August 16, 2025, 4:10 a.m. Eastern time
President Trump gave President Vladimir Putin a warm public reception, effectively ending his diplomatic isolation over the past three years for his invasion of Ukraine. But Mr. Putin did not agree to stop the war.
After a judge threatened to block an order federalizing Washington’s police, the Justice Department issued a new directive leaving the city’s police chief in charge, for now.
The plan would help Democrats flip five seats, offsetting the gains Republicans hope to make by redrawing maps in Texas.
Melinda Farina, known as the Beauty Broker, sends Hollywood actresses and everyday women to doctors around the globe. In her world, the knives are always out.
Few East-West meetings have ended with less clarity than Friday’s Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. What was clear, though, was that Vladimir Putin was well satisfied.
The two leaders are bringing some old-world approaches to bear on a 21st-century conflict.
A citizens’ group is now in charge of the island of Poveglia, where they will create a park for anyone who wants to leave Venice’s maddening crowds of tourists behind.
After President Trump suspended the refugee admissions program, some new arrivals found themselves out in the Wisconsin cold. With help, they have survived.
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Concerns came to a head during the pandemic, when carjackings surged and many of those arrested were children. Carjackings and other crimes have declined considerably.
In the nation’s capital, federal agents have operated a sobriety checkpoint, made gun and drug busts and carried out other day-to-day police work. Some residents are uneasy.
After three weeks, with bug bites and tattered hiking boots, Micherre Fox found the stone at Crater of Diamonds State Park.
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Some have emerged as a front line against Trump’s push to grab more seats in Congress, putting the issue at the center of their party’s politics. Others are ceding the spotlight.
The actor-turned-governor helped overhaul how California draws political maps. In an interview with The New York Times, he said he would fight to preserve that legacy.
LaToya Cantrell was charged with going to criminal lengths to carry out, and cover up, a romantic relationship with a city police officer assigned to protect her.
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Put money into low-cost stock and bond funds, but don’t forget the rest of the recipe: Leave your investments alone.
Strong corporate earnings, mostly stable tariff rates and the expectation of interest rate cuts have eased worries of a market reckoning.
The agency began looking into the liberal watchdog group’s research critical of Elon Musk and his social media platform, X, in May.
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Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said he would look into whether the social media company’s artificial intelligence technology endangers children.
New types of cuddly toys, some for children as young as 3, are being sold as an alternative to screen time — and to parental attention.
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Carnegie Museums employees objected that a fund-raiser for a nonprofit with ties to a senator had violated museum policy against renting space for partisan political events.
Elvis’s ex-wife has traded lawsuits in a financial dispute with former advisers that has grown ugly with an allegation that she prematurely “pulled the plug” on her late daughter, Lisa Marie.
The “Sex and the City” revival reached its bittersweet end this week. Does the actress like where Carrie Bradshaw landed? “Absolutely.”
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