In Milan this week, Olympics officials signaled a willingness to ease years of restrictions imposed on the country over its state-backed doping program and invasion of Ukraine.
Athletes competing for the Russian Olympic Committee in the men’s ice hockey gold medal match at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The team won a silver medal.
Administration officials told the top Senate Democrat the president would release frozen funding for the Gateway project if the transportation hubs were renamed for him.
The ruling by China’s highest court followed a recent meeting between China and Canada’s top leaders that led to a thaw in the two countries’ relations.
The Democratic primary to replace Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey in Congress is still too close to call. Much of the advertising focused on opposition to the president and his immigration policies.
Problems with homelessness and open-air drug use have been widely broadcast, but many visitors this week said they found the city surprisingly pleasant.
Our sports correspondent Tariq Panja talks with Katrin Bennhold about the security at the Olympics in Italy, including the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who the U.S. says are there only in an advisory role.
Representative Mark Amodei of Nevada added his name to the growing list of Republicans planning to give up their seats as their party faces losses that could cost them the House.
Women hoping to visit their loved ones at New York prisons are being turned away after scanners pick up what they say are menstrual products. Some have had their visitation rights suspended.
The New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision suspended Samantha Works from visiting her husband, pictured, after prison officials accused her of carrying contraband into the Mohawk Correctional Facility.
Before the event, protesters marched in Milan in opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose personnel are in Italy to advise local officials in securing the Winter Games.
A view from inside an armored police vehicle showing cars burned by armed gangs and used as a barricade on a deserted street Port-au-Prince, Haiti, last month.
A polling memo circulated among centrist senators urged Democrats to talk tougher on crime, an issue where they lag Republicans, while noting an opportunity for the party to appeal to voters with criticism of ICE.
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, Democrat of Nevada, has been urging her colleagues to strengthen their credibility on the issue of crime and public safety.
Administration officials met with staff at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and discussed putting multiple artworks of the president in a section of the museum.
Bard College’s president, Leon Botstein, said his school needed cash. But a rare watch and a Caribbean visit show how his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein sometimes veered into the personal.
Workers at a uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, Iran, in 2005. Analysts say Iran’s position on enrichment reflects the country’s intense pride in a nuclear program that has become a symbol of Iranian independence.
Erik Duran was convicted of second-degree manslaughter, making him the first New York City police officer to be found guilty of killing a civilian while on duty in a decade.
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