The former congresswoman, a progressive Democrat, campaigned on a promise to unite residents in the beleaguered California city. Her challenger, Loren Taylor, conceded on Saturday.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said that he had ordered his forces to “stop all military activity” from Saturday evening through Sunday. Ukraine’s leader said Putin was trying to “play with people’s lives.”

The White House has thrown its weight behind the lab leak theory, an idea that has divided intelligence agencies.

An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

Everything is under threat. What you care about can make it to the other side.

“You have to laugh to keep from crying,” one Republican pollster said about recent comments by the billionaires on the stock market, retirement funds and Social Security.

At Richard Ye’s enormous monthly gatherings, where people play Exploding Kittens, Hues and Cues, and mahjong, New Yorkers find real-life connections and a little free fun.

I have raised and loved so many hens from the time they were chicks. Why did I never think to ask about the fate of their brothers?

Many thought President Trump would be able to finish the war. Now they are not so sure.

The stand-up comic discusses having a magician for a father, the challenge of mainstream comedy and his aspirations to build the next Disneyland.

Students could bypass the United States for friendlier countries as the Trump administration attacks universities and revokes visas. Their loss could hurt schools and the economy.

As Pacific Palisades residents clear debris from January’s wildfires, they’re wrestling with the decision to stay and rebuild or sell and move away.

Losing your home in a disaster when you’re at or near retirement age can derail your finances and jeopardize the funds you were counting on.

Transportation experts say a thorough renovation is likely to take several years to complete — unless emergency measures are employed.

The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe.

His biological mother said in an interview on Friday that she was bewildered by the attack, and had been against the presence of firearms in her son’s life.