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A federal court Tuesday rejected a Jewish family's decades-long legal fight for a famous Pissarro painting that was taken from them by the Nazis at the dawn of World War II and is currently at a museum in Spain.

The word has become shorthand for systems of oppressive rule around the world — and a popular refrain of pro-Palestinian activists.

The ex-gang leader charged with orchestrating the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur can be released on $750,000 bail pending a June trial, a judge decided Tuesday.

In an oral argument Tuesday, appellate judges appeared to lean against granting former President Trump immunity from prosecution in the Jan. 6 election subversion case.

With a global average temperature of 58.96 degrees, the year was nearly one-third of a degree warmer than the previous hottest year on record, according to officials.

The former president's disqualification for insurrection under the 14th Amendment in Colorado threatens to make a mess the justices will likely try to avoid.

Despite a basketball background as a UCLA player and general manager with the Warriors, Bob Myers is hired by the Commanders as an adviser. He will help Washington search for a new coach after Ron Rivera was fired.

U.S. gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton, on oxygen, speaks for the first time since spending several weeks in intensive care with a rare form of pneumonia in the fall.

Q&A: Is Donald Trump subject to criminal charges for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol? A look at the legal questions surrounding his immunity claim and what it means for all future presidents.

Early polls have found that when offered a third choice, up to 17% of voters grab it — a big enough share to swing the presidential election.

Supreme Court will decide soon whether Trump can be barred from ballot because of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

A plan for reforming San Quentin — and incarceration in California — was released Friday. It's the most significant criminal justice reform in a generation.

The deal is worth $115 million a year and proves that even in a fragmented media landscape, college sports draws a significant — and growing — TV audience.

Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp, a center of West Bank resistance, say repeated Israeli raids appear intended to make their city as uninhabitable as Gaza.

Attorney Sandra Muñoz and her husband, Luis Acensio Cordero, have sued the federal government after it denied him a visa, in part, over his tattoos.

Three years ago, Times reporter Sarah D. Wire wrote about her experience inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Now, with the aid of surveillance footage recently made available by the House and additional firsthand accounts, Wire provides a more expansive view of that day.

Nikki Haley is connecting with Iowa voters. But can she catch up with former President Trump before the state's presidential nominating contest Jan. 15?

The antigovernment House GOP shows no sign that its members can be corralled, and the Senate and the House are farther apart than ever.

Pat McAfee apologized after Aaron Rodgers came on his show and wrongly suggested that Jimmy Kimmel was among those named in court documents as associates of Jeffrey Epstein.

An amicus brief from the group American Oversight argues persuasively that the former president's immunity claim doesn't qualify for immediate appeal.

Former President Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a Colorado ruling that he cannot hold office because he engaged in insurrection.

The documents are part of a case brought by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime girlfriend, who was convicted of child sex trafficking.

For the first time in half a century, researchers have identified a new antibiotic that appears to kill a deadly, drug-resistant superbug.