Category: US & World

Israeli negotiators traveled to the Gulf nation of Qatar on Friday for the first time in weeks to restart talks over a cease-fire deal that could end the war in Gaza and free the hostages held there, after weeks of deadlock in the negotiations. David Barnea, the head of Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence service, led […]

The Vatican said on Friday that it had excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the church’s former ambassador to the United States, after finding him guilty of schism for refusing to recognize the authority of Pope Francis and the liberal reforms enacted after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. Archbishop Viganò has emerged as one […]

Between abandoned coal mines and an engine plant scheduled for closure, a gleaming new factory hovers like a phoenix over Billy-Berclau, a small industrial town in northern France. Inside, 700 newly hired workers are making next-generation electric vehicle batteries for the Automotive Cells Company — part of a grand project to revive the wider region’s […]

A Nashville judge late Thursday refused to allow the publication of writings left behind by the assailant who killed six people at a Christian school in the city last year, siding with the wishes of the families of surviving children. The question of whether to publish the journals and other documents left behind by the […]

One pledged he would confront Iran’s enemies, the other vowed to make peace with the world. One intends to double down on social restrictions, the other promises to ease stifling rules for young people and women. One identifies as an Islamic ideologue, the other as a pragmatic reformist. The race to become Iran’s next president […]

Two people were killed and seven others were injured after an apparently impaired driver of a pickup truck plowed into a crowd of people celebrating July 4 in a park on the Lower East Side, the authorities said. Several of the injured were transported to hospitals, four of them in critical condition, the authorities said […]

Nigel Farage, a supporter of former President Donald J. Trump, a driving force behind Brexit and Britain’s best known political disrupter, was elected to Parliament for the first time. The new insurgent party he leads — Reform U.K. — was projected in the national exit poll to have captured four seats, more than many analysts […]

A weakened Hurricane Beryl churned toward the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico on Thursday after tearing through the eastern Caribbean, where it left islands flattened, communities inundated and at least eight people dead. The storm, the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, was at Category 2 strength by 8 p.m. Eastern time, with […]

Keir Starmer is all but certain to become the next prime minister of Britain, after an exit poll projected that his Labour Party would win the general election in a landslide on Thursday. The exit poll, which has accurately predicted the winner of the last five British general elections, indicated late Thursday that Labour was […]

A destructive wildfire that engulfed buildings and forced 29,000 people to evacuate the area near Oroville in Butte County, California, is showing signs of slowing, officials said. Fire crews battled flames overnight, and on Thursday morning, the spread of the blaze, named the Thompson fire, remained relatively stable, at around 3,500 acres burned. The fierce […]