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Sep 20, 2019
The Pentagon is boosting air defenses in Saudi Arabia after drones and missiles, allegedly from Iran, targeted the world's largest oil processing facility and a major oil field. The modest response, announced after the White House added new sanctions to Iran's Central Bank, reflects an attempt to keep mounting tensions from escalating into war.
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Sep 20, 2019
U.S. air defense forces will be sent to Saudi Arabia, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced. It is a response to an attack on Saudi oil facilities that has been blamed on Iran.
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Sep 20, 2019
California's unique authority to set its own tailpipe emissions standards has made the state an environmental leader and irked the Trump administration.
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Sep 20, 2019
Walkouts are taking place worldwide Friday calling for action on climate change in a youth-led movement for renewable energy and carbon-neutral goals.
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Sep 20, 2019
Is Saudi Arabia 'willing and able' to respond to Iran? Yes, it says.
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Sep 20, 2019
Protests, walkouts are taking place worldwide Friday calling for action on climate change in a youth-led movement for renewable energy, carbon-neutral goals
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Sep 20, 2019
The kids are not all right with global warming, as protests today call for action.
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Sep 20, 2019
On Friday, 5,000 youth-led demonstrations in 156 countries — 100-plus in California — will demand government action to end reliance on fossil fuels.
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Sep 20, 2019
Protests, walkouts are planned worldwide Friday calling for action on climate change in a youth-led movement for renewable energy, carbon-neutral goals
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Sep 20, 2019
The U.N. Climate Change Summit will kick off next week in New York. What is it, and what do its organizers hope to accomplish?
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Sep 20, 2019
The Pentagon will present a broad range of military options to President Trump on Friday as he considers how to respond to what administration officials say was an unprecedented Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia's oil industry.
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Sep 20, 2019
Owners pulled boats from the water and hauled them away on trailers, while shopkeepers put plywood over windows and doors as Tropical Storm Lorena bore down on Mexico's resort-studded Los Cabos area, predicted to arrive Friday at hurricane force.
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Sep 20, 2019
FedEx says one of its pilots was detained in China after an item was found in his luggage before he boarded a commercial flight.
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Sep 20, 2019
A New York City police officer who moonlighted as a bodyguard for the wife of convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was arrested in a drug sting Wednesday after prosecutors say he transported cocaine for an undercover officer posing as a drug dealer.
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Sep 20, 2019
More than 500 people have been diagnosed with vaping-related breathing illnesses, but the cause remains unknown, U.S. health officials said Thursday. An eighth death was also reported.
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Sep 20, 2019
A woman who says she was raped by an ex-University of Delaware baseball player accused of multiple sexual assaults testified under cross-examination Thursday that she did not protest when he removed all her clothes as they lay in his bed.
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Sep 19, 2019
FedEx says one of its pilots was detained in China after an item was found in his luggage before he boarded a commercial flight.
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Sep 19, 2019
Benny Gantz and his opposition Blue and White party have held a steady lead over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party.
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Sep 19, 2019
Young people see climate change as a profound injustice and an existential threat. But they believe the world can still do something about it.
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Sep 19, 2019
North America has lost nearly 3 billion birds since 1970, and the continent has also seen widespread population declines among hundreds of bird species.
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Sep 19, 2019
Benny Gantz, leader of the opposition Blue and White party, has held a steady lead over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party.
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Sep 19, 2019
Zine el Abidine ben Ali, who ruled Tunisia for 23 years before being ousted by bloody protests that unleashed revolt across the Arab world, has died.
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Sep 19, 2019
Benny Gantz, leader of the opposition Blue and White party, has held a steady lead over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party.
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Sep 19, 2019
As homicides overall in L.A. drop, more women are being killed — often by intimate partners.
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Sep 19, 2019
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that America backs Saudi Arabia's "right to defend itself" after a weekend attack targeted the heart of its oil industry, comments coming after he described the assault as an "act of war."
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Sep 19, 2019
Hurricane Humberto rushed past Bermuda, lashing the British Atlantic territory with powerful winds for hours before beginning to move away early Thursday, as new Hurricane Lorena swirled in the Pacific posing a threat to resorts on Mexico's southwestern coast.
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Sep 19, 2019
A powerful early morning suicide truck bomb devastated a hospital in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing as many as 20 people and wounding more than 90 others, an official said.
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Sep 19, 2019
South Korean police said Thursday that they have found a suspect thought to be an infamous serial killer wanted for the slaying of nine women about 30 years ago.
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Sep 19, 2019
A Japanese court on Thursday ruled that three former executives for Tokyo Electric Power Co. were not guilty of professional negligence in the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown.
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Sep 18, 2019
A mechanic accused of sabotaging an American Airlines jetliner in July had expressed a desire for Allah to hurt non-Muslims, stored violent Islamic State videos on his cellphone and has a brother in Iraq possibly involved with the extremist group, according to new evidence unveiled at his bail hearing Wednesday.
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Sep 18, 2019
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's campaigning for national elections has been hit by the publication of a yearbook photo showing him in brownface makeup at a costume party in 2001.
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Sep 18, 2019
The taciturn former army chief of staff and leader of the Blue and White party emerged onto the political scene six months ago and has done the seemingly impossible.
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Sep 18, 2019
After a presidential campaign in which foreign operatives used social media to manipulate voters, the states try to gobble together their own solutions
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Sep 18, 2019
The nightmare scenario of a government dominated by a nationalist-religious coalition has been averted.
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Sep 18, 2019
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party falls short of a parliamentary majority in Israel's election, putting him in dire political peril.
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Sep 18, 2019
President Trump's visit to California is bringing in campaign money and bringing out more conflict.
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Sep 18, 2019
Who is to blame for the nation's deadly opioid epidemic? That's the question at the heart of MDL 2804, largest civil action in U.S. history.
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Sep 18, 2019
Active shooter response training teaches various options for dealing with a potential mass shooting, from hiding to taking down the gunman.
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Sep 18, 2019
Following the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, active shooter training sessions are on the rise.
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Sep 18, 2019
Conditions in immigrant detention facilities are ideal for creating deadly flu strains.
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Sep 18, 2019
Conditions in immigrant detention facilities are ideal for creating deadly flu strains.
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Sep 18, 2019
The U.S. Department of Transportation has called for a review of all Native American companies in its minority contracting program in response to a Times investigation.
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Sep 18, 2019
Benjamin Netanyahu's gamble to hold elections for a second time this year backfired after a stunning deadlock left Israel rudderless and convulsed by a new wave of political turmoil.
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Sep 18, 2019
Abortion rate falls by 20% from 2011 to 2017 across nation as Republican-led states pursue antiabortion regulations
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Sep 17, 2019
Trump administration immigration officials praise Texas tent courts during tour
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Sep 17, 2019
In the second national election this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting to keep his job — and avoid criminal charges. Exit polls and initial counts give his main opponent an edge.
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Sep 17, 2019
In the second national election this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting to keep his job — and avoid criminal charges. Exit polls and initial counts give his main opponent an edge.
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Sep 17, 2019
In the second national election this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting to keep his job — and avoid criminal charges. Exit polls give his opponent a slight edge.
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Sep 17, 2019
Javier Burillo, part of Mexico's rich and powerful Azcarraga family, is held after his 11-year-old son dies on a boating trip in San Francisco Bay.
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Sep 17, 2019
President Trump shifts his tone on Iran and downplays talk of war.
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Sep 17, 2019
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle targeted a campaign rally by President Ashraf Ghani in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding 31, officials said. Ghani was present at the venue but was unharmed, according to his campaign chief.
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Sep 17, 2019
Zoo staff in northern Thailand have donned black and white clothing and observed a minute of silence to mourn the sudden death of their popular male giant panda, who was on a long-term loan from China.
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Sep 17, 2019
In second national election this year, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting to keep his job — and avoid criminal charges
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Sep 17, 2019
In the second national election this year, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting to keep his job — and avoid criminal charges.
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Sep 17, 2019
More than half the tigers rescued three years ago from a Buddhist temple in Thailand where they served as a popular tourist attraction have died of disease, wildlife officials said Monday.
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Sep 17, 2019
Authorities have arrested an 18-year-old Oklahoma woman accused of threatening to carry out a mass shooting at her old high school.
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Sep 16, 2019
A forensic psychiatrist told jurors Monday that a man accused of fatally shooting six members of his ex-wife's family near Houston in 2014 wasn't responsible for his actions because of severe mental illness that made him believe voices in his head telling him to carry out the killings.
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Sep 16, 2019
The Trump administration opened two massive tent courts in south Texas to address the cases of migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.
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Sep 16, 2019
Avigdor Lieberman, a right-wing nationalist and erstwhile ally of Netanyahu, is in the unusual position of having personally triggered not one but two elections this year.
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Sep 16, 2019
Solomon Islands is latest country to split with Taiwan after China offers huge sums of money. Now 16 countries are aligned with Taiwan, 170 with China.
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Sep 16, 2019
Joe Biden, storied speechifier whose verbal gaffes have come under scrutiny, had a stutter as a child. How he overcame it says a lot about his character and speaking style.
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Sep 16, 2019
New questions surround an FBI investigation that was part of Brett M.
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Sep 16, 2019
As Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh begins his second year on the Supreme Court, new reporting has detailed how the FBI limited in its investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
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Sep 16, 2019
Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah's outspokenness has made him the target of death threats and created headaches for authorities in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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Sep 16, 2019
In a troubling national trend that has perplexed advocates and experts, pedestrian deaths are increasing, disproportionately affecting lower-income, minority communities.
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Sep 16, 2019
Albert Nabonibo shocked many Rwandans in August when he revealed in an interview with a Christian YouTube channel that he is gay in a country where such a public assertion of homosexuality is unheard of.
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Sep 16, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday to annex "all the settlements" in the West Bank, including an enclave deep in the heart of the largest Palestinian city, in a last-ditch move that appeared aimed at shoring up nationalist support the day before a do-over election.
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Sep 15, 2019
Global oil prices surged the most on record after a strike on a Saudi Arabian oil facility removed about 5% of global supplies, an attack the U.S. has blamed on Iran.
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Sep 15, 2019
Iran calls the U.S. accusation that it was behind an attack on Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure part of Washington's policy of "maximum lies."
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Sep 15, 2019
Growers on Hawaii's Big Island use chemical analysis to accuse retailers and coffee makers of passing off commodity beans as Kona.
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Sep 14, 2019
Netanyahu, who is fighting for his political survival as prosecutors prepare to indict him on corruption charges, has made Arabs a focal point of his campaign.
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Sep 14, 2019
Tensions boiled over this month when a Porsche Macan jumped a curb in central Berlin and plowed into a crowd of pedestrians
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Sep 14, 2019
After nine months in office, Lopez Obrador has transformed the look of of presidency — but hasn't surmounted major challenges
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Sep 13, 2019
Hong Kong's new protest anthem has singing flash mobs springing up everywhere, much to the further consternation of Beijing.
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Sep 13, 2019
Missouri Atty. Gen. Eric Schmitt referred 12 former priests for potential criminal prosecution but stopped short of recommending charges against any top church leaders, despite concluding that the Roman Catholic Church was involved in "long, sustained and far-reaching cover-up."
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Sep 13, 2019
Indonesia could be trading one environmental disaster for another when it relocates its capital from Jakarta to East Kalimantan, a hotbed of coal mining, gas extraction and palm oil production on the giant island of Borneo.
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Sep 13, 2019
Indonesia could be trading one environmental disaster for another when it relocates its capital from Jakarta to East Kalimantan, a hotbed of coal mining, gas extraction and palm oil production on the giant island of Borneo.
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Sep 13, 2019
Indonesia could be trading one environmental disaster for another when it relocates its capital from Jakarta to East Kalimantan, a hotbed of coal mining, gas extraction and palm oil production on the giant island of Borneo.
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Sep 13, 2019
President Trump's falsehoods about whether Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama have raised deeper questions about how he's politicized government institutions.
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Sep 13, 2019
Ten Democratic presidential candidates debated for three hours in Houston.
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Sep 13, 2019
It took 22 years, but a missing man's remains were finally found thanks to someone who zoomed in on his former Florida neighborhood with Google satellite images and noticed a car submerged in a lake, authorities said.
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Sep 13, 2019
Two white parents who say they had a daughter of Asian descent due to a sperm mix-up are suing a New Jersey fertility clinic.
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Sep 13, 2019
Two white parents who say they had a daughter of Asian descent due to a sperm mix-up are suing a New Jersey fertility clinic.
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Sep 13, 2019
Surveillance video does not back up the story told by a man who was honored this week at the White House by President Trump for his actions during the Aug. 3 mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart, police said.
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Sep 13, 2019
A gay married couple in Maryland sued Thursday to challenge the State Department's refusal to recognize the U.S. citizenship of their infant daughter, who was born in Canada via a surrogate this year.
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Sep 13, 2019
A same-sex married couple in Maryland sued Thursday to challenge the State Department's refusal to recognize the U.S. citizenship of their infant daughter, who was born in Canada via a surrogate this year.
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Sep 13, 2019
Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren clash on stage for the first time at the Democratic debate in Houston.
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Sep 13, 2019
Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren clash on stage for the first time at the Democratic debate in Houston.
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Sep 12, 2019
The 10 candidates who qualified for September's debate are Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O'Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang.
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Sep 12, 2019
Dr. Stanley Biber's pioneering work in gender confirmation surgery brought thousands to this small town. Why does he remain such an unknown figure?
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Sep 12, 2019
Animation/nonfiction hybrid "Another Day of Life" focuses on story of a Polish journalist reporting from the front lines of the 1975 Angolan civil war.
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Sep 12, 2019
Democratic primary voters worry that intraparty attacks on the debate stage could hurt their eventual nominee. For candidates seeking a breakout moment, the temptation to go negative carries risk.
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Sep 12, 2019
The campaign is expected to get nasty
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Sep 12, 2019
Families devastated by the Great Recession have clawed their way back, and today have more savings and less debt. Are they ready for next downturn?
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Sep 12, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Social Security plan would increase taxes on families with incomes over $400,000 to boost payment to retirees by $2,400 and extend the program's solvency by two decades.
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Sep 12, 2019
People in other wealthy countries find Americans' health insurance deductibles hard to understand.
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Sep 12, 2019
What to watch for when the Democratic candidates debate. Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren will share a debate stage for the first time on Thursday in Houston.
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Sep 12, 2019
The Supreme Court's decision isn't final, but it will let the Trump administration move forward with a new asylum policy.
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