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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences showered little-seen movies rooted in progressive politics with nominations for the 97th Oscars on Thursday. Emilia Pérez, a musical exploration of...

EW DELHI — A year ago, India was bouncing back from a recession caused by COVID-19 with a spring in its step. The country had overtaken China as the most populous country, and its leaders declared...

NEW DELHI — Over the past year, a pair of legal bombshells have put India’s growing relationship with the United States to one of its biggest tests yet. Just as the two sides were announcing...

WASHINGTON — TikTok said late Friday that its service would “go dark” for its 170 million American users Sunday because of a ban in the United States over fears that its Chinese ownership poses...

My mother is hypercritical of my brother’s wife, to the point that she blames my sister-in-law for my brother’s “failings” (not getting a better job, not taking better care of his health,...

TORONTO — Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s former deputy prime minister, whose sudden resignation in December helped set the stage for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to step down, said...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In Pakistan’s turbulent politics, it has long been held that the army and America hold sway over who wields power. Supporters of Imran Khan, the imprisoned former prime...

SAN FRANCISCO — Meta plans to lay off up to 5% of its employees based on performance ratings, according to an internal memo to workers on Tuesday viewed by The New York Times. “I’ve decided...

Starbucks will require people visiting its coffee shops to buy something to stay or to use its bathrooms, the company announced in a letter sent to store managers Monday. The new policy, outlined...

At the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, Earth finished up its hottest year in recorded history, scientists said. The previous hottest year was 2023. And the next one will be upon us before long: By...

As Los Angeles burned for days on end, horrifying the nation, scientists made an announcement Friday that could help explain the deadly conflagration: 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history. ...

SEOUL, South Korea — The flight recorder of the Jeju Air passenger jet that crashed last month, killing ​179 people, stopped recording for​ its last four minutes, South Korean officials said...

A part of the wealthy Westwood area of Los Angeles came under mandatory evacuation orders Friday evening as the Palisades fire quickly expanded. The area threatened by the wildfire expansion, the...

A civil war in Sudan that has killed 150,000 people and forced more than 11 million others from their homes, by some estimates, prompted the U.S. government on Tuesday to declare that a genocide had...

BAZARAK, Afghanistan — In a chilly auditorium in Afghanistan, heaps of freshly mined green emeralds glowed under bright table lamps as bearded gemstone dealers inspected them for purity and...

Reports of a surge in cases of a respiratory virus in China have evoked dark echoes of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic almost exactly five years ago. But despite the surface similarities, this...

Our species called this latest 366-day journey around the sun “2024” and packed into it a ton of astronomical and spaceflight excitement. A solar eclipse crossed North America. Two robotic...

TOKYO — A Jeju Air crash in South Korea last week, the deadliest plane accident in years, has stunned the global aviation industry. The country is regarded as a model for how to turn poor air safety...

Amazon said Sunday that its Prime Video streaming service will release a “behind-the-scenes” documentary about Melania Trump’s life. The film will head to movie theaters and stream on Amazon...

SEOUL, South Korea — When Jeju Air’s status as South Korea’s biggest low-cost carrier seemed under threat from the merger of the country’s two biggest airlines last year, the company’s CEO...