What is R. Kelly actually asking for? R. Kelly, the R&B singer convicted of running a years-long criminal enterprise built on the sexual exploitation of women and girls, has formally petitioned President Donald Trump to commute his 31-year federal prison…
Military delegations from the United States and Lebanon convened in Beirut this week to work out the practical details of a US-brokered framework agreement aimed at securing the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon. While the discussions represent…
What happened, and why is this ex-girlfriend speaking out? Graham Platner, a Maine Democrat who had been running for the U.S. Senate, suspended his campaign after multiple women came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Now, Emily Suttle-Braun…
A powerful heat dome is tightening its grip across the American West, pushing tens of millions of people into conditions that federal meteorologists are calling genuinely dangerous. The National Weather Service has issued Extreme Heat Warnings across wide swaths of…
Senior US military commanders knowingly bypassed warnings that intelligence on Iranian targets was severely out of date, approving strikes — including one that killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers at an elementary school — in a rush to…
America broke its promise to Gen Z. The question now is whether that betrayal has hardened into something that no economic recovery can easily undo. Last year, the “Gen Z stare” became a cultural shorthand — a label for the…
What actually happened on July 4th in Washington? Hundreds of masked members of Patriot Front, a white supremacist organization, marched through the nation’s capital on Independence Day. They moved in formation to the beat of drummers near the U.S. Capitol…
HUNT, Texas — As the United States marked its 250th anniversary with fireworks and parades on Friday, the small Hill Country community of Hunt, Texas, and its surrounding towns observed a far more somber occasion: the first anniversary of catastrophic…
A Grid Under Pressure, a Public Left to Cope As a brutal heat dome drives temperatures into triple digits across the New York metropolitan region, Con Edison has reduced voltage by 8 percent across a broad swath of Southern Westchester…
There are rivalries, and then there is Yankees–Red Sox — a matchup that has defined American League baseball for over a century and, as it turns out, still commands the kind of mass attention that television executives dream about. The…