Plus, your Friday news quiz.The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in San Diego in 2021. The aircraft carrier, with a crew of about 5,000 sailors, has been at sea for more than eight and a half months.
As the Trump administration drops charges against corporations and the wealthy, it is also taking aim at small-scale fraud cases, including against the operator of a weathered food truck in California.Justice Department officials have internally declared that each assistant U.S. attorney should have
The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln has been deployed for nearly nine months. Members of Congress are worried about the crew’s well-being.The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in San Diego in 2021. The aircraft carrier, with a crew of about 5,000 sailors, has been at sea for more than eight and a half months.
In the tiny nation, Moscow paid Orthodox priests, conducted a vote-buying scheme and set up training camps on election interference — all in an effort to derail the Western-leaning government.Police officers in Chisinau, the Moldovan capital, watching protesters gather outside the electoral commissi
A last-ditch filing this week came on behalf of a dog that a judge found to be “vicious” and shows how the court’s emergency docket has been growing.The Supreme Court has been inundated recently with emergency requests.
The backbone of the list: nine novels by Tana French, and five novels each from John le Carré, Kate Atkinson and Mick Herron.
Can our Book Review editor, Tina Jordan, guess thrillers from their first sentence? In this game we explore a few of the books from The New York Times’s “50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century” list; and learn a bit more about why opening sentences are so important to get people reading.
From “Slow Horses” to “Big Little Lies,” our list of great psychological thrillers, spy novels and crime fiction have inspired a heap of great adaptations.
The continent’s railways and roads “were engineered for a climate that no longer exists,” one expert said.Commuters at a train station in Bordeaux, France, during a heat wave in July. Much of Europe’s infrastructure was not built to withstand scorching summer heat.
Extreme temperatures and repeated wildfires are pushing infrastructure to the limit and testing the continent’s resolve.A sweltering day near Tower Bridge in London on Thursday.
Recent polling issues could continue in Democratic primaries in part because progressives are more likely to enjoy taking surveys.
The president has been focused on the race since the death of Lindsey Graham in July. Ms. Graham, the late senator’s sister, is competing against Representative Ralph Norman in a runoff on Aug. 25.Representative Russell Fry, left, will endorse Senator Darline Graham in a special Republican primary r
As much as Zohran Mamdani’s team runs on leftist idealism and social media hits, its style of governing also relies on humor, sports references and pop culture.Mayor Zohran Mamdani peppers his conversations with his aides with references to sports and pop culture, some seeping into his public statem
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform U.K., won the Clacton by-election with 63 percent. Count Binface, a novelty candidate, came second with 27 percent, a personal best.Nigel Farage leaves a polling station after he voted in the Clacton by-election on Thursday.
In matters of work, school and even romance, we turn to A.I. chatbots. But what happens when the bots begin talking to one another?
At a proliferating number of stores, discounts on sushi and other items are offered after 8 p.m. To get the best meals, you have to be there early.
The Italian military police said that art collectively valued at more than $10 million had been found five months after being taken in a nighttime heist near Parma.Italian military police officers with works by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
France has faithfully renovated most of what burned at Notre-Dame in 2019. Contentiously, six towering windows will soon be replaced by a new design.An artisan working at the Atelier Simon-Marq, a centuries-old stained glass studio, in Reims, in northeastern France.
The prints by the French master were taken in São Paulo last year in a brazen daylight heist.A handout photo released by the São Paulo police press office showing the recovered Matisse works.
She will run as a woman but unlike how every woman before her was forced to run.
Firefighters in Phoenix race to save lives in a city that’s only getting hotter.
We look at recent problems with political polling.
The “Tonight Show” host said President Trump had been surprised by the press secretary’s decision to step down. “She was like, ‘I wanted to wait for a good time but there hasn’t been one, so.’”
Immigrants at Delaney Hall in Newark have complained about health services. Federal officials defended the treatment provided there and elsewhere.The treatment of detainees at the Delaney Hall center in Newark has come under scrutiny.
