Amid talk of war crimes, the details and precise sequence of a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean are facing intensifying scrutiny.The suggestion that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or his officials targeted shipwrecked survivors has been galvanizing because that would apparently be a war cri
Investigations are mounting into the legality of strikes that have killed scores of people in the waters off Venezuela.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with President Trump in the Oval Office earlier this year.
The new measures represent some of the most significant changes to immigration policy since President Trump returned to the White House.A small memorial left at the scene of the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington last week.
President Trump’s latest changes to the immigration system affect communities that traditionally have been considered special cases.Last week, the Trump administration announced it would stop issuing visas to people from Afghanistan and review all Afghans allowed into the United States during the Bi
The firings, part of a nationwide effort, felt “like a Monday afternoon massacre,” said one judge who lost her job last month.Federal agents have been arresting immigrants after court hearings in Manhattan.
While the president said he had a M.R.I. exam, a physician’s memo released by the White House was less specific.The statement, by Dr. Sean P. Barbabella, said the tests on President Trump’s cardiovascular system and abdominal region showed the president “remains in excellent overall health.”
Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, speaking to reporters outside the White House in February. He is scheduled to be in Moscow on Tuesday.
Ukraine’s president met with President Emmanuel Macron of France on Monday as Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, was traveling to Russia.President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Emmanuel Macron of France met in Paris on Monday as part of a flurry of diplomatic talks to end
The end of a tariff exemption on goods worth $800 or less has left some U.S. shoppers with an extra shipping bill that must be paid before delivery.Kim Batten purchased her coat from a Dutch retailer. After it shipped, she learned she’d need to pay over $250 in customs duties.
President Trump has complained that wealthy countries like Britain pay too little for drugs, leading America to bear much of the burden of the costs of medicines.A lab run by the drugmaker AstraZeneca. President Trump has complained that wealthy European countries pay too little for medicines.
President Trump warned that if his favored candidate didn’t win, the United States would “not be throwing good money after bad” at the country.A campaign poster for Nasry Asfura, the right-wing candidate backed by President Trump, last month on a street in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Joaquín Guzmán López admitted to having the once-untouchable drug kingpin Ismael Zambada García abducted and flown to the United States, among a sweeping set of other crimes.A plane believed to have been used to kidnap the drug kingpin Ismael Zambada García in Santa Teresa, N.M., last year.
Investigators say contractors wrapped the buildings in substandard scaffolding netting and then sought to hide it from inspectors. The toll from the fire rose to 151.Green netting and bamboo scaffolding are visible on buildings at Wang Fuk Court, the Hong Kong apartment complex engulfed by fire last
Jennifer Capasso had endured multiple tumors. She wondered what might be said during her next cancer surgery. So, she hit record on her phone.Jennifer Capasso was about to undergo another cancer operation. It frustrated her that she was unconscious as the surgeon removed each tumor.
As of February, passengers without the government-approved identity card will be required to pay for alternative screening at U.S. airports.A T.S.A. worker checks a traveler’s ID at the international airport in Oakland, Calif.
The White House is decorated in a classic red-and-green Christmas theme. But with the East Wing reduced to rubble, there are fewer decorations this year.A portrait of President Trump made out of Legos in the Green Room of the White House.
Whether snow falls in major cities Tuesday will depend on the nor’easter’s path.Snow covered cars at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Sunday. More winter weather was expected in the Northeast on Monday night and Tuesday.
The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan.A Soyuz spacecraft launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 27. The rocket itself headed to space without problem, but the
It may be tempting to memory hole what happened in Gaza. That would only compound the mistake of ignoring, or rationalizing, an intolerable reality.
Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.
Starbucks agreed to the settlement after failing to give workers stable schedules. Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect, joined striking Starbucks workers in Brooklyn.
Unusually destructive storms have killed more than 1,200 people across the region and displaced millions in South and Southeast Asia.A village affected by a flash flood in Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on Monday.
Influential up and down the Eastern Seaboard, he was part of a long tradition among Black clergy of fighting bias and getting out the vote. “No vote, no clout,” he’d say.Bishop Reginald Jackson in 2024. As head of one of the country’s largest majority-Black denominations, he was a leading figure at
