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.
Many Americans can take advantage of President Trump’s deduction on auto loan interest, but the tax break will provide only modest savings.An auto loan deduction comes at a time when the industry is struggling to adapt to President Trump’s tariffs.
Imran Ahmed, who runs an organization that chronicles disinformation, was among five Europeans the State Department had barred, claiming they promote censorship.Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, in Miami this year.
Officials warned that driving would remain hazardous across much of the state, with heavy rain still to fall in some places that broke records on Christmas Eve.Los Angeles set a record for Christmas Eve rainfall on Wednesday. Another half inch could fall on Thursday.
The region could see accumulations of up to 5 to 7 inches from late Friday into Saturday.New York City got a bit of snow earlier in December. On Friday and Saturday, the city is expecting a more significant accumulation.
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.
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.
Brendan Costello was a cleareyed writer who might have found this article a bit treacly. Such is the cost of being a good guy.Dr. Sylvio Burcescu received a kidney from Brendan Costello, pictured. He struggles with the reality of never being able to thank the person who gave him such a life-altering
Brendan Costello’s family was bracing for goodbyes. But he had one last wish.Brendan Costello’s Mass card and a watercolor painting by his aunt Cathy Costello.
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,
The Baltic nation’s congressional liaison is using candy, an American flag outfit and “Die Hard” jokes to make friends in Congress as the Trump administration turns against Europe.In his time in Washington, Karl-Gerhard Lille has helped recruit more than 70 representatives and about a dozen senators
New technologies are complicating efforts to teach the scrolling generation to think critically and defensively online.“We’re sending these kids out into the world, and we’re supposed to have provided them skills,” said Valerie Ziegler, a San Francisco high school teacher.
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
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.
For decades, Havaianas flip-flops have been a beloved global symbol of Brazilian culture, worn by millions of people each day. They are now ensnared in a political fight.The trouble started for Havaianas with the beginning of a new holiday campaign starring the popular Brazilian actress Fernanda Tor
Julia Angwin turns her iPhone screen to gray and learns a lot about her relationship with her phone.
Populist rhetoric is numbing us to the plight of others.
Chosen by a British TV station to give an “alternative” to the king’s speech, Jimmy Kimmel said it had been a great year for the U.S. “from a fascism perspective.”A photograph released by Channel 4 for Jimmy’s Kimmel’s “Alternative Christmas Message.”
