Category: US & World

Jordan Bardella, the far-right National Rally leader who may become France’s next prime minister, has repeated the same basic promises since a snap election was called in France. If his party forms the country’s government, he will greatly reduce immigration, cut taxes and crack down on crime, he says. But the National Rally is the […]

The slight man with tears running down his cheek had come to Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn to visit his newborn son, Anuel, in the neonatal intensive care unit and plead for permission to take him home. “You got me feeling like you all are holding my kid hostage,” said the man, Jose Perez, to a […]

Rudolph W. Giuliani — the former mayor of New York, top federal prosecutor and a longtime ally of former President Donald J. Trump — has been disbarred from the practice of law, a New York State appellate court ruled on Tuesday. The ruling punctuated the downfall of a disgraced lawyer who once portrayed himself as […]

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, the latest in a novel class of treatments that has been greeted with hope, disappointment and skepticism. The drug, donanemab, to be sold under the brand name Kisunla, was shown in studies to modestly slow the pace of cognitive decline in […]

The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear two sets of Second Amendment challenges: to an Illinois law prohibiting the sale of high-powered guns and high-capacity magazines and to a federal law making it a crime for people convicted of felonies to possess guns. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. said they would […]

Most automakers on Tuesday, with the exception of Tesla, reported modest sales growth in the three months between April and June as high interest rates, persistently high vehicles prices, and uncertainty about the economy and the coming presidential election weighed on consumers. Sales in late June were also slowed by disruptions at car dealers stemming […]

At least 50 people were killed and dozens more injured in a stampede during a religious event in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where thousands of devotees had gathered. Ashish Kumar, the district magistrate in Hathras, the city where the event took place, told reporters at the scene that most of the dead […]

Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, one of the few European leaders who maintains warm relations with Moscow and has called on Ukraine to capitulate to Russia’s demands to end the bloodshed, arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday for his first wartime visit to the nation. Mr. Orban’s spokesman said he would discuss “possibilities for achieving […]

June Leaf, a painter and sculptor whose exploration of the female form, by turns whimsical, graceful or ominous, paved the way for later generations of feminist artists, died Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 94. The cause was gastric cancer, said Andrea Glimcher, her agent at the Hyphen management firm and a friend. […]

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