The Energy Department ordered two coal-burning power plants to remain open, and the Environmental Protection Agency gave utilities more time to tackle toxic coal ash.Chris Wright, the energy secretary, ordered that two Indiana coal plants, scheduled to close soon, keep running until early 2026.
It is the latest twist in the marquee battle of the administration’s campaign to rein in colleges and universities it views as too liberal.An exchange between Linda McMahon, President Trump’s education secretary, and Alan M. Garber, Harvard University’s president, has complicated efforts by the Whit
Chuck Redd, a jazz musician, said he canceled his annual concert after President Trump’s name was affixed to the Washington building’s facade.An annual Christmas Eve jazz concert was canceled by its host after President Trump’s name was added to the Kennedy Center building.
Federal and local officials said the man, an immigrant from Portugal, tried to flee and harm agents. He and another man were hospitalized after a vehicle they were in crashed.A shooting in Glen Burnie, Md., involving a U.S. Immigration and Customs officer left two people hospitalized. They were in s
Democratic lawmakers, who had criticized the Justice Department’s release of the material, accused the Trump administration of violating the law mandating the release of the files.An undated image of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell released by the Justice Department.
The new documents — nearly 30,000 in all — contain hundreds of references to President Trump and include different versions of Jeffrey Epstein’s will.
The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored.The executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate faced a civil suit filed in the Virgin Islands in 2021. Documents from the suit
Nasry Asfura was endorsed by President Trump in a contentious election. His opponent, Salvador Nasralla, said he would not accept the results.Nasry Asfura, the National Party candidate, cast his vote in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Nov. 30.
The first draft essentially called for Ukraine’s surrender. The revised version includes the security guarantees Kyiv wants to prevent future Russian aggression.A resident at an apartment building hit by a Russian drone during an aerial attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman and Rita Wilson served a platter of high-octane holiday high jinks in this unhinged 1996 comedy.
Forecasters said heavy rain was expected to drench much of Southern California through the holidays, and officials warned the storm could be deadly.Los Angeles County workers loading sandbags on Tuesday in preparation for a strong storm in Altadena, Calif.
Muthoni Nduthu was one of two killed by explosions at an eastern Pennsylvania facility that was plagued by poor ratings, citations and fines from the federal government.Two people were killed when two explosions tore through a nursing home in Bristol Township, Pa., on Tuesday afternoon.
As the much-derided agency loses billions, postal workers quietly, and sometimes heroically, serve their communities.A postal worker in Kansas delivers mail to a central hub. The United States Postal Service has cut costs by decreasing the number of home deliveries in recent years.
A plane from Mexico was on a medical mission on Monday when it crashed into Galveston Bay, and two men on the water that day helped save two lives.Multiple people responding to a plane crash near Galveston, Texas, on Monday.
The vote in Myanmar, widely seen as a sham, is a bid for legitimacy by the military government. It is also a way for Beijing to exert its influence there.A bilateral meeting between leaders of Myanmar and China in the Guest House of Tianjin, China, in August.
For years she was pigeonholed as a rom-com star. Her turn as a blue-collar mom with a love of Neil Diamond just might vault her back to the Oscars.
Craig Brewer’s toe-tapping weepie about the triumphs and tragedies of a Neil Diamond tribute band is exactly the movie we need right now.
The U.S.S. Ford has been deployed for six months, now in the Caribbean as part of President Trump’s pressure campaign on Venezuela. Maintenance woes and strains on sailors will likely mount.The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford in the North Sea in September. Neither the Navy nor the Pentagon has said
There’s research suggesting that these four-legged “battle buddies” can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. But shortages and long wait times pose barriers.
Trump has begun to recede from the movement he created.
The fight was supposed to be about releasing them. But the way it’s being done seems designed to obscure the truth.
She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.Put in charge of imposing birth limits on Chinese couples, Peng Peiyun, a mother herself, worked to relax the policy by appealin
Imani Dia Smith, who appeared in “The Lion King,” died after she was stabbed at a home in Edison, the authorities said. A man faces murder charges related to the incident.
Her 1960 essay about the frustrations of educated women prefigured Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique.” She later wrote books on John Quincy Adams and others.
