U.S. presidents have long been accused of plotting to control foreign oil. But President Trump has asserted a U.S. right to take it.Venezuela’s Cardon oil refinery. Critics say President Trump’s plan for the country’s oil industry revives bitter memories of colonial exploitation and flagrantly viola
Wilder, Idaho, prided itself on comity. Then federal agents stormed a racetrack outside of town in October, and the reverberations are still shaking the community.
Hours after at least 35 political prisoners were released, one of the most prominent was apparently back in custody, raising doubts about the government’s direction and control.Juan Pablo Guanipa, center, a Venezuelan opposition politician, outside El Helicoide detention center in Caracas after his
Plus, Super Bowl and Olympics highlights.President Trump’s allies are offering presidential access to those who give at least $1 million to a group planning events for the nation’s 250th birthday.
His performance featured a sugar cane field, a wedding seemingly officiated onstage and a New York-style street scene, along with appearances by Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin.Bad Bunny’s halftime set featured a replica of a sugar-cane field and scores of backup dancers.
To Lam is a former security chief who carved his way to prominence and relishes the good life. He has promised to make Communist Vietnam rich and influential.To Lam, Vietnam’s top leader, at a news conference in January in Hanoi after the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister, harnessed her personal popularity and a shift to the right among voters to achieve a record election win.Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.
Stocks climbed on Monday as investors cheered a result seen as a mandate for the prime minister’s high-spending economic agenda.Sanae Takaichi is broadly viewed as a boon for corporate Japan because of her support for low interest rates and robust fiscal spending to stimulate growth.
Does the popular figurine represent Jesus or the Crescent City’s typical joie de vivre?Loretta’s Authentic Pralines puts a Black plastic baby into its praline cream cheese-filled king cakes. The owner Robert Harrison said they use this baby because his mother, Loretta, wanted “the world to know that
Wind chills below zero were expected to persist across parts of the Northeast and New England on Monday but should finally ease, forecasters said.A couple near the frozen waters of the Hudson River in New York on Sunday. Forecasters said Sunday was likely to be the last very cold night for some time
A person was found dead in the Bronx on Saturday morning, the police said. An 81-year-old man was also found dead on a rooftop, though it was unclear whether the cold was to blame.Extreme cold warnings remained in effect across much of the Northeast through Monday morning, including New York City, b
Andrew Farkas has repeatedly played down ties to Jeffrey Epstein. But they swapped business favors in the Virgin Islands, and in nearly 2,000 emails, the two expressed admiration for each other.
The sentence for the media mogul, along with long prison terms for his editors, shows how Hong Kong enforces Xi Jinping’s red lines with a new severity.Jimmy Lai at his home in Hong Kong in 2020.
Two editors and an opinion writer from Jimmy Lai’s now-shuttered newspaper were each sentenced to 10 years in prison, a significant escalation in media prosecution in the once freewheeling city.Law Wai-kwong, center right, and his colleagues sitting in Apple Daily’s newsroom in 2020. The newspaper w
The heavy sentence for the Hong Kong publisher aligns with mainland cases where influential critics of the Communist Party have been sent to prison for many years.
The strike closed public schools for more than 50,000 students in the city and had no end date. Health care costs are a key issue in negotiations.San Francisco teachers went on strike Monday for the first time since 1979. The walkout has no end date.
The last time writers and actors negotiated contracts, in 2023, dual strikes froze the industry.The SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild strikes in 2023 brought production in Hollywood to a halt.
The retiring congressman hopes his endorsement will carry Assemblyman Micah Lasher past a crowded primary field, including a Kennedy.Representative Jerrold Nadler, right, said that he saw similarities in the way he and Assemblyman Micah Lasher strove to govern.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan and the Rev. A.R. Bernard are to be announced as co-heads of the Police Department’s chaplains’ unit.
A year after a rebel takeover, residents of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, carry violent memories and signs of hope.One year ago, M23, a rebel militia, violently charged into the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo and took it over from the government.
Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana traditionally were America’s educational basement, but now they are showing blue states a way forward.Students at an elementary school in Hollandale, Miss.
Given the growing harms from marijuana use, American lawmakers should do more to regulate it.
We are covering the latest from the war.The largest military cemetery in Kyiv, has become increasingly full.
The judge denied a request for a mistrial and jurors heard from a woman who accused one of the brothers of filming her when she was a minor. The sex-trafficking trial resumes on Monday.Orly Alexander, left, and Shlomo Alexander, the parents of the Alexander brothers, leaving court in Manhattan last
