The Weather Service Had a Plan to Reinvent Itself. Did DOGE Stop It?
The U.S. forecasting agency was working on streamlining itself for the modern era. Days away from hurricane season, it’s now struggling to keep offices open.
The U.S. forecasting agency was working on streamlining itself for the modern era. Days away from hurricane season, it’s now struggling to keep offices open.
There is a degree of political agreement over so-called debanking, but no easy answers to the hot topic in Washington.
“We are, as of this taping, still a democracy with a rule of law,” Meyers said. “The president shouldn’t have a flying gold-plated party palace.”
President Vladimir V. Putin’s name was not on a list of Russian officials attending the potential talks.
House Republicans, mostly from New York, have gone to war with party leadership over their push to raise or abolish the $10,000 cap on the so-called SALT deduction.
An F.B.I. investigation homed in on two powerful men in suburban New York. Behind it were allegations by a woman who said her brother had abused and controlled her for 45 years.
Whether in “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” or on the red carpet, the 62-year-old actor ensured that all eyes were on him.
The fast-moving conflict between India and Pakistan last week demonstrated the inherent dangers of the modern nuclear age.
Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300.
Three countries on President Trump’s Middle East tour this week are also the sites of recent investments in Trump businesses that benefit the president. Eric Lipton, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, describes those investments, and what those countries — Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — are, at the same time, seeking from Mr. Trump and the United States.
It pays to be spectacular, inspiring and just weird enough. But, please: no key changes.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation seeks to create an alternative aid system, but other groups have raised doubts about the feasibility of its plan.
Serbian authorities say an official admitted to forging a document allowing a protected site in Belgrade to be demolished and replaced with a Trump hotel.
The state’s Republicans are putting abortion on a ballot question again, seeking to buck the trend of voters siding with abortion rights on ballot measures.
As a court reviewed the Menendez murder case, the culture and politics of the 1990s were scrutinized almost as much as the horrific crime.
The death of Valeria Márquez, 23, was the latest reminder of the rise in violence against women in the country.
The Trump administration’s hostile approach to South Africa was shaped by a convergence of factors.
A hard-line aide to the Russian president will instead lead the delegation, according to a Kremlin statement.
The progress comes as the Trump administration is proposing to cut funding for many programs believed to have contributed to the improvement.
Ms. Ventura, Mr. Combs’s ex-girlfriend, said he threatened to use tapes of their sexual encounters, known as “freak-offs,” to control her behavior.
Becky Hill had handled the trial in which Alex Murdaugh was convicted in 2023 of murdering his wife and younger son. She was arrested on Wednesday.
The death of Valeria Márquez, 23, was the latest reminder of the rise in violence against women in the country.
The competition is run by an opaque Swiss organization that wants to sidestep controversies that could spoil the fun.
Forecasters expect multiple records to be broken over the next week as an early heat wave settles over the region.
An official report into last year’s yacht tragedy, which killed seven, found that the boat could easily capsize in high winds. Its towering mast made it more vulnerable.
An official report into last year’s yacht tragedy, which killed seven, found that the boat could easily capsize in high winds. Its towering mast made it more vulnerable.
Why did the star lot of the spring season, a bronze head by the master sculptor Alberto Giacometti, fail to sell at Sotheby’s on Tuesday?
Two committees advanced legislation that would combine into the “big beautiful bill” to enact President Trump’s agenda, and a third was on track to do so. But the package faces a rocky path.
In Saudi Arabia, the president denounced Western intervention and nation-building, garnering both praise and eye rolls.
A government lawyer told a federal judge on Wednesday that the intention is to deport Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, to Russia.