The decision by María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition, leader to emerge from hiding and leave the country has electrified her movement but carries political risks.Ana Corina Sosa, the daughter of the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, speaking at the Nobel Peace Prize cerem
The United States’ history in the region includes several about-faces, contradictions and missteps.U.S. troops in Veracruz, Mexico, in April 1914, as part of a blockade of the city’s port.
The central bank’s decision to lower interest rates for a third straight meeting was highly contentious, reflecting an internal divide that will likely limit how much borrowing costs will fall next year.
The end of Jerome Powell’s term as Fed chair will give President Trump his biggest opportunity yet to reshape the central bank.Naming a new Federal Reserve chair will be President Trump’s biggest opportunity yet to reshape the central bank.
Midpriced steakhouses and fine-dining establishments are trying to figure out how to cover their rising costs without scaring away customers.Restaurants that specialize in steak, like Halls Chophouse in Charleston, S.C., are feeling the same sticker shock from beef prices as consumers in grocery sto
Republicans redid their voting map so they could flip five seats to help keep control of the U.S. House. But achieving that goal is far from guaranteed.Downtown Seguin in Texas’ 35th Congressional District, part of the new voting map that state lawmakers adopted. The district is expected to be close
Some Republicans in the Indiana Senate have resisted a new congressional map despite lobbying from the White House and threats of political consequences.The fight over redistricting has intensified in the Indiana legislature in recent weeks.
In the 1970s, she photographed Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry on wild nights at Studio 54. Now she’s chronicling a new generation.
The Office of Government Ethics told senators that Bryan Bedford, the F.A.A. administrator, did not divest from the airline he previously ran as he had agreed.Bryan Bedford was the chairman and chief executive of Republic Airways before being confirmed as the administrator of the Federal Aviation Ad
The ruling could lead to the most expansive look yet at the federal investigation of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The ruling followed a similar decision in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, who conspired with Jeffrey Epstein in his sex-trafficking scheme and is serving a 20-year prison se
President Trump’s unusual decision to involve himself in the government’s review of the deal puts pressure on his antitrust chief.Gail Slater is in charge of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, which is expected to handle the government’s review of a Warner Bros. deal.
A draft memo from the E.P.A. assumes a safe threshold exists for formaldehyde, upending earlier findings that there is no safe level of exposure to the carcinogen.Between one to five billion pounds of formaldehyde is produced in the United States each year for a wide range of industries and products
The school has been brought to heel by conservative critics of higher education. It is part of a broader transformation at the state’s universities.A Republican lawyer, not an academic, now runs the University of Texas at Austin. Other changes are also underway.
FEMA rejected requests for federal assistance, twice, after devastating floods in western Maryland, part of a larger pattern of making communities pay for their own disaster recovery.Spring flooding in Allegany County, Md., caused an estimated $33.7 million in damage.
Surro Connections held itself out as a reliable business. Now, clients have lost as much as tens of thousands of dollars meant to compensate women carrying their pregnancies.
Investigators said that a security camera recorded thieves preparing to burgle the Louvre. The museum’s director said previously that the camera was facing the wrong way.French police officers stand next to a furniture elevator used by robbers to enter the Louvre, in October.
In the Ozarks, the growing college town of Fayetteville, Ark., is using clean energy to power city facilities and embracing nature-based solutions to climate threats.
The Southern Transitional Council has seized control of parts of Yemen over the past week, with ambitions to create a “south Arabian state.”Soldiers loyal to the Southern Transitional Council, a separatist group, in Aden, Yemen, on Tuesday.
The government faces a dilemma over what to do with civil-war-era prisons and detention camps that hold thousands of ISIS fighters and tens of thousands of their family members.Al Hol, a detention camp in northeastern Syria, holds family members of ISIS fighters.
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Writing under a pseudonym, Madeleine Wickham cultivated an international following for her series centered on a young woman addicted to shopping.The British author Madeleine Wickham in 2024. Under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, she wrote nine “Shopaholic” novels, which sold tens of millions of copies
Sophie Kinsella, the author of “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” packs love, laughter and a harrowing real-life health ordeal into a 133-page novella.At an event in London in June, Sophie Kinsella said, “I’m so overwhelmed, yet again, by my lovely readers and by the lovely response that I get to what I
The high cost of health care in America is suppressing wages, driving job losses and fueling inequality.
The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy is a pivot to the agenda of online reactionaries.
