Category: US & World

A school bus with at least 30 passengers on board overturned on the Garden State Parkway near Montvale, N.J., on Monday evening, injuring 13 people, the authorities said. According to the New Jersey Department of Transportation, the bus overturned on the northbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway north of Exit 171 at around 7:40 […]

The stock market today was full of bad news for both President Trump and Elon Musk. Markets around the world had their worst day of the year one day after Trump declined to rule out the possibility that his trade policies, including the aggressive tariffs he wants to put on trading partners like Canada and […]

As a presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump promised an economic “boom like no other.” But eight weeks into his presidency, Mr. Trump is refusing to rule out a recession — a striking change in tone and message for a man who rode widespread economic dissatisfaction to the White House by promising to “make America affordable […]

The Justice Department’s pardon attorney was dismissed a day after she refused to recommend that the actor Mel Gibson, a prominent supporter of President Trump’s, should have his gun rights restored, according to the attorney and others familiar with the situation. Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, described the sequence of events as an […]

Mark Carney, Canada’s soon-to-be prime minister, weathered two era-defining implosions in his career as a central banker: the 2008 global financial crisis and Brexit. He has dealt with political chaos, societal upheaval and economic meltdown. Now he faces what is arguably the challenge of a lifetime: Donald J. Trump. Can Mr. Carney negotiate with Mr. […]

The Kurdish-led militia that controls northeastern Syria agreed on Monday to merge with the country’s new government, marking a major breakthrough for Damascus in its efforts to unify a country still wrestling with violent turmoil. The agreement, announced by the office of Syria’s presidency and signed by both parties, stipulated that the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic […]

Pope Francis has improved enough to no longer be considered in imminent danger from pneumonia and other infections, the Vatican said on Monday, but added that he would require more days of treatment in the Rome hospital where he has been for nearly a month. For weeks, doctors had said that Francis, who is 88 […]

As powerful storms swept across Central Florida on Monday morning, an Orlando television station’s weather camera captured a tornado hitting the station. “Take shelter!” a Fox 35 morning meteorologist, Brooks Garner, shouted on the air, warning co-workers to get under their desks — the designated safe spaces for such occurrences. He had been delivering updates […]

The new district attorney of Los Angeles County said he would ask a court to withdraw a resentencing petition put forward by his predecessor in the case of Lyle and Erik Menendez, two brothers who brutally murdered their parents more than 35 years ago. But a similar effort initiated by a court is expected to […]

Ahead of the opening day of the new Congress, Representative Chip Roy, who was refusing to commit to voting for Speaker Mike Johnson’s re-election, took an intense phone call from President-elect Donald J. Trump. Mr. Trump was blunt with Mr. Roy, the ultraconservative Texas Republican who had recently defied him and voted against his desired […]