Also, bear attacks are disrupting life in rural Japan. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

After a week of market uneasiness, Nvidia’s profit surge and Walmart’s earnings had initially offered investors relief. But the bullishness faded by Thursday afternoon.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani argued that an endorsement of a left-leaning ally, Chi Ossé, would hurt his efforts to secure mainstream Democratic support for his proposals.

The order temporarily halts a federal judge’s call to release several hundred people arrested during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Illinois.

The mayor and sheriff said earlier in the day that the operation appeared to have concluded. But a homeland security spokeswoman said that the effort was “not ending anytime soon.”

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, addressed for the first time a schoolyard insult that President Trump lobbed at a Bloomberg News reporter last week.

Some in Kyiv expressed confusion over the Trump administration’s multiple diplomatic tracks as Washington tries to revive negotiations.

We can’t help you cook the turkey, but we can help you plan when to hit the road.

The company, now owned by a Chinese conglomerate, is investing $150 million in 19 American suppliers across 10 states.

The move, unusual for a year without a midterm or presidential election, is the latest sign of financial distress for the Democratic Party.

Two motorists had been charged with crimes in connection to an incident in Chicago in October. Federal authorities had shot and injured one of the drivers.

The cargo plane was taking off from Louisville earlier this month when it crashed moments after becoming airborne, killing the three crew members and 11 people on the ground.

The unemployment rate rose in September as more people looked for jobs, according to data delayed by the government shutdown.

A subpoena issued by the F.B.I. suggests the Justice Department may be seeking to identify officials who might have shared information about the inquiry into Senator Adam Schiff in an unauthorized way.

An official U.S. government exercise during President Trump’s first term forecast turmoil and potential violence in a post-Maduro Venezuela.

Understanding the Right’s antisemitic turn.

Right-wing users have tapped A.I. tools to promote President Trump’s agenda. He took notice.

Kennedy has a rhetorical advantage in that his deceptions can be definitive while scientific honesty has to come with caveats.

Despite evidence of sexual abuse by a Massachusetts teacher, prosecutors said no criminal conduct occurred. Now survivors are trying to change consent laws they say “offered cover” to their abuser.

The doubloons, dollars and denarii of the American Numismatic Society will leave their overlooked home in Manhattan for a more welcoming headquarters on the campus of the Toledo Museum of Art.

Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.

Refugees who poured into the country a decade ago fared better when they landed in the more prosperous West, an enduring legacy of reunification.

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