Mediators reported progress toward reaching a final deal within 60 days. They also said that negotiators had dwelled on issues that were supposed to be settled.Vice President JD Vance talking with officials from Pakistan and Qatar at the meeting in Switzerland on Sunday.
Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, appeared to maintain a tense cease-fire for a second day. Israel’s military has new orders that restrict troops to defensive actions.Recovering belongings from the rubble of a destroyed home near Nabatieh, Lebanon, on Monday.
U.S. oil production is expected to grow only modestly next year as companies hesitate to spend more in an uncertain market.Smaller U.S. oil producers are starting to drill more wells, but big companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron have said they are not changing their plans as a result of the war wi
His departure in the coming weeks clears a path for Andy Burnham, a popular Labour Party mayor, to become the country’s seventh prime minister in a decade.Prime Minister Keir Starmer outside 10 Downing Street in London where he announced his resignation on Monday.
Charismatic, northern and exuding a relaxed optimism, Mr. Burnham is a contrast to Keir Starmer. His allies hope he could mend Labour’s relationship with voters.Andy Burnham, Labour’s most popular politician, at his campaign launch for the Makerfield by-election in Ashton-in-Makerfield, England, in
Pedro Hernandez was convicted in 2017 of kidnapping and murdering the 6-year-old boy, but an appeals court in July had said Mr. Hernandez was entitled to a new trial.Etan Patz was abducted in Manhattan in 1979. His case helped usher in an era of heightened caution among American parents.
Rates of gray divorce have risen sharply over the past few decades — and experts have a few theories as to why.
The pre-eminent economic policymaker of his time and a skilled political operator, he favored market-friendly stances that would later come to be associated with destructive financial forces.Alan Greenspan in 1987. After overseeing a period of immense wealth creation, he was often portrayed as among
Current and former officials say the acting director of national intelligence is planning to announce major cuts to his office as early as Monday.The ascension of Bill Pulte to the position of acting director of national intelligence has caused a storm on Capitol Hill.
The judge quashed the subpoenas, writing that they were designed to “harass and retaliate against” Democratic officials who bucked the Trump administration on immigration enforcement.The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
The daytime TV talk show is at the center of a dispute with the Federal Communications Commission over political speech.From left, Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin on the set of “The View.”
He rose from a midlevel position at Columbia Records to become one of music’s most powerful executives, shepherding stars like Barry Manilow and Whitney Houston.One of the few executives in music to become a household name, Clive Davis maintained a visible role as a starmaker for more than five deca
The label boss, who died on Monday, had a passion for hits — especially ones he masterminded — during his formidable tenures at Columbia, Arista and J Records.After Clive Davis, right, assured Carlos Santana that “Smooth” would be the most important song on the album “Supernatural,” it spent three m
Lt. Ricardo Santos of the New Jersey State Police worked in an elite unit protecting dignitaries.
For years, creators were on the fringes at Creative Artists Agency, a Hollywood talent behemoth. Now the agency is putting them center stage.Trisha Paytas, a digital star, is part of CAA’s growing roster of creators.
Abelardo De La Espriella, who has vowed to destroy traffickers with military power, appears set to be the country’s next president.Abelardo de la Espriella on Sunday night in Barranquilla, Colombia, after preliminary results showed him to be the winner in the presidential runoff.
President Trump endorsed Abelardo De La Espriella, the conservative presidential candidate and apparent winner of Sunday’s election who has strong U.S. ties.A campaign rally last month in Medellín, Colombia, for Abelardo De La Espriella, the right-wing presidential candidate.
While Kyiv’s fortunes have brightened in other ways in the war, Moscow’s forces are raining bombs and drones on “fortress belt” cities like Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.Evacuees from Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, waited to be processed at a transit hub in Lozova, Ukraine, l
To pressure Moscow, Ukraine is stepping up an air campaign to isolate the peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.A line for gas in Simferopol, Crimea, this month.
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, has found it difficult to overcome some of his perceived shortcomings in a high-profile House primary race.Jack Schlossberg, at a recent campaign event in Manhattan, has fallen to third place in recent polls of the Democratic primary in the 12th Con
Ben McAdams, a moderate former congressman, faces a handful of left-wing opponents in a rare opportunity for a Democrat to win in a Republican state.Ben McAdams, a moderate Democrat and former congressman, is contending with a field of multiple progressive candidates in Salt Lake City’s new, heavily
A week inside a grueling Muay Thai training program in Phuket.
Brexit was supposed to let Britain return to a time when it still counted as a global power. A decade later, the costs are blindingly apparent.
It’s all about them.
