For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, leaving the town a bit bereft.
Tourists posing for photos in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, in June. The pope’s planned return has “given the town a spark,” said an owner of a bar in the town’s main square.
The music mogul remains in custody after he was convicted on two counts of transporting prostitutes. A judge will determine his prison sentence at an unspecified date.
Though Sean Combs and his lawyers were jubilant after he was acquitted of the most serious charges he faced, he still awaits sentencing for two felony convictions.
In defusing much of the government’s case, lawyers for the music mogul did not dispute that he did bad things. They disputed that they matched the crimes he was charged with.
The defense lawyers representing Sean Combs left the courthouse pleased after he was acquitted of the most serious charges in his sex-trafficking case.
Adelita Grijalva remains heavily favored to win the House seat of her late father, Raúl Grijalva, but youthful challengers and tired voters are asking why change is so hard for Democrats.
The Macy’s celebration, replete with 80,000 firework shells and 11 new pyrotechnic effects, returns to the East River after heading over to the Hudson in 2024.
Indonesia’s president promised free meals for every student in the country. But unemployment is rising, and some analysts say he’s making matters worse.
Students in Cimahi, Indonesia, having lunches that were provided by the government. President Prabowo Subianto calls the program an investment in Indonesia’s future.
After a day of paralysis, the House remained frozen in place overnight as party leaders labored to address the concerns of Republican holdouts to the party’s major policy bill.
Amid rampant speculation about his health, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-allied strongman who rules the region, has been noticeably absent from view, while grooming his teenage son for the future.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen strongman, is one of the closest allies of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Growing speculation about his health has raised the question of who will take the reins when he leaves.
Hit by President Trump’s tariffs, the Saint James clothing factory has put its inventory of striped shirts and sweaters intended for U.S. retailers in its warehouse in France.
Municipal workers in the South Korean capital region are responding to a summer infestation by spraying water, but residents wish they would break out the poison.
Sean Combs, the hip-hop mogul who built a business empire around his personal brand, was convicted on Wednesday of transporting prostitutes to participate in his drug-fueled sex marathons, but acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking, the most serious charges against him. Julia Jacobs, a New York Times culture reporter, explains the verdict.
The music mogul was convicted of arranging for the travel of male escorts across state lines but acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
The plane, a Cessna 208B, went off the end of a runway as it was taking off from a small airport in Gloucester County, according to the F.A.A. Victims were being treated at the scene, officials said.
President Trump worked the phones and welcomed Republicans to the White House to cajole them into supporting his megabill. They left with signed merchandise and photos of the Oval Office.
Officials in Dolton, Ill., called the purchase a rare opportunity. But some residents questioned whether the village, grappling with a deficit and potholes, could afford it.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was made to kneel overnight, denied bathroom access and confined in an overcrowded cell with bright lights and no windows, his lawyers say.
A poster showing Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia during a news conference with his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, outside the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., in April.
The appraisal that Iran’s nuclear hopes had been set back 1 to 2 years by U.S. and Israeli bombings was the latest in a shifting series of pronouncements.
A billboard showing a variety of missiles in Tehran last year. The Pentagon’s chief spokesman said on Thursday that Iran’s nuclear program had likely been degraded by one to two years by U.S. and Israeli bombing.
Border Patrol agents made just over 6,000 arrests in June, according to government figures, a sign that President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies are working to keep people out.
The cause of the explosion in Esparto, Calif., remained unclear. Two people were injured, and a one-mile evacuation order was still in effect on Wednesday afternoon, officials said.
President Trump’s decision to pause the delivery of some air defense interceptors and precision-guided munitions to Ukraine is part of a broader effort.
Pentagon officials said on Wednesday that President Trump could ultimately order all or some of the paused munitions to be sent to Ukraine, depending on the results of the department’s review.
Two of Mr. Combs’s former girlfriends gave days of harrowing testimony of abuse, but jurors weren’t convinced those experiences with escorts were sex trafficking.
Fiscal hawks have repeatedly threatened to bring down their party’s agenda out of debt fears, only to back down after pressure from party leaders and President Trump.
Representative Chip Roy, Republican of Texas, has said the Senate failed to improve a House bill that he described as a “mediocre but passable product.”
For decades, he occupied a special stripe of the celebrity stratosphere. Now the man who helped turn rap into a global concern has escaped a sex-trafficking conviction.
After an astonishing concession to a sitting president, the country’s most popular television news program faces the prospect of new ownership and a chilled environment for the First Amendment.
CBS and its parent company, Paramount, agreed to pay a $16 million settlement to President Trump to resolve a left-field lawsuit brought by the president against the news program “60 Minutes.”
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