The former officer traveled to China to train pilots of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force without approval from the State Department, the Justice Department said.
Prime Minister Mark Carney visits India, Australia and Japan seeking deals to strengthen his country’s links to Indo-Pacific powers and break Canada’s dependence on the United States.
Developers are using a new geothermal technology in Germany to produce clean energy.
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A Wisconsin man was found guilty of impersonating an undocumented immigrant in handwritten letters that threatened to kill the president in an effort to get the immigrant deported.
The deal came hours after President Trump had ordered federal agencies to stop using artificial intelligence technology made by Anthropic, an OpenAI rival.
Conforme los cárteles se han arraigado cada vez más en México, los narcobloqueos han pasado a ser una manera de afirmar su poder de forma explícita
Adam Levav’s latest themeless puzzle is a breath of fresh air.
Former President Bill Clinton told members of the House Oversight Committee in a closed-door deposition that he “saw nothing” and had done nothing wrong when he associated with Jeffrey Epstein decades ago.
Scouting America said it had staved off a demand from the Pentagon to ban girls from the organization and change its name back to Boy Scouts of America.
The band condemned the Trump administration for using the song “Let Down” in a post showing victims of violent crimes that federal officials said had been committed by illegal immigrants.
El drama médico pone a prueba a los espectadores con huesos que sobresalen, órganos visibles y chorros de sangre. He aquí cómo los artistas de maquillaje y efectos crearon siete sangrientas aflicciones.
During a visit to Texas, President Trump made clear that he would be driving home his depiction of Democrats as out of step ahead of the elections in November.
The dealer, who died in 2020, had been accused of selling illegally excavated treasures of the Khmer culture. His estate returned dozens of them this week.
The package worth billions of dollars and endorsed by lawmakers is stalled at the State Department as the U.S. and China plan an April summit.
Elmina Aghayeva has 114,000 followers on Instagram and has seemingly never posted about politics, unlike other Columbia University students detained by immigration officers.
In a draft of his memoir, Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, laid out the secret negotiations that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE.
The military needs the very best A.I. to streamline its operations. It should find ways to work with these companies, not erect barriers.
One week after the Supreme Court invalidated President Trump’s tariffs, he suggested that his administration could try to relitigate a case that was decided 6 to 3.
Parents will receive notifications if a child has used the platform repeatedly to search for terms related to suicide or self-harm, but users must opt in to get them.
Marquee primary contests will determine the major-party nominees for an open U.S. Senate seat. The real action could unfold lower down the ballot.
Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, was placed on paid leave after F.B.I. agents raided his home and district office this week.
Netanyahu and his government deserve the growing bipartisan opprobrium they’re receiving.
Our readers in the state offer a window into the current center of the political universe.
The singer and songwriter, who died on Friday at 86, gave voice to teenage dreams, then executed one of music’s most unexpected comebacks.
Also, the president said he is “not happy” with Iran’s negotiators. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
Federal agents do not have any special privileges on campuses. To arrest a student at Columbia University this week, they used a tactic of questionable legality.
Actions by the president and the Pentagon appeared to drive a wedge between Washington and the tech industry, whose leaders and workers spoke out for the start-up.
The demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial was the latest in a string of school walkouts across the country, which have resulted in arrests and condemnation from some officials, and plaudits from others.
Any Lucia López Belloza was deported by mistake. A judge ordered her return by Friday. When the Trump administration sent a plane, she decided not to get on.
At Milan Fashion Week, Prada showcased a collection built on layering. For the models, it was like shedding a skin each of the four times they strutted down the runway, revealing a new look with each cycle.
After a month with little visible progress, the sheriff in Pima County, Ariz., is sending some deputies back to their regular units.
He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.
Despite plans to close the building this summer for a two-year reconstruction project, the renamed ceremony will be held elsewhere, the center’s president said.
On Friday, the state approved a settlement that included a $3,000 fine but no acknowledgment of guilt for a tree poisoning that riled people in scenic Rockport, Maine.
She and her husband, the financier B. Gerald Cantor, amassed one of the largest private collections of Rodin artworks, donating much of it to museums around the world.
The newly indicted people join nine others, including Don Lemon, in facing charges in connection to a protest of President Trump’s immigration crackdown during a worship service.
Greenpeace has said the verdict could bankrupt it. The lawsuit was over the group’s role in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
With her frenetic energy and 4-foot-10 frame, Ms. Lee seemed destined to play a certain kind of stage character: excitable, endearing and charmingly scheming.
An appeals court heard a government effort to resurrect the 2007 interrogations of a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay.
The Justice Department announced that 30 additional people were charged with disrupting a church service during a protest in Minnesota last month.
Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer.
The endorsement from the former vice president, her most significant since leaving office, comes as Ms. Crockett is facing a competitive Democratic primary contest against James Talarico.
Relatives of those who died in a midair collision over D.C. last year came to Washington to watch a vote they thought would go their way. It didn’t.
Emily Brontë’s classic Gothic romance is the basis for a new movie. It’s also more bonkers than you remember.
Not long ago, Mr. Zaslav was widely criticized for his management of Warner Bros. Discovery. He overcame the doubters, cementing a blockbuster sale to Paramount.
Hannah Spencer, a plumber by trade, won a British parliamentary seat in a district that had been represented by the Labour Party for generations. Her victory signaled frustration from left-leaning voters with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The infections at the center in El Paso come amid growing worries by some lawmakers about the conditions at immigration detention centers across the country.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said President Trump was receptive to partnering on a project to build some 12,000 homes in Queens. Many hurdles still await.
Los republicanos parecían ansiosos por presionar al expresidente. Los demócratas dijeron que esperaban utilizar su comparecencia como precedente para exigir que el presidente Trump también responda.
In her latest column, Yewande Komolafe explores the transformative powers of eru stew from Cameroon.
The president expressed his negative view of the status of nuclear talks as he weighed military strikes against Iran.
The state will hold party primaries as well as some general elections for nonpartisan local offices. Early voting continues through Monday.
Nikki Ogunnaike took cues from a model for her hair, but the rest of her style is all her.
The carrier has had mechanical problems throughout its eight-month deployment, but officials now say it is ready for battle. Take a look inside the ship.
Nicholas Kristof, an Opinion columnist, joins us in March to talk to teenagers all about opinion writing. Post your comments and questions by March 15.
The centerpiece of the annual Flamenco Festival New York saw the introduction of another wonder in Juan Tomás de la Molía, alongside some veterans of the art.
His store, Bobby From Boston, transformed the way vintage men’s wear is sold, serving as a model for a generation of retailers.
The justice participated remotely in a closed-door session of a legal conference, a reminder of the heightened threats facing jurists in recent years.
Readers discuss an Opinion guest essay by Daniel Richman. Also: A response from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche; President Trump and seniors’ health.
El enfoque del presidente de Estados Unidos es un resurgimiento de la misión imperial: adquirir los territorios y recursos de pueblos soberanos.
Jared Isaacman, the agency’s administrator, said the Artemis III mission would move to 2027 and would no longer attempt a lunar landing.
The Trisha Brown Dance Company is presenting a stellar double bill of Rauschenberg-designed works by Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown.
The Pentagon’s contract dispute with Anthropic is part of a wider clash about the use of artificial intelligence for national security and who decides on any safeguards.
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El movimiento fue un giro sorprendente en la larga batalla corporativa por el famoso gigante de los medios de comunicación.
The multifaceted musician Parker Ramsay assembled an evening of Baroque and contemporary music, including a premiere by Georg Friedrich Haas.
Los ataques aéreos se dirigieron contra Kabul y Kandahar, las ciudades afganas más grandes, intensificando meses de tensiones fronterizas.
Republicans appeared eager to press the former president. Democrats said they hoped to use his appearance as precedent to demand that President Trump also answer questions.
The move would split off the money-losing social media platform as the company pursues a merger with a fusion power company.
A federal judge must decide whether she will approve the request. Prosecutors cited a pattern of intimidation against witnesses as a reason for dropping some of the charges in the sex-trafficking trial.
Judges at the International Criminal Court have heard starkly different interpretations this week of the words of former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines.
On “Popcast,” the country superstar Luke Combs, known for hits like “Beer Never Broke My Heart” and his cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car,” discussed how body-image issues have affected him throughout his career.
The ruling extends the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s intervention on President Trump’s gender and race priorities.
Tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan escalated on Friday as the two countries clashed.
The unrest underlines the intensity of domestic discontent, even as Tehran’s government grapples with the threat of U.S. strikes. Here’s what to know.
As Kansas invalidates hundreds of licenses and birth certificates, transgender people say their constitutional rights have been violated.
Easy turkey meatloaf was a big hit this week, as were cashew butter chicken korma and beef tagine with green beans and olives.
Alex Lin’s new play focuses on four ambitious climbers of the corporate ladder. But their success comes at what cost?
This month brings a malign quarterback, a naughty robot hottie and the grim reaper himself.
The A.I. firm had rejected military officials’ latest offer. Anthropic has until 5:01 p.m. on Friday to give them unrestricted access to its model.
FX’s “Love Story” has former employees waxing nostalgic about calla lilies (always white), paper clips (always black) and desk lunches (generally discouraged).
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
Our national security correspondent David E. Sanger maps Iran’s options for retaliation if the United States or Israel strikes.
Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank led the investment, valuing the parent of ChatGPT at $730 billion.
There is good news buried behind the worries about population decline, some experts say.
A dispute over free speech at the Berlin Film Festival around Israel’s actions in Gaza, and rumors of the festival director’s firing, raised broader worries about Germany’s cultural landscape.
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The agency still offers a Free File program that works with commercial tax software firms. Some companies also offer free tools for certain filers.
The provisional application of the agreement with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay is intended to diversify Europe’s trading relationships.
The media company controlled by the Ellisons out-dueled Netflix for control of Warner Bros. Discovery. The next step is making the combined media empires work.
India has grown rapidly despite its slow industrialization, and its economy is now nearly as big as Japan’s.
“I think the mere fact that the markets can move so much, based on almost nothing, underscores how high anxiety is right now.”
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We asked women about their views on having kids.
Ozempic y otros medicamentos similares para perder peso han sido aclamados y promovidos como fármacos milagrosos. Pero hay muchas incógnitas sobre su uso a largo plazo.
An interview with Sebastien Lai, whose father, Jimmy Lai, was arrested over his participation in the 2019 protests in Hong Kong.
Plus, the company that just cut 4,000 jobs because of A.I.
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A request made to President Trump about the war in Sudan is at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The June 2025 conflict with Iran depleted Israeli and U.S. stocks of antiballistic missiles. If there is another war, the pressure will be on to destroy Iranian missiles before they can be launched.
The renewed violence between the neighboring countries stems from Pakistan’s accusations that Afghanistan’s Taliban government has harbored a militant group.
Facing a serious election challenge, Prime Minister Viktor Orban is holding up a big E.U. loan for Ukraine. Analysts say the timing is no coincidence.
Paramount’s apparent victory over Netflix in securing Warner Bros. Discovery has led to concerns within the CNN newsroom.
If Paramount can close its deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, Larry and David Ellison will influence nearly every corner of news, entertainment and tech.
La breve fama de la galleta estilo Dubai refleja las rápidas tendencias alimentarias del país, donde el bombo publicitario a menudo importa más que el sabor.
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El estado de ánimo en el país oscila entre la ansiedad, la resignación y la expectativa, mientras el presidente Donald Trump decide si atacar Irán o no.
El canciller Friedrich Merz expuso sus quejas durante un viaje a Pekín que China había diseñado para demostrar la buena relación entre ambos países.
Neither Anthropic nor the Pentagon are thinking about this issue in a meaningful way.
A ruling on a dispute over quality time.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that a Texas law banning some performances in front of children can go into effect in March as a legal battle continues.
The kind of performer other stand-ups rave about, Chris Fleming turns to choreography to land jokes in his new HBO special.
The two-part documentary on HBO is not just the story of a gruesome murder, but a portrait of the city, neighborhood and home where it happened.
From a Charlotte-area House race to three statehouse races, North Carolina liberals are signaling that their tolerance for Democratic stalwarts may be coming to an end.
On what makes Congress secret and toxic.
The medical drama tests viewers with protruding bones, visible organs and buckets of blood. Here’s how makeup and effects artists created seven gory afflictions.
Across the country, fathers are donning sparkly blazers and purple wigs to bond with their kids at pop music shows. Is it heartwarming or just plain cringey?
In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones’s new novel, about two motherless girls and their lifelong search for family.
Our aim should be to make permanent housing, not shelters, the default.
For a long time, I was angry at my mom for not vaccinating me.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief has told his followers that they will live in a world where robots will take care of every need and people do not have to work, in what has become his latest slogan.
The director Clint Bentley discusses the conclusion to his film, which stars Joel Edgerton and is an Oscar nominee for best picture.
“A World Appears” explores what makes you you.
The franchise’s latest edition ran into trouble on the way to the screen. Here’s what happened.
Steven Conrad (“Patriot”) brings his oddball sensibility to the limited-crime-series genre for HBO.
The Istrian Peninsula offers traditional stone villas near the Adriatic Sea.
Philosophers have long wrestled with what to do about the onlookers and profiteers surrounding those who have done terrible things.
The State of the Union was full of fearmongering. That strategy isn’t working with voters anymore — and Donald Trump is handing Democrats a gift.
At a gala in New York, the orchestra recognized two of his daughters, who are underwriting a scholarship to its academy.
Simultaneous emergencies in different parts of the world could stop countries from sharing ground crews and equipment, new research warns.
The Morgan Neville-directed film relies on new and archival interviews to cover familiar ground: the years after the Beatles broke up.
In mapping out Elon Musk’s wealth, our investigation found that Mr. Musk is behind more than 90 companies in Texas. Kirsten Grind, a New York Times Investigations reporter, explains what her team found.
For 60 years, Charles FitzGerald has helped make the East Village an emblem of New York City’s counterculture.
To go beyond jump scares, the director of Resident Evil Requiem has learned from “Weapons,” “The Shining” and “The X-Files.”
Novels by Tana French, Yann Martel and Cat Sebastian; memoirs by Christina Applegate and Liza Minnelli; a Judy Blume biography and more.
A dozen major blackouts and central heating cutoffs across the country have affected hundreds of thousands during a brutal winter.
Twelve recommendations for young fans of Mo Willems.
The Foglia Residences, a nine-story, 76-unit affordable housing unit designed for people who are blind and visually impaired, opened in the fall of 2024.
For Lena Hall, a musical actress, and Charlene Kaye, a “musician comedian,” Labiahead is more than a side hustle. It offers a space for female rockers to connect.
Desktop Metal, a billion-dollar start-up, promised to revolutionize manufacturing. It went bankrupt, and now has much humbler ambitions as the 3-D printing industry takes a sober turn.
The megabillionaire was tied to about 90 companies in the state, which he uses for everything from paying nannies to buying land to supporting Donald Trump’s re-election, according to a Times examination.
After a lifetime of settling for shame, secrecy and death onscreen, I had my doubts about “Heated Rivalry.” Then it seduced me, too.
The political class is worried about the historic drop. But the biggest change is among the youngest women, who are the least ready to have children.
Hawaii is expensive, but basing yourself in the capital, where local culture and nature are within easy reach, can save you money on lodgings and food, leaving funds for a few splurges.
For 50 years, Patricia Finn kept to the background and told other people’s stories. Now, in “The Golden Boy,” she’s finally telling one of her own.
The website known for breaking news about famous deaths and juicy scandals has a name with roots in old Hollywood.
Something was terribly wrong with the young woman’s liver, but doctors had no idea what.
The director Clint Bentley narrates a sequence from his film starring Joel Edgerton.
In an email to embassy workers Friday morning, Ambassador Mike Huckabee warned them that if they wanted to leave Israel, they “should do so TODAY.”
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons offer a multilayered meditation on dressing. And some really great shoes.
South Korea approved Google’s request to export detailed map data, reversing a longstanding restriction that made the tool largely nonfunctional.
Meryll Rogge makes her debut at the house, and brings it back to its roots.
La idea de Judith Chernaik de incluir versos en los vagones del metro ha transformado los viajes matutinos de millones de personas que se dirigen al trabajo.
Cada vez más neozelandeses, atraídos por las oportunidades económicas y más sol, se mudan a la vecina Australia. La exdirigente de Nueva Zelanda, se encuentra entre ellos.
The disabled man had been released from jail when federal officers showed up and drove him to a coffee shop. His family searched for him for days.
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Stephen Colbert joked that the president “is really dragging down broadcast television” with lower ratings for Tuesday’s State of the Union than last year’s address.
Algunos funcionarios del gobierno de Trump esperan que un ataque obligue a Irán a renunciar a su programa de enriquecimiento nuclear. Otros tienen dudas.
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