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Every July, at the opening ceremony of the San Fermín festival signaling the imminent start of the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, more than 5,000 people cram into the city’s central...

We have spent much of the past 24 hours on the telephone trying to get to the bottom of Elon Musk’s hostile bid for Sam Altman’s OpenAI. It was a development in their corporate battle (or soap...

NEW DELHI — As he prepared to go to Washington this week, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, spoke of building on the warm relations he shared with President Donald Trump during his first term...

Traveling with a baby or a toddler can be fun, frustrating, and even revelatory. Planning is key, and so is your willingness to tailor the trip to the youngest traveler. As Dr. Elizabeth Barnett,...

President Donald Trump said the nearly 2 million Palestinians that he wants to displace from the Gaza Strip would not be allowed to return to the territory under his hypothetical plan to rebuild it. ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that he could cut aid to Jordan and Egypt if they refused his demand to permanently take in most Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, substantially...

When Nia Darville Stokes-Hicks and Armondi Stokes-Hicks married two years ago, they set up five bank accounts. Each had an individual bank account for personal spending, and they shared a checking...

Chaos erupted aboard a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Houston this past week when a man started bashing a window and several seats around him, prompting other passengers to subdue him with...

The PlayStation Network, which users of the Sony PlayStation platform rely on to play games, download content, and access apps, started working again Saturday night after a 24-hour outage that left...

AI chatbots are fun, sometimes even useful, and, until recently, endowed with the uncanny ability to mesmerize investors and fuel the U.S. stock market. However, the excellent performance of a new,...

The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday that it had temporarily stopped accepting packages from China and Hong Kong, hours after an order by President Donald Trump took effect that ended duty-free...

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed executive orders imposing sweeping tariffs on the country’s three largest trading partners, a move that risks unleashing a damaging trade war. Trade wars...

Almost all automakers are going to feel a pinch from the new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on Saturday on goods imported from Canada, Mexico, and China. Auto manufacturers ship tens of...

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Tariffs in the United States date back to 1789, when Alexander Hamilton saw them as a solution to two crises facing the newborn republic: a desperate need to raise revenue and a...

After a deadly fire swept through a ski lodge in Turkey last Tuesday, killing at least 79 people, multiple surviving guests and hotel workers said they did not hear fire alarms and, in their desperate...

A Canadian man says his wife and 8-year-old son died because of food poisoning at an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic, according to the civil suit filed at the Superior Court of Justice...

For decades, airlines, regulators, lawmakers and others have tried to make flying safer, creating layers of protection intended to prevent tragedies. But that apparatus failed Wednesday, when a...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to impose stiff tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China on Saturday, a move aimed at pressuring America’s largest trading partners into accepting more...

President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda has revealed a crucial but little-recognized truth. Deportation is not unilateral. It requires an agreement between two countries — one that’s...

Growth slowed but remained resilient at the end of 2024, leaving the U.S. economy on solid footing heading into a new year — and a new presidential administration — that is full of uncertainty. ...