The defense secretary supported the admiral he said called for the second strike on Sept. 2 against a boat the administration says was smuggling drugs.

Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison.

The city attorney accuses large manufacturers of causing diseases that have burdened governments with public health costs.

President Trump’s threat of military action has confronted President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela with the gravest challenge of his crisis-ridden reign.

James Pugh, one of two men originally convicted in the savage killing of Deborah Meindl near Buffalo in 1993, said all along that he was innocent.

Ms. Pressley, a prominent progressive, will instead run for re-election to the House. Her move is expected to help Senator Ed Markey, though he still faces one well-known Democratic primary challenger.

The philanthropy has become one of America’s biggest, but most of its giving went to charities closely tied to the world’s richest man.

The flight’s approval illustrates how the United States and Venezuela are still communicating, after a declaration from President Trump that Venezuelan airspace was “closed in its entirety.”

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

The tests have not been approved by federal regulators, but that hasn’t stopped patients from wanting them — and doctors from worrying.