As the Trump administration drops charges against corporations and the wealthy, it is also taking aim at small-scale fraud cases, including against the operator of a weathered food truck in California.Justice Department officials have internally declared that each assistant U.S. attorney should have
The practice would align the United States more closely with countries like China and Russia, where spy agencies have long relied on private-sector hackers to help with national security missions.An expert on China’s hacking ecosystem said that historically Beijing had copied various cybersecurity p
Plus, your Friday news quiz.The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in San Diego in 2021. The aircraft carrier, with a crew of about 5,000 sailors, has been at sea for more than eight and a half months.
The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln has been deployed for nearly nine months. Members of Congress are worried about the crew’s well-being.The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in San Diego in 2021. The aircraft carrier, with a crew of about 5,000 sailors, has been at sea for more than eight and a half months.
Mr. Mangione faces federal charges of stalking that resulted in the death of a health insurance executive. A guilty plea could close the federal case — and complicate a separate state murder trial.Luigi Mangione is facing both state and federal charges in connection with the December 2024 killing of
In Moldova, Moscow paid Orthodox priests, conducted a vote-buying scheme and set up training camps on election interference — all in an effort to derail the Western-leaning government.Police officers in Chisinau, the Moldovan capital, watching protesters gather outside the electoral commission after
Can our Book Review editor, Tina Jordan, guess thrillers from their first sentence? In this game we explore a few of the books from The New York Times’s “50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century” list; and learn a bit more about why opening sentences are so important to get people reading.
The backbone of the list: nine novels by Tana French, and five novels each from John le Carré, Kate Atkinson and Mick Herron.
From “Slow Horses” to “Big Little Lies,” our list of great psychological thrillers, spy novels and crime fiction have inspired a heap of great adaptations.
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform U.K., won the Clacton by-election with 63 percent. Count Binface, a novelty candidate, came second with 27 percent, a personal best.Nigel Farage leaves a polling station after he voted in the Clacton by-election on Thursday.
Immigrants at Delaney Hall in Newark have complained about health services. Federal officials defended the treatment provided there and elsewhere.The treatment of detainees at the Delaney Hall center in Newark has come under scrutiny.
As much as Zohran Mamdani’s team runs on leftist idealism and social media hits, its style of governing also relies on humor, sports references and pop culture.Mayor Zohran Mamdani peppers his conversations with his aides with references to sports and pop culture, some seeping into his public statem
The continent’s railways and roads “were engineered for a climate that no longer exists,” one expert said.Commuters at a train station in Bordeaux, France, during a heat wave in July. Much of Europe’s infrastructure was not built to withstand scorching summer heat.
Another day of near record heat baked the continent on Friday, but temperatures could retreat to seasonal averages in the coming days.
In matters of work, school and even romance, we turn to A.I. chatbots. But what happens when the bots begin talking to one another?
A last-ditch filing this week came on behalf of a dog that a judge found to be “vicious” and shows how the court’s emergency docket has been growing.The Supreme Court has been inundated recently with emergency requests.
At a proliferating number of stores, discounts on sushi and other items are offered after 8 p.m. To get the best meals, you have to be there early.
She will run as a woman but unlike how every woman before her was forced to run.
Firefighters in Phoenix race to save lives in a city that’s only getting hotter.
We look at recent problems with political polling.
The “Tonight Show” host said President Trump had been surprised by the press secretary’s decision to step down. “She was like, ‘I wanted to wait for a good time but there hasn’t been one, so.’”
Decrees restricting the rights of women and girls to study, work, travel and act independently now threaten to damage Afghanistan permanently, experts say.A market in Kabul, Afghanistan, last year. Most women say they have to get a male relative’s permission to leave the house.
