The government has barred Marineland from shipping its whales to an aquarium in China so the park is threatening to put the whales down.
The Essential Air Service, which subsidizes flights to small airports, will run out of money on Sunday, and air traffic controllers who have been working without pay have begun calling in sick....
The Trump administration is ratcheting up pressure on Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, while attacking boats in the Caribbean Sea....
President Trump said a Russian proposal to extend by one year the limits on long-range nuclear weapons sounded “like a good idea to me.”...
The government reviews show the country’s challenge as U.S. support wanes and Kyiv pivots to production from a domestic arms industry with a long history of corruption....
Plus, when Silicon Valley comes to the farm....
Two years of intense warfare in Gaza have left its people with a dismembered and disordered society. The destruction is vast and many Gazans have mental and physical wounds that could scar a generation....
Years ago, progressives defeated a plan to build an Amazon warehouse in Queens. Now a new kind of development is gaining their support....
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said talks on a U.S. plan to end the Gaza war are focused now on hostages, with other difficult issues to be left for later, he said....
In a country where power is highly centralized, Moscow sets the tone for Vladivostok, 4,000 miles away, complicating longstanding ambitions to make it a trading powerhouse....
At least five people were killed before dawn in another large-scale and wide-ranging assault....
The longest war of an endless Israeli-Palestinian conflict has come to challenge Israel’s own image and understanding of itself....
Supporters argue the vote could be a milestone for the country, but critics say it is a divisive move by President Ahmed al-Shara to consolidate power....
Israel and Hamas said they would work with President Trump’s plan to end the war, but a number of sticking points could derail efforts to reach a diplomatic breakthrough....
The party of Andrej Babis, a billionaire and a skeptic of military support to Ukraine, prevailed in parliamentary elections by focusing on the economy....
The drone strikes killed at least one person and injured dozens of others, officials said. The attack came amid rising alarm about the status of a nuclear plant relying solely on generators....
The prime minister vowed to rid the Labour Party of antisemitism. But a competing political reality, activist anger over the war in Gaza, has complicated that effort....
Israel said it would cooperate with the White House to end the war, but much is still unclear about Hamas’s future and whether it will agree to disarm....
From what little we do know about the airstrikes in the Caribbean, the operation doesn’t make much sense....
Messages on official government channels blaming Democrats for the shutdown are one of the most significant hits yet to the longstanding wall between federal workers and politics, historians said....
Hamas has agreed to some elements of the proposal by President Trump to end the war in Gaza, but it’s not clear if its conditions ultimately would satisfy the White House or Israel....
The Trump administration is emphasizing defense concerns instead of climate research in the rapidly warming Arctic region....
Antoni Lallican, a Paris-based photographer, is the first working journalist to be killed by a remotely piloted drone during the war, according to press associations....
The Russian president warned against fulfilling a Ukrainian request for more powerful long-range missiles, while also suggesting President Trump would decide against the idea....
The appointment of Yuliia Svyrydenko, a business-oriented official, shows how Kyiv is trying to persuade the Trump administration that working with the country can be lucrative, even in wartime....
A senior member of the Palestinian group said that the group would soon announce its position on President Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza....
Plus, we’re covering the government shutdown....
Kim Scott, who lived and worked in Russia, on Silicon Valley’s silent complicity in the rise of authoritarianism....
A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea “unlawful combatants.”...
President Vladimir V. Putin lashed out at “European elites” for “whipping up the hysteria” about the “Russian threat.”...
Also, the president promised cuts to “Democrat agencies.” Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday....