January 24, 2026, 4:30 a.m. Eastern time
Thousands of protesters shut down streets throughout Minneapolis-St. Paul to demand that federal immigration agents end their weekslong crackdown. Businesses closed in solidarity.
More than 180 million people from the Rockies to New England face a combination of snow, ice and bitter cold. Airlines, transit systems and schools have already announced cancellations.
President Trump’s faith in his ability to wring concessions by taking maximalist positions was on full display this week. So were the costs, as he splintered NATO and then undercut his credibility by climbing down from his threats.
The trip by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to the Danish territory came amid pressure from President Trump and appeared to have been meant as reassurance to Greenlanders.
If the United States under President Trump starts acting as if it’s Russia, where does that leave President Vladimir V. Putin?
The repressive Taliban government is suspicious of the internet. But a start-up in the country is building blockchain-based tools to transform humanitarian aid.
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The resignation of the agent, Tracee Mergen, was only the latest shock wave to have emerged from the Justice Department’s handling of the shooting of Renee Good.
The police said the attack was part of a plot to kill Judge Steven Meyer to halt a trial he was to conduct. He and his wife were injured but are recovering.
After a monthslong review, investigators have concluded that “all speculative theories could not be substantiated.”
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At the March for Life, Vice President JD Vance acknowledged “a fear that some of you have that not enough progress has been made.”
The U.S. Southern Command said it had asked the Coast Guard to search for one survivor.
The change, which could affect more than $30 billion in foreign assistance, is the Trump administration’s latest move against what the president calls “woke ideology.”
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The changes came after the app’s Chinese parent company spun out an American entity to run TikTok in the United States.
New York Fed inquiries about the cost of exchanging yen for dollars signaled to traders on Friday that the U.S. government might make a large purchase of the Japanese currency.
Airlines are canceling hundreds of flights over the weekend in anticipation of frigid weather and ice and now across much of the country.
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A religious fervor surrounds our relationship with technology.
Claude Code generates computer code when people type prompts, so those with no coding experience can create their own programs and apps.
The agency says that victims of an investment offering involving Gemini Trust got their money back, though after a regulatory action brought by the New York attorney general.
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The detention this week of a 5-year-old boy in Minnesota animated protesters in New York City, who faced freezing temperatures.
This is one of five indictments charging Eric Ulrich, the former New York City buildings commissioner under Eric Adams, with taking bribes totaling more than $150,000.
The sergeant, Tiffany Howell, 47, was driving the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway in New York when she crashed into Manuel Boitel, 61, the state police said.
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The soprano, who previously resigned as an artistic adviser, was scheduled to sing with the National Symphony Orchestra in May.
Anonymous Content, a production company whose top investor is Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective, has named Darren Walker as president and chief executive.
