NYT

European Union officials want to make a large loan to Ukraine backed by Russian state assets, but on Thursday, they deferred any clear decision on that plan to December.

The move underscores the country’s struggle to contain religious extremism without provoking influential clerics who can summon thousands of supporters to the streets.

Vice President JD Vance also called symbolic votes in Israel’s Parliament to take territory a “very stupid political stunt.”

About 97 percent of the land in the state is privately owned. Meet the people helping to make it friendlier for native bugs.

Cove by cove, scientists, divers and volunteers are hauling up urchins to protect kelp.

Zhi Dong Zhang, who escaped house arrest in Mexico this summer, is accused of supplying cartels with fentanyl from China, smuggling and money laundering millions under the alias “Brother Wang.”

Traders are pondering whether the United States and its allies are finally getting serious about restricting Russian energy.

President Vladimir V. Putin warned of an overwhelming response if the Trump administration arms Kyiv with powerful missiles it seeks.

The former paratrooper, referred to only as Soldier F, was found not guilty more than a half-century after his unit in Northern Ireland killed 14 unarmed civilians.

Some conservative policy advisers and commentators, including Laura Loomer and Stephen K. Bannon, are raising questions about the administration’s policy in the region.

“I always wanted to be a public servant and do science for the good of the people,” said Corina Allen, who lost her job at NOAA.

The family of Bipin Joshi, a student, had campaigned internationally for his release and had held out hope until the end that after two years in Gaza, he would return alive.

A new report by an industry watchdog adds to growing scientific consensus that as forests are felled to make way for coffee farms, rainfall decreases and crops are more likely to fail.

European leaders signed off on the new measures just hours after President Trump imposed sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies.

The sanctions are among the most significant measures that the United States has taken against the Russian energy sector since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

The governing party said it was “deeply concerning” that Nigel Farage’s appearance in the U.S. Congress had been brokered by an organization that helped topple Roe v. Wade.

The sea looks the same. So does the sand. But in Egypt, two beach communities not far from each other have decidedly different ideas about fun.

Ryan Chen has turned an uncanny impersonation of President Trump into a social media career, and a mirror of China’s fascination with America.

The United States, Britain and South Korea have joined a crackdown on groups running frauds from Southeast Asia. They have their work cut out.

Laurence des Cars, the head of the Paris museum, told a Senate hearing that she had offered to resign after the stunning theft of royal jewels.