NEW DELHI — Over four nerve-racking nights, missiles and drones streaked across the skies of major cities in India and Pakistan, as the nuclear-armed neighbors appeared to be sliding toward…

Bill Aitken, a self-described “founding father of the hippies” who hitchhiked from England to India in 1959 and became a literary guru for generations of wanderers with books that explored…

John S. Foster Jr., a physicist who helped develop the U.S. nuclear arsenal and shaped national security in the Johnson and Nixon administrations, guiding billions of dollars in research and…

Pope Leo XIV, the newly elected pontiff, must answer to at least one more higher power: the IRS. The United States generally requires all citizens to file an annual tax…

India’s air force appears to have lost at least two fighter jets, including one of its most advanced models, during attacks Wednesday morning on sites in Pakistan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir,…

LONDON — When Britain’s Supreme Court made its landmark ruling last month that only biological women are women, some people said it helped settle the long, contentious debate over the rights…

Delaney Hall, an immigrant detention facility in Newark, has drawn controversy since President Donald Trump’s administration announced a billion-dollar deal with a private prison company in February to reopen the…

The Justice Departmentwill investigate whether a planned real estate development around one of North Texas’s largest mosques violates federal law, Sen. John Cornyn (R) said Friday after weeks of calling the project…

Toyota Motor forecast a 21% profit decline for the current financial year on Thursday, as the strain from US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and an appreciating yen take some of…

Long-delayed next Air Force One jets from Boeing might now be delivered by 2027 — in time for President Donald Trump to use them, according to a top Air Force…

President Donald Trump will rescind a set of Biden-era curbs meant to keep advanced technology out of the hands of foreign adversaries but that has been panned by tech giants. The move…

Almost anyone who has used the internet has probably experienced that alarming moment when a window pops up claiming your device has a virus, encouraging you to click for tech…

The Bank of England has cut its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, citing lower UK inflation. The move, which had been widely expected, brings the…

Actress Brenda Song is front and center in DoorDash’s playful and heartfelt new Mother’s Day campaign, which transforms the delivery platform into “DoorDad” for the holiday weekend. The campaign aims…

SYDNEY — Macquarie Group Ltd. is hitting pause on major divestments from its renewable energy portfolio as global market volatility continues to cloud valuations and temper investor appetite. The Australian…

NEW YORK — A new player has entered the alternative investment scene. Renown Capital Partners, a freshly launched private equity firm spun out of hedge fund heavyweight Moore Capital Management,…

TaskUs, Inc. (NASDAQ: TASK), a global provider of outsourced digital services and customer experience support, announced Monday that it will be taken private in an all-cash transaction led by its…

NEW YORK — Discount retail chain Gabe’s, a popular off-price department store operating over 160 locations across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, is in advanced negotiations to hand over control of…

In a breach that’s sending shockwaves through legal, religious, and victim advocacy circles, a massive cyberattack has exposed confidential records related to decades of Catholic Church sex-abuse cases, including sealed…

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: BW), a 158-year-old energy technology firm, is actively working with investment bank Evercore and law firm O’Melveny & Myers to address its substantial debt…

Today, I’m talking with Paul Bascobert, who is the president of Reuters, the news and information service you have undoubtedly heard of. This is part of a special Thursday series…

The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation is challenging the United Kingdom’s online safety rules in court over concerns they may enable “vandalism, disinformation, or abuse” to go unchecked on its Wikipedia platform.…

Stacey Wales had a daunting task ahead of her: preparing a victim impact statement for the sentencing of the man who had fatally shot her brotherin a road-rage incident in…

President Donald Trump moved late Thursday to fire the three Democratic commissioners on the five-person Consumer Product Safety Commission, his administration’s latest test to the limits of presidential power over independent agencies.…

A state jury found three former Memphis police officers not guilty of second-degree murder in the 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols that helped galvanize a movement to reform police…