It remains to be seen whether the three big nuclear powers are headed into a new arms race, or whether President Trump is trying to spur negotiations on a new accord now that a last Cold War treaty has expired.An underground atomic test at the Nevada Test Site near Yucca Flats in 1955. The last U.S.
The states, all led by Democrats, used the grants to support a wide variety of functions, including H.I.V. prevention and surveillance.Cuts totaling about $600 million will affect funds to health departments and smaller partner organizations, including the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ontario is expected to open early this year.
A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.Russell Vought, speaking at the White House in 2019, was part of the core group that prepared the repeal strategy.
But the state can require federal agents to display identification, the judge said. The Trump administration had asked the court to block both laws.A Customs and Border Protection agent in Oakland, Calif., in October. A judge ruled on Monday that California’s mask ban for federal officers was uncons
The court pointed to recent rulings by the Supreme Court as precedent to allow the protections for migrants from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua to expire.A family from Honduras at a park in northern Illinois in 2023. The Temporary Protected Status program allows people from countries facing war or ot
The Trump administration has criticized Nicaragua for serving as an illegal immigration pathway to the United States.Cubans lining up outside the Nicaraguan Embassy in Havana on Monday, after Nicaragua ended visa-free entry for Cuban citizens.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, invoked her right against self-incrimination in an Oversight Committee deposition.Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in Manhattan in 2005. Ms. Maxwell’s lawyer said she “would answer questions if she were gra
Leon Botstein, Bard’s president, also invited Jeffrey Epstein to visit a high school linked to Bard College and sent him well wishes after stories were published about his sexual abuse of minors.Leon Botstein has led Bard College since 1975.
Most Italian athletes at the Winter Games subsidize their training by joining the police or the military, which vie to enlist the best talent.The Italian curler Amos Mosaner.
Ilia Malinin, who led the United States to a team gold medal at the Winter Olympics and will now vie for his own, is testing the physical limits of what is possible on the ice.Ilia Malinin’s selfless effort helped the United States win a team gold medal in Milan. On Tuesday, he will compete in the m
A death certificate released on Monday also said rectal cancer was an underlying cause for the comedic actress’s death on Jan. 30 at 71.The actress Catherine O’Hara in 2024. She died on Jan. 30 at 71.
The television host pleaded for the public’s help in finding her mother, Nancy, who disappeared from her Arizona home last week. “We are at an hour of desperation,” she said.
Bruce Blakeman, the likely Republican candidate for governor of New York, had decided on his running mate, but things quickly got complicated.Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive running for governor of New York, had offered the lieutenant governor slot on the Republican ticket to several peo
As weekend temperatures fell into the single digits, New York City operated 65 warming centers where people could find cots, chairs and a respite from the cold.At Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, the south lobby is being used this winter to house homeless New Yorkers at night.
Molly Wasow Park, a holdover from the Eric Adams administration, said her resignation was unrelated to the recent wave of cold-related deaths in New York City.Molly Wasow Park, the commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services, said it was becoming clear that Mayor Zohran Mamdani d
The Trump administration’s crackdown on oil shipments to Cuba is beginning to wreak havoc on the Caribbean island’s travel industry.Air Canada planes at Vancouver International Airport. The airline announced on Monday that it had suspended its 16 flights per week to four Cuban cities. Canada is the
Organizers of the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge said they would no longer hold a major competition after snow conditions forced its cancellation for a third straight year.
The vibrant celebration, banned for two decades, brightened the eastern city of Lahore, where residents face alarming levels of air pollution and political restrictions.
The president wants to change the public landscape to honor himself. It’s not the worst thing he’s done, but it will require fixing.
Even longtime admirers see the writing on the wall for Keir Starmer.
“The Daily Show” host said it shouldn’t be a performer’s job to unify the country: “Isn’t there another person whose job description is much more along those lines?”
The wolf, known as BEY03F, roamed more than 500 miles from Northern California, signaling that the species continues to rebound after being wiped out in the state in the 1920s.The gray wolf known as BEY03F in April 2025.
The longtime Trump ally served four months in prison on contempt of Congress charges for refusing to testify to the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.The government’s attempt to dismiss the indictment against Stephen K. Bannon would have limited practical effe
