The man, Vilmond Jean Baptiste, was in an apartment in Flatbush. The police said he was wanted on a warrant from 2022 and was a person of interest in three homicides this summer.

He spent years stitching together shirts, trousers and relationships with the children he had once left behind. It all unraveled on a busy street in Los Angeles.

Peter Cichuniec was sentenced in March to five years in prison. On Friday, a judge reduced the sentence because of “unusual and extenuating circumstances.”

Former President Donald J. Trump would tell the Russians, Ukrainians and Europeans to “figure out what a peaceful settlement looks like,” Senator JD Vance, his running mate, says.

As the president deliberated with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the question of whether to let Ukraine use long-range weapons in Russia was a rare point of contention between allied nations.

Hawaii’s attorney general released the latest findings on the 2023 fire that destroyed much of the town of Lahaina, finding a range of shortcomings in the response.

Here is what to know about Israel’s deadly raid on a Hezbollah weapons production facility in Syria.

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore of NASA spoke from the International Space Station for the first time since their Boeing orbital transport returned to Earth uncrewed.

The vice president, who appeared in Johnstown and Wilkes-Barre, pledged to remove “unnecessary degree requirements” for some federal jobs, aiming to compete in conservative-leaning areas.

Thousands of union members began the first walkout at the company since 2008. Federal mediators said the company and the union would meet early next week.

A close contact of someone with bird flu became ill on the same day, the C.D.C. reported. But the second person was not tested, and the cause of the illness is unknown.

Traditionally Republican members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints balked at Donald Trump in 2020, helping Joe Biden win a key swing state. Will they do so with Kamala Harris?

A trip to Washington by Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, came after President Vladimir Putin of Russia warned that the allies’ next step could mean war for NATO.

The decision is a crucial step in getting shots to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the center of the outbreak.

Springfield, Ohio, is caught in the middle of the nation’s political wars after former President Donald J. Trump made a debunked claim about Haitian immigrants and pets.

He said American Catholic voters had to choose the “lesser of two evils” because of Donald Trump’s cruelty toward immigrants, and Kamala Harris’s support of abortion rights.

The punishments were handed down months after the Democratic Republic of Congo lifted a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty.

Also, have some patience on election night. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

Loomer versus Greene; the martyrdom of Eric Adams; the sheer looniness of Marianne Williamson.

Joking around with a Trump supporter at a Sept. 11 event this week, the president put on a “Trump 2024” hat for a few seconds. The pictures took on a life of their own.