George Wendt, standing left, with the original cast of the long-running sitcom “Cheers.” Next to him are John Ratzenberger, center, and Nicholas Colasanto. Between Mr. Wendt and Mr. Colasanto is Rhea Perlman. In front are Shelley Long and Ted Danson.
In a reversal, President Trump appears to have backed off joining a European push for new sanctions on Russia, seemingly eager to move on to doing business deals with it.
Banu Mushtaq’s “Heart Lamp,” translated by Deepa Bhasthi, had received little notice in Britain or the United States before Tuesday. Now, it’s won the major award for translated fiction.
European Union foreign ministers on Tuesday agreed to lift the remaining economic curbs on the war-torn country, amid concerns it could slip back into conflict.
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York visited Seneca land on Tuesday to apologize for the state’s operation of a boarding school that “sanctioned ethnic cleansing” of Native American children.
Gov. Kathy Hochul presented a proclamation to the Seneca president, J. Conrad Seneca, and to the Seneca Nation apologizing for the atrocities committed at the Thomas Indian School.
Representative LaMonica McIver, Democrat of New Jersey, faces assault charges after a clash outside a migrant detention center in Newark. She has denied the government’s depiction of events.
Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google, spoke on Tuesday about the company’s plans to bring more generative A.I. abilities to its flagship search product during its annual developers conference.
Guidelines advise no screening after age 70, and doctors say that even men who test diligently may develop an aggressive cancer after none was found at a recent checkup.
Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has not disclosed details about when his cancer was discovered, or whether he had been regularly examined for prostate cancer.
He could have advanced toward a title when his opponent, Boris Spassky, took ill. Instead, he displayed one of the game’s greatest acts of sportsmanship.
A maintenance worker shut off water at the jail, allowing the inmates to remove a toilet and sink fixture from a cell wall, according to the Louisiana attorney general’s office.
An unlikely group is coalescing around the health secretary’s drive for restrictions on atrazine, which is linked to cancer, birth defects and low sperm counts.
Imelda Collins outside her house in Ireland’s County Leitrim, which she is raffling off for five British pounds per ticket. She hopes to sell 150,000 tickets.
Casandra Ventura’s mother said she tried to pay the mogul to ensure her daughter’s safety, and an escort known as Punisher described engaging in up to a dozen “freak-offs.”
The European Union has now targeted Moscow’s fleet of covert oil tankers and plans more restrictions, as the Trump administration’s approach to the war shifts.
A plan for a hefty new tax on university endowments was crafted to target “woke” schools, lawmakers said. But a small Kansas college and a Texas medical school might also be hit.
McPherson College in Kansas has a student population of about 800. It might still end up a potential target in a Republican plan aimed primarily at the Ivy League.
Britain, France and Canada called the Israeli plans for escalation “disproportionate” and “egregious” at a time when the U.N. is warning the population is at risk of famine.
The Kremlin has withstood pressure for an immediate cease-fire as a precondition for peace talks, but the Russian president’s push for normalizing relations with the United States appears in limbo.
The Kremlin has withstood pressure for an immediate cease-fire as a precondition for peace talks, but the Russian president’s push for normalizing relations with the United States appears in limbo.
A lawmaker is introducing a bill named for Artemis Ghasemzadeh, an Iranian Christian convert, that seeks to stop the expedited removal of people fleeing countries that persecute religious minorities.
Artemis Ghasemzadeh, who was deported to Panama, says: “I am not sure I will ever see America again, but I want to know this won’t happen to anyone else.”
Keisha Lance Bottoms, in Atlanta on Sunday. If elected, she would become the nation’s first Black female governor, and the first Black person and first woman to lead Georgia.
Billy Long’s effort to promote the credit, along with his pushing of a fraud-ridden pandemic-era tax break, will be under close scrutiny during his Senate confirmation hearing.
Billy Long in 2020, when he was a Republican congressman from Missouri. Nominated to lead the Internal Revenue Service, he has repeatedly been subject to the agency’s efforts to clamp down on what it has warned could be abusive practices.
Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, has closed the bureau’s Office of Internal Auditing, which was established to uncover and reduce the risk of misuses of national security surveillance.
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