The Line Fire more than quadrupled in size on Saturday and led to evacuation orders for more than 5,000 people. A heat wave raises the risk that more fires could start.

Donald J. Trump’s sentencing in Manhattan was delayed, thanks in part to his legal resources and political status. It raised a question: Is he above the law?

The weird, mostly bad science of nominative determinism.

The byline of Robert D. McFadden, who retired on Sunday, has been one of the most distinguished in the history of The Times. Here is a sampler of his artful obituaries.

The ban on Elon Musk’s X has dealt a blow to Brazilians whose livelihoods depended on internet followings they had amassed for years, and which disappeared overnight.

Growing numbers of Chinese women are challenging a longstanding tradition that denies them village membership, and the lucrative payouts that go with it.

The mother told relatives she reached out to the school on Wednesday morning, warning of an emergency, the suspect’s aunt said Saturday.

In Wisconsin, former President Donald J. Trump called for eliminating the Department of Education and said he would work with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, on health issues.

An African penguin who left many offspring in his long life, he belonged to the largest colony of the aquatic bird species in North America, according to the zoo.

The ad, which will run in several battleground states, comes as a growing share of voters say that abortion is their top issue.

The capsule, which returned without astronauts, and other space programs at Boeing have suffered many delays and cost overruns.

With witnesses and Palestinian officials accusing Israeli soldiers of firing the fatal shots, “an Israeli investigation is not adequate,” the family said in a statement.

Appearing together publicly for the first time in the history of their agencies, the heads of the U.S. and British intelligence services discussed Ukraine’s incursion into Russia and the war in Gaza.

The film, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, is the director Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut.

U.S. and European countries had warned of sanctions if Iran provided weapons that could be used against Ukraine. President Biden’s lame-duck status could hamper a response.

You don’t have to have kids to have kids in your life.

For the first time in more than two decades, an American man and an American woman will play in the U.S. Open singles finals.

Drug dealers, scammers and white nationalists openly conduct business and spread toxic speech on the platform, according to a Times analysis of more than 3.2 million Telegram messages.

Let us consider the grief of the lapsed sports fan.

We need to let students slow down. Critical cognition, by definition, takes time.