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What is removing a tree worth? Quotes vary widely, depending on size, risk and proximity to a home or vehicles. But tree care professionals say they’ve seen a sharp increase in operating costs since the pandemic.“There are guys who bid $15,000 for a tree, there are guys who bid $1,200,” said Brandon Dolan, a certified arborist and...

When Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a new state law in October mandatinglandlords supply tenants with a working stove and refrigerator starting on Jan. 1, 2026, it marked the end of a bizarre rite of passage for many moving to Los Angeles.Unlike most of the country, or even many other cities in California, Los Angeles rente...

Good morning! Today we have for you:Samin Nosrat’s spinach-and-cilantro soup with tahini and lemonSlow-roasted chicken and green beansAnd, a green smoothie (you may sense a theme here)ImageSamin Nosrat’s spinach-and-cilantro soup with tahini and lemon.Credit...Paola & Murray for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Pr...

Fashions come and go, it’s said, but style is eternal.It holds true with wine, too. Different wines fade in and out of popularity, but good ones deserve recognition regardless of the trends.I have picked 10 wine genres here that I feel have either been arbitrarily dismissed or have evaporated from consciousness. I’ve recommended a...

MIAMI (AP) — For their latest project, the Florida Panthers signed Wayne Gretzky, Martina Navratilova, Michael Bublé, Dustin Johnson and the Miami Heat.And they were armed with paintbrushes, not hockey sticks.The Panthers — a few hours before their Winter Classic outdoor game at the Miami Ma...

Minnesota officials have until next week to provide the Trump administration with information about providers and parents who receive federal child care funds or risk losing potentially millions of dollars in federal funding, state officials said Friday. In an email sent Friday to child care...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A woman died Thursday as a result of injuries sustained in last weekend’s derailment of a passenger train in southern Mexico, increasing the accident’s death toll to 14, authorities said.Mexico’s Navy, which operates the train, said via the social platform X that the 73-ye...

A snowy playground for the conspicuously wealthy and a co-host of the 2026 Winter Olympics, this tiny Dolomite town is ready for its close-up.

MoveliMoveliMoveliMoveliMoveliMoveliMoveliMoveliMoveliMoveliMoveliMoveliMoveliMoveliPoplar | $2 million (£1.5 million)A two-bedroom loft in a converted warehouse in a maritime districtThis loft with a two-bedroom mezzanine level is on the fourth floor of a converted warehouse in Poplar, a neighborhood in East London.The 19th-centur...

When the Mississippi Legislature reconvenes in the Capitol’s marbled halls this month, one voice will scarcely be heard: constituents’. Citizens and advocates are occasionally invited by lawmakers to speak at the Capitol. But unlike some other statehouses in the U.S., there are no formal opp...

Marie Hélène Sagaspe never met her father, Jean Iribarne. He died in 1945, two months after she was born and a year after he had been arrested for guiding Jews fleeing the Nazis across the French border into Spain.Iribarne lived in Camou-Cihigue, a small village of 100 people in France that was mainly home to sheep farmers. When th...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan experienced its deadliest year in over a decade in 2025 as combat-related deaths surged 74%, with militants accounting for more than half the death toll, according to a new report released by an independent think tank. Islamabad often accuses Kabul of turning a blin...

Before she stopped drinking alcohol eight years ago, Cecily Mak drank daily to “soften the edges of life.” She couldn’t socialize without a “boozy assist.”Mak, the author of “Undimmed,” an upcoming book about rethinking alcohol use, told me that many of her thoughts could be taken up by the logistics of drinking: Should I drink ton...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a New Year’s Eve proclamation delaying increased tariffs on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets and vanities for a year, citing ongoing trade talks.Trump’s order signed Wednesday keeps in place a 25% tariff he imposed in September on those...

Starting this year, Californians will pay a new fee every time they buy a product with a non-removable battery – whether it’s a power tool, a PlayStation, or even a singing greeting card.The 1.5% surcharge, capped at $15, expands a recycling program that’s been quietly collecting old compute...

My grandchildren are in or nearing their teenage years. Two are from my son and his wife, and two are from my daughter and her husband. Of course, all children love and, to some extent, expect birthday and Christmas gifts. My daughter-in-law and her children continue a tradition of giving me handmade greeting cards every Christmas....

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The first place in the world to legalize voluntary euthanasia 31 years ago could this year become the last part of Australia to secure the same legal reform as the Northern Territory government on Friday announced plans to legislate for doctor-assisted dying for a...

Janet Fish, a painter who wielded the humble still life as a rebellion against Abstract Expressionism, transforming jars of pickles, bottles of vodka and bowls of fruit into vessels of dazzling light and unassuming beauty, died on Dec. 11 at her home in Wells, Vt. She was 87.Her husband, the self-portraitist Charles Parness, said t...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The season’s first heavy rains and snowfall ended a prolonged dry spell but triggered flash floods in several areas of Afghanistan, killing at least 17 people and injuring 11 others, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s national disaster management authority said Thursday....

President Trump takes a high daily dose of aspirin, and has done so for over two decades, rejecting medical guidelines and advice from his doctors to switch to a lower amount.“They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Mr. Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an int...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela is open to negotiating an agreement with the United States to combat drug trafficking, the South American country’s President Nicolás Maduro said in a pretaped interview aired Thursday on state television, but he declined to comment on a CIA-led strike las...

I was blown away last summer by an exhibition of Gabriele Münter’s paintings at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. Here was an artist, born in Berlin in 1877, who channeled the lessons of 20th-century expressionism — including the bold colors of Fauvism — while still going strong into the mid-20th century, long after those explosive...

Veteran Australia batter Usman Khawaja has announced he will retire from international cricket after the fifth Ashes test beginning Sunday at the Sydney Cricket Ground. He didn’t go quietly.The Pakistan-born Khawaja, who was the first Muslim to play for Australia, used his retirement announc...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A multi-story building under construction in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, collapsed Friday, leaving at least four people believed trapped.Rescue workers are digging through the rubble. The building was in an area of Nairobi known as South C, according to the Kenya Red C...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — More than 300,000 inactive university students have been removed from the rolls in Greece, cutting the country’s official student population by nearly half, authorities said Friday.The move marks the end of a decadeslong practice — formally abolished in recent legislati...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — British boxer Anthony Joshua is initially staying in Nigeria as he recuperates from injuries sustained after a deadly crash.A vehicle carrying the former heavyweight champion and two of his associates crashed into a stationary truck on Monday on a major thoroughfare, th...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left a hospital in capital Brasilia on Thursday, a week after he underwent a double hernia surgery. A car took the embattled ex-leader back to the federal police headquarters where he is serving his 27-year prison sentence for...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The FBI said Friday it disrupted a New Year’s Eve attack plot targeting a grocery store and fast-food restaurant in North Carolina, arresting an 18-year-old man who authorities say pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group. Christian Sturdivant was charged with a...

ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s transport ministry, which is aligned with Emirati-backed southern separatist authorities, on Thursday said Saudi Arabia has imposed requirements mandating that flights to and from Aden International Airport undergo inspection in Jeddah.The ministry, which is affili...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A court in Pakistan’s capital sentenced seven people, including three journalists, two YouTubers and two retired army officers, to life imprisonment on Friday, after convicting them of inciting violence during riots in 2023 and spreading hatred against state institutions.An...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Widening demonstrations sparked by Iran’s ailing economy spread Thursday into the Islamic Republic’s rural provinces, with at least seven people being killed in the first fatalities reported among security forces and protesters, authorities said. The...

ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Yemen ‘s separatist movement on Friday announced a constitution for an independent nation in the south and demanded other factions in the war-torn country accept the move in an escalation of a confrontation that has pitted Gulf powerhouses Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. said Thursday that a Palestinian boy in the Gaza Strip drowned in floods that engulfed his tent camp, with videos showing rescuers trying to pry his body out of muddy waters by pulling him by the ankle. It was the latest sign of the miseries that winter is inflictin...

DIMONA, Israel (AP) — During the two years he was held captive in Gaza, Segev Kalfon had a recurring dream: slowly walking through a supermarket, browsing each aisle for his favorite foods, taking in the brightly colored packages and smells. Since being released on Oct. 13, his dreams have f...

Developers of five offshore wind farms that were ordered last week by the Trump administration to halt construction are suing to restart work on at least three of the projects.The Interior Department on Dec. 22 ordered companies to halt work on five wind farms in various stages of construction along the East Coast. They were: Sunri...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsFriday, January 2COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)7 p.m.Robert Morris at Detroit Mercy — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsLe Moyne at St. Francis (PA) — NEC Front RowCOLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S)6 p.m.St. Francis (PA) at Le Moyne — NEC F...

(All times Central)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsSaturday, January 3COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S)12 p.m.Clemson at Pittsburgh — CW, KUNS-TV, MyTV, Peachtree TV, Fubo SportsUTSA at Temple — ESPN app, ESPN Select, Fubo SportsVillanova at Butler — TNT, truTV, HBO Max, Sling TV, TNT WEBVCU at Duquesne — USA2 p.m.La Salle at...

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most isolated nations, officially legalized mining and exchanging cryptocurrency on Thursday in a major shift for the country’s tightly controlled, gas-dependent economy.Signed by President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, the legislation...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As residents across much of the country take down their holiday decorations, sobered by New Year’s resolutions and a return to business as usual, in Louisiana people are ramping up for the biggest celebration of the year. Throughout the state residents are preparing f...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A strong earthquake rattled southern and central Mexico on Friday, interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum ’s first press briefing of the new year as seismic alarms sounded and leaving at least two people dead.The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5 and its epicenter was ne...

Tesla has lost its status as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles after Congress and President Trump eliminated the federal tax credits that had encouraged Americans to buy those cars.The company’s car sales declined 16 percent in the last three months of 2025, Tesla said on Friday. And its sales for the full year declin...

NEW YORK (AP) — They’re going to light up 2026 like dynamite: K-pop group BTS’ comeback has an official date.According to a note shared to social media by the entertainment company BigHit Music, the mega popular group will return on March 20. That’s after a nearly four-year hiatus, as all se...

In an email interview, she revealed that magical realism is new to her reading diet, and expressed fondness for the March sisters — especially Beth. SCOTT HELLERWhat books are on your night stand?At present, “Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted,” by Ben Okri, and “Murdle,” by G.T. Karber.Describe your ideal readi...

Every week, the critics and editors at the New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from literary fiction and serious nonfiction to thrillers, romance novels, mysteries and everything in between.You can save the books you’re most excited to read on a personal reading list, and find even more re...

AMERICAN REICH: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate, by Eric LichtblauWriting a book of investigative nonfiction is a leap of faith for the writer and publisher. Conservatively calculated, a minimum of several years is demanded of such a project, as it often requires numerous interviews, sifting through coun...

Richard Pollak, the founding editor of More magazine, an irreverent monthly journalism review that during the 1970s critiqued the media’s coverage of contentious subjects like the Vietnam War, President Richard M. Nixon and the oil industry, died on Dec. 27 in Stockholm. He was 91.Mr. Pollak’s wife, Diane Walsh, confirmed his death...

CALAMITY BEFORE JANE, by Noah Van SciverThe biggest challenge of writing about the legendary frontier figures of the American West is separating myth from reality. Falsehoods and exaggerations must be carefully unwrapped and taken apart so that the true (and invariably better) stories can be told. That is precisely what the award-w...

On New Year’s Day, Bulgaria will achieve its decades-old goal of joining the euro currency union and deepening ties with the more prosperous countries of Western Europe. Membership is expected to promote cross-border trade and investment, and the Bulgarian government pressed for years to get...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday appointed the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence as his new chief of staff, a move that comes as the U.S. leads a diplomatic push to end Russia’s nearly 4-year-old invasion.Announcing the appointment of Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, Ze...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarians began withdrawing euros for the first time on Thursday after the former communist nation joined the euro currency union as its 21st member. Cash machines in the capital, Sofia, dispensed brand new euro banknotes, replacing the lev, which will still be in use...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss investigators believe sparklers on Champagne bottles started a fire in a bar at an Alpine ski resort that left 40 people dead and another 119 injured during a New Year’s celebration. Most injuries, many of them serious, occurred when the...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia on Friday began enforcing its newly ratified penal code, replacing a Dutch-era criminal law that had governed the country for more than 80 years and marking a major shift in its legal landscape.Since proclaiming independence in 1945, the Southeast Asian co...

HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish authorities have arrested two members of a cargo ship’s crew in connection with damage to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland that occurred earlier this week between the capitals of Finland and Estonia, police said Thursday.The damage was disco...

A fire at a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana in the early hours of New Year’s Day has left about 40 people dead and over 100 injured, according to authorities. Here is a look at some other nightclub, bar and music venue fires that have led to significant death tolls:— December 20...

SION, Switzerland (AP) — The hospital that initially took in the majority of injured victims from a fire at a Swiss bar is no stranger to emergencies: In the heart of the Alps, it is used to treating winter sports enthusiasts who have accidents on the slopes.But the flood of young and severe...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Investigators said Friday they believe sparklers burning on champagne bottles caused the fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort when they got too close to the roof of a bar packed with people celebrating New Year's Eve.Authorities plan to investigate whether the c...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The driver in a deadly car crash that injured heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed his two friends in Nigeria was charged, the police said on Friday.Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, was charged with dangerous and reckless driving in southwestern Ogun state followi...

A solo hiker who authorities believe was killed by a mountain lion on a remote Colorado trail on New Year’s Day was not the first person to encounter one of the predators in the area in recent weeks.Gary Messina said he was running along the same trail on a dark November morning when his hea...

If the architects of the artificial intelligence boom are right, it is only a matter of time before data centers — the giant computing facilities that power A.I. — will float in orbit and be visible in the night sky like planets.The science-fiction-like dream is being driven by A.I. and space industry leaders who are growing increa...

The global economy faced many hurdles in 2025. The U.S. government upended longstanding economic wisdom in a manner many economists feared would harm both the American economy and those of other countries. International institutions were sidelined, tariffs levied, the independence of the Federal Reserve questioned — all while debt...

“I try not to write dystopia,” the playwright Jordan Harrison said. “Because it’s boring. I like to sit in an ambivalent place.”This was on a recent Monday, Harrison’s day off, and he was sitting in an airy and uncrowded Brooklyn cafe. A lunchtime utopia, it was also a teasingly analog place to discuss Harrison’s recent work, sweet...

How does a machine learn to read the world? The data used to train artificial intelligence models includes manual processing, an endeavor that uses an immense amount of tedious human labor. It tends to be outsourced to developing countries where the work force is cheaper to hire.My short film above, “Their Eyes,” spotlights the inv...

Hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey NewtonProduced by Whitney Jones and Rachel CohnEdited by Jen PoyantEngineered by Alyssa MoxleyOriginal music by Dan PowellMarion Lozano and Rowan NiemistoHappy New Year! We’re kicking things off by sharing our tech resolutions for 2026 and reflecting on how we fared with our social media and meditati...

ImageImageThe S&P 500’s bull market rally has entered a fourth year, with Wall Street expecting more big gains in 2026.Credit...Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesAndrew here. Happy New Year. We hope you had a great week. We’re looking forward to a year filled with lots of news — and we’ll also be marking DealBook’s 25th anniversary this fa...

Technological change can be unsettling. Industrialization brought a moral panic. Telegraphs, radio, telephones and TV were hard to swallow. The internet has been polarizing, too. But artificial intelligence has brought a whole new level of fear and loathing.It’s easy to have an opinion when the tech is everywhere. Chatbots are in k...

Three days after Qiu Sijun, a retired bricklayer in eastern China, went for a routine diabetes checkup, he received a call from a doctor he hadn’t met before. The doctor, the head of the hospital’s pancreatic department, wanted him to come in for a follow-up.“I knew it couldn’t be anything good,” Mr. Qiu, 57, recalled.He was partly...

In early November, Microsoft said it would supply artificial intelligence tools and training to more than 200,000 students and educators in the United Arab Emirates.Days later, a financial services company in Kazakhstan announced an agreement with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu, a service for schools and universities, for 165,000 ed...

For decades, Jeff Galloway’s heart was at growing risk of giving out, but neither he nor his doctors knew it.A former Olympic distance runner, Mr. Galloway seemed to be a model of good health. He ate meticulously and logged about a marathon a month from his 60s into his mid-70s. In the early 1980s, he pioneered the run-walk-run met...

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine and the United States are 90 percent of the way toward an agreement to end the war with Russia. Within the 10 percent still in dispute is who will control Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.The plant, in the Zaporizhzhia region of southern Ukraine, has been under Russian military...

The United Kingdom’s role in the Iraq war has come under the spotlight once again, as newly released UK government files appear to suggest that former Prime Minister Tony Blair pressured officials to ensure British soldiers accused of mistreating Iraqi civilians during the war would not be tried in civil courts.Documents released o...

These were the developments in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon on Friday, January 2, 2026.

These were the developments in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon on Friday, January 2, 2026.

For years, the story that I built around my childhood and my parents’ lives was like a fairy tale, almost cinematic in scope. I grew up in Europe in the ’60s and ’70s. My parents — American teachers overseas — were beautiful, hilarious, smart and affectionate with their children and each other. My mother was a painter; my father, a...

A blaze killed about 40 people and injured more than 100 others in a bar at a ski resort as partygoers celebrated the arrival of the new year in the early hours of Thursday morning, Swiss police say.On Friday, Swiss officials said the fire had likely been started accidentally by fireworks or sparklers.Here is what we know so far.Wh...

A deconsecrated Amsterdam church built roughly 150 years ago was engulfed in flames in the early hours of New Year’s Day, prompting widespread evacuations and causing extensive damage to the cultural monument. There were no initial reports of casualties.The fire at the Vondelkerk broke out at around 12:45 a.m., according to the loc...

The leader of a coup in the West African nation of Guinea won a landslide victory in a presidential election meant to legitimize his rule, according to results on Wednesday. The vote took place more than four years after he seized power and tightened his grip on the country.The winner, Gen. Mamady Doumbouya, who barred his main cha...

Initial investigations suggest that sparklers attached to champagne bottles may have ignited the devastating fire that ripped through a Swiss ski resort bar on New Year’s Eve, killing more than three dozen people, the local prosecutor says.“Everything suggests that the fire started from the burning candles or ‘Bengal lights’ that h...

The Virginia man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Capitol on the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot was ordered to remain in jail until his trial, after a federal magistrate judge found there were “substantial red flags” that his release from custody could endanger the community.In a 19-page ruling, the magistrate jud...

As Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, rose to power a decade ago, officials and pundits in Washington sometimes compared him to the de facto ruler of the neighboring United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed.Both royals presented themselves as authoritarian reformers. In 2015, they teamed up in Yemen, launching...

On the day she transplanted the heart of a 6-month-old infant, Dr. Maureen McKiernan awoke, as always, to a 4:30 alarm.In the dim light of her apartment, she moved through her morning routine: a spin on her rowing machine, some mat Pilates, a hot shower, the usual breakfast of yogurt and granola. It was a practical meal — one she c...

Despite a government shutdown and months of political fighting over health care, Congress failed to reach a deal last year to extend enhanced subsidies for health insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. As a result, more than 20 million Americans are seeing higher premiums this year.Health care economists worry that the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal magistrate judge on Friday refused to order the pretrial release of a man charged with planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national parties on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew S...

When Vermont Gov. Phil Scott announced that state workers would need to return to offices at least three days per week starting Dec. 1, the state employees’ union warned the initiative could cause a mass exodus of top staff.So far, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Comparing mid-September...

Nonpartisans became the largest voting bloc in Nevada in 2023, and the gap has only widened since. And across the past year, a new factor appears to be accelerating the surge: changes in the party registration process.Under the automatic voter registration program that took effect in 2020, v...

The ocean gods have been smiling on our Antarctic expedition. The weather so far has been clear, the swells modest. Some people on the ship have felt seasick, but never for very long.Because of how smooth the sailing has been, the roughly 40 scientists on the South Korean icebreaker Araon have been able to prepare for their field w...

Tools that power artificial intelligence devour energy. But attempts to shield regular Californians from footing the bill in 2025 ended with a law requiring regulators to write a report about the issue by 2027.If that sounds pretty watered down, it is. Efforts to regulate the energy usage of...

Renee Rubin Ross is facing the stark reality of having to pay much more for her health insurance this year, now that Congress has ended 2025 without extending the enhanced federal tax credits that brought down the cost of her coverage under the Affordable Care Act.“I don’t even know how to get my mind around it. It’s the opposite o...

Leaders from four groups recognized as Abenaki by Vermont’s state government have created a new school curriculum about their communities’ history — but the material includes few references, they said, to two Abenaki nations centered in Quebec.The distinction is notable because leaders of th...

WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — A yellow Labrador out for a walk with his owner in Rhode Island had to be rescued by firefighters on New Year’s Day after he wandered onto a thin layer of ice covering a pond and fell through the center. According to the Misquamicut Fire Department, volunteer firefighte...

Texas Southern University has “significant” financial weaknesses, the result of whole departments bypassing established purchase guardrails and the university failing to enforce established contract and accounting procedures, a state audit released this week reveals.Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on W...

About 15,000 adult immigrants in Minnesota lost access to their state-funded health care on Jan. 1.In 2023, the Minnesota Legislature — which then had a Democratic-Farmer-Labor trifecta — passed a bill that granted immigrants who entered the country illegally access to MinnesotaCare, a healt...

Protests about the soaring cost of living in Iran have entered their sixth day after the rial plunged to a record low against the United States dollar in late December.After a number of deaths as a result of clashes between protesters and security services, the government of President Masoud Pezeshkian appealed for unity and blamed...

In 2000, a landmark study claimed to set the record straight on glyphosate, a contentious weedkiller used on hundreds of millions of acres of farmland. The paper found that the chemical, the active ingredient in Roundup, wasn’t a human health risk despite evidence of a cancer link.Last month, the study was retracted by the scientif...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge in Kentucky has dismissed Louisville’s proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over police reforms after the department withdrew its support of the plan earlier this year.The Justice Department announced in May it was canceling proposed...

NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s to a lifetime of pink skies: The irreverent country singer Zach Bryan is married.Bryan, 29, confirmed the news in an Instagram post shared Thursday. Beneath a photo of him holding his bride, Samantha Leonard, 28, he wrote the caption, “tougher than the rest,” a referen...

New York State will phase out the catch of horseshoe crabs in its waters for bait and biomedical use over the next four years, beginning in 2026.Although supporters of the Horseshoe Crab Protection Act had urged an immediate ban, Gov. Kathy Hochul obtained the agreement of legislative leaders to reduce the catch by increments, lead...

If you live in the United States, chances are you’re familiar with the game rock-paper-scissors. You put out your hand in one of three gestures: clenching it in a fist (rock), holding it out flat (paper) or holding up two fingers in a “V” (scissors). Rock beats scissors, scissors beat paper and paper beats rock.Americans by no mean...

Lost Science is an ongoing series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. The conversations have been edited for clarity and length. Here’s why we’re doing this.Interview by Carl ZimmerBrenna Henn: In my lab, we’re interested in characterizing human diversity, especial...

In northern Norway, scientists detected a disease-causing virus in humpback whales by flying drones over them. It is the first time the virus, known as cetacean morbillivirus, has been identified in Arctic waters.Using drones to collect samples from whale blow, scientists tested for four different viruses. The findings, published i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is facing a new legal complaint from a group of government employees who are affected by a new policy going into effect Thursday that eliminates coverage for gender-affirming care in federal health insurance programs.The complaint, filed Thursday on...

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A grandmother and her 5-year-old grandson burned to death in Gaza when their tent caught fire while cooking, as thousands of Palestinians endure colder weather in makeshift housing.The nylon tent in Yarmouk caught fire Thursday night while a meal was being pr...

NEW YORK (AP) — Enhanced tax credits that have helped reduce the cost of health insurance for the vast majority of Affordable Care Act enrollees expired overnight, cementing higher health costs for millions of Americans at the start of the new year.Democrats forced a 43-day government shutdo...

KIAMBU, Kenya (AP) — Safari Martins leads his client Ian Njenga into a sparse shack on the rural roadside in Kiambu, at the edge of metropolitan Nairobi. On the shack’s wooden walls hang a shovel, iron, agricultural shears and a wrench, but Njenga is not there to buy equipment. He’s there to...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family waved to a crowd of flag-waving New Year’s well-wishers gathered at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Friday.Standing with his wife Masako and the rest of the royal family, he wished a happy new year to people lined up below the palace balco...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged threats Friday as growing economic protests spread through parts of the Islamic Republic, further raising tension between Washington and Tehran since the Pentagon bombed Iran's nuclear faciliti...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An earthquake strongly shook southern and central Mexico on Friday, interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum's first press conference of the new year and shaking the Pacific coast of Guerrero. No serious damage or casualties were reported at this time. The earthquake had a...

The massive tax and spending cut bill that Congress passed Thursday ends federal tax incentives for electric vehicles. Buyers have until Sept. 30 to qualify for the federal tax credits on EVs before they are terminated. But experts say there are still strong financial reasons to consider buy...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks wavered on Wall Street Friday to kick off the new year as early gains led by technology stocks failed to hold up.The S&P 500 rose 0.2% after shifting between small gains and losses throughout the morning. The benchmark index is coming off a gain of more than 16% in 202...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics, expiring U.S. tax breaks for buyers and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row.Tesla said that it deliv...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fifteen years ago, rising theater director Alex Timbers achieved a remarkable feat: Still only in his early 30s, he had two shows running simultaneously on Broadway. As 2026 dawns, Timbers has now eclipsed that mark — he has four.Timbers’ latest, “All Out: Comedy About Ambiti...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny has redefined what it means to be a global giant — and he may once again make history at the 2026 Grammy Awards.The artist born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio is up for six awards at the Feb. 1 show, becoming the first Spanish-language art...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Fernando Mendoza literally jumped for joy when the Heisman Trophy winner learned he was not the offensive MVP of Indiana’s dominant victory over Alabama in the Rose Bowl.The quarterback and his teammates ran across the celebration stage to mob 311-pound center Pat Coo...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — When Indiana met Oregon in October, the game served as the best test yet of whether the Hoosiers were a one-year wonder or a program that was here to stay. They met that challenge with a double-digit win that snapped Oregon’s 18-game home winning streak. Next week...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — New LSU football coach Lane Kiffin attended the No. 5 Tigers’ women’s basketball game on Thursday night as his former team — Mississippi — was taking on Georgia in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal game at the Sugar Bowl.Kiffin and women’s basketball coach Kim M...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has spent much of his two-week vacation in Florida golfing. But when he gets back to the White House, there’s a military golf course that he’s never played that he’s eyeing for a major construction project.Long a favored getaway for preside...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump defended his energy and health in an interview with The Wall Street Journal and disclosed that he had a CT scan, not an MRI scan, during an October examination about which he and the White House delayed offering details.Trump, in the interview publish...

Rain poured down on the iconic Rose Parade on Thursday for the first time in 20 years, as flood warnings and evacuation orders in Southern California joined snow squalls and frigid temperatures in the country’s midsection to mark the first day of 2026.Marching bands, floats and throngs of sp...

NEW YORK (AP) — Incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani took his midnight oath of office on a centuries-old Quran, marking the first time a mayor of New York City uses Islam’s holy text to be sworn in and underscoring a series of historic firsts for the city.The 34-year-old Democrat became mayor in a...

A woman was killed in a suspected mountain lion attack while she was hiking alone in the mountains of northern Colorado on Thursday, in what would be the first fatal attack by one of the predators in the state in more than 25 years, authorities said.Wildlife officers later in the day located...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made her first known visit to a sacred family mausoleum, a step that experts say bolstered her status as her father’s potential heir.The visit, which occurred on New Year’s Day on Thursday, even sparked specula...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited a fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort when they came too close to the ceiling of a bar crowded with New Year’s Eve revelers.Authorities planned to look into whether sou...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged dueling threats Friday as widening protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries after America bombed Iranian nuclear sites in June.At l...

The cause of the fire that left dozens dead at a bar in Switzerland in the early hours of Thursday is still under investigation. But the Swiss authorities have said that it’s likely that the explosion reported from the site was caused by a flashover.A flashover is a common and deadly phenomenon in which a fire in an enclosed space...

Emanuele Galeppini, a young Italian golfer, was one of the first victims identified in the fire. On Thursday, the Italian Golf Federation confirmed in a statement that Mr. Galeppini had died, describing him as “a young athlete who embodied passion and authentic values.”“Emanuele, you will forever remain in our hearts,” the Federati...

Nestled in the central streets of Crans-Montana, Switzerland — a high-end resort town popular with wealthy tourists — Le Constellation was known as a more casual nightspot.A big venue with live music and billiard tables, it served hot chocolate and other drinks at more affordable prices than the village’s upmarket nightspots. Unlik...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Friday appointed Kyrylo Budanov, the head of the country’s military intelligence agency, as his new chief of staff, filling a weekslong vacancy left by the resignation of Mr. Zelensky’s right-hand man over a corruption scandal.The departure in November of the top aide, Andriy Yermak, who h...

As Switzerland entered a period of national mourning on Friday, the authorities faced the grim task of identifying victims of a deadly fire on New Year’s Day, a painstaking process that the police have said could take days or even weeks.Dr. Robert Larribau, who oversees emergency medical services at a hospital in Geneva, said in an...

When Noa Bersier arrived with several friends at Le Constellation shortly after midnight on Thursday, he found the bar crowded, though not packed, with young people celebrating the new year.In the basement, people were dancing to pop music. Mr. Bersier, a marketing coordinator for a Swiss hockey team, played billiards with friends....

An official said the sparklers were attached to bottles of champagne held too close to the ceiling. Forty people died and more than 100 were injured. Many of the victims were teenagers.

Nestor Fischer left Le Constellation bar before midnight on Wednesday night, finding it too quiet for a New Year’s celebration. It was a decision that saved his life.When Mr. Fischer, 17, rejoined the line outside the bar’s veranda, roughly 90 minutes later, he hoped to find it a little livelier. Instead, he heard the sound of scre...

The oil tanker evading U.S. forces is broadcasting its location after more than two weeks of sailing dark, revealing that it is heading northeast in the North Atlantic Ocean.The ship that had been known as Bella 1, which is still being tracked by the U.S. Coast Guard, is on a course that could take it between Iceland and Britain, a...

Heavy rains and snowfall in Afghanistan have ended a prolonged dry spell but triggered flash floods in several areas, killing at least 17 people and injuring 11 others, according to authorities.The dead included five members of a family in a property where the roof collapsed on Thursday in Kabkan, a district in the Herat province,...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened 2026 on Thursday with a plea for peace, singling out in particular countries “bloodied by conflict” and families wounded by violence.Leo celebrated a New Year’s Day Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica and then delivered a special noontime prayer from his studio overl...

Respondents to an annual Michigan college survey of overused and misused words and phrases say " 6-7 ” is “cooked” and should come to a massive full-stop heading into the new year.Those are among the top 10 words on the 50th annual “Banished Words List,” released Thursday by Lake Superior St...

NEW YORK (AP) — Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City on Thursday, taking over one of the most unrelenting jobs in American politics with a promise to transform government on behalf of the city’s striving, struggling working class.Mamdani, a Democrat, was sworn in at a decommissioned...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te on Thursday vowed to defend the self-ruled island’s sovereignty in the face of China’s “expansionist ambitions,” days after Beijing wrapped up live-fire military drills near its shores.“In the face of China’s rising expansionist ambition...

While schools, government and banks are closed on New Year’s Day, most major retailers across the U.S. will be open, with many offering discounts on older inventory to clear the way for newer products.But before you run out the door on New Year’s Day to peruse deals, it’s wise to double-chec...

NEW YORK (AP) — Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City on Thursday, entering one of the most unforgiving jobs in American politics as one of the country's most watched figures.The Democrat protested at a decommissioned subway station beneath City Hall just after midnight, placing his h...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — A fire broke out during a New Year's party at a bar at a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight Thursday; Authorities report that around 40 people died and another 115 were injured, most seriously.Authorities did not immediately have an exact...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Keionte Scott peeked over at the Miami sideline to see the reaction of his teammates as he sprinted 72 yards untouched for a touchdown returning an interception against defending national champion Ohio State.They certainly were excited, as were a Pro Football Hall of...

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a bar’s New Year celebration in a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight Thursday, police said.Authorities did not immediately have an ex...

HOLBROOK, Ariz. (AP) — A prominent California farmer has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the shooting death of his estranged wife at her home in an eastern Arizona mountain community.Michael Abatti, 63, made his first appearance Wednesday in Navajo County Superior Court after being...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a misconduct case against the state’s attorney general after he defied court orders in a dispute over a law that gave the governor more power over the judiciary.A court-appointed panel last year found that Republican Attor...

The Countess Jacqueline de Ribes, the Parisian grande dame, tastemaker, fashion designer and much-photographed emblem of a rapidly fading culture, died on Tuesday in Switzerland. She was 96.Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by Françoise Dumas, a friend and events organizer for Ms. de Ribes, who lived primarily in Paris and n...

Among the top 100 movies at the domestic box office, just nine Hollywood films had female directors at the helm, according to a new study that found the number of female filmmakers on that list had dropped significantly from the previous year.With 102 men occupying directors’ chairs for the other films on the list, the report, issu...

Every month, Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of January’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.)‘Run Away’Starts streaming: Jan. 1The...

HONOLULU (AP) — A federal appeals court ruling on New Year’s Eve blocked Hawaii from enforcing a climate change tourist tax on cruise ships passengers, a levy that was set to go into effect at the start of 2026. Cruise Lines International Association challenged the tax in a lawsuit, arguing...

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Mohammad Bakri, an acclaimed Palestinian actor and director whose harrowing documentary about a 2002 battle between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants was banned by the Israeli authorities and led to years of legal battles, died on Dec. 24 in Nahariya, in northern Israel. He was 72.His death, in a hospital, was announced on I...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his country believes it will win the war in Ukraine in a televised New Year’s Eve address, as his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv would not accept peace “at any cost”.Addressing the nation nearly four years after he launched his full-scale invasion, Putin on Wednesd...

Finnish authorities have seized a vessel suspected of intentionally severing undersea telecommunications cables amid fears of Russian sabotage in the Gulf of Finland.The seized cargo vessel Fitburg was en route from the Russian port of St Petersburg ⁠to Israel at the time of the incident on Wednesday, Finnish Border Guard officials...

As the deadline that Lebanon’s government set for disarming Hezbollah in the south of the country approaches, the group insists it won’t give up its weapons.The Lebanese cabinet tasked the military in August with formulating a plan to remove Hezbollah’s arms by the end of 2025 in accordance with a plan put forward by the United Sta...

A suicide bomber targeted a group of Syrian police officers in the city of Aleppo, killing one member of the security forces and wounding two others, the official news agency SANA reported.Syria’s Ministry of Interior spokesman Noureddine al-Baba told Al-Ikhbariah TV the original target of the attack on Wednesday was likely a churc...

Displaced Palestinians in Gaza are sounding the alarm about Israel’s looming ban against dozens of international groups that provide life-saving assistance and services in the devastated territory.Siraj al-Masri, a Palestinian in Khan Younis, stressed on Wednesday that there is “no alternative” to the aid organisations helping besi...

The Trump administration has said it is freezing child care funds to all states until they provide more verification about the programs in a move fueled by a series of fraud schemes at Minnesota day care centers run by Somali residents.All 50 states will be impacted by the review, but the Re...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Jan. 6., 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol “does not happen” without Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers earlier this month in characterizing the Republican president as the “most culpable and most responsible person” in the criminal conspiracy to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks held up the effort.“We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that the Constitution remains a sturdy pillar for the country, a message that comes after a tumultuous year in the nation’s judicial system with pivotal Supreme Court decisions on the horizon.Roberts said the nation’s founding docum...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two of the NFL’s three Christmas Day games set viewership records.The Detroit Lions-Minnesota Vikings late afternoon game on Netflix became the most-streamed NFL game in U.S. history and the Denver Broncos-Kansas City Chiefs night game set a record for Amazon Prime Video.T...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Walt Disney World worker in Florida was injured while attempting to stop a large runaway prop boulder from rolling into seated spectators at the Indiana Jones live show.The worker at the “Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular” at the Disney’s Hollywood Studios park was...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Wednesday imposed sanctions on four firms operating in Venezuela’s oil sector and designated four additional oil tankers, which the U.S. accuses of being part of a shadow fleet serving Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government, as blocked property. The ac...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — British boxer Anthony Joshua has been released from hospital, Nigerian authorities said late Wednesday night.The two-time former heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medalist was involved in a fatal road crash near Lagos on Monday which killed two of his close associat...

PARIS (AP) — Actor George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney were granted French citizenship because “they contribute, through their distinguished actions, to France’s international influence and cultural outreach,” the French government said Wednesday, defending their naturalization that was...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Farmers are now learning how much aid they can expect to receive from a $12 billion package that President Donald Trump announced earlier this month.The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the figures Wednesday for how much aid per acre farmers can plan on for each row...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The Trump administration has told another coal-fired power facility to remain open, this time ordering the owners of a Colorado electricity generating unit to keep it running beyond its Wednesday retirement date. Compliance will cost Tri-State Generation and Transm...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Wednesday it struck five alleged drug-smuggling boats over two days, killing a total of eight people while others jumped overboard and may have survived. U.S. Southern Command, which oversees South America, did not reveal where the attacks on Tuesday...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that — for now — he has abandoned his intention to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, after legal hurdles blocked that plan.“We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, whe...

The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.

Meet what might be President Trump’s newest enemy: the State of Colorado.Miffed at Colorado’s votes against him in three successive elections and furious at its refusal to free Tina Peters, a convicted election denier and ardent Trump supporter, Mr. Trump has opened an assault against the Democratic-run state. His administration ha...

President Trump said on Wednesday that he would abandon, for now, efforts to deploy the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore.The decision comes after the Supreme Court ruled last week that Mr. Trump could not deploy troops in the Chicago area over the objections of Illinois officials. The president’s announcemen...

A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday found that the Trump administration illegally moved to end temporary deportation protections for tens of thousands of people from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua. The ruling was a blow to the administration’s efforts to limit the reach of a humanitarian program meant to shield migrants fr...

At a time when federal judges have faced threats, intimidation and calls for impeachment, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday used his annual report on the state of the judiciary to focus on history and the nation’s upcoming 250th birthday, with a nod to judicial independence.The report landed at a fraught time for the S...

Jack Smith, the former special counsel, defended his decision to twice indict President Trump, accusing him of “exploiting” violence on Jan. 6, 2021, to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, according to a transcribed interview released by House Republicans Wednesday.Mr. Smith, a former prosecutor vilified by Mr. Trump as a par...

The Trump administration must return hundreds of California National Guard troops to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s control, a federal appellate court ruled on Wednesday. The troops were under the president’s command since he sent them to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids this summer.The order from the U.S. Court of Appeal...

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for an undetermined number of survivors of a U.S. military strike against several boats in the Pacific Ocean, the Pentagon and Coast Guard said on Wednesday.It was the fourth known instance of people surviving, at least initially, one of the 33 military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea an...