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Russia has assembled a fleet of hundreds of vessels to covertly ship its oil. With so many ships at sea, the idea of using some to cause havoc may be proving irresistible to the Kremlin.

It’s finally time to start using the money you managed to save and invest over the years. But be careful: Taxes are just one of the tricky parts.

In 2020, he moved to ban the Chinese-owned app. Now, he is opposing the Biden administration’s effort to do just that.

The world’s richest man, a key adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, ridicules critics over his backing of the German extremist party AfD, as Germany prepares for elections.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia told the Azerbaijani leader, Ilham Aliyev, in a phone call, “that the tragic incident took place in Russian airspace.”

Human rights organizations and residents describe the situation in the enclave as getting more desperate. Here is a closer look.

The identity of the jackpot winner was not immediately known, but lottery officials in California are expected to reveal it.

Schubert’s final three piano sonatas are a deep exploration of loneliness, and particularly apt for our age of isolation.

Robert Brooks died after a savage attack at a New York prison this month that was captured by several officers’ body-worn cameras.

His résumé is a catalog of corporate emergencies at Time Warner, Citigroup and the Los Angeles Clippers.

The sportscaster combined play-by-play excitement with a knack for precision in his decades as a sports broadcaster calling N.F.L. and N.C.A.A. games for CBS.

The president-elect took no position on the app’s First Amendment challenge to the law, which sets a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or close the popular platform.

The number of people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. topped 770,000, an increase of more than 18 percent over last year.

The Treasury secretary urged Congress to protect the full faith and credit of the United States by raising the debt limit.

The hospital, Kamal Adwan, has been caught in the middle of Israel’s monthslong offensive against Hamas militants in northern Gaza.

Tiny genetic alterations could help the bird flu virus enter cells in the upper respiratory tract, the C.D.C. said. But there is no sign that mutations are widespread in nature.

The vote was the second major impeachment in two weeks after President Yoon’s ill-fated martial law bid set off turmoil. The country’s currency has plunged.

The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”

Republicans in Congress have tried to defund public media for decades. With the help of Elon Musk, could they finally make good on their threat?