
Syria Declares Cease-Fire After a Week of Upheaval
The government announcement came hours after a top U.S. envoy to the region said that the country and Israel had agreed to a truce after sectarian-tinged clashes had left hundreds dead.
The government announcement came hours after a top U.S. envoy to the region said that the country and Israel had agreed to a truce after sectarian-tinged clashes had left hundreds dead.
As value grows in private markets, fund managers, brokerage houses, and savvy start-ups are building products that aim to expand access to them.
The president is in a deep-state fugue.
Republicans had a point when they complained that Democrats overreached on immigration. But that’s what the G.O.P. is doing now.
“The Opinions” round table discusses Trump and MAGA’s very bad week.
It is impossible to separate our language from its island at the edge of the Arctic.
The popular notions of summer fun and the things we actually feel like doing can sometimes be at odds with each other.
At least four people were in critical condition, the Los Angeles Fire Department said early Saturday.
An audit being conducted by the D.N.C. is not looking at Joe Biden’s decision to run or key decisions by Kamala Harris’s team, according to six people briefed on the report.
The number of people unaccounted for dropped this week but remains stubbornly high as some searchers lose hope of finding them.
The great Japanese genre director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose latest film is “Cloud,” has mastered the cinema of psychological fright. Here’s why you should watch his work.
Periods of religious zealotry and an unsettled professional career were intertwined for years before he was accused of murder.
Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.
The most important factors may be far from the battlefield.
Colorado and Texas are among the states aiming to change what food and drink can be bought with SNAP benefits.
The growing battle over how to manage sea level rise turns partly on a legal principle set down in Roman times.
The law mostly shifts fees from tenants to landlords. But since it took effect, some landlords have raised rents, and tenants say some brokers still try to make them pay fees.
Shigeru Ishiba of the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party could face calls to resign if his party fares poorly in Sunday’s Upper House elections.
Defying demolition orders, a Chinese man turned his home into a rickety 11-story tower. Now tourists are coming.
With his calls to limit foreign workers, fight globalism and put “Japanese First,” Sohei Kamiya has brought a fiery right-wing populism to Japan’s election on Sunday.
A video from a concert dominated internet discourse as people joked about a man and woman who appeared very upset to be shown on camera.
The lawsuit argues that The Journal falsely claimed President Trump “authored, drew and signed” a lewd birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein.
A little-noticed plan for an “infertility training center” signals that the administration intends to take a new approach with Title X, which has long helped low-income women access contraception.
A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains remarkably relevant, more than two centuries after her death.
The former executive aide, Brittany Commisso, accused Andrew M. Cuomo of groping her when he was governor. The state did not admit wrongdoing.
Democrats denounced a report issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as politically motivated and error-ridden.
After running the 5,000 meters in three Olympics, he coached the likes of Steve Prefontaine and Joaquim Cruz at his alma mater, the University of Oregon.
The records are at the center of President Trump’s effort to manage fallout from the Epstein case. But unsealing them is complex and requires a judge to sign off.
A State Department cable telling officials to avoid comments on the “fairness or integrity” of most elections continues a U.S. turn away from promoting democratic values abroad.
Also, Americans were released in a prisoner swap with Venezuela. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.