Records show how government departments played down residents’ warnings about corrupt practices and substandard materials that fueled the deadly blaze.The Wang Fuk Court apartment complex in Hong Kong days after a fire on Nov. 26 killed 161 people and displaced thousands.
The assault began around 1:30 a.m. local time on Saturday and continued for nearly 10 hours.Firefighters at the site of a Russian strike on an apartment building on Saturday in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The musician Chuck Redd called off the annual Christmas Eve performances after the Kennedy Center board added President Trump’s name to the performing arts center.Crews added President Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Dec. 19.
The president is planning to meet with the leader of Ukraine in Florida just as the lawmakers are applying some pressure.
The White House press secretary announced on Instagram that she was pregnant with a daughter who is due in May. She and her husband have a 1-year-old son.Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, this month at the office. She’s the youngest person to hold the job.
California sued after the Trump administration cut grants for the long-planned project. The state says it will seek private investors instead.A high-speed rail overpass being built outside Hanford, Calif., in April.
Brian Cox once toured as a keyboardist in major rock and pop bands. Now he’s a particle physicist on a new world tour with a dazzling show he designed in an era of science disinformation and denial.Professor Brian Cox backstage before a show. He is renowned for his adroitness in explaining the intri
Only five Sears stores remain in the country, with the end likely near for what was once the mightiest American retailer.The hedge fund magnate Edward Lampert’s plan to turn Sears stores into dazzling mixed-use developments had attracted prominent investors.
Flights were canceled and streets grew slippery as the metropolitan region braced for heavy snow.
President Trump said the targets of airstrikes in Nigeria were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians, but experts question his framing.President Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday. He said that the targets of Thursday’s strike on Sokoto State in Nigeria were mem
Before the strikes on Thursday, President Trump said he would halt all aid and go in “guns-a-blazing” to target affiliates of a resurgent Islamic State.Police officers in Nigeria securing the site of a U.S. airstrike in Jabo, Nigeria, on Friday.
The 72-hour cease-fire could pave the way for an end to the fighting, which has killed dozens and displaced thousands over nearly three weeks.A photo released by Cambodia’s state news agency showed Cambodia’s defense minister, Tea Seiha, left, and his Thai counterpart, Nattaphon Narkphanit, posing w
She was the first to crawl, the first to cut a tooth, the first to recognize her name, and the last to die. And, like her sisters, she resented being exploited as part of a global sensation.Clockwise from top left, Marie, Emelie, Annette, Yvonne and Cécile in 1952.
Ryan Wedding rose to fame as a Canadian Olympic athlete, but the authorities say he became one of the world’s biggest drug lords, who ordered an informant executed.Ryan Wedding, the police said, ordered the murder of an associate who became an informant. The man was shot and killed while dining in M
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.Peter Thiel, a tech venture capitalist, could face a tax bill of more than $1.2 billion if the proposed wealth tax is placed on the
The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly is critically endangered, with the last known larva living in a lab in New Mexico.
Here are the best nonfiction essays of the year, according to me.
It’s become easier to imagine the moment when Trump’s mystique finally evaporates.
A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections.Buddhist devotees visiting the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, on Thursday.
A former roadie, Mr. Bamonte joined the band in 1990. He played on five albums and in hundreds of shows and was “a vital part of the Cure story,” the band said.Perry Bamonte of the Cure performing at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in 2000 in Mountain View, Calif.
A resident of Lindenhurst was charged with the murder of a 23-year-old employee inside a CVS on Christmas Day, the authorities said.
