March 14, 2025, 4:10 a.m. Eastern time
The S&P 500 is now more than 10 percent below its last record high — a line in the sand for investors worried about a sell-off gathering steam.
A federal judge called the administration’s justification for the firings of workers with probationary status a “sham.” Another ruling barred the administration from carrying out future mass reductions.
The remarks by the Russian leader suggested he wanted to draw out negotiations or make a truce impossible. Ukraine’s leader called the response to a cease-fire plan “manipulative.”
In the lowest moment of Selwyn Bernardez’s life, he attacked a stranger with a sword. It was another transit horror story, but with a different ending.
What happens when a superpower goes rogue.
U.S. officials were in Moscow for talks, and the Russian leader said he was open to a cease-fire, but President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine expressed skepticism.
The French president’s prescriptions for “strategic autonomy” and a European force for Ukraine are suddenly timely in a world with a less dependable America.
People who endured the longest Covid restrictions in the world are still grappling with what they lost: their loved ones, their livelihoods, their dignity.
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Trump administration lawyers asked the justices to limit the sweep of decisions by three lower courts that issued nationwide pauses on the policy.
Prosecutors in San Antonio are putting human smugglers on trial, as legal avenues into the United States are closed off and dangers to undocumented migrants may be rising.
The largest federal employees union is suing the Homeland Security Department to stop the Trump administration from canceling its contract with T.S.A. workers.
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Elon Musk’s group obscured the details of some new claims on its website, despite promises of transparency. But The Times was still able to detect another batch of mistakes.
Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has largely been shrouded in secrecy, but court cases are one way opponents of President Trump’s overhaul efforts have sought clarity.
Dr. Dave Weldon was to have appeared on Thursday in a confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee. He has close ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary.
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Trade wars with allies could spiral as the president tries to get trading partners to back down from retaliation with new threats of his own.
The president said he would impose the levies if the European Union did not walk back plans to place retaliatory tariffs on whiskey and other U.S. products.
The S&P 500 has fallen 10.1 percent from its recent high, crossing a threshold that signals investors have turned pessimistic about stocks.
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Mike Repole, who loved the homegrown team of his youth, has helped assemble a juggernaut enabled by compensation rules that one critic says created “the wild West.”
It takes experience to compete with established sailors in the league and to lift 50-foot-long catamarans up onto their hydrofoils smoothly.
The flight controller on the American entry started on small, tricky boats, but now works the big F50 catamarans.
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The ongoing rivalry between Helena and Helly R. on the hit sci-fi drama on Apple TV+ serves as a parable about internalized contempt and rage.
“Long Bright River,” on Peacock, and “Dope Thief,” on Apple TV+, set stories of drugs, murder and broken families on the mean streets of Philadelphia.
A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther, whose story won the hearts of Dutch Masters and some artists today.
