Andrew Farkas has repeatedly played down ties to Jeffrey Epstein. But they swapped business favors in the Virgin Islands, and in nearly 2,000 emails, the two expressed admiration for each other.
Plus, Super Bowl and Olympics highlights.President Trump’s allies are offering presidential access to those who give at least $1 million to a group planning events for the nation’s 250th birthday.
U.S. presidents have long been accused of plotting to control foreign oil. But President Trump has asserted a U.S. right to take it.Venezuela’s Cardon oil refinery. Critics say President Trump’s plan for the country’s oil industry revives bitter memories of colonial exploitation and flagrantly viola
Wilder, Idaho, prided itself on comity. Then federal agents stormed a racetrack outside of town in October, and the reverberations are still shaking the community.
The superstar showcased Puerto Rican pride during a 13-minute set that turned a global opportunity into an intimate, personal performance.
The Puerto Rican superstar’s set included cameos, stunts and powerful statements.Bad Bunny led a cast of musicians and dancers for the first Super Bowl halftime set performed nearly entirely in Spanish.
Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican superstar who has denounced ICE, celebrated Latino heritage in his largely Spanish-language performance.Bad Bunny, the singer and rapper, performed in Spanish during the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.
To Lam is a former security chief who carved his way to prominence and relishes the good life. He has promised to make Communist Vietnam rich and influential.To Lam, Vietnam’s top leader, at a news conference in January in Hanoi after the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister, harnessed her personal popularity and a shift to the right among voters to achieve a record election win.Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.
The strike closed public schools for more than 50,000 students in the city and had no end date. Health care costs are a key issue in negotiations.San Francisco teachers went on strike Monday for the first time since 1979. The walkout has no end date.
The week leading up to the filing deadline saw candidates dropping from the field and a surprise last-minute challenge to the incumbent mayor, Karen Bass.Smoke from multiple wildfires that burned in the region shrouded the downtown skyline in Los Angeles early last year.
The last time writers and actors negotiated contracts, in 2023, dual strikes froze the industry.The SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild strikes in 2023 brought production in Hollywood to a halt.
Wind chills below zero were expected to persist across parts of the Northeast and New England on Monday but should finally ease, forecasters said.A couple near the frozen waters of the Hudson River in New York on Sunday. Forecasters said Sunday was likely to be the last very cold night for some time
A giant freeway crossing for wildlife is due to open outside Los Angeles this year. Here’s the story of one young cat hemmed in near the city.
The sentence for the media mogul, along with long prison terms for his editors, shows how Hong Kong enforces Xi Jinping’s red lines with a new severity.Jimmy Lai at his home in Hong Kong in 2020.
The retiring congressman hopes his endorsement will carry Assemblyman Micah Lasher past a crowded primary field, including a Kennedy.Representative Jerrold Nadler, right, said that he saw similarities in the way he and Assemblyman Micah Lasher strove to govern.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan and the Rev. A.R. Bernard are to be announced as co-heads of the Police Department’s chaplains’ unit.
Does the popular figurine represent Jesus or the Crescent City’s typical joie de vivre?Loretta’s Authentic Pralines puts a Black plastic baby into its praline cream cheese-filled king cakes. The owner Robert Harrison said they use this baby because his mother, Loretta, wanted “the world to know that
Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana traditionally were America’s educational basement, but now they are showing blue states a way forward.Students at an elementary school in Hollandale, Miss.
Given the growing harms from marijuana use, American lawmakers should do more to regulate it.
We are covering the latest from the war.The largest military cemetery in Kyiv, has become increasingly full.
The judge denied a request for a mistrial and jurors heard from a woman who accused one of the brothers of filming her when she was a minor. The sex-trafficking trial resumes on Monday.Orly Alexander, left, and Shlomo Alexander, the parents of the Alexander brothers, leaving court in Manhattan last
Nancy Guthrie, 84, the “Today” show host’s mother, vanished from her home on Feb. 1.Law enforcement officers outside the home of Nancy Guthrie near Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 2.
The country’s cities have been spared the violence of a hard-fought civil war. But as the economy has hollowed out, many urbanites have become desperate.The downtown of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city. Urban areas in the country have been plagued by issues like soaring inflation, high unemployment an
