If the shutdown continues after this weekend, it will be longer than any previous shutdown, partial or full.

The longtime owner of the restaurant, a Theater District mainstay, is bowing out, and the Shubert Organization plans to reopen after a renovation, with the celebrity caricatures intact.

Chad Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff and a Republican running for governor, is examining votes from 2025 after unsubstantiated claims of fraud.

Bishops are trying to understand what’s behind the wave. People joining the church described their reasons as highly personal.

A boy, the son of a New York police officer, may have been playing with a gun when it accidentally went off, killing Ka’Mardre Coleman, 16, according to prosecutors and the boy’s lawyer.

The city was counting on a 15 percent rise in bonuses to produce tax revenues to fill its budget gap. The actual increase was 9 percent, the state comptroller said.

Michael Rousseau said he was “deeply saddened” that his ​inability to speak French had diverted attention from the families’ grief.

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is drafting a formal authorization for the use of military force in Iran, seeking to put some parameters around the operation as the Trump administration has boxed out Congress.

Also, transgender athletes were barred from women’s Olympic events. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

A jumble of emissaries — a friend, a family member, a dove and a hawk — on the Iran crisis reflects President Trump’s improvisational approach.

The just resentments of a shrinking middle class.

A new study of popular AI models shows that their feedback on social situations is far from impartial.

Her interview on the “Today” show came more than 50 days after her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was taken from her home near Tucson, Ariz.

Regulators, pilots and others in aviation have worried about the kind of runway accident that happened at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday.

President Trump wants to restrict voting by mail, which he says amounts to “cheating.” But he defended his own use of the practice in a special election this week.

Tech companies are running into resistance from neighbors and may not be able to build at the pace they promised investors.

No one apart from the Congolese people has ever paid a price for the CIA-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba.

Often treated as throwaway pets, hermit crabs can live 50 years. Mary Akers, a self-taught expert, wants people to appreciate them as much as she does.

Joel Schumacher apologized for “Batman & Robin,” his corny 1997 superhero movie, but thanks to its ice puns and bat nipples, it’s since become an accidental parody worth howling at.

A few qualities, including a sense of purpose, seem to have real benefits — especially as you age.