Donald Trump has spent years alleging the justice system has been weaponized against him. And the opening of his Manhattan criminal trial Monday quickly spawned a related talking point. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan asked the first 96 prospective…

When I intend to work out with the Peloton app, I sometimes accidentally tap Wahoo, a different exercise app on my phone. Or sometimes my finger mistakenly wanders to another fitness-related app from 4iiii. I get these apps mixed up because their logos all…

In a relatively uncommon occurrence for the region, a widespread downpour of large hail impacted parts of the District and Loudoun, Fairfax and Prince George’s counties Monday afternoon, as a severe thunderstorm storm raced east and southeast across the area.…

ARACENA, Spain — “How do you like the ham?” asked Manolo Romero de la Ossa, the owner of Casas, a popular restaurant here in Andalusia. All week long around the village of Jabugo, my wife and I had been eating jamón Ibérico de bellota, the sweet, nutty, salty…

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military carried out strikes inside Iran early Friday, an Israeli official said, in retaliation for an Iranian barrage of missiles and drones launched last Saturday. The scale of the attack appeared limited and it was not clear what…

As Taylor Swift accepted the Grammy Award in February for best pop vocal album for “Midnights,” she informed the audience that she had been keeping a secret for two years: She had recorded a new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” and it would be released…

CHAMBA, Malawi — The cyclone tore through Magret Frank’s village two years ago, ripping apart the thatched mud huts. She dragged her four children from their beds just before the roof beams collapsed, and their chickens and clothes were swept away into the…

FORT WORTH, Tex. — Oklahoma, the most dominant NCAA women’s gymnastics team this season and perhaps one of the best in the sport’s history, did not advance out of the national semifinals after a stunning series of errors Thursday night. The top-ranked Sooners…

Russia has ramped up military production by replenishing stocks of standard weapons and ammunition and probably can sustain its onslaught in Ukraine for at least the next two years, analysts say — a sobering assessment for Kyiv, which is short on weapons…

The Israeli military carried out an airstrike inside Iran, an Israeli official said Friday, in retaliation for an Iranian barrage of missiles and drones launched against Israel. It was not clear what damage the strike caused, but the official — who spoke…

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Dear Miss Manners: I was leaving the gym when I saw someone wearing a T-shirt that infuriated me. It read, in bold letters, “Eat the Fragile.” This made my blood boil, particularly in today’s climate, as there are so many groups targeted with hateful, inflammatory…

Hi, Carolyn: From what I can tell, all the following are the wrong reasons to have kids: 1. To keep a relationship together. (It could make it worse.) 2. To have someone to take care of you in old age. (That gives them a role they didn’t ask for.) 3. To make…

Dear Amy: My 24-year-old daughter is expecting a baby boy. She told me that she plans to use her biological dad’s name as her baby’s middle name. Her dad, “Tobias,” and I divorced when she was six and her brother was four. At the time, the literature advised…

Bennett Braun, a psychiatrist who inflamed the 1980s “satanic panic” with his controversial treatment of multiple personality disorder, including in patients who alleged that he misused drugs and hypnosis while spawning false memories of devil worship, human…

NEW YORK — When the Shaina Taub musical “Suffs” premiered at the Public Theatre two years ago, covid plagued the company and even led to the cancellation of opening night. But those weren’t really the problem. Rather, the show, about the American suffragists’…

NEW YORK — A 12-member jury was assembled for Donald Trump’s hush money trial on Thursday hours after two previously sworn-in jurors were removed, illustrating the intense scrutiny and potential public exposure that comes with sitting in judgment of the former…

U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Thursday rejected requests from Donald Trump’s two co-defendants to dismiss the charges against them in the classified document case, ruling that federal prosecutors had met the legal threshold for the obstruction counts.…

The United States was alone Thursday in voting against a United Nations Security Council resolution to admit Palestine as a full U.N. member state. Its veto killed the measure, proposed by Algeria on behalf of Arab nations. Twelve of the 15 council members…

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