At least nine people, including a child, were dead after a severe rainstorm pounded a large swath of the South and left hundreds of thousands of people without power on Sunday morning and communities contending with flash flooding. In northeast Tennessee, the National Weather Service in Memphis issued a flash flood emergency on Sunday afternoon…

A few years back, the online right became enamored of a new epithet for liberals NPC short for non-player character. Non-playable non-player character. But you don’t know about this. Do I get to tell you the NPC meme. Yes, this is the most important meme of our lifetime. The term was lifted from video games,…

My parents had friends and attended and threw parties, but even so, there was something about adulthood that struck me as serious when I was a kid — adults spent their days getting their oil changed, filling out paperwork, going to funerals — and the sheer silliness of “S.N.L.” seemed charmingly, enticingly at odds with…

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s imminent elections on behalf of a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis 80 years ago. A day after Mr. Vance stunned the Munich Security Conference by telling German leaders to drop their…

Naama Moses, a volunteer selling merchandise to support the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents relatives of the captives, ascribed this to the pain that many felt when they saw the three men who were freed last week. “Perhaps containing your disappointment would be easier at home in front of the telly, on your…

The top foreign policy official for the European Union had a blunt assessment on Friday of the Trump administration’s apparent willingness to give Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, much of what he wants in Ukraine, even before negotiations to end the three-year war begin. “It’s appeasement,” the official, Kaja Kallas, declared at the Munich Security…

Feb. 14, 2025, 8:07 p.m. ET “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion,” wrote Hagan Scotten, the assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, to Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, in a resignation letter that…

Fewer than 6,000 people live in Trevethin and Penygarn, a gritty, deindustrialized district amid the hills and valleys of South Wales, and not many expected drama when a vote was called to elect a member of the local municipality, one of the lowest tiers of British government. But as one candidate, Stuart Keyte, a member…

After 15 months of war, Hani al-Dibs, a high-school teacher, thought his greatest wish was to see the bombardment of Gaza come to an end. But the long-awaited cease-fire has brought only bitterness and dread. Mr. al-Dibs is one of countless Gazans burdened with an agonizing duty: trying to recover the remains of loved ones…

Heavy rain began to fall across a large swath of Southern California on Thursday afternoon as the region braced for intense bouts of precipitation that threatened to cause flooding and unleash debris flows in areas recently burned by wildfires. The Southern California regions scorched by flames last month were of particular concern because the soil…