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American homeowners could see a significant drop in the cost of selling their homes after a real estate trade group agreed to a landmark deal that will eliminate a bedrock of the industry, the standard 6 percent sales commission. The National Association of Realtors, a powerful organization that has set…

Senator Chuck Schumer’s harsh critique of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government revealed the widening gap between Israel and its most important ally, the United States, analysts said on Friday. But even some of Mr. Netanyahu’s rivals appeared reluctant to seize on the comments while the country is focused…

What’s next for ByteDance’s U.S. investors? As Beijing makes it increasingly clear that it opposes efforts by Congress to force TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell the popular video app — government officials in China said American lawmakers were acting like a “bandit” — the tech giant’s U.S. backers…

Severe storms tore through three Midwestern states on Thursday, producing reports of damaging tornadoes across Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana and injuring dozens of people. In eastern Indiana, the towns of Winchester in Randolph County and Selma in Delaware County appeared to be badly hit. Local officials said they believed a…

A heavy Israeli police contingent checked worshipers on Friday entering the Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, where the threat of unrest loomed over the conclusion of Ramadan, the holiest month for Muslims and one that has taken on added significance during the war in Gaza. Hamas, the militant group that…

Oleksii Polukhin’s 64 days in detention began when Russian soldiers stopped him at a checkpoint. They found that he’d been gathering information about Russian military positions to share with Ukrainian forces; they also discovered he was gay. Mr. Polukhin gave a detailed account of his detention to Projector, an Odesa-based…

A South Korean court on Friday found Oh Young-soo, an actor who won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of a contestant in the Netflix survival drama “Squid Game,” guilty of indecent assault. Mr. Oh, 79, was given an eight-month suspended sentence and ordered to attend 40 hours of classes…

Russia is ratcheting up its internet censorship ahead of elections this weekend that are all but assured to give President Vladimir V. Putin another six years in power, further shrinking one of the last remaining spaces for political activism, independent information and free speech. The Russian authorities have intensified a…

A Michigan jury found James Crumbley guilty of involuntary manslaughter late Thursday over his failure to prevent his teenaged son from carrying out a school shooting that killed four fellow students and wounded seven others. Mr. Crumbley’s wife, Jennifer Crumbley, was convicted of identical charges last month in the same…