Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 87 in all. Were any of those killings legal?Adm. Frank M. Bradley attended a classified meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Two survivors of the attack were said to struggle to cling to the boat before a second strike. After the briefing with lawmakers, the military disclosed a boat strike on Thursday that killed four people.Adm. Frank M. Bradley, left, and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Ca
The inspector general concluded that the defense secretary violated the Pentagon’s instructions on using a private electronic device to share sensitive information.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Washington this week. He declined to be interviewed by the inspector general’s office.
Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to gain a partisan advantage.State Representative Matt Morgan, a Republican, holds a map of the new proposed congressional districts in Texas in August.
Redistricting talks in Florida got off to a slow start on Thursday, as state lawmakers grapple with political and legal questions amid internal power struggles.Protesters outside the Florida Capitol building in Tallahassee. A House redistricting committee met for the first time on Thursday.
After a judge dismissed the Trump administration’s first attempt to indict the attorney general of New York State, a new grand jury effort failed, according to people familiar with the matter.Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, has long been in President Trump’s crosshairs.
President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes.President Trump trumpeted a peace agreement while hosting President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo in W
The president had clashed with the original designer and insisted on increasing the size and scope of the ballroom on a short timeline.The demolition of the East Wing of the White House in October.
President Trump pardoned the former Honduran president, who had been convicted for drug trafficking. Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios, a former congressman, got nearly 22 years.Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios led heavily armed teams as they transported cocaine from clandestine airstrips.
Netflix would acquire Warner television and film studios as well as HBO Max in a deal that would bulk up the world’s biggest paid streaming service.Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos, Calif.
Many of the year’s best series seemed to be in conversation with one another, including “Severance,” “The Pitt,” “Andor,” “Pluribus,” “The Lowdown” and others.
The Trump administration’s deportation agenda is reverberating beyond immigrant communities as agents begin fanning out around New Orleans.The agents, including several from the Border Patrol, had shown up and tried to detain the men, but they refused to get down from the roof.
The child and his father fled China earlier this year and the boy had just been enrolled in school. Federal officials have tried and failed to send them back.
Minnesota’s governor said the president’s xenophobic remarks were dangerous as the state continued to face fiscal questions about a fraud scandal.Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota during an appearance in Washington in June.
Gianni Infantino, head of soccer’s governing body, has been ingratiating himself with the president to help ensure a successful 2026 World Cup.President Trump, holding a replica of the men’s World Cup, with Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, in the Oval Office in August. Mr. Trump later asked
Gianni Infantino, head of soccer’s governing body, FIFA, has lauded President Trump at almost every opportunity, even starting a FIFA Peace Prize after Mr. Trump didn’t win the Nobel. Luke Broadwater, a White House reporter, describes the bromance.
On his first trip as pontiff, Leo XIV predictably called for peace and unity. But he also addressed technology’s promise and pitfalls.Pope Leo in Bkerke, Lebanon, on Monday. During his six-day tour, he called out the risks of artificial intelligence and other rapidly advancing technologies.
The suspect was described as a 30-year-old man from Prince William County, Va. His arrest could ultimately provide an answer to one of the mysteries arising from the Jan. 6. attack.A photograph released by the F.B.I. shows the person suspected of placing two pipe bombs on Capitol Hill the night befo
As President Emmanuel Macron of France visited China, its leader, Xi Jinping, said his country would play a constructive role in ending the fighting.President Emmanuel Macron of France with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing on Thursday. Mr. Macron was welcomed with a red carpet and honor guard.
A British woman died from exposure to a nerve agent because of a botched assassination plot that the Russian leader must have authorized, an official report found.A police cordon around the residential area where Dawn Sturgess was exposed to the Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, in 2018.
The Trump administration, which crippled Russia’s oil sales to India with sanctions, will be watching Mr. Putin’s talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.In this photo released by Russian state media, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets President Vladimir V. Putin in New Delhi, where he arriv
Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.Meta’s virtual reality headset last year. The company’s augmented reality glasses have become a surprise hit.
A decade after the end of the one-child policy, China has over 30 million so-called surplus men. Can this dating boot camp help them find love?
Cartel extortion is pushing up prices in Mexico — and becoming a political problem President Claudia Sheinbaum can’t ignore.An avocado tree in Michoacán, Mexico, June 2024. The state, which supplies most avocados destined for the United States, has been the site of rising cartel violence.
