USA Update

An accidentally leaked Marvel Rivals ad has revealed potential new additions to the game’s character roster. Human Torch and The Thing may soon join the existing list of 33 characters in Marvel Rivals. Although we only see the two heroes from the Fantastic Four in the selection wheel, there may be more coming soon. In […]

Eight people have been convicted in France over their involvement in the 2020 beheading of a teacher who showed his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Jockey Beau Mertens emulated the deeds of his late father Peter in claiming the Listed $300,000 Sportsbet Pakenham Cup aboard the brave front-runner Goldman.

Brad and Bobby Hill have a rare bond that will become even stronger when the play alongside each other for the Indigenous All-Stars against Fremantle in February.

It wasn’t long after Natasha Shrestha, a seventh-grade history teacher in New York City, saw the cover for Doechii’s latest mixtape that she decided to claim a piece of the Florida rapper’s aesthetic for herself. Ms. Shrestha got her nails done in an elaborate tribute to the cover art of the new album, “Alligator Bites […]

Americans stocking up on holiday cooking essentials may be greeted with an unwelcome surprise in the grocery aisles: higher prices for eggs, spurred by an intensifying bird flu outbreak. Food inflation has cooled significantly from its pandemic peaks in 2022. But consumers are still grappling with persistently high prices. The frustration is particularly acute when […]

Inside the jail cell, the police officer is registering his freshly arrested prisoner — a young Jewish woman suspected of political criminality. It is 1933 in Berlin, where determining who belongs and who doesn’t is of paramount concern to the government. So he inquires about her birthplace (Germany) and her parents’ (same). And her parents’ […]

Justin Trudeau’s career is the stuff of 21st-century political drama, with an arc that has taken him from glamorous liberal standard-bearer to the butt of jokes by President-elect Donald J. Trump and his acolytes. He burst onto the international scene in 2015, a newly elected young leader of Canada. And he spent the next decade […]

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nicole Chan Loeb, a photographer and videographer from Boston. It’s been edited for length and clarity. My kids are 1.5 and 4 years old, and I’ve never bought them any physical presents for birthdays and holidays. For birthdays, I’ll make a cake, and instead of buying […]

emergency services said on Saturday that 16 people were injured when a rocket fired from Yemen hit Tel Aviv overnight. An attempt to intercept the rocket had failed, according to the Israeli military. Yemen’s later claimed responsibility for the strike, their second such attack in a matter of days. They said it was carried out […]