The truce is still holding, but every hard question is still unsolved.Vice President JD Vance after the United States and Iran held high-level talks at the Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland 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.
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
Davis “treated me with the same respect and kindness as a 22-year-old nobody as he did after all my success,” Springsteen said after the music executive’s death on Monday.Clive Davis and Gladys Knight at a pre-Grammy Awards gala in 2024. “There will never be another Clive,” Knight said after Davis’s
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.
It has stopped criminal prosecutions of people who install “defeat devices,” which make diesel trucks faster and more efficient but also dirtier.
A pair of proposals from the Trump administration would lower costs and weaken requirements for fossil fuel companies that drill on federal property.One proposal would lower the cost of the bonds that fossil fuel companies must pay the Interior Department before they start drilling or mining on publ
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s providing federal data to states to check and purge their voter rolls violated several laws prohibiting the disclosure.Voting booths in Cypress, Texas, last month.
Democratic socialists, harnessing generational frustration over affordability, lead New York and Seattle and are knocking on the door in Los Angeles and Washington.“I don’t buy that the status quo is all we can do,” Janeese Lewis George, a City Council member in Washington, D.C., said voters told he
After Representative Dan Goldman visited a left-leaning coffee shop chain, the shop owner posted caustic remarks on Instagram that made it clear the congressman shouldn’t come back.Representative Dan Goldman is facing a strong primary challenge from Brad Lander, in part because of his previous ties
The city’s high-drama, high-spending primaries will offer clues of progressive momentum and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s influence.
Lt. Ricardo Santos of the New Jersey State Police worked in an elite unit protecting dignitaries.
Post-pandemic, a new openness to accommodating family needs has made it possible for more mothers and fathers to balance work and parenting — particularly mothers of young children.Elizabeth Terhune, with her children in Santa Fe, N.M., worked from home when her youngest was born during the pandemic
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.
The streaming giant bought a spinoff of a popular online interview series that features celebrities eating fiery chicken wings, the latest salvo in its rivalry with YouTube.From left, Will Ferrell, Jimmy Tatro and Fortune Feimster in the new Netflix “Hot Ones: Extra Heat” series.
Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are routinely asked about performing their musical satires again. They always said no, until this year. What changed?Clement said, “One of my favorite things to do was when someone heckled us, we talk about why that hurt our feelings.”
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.
The economic impact of A.I. is less concerning than consumers’ fear-based reactions to it.
