Monitor air quality, prepare to stay inside and pay close attention to people with chronic conditions.Firefighters conducting a back burn for the Line fire in California. Air quality is poor near several fires in the region.
Attribution science is advancing quickly, researchers said. That could support lawsuits seeking damages for severe events worsened by global warming.A firefighting helicopter at a wildfire burning in the Forest of Fontainebleau near Paris on Monday.
Mykhailo Fedorov defended his efforts to modernize the Ukrainian armed forces as thousands of people protested his dismissal.Protesting the dismissal of Ukraine’s defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, in Kharkiv on Thursday. Some of the slogans translate to “Bring back Fedorov” and “Fedorov’s dismissa
Mr. Fedorov became the youthful face of Ukraine’s successful drone warfare program. The move to replace him has prompted street protests.Mykhailo Fedorov in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, on Thursday. His appointment was seen as an indication that President Volodymyr Zelensky saw drones as the best bet fo
President Trump, who promised to “end wars,” not start them, may have fallen into a familiar presidential trap.A judiciary building damaged in the war as seen from the Golestan palace, in central Tehran, Iran, this month.
Our correspondent talked about the challenges of covering major news while under surveillance and filing his work without reliable internet access.Mourners gathered at the Grand Mosalla in Tehran to pay respects to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during his funeral.
Academics, city leaders and congressional lawmakers number among the thousands to urge the Trump administration to reconsider a plan to assert more control over grants.Russell T. Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, testifying at a hearing in April.
The precedent said that “official harassment of the press” is forbidden by the First Amendment.The Justice Department in Washington.
Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?
The new pills can lower cholesterol levels far below what can be achieved with statins, clinical trials have shown.Merck’s cholesterol drug enlicitide will be available as a daily pill prescribed by a primary care physician.
A civil-rights investigation, which grew out of a 26-page memo by a political appointee, provides a road map for the White House’s assault on D.E.I.A Nike Well Collective store in Glendale, Calif. Few major companies had more openly embraced a commitment to diversity than Nike, not only in its adver
Super PACs and billionaires seem to be on the side of the G.O.P., new filings show.Supporters of Ken Paxton last month at the 2026 Republican Party of Texas convention in Houston. Mr. Paxton, the party’s nominee for Senate, has been drastically out-raised by his Democratic rival, James Talarico.
In the first half of this year, Democrats raised more cash in every key Senate race except Iowa.
Kerry Sheron could often be found waving and nodding to those who passed his home, which stood out in Escondido, Calif.A photograph of Kerry Sheron and his wife, Maria Garcia, hanging on the fence outside their home.
At least one person has died, and emergency workers have rescued scores of people. Gov. Greg Abbott said the rain in the state was likely to break records.The Pedernales River surges in Fredericksburg, Texas.
On the trail of the world’s best counterfeit artists.
An inventive $450 million center devoted to Roosevelt, who died in 1919, blends in with the natural beauty of North Dakota and celebrates conservation.
The president lacks not only a coherent strategic concept but an elementary understanding of what strategy is.
A visit to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.
Lower gas prices have been a relief for households struggling with higher living costs. But now they are creeping higher again.An airplane at LaGuardia Airport. Spending on discretionary items like restaurant meals and travel has risen faster for lower-income households than for higher earners in re
