We should know better.

Soaring demand and extreme weather worsened by climate change have wiped out harvests of the popular purple yam.

The exercises end months of relative calm across the Taiwan Strait and come after the Trump administration announced arms sales to the island.

Forecasters warned that whiteouts had reduced visibility in Minnesota. More heavy snow was expected in the region through Monday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has a series of vexing choices to make in the year ahead on issues including Gaza, conscription and a judicial overhaul, with elections looming.

The train was carrying around 250 passengers and crew members on a cross-country route linking the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico. Nearly 100 people were injured.

The administration provided no details of what the president said was an attack last week linked to U.S. efforts to disrupt drug trafficking from Latin America.

The blueprint covers a broad range of issues, including territory, security guarantees and postwar reconstruction. But Russia has indicated little willingness to end the war.

A Virginia man was charged with planting the bombs outside Democratic and Republican headquarters. Court documents show he believed that the 2020 election had been “tampered with.”

The U.S. president said after a meeting at Mar-a-Lago that a deal was “maybe very close.” But a joint U.S.-Ukraine proposal appeared unfinished, as Russia rejected several ideas.

“And God Created Woman” made her a world-famous sex symbol in the 1950s. She later gave up acting to devote her life to animal welfare.

He and Ann Peebles made up one of Southern soul’s most accomplished partnerships. He finally broke through as a solo act at 75.

When the Trump administration slashed foreign aid, it gutted a program that had reduced malaria deaths world wide. In northern Cameroon, health workers tried to protect children in one last rainy season.

Another pilot was in critical condition, according to the fire chief in Hammonton, N.J., where the crash took place.

The movies made the French actress a star, but photography sealed her stardom.

As the year drew to a close, we reached out to Opinion columnists and contributors for personal lists.

The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt in hospitals and soccer leagues and on Main Streets across the country, with hints of what’s to come.

Indonesia is building a new, green city in the jungle. Its future is far from certain, but new residents like living there.

In the decades after becoming a megastar, the French actress became as known for her politics as she once had been for her acting career.

Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the world’s tall peaks to prove they have been measured incorrectly.

Riding an endless wave of nostalgia, one company is exhuming the intellectual property of midcentury designers to create new audiences for forgotten work.