It’s not every day that one gets to hold a chunk of hide from an extinct woolly rhinoceros in their hands.“I don’t think I will ever forget that,” said Sólveig Guðjónsdóttir, who studied the specimen in 2022 and 2023 while she was a graduate student in evolutionary genomics at Stockh...

The Trump administration has sought to pressure Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, to help name New York’s Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport after President Trump in exchange for releasing billions of dollars he has frozen for a rail tunnel under the Hudson River.Top ad...

As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, frequently finds herself needing to hold many objects at once.“I constantly have tons of things under my arms and in my fingers,” she said, adding: “I use my entire body to grasp things.”In these situations, Dr. Bi...

Many of the snazziest decorations in the animal kingdom are charm offensives, put on by creatures trying to mate.While some of these adornments, like a peacock’s tail feathers or a moose’s antlers, are obvious even to humans, others can be perceived only with sensory capabilities that we don’t have.A new study, pu...

Lawyers for the federal government have filed a motion to expedite the deportation of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy in a bunny hat whose image rocketed around the world after he was detained by federal agents in Minnesota last month during an immigration enforcement operation.In an interview on Friday morning, Danielle Moll...

Months before immigration agents flooded into Minnesota, the Trump administration outlined its grievances against state and local officials in a lawsuit that accused them of engaging in “an active and deliberate effort to obstruct federal immigration enforcement.”The claims in that lawsuit, which remains unresolved, hav...

A federal judge in Texas has struck down a law barring state agencies from investing in firms accused of boycotting fossil fuel companies. The 2021 law had become a model for similar measures around the country, as part of a larger push against the use of environmental principles in investing.Judge Alan D. Albright of the U.S. Dist...

A federal judge on Monday struck down the Interior Department’s order to halt work on a multibillion-dollar wind farm off the coast of New York State, the fifth time the courts have ruled against the Trump administration’s efforts to throttle the country’s offshore wind industry. The administration is now 0-5 in i...

An outpouring of magma isn’t the biggest risk to people downhill from Mount Rainier in Washington. The active volcano’s greatest danger comes from lahars — amalgams of mud, rock and water that are as dense as wet concrete.Over the past several thousand years at least nine large lahars have barreled down the steep...

The scientists aboard the icebreaker Araon didn’t manage to squeeze instruments through a half-mile-deep hole in the Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica’s most menacingly unstable mass of ice, to inspect the warming waters underneath.But other researchers on our expedition have placed equipment in spots that are almost as hard...

NASA announced on Tuesday that it would not try to launch astronauts on an around-the-moon trip until at least March. The decision was made after the agency was unable to complete a countdown rehearsal that started on Saturday.NASA officials had hoped that the Artemis II mission, which would be the first time humans leave low-Earth...

The patients were old — more than 2,200 years old. But the medical experts were determined to give them a cutting-edge 21st-century exam.First upwas Nes-Hor, a priest in the Temple of Min, who died circa 190 B.C.E. and whose body was wrapped in a linen shroud that had blackened over the centuries. Then came Nes-Min, circa 330...

The small, stubby New Shepard rocket from the rocket company started by Jeff Bezos has sent celebrities like William Shatner, Michael Strahan and Katy Perry to the edge of space.Now, it won’t be going anywhere for a while.The company, Blue Origin, announced on Friday that it was pausing launches of New Shepard for at least tw...

While record snowfall and single-digit temperatures pummel much of the United States, an extreme snow drought and unusually warm weather are keeping skiers off the mountains, snowmobilers off the trails and water out of the rivers across much of the West.In many places famed for deep natural snow, including Park City, Utah; Vail, C...

Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ve heard a lot about snow lately. Today we’ll find out about the rock salt that’s crunching underfoot. We’ll also get details on a guilty plea by a public defender who was accused of stealing public funds to pay for vacations and teeth whitening.ImageCredit...Graham Dic...

The ground has been restless in this California community 35 miles east of San Francisco. Since late last year, dozens of earthquakes have rumbled through San Ramon and its tidy neighborhoods and cul-de-sacs, disrupting the suburban calm.They have been mostly quick, and relatively weak, rumbles occurring here and there, with a few...

Two weeks of heavy snowfall has wreaked havoc in Japan, killing at least 30 people and injuring at least 200 others, according to Japan’s government, with local officials warning that the toll could rise.Japan is known for wintry deluges, especially along the western coast and in northern prefectures. But especially heavy sno...

In late December, researchers were descending a remotely operated vehicle in the Atlantic Ocean off Argentina when, at a depth of roughly 800 feet, the control room fell silent. On the screens, a jellyfish appeared. But it was no ordinary sighting: It was a giant phantom jelly, a deep-sea species rarely seen in the world’s se...

Harvard undergraduates would compete for a limited number of A grades in their courses under a faculty committee proposal released Friday meant to tame grade inflation at the Ivy League school.During the last school year, about two-thirds of all undergraduate letter grades were A’s. Under the new proposal, grades of A would b...

When the Justice Department charged 16 people last week with assaulting federal agents involved in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, Attorney General Pam Bondi flew halfway across the country to be “on the ground,” as she put it, when the cases were unsealed.Ms. Bondi talked tough, pos...

A federal judge in Chicago will allow the release of evidence, including body camera video footage and text messages, from the October shooting of Marimar Martinez, a 30-year-old teacher’s assistant, by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago.On Friday, Judge Georgia N. Alexakis of the Federal District Court for the Northern Distric...

California has sued a prominent children’s hospital system to prevent it from ending gender-related treatments for transgender young people.Amid a broader push by the Trump administration to block such care, California’s action appears to be the first time a state has sued a health care provider to force it to continue,...

If only this were a game of musical chairs.But in the competition for curbside parking after a blizzard, the rules aren’t as clearly defined, occasionally leading those who are left circling the block without a space to retaliate against the “winners.”After the sprawling snowstorm last month, a brawl over a parkin...

Two rescues and three deaths last week in the United States underscore the dangers of walking on thin ice.Though temperatures are below freezing in many parts of the country, the water in ponds, lakes and rivers has to turn into an ice block four inches thick before most people can safely walk across, according to scientists.The ge...

A U.S. military strike blew up a boat suspected of moving drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing two people, the U.S. Southern Command said.The strike was the first authorized by Southcom’s new commander, Gen. Francis L. Donovan, a Marine who took charge of U.S. military operations in Latin America and the Ca...

Last month’s snow remains stubbornly frozen in gutter-side heaps across New York City, and with temperatures set to plunge again, it’s likely to remain there for a while.A fresh dusting of snow this weekend could coat the grime-encrusted piles, but the real story is the biting cold trailing behind it, with forecasters warning that...

The country’s most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group threw its financial might against a moderate Democratic House candidate in New Jersey who is a longtime supporter of the Jewish state but has said that U.S. military aid should not be unconditional.The move appeared to backfire.Instead, the group, the influential American Israel...

Bare slopes. Closed terrain. Canceled vacations.In the Western United States, the 2026 ski season is shaping up to be one of the worst in decades.A snow drought of historic proportions is hobbling many ski areas, leading skiers to stay home, mountain towns to face economic uncertainty, and sparking fears of water shortages and wild...

As elected officials in Minnesota have desperately sought to persuade the Trump administration to end an immigration crackdown, Dawanna Witt, the sheriff of Hennepin County, finds herself in a pivotal spot.The jail she runs in Minneapolis is the largest in the state and the only one that refuses, as a matter of policy, to assist in...

On Tuesday, a week after scientists from Britain and South Korea pitched tents on Antarctica’s remote Thwaites Glacier, they were pretty much ready to start drilling into the half-mile-deep ice.The multiday drilling operation would be the culmination of the eight-week voyage of the icebreaker Araon. If successful, it would allow th...

In the months leading up to the 2024 election, Jill Garvey, an organizer in Chicago for liberal advocacy groups, gathered with some like-minded colleagues and, she recalled, “did some scenario planning.”“Our sense,” she said, was that “authoritarian movements had coalesced, had singular goals, and were advancing them.”Since then, t...

A Libyan man long wanted in connection with the killings of four Americans at a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi in 2012 has been brought to the United States to face trial, officials announced on Friday.The man, Zubayar al-Bakoush, was videotaped entering one of the buildings on the American compound with others who were charged in...

One statistic that stopped me recently is that China’s population is projected by some experts to halve by the end of the century. Halve! China was the most populous country in the world until only three years ago. Birthrates in Italy, Germany and Japan have been low for as long as I can remember. They’re now falling across the wor...

Two days after Christmas, the Times journalists Raymond Zhong and Chang W. Lee set sail from Christchurch, New Zealand, on a research vessel bound for Antarctica. They’ve been there ever since, traveling with an international team of scientists on a high-stakes expedition to study the continent’s most unstable glacier.They’ve sent...

Siemens Energy, the German company, plans to invest $1 billion to make more electrical equipment in the United States, a welcome development for utilities and data center developers.The manufacturing expansion announced Tuesday amounts to a bet that the artificial intelligence boom, which is propelling plans for new energy-hungry d...

The scientists on the icebreaker Araon have traveled a long way to study Antarctica’s fast-shrinking Thwaites Glacier. But one team on the ship is conducting research with an eye toward someplace even farther from civilization — 1.8 billion miles farther.For more than six hours on Friday, one of the Araon’s helicopters flew over Th...

Having an imaginary friend, playing house or daydreaming about the future were long considered uniquely human abilities. Now, scientists have conducted the first study indicating that apes have the ability to play pretend as well.The findings, published Thursday in the journal Science, suggest that imagination is within the cogniti...

Lost Science is an ongoing series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding after cuts by the Trump administration. The conversations have been edited for clarity and length. Here’s why we’re doing this.Interview by Katrina MillerJoseph Yracheta: The Native Biodata Consortium is the first nonprofit data and sa...

Climate “superfund” bills, based on the principle that oil companies should pay costs associated with climate change, are gaining ground in state legislatures around the country.But it’s unclear whether the only two states to have passed such laws, New York and Vermont, will be able to defend them from legal challenges. The Justice...

Hours before the official opening of the Winter Olympics in northern Italy on Friday, Pope Leo XIV issued a papal letter on the value of sports, calling for nations to pause military conflict during the Games as “a symbol and promise of a reconciled world.”Leo, who recently condemned what he described as a “zeal for war,” contraste...

To peer into the future of one of Antarctica’s largest and fastest-shrinking glaciers, scientists on Wednesday began piercing a deep hole through its icy core.A team of British and South Korean researchers is preparing to use the hole to study the warm ocean currents that are melting the Thwaites Glacier from below. Scientists fear...

For the first time, the ceremonial start of the Games will be held in four different locations. Mariah Carey will help kick off the festivities in Milan.

Towering over Alexandria, the vibrant Mediterranean port and capital of Ptolemaic Egypt, an enormous lighthouse was a symbol of the ambition of the Hellenistic age, a 460-foot skyscraper of granite and limestone that Gregory of Tours, a sixth-century A.D. Gallic bishop, deemed the seventh wonder of the ancient world. Its powerful b...

Arriving in a paradise that caters to retirees looking for gentle waves and lemon groves, Chloë Cassens gripped her scorpion necklace and tensed her shoulders.She was summoning the strength of her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor whose business empire was built on a talent for confrontation. The scorpion had become her avatar in a...

When American forces grabbed Venezuela’s president last month and laid claim to the country’s vast oil reserves, it quickly reverberated in the coastal city of Pascagoula, Miss.Pascagoula is home to a Chevron refinery that’s one of a handful in the United States that has been processing Venezuela’s heavy cru...

ImageA Chevron refinery in Pascagoula, Miss.Credit...Micah Green for The New York TimesWhen Venezuelan oil comes to the U.S.By Hiroko TabuchiWhen Venezuelan oil is shipped to the United States, where does it go?That simple question led me to the city of Pascagoula, Miss., home to Chevron’s flagship refinery on the Gulf of Mexico, w...

Last month, the last coal plant in Washington was preparing to shut its doors forever. Its acres-wide coal pile was all but gone.After years of careful planning and negotiations, coal in Washington was dying a slow, quiet and mostly peaceful death.But then the Department of Energy intervened, issuing an emergency order forcing the...

The latest Epstein files to be released in the United States have triggered a political storm in Norway after two high-placed figures were revealed to have close ties to the late convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.The largest tranche yet of legal documents relating to the prosecution of Epstein for sex offences, i...

Tehran, Iran – Iranian authorities have described the latest talks with the United States as “positive”, but the mediated negotiations in Oman offered no roadmap to alleviate growing fears of a US attack.Iran’s team in Muscat on Friday was led by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, while Washington sent special envoy Steve Witkoff and...

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

Iran says talks in Oman with US officials ended with agreement to continue, but ‘discussion in capitals’ key.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. government wants a judge to dismiss a lawsuit from survivors and relatives of the victims of Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, who say the Army failed them by not intervening before the killings.The families allege the government was negligent in failing to act...

The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.TOP 20 GLOBAL CONCERT TOURS1Bad Bunny$8,0...

LONDON (AP) — Corrupt billionaires get their comeuppance in the new season of “Cross,” with Aldis Hodge returning as the detective and forensic psychologist working complex homicides in Washington, D.C.This series, which arrives Feb. 11 on Prime sees Cross investigating a violent vigilante t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday she is not worried that the involvement of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in an FBI search of a Georgia election office could taint the FBI’s investigation.Her comments came a day after President Donald Trump offered a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Oversight Committee on Friday requested records related to firms partially owned by the husband of Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, taking the extraordinary step of scrutinizing the spouse of a sitting House member.Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky...

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House border czar Tom Homan’s announcement that enforcement in Minnesota was being unified under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement followed months of internal grumbling and infighting among agencies about how to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportati...

TORONTO (AP) — Buck Martinez said Friday he is retiring as a Toronto Blue Jays broadcaster after more than 4,000 games dating to 1987.Now 77, Martinez was a catcher for the Blue Jays from 1981-86 in the final seasons of a 17-year big league career.He covered the All-Star Game and the postsea...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico grand jury has indicted Timothy Busfield on four counts of criminal sexual contact with a child.Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman announced the indictment Friday in a social media post.Authorities had issued an arrest warrant for Busfield over...

NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione spoke out in court Friday against the prospect of back-to-back trials over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, telling a judge: “It’s the same trial twice. One plus one is two. Double jeopardy by any commonsense definition.”Mangione, 27, made th...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A diver who helped recover bodies from a deadly collision between a boat carrying migrants and a Greek coast guard vessel said Friday that most of the 15 people who died had suffered severe head injuries, as questions mounted over the circumstances of the incident.A sea...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The European Union’s climate commissioner on Friday announced a continentwide force of 300 firefighters to battle wildfires, after Europe faced its worst year for wildfires in 2025, which a recent study said was intensified by climate change.EU Climate Commissioner Wop...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — An avalanche in Slovakia’s High Tatras mountain range killed two Hungarians, the country’s mountain rescue service said Friday. It said the two were male climbers age 38 and 37.The service said bad weather prevented them from using a helicopter and they had to rea...

ENUGU, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay 20 million pounds ($27 million) each to families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by security forces during British colonial rule, according to the state-run news agency.The ruling on Thursday culminates decades...

It’s that time of year when many parents across the U.S. see their kids head off to college or leave home to start their working lives. For parents and guardians, experts say, the separation from their children can cause mixed feelings of loss, grief, loneliness, relief and freedom and can l...

California is again updating the system it uses to decide which polluted communities get cleanup funding. The tool, CalEnviroScreen, has already steered billions of dollars to the state’s most burdened neighborhoods, but critics say it still overlooks some of them. The update is reigniting a...

Energy Star, the program that helps guide consumers to more energy-efficient appliances and electronics, has survived the Trump administration’s plans to cut it.The program received sufficient support in Congress that it was included in budget legislation signed this week by President Donald...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A man wearing an explosives belt blew himself up Friday while a security force was trying to arrest him in western Iraq near the Syrian border, killing himself and wounding two security members, an Iraqi security official said.The raid was being conducted in the al-Khaseem are...

ALTO ILA, Ecuador (AP) — On a recent journey into the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle, Ramón Pucha realized he was being trailed. Fresh puma tracks now lined the path alongside his own footprints. Unfazed, he continued his trek, focused entirely on the precious cargo he carried — seeds from some of...

A federal jury has ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million to a woman who says one of its drivers raped her during a 2023 trip.Uber has faced criticism for its safety record, much of it spanning from thousands of incidents of sexual assault reported by both passengers and drivers. Because drivers o...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. births fell a little in 2025, according to newly posted provisional data.Slightly over 3.6 million births have been reported through birth certificates, or about 24,000 fewer than in 2024. The decline seems to confirm predictions by some experts, who doubted a slight inc...

BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah has replaced a top security official who was in charge of coordination with Lebanon’s security agencies after he told the group’s leadership that he wants to step down, two officials with the group who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter said Friday.Wa...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive arm proposed further sanctions against Russia on Friday over the Ukraine war, including a ban on shipping services that help Moscow’s oil industry and measures targeting the country’s financial services and trade sectors.European Commission Pres...

NEW YORK (AP) — The suburbs are anything but bland in the new Peacock series “The ‘Burbs,” where strange things are going on. Like how jokes mix with the dread.Inspired by the 1989 Tom Hanks-led movie of the same name, “The ‘Burbs” follows a new mom as she navigates a foreign world of white...

United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has said a “key participant” in the 2012 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, Libya, has been arrested.The storming of the US diplomatic compound and nearby CIA annexe left four US citizens dead, including US Ambassador Christopher Stevens.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Turki...