The primary transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area was forced to shut down all trains for several hours on Friday morning because of a computer problem, sending commuters scrambling to find alternatives before service resumed shortly...
Cameron Hamilton, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was pushed out of the job on Thursday, according to several people familiar with his departure. His ouster came a day after he told members of Congress...
Douthat: Does a safe pair of hands mean an Italian? A member of the curia? Cardinal Parolin?Dougherty: I have nothing against Italians, but I hope not. It’s hard not to dread Cardinal Parolin because he seems comfortable with...
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration may start enforcing a ban on transgender troops serving in the military that had been blocked by lower courts.The ruling was brief, unsigned and gave no reasons, which...
The Met Gala has outdone itself, even before it’s begun.The annual gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — the flashy fashion extravaganza that highlights the city’s social scene every May — raised a record $31 million this...
Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline of France cooed at babies on Sunday at a church in the Monti neighborhood of Rome. Cardinal Peter Erdo of Hungary asked for prayers for fellow cardinals at a church near the Colosseum. Cardinal Fridolin...
Warren E. Buffett has been at the forefront of American capitalism for decades as the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate he built into a $1.1 trillion colossus.By the end of the year, he is preparing to...
Stocks were on track on Friday to erase their losses from the days after President Trump’s chaotic rollout of tariffs in early April, bolstered in part by a healthy report on the labor market.The S&P 500 rose 1.6...
Federal forest officials began clearing thousands of acres of forest just outside of Bend, Ore., where more than 100 people live in R.V.s and cars — a move that one advocacy group called “the largest eviction of...
Styrofoam packing peanuts littered an empty office in the Rayburn House Office Building across from the Capitol on Monday morning as two moving men unpacked a plush couch, an upholstered armchair, lamps and a lucite side table.Representative Elise...
