Sean Hannity criticized the pope. Tucker Carlson attacked Mr. Hannity. And President Trump suggested ranking MAGA figures: “good, bad, and somewhere in the middle.”

One reported tornado downed trees and damaged cars in Lena, Ill., an official said.

The profit motive was on trial. The verdict was scathing.

Friday’s meeting at the White House followed the introduction of Anthropic’s powerful new artificial intelligence model, Mythos, which U.S. officials believe could be critical for security.

A blast on Thursday night turned out to be for a video shoot, but it unnerved residents who had lived through a propane plant explosion in 2008.

A month of efforts to help a stranded humpback escape the Baltic Sea have culminated in a tourist and media spectacle, with no guarantee of success.

San Diego County is shopping a surplus of desalinated seawater to Western states that are facing increasingly urgent drought and short supplies.

The Silicon Valley chip maker filed a prospectus just as SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI prepared for their own listings, in what is shaping up to be a wave of enormous initial public offerings.

Also, a college with a cookie house. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

A career Justice Department lawyer, Maria Medetis Long, in Miami is said to have raised concerns about whether the evidence justified moving forward with a bid to prosecute John O. Brennan.

The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move environmental lawsuits out of state courts, to friendlier federal venues.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has set up a meeting and a new office to speed project approvals and make Canada more attractive to investors.

Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s commerce secretary, derided Canada’s trade strategy and said a North American deal needed to be reworked.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer appears to have been kept in the dark repeatedly over Peter Mandelson, the Jeffrey Epstein associate — fueling an image of weakness.

The tax expert Ray Madoff explains why the American tax system is broken, and how to make it fairer.

Producers and the cultural authorities hope that technology can overcome a language barrier and take the country’s shows to the world.