From the giant Starbucks to upstarts like Scooter’s Coffee in Nebraska, the battle is joined for who can come up with the craziest, calorie-laden, not-really-coffee drink.

Overwhelmed destinations made high-season visitors the targets of a major tourism backlash. Heat waves and fires only added to the pressure.

Already longlisted for the Booker Prize, Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” — set in rural France — stars a ruthless American secret agent.

“They are like a bleeding wound, and no one sees it,” a schoolteacher said of her pupils, many of whom have fled frontline areas or lost family members in the fighting.

One of the hostages, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was an American citizen.

Tucked into forests and often unmarked on maps, swimming holes offer relief from increasingly hot summers but also pose risks for adventure seekers.

The city’s Open Streets program will allow schools to close 71 streets to traffic and open them for students to play without worrying about speeding cars.

As interest in tennis increases, so do the crowds at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

Some vegetables cost more than they have in five years. Top Chinese officials have made a point of showing that they’re doing something about it.

His immigration policies would push meatpackers and processors to the breaking point — and perhaps crash the whole food system.

The satellite internet service controlled by Elon Musk is refusing to comply with a court order to block his social network, X, regulators said.

He began playing as a child and quickly found success for his technical command and, as one critic put it, his “thoughtful elegance.”

Hersh Goldberg-Polin was among the hostages whose bodies were found on Saturday. Many remembered him as a gleeful and good-humored person — who later became a symbol of hope.

Our window to rescue the remaining hostages in Gaza is closing, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fastening the latch.

The outage struck on Sunday, cutting access for many DirecTV viewers to the U.S. Open tennis tournament on ABC.

The vice-presidential nominee got a brief respite from the campaign trail to visit the venue that helped propel him to online stardom.

The Israeli military said Sunday that Hamas had killed the hostages before they were discovered by Israeli troops on Saturday.

Israel and Hamas agreed to pause the war to permit the vaccination of 640,000 children in Gaza, a daunting effort for health workers.

The Alternative for Germany party was on course to win in Thuringia, according to projections, in what was seen as a worrying sign of the health of German democracy.

The union representing the workers, UNITE HERE, has planned a rolling strike for several days in cities like Boston, San Francisco and Seattle after contract negotiations stalled.