Advocates for L.G.B.T.Q. rights said Iowa would become the first state to remove broad protections for transgender people if the governor signed the bill.
The Vatican says Pope Francis has continued making decisions and is improving, but his two-week hospital stay poses uncomfortable, unanswered questions about Vatican decision-making.
President Trump has little use for America’s traditional alliances, and tends to evaluate U.S. relationships according to whether countries are contributing economically to the United States.
Invading Russian forces have left large swaths of Ukraine, including Pokrovsk, in ruins. President Trump is close to signing a deal to share in the profits from Ukraine’s natural resources, a draft of which contains only vague references to protecting Ukraine.
A manager at Tesla was fired for criticizing a social media post by Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive, that used the names of Nazi leaders in wordplay.
When Mr. Spassky, a Russian, played Bobby Fischer, an American, in Iceland at the height of the Cold War, the media attention reduced them to pawns in a wider drama.
As the president pressures countries to buy more American energy, Asian officials and investors are reconsidering a hugely expensive plan stalled for decades.
ConocoPhillips oil pipelines on the North Slope of Alaska. Given the ecological sensitivity of the region, the Biden administration had a number of protections aimed at shielding it from drilling.
Officers and enlisted. Combat veterans and recent recruits. Transgender service members say their military experience has looked nothing like the portrayal of them in the political arena.
The handover of so many significant cartel figures was one of the most important efforts by Mexico in the modern history of the drug war to send traffickers to face charges in U.S. courts.
Getting hold of Rafael Caro Quintero, a founding member of the Sinaloa drug cartel who was convicted in Mexico of masterminding the 1985 murder of an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, has been a priority for the agency.
Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a liberated country, while warily eyeing the new government.
President Trump’s order abolishing the “X” marker and recognizing only birth sex has caused confusion and anxiety for trans, intersex and gender-nonconforming travelers.
In her new memoir, the actress known for movies like “Say Anything” and “Gas Food Lodging” talks about Hollywood, bisexuality and the trappings of Gen X fame.
“I did so many jobs just to be a working actor and I used to be kind of embarrassed,” Skye said. “Now I’m like, it’s so cool I did Lifetime movies because Lifetime movies are amazing.”
Rafael Caro Quintero, an accused drug cartel leader, was convicted of killing Enrique Camarena, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, and was wanted by the F.BI.
Rafael Caro Quintero, center, was convicted of orchestrating the 1985 torture and killing of Enrique Camarena, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was working undercover in Mexico.
The president also said he would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on China as he tries to force other countries to take more action on drug shipments.
As the spouse of a two-time Oscar winner, she avoided interviews and stayed off social media. But in private, she typed up Mr. Hackman’s novels and helped edit them.
Betsy Arakawa met Gene Hackman in the 1980s when she was working part-time at a fitness center in Los Angeles and trying to make it as a classical musician.
She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby only to be forced into a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai. Still, she would often say, “Aren’t we lucky?”
It was not a theft, Hamptons police ruled, but acrimony erupted after a lender decided it could not arrange a loan, but that a painting used as collateral would still need to be sold to cover its costs.
A picture made available by the Kremlin of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia speaking at the annual meeting of Russia’s intelligence agency, in Moscow on Thursday.
The highly anticipated public findings, the first from its internal inquiries into the devastating Hamas-led attack, do not apportion individual responsibility, though officials said that may come later.
The judge’s order against The Clarksdale Press Register in Clarksdale, Miss., had alarmed press advocates, who said it was a violation of the First Amendment.
Yura Borisov, who is nominated for an Academy Award on Sunday, is pulling off a rare feat: pleasing audiences at home in Russia as well as in the West.
Lunar Trailblazer, an orbiter that shared a launch on Wednesday with the commercial Athena lander, will help scientists understand where the moon’s water is, and what form it takes.
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer sits in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colo., shortly after being integrated with its second and final science instrument, the Lunar Thermal Mapper.
Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K., called on his fighters to lay down their arms after decades of battling the Turkish state.
Laila Soueif, the mother of Alaa Abd El Fattah, outside Downing Street in London on Feb. 5. She is pressing the British government to intervene with Cairo on his behalf.
The sheriff’s office in Santa Fe County, N.M., is investigating after the actor Gene Hackman, his wife and one of their dogs were found dead inside their home.
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