Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani chose Lillian Bonsignore, the former chief of New York’s E.M.S., as the first openly gay person to lead the Fire Department.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced that Lillian Bonsignore, who retired from the New York Fire Department in 2022, was his pick to be the city’s next fire commissioner.
In his work, he often returned to Manzanar, the camp in which he and his family, along with thousands of other people of Japanese descent, were interned during World War II.
Oil exports, the country’s financial lifeblood, have plummeted after the United States took action against three ships that have been used to carry its crude.
Since the Skipper, a tanker carrying Venezuelan oil, was seized on Dec. 10, only two tankers carrying crude appear to have tried to sail beyond Venezuela’s waters.
The troops will join an existing wave of Border Patrol agents, months after Gov. Jeff Landry first suggested that the National Guard could help tamp down on crime in Louisiana.
Members of the National Guard will join Border Patrol agents who have already been in New Orleans since early December as part of a federal crackdown on undocumented immigration.
The internationally recognized government of Libya confirmed the deaths of Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, the army chief of general staff, and other officers flying home after a meeting in Turkey.
A photograph released by the Turkish Defense Ministry showing the Libyan Army chief of the general staff, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, in Ankara, Turkey on Tuesday.
Over the past week, C-17 heavy-lift cargo planes, which usually transport troops and equipment, flew to Puerto Rico at least 16 times, according to flight tracking data reviewed by The New York Times.
Ground crews unloaded cargo last week from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, top, parked next to a U.S. Air Force HC-130 aircraft, at the Roosevelt Roads naval base in Ceiba, Puerto Rico.
At the last minute, CBS News held a segment about Venezuelan men who were deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador. It surfaced online anyway.
Starting the week of Jan. 7, the Education Department will begin sending notices about paycheck deductions to about 1,000 of five million borrowers in default.
According to the federal government’s student aid website, up to 15 percent of a defaulted borrower’s paycheck can be taken after other deductions, such as taxes, have been made.
Two explosions at the Bristol Health and Rehab Center in Bristol Township resulted in a large fire and partial collapse of the building, officials said. It was not clear how many were injured.
The instructor, a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, gave a zero to a student who wrote an essay arguing in favor of traditional gender definitions based on biblical teachings.
Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, the hosts of the economics podcast “Odd Lots,” walk through how Trump’s tariffs, A.I. and the vibecession are making for a strange close to the year.
Small businesses across Canada have lost out on sales because of the trade war, and many worry about their future.
Michelle Galletta, the owner of Kiriki Press, an embroidery craft shop in Toronto, has many customers in the United States and is concerned about future trade turbulence.
In an unusual trial, the N.A.A.C.P. has sought to show a school board’s “racist intent” by proving that the names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson can’t be separated from white supremacy.
As it seeks to end birthright citizenship, the Trump administration is arguing that immigrants bring problems that extend for generations. The data shows otherwise.
The show reunited Kristin Chenoweth and Stephen Schwartz for the first time since “Wicked.” It wasn’t enough to counter poor word of mouth and other challenges.
“The Queen of Versailles,” which opened at the St. James Theater on Nov. 9, was adapted from Lauren Greenfield’s 2012 documentary about a couple seeking to build a palatial home in Florida.
The measles outbreak in the United States is now in its 11th month, with almost 2,000 cases. The Timmons family were some of the first people to get sick.
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