Mr. Menendez, a powerful longtime senator from New Jersey, was convicted last year on federal bribery and corruption charges.After his sentencing, former Senator Robert Menendez called the case against him a “political witch hunt.” “President Trump is right,” he added. “This process is political and
The former New Jersey senator was sentenced to 11 years in prison after being convicted of bribery and corruption.The case against former Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey was both grave and tawdry.
Senators are expected to ask about her defense of the former government contractor, who released reams of data on U.S. surveillance programs and fled to Russia.Edward Snowden appearing via video at a Bitcoin conference in Nashville last year.
The U.S. central bank did not cut borrowing costs amid a solid economy and rising inflation risks.
Lorne Michaels reportedly dislikes when “Saturday Night Live” cast members break character. But over 50 seasons, it’s become one of the show’s signature moves — one that usually delights the audience.
The billionaire and his Silicon Valley associates landed in the capital and immediately moved to cut the size of the federal government, reprising the playbook he used after buying Twitter in 2022.Elon Musk, left, in Washington the day before President Trump’s inauguration. Mr. Musk has been given a
As Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have embraced President Trump and muffled internal dissent at their companies, their mostly left-leaning employees have objected with subtle acts of defiance.Meta’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg; Amazon founder Jeff Bezos; Sundar Pichai, Google chief execut
Three weeks after a rift, the head of the populist Reform U.K. party said Elon Musk remains open to a donation that could shake up British politics.Nigel Farage, center, arriving on Tuesday for a fund-raiser at an exclusive members-only club in London.
The veto pledge capped a dramatic few days in which Republican legislators publicly criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis and portrayed themselves as truer allies of President Trump.Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida vetoed legislation on Wednesday that would have toughened immigration enforcement in the state.
With little post-pandemic recovery, experts wonder if screen time and school absence are among the causes.Test results showed progress in math, but not enough to offset the losses of the pandemic.
Seuk Kim left behind a finance career to chase his dream of becoming a pilot. He took off one day in November with four dogs on board, a trip that would not go according to plan.Seuk Kim, pictured with a plane he owned previously, had recently found a job as charter pilot in Virginia, but that did n
The San Francisco start-up claims that its Chinese rival may have used data generated by OpenAI technologies to build new systems.DeepSeek spooked Silicon Valley companies and sent financial markets into a tailspin earlier this week after releasing its A.I. technologies.
The Chinese company DeepSeek seemed to have come out of nowhere this week when it upturned markets. Here’s what to know about Liang Wenfeng, the engineer who started it.Liang Wenfeng, DeepSeek’s chief executive, in an image from a Chinese state media broadcast.
The tech giant’s revenue was up 12 percent to $69.6 billion, but investors are showing their nerves after a long boom for tech stocks.In the latest quarter, Microsoft kept up its rapid drive to build data centers to power cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
The release planned for Thursday would be the third so far as Israel and Hamas observe a six-week truce, part of a multiphase agreement that mediators hope will end the war in Gaza.A demonstration calling for the release of hostages on Saturday.
The new leadership of the country said the rebel coalition leader, Ahmed al-Shara, would serve as president during a transitional period.Ahmed al-Shara, the leader of the rebel coalition that toppled Bashar al-Assad in Syria, appeared on TV at a Damascus cafe on Wednesday.
A month after the deadliest aviation disaster on South Korean soil, a fire destroyed another passenger jet in the country.
His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years.William E. Leuchtenburg in 2009 at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He helped shape America’s conception of its past during the prosperous 1950s and ’60s.
One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera), and the two became close friends, working together for more than 40 years.
After holding the event for 40 years in the Utah ski town, organizers plan to take it elsewhere starting in 2027.Sundance filmgoers waited to be admitted to the Egyptian Theater on Saturday. After 40 years in Park City, the festival has outgrown the town.
At this point, whether a nominee can explain himself coherently, much less convincingly, may not matter for the votes he needs.
All the king’s men, back with a vengeance.
The electric car company run by Elon Musk is facing increasing competition, but investors have focused mostly on the prospects for Tesla’s self-driving technology.Tesla has cut prices and offered low-interest financing to prop up sales, but the measures have come at the expense of profit.
After chronicling the crack boom of the 1980s as an investigative reporter, he had a high-profile but brief second career in Hollywood.Barry Michael Cooper in 1994 in Baltimore, where he lived. He wrote the screenplay for “New Jack City” (1991), which presaged a wave of films from Black directors an
