The quake in Russia on Wednesday was among the strongest ever recorded — but perhaps not strong enough.

Israel and the world can do much more to alleviate the emergency.

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota activated the National Guard to help the city of St. Paul address a cyberattack that was det…

The Southern Delta Aquarids and Alpha Capricornids are not the best showers of the summer, but they reach their peak on…

The sailboat was struck near Hibiscus Island in Biscayne Bay, the authorities said.

The attack raised questions about diplomatic efforts to end the conflict in the Central African country.

Today, many children in Gaza are so hungry they may never recover, and our supplies are critically low.

A small fire in the brake system just ahead of the jet’s takeoff prompted the evacuation of 173 passengers and six crew…

The authorities on Sunday said that a motive for the attack, which left 11 people injured, remained unknown. Citizens, …

A lawyer for the family of 12-year-old Jaysen Carr said he died on July 18 after contracting a deadly infectious amoeba…

Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, offering a more precise estimate of a patient’s risk. Ye…

Young voters went for Zohran Mamdani by a large margin. Can they persuade their parents to do the same?

For almost eight years, the police said, an Indian man hid a range of criminal activities behind fake diplomatic missio…

A joint statement promised new efforts to cut emissions at a time when China is positioning itself as the world’s one-s…

A Black man was beaten by a white officer in Jacksonville, Fla., during a traffic stop. The sheriff’s office said that …

Trump’s budget cuts mean that local governments must work smarter.

A co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, he represented St. Louis in the House as an uncompromising liberal Demo…

The man, a U.S. citizen, is barred from leaving China by the Ministry of State Security, the country’s main intelligenc…

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York, said that he and his wife were going to the African count…

A former Jeffrey Epstein employee said that she told the F.B.I. in 1996 and 2006 about what she considered a troubling …

Ukraine’s president proposed reviving talks brokered by the Trump administration, which seemed stalled a month ago.

Natasha Lavoie’s phone number appeared on a T-shirt sold online that advertised a fictitious missing cat. She can’t sto…

Over 260 people were released from prisons in El Salvador and Venezuela. Now they face the challenge of coming home.

Pop culture didn’t create the real-world mythologies roiling our politics, but it helped write the scripts.

Republicans had a point when they complained that Democrats overreached on immigration. But that’s what the G.O.P. is d…

From the director of “Midsommar,” a nightmare vision of our national descent.

Mr. Adams, who was elected on a law-and-order campaign message, is seeking to portray Zohran Mamdani, this year’s Democ…

Students want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way.

The Trump administration sent five deportees to Eswatini, an African kingdom, saying that their own countries would not…

More than a client list, MAGA is looking for meaning.

Few Americans have confidence in the chairman, Jerome Powell, to do the right thing on the economy, though attitudes ar…

Drastic measures are necessary “before we are crushed by the debt,” the country’s prime minister warned.

Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that v…

“I’m disappointed in President Putin, because I thought we would have had a deal two months ago,” President Trump said.…

The police minister was suspended amid allegations that he had protected figures with ties to a criminal syndicate, add…

The threat of heavy rain is “slight” for this weekend, but with the ground fully saturated in Kerr County, even small a…

In April, U.S.-made bombs destroyed a detention facility that held Ethiopian migrants in Yemen, crushing bodies and shr…

It’s probably not Elon Musk’s new party.

New research suggests Sonoran Desert toads went into steep decline after stories of their mind-bending chemical propert…

If the plan is finalized, it would allow critical aid to flow to Ukraine as it endures one of Russia’s heaviest assault…

The director of the reboot, James Gunn, called the superhero from the planet Krypton “an immigrant,” thrusting the summ…

The fight is rooted in years of political history between President Trump and the last two presidents of Brazil.

A total of 10 crew members have been rescued so far after Yemeni militants sank a Greek-owned cargo ship in the Red Sea…

His “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 in 1959, but his pop stardom was short-lived, and his death in 2022, with an anonym…

As Zohran Mamdani runs for mayor in the general election, some leaders are encouraging him to keep Jessica Tisch as New…

Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their int…

President Emmanuel Macron is on a state visit to Britain, the first of a French leader since 2008. His hosts are drench…

A student who paid thousands for a tech boot camp said it was “a Caltech program in name only.”

Valery Gergiev, an ally of Vladimir V. Putin, is set to conduct in Western Europe for the first time since institutions…

An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy …

Heavy metal fans crossed continents to converge on Birmingham, England, and throw devil horns in honor of the Prince of…

But the Treasury secretary also said that some countries working toward agreements with the United States could have un…

The tech billionaire, who has publicly feuded with President Trump, wrote on social media that he would be creating “th…

The region is also known as “Flash Flood Alley,” because of its propensity for high levels of rainfall and the runoff o…

Avi Small, who had served as Gov. Kathy Hochul’s longtime press secretary, was accused of inappropriately touching anot…

Despite the unspeakable horror of her youth, she embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy and the belie…

The Kalma Beach resort town, one of Kim Jong-un’s most ambitious projects aimed at attracting foreign tourists, may not…

Despite everything, it is still possible to achieve a just end to the war in Ukraine.

Because of DOGE’s misguided cuts, drugs donated to save lives will probably expire. Trump could still fix this.

A bill to cut the cost of Britain’s social welfare system passed a hurdle in Parliament on Tuesday, but only after Prim…

A member of the German collective Zero Group, he hammered thousands of nails — into columns, chairs, canvases — express…

Calgary removed fluoride from its water supply in 2011, but residents voted to reverse course after studies linked the …

The Sinaloa Cartel, the world’s most-feared fentanyl trafficker, is reeling from an internal war and a U.S.-Mexican cra…

One of the world’s most powerful criminal syndicates is facing a government crackdown and internal war after the son of…

Crew members rescued two passengers after they drifted in the sea away from the ship. Witnesses said on social media th…