Plus, the longest-ever World Series game.Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, is the most powerful in the Atlantic Ocean this year. The authorities in Jamaica and Cuba have issued evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people.
China’s leader wants to weaken American support for Taiwan. But first he will want clarity about President Trump’s stance toward the island.Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing last month. He wants to absorb Taiwan and blunt U.S. power in the region.
The Trump administration is hailing a potential deal that may return the U.S.-China relationship to where it was before the president began a trade war against Beijing.The U.S. and China have been in negotiations about tariffs.
In a memo, the Microsoft co-founder warned against a “doomsday outlook” and appears to have shifted some of his views about climate change.Bill Gates in Manhattan last month. “Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead
American Ballet Theater’s first Black female principal dancer has given her farewell performance. But she’s not done with this art form yet.Misty Copeland won’t perform in “Swan Lake” again any time soon, but she will remain involved in the world of dance.
Within days, tens of millions of low-income Americans may lose assistance for food, child care and utilities if the federal government remains shut down.Hannah Mann and her family in New Jersey rely on federal food subsidies for groceries and utilities, initiatives that could run out of funding in d
The Trump administration is considering tighter safety rules on the weak radiations of cellphones even as it pursues looser regulations on the deadly emanations of the nuclear industry.A nuclear power generating station near Waynesboro, Ga. Experts say the nuclear industry wants fewer restrictions s
In 2024, a jury found that Donald J. Trump approved a scheme to falsify business records to conceal a hush-money payment to a porn star. He became the first felon president.Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, used a novel and complex legal theory to convict Donald J. Trump.
A president who has chafed at the limits on his power sees political benefit in talking about remaining in office.President Trump has kept the idea of running again front and center throughout his second term.
Zohran Mamdani and the teachers’ union have called for changes in mayoral control. Andrew M. Cuomo and some education leaders say that would be a grave mistake.Mayoral control of public schools in New York City has long been a flashpoint.
Gov. Kathy Hochul received a tepid response from a stadium filled with Zohran Mamdani supporters, whose chants of “Tax the rich” interrupted her speech.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and former Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia will appear together on Wednesday, hoping to energize Democratic campaign volunteers, and voters.Democrats Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, seen here in 2019, served together in Congress.
The central bank is poised to lower interest rates again on Wednesday despite having only a partial view of how the economy is faring.The government shutdown is creating uncertainty for the Federal Reserve, led by Jerome H. Powell, as it weighs whether to lower interest rates.
Aid to the devastated territory has increased since the cease-fire took effect and prices have fallen. But many trucks going into Gaza are bringing food and commercial goods to sell that most people cannot afford.
Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan confirmed that Sudan’s military had retreated from El Fasher, a decisive shift in control of the country’s sprawling Darfur region.A shelter in El Fasher, Sudan, where displaced people protected themselves from shelling this month. The country’s military said Monday that
The lab where Oppenheimer developed the atomic bomb is the linchpin in the United States’ effort to modernize its nuclear weapons. Yet the site has contended with contamination incidents, work disruptions and old infrastructure.Los Alamos National Laboratory, on an isolated mesa in New Mexico, dates
A new show featuring decommissioned statues forces a reckoning with American history at a moment when Donald Trump is trying to stop just that.The Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument (1948) from Baltimore, during installation at MOCA in September.
A.I. companies need to do more to show the proof behind their claims.
Mike Johnson, the speaker, won’t swear in the Democratic representative-elect from Arizona.
We explain how pet owners are expressing vaccine hesitancy.Pia Habersang at her clinic in Amarillo, Texas.
The president says he hasn’t really thought about a third term. Meyers said that was “like James Cameron saying he hasn’t thought about ‘Avatar 4.’”
Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, is accused of assassinating Mr. Abe with a homemade gun during an election rally in 2022.A car believed to be carrying defendant Tetsuya Yamagami entering the Nara District Court for his first trial in Nara, Japan, on Tuesday.
By nationalizing a local election, Turning Point Action is trying to show it can carry on without its founder and recall a local Republican who endorsed Kamala Harris.Julie Spilsbury, a member of the Mesa, Ariz., City Council, is trying to fend off a recall election driven by Charlie Kirk’s Turning
Two years after a shock win for the far-right Geert Wilders, the Netherlands is returning to the polls. His hometown shows the pain points of the country’s volatile politics.Mr. Wilders and his party, the PVV, unexpectedly collapsed the government in June, by withdrawing from the governing coalition
