A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.Meta’s chairman and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, at Los Angeles Superior Court last month.
The jobs cuts and a new stock program for executives come as Meta continues to shift its focus to artificial intelligence.
Iran has severely damaged several American military bases in the Middle East, officials say.A satellite image of Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in February.
The president has domestic and international political motivations for touting negotiations to end the war. Iran has similar ones to deny discussions.President Trump has raised hopes that the war with Iran might end soon.
The lack of French in Michael Rousseau’s speech about the deadly collision at LaGuardia Airport reignited a debate over linguistic inclusivity in Canada.Air Canada chief executive Michael Rousseau in 2024.
Leading music labels sued Cox Communications for failing to terminate accounts of subscribers flagged for distributing copyrighted music.At issue for the justices was whether providers like Cox could be held legally responsible if they knew that customers were pirating music but did not take steps t
A Reddit forum has become a haven for those deciding whether it’s time to shave it all.
Republicans are eying a last-ditch procedural maneuver to overcome united Democratic opposition, but the chances for success are slim.Senator John Thune, the majority leader, brought the SAVE America Act to the floor under intense pressure from President Trump and conservatives who maintained that i
A mother of three won a statehouse seat that includes Mar-a-Lago, while a union electrician leads in a State Senate race in conservative West Tampa.Emily Gregory, a first-time candidate, won in Palm Beach County, Fla., not by focusing on her most famous constituent but by castigating leaders in Tall
A governor who spent two terms cutting services to preserve Alaskans’ oil-funded annual checks is leaving office. Voters must now decide what comes next for the state’s faltering fiscal model.Juneau, Alaska, on a snowy morning earlier this month.
Republicans are cautiously optimistic about a statewide referendum now at the center of the country’s gerrymandering war, but Democrats have a huge cash advantage.Virginians for Fair Elections, the main Democratic-aligned effort to redraw congressional maps in Virginia, has heavily out-raised the ma
Within the Senate’s housing bill lie the terms of an unusual debate: Who gets to own — and live in — single-family homes?A rental home community being built in Simpsonville, S.C.
Kate Marvel, a well-known author, joins an estimated 95,000 people who have left federal science agencies since President Trump returned to the White House.Kate Marvel, a scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University, is one of the almost 100,000 scientists to leav
The descendants of David Drake learned who he was 10 years ago. They see his jars as his artistic and spiritual inheritance — and their own.
Tired of seeing its elementary-school children struggle with online temptations, the town of Greystones proposed a ‘no smart devices’ code. Most everyone bought in.The seaside town of Greystones, Ireland, is experimenting with a voluntary ban on smart devices for preteen children. Most of the town,
Matt Brittin, the former president of Google in Europe, will become the new director general. Among the items on his to-do list: handling a lawsuit from President Trump.The former head of Google in Europe, Matt Brittin, has been named as the new leader of the BBC.
Allegations against Noma’s chef have spurred debate over whether a 19th-century model for organizing kitchen staffs breeds physical and psychic violence.
Hear the instruments and scores, on view in a new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, that proved foundational for Mozart’s life in music.
In one swoop, it overturned the conditions for conciliation.
How the United States can end Iran’s control of the Persian Gulf.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative journalist, he wrote deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people.Tracy Kidder in 1999 in Northampton, Mass. He moved to rural Western Massachusetts after completing a creative writing master’s program at the University of Iowa.
In an announcement video with the director Peter Jackson, the late-night host said he was developing a new film based on early chapters of the trilogy.Stephen Colbert will focus on writing a new “Lord of the Rings” movie after his talk show ends in May.
Moscow’s forces are intensifying their attacks in southern Ukraine after Kyiv made rare gains along the front.Pokrovske, a small rural town in the Dnipropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine, about 60 miles east of Zaporizhzhia, in January.
The mayor has left lawmakers with the belief he does not plan to pursue an unpopular property tax increase, as he looks to close a budget gap of $5.4 billion over two years.Mayor Zohran Mamdani blamed his predecessor, Eric Adams, for leaving the city with a multibillion-dollar deficit.
