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...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The United States on Monday reached a deal with Dominica to start sending foreigners seeking U.S. asylum to the small Caribbean nation.Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit described the deal as “one of the primary areas of collaboration” after the countr...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — When Tafara Muvhevhi, a Zimbabwean driving instructor, began work 16 years ago, his job was simple: teach the highway code and prepare learners to ace their driving test.Today, his priorities have changed. His main concern is no longer just the exam, but whether his s...

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s health department starting Monday can resume sharing the personal data of certain Medicaid enrollees with deportation officials, according to a federal judge’s ruling, in a blow to states that had sued the administration over privacy concerns.But the judge’s deci...

The NBA is going back to China next season, as expected, announcing Monday that the Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets will play a pair of preseason games at the gambling hub of Macao in October.The games, like the preseason ones this season between Brooklyn and Phoenix, will be played at...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — The Supreme Court in Guinea on Sunday upheld the election victory of Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya, cementing the junta leader’s transition to a democratically elected president four years after staging a coup in the West African nation.Doumbouya won the country’s first electi...

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban officials on Monday lowered flags before dawn to mourn 32 security officers they say were killed in the U.S. weekend strike in Venezuela, the island nation’s closest ally, as residents here wonder what the capture of President Nicolás Maduro means for t...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Both allies and adversaries of the United States on Monday used an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to voice opposition to the audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela that captured leader Nicolás Maduro.Before the U.N.'s most powerful body, countrie...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court on Monday opened the trial of a co-founder of the country’s ride-hailing and payments company Gojek, who is accused of corruption in a government project to procure Google Chromebook laptops for schools.Nadiem Anwar Makarim, 41, was a former educ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani counterterrorism police raided multiple militant hideouts in the southern port city of Karachi, arresting three suspects and seizing about 2 tons of explosives in an operation officials said thwarted planned attacks.The bomb-making materials and detonators...

BEIJING (AP) — China and South Korea’s leaders pledged to boost trade and safeguard regional stability on Monday during a visit to Beijing by the South Korean president that was overshadowed by North Korea’s recent ballistic missile tests.South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met with Chinese...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday that leader Kim Jong Un observed test-flights of hypersonic missiles and underscored the need to bolster the country’s nuclear war deterrent, as the country dials up weapons displays ahead of its major political conference.North Korea reporte...

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court found Monday 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, by spreading false online claims about her gender and sexuality, including allegations that she was born a male.One defendant was sentenced to six months in prison, while eight wer...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss police said Monday they’ve identified all the people who were injured in the fire that tore through a New Year’s celebration in a crowded bar. They put the total at 116, more than two-thirds still in hospitals.Authorities had previously given a figure...

TOKYO (AP) — A massive 243-kilogram (535-pound) bluefin tuna sold for a record 510 million yen ($3.2 million) at the first auction of 2026 at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market. The top bidder for the prized tuna at the predawn auction on Monday was Kiyomura Corp., whose owner Kiyoshi Kimura ru...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks gained ground on Wall Street Monday to kick off their first full week of the new year.The gains were broad, with particularly big jumps for energy companies and banks. Elsewhere, industrial companies and retailers joined in to help boost major indexes.The S&P...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday told reporters that U.S. officials have determined that Ukraine did not target a residence belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack last week, disputing Kremlin claims that Trump had initially greeted w...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — In his celebratory news conference on the U.S. capture of Venezuelan strongman leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump set out an extraordinarily forthright view of the use of U.S. power in Latin America that exposed political divisions from Mexico to Argentina as Tr...

BEIRUT (AP) — Officials from Syria and Israel are set to resume U.S.-mediated talks in Paris in hopes of reaching a security agreement to defuse tensions between the two countries, officials said Monday.A Syrian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to sp...

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel’s air force struck areas in southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, saying they are home to infrastructure for the militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas.The strikes came a few days before Lebanon’s army commander is scheduled to brief the government on its mission of disar...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after the US military intervention in Venezuela, President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his calls for the United States to take control of the Danish territory of Greenland under the argument of national security and threatened military action in Colombia for facili...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Monday an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance. Her comments came in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island to...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Venezuelan government on Monday sought to show its people and the world that the country is being run independently and not controlled by the United States following its stunning weekend arrest of Nicolás Maduro, the authoritarian leader who had ruled for almost...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — With the start of the New Year squarely behind us, it’s once again time for the annual CES trade show to shine a spotlight on the latest tech that companies plan to offer in 2026.The multiday event, organized by the Consumer Technology Association, kicks off this week in Las...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The final pilgrims of the 2025 Holy Year passed through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica late Monday, as the Vatican claimed success after more than 33 million people participated in this the rarest of Jubilees: opened by one pope and closed by another.Pope Leo XIV o...

Adding fermented vegetables to the first course of a meal is common in Ukrainian cuisine, and one of the most popular pickled-vegetable dishes is sauerkraut soup. It might sound a little odd, but trust me — it’s breathtaking. This recipe is from my cookbook “The Authentic Ukrainian Kitchen,”...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of cutting the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — a move that leading medical groups said would undermine protections against a half-dozen diseases.The change is effective immediately, meaning that the U.S. Centers...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. flu infections surged over the holidays, and health officials are calling it a severe season that is likely to get worse.New government data posted Monday — for flu activity through the week of Christmas — showed that by some measures this season is already surpassing th...

ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — “DANGER: Lead Work Area” reads a sign on a front door of an Altadena home. “May damage fertility or the unborn child. Causes damage to the central nervous system.”Block after block there are reminders that contaminants still linger.House cleaners, hazardous waste work...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday said it would propose a drinking water limit for perchlorate, a harmful chemical in rockets and other explosives, but also said doing so wouldn’t significantly benefit public health and that it was acting only because a court or...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Hikers navigating rugged terrain may have noticed more people speeding along the same trail while leaping over rocks and roots like two-legged mountain goats.Trail running has exploded in popularity in recent years. The sport encompasses everything from off-road jogs...

BAC NINH, Vietnam (AP) — The transformation of Vietnam’s Bac Ninh is evident in the signs above its shops and the spicy Chinese and Korean dishes on its tables.Once known for its rice fields and the love duets of its centuries-old Quan Ho folk songs, the city just north of Hanoi has become o...

As deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges in a U.S. courtroom Monday, an array of misrepresented and fabricated images that began circulating soon after his capture over the weekend continued to multiply on social media.President Donal...

Shares of major U.S. companies in the energy sector are sharply higher Monday after President Donald Trump announced plans to take control of Venezuela’s oil industry, saying that it would be American companies helping to revitalize it following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro. While...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Golden Globes return Sunday. The boozy, bubbly kickoff to Hollywood’s awards season will feature nominees including Timothée Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael B. Jordan, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Emma Stone.The 83rd Golden Globe Awards ceremony begi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. multinational corporations will be exempted from paying more corporate taxes overseas in a deal finalized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD announced Monday that nearly 150 countries have agreed on the plan, initially crafted in 202...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ahn Sung-ki, one of South Korean cinema’s biggest stars whose prolific 60-year career and positive, gentle public image earned him the nickname “The Nation’s Actor,” died Monday. He was 74.Ahn, who had blood cancer for years, died at Seoul’s Soonchunhyang University...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The way Aaron Rodgers looks at it, part of his job is to be a “magnetic force.”This is, after all, why the Pittsburgh Steelers signed the four-time NFL MVP to a one-year deal last summer. And why Rodgers opted to return for a 21st season after two miserable years with the N...

As No. 1 Indiana prepares for Friday night’s College Football Playoff semifinal against No. 5 Oregon, coach Curt Cignetti is already reloading.On Sunday, the undefeated Hoosiers acquired two key players in the transfer portal, landing former TCU quarterback Josh Hoover, according to a person...

Leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private agency that has steered federal funding to PBS, NPR and hundreds of public television and radio stations across the country, voted Monday to dissolve the organization that was created in 1967.CPB had been winding down since Congre...

ST PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats’ 2024 candidate for vice president, is ending his bid for a third term amid President Donald Trump’s relentless focus on a fraud investigation into the state’s child care programs and its Somali community.Less than four months after an...

A rundown of the NFL head coach firings, with three Black Monday dismissals and one on Sunday night increasing the number of job openings to six:Cardinals, Jonathan GannonArizona came into the season with high hopes of contending in the NFC West but finished with just three wins for one of t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy that day is nowhere to be found. It’s not on display at the Capitol, as is required by law. Its whereabouts aren’t publicly know...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A former school police officer in Uvalde, Texas, who was part of the slow law enforcement response to one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history went on trial Monday on charges that he failed to protect children from the gunman.Adrian Gonzales, one of the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has added seven countries, including five in Africa, to the list of nations whose passport holders are required to 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 lis...

NEW YORK (AP) — A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself “the president of my country” as he protested his capture and pleaded not guilty Monday to federal drug trafficking charges that the Trump administration used to justify removing him from power in Venezuela. “I was captured,” Maduro s...

A man who broke windows at Vice President JD Vance’s Ohio home and caused other property damage was detained early Monday, the U.S. Secret Service said. The man was detained shortly after midnight by Secret Service agents assigned to Vance’s home, east of downtown Cincinnati, agency spokespe...

▶ Follow live updates on the United States and Venezuela MEXICO CITY (AP) — As uncertainty simmers in Venezuela, interim President Delcy Rodríguez has taken the place of her ally President Nicolás Maduro, captured by the United States in a nighttime military operation, and of...

▶ Follow live updates on the United States and Venezuela HAVANA (AP) — An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said Sunday in the first official death count provided of the American strikes in the South Ameri...

Sporadic protests have broken out in the Iranian capital, Tehran, and other cities, according to local media, which also report intensifying clashes in the west of the country.The demonstrations kicked off on December 28 when shopkeepers staged a strike over economic concerns, but a week later, they have spread in size and scope as...

Syrian government officials have held talks with the commander of the main Kurdish-led force in the country over plans to merge it with the national army, state media reported, adding that no “tangible results” had been achieved.The Kurdish-led and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement on Sunday that a delega...

Yemeni government troops backed by Saudi Arabia have retaken the governorates of Hadramout and al-Mahra from the United Arab Emirates-backed secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC) as tensions between the regional Gulf Arab powers continue to simmer.Rashad al-Alimi, head of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), the in...

Gunmen have raided a village in northern Nigeria’s Niger state, killing at least 30 villagers and abducting others, in what marks the latest deadly attack in the conflict-hit region.“Over 30 victims lost their lives during the attack; some persons were also kidnapped,” Wasiu Abiodun, Niger police spokesman, said in a statement on S...

Iran’s government has in recent years weathered wave upon wave of nationwide protests challenging its rule by resorting to force. But for the first time, the country’s rulers face a more complex challenge: growing domestic unrest combined with an external military threat.The government appears at a dead end in addressing both, with...

For several weeks, with peace talks at a critical moment, Ukraine faced a power vacuum. It had no energy minister amid rolling blackouts caused by Russian strikes. No justice minister as a corruption scandal flared. And no presidential chief of staff to lead negotiations with the United States.Now, with a flurry of appointments, Pr...

New satellite imagery shows the damage to Fuerte Tiuna, or Fort Tiuna, the military complex where U.S. forces captured the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, on Saturday.Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela’s largest military base, is built into a mountainside in the south of the capital, Caracas. The base consists primarily of military inst...

The dream of returning had grown distant for millions of Venezuelans who had fled their government’s crushing of dissent and an economy in free fall.“If I speak from my heart, I had utterly lost hope,” said Jorge Colmenares, 50, who left seven years ago. For him, selling caramel candy at red lights on the streets of a Colombian bor...

Skin is gone from Danielo Janjic’s cheeks, forehead, nose, ears. His hands are buried in 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,” Mr. Janjic, 20, said recently from his hos...

A day after President Trump declared that the United States planned to “run” Venezuela for an unspecified period, Defense Department officials said there were no U.S. military personnel in the country.But a force of 15,000 troops on land in nearby countries and on a dozen warships in the Caribbean “remain in the region at a high st...

Dozens of people were killed and several abducted when unidentified gunmen attacked two neighboring villages in Nigeria, government officials said on Sunday. It was the first large assault on civilians since the U.S. military bombed targets in the West African country on Christmas Day, claiming it was protecting Christians from Isl...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a military quarantine of Venezuela and its oil industry would remain in place. The death toll from the raid to seize Nicolás Maduro rose to 80.

To classify Tom Brady as the greatest football player of all time is among the least controversial assertions anyone can make about anything. It’s a subjective opinion accepted as objective truth: He played quarterback for 23 professional seasons, and if those 23 seasons were divided into three separate careers, all three might qua...

I often start and end my day in my mother’s garden. She died almost three years ago, of stomach cancer. The garden was sacred to her. While she was alive, I saw it as just a place to read on a lounge chair or duck out to for a smoke when I came back home to visit. Since her death, I’ve found myself drawn there. I feel closer to her...

To the Editor:Re “After Seizing Maduro, Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run’ Venezuela” (front page, Jan. 4):Words can hardly capture the profound sense of unease felt by me and likely millions of other Americans as the United States embarks on yet another reckless episode of regime change and nation building, apparently driven by the world’...

Over the past four months, President Trump and his cabinet members offered a meandering list of vague and at times conflicting explanations why the administration was amassing warships, attack planes and thousands of military personnel off the coast of Venezuela.It was about drug smuggling (despite the fact that little cocaine and...

In the initial rush of news on Saturday morning, many commentators speculated that the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela was also a blow to President Vladimir Putin of Russia, since Venezuela and Russia are allies. To the contrary, it is a victory for Putin, because it is a blow — quite likely fatal — to the new wo...

The dancing began two summers ago at a lovely, large hotel in coastal Turkey. Whether our hosts were bad at marketing or good at money laundering, the hotel defied one of the fundamental laws of lodging: There were no lodgers, other than us. The staff outnumbered the guests (me; my wife, Jessica; and our daughter, Agnes, then 5 yea...

On my last visit to Venezuela in 2019, I saw children starving because of the kleptocracy overseen by President Nicolás Maduro.In the impoverished, violent slum of La Dolorita in Caracas, I met an emaciated 5-year-old girl, Alaska. Her mother told me that Alaska, weighing just 26 pounds and near death from malnutrition, had been tu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after the audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela, President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his calls for an American takeover of the Danish territory of Greenland for the sake of U.S. security interests, while his top diplomat declared the communist government...

Swiss police say they have identified all of those who died during a fatal fire in a bar on New Year’s Eve that killed 40 people, in one of the country’s deadliest disasters.According to the police on Sunday, those identified include 21 Swiss nationals, six Italians – including one person with Italian-Emirati citizenship – one Roma...

Incoming and outgoing flights were temporarily suspended in airports across Greece after airspace radio frequencies were lost due to a technical problem that has confounded authorities.Thousands of travellers were seen stranded at airports for several hours on Sunday as air traffic was crippled and communications were cut off.Recom...

Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has ‍urged US President ‍Donald Trump to stop threatening to take over Greenland, after the latter reiterated his wish to do so following Washington’s abduction of the leader of Venezuela.“It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the US needing ⁠to take over Greenland. The US has no ri...

CORTE MADERA, Calif. (AP) — Crews cleared mud from key California highways as forecasters warned Sunday that more thunderstorms were on the way after downpours and high tides caused flooding, road closures and rescues of people trapped in cars.Five northern counties remained under a flood wa...

A small plane crashed Sunday at the Provincetown Municipal Airport on Cape Cod, catching fire and killing the pilot, who was the only person on board, officials said. Firefighters and other emergency responders extinguished the fire at the crash site near the seaside community at the very ti...

In a move that stunned the world, the United States bombed Venezuela and abducted President Nicolas Maduro amid condemnation and plaudits.In a news conference on Saturday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, US President Donald Trump praised the operation to seize Maduro as one of the “most stunning, effective and powerful displays...

PALM SPRINGS, California, USA (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio emphasized the importance of creating cinema and not simply content at the Palm Springs Film Festival on Friday night.“Films are meant to be experienced, together, in a theater. Right now, that belief matters more than ever. Original fil...

China has called on the United States to immediately release Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro after Washington carried out massive military strikes on the capital, Caracas, as well as other regions, and abducted the leader.Beijing on Sunday insisted the safety of Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores be a priority, and called on the...

United States President Donald Trump has set out to justify the attack launched on Venezuela and Washington imposing its will in Latin America by citing a policy from a 19th century president.Trump on Saturday called the raid that led to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro being abducted an update to the Monroe Doctrine, the 1823 d...

For weeks, United States President Donald Trump and his officials said the rhetoric and military posturing against Venezuela were aimed at countering the flow of narcotics.But abundant evidence, including Trump’s own words in the aftermath of the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro, suggests that Washington’s true interest lies i...

Pro-government officials say they have regained control of the Wadi Hadramout region.

Longtime Al Jazeera Arabic anchor and journalist Jamil Azar, a pioneer of the network since its establishment three decades ago, has passed away.Director-General Sheikh Nasser bin Faisal Al Thani lauded Azar, 89, in a statement on Sunday as a “distinguished linguist” and the author of the network’s motto, “The opinion and the other...

An Israeli drone attack on a car has killed two people in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Ministry of Health has said.Al Jazeera’s Ihab al-Aqdi, reporting from Lebanon, said the attack took place on Sunday in the Ayn al-Mizrab area north of the town of Bint Jbeil. He added that the targeted car was destroyed and that nearby building...

Heavy rain and snow has pounded California in recent weeks, causing floods, power outages, mudslides and other disruptions. But the storms have also filled reservoirs and deepened the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, easing drought concerns in a state that is perpetually worried about not having enough water.The near-c...

Congressional Democrats said they were still being kept in the dark on Sunday, with no information provided to them by the Trump administration about the dramatic military action to capture President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela a day earlier, despite their demands for classified briefings.“I’m a member of the Gang of Eight, and I h...

The Israeli army has launched more attacks into parts of Gaza outside its direct military control, despite the ceasefire deal mediated by the United States in October.At least three Palestinians were killed on Sunday in separate Israeli attacks in Khan Younis, medical sources told Al Jazeera.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Hundreds marched in silence Sunday to honor the victims of the New Year’s Eve fire at a bar in the Swiss Alpine resort of Crans-Montana, which left 40 dead and many severely injured. Somber mourners, many with reddened eyes, filed silently out of the chapel...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans on Sunday remained shell-shocked a day after President Nicolás Maduro was deposed and captured in a U.S. military operation, with an uncertain future ahead in the South American nation.A tense calm settled over the capital, Caracas, which was unusually q...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli police shot and killed a Bedouin Arab man during an overnight raid in his village in southern Israel, according to media reports and a local official.The shooting of 36-year-old Muhammed Hussein Tarabin threatened to worsen the already strained relations betwe...

ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Saudi-backed forces spread across Yemen’s Mukalla on Sunday after retaking the port city which was seized by southern separatists last month. The capital of Hadramout province was retaken by Yemen’s internationally recognized government following days of Saudi airstrikes.V...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian government officials held talks Sunday with the commander of the main Kurdish-led force in the country over plans to merge it with the national army, state media reported, adding that no “tangible results” had been achieved.The leadership in Damascus under inter...

WHY WE DRINK TOO MUCH: The Impact of Alcohol on Our Bodies and Culture, by Charles Knowles“Excessive Drinking Rose During the Pandemic” read one 2021 headline. That I at first clocked that third word as “rosé” showed the extent of the problem.A no-nonsense English app called Try Dry, free of the saccharine affirmations, dumb games...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal appeals panel has ruled that a California law prohibiting open carry of firearms in heavily populated counties is unconstitutional.The ruling was issued Friday by two judges on a three-judge panel for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The judges found...

ImageHetty Lui McKinnon’s soy sauce and brown butter brussels sprouts pasta.Credit...Nico Schinco for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Kaitlin Wayne.Whether you woke up with a Champagne-induced headache or the chipper contentment of someone who went to bed long before midnight, chances are you’ll spend some time today reflecting o...

Good morning! Today we have for you:A Japanese mochi soup to start the new yearA hearty stew that makes the most of inexpensive kitchen staplesAnd, a refreshing cabbage salad to wake up your palate and pair with almost anythingImageCorinne Nakagawa Gooden and Sydne Gooden’s ozoni (mochi soup), adapted by Hannah Kirshner.Credit...Da...

Good morning! Today we have for you:A chicken and rice soup that doesn’t stint on the gingerMy quinoa salad with chicken, almonds and avocadoAnd, baked oatmeal breakfast barsImageYossy Arefi’s ginger chicken and rice soup with zucchini.Credit...Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Yossy Arefi.Happy New Year! Today’s the...

Happy New Year, everyone. I’m not much for resolutions, but a few weeks ago I vowed that 2026 would be hopelessly, bottomlessly full of soup. This applied to my life at home, where I hope to always have broth simmering on the stove. But also to my professional one at restaurants, where soups tend to be among the most overlooked dis...

In detailing the U.S. military action that led to the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump referenced the Monroe Doctrine, a maxim that has shaped American foreign policy for two centuries.The doctrine formulated by President James Monroe was originally aimed at...

▶ Follow live updates on the United States and Venezuela NEW YORK (AP) — The Brooklyn jail holding Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a facility so troubled, some judges have refused to send people there even as it has housed such famous inmates as music stars R. Kelly an...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Donald Trump was inaugurated for the second time on Jan. 20, 2025, former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell put his phone on “do not disturb” and left it on his nightstand to take a break from the news. That evening, after Gonell spent time with family and took his dog...

MIAMI (AP) — When deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro makes his first appearance in New York courtroom Monday to face U.S. drug charges, he will likely follow the path taken by another Latin American strongman toppled by U.S. forces: Panama’s Manuel Noriega.Maduro was captured Saturday,...

▶ Follow live updates on the United States and Venezuela WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela will pose a fresh test of his ability to hold together a restive Republican coalition during a challenging election year that could be define...

YOBE, Nigeria (AP) — A passenger boat capsized in northern Nigeria’s Yobe state, leaving at least 25 people dead while 14 others remained missing, emergency services said Sunday.The boat was carrying residents who had gone to the local market as well as some who were involved in fishing or f...

MINNA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 30 villagers have been killed and several others are missing after gunmen raided a village in northern Nigeria’s Niger state, police said Sunday, the latest in a cycle of deadly violence in the conflict-hit region.The gunmen stormed the Kasuwan-Daji village in...

BERLIN (AP) — Many households and businesses in south-west Berlin face days without electricity after high-voltage power lines were damaged by a fire which city authorities said Sunday was a result of a politically motivated attack by “left-wing extremists.”The fire broke out on Saturday mor...

Two people were killed in Ukrainian drone strikes in Russian border regions, local officials said Sunday, ahead of peace talks to end the nearly 4-year-old war in Paris this week.Belgorod regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said one person died and two others, including a young child, were woun...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh has refused to travel to India for next month’s T20 World Cup and asked the ICC to move its games “outside India” due to strained political relations between the two countries.The Bangladesh Cricket Board said in a statement on Sunday that it has decided n...

The mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti woke up on a July morning in 2024 knowing that millions of people would watch her sing in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics later that day. She had only one concern.“I needed to find a friend to play golf with,” she said. “I don’t like to sit around.”She really doesn’t.Viotti, 39, is current...

LONDON (AP) — Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua issued his first public update on Sunday following the car crash that killed two of his friends in Nigeria.Joshua posted a picture on his Instagram account of him sitting on a couch with his mother and three other women, one of w...

Francis Patrelle, a ballet teacher and choreographer who built a tightly knit community in New York around his classes at Ballet Academy East and his company, Dances Patrelle, died on Dec. 27 in Pensacola, Fla. He was 78.His death in a hospital, from complications of a fall, was confirmed by his brother, Joseph.In a career that spa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Saturday's military operation that led to the overthrow of Nicolás Maduro a great success, as he offered a vague plan for his administration to "lead" Venezuela until a transition of power can take place.Though there are no visible signs of a...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsMonday, January 5COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)8:30 p.m.Southern Cal at Michigan State — FOX Deportes, FS1, Fox Sports App, Fubo SportsCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)6:30 p.m.Minnesota at Michigan — BTN, Fox Sports App, Fubo SportsNBA BA...

Many people start the new year thinking about ways to improve their health, be more organized and manage their finances. Experts say there is one area that touches on each of those resolutions — home care.Early and routine home maintenance goes beyond fixing visible damage. It helps ensure a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy in 2025 was filled with contradictions, as growth was healthy while hiring slowed, inflation stayed elevated and unemployment rose. Last year’s odd outcomes raise a host of questions for the upcoming year: Will a growing economy eventually boost the sluggish job...

▶ Follow live updates on the United States and Venezuela President Donald Trump’s plan to take control of Venezuela’s oil industry and ask American companies to revitalize it after capturing President Nicolás Maduro in a raid isn’t likely to have a significant immediate impac...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio emphasized the importance of creating cinema over content at the Palm Springs Film Festival Friday night. “Movies are still meant to be experienced, together, in a theatre. Right now, that belief matters more than ever. Original films are harder...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood kicked off 2026 with “Avatar: Fire and Ash” atop the box office for the third straight week and with hopes for a blockbuster-filled year after a disappointing 2025.In three weeks of release, “Fire and Ash” has cleared $1 billion worldwide. The third chapter in James...

The road to the Super Bowl in the NFC goes through Seattle. The NFC South champion will be decided by the two teams that aren’t in the race for the division title.The Seahawks secured the No. 1 seed and won the NFC West with a 13-3 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday night in a...

President Trump’s team raised more than $100 million for a super PAC in the second half of 2025, with much of the money coming from wealthy people and corporations with issues before the administration.The haul by MAGA Inc., detailed in a campaign finance report filed on Thursday night, reveals how aggressive fund-raising has conti...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.The image was stunning, newsworthy — and in need of a judgment call.Hours after President Trump announced on social media Saturday morning that the United States had captured Nicolás Maduro, the leader of...

President Nicolás Maduro is finally gone from Venezuela. He was captured by U.S. forces and flown out of the country early in the morning on Saturday. President Trump has said that the United States will run the country for the foreseeable future.For Venezuelans, our situation will not be fixed by Mr. Maduro’s departure, let alone...

Two Latin American strongmen were charged in Manhattan with corrupting their governments, using state power to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States.One, the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, was abruptly pardoned by President Trump last month.The other, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela,...

At least 40 people were killed in the U.S. attack on Venezuela early Saturday, including military personnel and civilians, according to a senior Venezuelan official who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe preliminary reports.President Trump, speaking on Fox News on Saturday, said that no American troops had been killed. He...

The United States unsealed an indictment on Saturday against Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro that charges him with narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine.The four-count indictment also charges Mr. Maduro’s wife, his son, two high-ranking Venezuelan officials and an alleged leader of the Tren de Aragua group, a gang t...

Groups of armed civilians known as colectivos have long been known to support the leftist Venezuelan government — often with violence — but it was unclear on Saturday what role the paramilitaries would take to support the ousted president.In the early hours of Saturday, groups of armed men in civilian clothes had begun to appear on...

ImageDemonstrators marching toward the Trump Tower in Chicago on Saturday.Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York TimesImageCelebrating near a statue of Simón Bolivar, who helped free Venezuela from Spanish imperial rule, in Washington on Saturday.Credit...Eric Lee for The New York TimesImageCelebrating Mr. Maduro’s arrest at...

Like many Venezuelans, José, an entrepreneur based in Mexico City, voted against Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela’s election in 2024. He was dismayed when Mr. Maduro clung to power, amid accusations of widespread fraud and nationwide opposition protests. But when he awoke Saturday to the news that Mr. Maduro had been ousted in a U.S. mi...

Two nights before his capture, Nicolás Maduro was driving around Caracas, making a plea to the American public.“The American people should know that here they have a friend — a friendly, peaceful nation — and a friendly government, too,” he said, looking into the camera during a New Year’s Eve interview with a Spanish journalist, c...

It was one dance move too many for Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro.Mr. Maduro in late December rejected an ultimatum from President Trump to leave office and go into a gilded exile in Turkey, according to several Americans and Venezuelans involved in transition talks.This week he was back onstage, brushing off the latest U.S....

Here is where things stand on Saturday, January 4:Fighting The death toll from a Russian ballistic missile attack in Ukraine’s Kharkiv on Friday rose to four after it struck a five-storey residential building in the centre of the city, according to state media. The Ukrainian forces clashed 191 times with the Russian army in differe...

The US has bombed Venezuela and toppled President Nicolas Maduro, who was abducted with his wife and taken to New York.

United States President Donald Trump said that a US military assault succeeded in capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, both facing US charges related to cocaine trafficking under newly unsealed indictments.In a January 3 news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said the US would “run the country unt...

Since coming down the escalator in 2015 to announce his first presidential run, Donald Trump has presented himself as a break from the traditional hawkish foreign policy in the United States.The US president has even criticised some of his political rivals as “warmongers” and “war hawks”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of...

It was a splashy arrival. Kimberly Guilfoyle, the new United States ambassador to Greece, landed in Athens on the private jet of a multimillionaire Greek American businessman. She caused a sensation at a Thanksgiving week dinner in a partly sheer black evening dress. When she presented her diplomatic credentials to the Greek presid...

In a room in his house in London, a 52-year-old spray tan artist named James Harknett has carefully arranged more than 12,500 items connected, in one way or another, to Madonna.Along with CDs, vinyl records, store displays and magazines like Smash Hits and Record Mirror, Harknett’s collection includes an oversize rhinestone bracele...

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has been waging war for nearly four years on the western edge of his vast country to preserve what he sees as a vital part of the “Russian world,” citizens of Ukraine who speak Russian and have blood ties to Russia.More than 3,000 miles to the east, however, Russia has already lost a centuries-...

The United States’ seizure of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and President Trump’s declaration that the United States will “run the country” for now raise a host of extraordinary legal issues at the intersection of international law and presidential power.The Trump administration has not yet publicly detailed its legal reaso...

For months, a significant segment of President Trump’s political base has been complaining that he has spent far too much time on foreign policy — seeking a Ukraine deal and addressing a long list of other conflicts he claims to have settled — and too little on America’s economic anxieties.His announcement on Saturday that the Unit...

President Trump’s declaration on Saturday that the United States planned to “run” Venezuela for an unspecified period, issuing orders to its government and exploiting its vast oil reserves, plunged the United States into a risky new era in which it will seek economic and political dominance over a nation of roughly 30 million peopl...

Alejandro Marcano Santelli fled his home country in 2009 after receiving death threats because of his work for a news outlet that opposed the government of Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela who was captured by the United States and brought to New York on Saturday to face drug charges.Mr. Santelli, 57, who now lives in Miami,...

The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence has said its aircraft joined France in striking an underground facility in Syria that had likely been used by the ISIL (ISIS) group to store weapons, as the group appears to be resurgent after a period of relative dormancy in the region.“Royal Air Force aircraft have completed successful str...

Gaza City- Crammed in a tiny tent at a United Nations-run school in central Gaza City, Alaa Alzanin, along with his wife, five children, his 71-year-old mother and younger sister, are taking shelter after they lost their home in Beit Hanoon during Israel’s war. They have been displaced eight times, and this tent is where they now p...

Syria is still facing numerous challenges a year after the toppling of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Among the key priorities for the new government is rebuilding its national army and security forces.For decades, Syria’s security apparatus and the military were considered by many as a brutal force to protect the regime and crack down...

North Korea has launched multiple ballistic missiles off its east coast into the sea as South Korea’s leader begins a state visit to China in its first barrage of the new year.According to South Korea’s military, the missiles launched at about 7:50am on Sunday (22:50 GMT on Saturday) flew about 900km (560 miles).Recommended Stories...

Heavy rain and unusually high tides battered much of California on Saturday, causing flooding and mudslides that disrupted travel in some coastal areas and prompted warnings of more to come.In hard-hit Santa Barbara County, the regional airport was forced to cancel all flights and shut down when floodwaters covered the runways. The...

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Q: My friend lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in New York City. The building owner has built an “amenity space” that includes a gym and a lounge. Now all tenants are being billed $100 every month, which the owner claims is mandatory. Can the owner impose this fee on rent-stabilized tenants? What should she do?A: Rent-stabilized...

Darius Nabors was in an Uber to Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport near San Juan, Puerto Rico, to catch a flight home to Atlanta on Saturday morning when the driver told him that the United States had captured the Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro.Mr. Nabors, 40, who had spent New Year’s on the island, continued on to the airpo...

Dear Tripped Up,During a trip to Europe last summer, my husband and I woke up in the Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay, a hotel about an hour’s drive southwest of Paris, covered in what we are sure were bedbug bites. Our daughter, who was in a separate room, was fine. After checkout, we got in touch via text message with our dermatologist,...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A record number of 11 candidates in Portugal’s upcoming presidential election kicked off their campaigns on Sunday. The official two-week campaign period preceding the Jan. 18 election will see the contenders competing to capture voters’ support. However, the broad fi...

ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Missi Dowd-Figueroa brought life back to the fire-ravaged plot where her home once stood -- one sunflower at a time.The registered nurse and mother of three lost her 1898 farm-style house in the Eaton Fire, one of two deadly wildfires that tore through the Los Angeles...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — British and French warplanes carried out an airstrike in central Syria on an underground facility where members of the Islamic State group are suspected to have stored weapons and explosives, the British defense ministry said Sunday.The strikes occurred Saturday evenin...

TEL AVIV (AP) — Israel’s decision to revoke the licenses of more than three dozen humanitarian organizations this week has aid groups scrambling to grapple with what this means for their operations in Gaza and their ability to help tens of thousands of struggling Palestinians. The 37 groups...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Widening protests in Iran sparked by the Islamic Republic’s ailing economy are putting new pressure on its theocracy. Tehran is still reeling from a 12-day war launched by Israel in June that saw the United States bomb nuclear sites in Iran. Economic pressu...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro arrived in the United States to face criminal charges after being captured in an audacious nighttime military operation that President Donald Trump said would set the U.S. up to “run” the South American country and tap its va...

SYDNEY (AP) — Joe Root and Harry Brook shared a 154-run partnership to guide England to 211-3 before bad light stopped play on Day 1 of the final Ashes test, which featured an emotional on-field tribute for the Bondi terror victims and first responders. Root and Brook joined when the tourist...

HARBIN, China (AP) — Each January, an odd and beautiful thing happens in the frigid northeastern Chinese city of Harbin. Some would argue that the place, the capital of Heilongjiang province, has enough ice already. But sculptors converge on the town not far from China’s border with Russia t...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers recovered a second body Sunday in the ongoing search for a Spanish soccer coach and two of his children who went missing after a tour boat sank during their Christmas holiday.The rescue team retrieved the body floating near Padar island, about 2...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to more than 6,100 prisoners and reduced other inmates’ sentences Sunday to mark the 78th anniversary of the country’s independence from Britain.It was not immediately clear whether those released include the thousands of political...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea Sunday, its neighbors said, just hours before South Korea’s president left for China for talks expected to cover North Korea’s nuclear program.South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement it...

HONG KONG (AP) — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung arrived in China on Sunday as Beijing looks to deepen ties with the nearby country after heightened tensions between China and Japan over Taiwan, a self-ruled island it claims as its sovereign territory. Lee’s four-day trip is his first v...

DALTON, Ga. (AP) — President Donald Trump says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a traitor. But for Jackie Harling, who chairs the local Republican Party in Greene’s northwestern corner of Georgia, she’s still “mama bear.”“Every thought that we had in our minds, she seemed to be very good at ve...

NEW YORK (AP) — A newly unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictment accuses captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of running a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fueled by an extensive drug-trafficking operation that flooded the U.S. with thousands of tons of cocaine. The arrest of Ma...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched a ballistic missile into the sea on Sunday, South Korea's military said.The South Korean military said North Korea's missile launch from its east coast took place in the morning, but did not provide further details.Japan's Defense Ministry also...

LONDON (AP) — Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has reportedly flown back to Britain several days after a fatal car crash that killed two of his friends in Nigeria.Sina Ghami and Latif “Latz” Ayodele died after the vehicle they were traveling in along with Joshua struck a stat...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Notre Dame coach Micah Shrewsberry apologized Saturday, one day after charging at an official following his team’s controversial loss to Cal. He also received a public reprimand from the Atlantic Coast Conference for his actions.Shrewsberry was angry over how what bec...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — James Nnaji, a 2023 NBA draft pick making his college debut for Baylor, was booed when he entered the game at TCU and every time he touched the ball after that.The jeers were loud the couple of times the 7-foot center tried to protest a call, and Baylor coach Scott D...

The United States Coast Guard has said it has suspended its search for survivors days after the US military said it struck two more boats in the eastern Pacific amid its ongoing military campaign in waters in and around Venezuela.In a statement shared on its website on Friday, the Coast Guard said the three-day search had been focu...

United States President Donald Trump has said the US has carried out a “large-scale strike” against Venezuela and “captured” the country’s leader, President Nicolas Maduro.In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed Maduro and his wife had been “captured and flown out of the country” following the operation, which the US leader said w...

United States President Donald Trump announced on Saturday morning that his country’s forces had bombed Venezuela and captured the South American nation’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and First Lady Cilia Flores in a dramatic overnight military attack that followed months of rising tensions.Ahead of a news conference held at his Mar-...

The United States’s attack on Venezuela and the purported “capture” of President Nicolas Maduro have drawn heated reactions in Washington, DC, amid months of mounting tensions between the two countries.Democratic lawmakers have largely condemned US President Donald Trump’s actions on Saturday against the South American country and...

United States President Donald Trump has said that Washington will “run” Venezuela until a political transition can take place, hours after US forces bombed the South American country and “captured” its president, Nicolas Maduro.Speaking during a news conference on Saturday, Trump said the US would “run the country until such time...

US President Donald Trump and his allies have defended the US attacks on Venezuela and the removal of President Nicolas Maduro from power amid widespread condemnation that the actions violate international law.Trump told reporters on Saturday that Maduro was “captured” after US military strikes on the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, f...

Several countries in the Middle East and Asia have called on Israel to allow “immediate, full, and unhindered” deliveries of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as winter storms lash the bombarded Palestinian enclave.In a statement on Friday, the foreign ministers of Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turk...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Israel to reverse a pending ban on 37 nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.In a statement on Friday, Guterres called the work of the groups “indispensable to life-saving humanitarian work”, according to spokesperson Stephane D...

Iran’s United Nations ambassador Amir Saeed Iravani has written to the UN secretary-general and the president of the UN Security Council (UNSC), urging them to condemn “unlawful threats” towards Tehran from United States President Donald Trump amid ongoing protests in the country.The letter sent on Friday came hours after Trump sai...