As an employee with the N.S.A., he claimed he was exposed to a direct-energy device that led to a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease at the age of 45.

Amazon paid Melania Trump’s production company $40 million for the film and $35 million to promote it, a sum that critics said was an effort to curry favor with the administration.

There is rising anxiety among Americans that the presence of an armed federal force in cities is actively making life less safe for people who live there.

President Trump has not authorized military action in Iran, but the U.S. has built up its presence in the region in recent days.

The changes are expected to include significant layoffs in areas like sports and international coverage.

The plans being weighed by the president go beyond those he considered weeks ago amid widespread protests against Iran’s government.

Brendan Banfield rebuffed claims that he had made an elaborate plan for the killings with the family’s au pair, with whom he had an affair.

Judge Patrick Schiltz, an appointee of George W. Bush, became an unlikely critic of the Trump administration’s tactics in Minnesota.

The police accused a New Jersey man of slamming his vehicle into the Hasidic Jewish organization’s Brooklyn headquarters. The man’s father said that his son wanted to convert to Judaism.

The new panel, which advises the government on research and service priorities for people with autism, includes many members who have argued that vaccines cause the disorder.

Bowing to Trump administration pressure, the new legislation improves conditions for foreign oil companies and opens the way to slash the taxes they pay.

The Trump administration has called the Minneapolis shooting victims “domestic terrorists.” Our criminal justice reporter Jonah E. Bromwich explains what that term actually means.

Political maneuvering by the Democrats hoping to unseat Senator Susan Collins shifted into high gear with the news that ICE had ended its surge there.

Federal prosecutors said a man was arrested after he impersonated an F.B.I. agent during a visit to the federal jail in Brooklyn where Luigi Mangione is being held.

A federal jury found that Linwei Ding stole thousands of confidential files to help him start a company in Beijing.

What was done to my daughter did not break me. It left me with a mother’s responsibility to ensure no child is left unheard.

Also, genes may determine longevity, a new study finds. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

Harvard University has been trying to cut back how many A grades professors give. Now, 53 percent of grades are A’s, down from 60 percent.

Russia has left thousands of apartment buildings in Kyiv without heat in recent weeks, in a campaign that has appeared aimed at breaking Ukraine’s morale.

The expansion of the Murdoch tabloid from its New York roots to the West Coast is the latest sign of the outlet’s national ambitions.

The Trump administration has recently escalated its efforts to prove widespread voter fraud in 2020. Election officials and top Republicans have repeatedly said these claims are baseless.

The agreement, while scarce on details, is the latest step by Prime Minister Mark Carney to reduce Canada’s reliance on trade with the U.S.

A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.

The Trump administration has sought to end Temporary Protected Status for more than a million people from troubled nations. About 600,000 are from Venezuela.

The monthly trade deficit and imports rebounded in November after shrinking significantly in prior months, new data show.

Mr. Trump’s allies have strenuously insisted that he was alert and attentive at the meeting last month. The president said he had only closed his eyes.

Up to a foot is possible this weekend in parts of the Southeast and on Cape Cod, with smaller amounts expected for much of the East Coast.

The government opened the sale to cut-rate bidding for Domodedovo Airport after it received no offers at its initial asking price of $1.7 billion.

A dizzying array of rules govern what can be bought with SNAP dollars, confusing grocery stores and consumers.

Rattled by the C.D.C.’s actions and the spread of measles, some parents are scrambling to figure out how to best protect their children.

A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.

Saks Fifth Avenue’s bankruptcy filing has revived debates about how these once celebrated shopping emporiums can regain their luster.

Summer Boismier, a high school English teacher in Oklahoma, lost her teaching license after she protested a book ban. Now she is fighting to return to the classroom.

Tariffs have protected some companies, but more often they’ve hit the parts and materials many factories need to make finished goods.