Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry invites Yemen’s southern factions to attend a ‘dialogue’ in Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry invites Yemen’s southern factions to attend a ‘dialogue’ in Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry invites Yemen’s southern factions to attend a ‘dialogue’ in Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry invites Yemen’s southern factions to attend a ‘dialogue’ in Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry invites Yemen’s southern factions to attend a ‘dialogue’ in Riyadh.

Yemen’s separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) has welcomed an offer of dialogue from Saudi Arabia, days after Riyadh launched a series of deadly strikes against STC positions in southern Yemen.The STC said in a statement on Saturday that the Saudi Arabian initiative was a “genuine opportunity for serious dialogue” that cou...

The winter has made a life of relentless suffering worse for the people of Gaza, particularly for the wounded, children and elderly, with hundreds of thousands in the Palestinian territory displaced by Israel’s genocidal war desperately trying to survive on the scant humanitarian aid Israel is allowing in.Nine-year-old Assad al-Mad...

President Donald Trump’s claim that the United States has captured his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro and his wife amid “large scale” attacks on Venezuela, has stunned the world.Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez says the government does not know the whereabouts of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.Recommended Storie...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has insisted that “rioters must be put in their place” after a week of protests that have shaken the Islamic Republic.The first comments by 86-year-old Khamenei on Saturday come as violence surrounding the demonstrations over Iran’s ailing economy has killed at least 10 people.Recommende...

Tehran, Iran – Iranians are again experiencing internet disruptions amid ongoing protests across the country as state authorities warn against foreign sabotage and organise demonstrations.Internet users have since Thursday reported sporadic disruptions to home and mobile connections, with data from the US-based global internet infr...

The New York Times is joining an expedition by sea to Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers.

Hosted by Rachel AbramsFeaturing Cara Buckley and Catrin EinhornProduced by Alex Stern and Michael Simon JohnsonEdited by Patricia Willens and Devon TaylorContains music by Pat McCuskerEngineered by Alyssa Moxley and Chris WoodAs the U.S. government reverses course on renewable energy projects and other policies related to climate...

Just before noon on a Sunday in October, passengers settled onto the upper deck of the American Princess, a 95-foot cruising vessel that departed from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, into the Atlantic Ocean in search of whales.They did not have to wait long to find one. After rounding Breezy Point, Queens, the captain cut the engine and...

The New York Times is joining an expedition by sea to Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers.

It filled half the horizon, gorgeous and blue and impossibly huge: the first iceberg we spied on our voyage to Antarctica.New Year’s Eve was our fifth day at sea (even though the calendar date was just four days later than when we left), and we had traveled far enough south from New Zealand to expect to start seeing pieces of float...

Somaliland has rejected accusations that it agreed to host Israeli military facilities and resettle displaced Palestinians from Gaza in exchange for recognition by Israel.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday dismissed the claims as baseless, saying its engagement with Israel was “purely diplomatic” and conducted “in full res...

The Sudanese military has captured South Sudanese fighting alongside the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in battles that broke out in a central region of the country this week, according to sources in the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).The sources told Al Jazeera that the army and its allied forces cap...

Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most isolated nations, has officially legalised mining and exchanging cryptocurrency in a major shift for the country’s tightly controlled, gas-dependent economy.President Serdar Berdimuhamedov signed the legislation on Thursday, regulating virtual assets under civil law and establishing a licensing...

Islamabad, Pakistan – On December 31, the final day of 2025, India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar did what India’s men, women’s and Under-19 cricket teams had only recently refused to do.He shook hands with a Pakistani representative in public.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Huge crowds for Khaleda funeral...

A court in Pakistan has sentenced several journalists and social media commentators to life imprisonment after convicting them of inciting violence during riots in 2023 linked to the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.An anti-terrorism court judge, Tahir Abbas Sipra, announced the verdict on Friday in the capital, Islamabad...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump had long threatened that he could order military strikes on targets on Venezuelan territory after months of attacks on boats accused of carrying drugs from the South American country. President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela said the U.S. military operat...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it’s still searching for people in the eastern Pacific Ocean who had jumped off alleged drug-smuggling boats when the U.S. military attacked the vessels days earlier, diminishing the likelihood that anyone survived.Search efforts began Tuesd...

SYDNEY (AP) — Police with long-armed rifles, a rarity at sporting events in Australia, will patrol the final Ashes cricket test in Sydney starting Sunday as part of heightened security measures following the Bondi Beach terror attack in the city.Uniformed and mounted police along with public...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Saturday’s military operation that led to the ouster of Nicolás Maduro a major success as he offered a vague plan for his administration “to run” Venezuela until a transition of power can take place.While there are no visible signs of a U.S....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nicolás Maduro, who rose from unionized bus driver to Venezuelan president and oversaw his country’s democratic undoing and economic collapse, was captured Saturday during an attack by U.S. forces on his capital.U.S. President Donald Trump, in an early morning socia...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s capture of Venezuela’s president and claims that it will “run” the country are raising stark new questions about the legality of the U.S. actions and its future operations in the South American nation.The middle-of-the-night seizure of Nicolás Mad...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — In the aftermath of a fire inside a Swiss Alpine bar that killed 40 people celebrating the new year, survivors, friends and family members, the region’s top authorities and even Pope Leo have spoken to the public in remarks in French, Italian, German and Eng...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has chosen Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, as his new chief of staff, a move that comes at an especially critical moment in Russia’s nearly 4-year-old invasion.Budanov replaces Andrii Yermak, Zelenskyy’s longtim...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — National security advisers from Europe and other allies visited Kyiv on Saturday to discuss security guarantees and economic support as a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the nearly 4-year-old war in Ukraine intensifies.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, preparing to travel t...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the managers of the bar where a fire at a New Year’s party left 40 people dead, authorities said Saturday. The two are suspected of involuntary homicide, involuntary bodily harm and involuntari...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Uncertainty gripped Venezuela on Saturday as people scrambled to understand who was in charge of the South American country after a U.S. military operation captured President Nicolás Maduro.“What will happen tomorrow? What will happen in the next hour? Nobody knows,...

President Donald Trump on Saturday held an extended news conference to explain the U.S. raid on Venezuela to extract President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, at times veering off topic and repeating false claims around his initiatives.In praising the military, Trump highlighted National Guard...

In early November, a ship carrying six tons of Hokkaido scallops slipped out of a northern Japanese port, bound for China. The shipment was meant to be a milestone, a sign of warming ties between the countries after Beijing lifted a yearslong ban on Japanese seafood.But midway through the vessel’s journey, tensions flared again whe...

Explosions were reported in Venezuela’s capital of Caracas on Saturday. It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts.The explosions in the country came after months of threats, warnings and accusations of drug smuggling from President Trump and the U.S. government, all aimed at Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Ma...

At least one person has been killed in Iran in clashes between protesters and the security forces, Iran’s state-run media and activist groups said on Thursday, as the government sought to quell demonstrations fueled by financial woes.The government identified a man killed in a protest late Wednesday as a 21-year-old member of a mil...

About 325,000 Californians will be required to replace their Real IDs because of a software glitch that affected how expiration dates were applied to some of the identification cards, according to the state.The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles said that 1.5 percent of Real ID holders were affected by the error, which could rend...

Lenny Dykstra, who rose to fame in the 1980s while playing for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies, was facing charges after the police found drugs inside a vehicle the former baseball star was in on Thursday.The Pennsylvania State Police said in a report that a trooper found Mr. Dykstra, 62, in possession of narcotics and...

The harrowing news had spread across the country in the fall of 2022: Four college students were found stabbed to death at a house near the University of Idaho campus. Mel Kohberger, who was preparing to start a new job as a mental health therapist in New Jersey, could not help feeling a sense of alarm.Her brother, Bryan, was livin...

Republicans in Congress on Saturday cheered the Trump administration’s dramatic military action to capture President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, but top Democrats sounded alarms about the legality of the operation and said they would seek a quick vote to halt hostilities without express authorization.The surprise nighttime operati...

In August, a clandestine team of C.I.A. officers slipped into Venezuela with a plan to collect information on Nicolás Maduro, the country’s president, whom the Trump administration had labeled a narco-terrorist.The C.I.A. team moved about Caracas, remaining undetected for months while it was in the country. The intelligence gathere...

Asad Haider, a scholar of political theory whose 2018 book, “Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump,” critiqued identity politics from a far-left perspective, in contrast to the more familiar attacks voiced by many Republicans and commentators on Fox News, died on Dec. 4 in Toronto. He was 38.His death was caused by...

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...

A woman found dead on a Colorado hiking trail on New Year’s Day is believed to be the victim of the state’s first fatal mountain lion attack since 1999, state authorities said.Hikers found a woman’s body on a trail on Crosier Mountain in Northern Colorado, with a mountain lion nearby, according to a statement on Thursday from Color...

Two U.S. Navy service members are facing federal fraud charges after accepting thousands of dollars as payment for entering sham marriages with Chinese immigrants, according to federal prosecutors in Florida.Prosecutors accused Morgan Chambers and Jacinth Bailey, both female members of the Navy, of participating in a scheme in whic...

Hannah C. Dugan, the Wisconsin state judge who was convicted last month of obstructing federal agents attempting to arrest an undocumented immigrant, has resigned her position in a letter sent to Gov. Tony Evers on Saturday.Her resignation is expected to take effect immediately.Judge Dugan, who was first elected to the Milwaukee Co...

A federal appellate court ruled Friday that California cannot ban people from openly carrying firearms because the prohibition was an unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment.The split decision by a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said the state’s ban ran afoul of a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that r...

In a place known for courting dreams, 2025 was a year of nightmares.The first weeks brought devastating fires to Southern California, and the last delivered terrible floods.The storm that struck the Los Angeles region over Christmas caused rocky mudslides and flooded roads, though nowhere near the scale of destruction left by some...

Parts of the San Francisco Bay Area were inundated with floodwaters heightened by exceptionally high tides on Friday as yet another storm began to smack California, bringing more wind and rain to a region where a steady flow of storms since mid-December has soaked the landscape.The storm is expected to bring heavy rain and winds th...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria started the process of circulating new currency bills on Saturday as the crisis-hit nation seeks to stabilize the economy as it recovers from the fall of Bashar Assad’s government.A decree issued earlier this week by President Ahmad al-Sharaa said that “old Syria...

ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Southern separatists in Yemen said Saudi warplanes carried out new airstrikes Saturday on a military camp in the port city of Mukalla and other areas where their forces are stationed, as Saudi-backed forces moved to retake the city.There was no immediate Saudi comment. It...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader insisted Saturday that “rioters must be put in their place” after a week of protests that have shaken the Islamic Republic, likely giving security forces a green light to aggressively put down the demonstrations. The first comments by...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to achieve the “reunification” of China and Taiwan, calling Beijing’s long-held goal “unstoppable.”In a New Year’s address delivered a day after China’s military wrapped up war games around Taiwan, Xi on Wednesday invoked the “bond of blood and kinship” between Chinese people on each side of...

The United States has called on China to exercise “restraint” and avoid actions that raise tensions following a series of war games around Taiwan simulating a blockade of the island.The US Department of State said in a statement on Thursday that China’s bellicose language and military drills, which prompted sharp condemnation from...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s daughter, Ju Ae, who is widely speculated to be his potential successor, made her first public visit to the Kumsusan Mausoleum in Pyongyang alongside her parents, state media images show.Photographs released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Friday captured the family paying respects to J...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has invited South Korean President Lee Jae Myung to a state visit in Beijing, signalling China’s desire to reinforce relations with South Korea amid regional turbulence.South Korea’s national security adviser, Wi Sung-lac, told reporters on Friday that Lee will meet Xi in Beijing on Monday before travel...

Tesla has lost its place as the top global seller of electric vehicles to Chinese company BYD, capping a year defined by outrage over CEO Elon Musk’s political manoeuvring and the end of United States tax breaks for customers.The company revealed on Friday that it had sold 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, compared with BYD’s 2.26 mil...

MUMBAI, India (AP) — Shreyas Iyer was provisionally named in India’s squad on Saturday for the home one-day international series against New Zealand starting Jan. 11.India will host the Black Caps in a white-ball engagement — three ODIs and five T20s — in the build-up to the 2026 T20 World C...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump invited Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during a phone call Friday to visit the United States this year, the Japanese foreign ministry said, in what would be the ultraconservative leader’s first trip to the U.S. since taking office in October.T...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — An Air India pilot was arrested at Vancouver International Airport last week as he was preparing for a flight, with Canada’s transportation agency warning the airline that it faced loss of its flight authorizations if it did not comply with rules about alco...

BEIJING (AP) — Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheál Martin will visit China from Sunday and meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the first visit by an Irish leader in 14 years, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced Saturday. Beijing has been strengthening ties with individual members of th...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-appointed election body has begun announcing the winners of the first phase of its three-part general election, saying that the military-backed party has won the majority of seats, as widely expected.Critics of the current system say that the election is des...

More from our inbox:Goodbye, Kennedy CenterResisting DespotismImageMr. Mamdani said New York could be a proving ground for democratic socialist ideas across the country and even the world.Credit...Amir Hamja for The New York TimesTo the Editor:Re “Welcome to the Mamdani Era,” by Kim Phillips-Fein (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 1):While...

This article contains spoilers for the Crave/HBO Max series “Heated Rivalry.”“Heated Rivalry” has become a breakout hit. The hockey drama — adapted from an erotic romance novel for the Canadian streaming service Crave — just ended its first season on HBO Max and has left gay men crying at watch parties that feel more like 19th-cent...

My mother often asked me, “Am I on a ship?”“No, Mum, you’re not,” I’d assure her. “You’re high on dry land.”More and more, though, her dementia created the illusion that she was on a ship, unmoored, her illness cleaving a distance between us. I knew in time that she would fall off the edge of the horizon.It is only later, long afte...

When people find that they are having a hard time making new friends, they often blame their own awkwardness — some failure on their part. As a sociologist who studies how people connect, I’ve interviewed more than 150 people about friendship. One woman told me a typical story: She had moved to a new town after college and said tha...

This is what America has come to:A disabled widow, Melinda Price, 43, set out with her walker at 4 a.m. in hopes of getting health care not covered by her Medicaid insurance. A cancer survivor, she had lost her car to medical debt, and she could not afford an Uber. So Price hobbled for nearly two hours through darkened streets to a...

After more than 40 years of singing in opera houses around the world, I have decided to retire from the stage. My last performance will be as Maria in “Porgy and Bess” at the Metropolitan Opera on Jan. 24.Millions of Americans retire every year, and in many ways I’m just like them. Retirement has long been framed as a binary: You w...

It is far too early to have clear answers as to what will happen next in Venezuela in the wake of the Trump administration’s removal of President Nicolás Maduro to stand trial in the United States. But I have a lot of questions based on such interventions by the United States in other regions.On March 19, 2011, a NATO-led coalition...

Over the past few months, President Trump has deployed an imposing military force in the Caribbean to threaten Venezuela. Until now, the president used that force — an aircraft carrier, at least seven other warships, scores of aircraft and 15,000 U.S. troops — for illegal attacks on small boats that he claimed were ferrying drugs....

Russia has accused Ukraine of killing at least 24 people, including a child, in a drone attack on a hotel and cafe where New Year celebrations were taking place in a Russian-controlled part of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region.Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-installed governor of the region, first made the claim in a statement on Teleg...

‌Two people have died in the Netherlands in fireworks ‍accidents, and there ‍were scattered instances of violence as the country celebrated the New Year. In a separate incident, a fire largely destroyed a 19th-century church in Amsterdam.The blaze broke out in the early hours of Thursday at the Neo-Gothic Vondelkerk, a tourist attr...

Here is where things stand on Friday, January 2:Fighting Ukraine and Russia have traded allegations of attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure over the New Year, with Kyiv saying there had been another broad attack on its power supplies, and Moscow reporting a deadly strike on a hotel in territory it occupies in southern...

Investigators are rushing to identify the victims and establish the cause of a devastating fire at a New Year’s Eve party that ripped through a bar in the Swiss Alps town of Crans-Montana.Relatives and friends have been scrambling to find their loved ones, with many circulating photos on social media after the disaster that happene...

Russia finished 2025 with what Ukraine described as an information operation designed to avoid engaging in peace talks and continue its war, despite suffering staggering casualties for meagre territorial gains this year.On Monday, December 29, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Ukraine of attempting to assassinate Russi...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has named military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov as his new chief of staff as Ukraine and the United States work on a 20-point plan that could end Russia’s war.“Ukraine needs greater focus on security issues, the development of the Defence and Security Forces of Ukraine, as well as on the...

Here is where things stand on Saturday, January 3:Fighting Two people were killed, including a three-year-old child, and at least 31 people were wounded in a Russian ballistic missile attack on a five-storey residential building in the centre of Ukraine’s Kharkiv, the region’s governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram. Russia’s Mi...

Public prosecutors in Switzerland have opened a criminal investigation into the managers of the bar in Switzerland’s Crans Montana, where at least 40 people died in a fire.Two days after the fire, in which 119 people suffered injuries, including severe burns, officials were still ⁠trying to identify many of those killed. Attention...

At least seven people have died after a boat carrying more than 200 people capsized along a popular migration route off the Gambian coast, with dozens more believed to be missing, local authorities say.The boat was reported to have capsized around midnight on Thursday in the vicinity of a village in The Gambia’s North Bank region,...

Sprinkles Cupcakes, the specialty chain that started out in a private kitchen and grew to fuel a craze for cupcakes sold in bakeries and A.T.M.-like vending machines that played a song with each sale, is no more.Candace Nelson, a founder, announced that the treats were going away, saying on social media that the company’s final day...

Jayden Clark first heard about Chinese peptides at his Fourth of July party this past year.In the backyard of a San Francisco Victorian, tech workers in their 20s and 30s chatted against the backdrop of sunshine, grilled meats, and a big American flag. One artificial intelligence founder mentioned buying cheap drugs directly from C...

President Trump raised the taxes that the United States charges on imports last year to levels not seen in a century.Prices of goods have increased as a result, and businesses that depend on imported products and supplies have struggled, with some closing their doors. Still, the effects have not been felt as strongly as some expert...

Venezuela’s oil industry would “make a lot of money” with the United States behind it, President Trump said Saturday in a news conference to confirm the capture of the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, who is facing federal drugs and weapons charges.“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest any...

Andrew here. Happy New Year and welcome to 2026. This Saturday, we’ve put together a list of our biggest questions for the next 12 months. As you know, I love asking pointed questions — to help frame an issue and get to the bottom of thorny topics. There are a lot of them these days, from A.I. to the economy to politics. Below is w...

Millions of borrowers have fallen behind on their federal student loans, and the government is preparing to take aggressive steps to collect in 2026.The federal student loan system, which has been in upheaval because of lawsuits and legislation, remains in flux. In late 2023, the federal government ended a pandemic-era pause on pay...

People entering a house party might expect to see a rack overflowing with shoes by the door. Lately, people entering some start-up offices might, too.The “no shoes” trend is spreading in tech offices, with buzzy start-ups telling employees to leave their Vans and Uggs at the door. Some cover their offices with soft rugs, or offer f...

Saks Global said on Friday that its chief executive, Marc Metrick, had stepped down after the beleaguered luxury department store group missed a loan payment and as it weighed filing for bankruptcy protection.Richard Baker, the executive chairman of Saks Global, has assumed the role of chief executive, according to a company statem...

America is aging fast.By 2030, one in five Americans will be 65 or older, and by 2034 older adults will outnumber children for the first time, according to the Census Bureau. This year, the oldest baby boomers turn 80.That demographic shift is reshaping a vast share of the U.S. economy, from participation in the labor force to reti...

NEW YORK (AP) — Less than 24 hours after throngs of ecstatic supporters poured into Manhattan for his history-making inauguration, Zohran Mamdani began his first full day of work with a routine familiar to many New Yorkers: trudging to the subway from a cramped apartment. Bundled agains...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sprinkles Cupcakes, a company famous for selling sweet treats in vending machines known as “cupcake ATMs,” has shut down after 20 years of operation around the United States, according to its former owner.“Even though I sold the company over a decade ago, I still have such a...

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 77-year-old woman who went overboard on a cruise ship near Cuba on New Year’s Day.Crews searched for eight hours over 690 square miles (1,787 square kilometers) for the woman, whose name had not been made public, the Coast Guar...

DENVER (AP) — More than 100 firefighters battled a large blaze Friday evening as it tore through a three-story apartment complex under construction in southeast Denver, officials said.Firefighters were continuing to work to extinguish the blaze more than two hours after it started, said Robe...

HOUSTON (AP) — Former Uvalde, Texas, schools police Officer Adrian Gonzales was among the first officers to arrive at Robb Elementary after a gunman opened fire on students and teachers.Prosecutors allege that instead of rushing in to confront the shooter, Gonzales failed to take action to p...

A private helicopter crashed Friday in a mountainous area of Arizona, killing all four people aboard, officials said.Those killed were the 59-year-old pilot, two 21-year-old women and a 22-year-old woman, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office said in a post on the social platform X. Their names...

CORTE MADERA, Calif. (AP) — Heavy rain and high tides believed to be the most severe in two decades caused flooding in parts of Northern California on Saturday, prompting road closures and rescues of residents trapped in their cars.Roadways through a 15-mile (24-kilometer) stretch from the S...

Families who lost loved ones in the 2022 attack on an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, have sought for nearly four years to hold accountable the police who waited more than an hour to confront the shooter while children and teachers lay dead or wounded in classrooms.Now one of the first o...

ATLANTA (AP) — The owner of an auto repair shop who paid a former employee with 91,500 oily pennies has been ordered by a judge to pay nearly 4 million more cents.A federal judge ruled that Miles Walker, who owns A OK Walker Autoworks in Peachtree City, Georgia, owes $39,934 to nine workers...

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Revelers chanted “liberty” and draped Venezuelan flags over their shoulders in South Florida on Saturday to celebrate the American military attack that toppled Nicolás Maduro’s government — a stunning outcome they had longed for but left them wondering what comes next in t...

These weeknight-friendly recipes will help you eat well even when you’re short on time.

The new year is a perfect time to start an exercise habit, but it can be overwhelming to figure out where to begin.Jenny Liebl, a trainer at the International Sports Sciences Association, recommends new exercisers start by making a list of reasons they want to exercise, focusing on how they want to feel — for example, less tired in...

ImageImageVaughn Vreeland’s salted margarita bars.Credit...Johnny Miller for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Susan Spungen.In my 20s, I would meet a group of friends every year at Pete’s Tavern in Manhattan, and we’d write down our resolutions for the year. At the time it was all about quitting things cold turkey — no more Sunday...

Good morning! Today we have for you:Alexa Weibel’s five-star crispy tofu tacosOne-pot miso-turmeric salmon and coconut riceAnd, a comforting khichdi recipe for your pressure cookerImageAlexa Weibel’s crispy tofu tacos.Credit...Armando Rafael for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Brett Regot.One of the many things I love about cooki...

I recently discovered an app where women anonymously discuss men to warn one another about predators and abusers. While the intent is noble (and extremely important), anonymity allows anyone to say anything, potentially harming undeserving men who can’t defend themselves.Scrolling through, I encountered a discussion about a male fr...

A couple moved up from Asheville, N.C., to be closer to their children and grandchild. On the checklist: a newer building and fun things to do.

ImageCredit...Brian ReaFinding LightnessI stared at myself in the mirror in Tuscany, wondering, “Am I too old to experience butterflies?” My first trip post-divorce, I felt unsteady, almost nauseous. The only man I had been intimate with — 13 years my senior, whom I married at age 18 — turned out to be a stranger. I thought of our...

The picnic Joshua Levin Kipnis packed in May 2023 for his third date with Arianna Marie Lacerte didn’t come in a basket, and its provisions didn’t last the duration of what turned into eight hours of nonstop conversation.But when Ms. Lacerte folded up the blanket they shared at Hudson River Park in Manhattan that day, it was with a...

Natural light is particularly precious in New York on these shortest days of the year. It’s not easy to punch windows into city buildings made of brick and concrete, but owners with top-floor real estate and dreams of sunshine can sometimes saw through the roof.Skylights were once added to buildings to grab sunshine when electric l...

Hours after the culmination of their biggest electoral victory in recent history, the socialists of New York City were ready to party.The locale was the checkerboard-floored dance club called Paragon in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where hundreds of young New York City leftists gathered on Thursday night to celebrate the inauguration of Zoh...

BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Dozens are missing after a boat carrying more than 200 migrants on their way to Europe capsized off the coast of Gambia, the West African nation’s leader said late Friday, setting off a frantic search and rescue operation.At least 102 survivors have been rescued and sev...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyans are mourning the death of a beloved “super tusker” elephant whose long life in the wild came to symbolize the country’s increasingly successful efforts to protect the mammals from ivory poachers. The bull elephant who died on Saturday was named Craig. He lived i...

The basement bar in the Swiss Alpine resort town was crowded, but not packed, with young revelers in the first moments of 2026.Noa Bersier was playing billiards with friends. Waiters were hurrying past, he noted, and some were carrying bottles of Champagne topped with small fireworks that sent showers of sparks into the air.Then Mr...

More than two miles below the windswept steppe of western Kazakhstan, porous rocks composed of the skeletons of coral and other ancient marine life form the matrix for one of the world’s most prolific oil fields.Tengiz, as the field is known, has been producing oil for more than three decades, helping to nurture Kazakhstan, Central...

President Trump said Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and would act as a partner in letting the United States run the country.“She’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” he said.Less than two hours later, Ms. Rodríguez — who was Nicolás Maduro’s vice presi...

Venezuela’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, rejected the U.S. intervention and demanded President Nicolás Maduro’s return. Maduro and his wife were being brought to New York City to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

The last time the United States deposed a Latin American leader was in 1989, when U.S. forces captured Gen. Manuel Noriega in Panama. That episode holds some striking parallels to the capture of Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on Saturday, with some major differences.In December 1989, President George H.W. Bush sent U.S. troops into Pa...

Venezuela’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, rejected the U.S. intervention and demanded President Nicolás Maduro’s return. Maduro and his wife were being brought to New York City to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, called President Trump on Saturday to personally object to strikes the United States had conducted in Venezuela and to the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro.“I called the president and spoke with him directly to register my opposition to this act,” Mr. Mamdani said at an unrelated...

Venezuelans began lining up at supermarkets throughout the country on Saturday to stock up on supplies as they woke to the news that the United States had launched airstrikes on the capital and seized the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro.While many stores in Caracas, the capital, were closed, some that opened found dozens of people...

Venezuela’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, rejected the U.S. intervention and demanded President Nicolás Maduro’s return. Maduro and his wife were being brought to New York City to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

When news broke that the United States had captured and indicted Venezuela’s longtime authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, another name appeared alongside his that left some observers puzzled: his wife’s, Cilia Flores.Far more than a first lady, Ms. Flores is one of Venezuela’s most powerful political figures. She built extraor...

Hours after Saturday morning’s U.S. military raid on Venezuela’s capital, Nicolás Maduro and his wife landed in Newburgh, N.Y., on a Justice Department jet to face an indictment that charges them, their son and three other men with cocaine trafficking and narco-terrorism crimes.From the secretive realm of military special operation...

While he was out of office, President Trump mused about what would have happened if the United States had taken control of Venezuela.“We would have gotten all that oil,” he said in a speech at the North Carolina Republican Convention in 2023. “It would have been right next door.”On Saturday, Mr. Trump made it clear that he now inte...

Venezuelan security forces have detained several Americans in the months since Donald Trump's administration began a military and economic pressure campaign against the South American nation's government, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.Some of those detained face legitimate criminal charges, but the U.S. gove...

The Venezuelan government released at least 80 political prisoners on Thursday, including one with ties to the United States, according to human rights organizations. The release of prisoners during the holidays is a common occurrence, but this year it comes amid a broader crackdown on dissent in the country.The release of these pr...

As midnight neared and the New Year’s countdown began, the Ukrainian officer kept his eyes trained on a wall of screens with video feeds.He had multiple drones in the air, scanning for Russian forces and ready to strike.It may have been the start of a new year, but for those on the front line, the officer said in the first moments...

President Trump said on Friday that the United States would come to the aid of protesters in Iran if the government there used lethal force against them, in a sharp escalation of remarks after days of widespread demonstrations against the Iranian government.The comments came a day after reports from Iranian state media and activist...

The Venezuelan government released at least 80 political prisoners on Thursday, including one with U.S. ties, according to rights groups. The freeing of prisoners around the holidays is a regular event but comes this year amid a broader crackdown on dissent in the country.The release of the prisoners followed a similar exercise in...

The battle for who controls an oil-rich territory in southern Yemen escalated on Friday after the Yemeni government said it was sending in the armed forces to force out a rival faction there.The faction, a separatist group known as the Southern Transitional Council, has seized control of parts of Yemen from the government in recent...

Protests fueled by deepening economic hardship have swept Iran for more than a week, as soaring inflation has driven frustrated traders and university students into the streets of major cities, including the capital, Tehran.The demonstrations are the biggest in Iran since 2022, when the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police cu...

Through every twist and turn in peace negotiations, President Volodymyr Zelensky has made one thing clear: Ukraine will not lay down its arms without firm guarantees for its postwar security.The latest flurry of talks with the United States has brought the two sides closer than ever to an agreement that could satisfy Ukraine’s insi...

Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s new interim leader, arrives at the job with impeccable leftist credentials.She is the daughter of a Marxist guerrilla who won fame for kidnapping an American businessman, was educated partly in France, where she specialized in labor law and rose to meteoric heights in the government of Nicolás Maduro, w...

Venezuela’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, rejected the U.S. intervention and demanded President Nicolás Maduro’s return. Maduro and his wife were being brought to New York City to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

The two managers of a bar in the Swiss Alps where at least 40 people died in a sudden fire early New Year’s Day have been placed under criminal investigation because of allegations of negligence, the police said on Saturday, as the authorities in Switzerland come under growing pressure to explain whether flaws in the site’s design...

Sparklers shooting foot-long flames. A ceiling covered in flammable foam. A crowded basement with a narrow staircase exit that became a choke point.These are some of the avoidable hazards that fire experts, witnesses and a New York Times analysis of visual evidence suggest turned a festive bar in a Swiss Alpine resort into a death...

More than 40 countries, representing a combined population of 1.6 billion people, will hold national-level elections in 2026.These contests, including general, presidential, and parliamentary elections, will shape the governance for nearly one-fifth of the global population. The outcomes will influence domestic policies, economic s...

Mali and Burkina Faso have announced they are imposing full visa bans on United States citizens in retaliation for US President Donald Trump’s ban on US visas for their citizens this month.The two West African countries, which are both governed by the military, on Tuesday became the latest African nations to issue “tit-for-tat” vis...

Four members of the Palestine Action group, which has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the United Kingdom, are continuing with their hunger strikes in different prisons around the country.Four other Palestine Action members have ended their hunger strikes – some after being hospitalised.Recommended Stories list of 4 i...

Let’s be clear. The primary reason to be vaccinated against shingles is that two shots provide 90 percent protection against a painful, blistering disease that a third of Americans will suffer in their lifetimes, one that can cause lingering nerve pain and other nasty long-term consequences.The most important reason for older adult...

We’ve been combing through questions that you’ve emailed to antarctica@nytimes.com or posted on articles on nytimes.com and on social media. For the first round, Raymond Zhong answered questions both on video and through this written dispatch.VideoYour Antarctica Questions, Answered2:28Our reporter Raymond Zhong takes a first round...

A high-ranking official in the Interior Department is drawing scrutiny from ethics experts because she failed to disclose her family’s financial interest in the nation’s largest lithium mine that had been approved by her agency, according to state and federal records.In 2018 Frank Falen sold water from a family ranch in northern Ne...

Neanderthals, who flourished across Eurasia for hundreds of thousands of years before vanishing around 40,000 years ago, had a notable return to the scientific spotlight in 2025.More than a dozen high-profile scientific studies explored all sorts of aspects of their existence, from their love lives (they probably kissed Homo sapien...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsSunday, January 4COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)3 p.m.Robert Morris at Oakland — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo Sports4 p.m.Fairleigh Dickinson at St. Francis (PA) — NEC Front RowCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)1 p.m.Fairleigh Dickinson at St...

SPRING CITY, Pa. (AP) — Tech companies and developers looking to plunge billions of dollars into ever-bigger data centers to power artificial intelligence and cloud computing are increasingly losing fights in communities where people don’t want to live next to them, or even near them.Communi...

HAVANA (AP) — The two main groups of Cuban Santeria priests who released their Letter of the Year on Friday, as the forecasts for the coming months are called, agreed to warn of an increase in violence and the dangers of war.Both the Letter of the Year Commission of October 10 and the Yoruba...

▶ Follow our live coverage of the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro CARACAS (AP) — Hours after a military operation in which the United States ousted President Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would admini...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Right after Sunday worship at St. Paul’s-San Pablo Lutheran Church, Juan Carlos Toapanta lay in a lounge chair set up by the altar, needles sticking out of his forehead, wrist and foot for an hourlong acupuncture session.“Just like the Lord’s light helps emotionally, the b...

It turns out, love may benefit from a little less labor.Couples who spend money on time-saving services — like getting takeout, hiring a housecleaner or calling a dog walker — report greater relationship satisfaction, especially during stressful periods, says Ashley Whillans, a behavioral sc...

The U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country early Saturday has also disrupted Caribbean travel at a busy travel time for the region.No airline flights were crossing over Venezuela on Saturday, according to FlightRadar24.com. A...

The NFL’s regular season has reached its final weekend with plenty undecided in terms of the playoff picture, including the No. 1 seed in both the AFC and NFC.Here’s what to watch over the next few days:AFC playoff pictureThe Denver Broncos, New England Patriots and Jacksonville Jaguars all...

Retired professional baseball player Lenny Dykstra faces charges after Pennsylvania State Police said a trooper found drugs and paraphernalia in his possession during a traffic stop on New Year’s Day. Dykstra, 62, was a passenger when the vehicle was pulled over by a trooper with the Bloomin...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, the U.S. military had been amassing a presence off Venezuela’s coast and conspicuously blowing up alleged drug trafficking boats and killing the occupants.At the same time, U.S. intelligence agencies were carefully studying the country’s authoritarian President...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the unraveling of a $2.9 million computer chips deal that he concluded threatened U.S. security interests if the current owner, HieFo Corp., remained in control of the technology.The executive order cast a spotlight on a business dea...

Embattled Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, who was convicted of obstruction last month for helping an immigrant evade federal officers, has sent her resignation letter to the governor. The letter was sent Saturday. Republicans had been making plans to impeach her ever since her Dec. 19 convicti...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a lightning military strike, the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and spirited them out of the country to face justice in the United States.Now President Donald Trump says the U.S. is “going to run” Venezuela until a transitio...

▶ Follow live updates on the capture of Nicolás Maduro CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country, President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would run V...

André Gaines’s psychological thriller, “The Dutchman,” delves into racial and sexual politics in a way that recalls Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” — so much so that its title could have been an exhortative “Go In,” though not nearly as catchy.The film, an update of Amiri Baraka’s 1964 play, “Dutchman,” even begins with a Carl Jung quote:...

In “We Bury the Dead,” zombies stagger, groan and splatter, but they also do a lot of nothing. One cowers behind some garage shelving. Another flutters her eyelids. Here, the undead are not just bellicose menaces but also victims of circumstance.A neat little thriller, the movie takes place in the aftermath of a global calamity. An...

TheaterThe Oscar nominee Ian McKellen, mixed-reality glasses and a 47-minute show — that’s what’s drawing me to “An Ark,” a “radically intimate reimagining of live theater” from the Tony Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens. The show begins its seven-week run at the Shed at Hudson Yards on Jan. 9.The fandom convention BroadwayCo...

Worlds collide. Heroes die. The day is saved … but not without a little heartbreak. So ends “Stranger Things.”After five seasons — spread across nearly 10 years — the “Stranger Things” creators Matt and Ross Duffer concluded their enormously popular Netflix show on Wednesday much the way they began it. Although the brothers’ budget...

This week in Newly Reviewed, Will Heinrich covers Jana Euler’s delightful absurdity, Lotty Rosenfeld’s portraits of the Pinochet dictatorship and Erich Heckel’s eerie dream world.ChelseaJana EulerThrough Jan. 10. Greene Naftali, 508 West 26th Street; 212-463-7770; greenenaftaligallery.com.ImageJana Euler, “On the way to the studio,...

‘No More Time’Rent or buy it on major platforms.Death, isolation and conspiracy theories are just three of the pandemic-era horrors that drive this eerie thriller, the debut feature from the writer-director Dalila Droege.To escape city life, a couple (Jennifer Harlow and Mark Reeb) drive until they reach a mostly deserted mountain...

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.In 1904, when Pamela Colman Smith was 26, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle said of her, “There is not a page of her life, not an incident, that is not overflowing with romance.”This did not mean t...

Growing up in Salt Lake City, Angie Katsanevas didn’t exactly fit in. In a city full of blond, blue-eyed, all-American Mormons, Ms. Katsanevas was the daughter of immigrants from Crete. She was Greek Orthodox, with black hair and skin that tanned easily in the sun. She ate spanakopita instead of the pizza and hot dogs of her classm...

Like any decent soap, “The Mother and the Bear” is powered by human dramas that are contrived, silly and ultimately a little weird. But what actually happens belie what is in execution a relatively sedate story about the spoken frictions and unspoken secrets between mother and daughter, father and son.Those aforementioned twists: A...

How do you write a sequel to a hit TV show that was based on a novel whose author is now dead? This was the challenge for the creative team behind “The Night Manager,” the six-part mini-series based on a book by John le Carré.David Farr, the writer who adapted the book for television, said that in his case it started with a sort of...

It’s called bel canto for a reason.Italian for “beautiful singing,” this era of early 19th-century opera was one in which composers put the voice first, with long melodies and musical feats that continue to make watching any performance, at the highest level, no different from witnessing Simone Biles pull off a triple-double at the...

Chevy Chase is many things: an unparalleled physical comedian, a once-powerful leading man, an integral member of the original cast of “Saturday Night Live.” He is also, according to many who have worked with him, a jerk — although they often use a more colorful noun.Few in Hollywood want to collaborate with him. John Carpenter has...

Van Eyck: The PortraitsNational Gallery, LondonImage“The Arnolfini Portrait” (1434) by Jan van Eyck.Credit...The National Gallery, LondonYou probably know the famously complex image: a man with a giant black hat and a mauve, fur-lined doublet, and a woman with a bright white veil and vivid green dress, who seem to be paused mid-cer...

Stephen Schwartz, the composer of “Wicked,” said on Friday that he would no longer host a gala at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, becoming one of the most high-profile artists to criticize changes at the arts center under the Trump administration.In a statement to The New York Times, Mr. Schwartz cited his long...

Few people can tease out the absurdity of life like the early 20th-century writer Dorothy Parker.Perhaps that’s why the actress and comedian Julie Halston so identifies with her. Now the women’s wits converge in “Finding Dorothy Parker,” a revue of gems from Parker’s often wicked pen that is compiled and directed by Douglas Carter...

The television monitors, Skee-Ball machine and in-house DJ can make Cosm feel like any other sports bar when you first walk inside. But above the escalators, an 87-foot domed screen made up of magnetized LED panels lets fans watch sporting events as if they have courtside seats or are behind home plate.Immersive vantage points offe...

Josh Charles used to worry. He had played jerks, schmucks, mean preppies with popped collars. Was that how people thought of him?On the set of the 2015 movie “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp,” in which Charles sported not one but three popped collars, he remembers turning to the co-writer Michael Showalter and saying: “I...

A violinist who performed on Will Smith’s concert tour last year filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Mr. Smith and his production company this week.A lawyer for the musician, Brian King Joseph, said in the court papers that his client was fired in retaliation for reporting in March that someone had broken into his hotel ro...

NEW YORK (AP) — The top executive of the private company that owns Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus is stepping down as it struggles with debt taken on to buy a rival almost two years ago. Saks Global Enterprises said Friday that the departure of CEO Marc Metrick is effective immediately,...

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — College football Hall of Famer Urban Meyer has been appointed to the board of trustees at a small public liberal arts college that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has transformed from a progressive institute into a staging ground for the Republican governor’s war on “woke.”De...

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Holland CotterA Trio of Art World HighlightsImageA rendering of the New Museum, which is set to reopen after two years this spring.Credit...OMA/bloomimages.deAmong modern art’s great influencers, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was right up there with Picasso, though you wouldn’t know this from the paltry record of major Duchamp shows....

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