Lower-court rulings would have blocked construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom after finding that the Trump administration should have first sought approval from Congress.The order from the Supreme Court was the second time in less than two weeks that the court weighed in on the project.
Duane Keith Davis, once a high-ranking member of the South Side Compton Crips, long said he was in a Cadillac with the shooter in 1996. Then he began to recant his accounts.Duane Keith Davis was convicted of murder in the 1996 shooting death of Tupac Shakur.
Shortly before he was murdered in 1996, the rapper had released “All Eyez on Me,” a landmark album that turned him into a superstar.Tupac Shakur performing in Milwaukee in 1994.
Also, a principal helped save 900 children in Nepal. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.Construction at the White House on Tuesday, Aug. 25.
The police fired at the woman, who was holding two knives, after trying to use less lethal force, officials said. A woman, 32, was killed, and a man, 68, is in stable condition.The episode unfolded just before 4:30 p.m. on Monday in Times Square.
Questioning a state’s investigation is highly unusual for the public health agency, but reflects tensions between the Trump administration and many states over health issues.Dr. Erica Schwartz, who has expressed strong support of childhood vaccines, was confirmed as C.D.C. director this month, despi
At the first Daisy Chain Fields festival, the 23-year-old pop star presented a cross-generational vision of female empowerment. (With Taco Bell activations, too.)
Vice President JD Vance also told Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, to “keep my wife’s name out of your mouth.”Vice President JD Vance’s remarks at a campaign rally on Monday appeared aimed at stoking tensions in Michigan’s Jewish community over Dr. El-Sayed’s nomination.
In Massachusetts, the octogenarian senator Ed Markey faces a challenge from a much younger centrist, Representative Seth Moulton.Senator Ed Markey is running as a progressive in one of the country’s most liberal states.
Scott Brown is chasing the political limelight again with a seemingly improvised Senate campaign.Scott Brown is running for Senate in New Hampshire.
A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society behaves this way,” one said, “that society is doomed.”Israeli flags lined the roadside next to Palest
Mansour Abbas has recruited a Jewish lawmaker best known for reducing the crime rate in Arab cities. Could that be enough to get Mr. Abbas a seat in the next government?Mansour Abbas, right, and Yoav Segalovitz arriving for a news conference in Nazareth on Monday.
A two-day conference of the 10-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Kyrgyzstan shows the limits of U.S. economic warfare.Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, center, and the Kyrgyz president, Sadyr Japarov, left, during a welcoming ceremony in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Monday.
The U.S. military said its attacks against Iran were in response to a threat to the Strait of Hormuz.Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz seen from Musandam, Oman, on Monday. The strait has been under constant threat since the United States and Israel launched a combined assault against Iran on Feb. 28
Rajendra Dawadi had less than 15 minutes to act on a warning of approaching floodwaters. His swift evacuation plan saved hundreds of lives.Rajendra Dawadi was teaching at the Tribhuvan Trishuli School when a staff member burst into the classroom, shouting that a major flood was headed their way.
The country is seeking urgent help from a special U.N. climate fund, but the program lacks money because the United States and others have been reluctant to contribute.Mud and debris from the catastrophic floods that struck Nepal last week.
Travis Fuller was from my hometown. I went back and talked with his family about how they made sense of his death, 25 years after Sept. 11.First Lt. Travis Fuller died in a helicopter crash in Iraq on Jan. 26, 2005.
Officials announced a second death and said that more than a dozen people remain unaccounted for after heavy rain.Grand Canyon National Park in Northern Arizona on Sunday, after heavy flooding a day earlier.
The bodies of at least two people were found and more than a dozen were missing. Further storms could hinder rescue efforts on Monday.
Canyons, small streams and dry creek beds in the West can be deceptively dangerous, trapping hikers when rainfall upstream causes rapidly rising water.Bright Angel Canyon, the site of a significant flash-flood event on Saturday.
Republicans hold their trolls close. For Democrats, it’s more complicated.Hasan Piker
The Kremlin is redefining what it means to be a writer in Russia.
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.Author Wendell Berry in 2012. The historian Page Smith hailed him as “a prophetic American voice of our day.”
