In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.It is highly unusual for a health secretary to personally order a change to scientific guidance, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the lan
The request to dismiss the case came after Lindsey Halligan acknowledged she had never shown a final version of the indictment to the entire grand jury for a vote.A procedural error could in theory imperil the case against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director.
State officials are seeking to use a newly redrawn map for the 2026 midterms, part of a nationwide redistricting push by President Trump.Protesters in the rotunda of the Texas Capitol in August as lawmakers debated a redrawn congressional map. The map created five new Republican-favored seats.
The secretary of transportation kicked off a new civility campaign on Wednesday called “The Golden Age of Travel Starts With You.”
The Ukrainian president’s options are narrowing as he is confronted with a 28-point proposal drafted by American and Russian envoys.The 148th Artillery Brigade preparing to fire at Russian targets in the Zaporizhzhia region of eastern Ukraine in October.
While the White House has cautioned that the proposal is still in “flux,” its contours reflect maximalist demands made by Russia throughout the war that Ukraine has consistently rejected.A Ukrainian artillery unit firing at Russian targets in the Zaporizhzhia region, last month.
Even as the disgraced financier’s crimes were revealed, newly released emails show how academics at top universities stuck by Jeffrey Epstein, often seeking his help and offering it in return.Lawrence Krauss asked Jeffrey Epstein for advice when he was facing sexual harassment allegations in late 20
Rockoff, who risked his life to photograph the brutality of the Khmer Rouge, has struggled ever since. Now he says his historic negatives have been taken from him.
Two decisions by the Texas governor this week, including directing authorities to investigate an Islamic organization, come as the state sees an increase in anti-Muslim rhetoric.Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas in September. This week, he declared that a Muslim advocacy and civil rights group was a terrori
The 150-year-old drugmaker is the first company in health care to hit the milestone.Eli Lilly, based in Indianapolis, has surged in large part because of the company’s success in commanding the GLP-1 weight loss drug market.
The Times identified nearly 100 locations traversed by naval vessels across a two-and-a-half-month period to determine what the military pressure campaign against Venezuela looks like at sea.The guided-missile destroyer Gravely leaving a port in Trinidad and Tobago in late October. It is among sever
The director Jon M. Chu narrates a sequence from his film featuring Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Jeff Goldblum performing the song “Wonderful.”
There are widespread attacks across the country affecting many religious and ethnic groups. Many of them defy a simple explanation.At a Catholic Mass in Lagos, Nigeria, in April.
Students and teachers were taken captive from a Catholic school in the latest in a wave of such attacks in the country.Police officers outside a school in Kebbi, Nigeria, where children were kidnapped on Monday. An attack early Friday happened in the neighboring state of Niger.
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun.Artist’s impression of the collision between the early Earth and Theia, with the sun in the far distance, roughly 100 million years after the for
During the weekend, the orbits of Earth and Saturn will combine to create an interplanetary optical illusion for anyone with a good telescope and clear skies.Saturn’s rings, observed by the Cassini spacecraft. They will be all but invisible when viewed from Earth on Sunday.
The United States, not China, seems determined to upend the global order.
Trump’s show of force toward Venezuela has created a disastrous political trap — for Venezuelans most of all.A Venezuelan soldier in Caracas, Venezuela, earlier this month.
Also, Ukraine faces a “difficult choice” on the U.S. peace plan. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City, with President Trump in the Oval Office, today.
The magazine, which recently hired the journalist, said it had been “taken by surprise” by new claims in an essay by her former fiancé, Ryan Lizza.Olivia Nuzzi at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in 2023.
The processing plant, in Lexington, employs more than 3,000 workers. It is expected to close in January.Tyson said on its latest earnings call that it expected operating losses on beef to be between $400 million and $600 million over the coming fiscal year.
The discovery of a mountain of garbage near a highway is the latest example of what experts say is a growing problem of criminal organizations profiting from illegal dumping.A large pile of illegally dumped waste accumulated next to the River Cherwell near Kidlington, England, on Sunday.
The children were among 11 people who were hurt when a grizzly attacked a school group in a remote part of British Columbia, the authorities said.Grizzly bears in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park near Bella Coola, British Columbia.
