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A high-level U.S. congressional delegation, including the former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, met with the Dalai Lama at his Indian home on Wednesday, a visit that was condemned in advance by China’s government, which considers the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader a separatist. The delegation, led by Michael McCaul, the Republican…

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia ​met with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in his first visit to the country in nearly a quarter-century on​ Wednesday, as the two autocrats vowed to build a joint front against ​the United States and ​deepen bilateral ties that Washington fears will include more…

A house collapsed in Syracuse, N.Y., on Tuesday afternoon, injuring at least 10 people, including children. Firefighters responded to reports of an explosion and a building collapse just after 4 p.m., Michael Monds, the Syracuse fire chief, said at a news conference. When they arrived at the home, a wooden…

Robert Morris, the founder of a Texas megachurch and a faith adviser to the Trump White House, has resigned from his job as its senior pastor, the church said on Tuesday, days after he was accused of sexually abusing a child in the 1980s. The Board of Elders of Gateway…

At the end, the Say Hey Kid looked nothing like the extraordinary force who had been at the center of the American imagination for much of the 20th century. The Kid — Willie Mays — struggled at the plate and stumbled on the basepaths. A line drive arced his way,…

Willie Mays, the spirited center fielder whose brilliance at the plate, in the field and on the basepaths for the Giants led many to call him the greatest all-around player in baseball history, died on Tuesday. He was 93. At his death, which was announced by the San Francisco Giants…

When Republicans gather in Milwaukee next month to nominate him for president, Donald J. Trump planned to stay not in the convention’s host city but at a Trump hotel in Chicago, some 90 miles away, according to three people briefed on the former president’s logistics. That changed midafternoon on Tuesday,…

For months, the Democratic contest on eastern Long Island to choose a candidate most capable of unseating Representative Nick LaLota, the Republican incumbent, has been cordial, if not overly polite. Debates between the two Democratic candidates, John Avlon and Nancy Goroff, have focused on bigger-picture national issues, such as abortion,…

As part of a package of new immigration measures, President Biden on Tuesday announced an initiative that could be life-changing for hundreds of thousands of undocumented young adults, known as Dreamers, whose ability to live and work in the United States has long been tied to a 12-year-old program that…

Shortly after Boeing’s chief executive, Dave Calhoun, took his seat, families who lost relatives in the 2018 and 2019 crashes of the company’s 737 Max 8 planes called out to him, demanding that he turn around and acknowledge them and the photos of their loved ones. Among those behind Mr….