Diesel has climbed faster than gasoline this month, directly hitting businesses, from brewers to trucking companies. Those higher costs are likely to make their way into consumer prices.

The investigations are the latest moves by the Trump administration to force prisons to house transgender women with male inmates.

The Trump administration is weighing declaring Brazil’s two largest drug gangs terrorist groups, after lobbying by the sons of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro.

A New York Police Department detective acting undercover online identified a man who planned to target the activist Nerdeen Kiswani. The man was arrested on federal charges.

Women in their 60s and beyond will likely play a key role in choosing which Democrat will face Senator Susan Collins: Mr. Platner, 41, or Gov. Janet Mills, 78.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s highly unusual decision to remove officers from a one-star promotion list has spurred allegations of racial and gender bias.

Representative Sam Graves, the chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said he would leave Congress after nearly three decades, the latest sign that the G.O.P. is bracing for big losses.

In an unexpected breakthrough, the 40-foot mammal was freed and swam to deeper water on Friday morning through a channel that rescuers had dug for it.

The S&P 500 is on course for its fifth straight week of losses and its worst weekly losing streak in roughly four years.

The FX show, which dramatizes the relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, has inspired a legion of younger viewers to dig into the couple’s past and 1990s New York City.

Washington, Tehran, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Istanbul and Brussels have all received calls as Pakistan plays mediator between the United States and Iran.

After a fatal runway collision between a jet and a fire truck, one of the key questions is why the truck didn’t heed frantic calls to stop.

Some conservative sheriffs have raised concerns about the aggressive enforcement tactics that Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has embraced.

A small street stall and a big restaurant chain in India rethought how to cook after the war in the Middle East squeezed their supply of liquified petroleum gas.

An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon that so far exists only in theory.

Thousands of demonstrations against the Trump administration are scheduled to take place in cities and towns across the country on Saturday.

The Federal Aviation Administration said it was investigating after a helicopter crossed into the path of United Airlines Flight 589.

The right-wing thinker Christopher Caldwell believes the Iran war is the end of Trumpism. Is he right? What was Trumpism in the first place?

A generation ago, foreign fury over the Iraq invasion often blurred into anti-Americanism. Now, some Europeans seem ready to distinguish between the president and the American people.

The authorities have made a wave of arrests to stop people posting footage of strikes, citing security risks. Experts also see a fear of damage to the countries’ image as safe havens.

If the TV show has you craving 1990s glam, upper-crust romance and doomed dynasties, these books have got you covered.

When the world map of literal power changes, the political hierarchy shifts, too

The nightmare began when she said, “I do.”