An early rally on Wall Street faded and the S&P 500 ended the day down 1.6 percent after the White House reaffirmed plans to impose high tariffs on China and other countries at midnight.

Firefighters found a 32-year-old man who weighed 68 pounds. The police say his stepmother locked him away when he was 12.

The president and the Israeli prime minister are following the same track toward autocratic government and an abandonment of ideals.

The hearing opened with unruly scenes as hecklers forced the justices to halt the proceedings and then to resume them without a public audience. The government was handed a deadline to find a compromise.

It was an idyllic pocket of Los Angeles where people knew their neighbors — and homes sold for $5 million. The fire ignited competing visions for its future.

In a series of narrow and technical rulings, the justices have seemed to take pains to avoid a showdown with a president who has challenged the judiciary’s legitimacy.

The pilots’ conversation with air traffic controllers, revealed in a partial transcript, could offer clues to what caused the disaster in South Korea, which killed 179 people.

Under Trump, we are becoming unrecognizable to our former selves.

President Trump promised not to touch Social Security, but as Elon Musk’s team trims staff and plans cuts to phone services, the system is groaning under the pressure.

President Trump’s tariff polices have sent oil prices falling, which may push energy companies to reconsider their plans to drill.

A few carmakers have closed factories, laid off workers or shifted production in response to the auto tariffs that took effect last week.

A man abused as a child at a Missouri Christian camp agreed to remain silent, and took his own life. His sister is pushing several states to ban such nondisclosure agreements.

Thousands of working people in New York City now live in shelters, unable to afford apartments despite holding down jobs that pay them $50,000 or more.

A federal judge in California had ordered the Trump administration to rehire government employees fired as part of its efforts to slash the federal work force.

Nicholas J. Roske, 29, of California, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. He was arrested near the justice’s home in 2022, with a pistol, a knife and other weapons.

Not long before he became Virginia’s governor, Glenn Youngkin helped lead, and spoke approvingly of, efforts to improve racial and gender diversity at his private equity firm.

Many Israelis were surprised when President Trump announced that the United States would engage in “direct” negotiations with Tehran in an effort to rein in its nuclear program.

President Trump is reversing the Biden plan to increase tax revenue through more enforcement.

In some parts of the state, misdemeanor defendants routinely face charges without representation.

We explore the stock market panic over tariffs.