Despite a 1 percent increase in 2024, U.S. birthrates remained in a historic slump, a trend that worries demographers and cultural critics.
The late night host also described the papal conclave as determining “who will be handed the keys to the popemobile” on Tuesday.
The federal judiciary is being forced to confront a fundamental question: what to do when its orders are defied.
This level of violence has to stop.
More than 20 vehicles in a town on Cape Ann, Mass., have been damaged by a woodpecker in mating season. “You still see him out here,” one resident said. “Peck, peck, peck, peck.”
Prosecutors and defense lawyers are expected to make opening statements Wednesday in the sex-crime case of the fallen mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Planned diplomatic talks on Wednesday have been scaled back, raising new doubts about progress toward a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine.
In the landmark antitrust case, tech executives have harked back to a Silicon Valley age when social apps like Facebook, Path, Orkut and Google Plus boomed.
The European Commission said the Silicon Valley companies violated the Digital Markets Act, a law meant to crimp the power of the largest tech firms.
A terrorist attack in the disputed territory in 2019 brought India and Pakistan to the verge of war. There are fears Tuesday’s violence could do the same.
India had claimed in recent years that its heavy-handed approach had brought peace to the long restive region. The attack on Tuesday showed that wasn’t true.
The jails of Riverside County are plagued with unusually high murder rates and recurring security failures by an inexperienced staff.
Harvard’s lawyers suggest the administration was sloppy when it froze billions in federal funding. A mundane but crucial law is essential to the university’s case against the government.
Ahmed al-Shara said his government was discussing military support with Russia and Turkey, appealed for a lifting of sanctions and suggested foreign fighters could earn Syrian citizenship.
In an interview with The New York Times, President Ahmed al-Shara urged the United States to lift sanctions and alluded to the possibility of future military support from Russia and Turkey.
One of New York City’s minor yet annoying inconveniences is a line that forms when a restaurant or another business becomes wildly popular.
In a small ceremony, Vatican officials followed the path long taken when a pope dies.
Pope Francis’ funeral on Saturday will bring together leaders who sometimes clashed with the pope on issues such as global migration.
Crowds flocked to pay their respects and bid farewell to the pontiff, who died on Monday at the age of 88.
Liberals hoped he’d ordain women or allow gay marriage. Conservatives thought he’d tear up Church doctrine. But his papacy favored debate over radical action.