The deal further intermingles Mr. Musk’s companies and creates the most valuable private company on earth.

The comments, made on a conservative podcast, follow a string of moves from his administration to try to exert more control over American elections.

More than 1,500 active-duty troops had been on standby to deploy to Minnesota, but were quietly taken off heightened alert over the weekend.

Prosecutors said Brendan Banfield carried out an elaborate scheme using a fetish website in 2023 to kill his wife and another man.

Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy, 84, was last seen on Saturday near her home in Tucson, Ariz. A sheriff said on Monday that investigators were treating her disappearance as a crime.

President Trump’s Middle East envoy and his son-in-law were expected to meet Iran’s foreign minister in Istanbul on Friday amid tensions between the countries.

In a shaky job market, Silicon Valley workers feel they lack the leverage needed to make their political views known.

Erik Duran, an N.Y.P.D. sergeant, said he was trying to save lives when he struck Eric Duprey with a cooler. The sergeant took the unusual step of testifying at his own manslaughter trial.

Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish and Kehlani made strong statements about immigration on Sunday, while the host Trevor Noah drew President Trump’s ire.

The Trump administration has lowered the bar for a deal with the university, backtracking on its insistence on a $200 million payment to the government, The New York Times has learned.

Many Americans are growing both exhausted and frightened by Trump’s scorched-earth, hyperpartisan, fire-ready-aim approach to the presidency.

The agreement was short on details, but President Trump said India had promised to stop buying Russian oil and would buy more U.S. products for a reduction on tariffs.

The longevity influencer said he “never witnessed illegal behavior” but would not defend his crude remarks about women and comments on Jeffrey Epstein’s “outrageous” life.

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, brokered the call and President Trump directly questioned frontline agents on the inquiry, The Times has learned.

Mountains of rock-solid filthy snow. Narrow, icy sidewalks. Temperatures that sound like shoe sizes. When will it end?

A new website called Moltbook has become the talk of Silicon Valley and a Rorschach test for belief in the state of artificial intelligence.

The Interior Department removed placards and videos about Washington’s involvement with slavery. A new court ruling blocks further changes, for now.

Immigration raids have scared off customers and workers, a pattern repeated in other cities where federal officials have arrived in force.

Arctic air will chill much of the United States, but New York’s streak of consecutive freezing days ended on Monday.

Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse at the warming waters underneath.

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia and President Trump have had a tense relationship that escalated into threats by Mr. Trump, before easing. Anything could happen at their Feb. 3 meeting.

Newly released emails offer new details about ties between Jeffrey Epstein and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway, as well as Sarah Ferguson, once the Duchess of York in Britain.

Scammers on the phone had threatened to kill Wiliam J. Brock if he didn’t hand over $12,000 just as Lo-Letha Toland-Hall, an Uber driver, came to his house to pick up a package.

Bicentennial celebrations across America were spirited and joyous. As the semiquincentennial approaches, there’s a different mood.

Ostarine held the promise of profound medical treatments. Something unexpected happened on the way to F.D.A. approval.

Richard Chow befriended Zohran Mamdani five years ago and has driven him to City Hall and Gracie Mansion.