“I’m sure President Putin wants it to stop,” Donald Trump said of the Russia-Ukraine war on Friday. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine stressed that the war shouldn’t have been started.

Mayor Eric Adams, muted but defiant, said he was innocent of bribery and other charges, and his lawyer attacked the prosecution’s case.

Helene made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast late Thursday, one year after the area was hit by Hurricane Idalia.

The United States has 2,500 troops in Iraq who served as a bulwark against attacks by a resurgent Islamic State.

Ingrid Lewis-Martin has been close to Mayor Eric Adams for decades, and has cultivated a reputation as a ruthless political actor.

As the company looks for more outside investors, documents reviewed by The New York Times show consumer fascination with ChatGPT and a serious need for more cash.

In 2011, a New York bartender paid tribute to the actor with a sly tweak to a pre-Prohibition cocktail.

The candidate had asked the justices to intervene after a state judge found that he had used an improper home address in election paperwork.

In 32 years in charge of Hezbollah, Mr. Nasrallah, 64, has built the Iranian-backed militia into an influential force in Lebanon and a potent adversary of Israel.

Also, Hurricane Helene destroyed large swaths of the Southeast. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

In a declining business, Kevin Mazur has thrived by gaining the trust of Beyoncé, Madonna and Taylor Swift. His motto: “Why wouldn’t you want to make people look good?”

Contrary to public reports last year, the passengers probably had no idea that the vessel was about to implode.

His attempt to cast himself as victim of a racial conspiracy is unlikely to work.

Throughout her career and on “Downton Abbey,” she perfected the role of the commanding Englishwoman with an arrow-sharp wit.

A whirlwind week of top-level meetings failed to alleviate concerns in Kyiv that a Trump presidency could lead to a dramatic shift in American policy.

More than the sheer repetition of extreme weather, the stakes have grown — for our homes, our communities and our lives.

Former President Donald J. Trump turned his sights on Charleroi, Pa., where many Haitians have settled in recent years, and he fueled a fire that was already smoldering.

In a fraught meeting in May, top officials at the World Anti-Doping Agency were warned that a computer glitch might allow athletes accused of doping to compete at the Paris Games.

Jack Smith is seeking to disclose quotations from secret grand jury testimony and interviews, but is proposing to shield witness identities.