Richard Baker wanted to create a retail empire when he combined Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. About a year later, it filed for bankruptcy.

Peter Mandelson was arrested on Monday on suspicion of “misconduct in public office” following revelations about his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein, the sex offender.

The killing of a drug lord and the unrest that followed have prompted flight cancellations, roadblocks, cruise disruptions and “shelter in place” alerts.

Binance pledged to crack down on crime. But internal investigators at the world’s largest crypto exchange continued to find evidence of potential legal violations on the platform.

The three brothers of Haley Winn, a defender for the U.S. squad, gained a spotlight for the colorful ways they cheered on their sister’s dream.

For two years, settlers attacked Rezeq Abu Naim’s land in the Israeli-occupied West Bank at all hours and in all manners. After another violent incursion over the weekend, his family abandoned their home.

A Pritzker Prize statement cited the award’s independence after Mr. Pritzker, who directs the foundation behind the award, resigned as chairman of the Hyatt Corporation.

The families of people killed by undocumented immigrants have forged a bond with the president, who has invited some of them to his address on Tuesday.

Alan Cumming forced fishy British snacks onto movie stars. Paddington Bear presented an award. And a racist slur and swearing.

A racist slur, shouted involuntarily while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting an award, raised questions about how the show’s host and the BBC responded.

Putting millions of pages online is a sign of institutional failure.

Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida, slammed the former special counsel, Jack Smith, for drafting the report even after she had dismissed the case.

The F.B.I. said that the person, who was not killed, “allegedly fired at” a Border Patrol agent in Pittsburg, N.H., around 1 a.m. on Sunday.

A passenger in the car with Ruben Ray Martinez wrote that the men were trying to comply with authorities before Mr. Martinez was shot. The passenger, Joshua Orta, died in a car accident on Saturday.

It’s our greatest game and our truest mirror. And in its tiki-torch-festooned way, it’s captured our society as an ever-changing collection of tribes.

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head.

After Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest, the Prince and Princess of Wales made a pointed BAFTA appearance.

The government in Tehran sees capitulating to Washington’s demands on uranium enrichment and ballistic missiles as riskier to its survival than going to war, analysts say.

An autonomous OpenClaw chatbot seeks revenge.

At least 35 times since August, federal judges have ordered the administration to explain why it should not be punished for violating their orders in immigration cases.

A professor at Hunter College has built one of the largest special collections of contraband Russian literature in the world.