The pilot heard a “thump” while landing in Newark, according to a newly released report. The light pole crashed onto a truck.

Also, senators clashed over Trump’s payout fund. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

President Trump has pursued fame his entire adult life. Now in his second term in the White House, he is finding how little power he has to force cultural figures to fall in line.

The president is claiming without evidence that the lengthy counting process in California, which could help determine control of Congress, means Democrats are stealing the election.

The president announced a new project that would connect the memorial to the Potomac River. He isn’t sure if he wants it to be named after himself.

The U.S.-brokered deal depends on Hezbollah halting its attacks first. But the leader of the Iran-backed group rejected those terms, and Israel said that its offensive would continue.

Israel’s Haredim have escalated their protests against military service in recent weeks, underscoring growing divisions ahead of national elections.

Celebrities and paid influencers have transformed the career-focused platform, which for some users, has become a job unto itself.

Mindless optimism is the only antidote to rational despair.

Scientists have identified proteins that could signal increased lung cancer risk, as well as a drug that could reduce the odds of a tumor developing.

Too many women walk out of their doctors’ office with no diagnosis, no treatment and no plan.

With the East Wing turned to rubble, our Graphics staff set out to show what exactly the president planned to build there and elsewhere.

Ms. Bass, a Democrat, has had a roller-coaster first term. She now faces the first runoff since 2005 for an incumbent mayor in the city.

Bird helped usher in bebop and transformed the alto saxophone into an instrument of startling possibility. Here’s an 11-song primer on his enduring legacy.