

Ask any history teacher in Michigan how their lessons could be better and they will tell you that they need to incorporate more current events into the curriculum, East Kentwood High School history teacher Matt Vreisman insists. State standards require social studies teachers to cover pre-Co...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Violent crime in New Orleans declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, police officials announced Monday as National Guard troops begin patrolling the city on President Donald Trump’s orders.The crime figures were released less than a week after armed troops arrived i...

At a time when local schools are facing shrinking enrollment and talks of closure, Hawaiian immersion programs are bucking the trend. Enrollment in schools that teach primarily in ʻōlelo Hawaii — collectively known as Kaiapuni schools — has increased by 68% over the past decade, with the num...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida is awaiting approval from federal officials to open a third immigration detention center, following “Alligator Alcatraz” and “Deportation Depot,” and the state also is looking into a potential fourth detention facility, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday.Florida offic...

DENVER (AP) — A former school bus aide pleaded guilty Monday to assaulting three nonverbal students with autism who were unable to report the abuse.Kiarra Jones, 30, entered guilty pleas to 12 charges under a plea agreement as she was about to go on trial in suburban Denver for abuse that wa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is telling Head Start providers to avoid dozens of terms in federal grant applications, including “race,” “belonging” and “pregnant people” — a directive that could reshape the early education program.A coalition of organizations representing Head S...

The recent closure of a California oil refinery — and plans to shutter another in the near future — have some experts warning of potential fuel shortages and price spikes in Nevada and other Western states that depend on the Golden State. California supplies roughly 88% of Nevada’s fuel, inc...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of extinction.The North Atlantic right whale’s population numbers an estimated 384 animals...

President Trump painted a picture over the weekend of how U.S. oil companies would dive into Venezuela after the ouster of President Nicolás Maduro and “spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure” and “start making money for the country.”But Mr. Trump’s oil goals face formidable challenges.A handful of Western p...

Last winter, Chevron appeared to be running out of time in Venezuela.The company was the last major U.S. oil company still producing oil in the South American country, many years after others, like Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips, had left. For years, Chevron muddled along under short-term exemptions from U.S. sanction policies. The...

Venezuela’s oil reserves, thought to be the largest in the world at an estimated 300 billion barrels, are notable not just for scale. Most of the oil found there is among the dirtiest type, with high sulfur and low hydrogen content.Before Venezuela plunged into an economic crisis under President Nicolás Maduro, the country was prod...

The federal government has picked two companies to replace 612 radar systems nationwide that date back to the 1980s as part of a multibillion-dollar overhaul of the nation’s air traffic control system.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday tha...

Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time Monday at the CES tech showcase, ratcheting up a competition with Tesla and other rivals to build robots that look like people and do things that people do. “For the first time ever in public, ple...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsTuesday, January 6COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)7 p.m.Michigan at Penn State — FS1, Fox Sports App, Fubo SportsCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)7 p.m.Temple at Wichita State — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsThe Associated Press created...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsTuesday, January 6COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)7 p.m.Central Michigan at Akron — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsEastern Michigan at Ball State — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsWestern Michigan at Miami (OH) — ESPN app, ESPN Sel...

SYDNEY (AP) — Joe Root posted his second hundred of the series for England and Travis Head closed in on his third for Australia as Day 2 of the final Ashes test closed evenly poised on Monday. England was bowled out just before tea for 364 at the Sydney Cricket Ground, with Root leading with...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has banned broadcasts of the Indian Premier League after fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman was withdrawn from cricket’s biggest T20 league on the instructions of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.Bangladesh’s ministry of information and broadcasting sa...

When she is not caring for her 6-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son, Amaya Jones is working full time at Kroger. Jones wants to go back to school this month to study social work, so she can help young women like herself navigate complicated programs designed to help — but which often trap...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nathan Chasing Horse, the former “Dances with Wolves” actor accused of sexual abuse, was temporarily thrown out of court Monday after he disrupted proceedings with demands he be allowed to fire his defense attorney a week before trial.Judge Jessica Peterson in Las Vegas orde...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump may have his name on the building, but it’s still the Kennedy Center to Congress. A bipartisan spending package released Monday by House Speaker Mike Johnson includes $32 million for operating expenses at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing...

NEW YORK (AP) — When it came time to decide the cover image for Wet Leg’s sophomore album, the British indie rock band packed items that might provide inspiration — velvet worms sewn by guitarist Hester Chambers, an oversized head of hair from a music video shoot, lizard-like gloves — and he...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Michael Schumacher, a Wisconsin author who produced a diverse array of works ranging from biographies of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and musician Eric Clapton to accounts of Great Lakes shipwrecks, has died. He was 75.Schumacher’s daughter, Emily Joy Schumacher, confi...

Returns to “The Pitt,” the Grid and music of Kid Laroi are some of the new television, films and music headed to a device near you.The first week of January brings a pair of sophomore efforts: Laroi’s album “Before I Forget” and the second season of the Emmy-winning hospital drama “The Pitt....

Federal health officials on Monday announced dramatic revisions to the slate of vaccines recommended for American children, reducing the number of diseases prevented by routine shots to 11 from 17.Jim O’Neill, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has updated the agency’s immunization schedule to reflec...

VideoCreditCredit...Melanie LambrickQ: As a member of Gen Z who’s completely new to jazz, who should I listen to? What are some famous recordings, albums, artists or compilations?Glad you asked! I’m an editor on the New York Times Culture desk who listens to (and sometimes writes about) a wide range of music, and I edit the “5 Minu...

Are you eating enough fiber? If you live in the United States, the answer is probably no. Most U.S. adults aren’t consuming the recommended 25 grams per day for women and 38 grams for men.That may explain why “fibermaxxing,” a social media movement that calls for loading up on the nutrient so that people meet or even exceed the dai...

It’s never too early or too late to start healthy brain habits. Today, test your knowledge with a pop quiz.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy replaced the head of Ukraine’s security service Monday, continuing a top-level reshuffle ahead of a trip to Paris where he hoped to finalize agreements with allies on how to ensure that Russia doesn’t repeat its invasion if a peace agreement...

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Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the chip-making giant Nvidia, put his company at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom by making semiconductors more powerful than any of his rivals’. This year, he’s promising to do it again.On Monday, Mr. Huang said the company would begin shipping a new A.I. chip later this year t...

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday said she would back new privacy standards for young New Yorkers online, including safeguards that would automatically bar strangers from viewing, tagging or messaging minors on gaming and social media platforms.The proposed restrictions, which would be among the most stringent in the nation, come after n...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — After the United States military intervention in Venezuela, the Mexican government and analysts discounted the likelihood of unilateral U.S. military action against Mexican drug cartels, despite threats from President Donald Trump.Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s admi...

HELSINKI (AP) — The battle against fake news in Finland starts in preschool classrooms.For decades, the Nordic nation has woven media literacy, including the ability to analyze different kinds of media and recognize disinformation, into its national curriculum for students as young as 3 year...

TOKYO (AP) — That’s a REALLY big fish. This one weighed in at 535 pounds (243 kilograms). It sold for a record $3.2 million (510 million yen) on Monday at an enormous annual New Year’s auction in Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market. That would make a lot of spicy tuna roll.Bidders walked among massiv...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and China called for more “visible and verifiable” steps to eliminate terrorist organizations based in Afghanistan and to prevent Afghan territory from being used for militancy against any country, according to a joint statement.The statement issued Monday followed...

LONDON (AP) — Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of teenage diarist Anne Frank and a tireless educator about the horrors of the Holocaust, has died. She was 96.The Anne Frank Trust UK, of which Schloss was honorary president, said she died Saturday in London, where she lived.Brit...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government on Monday said that a major radio communications failure that shut the country’s airspace a day earlier is unlikely to have been a cyberattack, though the cause remains under investigation.Flights across Greece were grounded, diverted or delayed for...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Supreme Court on Monday denied bail to two Muslim student activists who have spent years in detention without trial over a conspiracy case linked to one of the country’s deadliest outbreaks of religious violence.Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam were arrested five years...