Stormy Daniels Faces Trump’s Lawyers, and Biden Blocks Weapons for Use in Rafah

Ukrainian forces have been fighting a brutal counteroffensive for the past two months, struggling to break through on land. Yet they have made progress on another front: the Black Sea, a vital shipping route for both sides of the war. Last month, Russia withdrew from a deal that had allowed…

Shane MacGowan’s timeless love letter to New York announces itself from a cockeyed vantage — “It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank” — before name-checking the city’s many riches: Frank Sinatra, Broadway, cars big as bars and rivers of gold. “Fairytale of New York” also immortalizes a specific…

The news that three Israeli hostages were mistakenly shot and killed last month in Gaza by soldiers meant to save them outraged many in Israel, who have since demanded answers about how the army conducts itself on the battlefield and safeguards civilians. The three male hostages, captured by Hamas terrorists…

President Biden and Democrats on Capitol Hill are seriously considering Republican demands for deeply restrictive immigration policies in exchange for billions of dollars in aid for Ukraine, a move that activists say would devastate America’s obligations to welcome desperate migrants fleeing war and oppression. Mr. Biden has said he is…

Exactly 56 years to the day after the 1968 student occupation at Columbia University was violently cleared by the New York Police Department, hundreds of police officers moved into the Manhattan campus on Tuesday night to quell a different kind of antiwar protest. Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested as…