A Grand Jury Again Declines to Re-Indict Letitia James
A grand jury in Alexandria, Va., on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to bring new charges against Letitia James,...
Amnesty International Accuses Hamas of War Crimes in 2023 Attack on Israel
Amnesty International on Thursday accused Hamas and some smaller armed Palestinian groups of war crimes and crimes against humanity during...
Oil Tanker Seizure Hits Venezuela’s Lifeblood. Here’s What to Know.
The U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela laid bare a crucial factor in the standoff...
Revised Proposal to End Ukraine War Sent to U.S., German Chancellor Says
Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany said on Thursday that the United States had been sent a revised proposal to end...
Bessent Accelerates Regulation Overhaul to Jumpstart Growth
The Trump administration accelerated its deregulatory push on Thursday by asking the Financial Oversight Stability Council, a financial crisis-era government...
What Teenagers Are Saying About Gratitude, Winter Blues and ‘Rage Bait’
Welcome to Current Events Conversation, where each week we round up some of our favorite responses to one of our...
Smithsonian Returns Three Khmer Artifacts Thought Looted to Cambodia
As part of its pledge to remove illicit holdings from its collection, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Asian Art...
Will the Self-Driving Cars of the Future Lower Emissions?
Call an Uber in Austin or Atlanta, and you might be offered a vehicle without a driver. Waymo, the self-driving...
Trump Gets to Pick a New Fed Chair but a Divided Board Still Gets a Say
President Trump wants significantly lower borrowing costs and has been clear that he expects his pick to replace Jerome H....
Lecturer Sanctioned Over MAGA White Supremacy Lesson Is Back in Class
An Indiana University lecturer who showed a graphic in class that labeled the slogan “Make America Great Again” as an...
Can OpenAI Respond After Google Closes the A.I. Technology Gap?
Just before Thanksgiving, Google boasted that its new and improved Artificial Intelligence model, Gemini 3, had surpassed the technology from...
5 New Books We Love This Week
Every week, the critics and editors at the New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new...
A Hot Plant’s Mysterious Signal Makes Beetles Pollinate It
If a plant wants to reproduce, there are a number of tricks it can use to lure a pollinator insect....
Turkey’s Largest City Is Threatened by a Lurking Seismic Catastrophe
Something ominous is happening deep below the Sea of Marmara in Turkey. A fault line beneath this inland body of...
U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say
The Trump administration sided with officials from Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran in a successful effort to block part of...
