U.S. officials brokered the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Venezuelan oil to stabilize the country’s economy after capturing its president.
President Trump has said that “help is on the way” for Iranian protesters. Amid reports that thousands of the protesters have been killed, our national security correspondent David E. Sanger describes what some of Mr. Trump’s options might be.
Weather, supply, tariffs, labor and changing consumer habits continue to drive up the cost of groceries. President Trump falsely claims prices are falling.
A panel in Los Angeles sided with Gov. Gavin Newsom in a decision that will help Democrats counter Republican gerrymandering in Texas. Republicans are expected to appeal.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California persuaded voters to approve new congressional maps that benefited Democrats. It was a response, he said, to a political gerrymander that helped Republicans in Texas.
A poll by Gallup indicated that nearly half of voters identify as independent, but a majority of those voters will side with a political party if pushed.
G.O.P. leaders are pressuring fellow senators who supported the measure to change their vote on the bill to block President Trump’s military action in Venezuela without Congress’s consent.
Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, has reversed himself on the war powers resolution, saying that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Trump convinced him that it was not needed.
Premier François Legault became Canada’s most popular provincial leader during the pandemic thanks to his reassuring, avuncular persona. But missteps sank his hopes for a third term.
The bill would allow lawmakers to keep their existing stock and continue to sell it if they provide seven to 14 days of notice. Democrats called it a “gift to insider traders.”
Four astronauts have closed their spacecraft hatch and are leaving the outpost about a month earlier than scheduled because a crew member, who was not identified, has an undisclosed medical issue.
The International Space Station crew members in their Crew Dragon pressure suits on Jan. 9. Clockwise from bottom left: NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui.
Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.
Ms. Good was killed by an ICE agent last week. Separately, a federal judge put off ruling on a request by the state to block the surge of immigration agents to the Minneapolis area.
The split-screen television images of mass demonstrations in Minneapolis and Tehran have highlighted the president’s disparate views of democracy and popular dissent.
The television images of mass protests in the streets of Minneapolis and Tehran in recent days have invariably highlighted the complications and contradictions of Donald J. Trump’s presidency.
Rights groups and relatives said Iran planned to put an antigovernment protester to death for the first time during the latest wave of unrest in the country.
The question in the case was not a mail-in ballot rule itself but whether political candidates have the right to challenge the rules governing the vote count in their election.
A vote-by-mail ballot drop box in Chicago. The Illinois case is one of several lawsuits brought by allies of President Trump challenging rules around mail-in ballots after his 2020 election loss.
In decades of correspondence, the author gave her friend, JoBeth McDaniel, a mix of opinions, advice on writing and insight into the impact of the Civil Rights movement.
Harper Lee in a photograph taken by her friend Truman Capote. Taken in 1960, it was used on the dust jacket of the first edition of her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
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