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March 1, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

TOKYO — A film by a Japanese woman about her search for justice from uncooperative authorities after she reported being raped is a contender at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Yet, despit...

March 1, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending about 3,000 additional troops to the southwestern border, rushing to comply with President Donald Trump’s order to increase the military’...

February 28, 2025 | 11 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — The United States’ relationship with Ukraine erupted in a storm of acrimony Friday as President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated President Volodymyr Ze...

February 28, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s leading centers of climate research, has been hit by a new round of departures, just 24 hours after hundreds of em...

February 28, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — The House passed a budget resolution Tuesday night after the speaker, Mike Johnson, persuaded several Republican lawmakers, including those who have expressed reservations a...

February 28, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

After days of a cautious optimism and two weeks in a hospital with pneumonia in both lungs, Pope Francis on Friday suffered another respiratory crisis, renewing concerns about the prognosis fo...

February 28, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

President Donald Trump’s escalating initiative to drastically cut the federal workforce has reached the Social Security Administration, a crucial program that keeps millions of older Ame...

February 28, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Federal workers are expected to receive another email as soon as Saturday asking them to describe what they achieved this past week, according to a person familiar with the...

February 28, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

An examination of actor Gene Hackman’s pacemaker after the discovery of his body this week suggested that he died on Feb. 17, the sheriff of Santa Fe County said in a news conference Fri...

February 28, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

When the fuming and rumbling at Mount Spurr, a giant volcano northwest of Anchorage, started picking up in October, Alaska’s volcano monitoring agency raised its alert level to ensure th...

February 27, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico will go into effect on March 4 “as scheduled,” President Donald Trump said Thursday morning, claiming that those countr...

February 27, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy is starting to show signs of strain as President Donald Trump’s abrupt moves to shrink federal spending, lay off government workers and impose tariffs...

February 27, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

DAMASCUS — More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or maltreatment at a site that was widely feared, ac...

February 27, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

PRAYAGRAJ, India — The Maha Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest spiritual gathering, ended Wednesday. Over six weeks, more than 400 million people visited the Indian city of Prayagraj...

February 27, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Intuitive Machines landed a robot on the moon last year. Can the Houston company do it again, but keep the spacecraft upright this time?

February 27, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

While sitting beside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office on Thursday, President Donald Trump said repeatedly that he trusted Vladimir Putin of Russia not to violate the term...