While the president remains the most dominant figure in the world, other leaders and institutions are pushing back more vigorously than at the beginning of his second term.World leaders and domestic institutions are showing less willingness to submit to President Trump’s will.
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.Dolly Parton in 1975. She was likened to the Big Rock Candy Mountain, the Depression-era symbol of abundance. Her music confronted privation and loss even as
A wild mountain rose, she used her clothes and her body to subvert expectations.Dolly Parton, circa 1992.
The singer-songwriter rose from poverty to become a chart-topping performer whose earnest character allowed her to span genres.Dolly Parton’s vast catalog contains no fewer than 49 studio albums which, together, generated 25 No. 1 singles on Billboard’s Country chart.
Plus, Dolly Parton dies at 80. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.Prime Minister Mark Carney at Davie Shipyard in Levis, Quebec yesterday.
Canada said the higher levies, on items from aluminum foil to dishwashers to fish, would help protect workers, producers and manufacturers harmed by new Trump tariffs.The U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Plant in Clairton, Pa. Canada has announced it will impose retaliatory tariffs of up to 50 percent on hu
The president has invoked a long dormant section of law to hit one of America’s closest allies, a move that has troubled courts in the past.President Trump has invoked a little-known statute to impose his latest tariffs on Canada.
The leadership vacuum comes as the Army is trying to adapt to a new kind of war dominated by deadly drones.
Our favorite restaurants of the moment in the city that never stops eating.
President Trump’s “Economic D-Day” is intended to break the stalemate with Iran. But decades of sanctions have done little to change the country’s behavior.President Trump has bombarded Iran with new sanctions during his second term, targeting virtually the country’s entire economy.
The Trump administration risks a clash with Beijing as it tries to cut off Iran’s economic lifelines without upending a fragile U.S.-China truce.Chinese refiners have bought heavily discounted Iranian crude oil.
The actual prevalence, researchers said, may be much higher.The biggest predictor of C.T.E. is the cumulative force of hits to a head over a lifetime.
At least one in four N.F.L. players, and likely a much higher percentage, had the brain disease when they died. Will anything change?Chronic traumatic encephalopathy can be diagnosed only posthumously.
It has been an uneasy primary season for Jewish voters, with debates over Israel animating many races. But what happened in Florida went beyond that.Signs to vote in Florida’s primary last week in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The Log Cabin Republicans, which is dedicated to gay causes, says that trans rights advocates focus too much on minors.A Log Cabin Republicans table at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md. The organization had embraced trans rights issues in 2015 before its reversal.
A judge exonerated Nancy Smith, an Ohio bus driver, after she was convicted of abusing children in her care. Now, prosecutors want to reverse an order saying she was innocent.A judge overturned Nancy Smith’s conviction in a child sex abuse case in 2022.
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to continue with plans to curtail mail-in voting, but the fast-moving, high-stakes legal fight continues.President Trump has long made unfounded claims that mail voting is fraudulent and corrupt, even as he has cast his own ballots by mail
The justices are still struggling with whether and when to explain themselves to the public when the court issues temporary, but consequential, orders.In 19 months, the president has already asked the justices to intervene far more times than George W. Bush and Barack Obama did during their 16 years
The limits on mail-in voting may not go into effect by November, with at least one state vowing to sue. But some states and experts warned about further voter confusion.Mail-in votes are processed by poll officials at the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Office in Largo, Fla., last week.
The deaths were the first in the United States in 2026.
Her vision and hearing are deteriorating, but she still wants to feel like she’s on top.
Trailing Dolly Parton around the world, I witnessed so many small moments in which she’d gracefully own her power without the slightest hint of fight.
Spheres of conflict have multiplied and are merging. Meanwhile, the West is a mess.
New documents filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles appear to show that Ms. Wilson, the actress, was heavily involved in disparaging Amanda Ghost, a producer on her movie, “The Deb.”Rebel Wilson is accused of ordering the creation of anonymous websites to create a smear campaign against one of her produce
