President Trump’s verbal broadsides drew gasps and nervous laughter at the annual gathering of political and business leaders.President Trump addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules.Los Angeles smog in 1979. For decades, government agencies have used a theoretical value of human life when calculating the costs and benefits of new regula
A Kurdish force that helped defeat the Islamic State is collapsing as the Trump administration turns to back the new Syrian government.Riding past a destroyed Syrian Democratic Forces vehicle on a roadside on Tuesday, near Hasakah, Syria.
The three journalists were operating a drone near the town of Al-Zahra.Abdel Raouf Shaath, shown working in Rafah in 2023, was one of three journalists killed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
Donald J. Trump has unleashed the power of the presidency against American colleges, with mixed results.The president managed to chisel away at the independence of the nation’s top universities by pairing investigations with pre-emptive strikes on federal funding for schools.
A federal judge said he did not have the authority to supervise the Justice Department’s release of the documents.Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, made the request for an independent monitor in the release of the Epstein files, along with Ro Khanna, Democrat of California.
People across a large section of the central and eastern United States are facing predictions of heavy snow and ice starting Friday.
A similar operation that unfolded in Minnesota became a flashpoint between protesters and immigration authorities.Federal immigration agents in Minneapolis last week.
Cubans had long benefited from legal privileges unavailable to immigrants from other countries. President Trump has changed that.Some Floridians worry that these deportations could stain the state’s proud Cuban identity.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch have little in common. But both their political futures hinge on the safety of the city.Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who served under former Mayor Eric Adams, was reappointed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Several surveys show that a majority of Latin Americans who were questioned endorsed the intervention, suggesting a shift, at least for now, from ideology to pragmatism.Celebrations in Buenos Aires after the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president, this month.
For years, Nicolás Maduro and his movement used song and dance to rally support. Now, millions of Venezuelans are dancing to a different political tune.President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, dancing during “Venezuelan Student Day” in November.
The insult wielded against protesters taps into a long tradition of casting wine drinkers as out-of-touch elitists.
The film’s unapologetic depiction of the experience in all of its complications rejects the idea that such characters have to suffer.Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, who is not a model minority by any means.
On Monday, the eldest Beckham son posted one-sided explosive accusations against his parents on Instagram. His parents have not responded directly.David and Victoria Beckham, center, with their family.
For now, Europe’s anti-coercion instrument is less a bazooka than a waterlogged firecracker.
We have three years left with a mad king. It doesn’t feel sustainable.
We look at the first year of the president’s second term.
An arson attack at a synagogue in Mississippi was a reminder of the threat Jews face, but also of the strength of a small community forged over generations.The aftermath of the fire has been a heartening reminder that the congregation might be small, but its members are not alone.
Japan is reviving nuclear power, balancing the need for more clean energy against the lingering trauma of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster.
Ms. Tafoya, once a sideline reporter for N.F.L. games, has more recently turned her focus to Republican politics. She is seeking an open seat now held by a Democrat.Michele Tafoya joins a fledgling Republican primary field in the race to replace Senator Tina Smith, a Democrat who is retiring.
Harry said in court that reading articles about him published by Associated Newspapers, which he has accused of acting unlawfully, had been “traumatic.”Prince Harry arriving to testify on Wednesday in London in his case against Associated Newspapers.
