How Global Conflicts Helped Reignite Syria’s Civil War

To spend time on former President Donald J. Trump’s corner of social media is to witness any number of contradictory, unproven or outright conspiratorial ideas blooming, all at once. The approaching presidential debate has apparently sent him into overdrive. On social media and at rallies, Mr. Trump has suggested that…

Kimmy Meinecke blamed herself when she stopped losing weight. For two years, she had been taking a weekly injection of Ozempic to control her diabetes. The medication curbed her appetite so much that sometimes all she ate for dinner was a yogurt or cheese and crackers. But then one day,…

The deaths of more than a thousand pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the hajj have put a spotlight on an underworld of illicit tour operators, smugglers and swindlers who profit off Muslims desperate to meet their religious duty to travel to Mecca. While registered pilgrims are transported around the shrines…

Two firefighters have died while working to extinguish a raging fire aboard a cargo ship that was docked at Port Newark in New Jersey on Wednesday, the authorities said. The firefighters “made an attempt to extinguish the fire and, because of the intense heat, they got pushed back out of…