Syrian government forces entered the predominantly Druse city of Sweida on Tuesday. Israel intervened after days of deadly sectarian clashes in the southern Sweida region.
After European leaders stepped up military spending, President Trump aligned himself more closely with them on the war. But his tariffs threats have left bruises.
Firefighters in Odesa, Ukraine, this month after a Russian strike. President Trump warned Moscow that he would impose new economic punishments if it did not agree to a peace deal within 50 days.
Stormy weather in New York City on Monday. A few lingering showers are expected across parts of the New York City area, New Jersey, Long Island and southern Connecticut on Tuesday.
Shipping containers at a port in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. European Union officials say that if President Trump follows through on his tariff threats, it could upend trans-Atlantic trade.
Among the ideas being promoted: knocking on every single door in a House district and awarding cash prizes for the most effective new ways to reach voters.
Door knocking — both where to do it and whether it is still effective in a digital age — is being studied by Democratic strategists to identify what went wrong in 2024.
A bonfire topped with an effigy of a migrant boat. Homes set alight. During the Troubles, similar tactics were used to target Irish Catholics in the territory.
A fire set in the streets during an anti-immigrant riot last month in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. Violence there erupted after two boys were charged with the attempted oral rape of a teenage girl.
Barely a week after devastating floods destroyed Camp Mystic and killed at least 132, Camp CAMP, which serves disabled youth, reopened Monday, thanks to a herculean cleanup led by a volunteer army.
Camp CAMP staff members helped a camper ride a horse shortly after the facility opened on Monday in Center Point, Texas.
The nominees for best talk show and reality series were named, with the slates for the other categories set to be announced later this morning at the Television Academy’s Los Angeles headquarters.
As a vote to cut more than $500 million per year in federal funding nears, stations are making their pitches to lawmakers, listeners and “Viewers Like You.”
Paula Kerger, the chief executive of PBS, at its headquarters in Arlington, Va. She has been promoting a campaign to save federal funding for public media.
Leaders from Georgetown, the City University of New York and the University of California, Berkeley, are the latest to testify about accusations of campus antisemitism.
By next summer, new borrowers will have just two repayment options, streamlining the previous menu to pay off higher-education debt. Here’s what to know.
For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections.
To avoid government scrutiny, companies are asking for fewer trainings focused on race and gender and more on neurodivergence and generational differences.
“If you have something being billed as a generational differences training,” said Arin Reeves, who has been a D.E.I. consultant for 26 years, “it is less likely to raise eyebrows.”
Sickness, not stubbornness, is the most likely explanation for the animal’s “unusual behaviors,” which prompted the unusually long closure, officials said.
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