New York City was expected to receive some rain on Wednesday night, after weeks of drought.
The Department of Justice and a group of states had until the end of Wednesday to propose remedies in an antitrust lawsuit they won in August.
Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘‘Comedian,’’ a conceptual art piece during a preview at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. It sold for $6.2 million with fees.
People stand near the remains of a missile near the Dead Sea, in Israel, in October.
People running toward humanitarian aid packages dropped over the northern Gaza Strip in April.
Pete Hegseth during the National Council of Young Israel Gala in New York in 2019. President-elect Donald J. Trump has said he wants Mr. Hegseth to be his defense secretary next year.
Gautam Adani, one of the world’s richest people, has been charged with multiple counts of fraud and accused of bribing Indian officials and later lying to investors about the scheme.
The Justice Department declined to charge former Representative Matt Gaetz with a crime after its investigation, and the related documents have remained secret.
Percival Everett, awarded the prize for fiction, said seeing so many people gathered together to celebrate literature gave him a sense of optimism.
Rudolph Giuliani has missed several deadlines to turn over property to two former Georgia election workers whom he defamed.
His victory on Tuesday was a comeback of sorts for Nick Begich III, an Anchorage native and businessman who was endorsed by the right-wing House Freedom Caucus and who challenged Representative Mary Peltola in 2022 but fell short.
Randy Boissonnault stepped down as Canada’s employment minister on Wednesday, dealing another blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Dr. Darius Paduch was sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing patients at hospitals including NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill-Cornell Medical Center.
The next two or three months in Ukraine are likely to be exceedingly violent, in a war that has already been the deadliest in Europe in the past 80 years. Marc Santora, who has been reporting from Ukraine since the beginning of the war with Russia, explains why.
Nvidia gained a commanding position in artificial intelligence because its chief executive, Jensen Huang, bet that its semiconductors could be essential to building the technology.
JD Vance on election night. On Wednesday, he offered a glimpse of the message he delivered to senators, saying that President-elect Donald J. Trump “deserves a cabinet that is loyal to the agenda he was elected to implement.”
A tree toppled onto a bus as the storm battered Seattle. Nearly half a million customers in Washington were without power as of late Wednesday morning.
A British-made Storm Shadow cruise missile on display at a military show in 2018.
North Carolina’s legislature has long been controlled by Republicans. For years they have sought to claw power away from a governor’s office occupied by Roy Cooper, a Democrat who will be succeeded next year by Josh Stein, another Democrat.
Bev Pack, right, embraced a demonstrator at a rally organized by Women’s March near the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.