A new round of tariff carve-outs has raised familiar questions about who should receive the lucrative exceptions, and why.A diamond group in Antwerp, Belgium, designed an 18-karat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds and dozens of sapphires, emeralds and rubies in honor of America’s 250th anniversa
Gross domestic product grew at a slower rate in the second quarter and persistent price pressures are unsettling financial markets.
President Trump’s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.The two senators object to a deal negotiated by Todd Blanche and President Trump’s personal lawyers to resolve a lawsuit the president had filed against the I.R.S.
Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November.Elon Musk was the biggest donor in the 2024 presidential election, when he spent hundreds of millions.
With a democratic socialist, Francesca Hong, leading in polls, former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes said he was ending his campaign in the closely divided state.Mandela Barnes, a former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, in Madison in June.
How the politics of raised a’s and disappearing g’s briefly came to dominate the Michigan Senate race.“I am your voice,” said Representative Haley Stevens, a four-term congresswoman who is running for Senate in Michigan, after her accent was mocked online.
“Healthy” confections, whether marketed as “better-for-you” or “functional,” have overwhelmed grocery and convenience stores, and even found their way into gyms and supplement shops.
Even after winning approval of a measure calling on President Trump to end the war, they continue to call votes to force Republicans to answer for it.Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, put forward this week the latest measure to rein in the president’s war powers.
The port where the Wednesday strike occurred is near the Suez Canal, through which a significant amount of the world’s shipping moves.Ships in the Suez Canal last year. About 10 percent of seaborne trade goes through the waterway, according to the Suez Canal Authority.
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.Dozens of municipal water systems in Minnesota were the targets of a cyberattack this week.
To meet the growing needs of his congregation, Justin Lester created an A.I. duplicate of himself. Every day he sees more people using it.
The case is an early test of a court that has never been used before, where much of the evidence is presented in secret and defendants cannot challenge how it was collected.The Justice Department headquarters in Washington last month.
The disease has killed more than 1,500 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in just over two months, causing deaths faster than officials have ever recorded.Health workers at an Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in June.
Prosecutors argued that Colin Gray bore responsibility for the 2024 shooting because he had given his son a gun and failed to act as the teen’s mental health deteriorated.Colin Gray was convicted in March of murder and other offenses in connection with the deadly shooting carried out by his son, Col
The arrivals in Ceuta, a six-mile-long peninsula on Morocco’s northern coast that Spain has governed for centuries, have fueled political tensions.Migrants crossing from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Thursday.
An anonymous X account posted a detailed breakdown of chatbot text in 38 popular stories inspired by the hockey romance. The fandom spiraled.
An upgrade transformed the beleaguered virtual assistant into a modern chatbot. It’s imperfect but worth trying.
Trump officials have promised to “make visual arts great,” with a museum exhibition that includes artwork by several people with personal connections to the planners.The fashion designer Kate Wasserbach Moore produced a silk dress, “America250 Gown,” for the exhibition “Passport to Patriotism” at th
Kim Sajet left as director of the National Portrait Gallery when she found herself in the White House cross hairs. Now she’s watching another Smithsonian chief go through it.Last year, Kim Sajet of the National Portrait Gallery was targeted by President Trump, who described her as “highly partisan.”
Show trials are bad for democracy.
Aging politicians are just the “tip of the iceberg.”
Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus may have evolved into a global killer.
