Even limited scenarios of an attack on North Korea point to staggering civilian casualties in the South and the prospect of nuclear warfare.
Xi Jinping is known for acting boldly, but for all the grief Pyongyang and its nuclear tests have been causing him, his options are limited.
The United States and South Korea test-fired missiles, while the American ambassador to the United Nations threatened tougher sanctions against the North.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Wednesday: Checking in with Assemblyman Travis Allen, political resentment in northernmost California, and a Hermosa Beach race that celebrates vomit.
The highly anticipated conversation poses risks for the president, who faces a web of investigations into his campaign’s possible links to Russia.
Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Indonesia could side with the United States against the Paris climate accord at the Group of 20 meeting this week.
A meeting of President John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev in 1961 points to the hazards of walking into such a session without clear strategic goals.
Crude from West Texas shale fields is increasingly making its way abroad as a pipeline system is expanded to take it to market through Corpus Christi.
It became the first mainstream automaker to sound the death knell of the traditional engine, saying all the models it introduces from 2019 will be either hybrids or powered solely by batteries.
A Washington hospital returned the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives to the intensive care unit over concerns about infection.
Discover Busan's fish auction and Jagalchi market, among the largest in South Korea and East Asia. Miosotis Familia, a 12-year veteran of the force, was shot in the head while sitting in a vehicle. The gunman was killed, the police said.
Alexander Bonds, after years of crime and mental problems, had a job, an apartment and a girlfriend, before he snapped and shot Miosotis Familia in the Bronx.
The family of Officer Miosotis Familia, who was shot and killed in the Bronx on Wednesday, says she was outspoken and encouraged family members to face their problems head on.
Under a deal with federal prosecutors, the seller of art supplies agreed to return the items, pay the government $3 million and improve the way it collects antiquities.
President Trump, in a series of denunciations of CNN and a video depicting him wrestling it, is “trying to bully us,” said its president, Jeffrey Zucker.
Internet meme creators are declaring war on CNN, after one of their own was investigated by the network.
The White House is getting behind a proposal to allow insurers to sell stripped-down health plans if they also offer plans that comply with coverage mandates.
Government troops did not react as lawmakers and journalists were bloodied in the attack, which coincided with the country’s Independence Day.
Drivers’ trip receipts contain signs that the ride-hailing service deducted hundreds of millions of dollars from drivers’ earnings in New York to pay state taxes.
Minutes of the policy makers’ June meeting showed a conflict over a September or December start on pruning the bank’s portfolio, and the effect on rates.
The Kremlin is rewarding private security contractors with oil and mineral rights in territory they secure from the Islamic State.
This reunited Canadian supergroup has released its first album since 2010, and despite the music’s flourishes, it holds a growing disquiet.
The Catholic Church’s views on end-of-life care are nuanced, but opposed to the idea that courts have the final say.
Jimmy Causey, 46, went missing on Wednesday in South Carolina. While serving a life term for kidnapping, he escaped another state prison in 2005.
Two outstanding performances in a “Children of a Lesser God” revival are a Berkshires highlight.
Representative Clay Higgins apologized after the museum’s Twitter account chastised him, saying that the site was “not a stage.”
Fine jewelry, swimsuits and cocktail dresses are among the many items you can live with free for a while till it’s time to pay up or wrap up.
Putting into practice the notion that culture is a right, OperaCamion is bringing operas, like Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” to Rome’s grittier neighborhoods.
More than 60 artists, including the Pulitzer winner Annie Baker and the actress Greta Gerwig, asked that the play “To the End of the Land” be canceled.
Jesse Eisinger’s “The Chickenshit Club” outlines the cultural and political shifts that explain why virtually no one was prosecuted for the 2008 financial crisis.
Bizet’s classic opera has been staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov at the Aix Festival in France as an intervention for a numb patient’s psyche.
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