A joint session of Congress is set to convene on Monday to certify President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, once a largely ceremonial and uneventful ritual that was disrupted four years ago by a violent mob inflamed by Mr. Trump’s lie about a stolen election. There is no hint of a similar […]
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A fresh injection of about 150 foreign officers arrived in Haiti this weekend to bolster an international security force charged with reining in the powerful and well-armed gangs that have inflicted so much misery on the country for months. But if the past is any guide this latest infusion is unlikely to make much of […]
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For Wynne, the buttons are not only entirely superfluous to the communication humans and dogs already have but also potentially a distraction from their natural barks and howls, their tail wags and tucks. “I actually think that having dogs press buttons runs the risk of obscuring dogs’ voices in the sense of dogs’ expressions of […]
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The birth certificate may read New Jersey, but the origin story of Karl-Anthony Towns, the seven-foot star for the New York Knicks, extends to New York City. Growing up in nearby Piscataway, N.J., Mr. Towns and his parents would routinely make the 37-mile commute to the city to experience parks, museums, New York Yankees games, […]
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and the foreign minister of South Korea, Cho Tae-yul, both acknowledged the challenges to democracy in their nations on Monday while asserting that the alliance between the countries remained strong despite ongoing political turmoil. “Our relationship is bigger than any one leader, any one government, any one party,” Mr. […]
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Bret Stephens: Happy New Year, Gail. Donald Trump will be president again in a couple of weeks. Is there any news on the horizon that gives you cause for optimism? Gail Collins: Well, Bret, the holiday season is always a great time to reunite with friends and family. Happy to look back on that. But […]
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Can Paxlovid treat long Covid? A new report suggests it might help some patients, but which patients might benefit remains unclear. The report, published Monday in the journal Communications Medicine, describes the cases of 13 long Covid patients who took extended courses of the antiviral drug. Results were decidedly mixed: Nine patients reported some improvement, […]
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A major winter storm will finish carving a path from the central United States and the Midwest to the nation’s capital by Monday morning, after having punished multiple states with a mix of sleet, snow, blizzards and freezing rain. Kansas was particularly hard hit. Most of the state was under winter storm and blizzard warnings […]
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In the past four years, nearly 1,600 people have been prosecuted in connection with the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Some were accused of felonies like assault or seditious conspiracy and are still in prison. But hundreds charged with lesser crimes have wrapped up their cases and returned to their lives. Jan. […]
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At various points along Bourbon Street, people had left flowers, candles, stuffed animals and what appeared to be a tamale wrapped in foil. On the bustling corner of Bourbon and Canal Streets, the outside wall of a Walgreens was covered in handwritten messages: “We will neva forget.” “Terror didn’t win.” Once again, Bourbon Street was […]
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