President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Trump in Anchorage in August. On Wednesday, the two leaders spoke by phone for the first time this year.
Volunteers and officials searching for a missing five-year-old girl in Alice Springs, Australia, on Tuesday.
The longer the disruption to Middle East fuel supplies lasts, the risk grows that higher energy costs will feed into broader inflation that could dent economic growth.
A gas station in Paris. The war in Iran had an almost immediate impact on European inflation, increasing gasoline prices as well as airfares and other fuel-intensive activities.
The Koh-i-Noor diamond, right of center, is set in a crown made for the British royal family.
The people building A.I. fear that we have only a short time before advanced A.I. disrupts the labor force.
Outside the courthouse in Virginia where James Comey appeared yesterday.
The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s voting map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in a move that could make it harder for lawmakers to create majority-minority voting districts.
An arson attack in the Golders Green neighborhood of London in March destroyed four ambulances run by a Jewish organization.
An emotional goodbye on Iran’s border with Turkey before an Iranian family headed to Australia for work, not knowing when they would reunite with loved ones at home.
People lining up to register to vote in Selma, Ala., in February 1965.
A commemoration of the 1965 voting rights march known as Bloody Sunday for the violence inflicted upon activists. “I just never in my wildest imagination ever dreamed that we would be, in 2026, where we are now, based on what happened in 1965,” said Dr. Leslie B. McLemore, 85.
Colorado has an independent redistricting commission that Democrats are now trying to undo.
Somehow, the weaker nation is in the stronger negotiating position.
Emma Thebault stands near the Upper East Side intersection where she and her infant son were hit last year by a driver with nearly 200 violations.
Police officers are often reluctant to get involved in what they deem a civil matter.
A research lab in Washington State tracks ecological changes in a warming climate and provides scientific guidance for forest managers. It is one of 57 such facilities being shuttered.
Linda and Stan Lawson were married for more than 50 years.
J. Craig Venter, next to Algae growth in his greenhouse in La Jolla, Calif., competed with a rival team of scientists in assembling the first human genome.
A memorial at Bondi Beach, the site of the attack, in Sydney, Australia, in December.