The concern over restrictions on some payments raises uncertainty on whether a landmark agreement on compensating athletes can be reached and approved.

Over a decades-long period, more than 30 Catholic priests and missionaries moved to remote island nations after they had allegedly abused children in the West, or had been found to do so.

Japanese chip companies are tapping billions of dollars and collaborating with foreign firms as part of new government policies that look outward.

As backpackers who met in Australia in 2017, Ryan Hawkins wrote to Naina Rishiraj: “One day I hope we can be in the same place for a long time.” His hope came true.

Japan’s Seven & i Holdings, the operator of 7-Eleven, has rebuffed a buyout offer that would have been the largest foreign-led acquisition of a Japanese company.

Democrats seized on his comments, arguing that JD Vance was resigned to the reality of school shootings.

He was also charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of cruelty to children, all “directly connected with the actions of his son and allowing him to possess a weapon,” an official said.

As federal agents seize the phones of the mayor’s top aides, multiplying inquiries threaten to destabilize Mr. Adams’s ability to run New York City.

The rapper, who was at one time affiliated with Young Thug, had a 2015 hit with “Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh),” which spawned a dance craze.

The excessive heat worldwide suggests the full year will also be a record-breaker, according to Copernicus, the E.U. agency that tracks global warming.

Without bats to eat insects, farmers turned to more pesticides, a study found. That appears to have increased infant deaths.

Donald Trump, in a speech in New York, said the commission would conduct a sweeping audit of the federal government and recommend “drastic reforms” for cutting waste.

The guilty plea now exposes President Biden’s son to a likely outcome that once seemed unthinkable: significant time behind bars.

Gisèle Pelicot spoke of the horror of being told by the police that they had evidence her husband had drugged her for years and brought men into their home to join him in raping her.

As the mass vaccination campaign shifted Thursday from central to southern Gaza, an Israeli strike reportedly killed four in an area where inoculations had just concluded.

Dozens of new buildings are going up along the famously polluted Gowanus Canal. The discovery of an underground chemical plume hasn’t slowed the development.

Also, teenage vaping dropped to a 10-year low. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

Why we want the wrong things.

Who you gonna believe, him or your lying eyes?

The state does not have universal background checks for gun purchases, safe storage laws or a so-called red-flag law — measures instituted elsewhere in response to gun violence.