The toll on older people and those with disabilities is especially severe as Moscow’s forces repeatedly attack the port city’s infrastructure.Distributing hot meals to those affected by power outages in Odesa last week.
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.
The Trump administration has sought to move away from the model, which supporters call “evidence based” but opponents consider overly permissive.Few aid policies have been studied as extensively as Housing First, and supporters’ faith that it is “evidence based” lends the debate special intensity.
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.
After a fatal shooting, the Trump administration froze a visa program for Afghans that Republicans in Congress had championed. The G.O.P. has not objected.Men fleeing the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021.
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
Prominent business and government figures spread rumors about the attack on Brown University’s campus this month, reigniting questions about accountability in online discourse.A memorial outside the Van Wickle Gates on the Brown University campus, where a mass shooting killed two people.
Profit-seekers co-opted America’s premier cultural exchange program, the J-1 visa, which brought young people to work in the United States. Some sponsors charged thousands in fees.The State Department has allowed private sponsor organizations to exercise enormous amounts of control over the J-1 visa
The genre peaked in terms of global awareness with “KPop Demon Hunters,” while the industry’s most promising new act was mired in a legal morass.Danielle from NewJeans onstage in Hong Kong in March. The group had hoped to kick off a new era with a fresh start, but remains in its old recording contra
Officials warned that travel for holiday celebrations would be hazardous across much of the state, with more than half an inch of rain still to fall in some places where mud and debris already covered roads.A view of Downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Since President Trump’s rise, Democrats have served as defenders of a political system many Americans believe is broken. Now the party is trying a new approach.“The Democratic Party should be leading, rather than just saying: ‘No, no, no. Status quo, status quo,’” Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan,
Haitham Salem spent 11 months held by Israel without charge and said he endured beatings and abuse. He was released as part of the cease-fire deal, longing to return to his family.Haitham Salem, a Palestinian electrician, at a camp for displaced people in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, in December.
Lamar Brown went through a rigorous program at a New York State psychiatric hospital aimed at stopping the “revolving door” for homeless people with mental illness.Lamar Brown in Riverside Park, near his Manhattan apartment, in September. He moved to the apartment last year after a lengthy stay at a
Leo XIV’s Christmas address was his first since being elected pontiff and was scrutinized for comparisons with those of his predecessor, Francis.Pope Leo XIV greeting the crowd gathered at the Vatican on Christmas Day.
His annual Christmas message was more outward-looking than last year’s, when he focused on the medical workers who had helped him and his daughter-in-law after their cancer diagnoses.King Charles III and Queen Camilla arriving at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, England, on Thursday for a C
The holiday spirit is bringing people together, with celebrations of lights, dance and Santa.A Christmas Eve service at the Syriac Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Basra, Iraq.
Shares of Tesla have hit new highs on optimism about the company’s self-driving taxis. But experts say Tesla is far behind Waymo, which has a big head start.
The artifacts of 20th-century cinema are being preserved in museums, and in the care of private film collectors like Brian Darwas, who has hundreds of movie prints at his home.Brian Darwas stores his films in a climate-controlled room at his home in Westchester County, N.Y.
An arcane numbering system and the misplacement of an official record have caused confusion on where Zohran Mamdani falls in history.Kenneth Cobb, assistant commissioner of the city records department, called the historical records “a little bit confusing.”
The actor stars as a magnetic, striving table-tennis champ in Josh Safdie’s new movie, one of the most exciting movies of the year.Timothée Chalamet in “Marty Supreme,” set in 1952 New York and directed by Josh Safdie with electrifying flourish.
Volleying questions with the table tennis champ Marty Reisman, an inspiration for Timothée Chalamet’s new film, showed that he was a character in his own right.Marty Reisman won 22 major table tennis titles over the course of a colorful career.
Hollywood is Hollywood because of its gift for mythmaking.
A long-neglected one-act from a theatrical master offers the key to enjoying your family gatherings.
We look back at 2025.Clockwise from top left, Pope Leo XIV; Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump; wildfires in California; Zohran Mamdani.
