The White House press secretary announced on Instagram that she was pregnant with a daughter who was due in May. She and her husband have a 1-year-old son.

Brian Cox once toured as a keyboardist in major rock and pop bands. Now he’s a particle physicist on a new world tour with a dazzling show he designed in an era of science disinformation and denial.

The 72-hour cease-fire could pave the way for an end to the fighting, which has killed dozens and displaced thousands over nearly three weeks.

Flights were canceled and streets grew slippery as the metropolitan region braced for heavy snow.

Records show how government departments played down residents’ warnings about corrupt practices and substandard materials that fueled the deadly blaze.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has sought the meeting since the latest U.S.-led push for peace got underway.

A former roadie, Mr. Bamonte joined the band in 1990. He played on five albums and in hundreds of shows and was “a vital part of the Cure story,” the band said.

She was the first to crawl, the first to cut a tooth, the first to recognize her name, and the last to die. And, like her sisters, she resented being exploited as part of a global sensation.

President Trump said the targets of airstrikes in Nigeria were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians, but experts question his framing.

The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly is critically endangered, with the last known larva living in a lab in New Mexico.

The president is planning to meet with the leader of Ukraine in Florida just as the lawmakers are applying some pressure.

The development carries potential benefits for both sides but still faces stiff international opposition, 34 years after the region broke away from Somalia.

It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.

Before the strikes on Thursday, President Trump said he would halt all aid and go in “guns-a-blazing” to target affiliates of a resurgent Islamic State.

An Afrikaner flew to the United States expecting protection. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.

Here are the best nonfiction essays of the year, according to me.

It’s become easier to imagine the moment when Trump’s mystique finally evaporates.

Only five Sears stores remain in the country, with the end likely near for what was once the mightiest American retailer.

Shoes. A phone. Receipts. A comb. Traces of wild nights and hurried days are all around us.

Ryan Wedding rose to fame as a Canadian Olympic athlete, but the authorities say he became one of the world’s biggest drug lords, who ordered an informant executed.