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If deals are struck, Meta may incorporate the actors’ voices into a digital assistant product called MetaAI, people with knowledge of the effort said.

The drawing of Schiele’s wife was the focus of a trial at which three parties, all with Jewish roots, argued whether it had been looted by the Nazis and from whom.

The location of local snipers when Donald Trump was shot has become a point of deep dispute, with local officials suggesting that the Secret Service is trying to shift blame.

The Justice Department and special counsel Robert Mueller investigated whether a Trump adviser was part of an Egyptian plan, never proven, to funnel $10 million to the 2016 Trump campaign.

Lawyers for a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay said the image emerged from a classification review that blacked out much of a legal brief.

Ilya Yashin, a prominent opposition politician, said he appreciated his freedom, but told his jailers he did not want it if it meant going into exile.

Is anyone as excited by the Paris Games as Antoine Griezmann? It doesn’t seem possible.

The vice president has a rare opportunity to reintroduce herself to the American public as a presidential candidate, armed with lessons from the first time.

David Keith wants to spray a pollutant into the sky to block some sunlight. He says the benefits would outweigh the danger.

By releasing a convicted assassin, Germany played a critical role in securing the freedom of 16 people held in Russia. But the decision has raised questions about political influence in legal cases.

Few Palestinians appeared to heed Hamas’s call for a “day of anger” to condemn the killing of Ismail Haniyeh and Israel’s bombardment of the enclave.

Central bankers are preparing to cut interest rates, and are monitoring job data as they consider when and how much to lower them.

Also, the Middle East is on edge as Israel braces for retaliation. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s first presidential bid, is among the new senior staff announced on Friday, along with veterans of both Obama campaigns as well as Hillary Clinton’s 2016 run.

Politicians have long cast their opponents as outsiders. But Donald J. Trump has taken the strategy to the next level against Kamala Harris.

Reversing decades of precedent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in a Texas case that different minority groups cannot jointly claim that their votes have been diluted.

The Biden administration recognized the autocrat’s rival as the winner of Sunday’s election in Venezuela. Yet President Maduro shows no sign of being willing to leave office.

The plan that freed the journalist was hatched long before he was arrested.

Big technology companies show no signs of slowing their spending on artificial intelligence, even though a payoff still looks a long way away.

The report on hiring in July added to worries about the economy. Stocks fell sharply, and Treasury yields declined in expectation of a Federal Reserve rate cut.