The city’s homicide rate is lower than that of New York, Paris or Toronto, contradicting a narrative promoted by President Trump and others on the populist right.
Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, quit after the Justice Department sought to examine the woman’s supposed ties to activist groups.
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York is expected to adopt some of the affordability message of Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City as she faces a contested re-election bid.
In her fifth State of the State address, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday will share her priorities for New York, which are expected to include affordability and safety.
Unexpected vacancies have whittled the G.O.P.’s edge to just a couple of votes, leaving Speaker Mike Johnson with almost no margin for leading the chamber.
In a new book, C. Thi Nguyen looks to his personal passions — from video games to yo-yoing — to illuminate the downside of our increasingly gamified world.
He Jiankui spent three years in prison after creating gene-edited babies. Now back at work, he sees a greater opening for researchers who push boundaries.
He Jiankui, a researcher in gene editing, at his home in Beijing. He argues that his only crime was being ahead of his time in a world not yet ready for his vision.
“HELP IS ON ITS WAY,” President Trump said on social media. He has threatened to intervene militarily on behalf of the protesters if Iran uses lethal force.
Scott Adams in 2014 in his home office in Pleasanton, Calif. For more than 30 years, his comic strip, “Dilbert,” chronicled the absurdities of the high-tech workplace and skewered management.
After eight years as governor of New Jersey, Philip D. Murphy, a former ambassador to Germany and Goldman-Sachs executive, is leaving office. Mikie Sherrill will be sworn in on Jan. 20.
The couple escalated their battle with Representative James R. Comer, the chairman of the Oversight Committee, who said he would move to hold them in contempt of Congress.
Representative James R. Comer has repeatedly threatened to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt if they failed to appear for live depositions behind closed doors.
Ms. Le Pen, whose far-right party leads polls in France, was convicted last year of embezzlement. The outcome of her appeal, which started on Tuesday, will determine if she can run for president next year.
Former Federal Reserve chiefs, Republican senators and — perhaps most important, many bond investors — raised concerns about an investigation into the bank’s leader.
The defense comes after Jerome Powell pushed back on what he described as pressure by the Trump administration to cut interest rates in the United States.
The lawsuit, filed last week in federal court in Manhattan, claims that state officials use solitary confinement for minor misbehavior and as a way to mitigate low staffing.
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