Academy Museum Gala red carpet: Kim Kardashian, Cynthia Erivo, Meg Ryan, Pamela Anderson and more

Fierce thunderstorms, heavy rainfall and flash flooding wreaked havoc across the Northeast over the weekend, killing five people in Pennsylvania, halting flights at major airports in the New York metropolitan area and downing power lines. In one part of Long Island, five inches of rain fell in less than two…

The United States has agreed to release a close ally of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in exchange for 10 jailed Americans, including six designated as wrongfully detained, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday. Alex Saab, who has been accused by the United States of “profiting from starvation” of Venezuelans,…

At Barclays Center on Saturday, during the first half of a game between the New York Liberty and the Indiana Fever, a man on the floor level held up a sign that instructed the crowd to “get loud.” There was no need for the prompt. Some of the raucous crowd…