The Forever Trial – The New York Times

It was still dark on Sunday morning when a man who the authorities said had just killed four family members at their Queens home set the house on fire and slipped out. The man, Courtney Gordon, 38, had fatally stabbed the victims, the police said: an 11-year-old girl; a 12-year-old…

At a memorial service this week outside the concert hall where Islamist extremists are suspected of carrying out a deadly terrorist attack, one of Russia’s most popular pro-Kremlin rappers warned “right-wing and far-right groups” that they must not “incite ethnic hatred.” At a televised meeting about the attack, Russia’s top…

A dense “super fog” hovered over New Orleans on Monday, shrouding the area in an impenetrable mist that led to traffic pileups involving dozens of vehicles and leaving at least seven people dead, the authorities said. At least 158 vehicles were involved in a series of crashes, which began just…

Sweden formally joined NATO on Thursday, becoming its 32nd member, two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced both Sweden and Finland to dump their traditional military nonalignment and seek the collective security of the American-led alliance. After months of uncertainty caused by the hesitations of Turkey and Hungary, Sweden…

Arizona Republicans chose a new party chair on Saturday, a move that tightened the grip on the state party hierarchy by far-right supporters of former President Donald J. Trump and that came days after a scandal that forced the last chairman to resign. Gina Swoboda, who directed election-day integrity operations…