Ontario’s minister for emergency preparedness has asked the federal government for help, including potentially deploying Canadian soldiers to the affected regions.Smoke from wildfires in Ontario, Canada, turned Toronto’s skies orange on Wednesday.
Monitor air quality, prepare to stay inside and pay close attention to people with chronic conditions.Firefighters conducting a back burn for the Line fire in California. Air quality is poor near several fires in the region.
Attribution science is advancing quickly, researchers said. That could support lawsuits seeking damages for severe events worsened by global warming.A firefighting helicopter at a wildfire burning in the Forest of Fontainebleau near Paris on Monday.
Academics, city leaders and congressional lawmakers number among the thousands to urge the Trump administration to reconsider a plan to assert more control over grants.Russell T. Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, testifying at a hearing in April.
Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina made the stipulation during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday for witnesses to discuss Mr. Blanche’s nomination.Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, during his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.
Mykhailo Fedorov defended his efforts to modernize the Ukrainian armed forces as thousands of people protested his dismissal.Protesting the dismissal of Ukraine’s defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, in Kharkiv on Thursday. Some of the slogans translate to “Bring back Fedorov” and “Fedorov’s dismissa
Mr. Fedorov became the youthful face of Ukraine’s successful drone warfare program. The move to replace him has prompted street protests.Mykhailo Fedorov in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, on Thursday. His appointment was seen as an indication that President Volodymyr Zelensky saw drones as the best bet fo
Our correspondent talked about the challenges of covering major news while under surveillance and filing his work without reliable internet access.Mourners gathered at the Grand Mosalla in Tehran to pay respects to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during his funeral.
Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?
Mr. Pelosi, the 86-year-old husband of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, had at least eight traffic violations in one 13-year period before his crash this year, according to court records.In the latest incident, Paul Pelosi, 86, smashed a Tesla and then continued driving down a residential street in Napa
At least one person has died, and emergency workers have rescued scores of people. Gov. Greg Abbott said the rain in the state was likely to break records.The Pedernales River surged in Fredericksburg, Texas.
A civil-rights investigation, which grew out of a 26-page memo by a political appointee, provides a road map for the White House’s assault on D.E.I.A Nike Well Collective store in Glendale, Calif. Few major companies had more openly embraced a commitment to diversity than Nike, not only in its adver
Researchers have made important strides in understanding and treating diffuse midline gliomas, which were long seen as a death sentence for the children and adolescents they affect.
It’s the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar system.An artist’s concept of the exoplanet LHS 1140b, surrounded by a helium-rich atmosphere. Another rocky planet orbits the same cool red dwarf star in the di
Super PACs and billionaires seem to be on the side of the G.O.P., new filings show.Supporters of Ken Paxton last month at the 2026 Republican Party of Texas convention in Houston. Mr. Paxton, the party’s nominee for Senate, has been drastically out-raised by his Democratic rival, James Talarico.
The Texas attorney general and his trusts now hold at least 15 properties worth about $9 million.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton spoke in McAllen, Texas, Tuesday evening.
A Trump ally will receive funding for a new information technology system while retaining control of voter registration and early voting.Maricopa County, Ariz., has been a hotbed of election denial and conspiracy theories since Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the state in 2020.
An inventive $450 million center devoted to Roosevelt, who died in 1919, blends in with the natural beauty of North Dakota and celebrates conservation.
The president lacks not only a coherent strategic concept but an elementary understanding of what strategy is.
Kerry Sheron could often be found waving and nodding to those who passed his home, which stood out in Escondido, Calif.A photograph of Kerry Sheron and his wife, Maria Garcia, hanging on the fence outside their home.
