New York Times

A looming decision in Washington to block Nippon Steel’s merger with U.S. Steel on national security grounds is raising sharp questions in Tokyo.

The value of the 88-year-old activist investor’s company has fallen by nearly $20 billion. Mr. Icahn said that he was “absolutely not selling.”

After ruling against Google last month, Judge Amit P. Mehta said he would take until next August to determine fixes that the company must make.

The path to a life in a new country is often paved with complicated visa and residency requirements.

For the justices, selling books remains one of the few ways to earn income outside the court.

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California rejected a Democratic proposal that would have extended first-time home-buyer loans to some undocumented immigrants. Republicans had widely criticized the bill.

Their numbers have dwindled, but the remaining members are imagining what comes next.

The body mass index has long been criticized as a flawed indicator of health. A replacement has been gaining support: the body roundness index.

The decision by Justice Juan M. Merchan means voters will be left in the dark about whether the former president will face time behind bars.

The Ukrainian leader argued that escalating military pressure on Russia, combined with diplomacy, was the best way to motivate Moscow to seek peace.

Employers added 142,000 jobs in August, fewer than economists had expected, and previous months were revised downward.

Some N.F.L. players called Brazil dangerous ahead of the league’s first game in South America on Friday. Statistics show their home city is deadlier.

Fotios Geas, who was already serving a life sentence, bludgeoned the Boston gangster to death in his cell in 2018, prosecutors said.

It is a positive sign, overall, that child care is an issue that’s front and center.

San Marino scored its first competitive win. “To beat Liechtenstein has been an incredible joy,” one player said.

His breakout role was as the nerdy Jewish heartthrob in “The O.C.” Now in the rom-com “Nobody Wants This,” he goes full rabbi.

The Ukrainian offensive over the border caught Moscow’s intelligence agencies by surprise, experts say. It wasn’t the first time that has happened during the war.

Fed officials are hurtling toward a rate cut this month, but Friday’s jobs data left their options open on the size of that reduction.

The country’s brutal civil war has led to the killing, rape and torture of civilians, including children, as it threatens to destabilize neighboring countries.

A regulator said it was opening an investigation into Ticketmaster’s actions, but the company disputed that “dynamic pricing” came into play.