President Lai Ching-te has vowed to stay on his predecessor’s narrow path of resisting Beijing without provoking it. It won’t be easy.

Officers were filmed punching three demonstrators at the protest in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The police said protesters were blocking the streets.

Though he was the company’s president, he opted for joint leadership with family members as they made Nordstrom, starting as a string of shoe stores, into an international fashion retail brand.

As stifling heat settled over the city, the local electricity provider said most service would return by late Sunday. But hard-hit areas could remain dark for days longer.

After meeting the pope and the mayors of Rome, London and Dublin, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York paused to reconnect with her past.

Rescuers are trying to locate the helicopter on which President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were traveling, state media reported. Their status is unknown.

The president’s appearance at the historically Black college in Atlanta drew some respectful but noticeable protest over U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

Slovakia has long been dogged by criticism that it is prone to authoritarianism, but a frenzy of blame since an assassination attempt has heightened such concerns.

Finance ministers from the G7 nations are hoping to finalize a plan ahead of the group’s leaders meeting next month.

After footage surfaced of Mr. Combs striking, kicking and dragging Cassie, he apologized on social media, saying that “my behavior on that video is inexcusable.”

Mr. Raisi has been seen as a possible successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, the highest political and religious position in the Islamic republic.

Public officials from Congress to City Hall are now regularly subjected to threats of violence. It’s changing how they do their jobs.

Both sides have been looking for ways to inflict damage beyond the battlefield, targeting military logistics hubs and urban centers.

A terrible man is in the cross hairs of American justice, but immorality alone doesn’t make him a criminal.

Comedies make you laugh. Thrillers make you cheer. Some Hollywood films used to make you sob your eyes out. We need those movies again.

It’s not the poll numbers that worry me, exactly. It’s the denial of what’s behind them.

Call it neopopulism: a bipartisan attitude that mistrusts the free-market ethos instead of embracing it.

From years of watching debates, I think the winners always showed us something about civility.

Rebekah Peppler shines a spotlight on a beloved French tradition that you can try at home.

A growing number of researchers in the field are using their expertise to fight the climate crisis.