U.S. Envoy Said to Be Planning to Meet With Senior Hamas Official
An in-person encounter between Steve Witkoff and Khalil al-Hayya would signal the Trump administration’s interest in keeping a direct line of communication with the group.
An in-person encounter between Steve Witkoff and Khalil al-Hayya would signal the Trump administration’s interest in keeping a direct line of communication with the group.
Mr. Lander, the New York City comptroller, campaigned with Mr. Mamdani and once hoped to join him in City Hall. Now he is eyeing a congressional seat.
In an extraordinary 12-page letter, James E. Ryan described the pressure campaign leading to his resignation as akin to a “hostage situation.”
The former political journalist has written a combustive portrait of America, President Trump and the scandal with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that upended her career.
This summit is unlike any of its predecessors in at least one significant way: The Indigenous presence is palpable and strong.
When prosecutors accused Charlie Javice of fraud, JPMorgan was forced to pay for her defense. The bank is not happy about her “shocking” spending.
The deal would reduce an extraordinarily high tariff rate that had threatened to cripple Swiss exports.
Palestinians see the violence, and its tolerance by right-wing Israeli officialdom, as part of a broader campaign to harass them and make life so unbearable that they will abandon their villages.
The official, Pete Skandalakis, had been tasked by law with finding a new prosecutor for the election interference case after Fani T. Willis was removed from it.
A recent dip in trading shows how investors are balancing a “fear of missing out at the same time as real fear.”
The Trump administration is facing backlash from American consumers as higher costs from tariffs blunt wage gains.
Palantir is a software company, and its national security work has driven its stock price to remarkable heights.
A strike that killed six was the latest in a series of aerial assaults, many of which have targeted the power grid in an effort to deprive Ukrainians of energy as winter looms.
The chief of the company’s U.S. business, John Furner, will take over on Feb. 1.
In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent.
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
Two weeks after Hurricane Melissa wrecked western Jamaica, officials are beginning to grapple with the challenge of trying to find housing for thousands of families.
The revelations are a remarkable reversal for the Ukrainian president, who once presented himself as a leader who would clean up the country’s politics.
President Volodymyr Zelensky removed Odesa’s mayor, raising fears he might be using his wartime powers to tighten control over opposition-run cities.
Right-wing outlets have focused on a single redacted name in the 23,000 pages of correspondence related to Jeffrey Epstein that were released on Wednesday.
Paul Kingsnorth on technology’s war against human nature.
Trump’s actions should alarm anybody who shares the American founders’ suspicion of centralized power.
President Trump has been dining with billionaires and has taken a keen interest in crises overseas, leading to fears that he is drifting away from his more populist stances.
The political writer John Ganz dissects the Republican Party’s internal battle over antisemitism.
There’s big money in sending poor workers abroad. Here’s how the economics work.
The weight loss medicines are proving to be a test case for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, in straddling divisions between his supporters and the president.
The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together.
It has been a brutal three months for dramas and comedies.
It has been a brutal three months for dramas and comedies.
Some law enforcement officials say they think organized crime rings from South America, in particular from Colombia, are responsible for the crime sprees.