The Trump administration said five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet had been barred from entering the United States.
Our photojournalists and others have captured images of how major changes from Washington and elsewhere rippled across the world.
A flash flood warning was in effect for parts of the Los Angeles area early Wednesday as a severe storm began deluging the region.
Ross Douthat reads the poem “The Journey of the Magi” by T.S. Eliot as a reflection of this year’s themes.
Today we take a look at President Trump’s interior design.
The blueprint covers a broad range of issues, including territory, security guarantees and postwar reconstruction. But Russia has indicated little willingness to end the war.
El chatbot se ha comercializado como una herramienta de uso general que puede escribir código, resumir documentos y dar consejos. ¿Pero puede ser un buen novio?
President Trump’s campaign against tankers carrying Venezuelan crude has thrown the country’s oil industry into disarray.
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Two police officers died in the explosion, the authorities said. Earlier this week a car bomb killed a military commander in the same area of Russia’s capital.
Historias de parejas con décadas de matrimonio revelan cómo el amor, la paciencia y la capacidad de resistir juntos han sido clave para construir relaciones sólidas y perdurables.
Voters keep resolving to change our country and yet we are increasingly disappointed in those we elect.
The administration has downplayed concerns — from mass job losses, to a potential financial bubble — as President Trump cheers soaring stock prices and faster growth.
After Mayor Andrew Ginther of Columbus said that its policy prohibited local cooperation on immigration enforcement, Elon Musk called him a “traitor.”
The 2025 revolt against process signaled the final collapse of a powerful idea that once promised to hold the country together.
The windows date back decades and gave work to some famous artists. Today they are high tech but still aim to delight.
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David Tanis pairs his rich recipe with a bright cabbage salad and finishes it with some unforgettable spiced apple fritters.
An 1850 rowhouse in Savannah, a 1970s house in Topanga, and a home in a converted stable in Washington.
Standing together on behalf of those who flee oppression is a very Christmas thing to do.
Volleying questions with the table tennis champ Marty Reisman, an inspiration for Timothée Chalamet’s new film, showed that he was a character in his own right.
Hacked communications and a social media analysis reveal how former regime leaders are trying to arm fighters and exert influence as far away as Washington.
With its profanity-laced script, Lucas Hnath’s Molière adaptation, starring Matthew Broderick, is a mischievous clash of the old and the new.
In an extraordinary performance, Amanda Seyfried plays the founder of the Shakers in a singular film.
As England goes to war, a provincial choir master played by Ralph Fiennes is challenged to find available voices in this poignant drama set in 1916.
Craig Brewer’s toe-tapping weepie about the triumphs and tragedies of a Neil Diamond tribute band is exactly the movie we need right now.
The movie gets at least one thing right: Rebooting the shlocky, widely-panned creature-feature, starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd, is a goofy idea.
A stunner of a debut film follows a group of boys at a water polo camp, where an outsider is just trying to fit in.
Jim Jarmusch’s uneven triptych, a prizewinner at Venice, saves its best segment for last.
The actor knows life is fleeting, but he wants to hold on to every moment.
Kate Winslet directs a formulaic script by her son, Joe Anders, about a dying matriarch and her quarreling adult children.
Es fundamental conocer los riesgos potenciales y tener expectativas realistas.
With a new batch of episodes arriving on Christmas Day, Matt and Ross Duffer discuss the sometimes obscure movie and video game references in the final season so far.
Our critic Jason Zinoman describes how the late-night talk show, whose death had been declared by many observers, came back to life this year.
Larry and David Ellison didn’t always have a close relationship. Now they’re one of the most intriguing partnerships in business.
Since the cease-fire took effect, Israel says it has targeted only militants. But death can come for Gazans while on a family outing or sleeping in a tent.
She expected her body to change when she started taking Zepbound. But nobody told her what might happen to her marriage.
After winning an Emmy, Stephen Colbert spoke about creating a “show about love.” In its homestretch, “The Late Show” is fulfilling that promise.
For years she was pigeonholed as a rom-com star. Her turn as a blue-collar mom with a love of Neil Diamond just might vault her back to the Oscars.
Few things can calm a savage heart like being genuinely listened to.
Three lessons from a London commune.
A neighborhood-focused culture, a sophisticated dining scene and a distancing from its Confederate past define the city today.
Everywhere you looked this year, men were feuding. In movies like “Splitsville,” “Eddington” and “Friendship,” it was gloriously pathetic.
As the much-derided agency loses billions, postal workers quietly, and sometimes heroically, serve their communities.
A slow start is overcome while learning about an extinct alien race that welcomed a savior.
Our columnist on seven terrific mysteries deservedly back in print.
Buyout firms have struggled to sell companies they own and have instead found a workaround to get cash back to clients: Selling the companies to themselves.
La generación del yo, yo, yo enfrenta la dura realidad de la madurez.
The country’s production of nuclear warheads has slowed, but its missiles may be poised to strike back fast in case of an attack, an annual assessment found.
The offer was the closest Mr. Zelensky has come to addressing the thorny territorial disputes in Donetsk that have repeatedly derailed peace talks.
Según encontró una investigación de The New York Times, la empresa usa un proceso de verificación de antecedentes con limitaciones, para acelerar la incorporación de conductores y mantener los costos bajos.
The Puerto Rican rum and coconut drink used to be passed down within families, but now it has become a holiday party staple beyond the community.
Expertos en salud mental comparten los títulos que más sugieren a quienes atraviesan el final de una relación.
A newspaper truck had a festive makeover to celebrate the Cooking team’s annual Cookie Week.
Lamar Brown went through a rigorous program at a New York State psychiatric hospital aimed at stopping the “revolving door” for homeless people with mental illness.
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The Port Authority is preparing to increase the charge for drivers to pick up and drop off passengers at the airports.
While the new restrictions on firearms have broad support, new police powers to crack down on some protests were criticized as limits on civil liberties.
Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton y Brian Wilson son algunas de las luminarias culturales que nos dejaron este año.
Thai warplanes have bombed compounds where people are forced to defraud others online. Rights activists say trafficking victims’ lives are at risk.
Mientras la guerra se reinventa en Ucrania y Silicon Valley se afana por mantener su liderazgo en IA, el dominio chino de las baterías causa inquietud mucho más allá de la industria automovilística.
Built during a cosmopolitan era in the 1960s, the Ariana closed when the Taliban took power, but it was still standing. Now it’s making way for a shopping mall.
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The coalition of states seeks to stop a Trump administration effort to cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide such care.
Zohran Mamdani chose Lillian Bonsignore to be fire commissioner, weeks after the former commissioner, Robert S. Tucker, resigned, citing Mr. Mamdani’s views on Israel.
Jon Caramanica, host of The Times’s “Popcast,” counts down Nos. 10 through 6, from Tate McRae to the XXL Freshman Freestyle, ahead of his top five.
Ella Dershowitz forges ahead.
The Trump administration had sought to require states to account for population losses tied to deportations in order to receive emergency preparedness grants.
The mogul’s lawyers say that a judge issued an excessively steep sentence for prostitution offenses after Mr. Combs was acquitted of more serious charges.
A “Marty Supreme” showing took a political turn when John Catsimatidis, who has a small role in the movie, invited both Gov. Kathy Hochul and her Republican rival, Bruce Blakeman.
A preliminary injunction in federal court cited the First Amendment, handing a win to tech companies like Apple and Google.
Abandoning ship, negotiating fires or hitting an iceberg are all risks when traveling to one of the fastest-melting glaciers on the continent. Our science reporter Raymond Zhong shares a glimpse into the survival training for his upcoming Antarctic trip.
Representative LaMonica McIver, a Democrat, called on immigration officials to close Delaney Hall in Newark, calling detainees’ food and medical care inadequate.
After nearly two weeks in detention, José Gonzalez, the popular host of an upscale restaurant, returns home.
A último momento, CBS News detuvo un segmento sobre hombres venezolanos deportados por el gobierno de Donald Trump a una prisión en El Salvador. Aun así, el reportaje terminó apareciendo en línea.
Los puertos de Venezuela se están llenando de petroleros, ya que las autoridades temen sacarlos en aguas internacionales y ponerlos en el punto de mira de Estados Unidos.
The Trump administration, citing “foreign censorship,” imposed travel bans on experts involved in monitoring major tech platforms.
The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani chose Lillian Bonsignore, the former chief of New York’s E.M.S., as the first openly gay person to lead the Fire Department.
Far-right mobilization is not an inevitable consequence of the precariousness of our times.
Leaders in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island are racing to save offshore wind farms targeted by the president.
In his work, he often returned to Manzanar, the camp in which he and his family, along with thousands of other people of Japanese descent, were interned during World War II.
The city and the union agreed to a 12-month probation for 30 officers. The department had moved to fire them after they failed psychological exams or background checks.
Also, economic growth surged through the summer. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
Over the past week, C-17 heavy-lift cargo planes, which usually transport troops and equipment, flew to Puerto Rico at least 16 times, according to flight tracking data reviewed by The New York Times.
One friend said Claudio Neves Valente appeared to live a detached life, upset that “he couldn’t be the genius he thought he should be.”
The troops will join an existing wave of Border Patrol agents, months after Gov. Jeff Landry first suggested that the National Guard could help tamp down on crime in Louisiana.
Oil exports, the country’s financial lifeblood, have plummeted after the United States took action against three ships that have been used to carry its crude.
Deputies responded to a report of an active shooter shortly after 2 p.m. at the Division of Motor Vehicles office in Wilmington, Del., the authorities said. The shooter has also died, the governor said.
A garbage truck hit a parked vehicle, pushing it into the scaffolding, the police said.
The Trump administration has aggressively pulled America away from its global role in climate and environmental research, diplomacy, regulation and investment.
The internationally recognized government of Libya confirmed the deaths of Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, the army chief of general staff, and other officers flying home after a meeting in Turkey.
The explosion at the Bristol Health and Rehab Center in Bristol, Pa., caused a fire and partial collapse of the building, the authorities said.
The bot has been marketed as a general-purpose tool that can write code, summarize documents and give advice. But can it be a good boyfriend?
President Trump ordered state-based troops to Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles; Washington; and Chicago over the objections of state and local officials.
At the last minute, CBS News held a segment about Venezuelan men who were deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador. It surfaced online anyway.
Tuesday morning, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the latest American-backed proposals for a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow looked “quite solid,” Russia launched a series of drone and missiles strikes against Ukraine.
Algunos de los relojes atómicos más precisos de EE. UU. sufrieron una leve interrupción luego de que fuertes vientos en Colorado provocaran la falla de un generador.
Their silence contrasted with the uproar made over the weekend when the Justice Department’s first release focused on former President Bill Clinton.
The federal government said it would hold hearings next month on controversial applications to mine the ocean floor.
French lawmakers passed a special law on Tuesday to avoid a shutdown until a budget is adopted. Negotiations will resume in January.
Take a 3-D tour of the president’s office, where he covered more than a third of wall space with gold.
Authorities say that Armani Charles, 23, accosted a man on the street before a running argument devolved into a stabbing.
La mujer de 29 años que creó la comunidad “MyBoyfriendIsAI” en Reddit ya no pasa tiempo (ni intercambia mensajes) con su novio creado con inteligencia artificial. Ha encontrado algo más satisfactorio.
The instructor, a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, gave a zero to a student who wrote an essay arguing in favor of traditional gender definitions based on biblical teachings.
From Gustav Mahler to Lady Gaga, a peek into Lindsay’s past 12 months in music.
Readers respond to a guest essay on the incoming mayor’s universal child care plan. Also: A gift that never grows old.
Bob Vylan, a punk-rap duo, caused international outrage by chanting the message at the Glastonbury music festival this year.
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, the hosts of “Hard Fork” at The New York Times, spoke with Andrew Marley, executive director for Effective Altruism DC, about how much water A.I. data centers use.
The actor, comedian and YouTuber now faces seven counts of rape and sexual assault in Britain.
Nvidia, OpenAI and other major artificial intelligence companies all invest in one another. This carries some risks, as Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal explains on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Tracy Alloway of Bloomberg News walks through the signs to watch for if an A.I. bubble is coming.
On the “Hard Fork” podcast, the hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss a new law in Australia barring kids under 16 from social media.
The “Hard Fork” co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton sing an original, tech-inspired rendition of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”
Across film (“Sinners,” “One Battle After Another”), theater (“Ragtime”) and TV (“The Lowdown”), four works suggested what achieving racial equality in America would take.
The paper by Samantha Fulnecky, an undergraduate, received a zero by the instructor and has stirred a debate about academic freedom.
In conversation with Kevin Roose and Casey Newton on the “Hard Fork” podcast, the former Roomba C.E.O. Colin Angle shares how YouTube’s viral shark cat brought him joy in 2008.
The 2020 email laid out the criminal charges and investigative steps that prosecutors were mulling at the time.
Did DOGE really cut government spending? A New York Times analysis found that the group’s biggest claims were largely incorrect, and that its many smaller cuts added up to few savings. Our reporters David Fahrenthold and Margot Sanger-Katz explain.
Bar Manje takes over the nights at Good Enough to Eat, the White Horse Tavern team open Dandelion and more restaurant news.
Starting the week of Jan. 7, the Dept. of Education will begin sending notices about paycheck deductions to about 1,000 of five million borrowers in default.
In an email sent to Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001, a sender writes about being at Balmoral, the British royal family’s summer residence in Scotland.
In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who underwrote empires in Asia and North Africa.
As it seeks to end birthright citizenship, the Trump administration is arguing that immigrants bring problems that extend for generations. The data shows otherwise.
The Justice Department initially removed, then restored, a photograph that included an image of President Trump, and issued a statement calling mentions of him “untrue and sensationalist claims.”
Waves of atmospheric moisture could cause urban flooding and mudslides across California this week, according to the National Weather Service.
In an unusual trial, the N.A.A.C.P. has sought to show a school board’s “racist intent” by proving that the names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson can’t be separated from white supremacy.
The list of co-conspirators included Leslie Wexner, the retail magnate behind The Limited and Victoria’s Secret stores.
The show reunited Kristin Chenoweth and Stephen Schwartz for the first time since “Wicked.” It wasn’t enough to counter poor word of mouth and other challenges.
La nave de la Marina mexicana, con cuatro miembros de tripulación a bordo, transportaba a cuatro civiles desde Mérida, en la península de Yucatán. Las autoridades investigan las causas del desplome.
An investigation ruled that China’s inroads into the chip industry had hurt the United States. The administration delayed tariffs until 2027 amid a fragile truce between the countries.
Mr. Sasse, a former senator from Nebraska, announced that he had received a diagnosis last week for Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
Chile crisp and honey roasted salmon, garlicky beef tenderloin and butter paneer for your holiday table.
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The Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government plan to exchange about 2,900 detainees, a rare humanitarian win at a time of deepening political stalemate.
A 2020 email noted that Donald Trump was listed as a passenger on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet at least eight times from 1993 to 1996.
Copies of Jeffrey Epstein’s last will and testament show that the convicted sex offender and disgraced financier provide a real-time glimpse of the power players who were part of his life.
The group’s biggest claims were largely incorrect, a New York Times analysis found. And its many smaller cuts added up to few savings.
The record-setting boat, previously known as Wild Oats XI, is returning after a major overhaul.
There are some possible explanations for what’s happening with seemingly conflicting macroeconomic data.
Ballet Jörgen’s holiday scare reaffirmed its mission: taking the art form to remote towns and outposts where most people have never seen a pas de deux.