New York’s new mayor challenged his supporters and his opponents to make the city better, and to hold him to account.“What we achieve together will reach across the five boroughs and it will resonate far beyond,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani told New Yorkers in his inaugural address.
The fire at a bar in a popular ski resort killed around 40 people and injured more than 100, officials said. The cause was still unknown.Dozens of people were killed, and more than 100 others were injured, after a fire broke at Le Constellation, a bar in Crans-Montana, in the Swiss canton of Valais,
A comedy writer bought the web domain TrumpKennedyCenter.org and the satirical site he created is drawing attention amid the backlash over the institution’s renaming.A satirical website created by Toby Morton, a television writer and producer who has worked on “South Park,” is attracting attention a
After the federal government threatened to withhold funds for Minnesota’s child-care program, citing fraud concerns, parents and providers warned that the effects could be dire.Demonstrators spoke out against threatened cuts to child-care programs at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul on Wednes
After a year of Russian advances, the goal for 2026 is simply to survive, said one officer in eastern Ukraine. “It’s hard to make any plans,” he said.A Ukrainian serviceman of the Da Vinci Wolves Battalion carrying an artillery shell before firing toward Russian positions at the front line in easter
The famously prickly comedian found a sympathetic adversary in the director of a CNN documentary about him. Their conversation with a reporter was … spirited.“He had looks and talent, and he had a chance,” Zenovich said of Chase, adding, “He made it as much as he could, but I think he turned to drug
The tanker, which had been sailing to Venezuela to pick up oil, has claimed Russian protection, although the U.S. authorities say it is a stateless vessel.A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter flying in Puerto Rico last month.
At least 80 people were released, including one with U.S. ties, though more than 800 remain detained in Venezuela for opposing President Nicolás Maduro’s rule, rights groups say.A group of women holding handkerchiefs with the names of political prisoners in Caracas in November.
Heirs of families that suffered in the Holocaust have gotten back precious items: not treasured art, but the keepsakes of dead relatives.
After eight years of training, Dr. Maureen McKiernan made her debut as the lead surgeon on an infant heart transplant — an operation on the edge of what’s possible.Before Luna’s heart transplant, Dr. Goldstone advised Dr. McKiernan to “plan the surgery out — every detail down to the suture,” she rec
Financial pressures have fueled a fifth day of demonstrations around Iran, with at least one person killed in the protests so far, according to the authorities.A photo released by Iranian state media showed shops closed in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar on Tuesday, following protests over a currency crisis.
Tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates burst into the open this week with an unusually direct confrontation that has global implications.Burned-out vehicles at Al Mukalla port, in southern Yemen, on Tuesday after an early-morning strike by a Saudi-led coalition.
Beijing is using a ban on the humble mollusk to punish Japan over its apparent willingness to defend Taiwan.
Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the hidden biology that makes this possible.
Crafters across Britain speak to how knitting can help us heal, even at our most broken.
The new mayor is an entirely familiar type of New York politician.
From her student days, she stubbornly refused to follow popular artistic trends. Instead, she spent decades exploring the effects of light on glass.
The floods that struck last week just before the first anniversary of the January wildfires show how extreme weather is defining life in the L.A. region.“You have to live with the fact that it’s a dangerous place,” said Paige Fillion, who fled her home during the January wildfires and lived through
In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth traveling for.The Space Launch System rocket, which will carry the Artemis II NASA mission, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 20.
Gen. Mamady Doumbouya, who seized power more than four years ago, took over 80 percent of the vote, according to a government-controlled agency that he set up.Gen. Mamady Doumbouya of Guinea during his final campaign rally in Conakry last week.
