A top Justice Department official is playing down the possibility of additional criminal charges arising from the Jeffrey Epstein files
Misconduct complaint dismissed against judge who handled El Salvador prison deportation case
A federal appeals court judge has dismissed a misconduct complaint filed by the Justice Department against a judge who clashed with President Donald Trump’s administration over deportations to a notorious prison in El Salvador
Teenagers charged in Louisiana parade shootings that injured child, 4 others
The suspects, ages 19 and 15, face charges including attempted murder.
Kennedy Center to close for 2 years for renovations in July, Trump says, after performers’ backlash
President Donald Trump says he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center performing arts venue for two years starting in July for construction
Dalai Lama wins Grammy Award, joining K-pop and Steven Spielberg as first-time winners
Dalai Lama wins Grammy Award, joining K-pop and Steven Spielberg as first-time winners
Speaker Johnson faces tough choices as partial government shutdown drags and debate over ICE deepens
House Speaker Mike Johnson faces tough days ahead trying to pass a federal funding package and prevent a prolonged partial government shutdown
Groundhog Day puts Punxsutawney Phil’s forecast about winter’s length in the spotlight
Punxsutawney Phil's handlers will be announcing if the weather-predicting groundhog sees his shadow
Catch a falling star: cosmic dust may reveal how life began, and a Sydney lab is making it from scratch
Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain organic matter Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling star and put...
Do you like cat photos? Are you constantly distracted? You’re probably actually quite good at focussing: 10 myths about attention
Every second, 11m bits of information enter our brains, which then efficiently prioritise them. We need to learn to work with the process, rather than against it It’s believed that we have about 50,000 thoughts a day: big, small, urgent, banal – “Did I leave the oven on?”. And those...
‘Adjustments must be made’: how to live well after mid-life
We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis We have never lived so long, so well, nor had more available advice on how to do so: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat ultraprocessed foods;...