SEOUL — North Korea said Wed­nes­day that it had test-fired a newly developed bal­listic mis­sile from a sub­mar­ine, in its first such under­wa­ter test-launch in two years and one it says will bol­ster its mil­it­ary’s under­sea cap­ab­il­it­ies.

The test Tues­day was the fifth round of mis­sile launches since Septem­ber and came as North Korea steps up pres­sure on Wash­ing­ton and Seoul to aban­don what Pyongy­ang sees as hos­tile policies such as joint U.S.-South Korea mil­it­ary drills and inter­na­tional sanc­tions on the North.

Colin Pow­ell’s ded­ic­ated ser­vice is cer­tainly worthy of praise. However, his role in the debacle of the Iraq inva­sion can­not be ignored.

Don­ald Trump has sought to block the release of doc­u­ments to a House com­mit­tee invest­ig­at­ing the attack on the US Cap­itol in Janu­ary, chal­len­ging Joe Biden’s ini­tial decision to waive exe...

WASHINGTON — A Navy report has con­cluded there were sweep­ing fail­ures by com­mand­ers, crew mem­bers and oth­ers that fueled the July 2020 arson that des­troyed the USS Bon­homme Richard, call­ing the massive five-day blaze in San Diego pre­vent­able and unac­cept­able.

With a center­piece of Pres­id­ent Joe Biden’s cli­mate-change strategy all but dashed, Demo­cratic law­makers headed to the White House on Tues­day search­ing for new ways to nar­row, reshape and swi...

A wide-ran­ging strike in protest of the abduc­tions, viol­ence and law­less­ness con­sum­ing battered Haiti stretched into a second day Tues­day amid reports that a power­ful gang was demand­ing a $17 mil­lion ransom for 16 Amer­ic­ans and a Cana­dian kid­napped three days ago.

The streets of Haiti’s cap­ital, Portau-Prince, were oddly quiet and largely empty Monday as the protest shuttered busi­nesses, schools and pub­lic trans­port­a­tion. Uni­ons and other groups vowed to con­tinue the shut­down.

The FBI swarmed two houses tied to Rus­sian olig­arch and Vladi­mir Putin asso­ciate Oleg Deri­paska in New York City and Wash­ing­ton, DC, on Tues­day, accord­ing to offi­cials.

Texas Repub­lic­ans approved redrawn U.S. House maps that favor incum­bents and decrease polit­ical rep­res­ent­a­tion for grow­ing minor­ity com­munit­ies, even as Lati­nos drive much of the growth i...

‘We have been con­cerned about the inde­pend­ence of the Pol­ish judi­ciary for some time’ Ursula von der Leyen European Com­mis­sion pres­id­ent

Mor­awiecki, has clashed with the European Com­mis­sion...

BRASILIA, Brazil — A Brazilian con­gres­sional panel is set to recom­mend mass hom­icide charges against Pres­id­ent Jair Bolson­aro, assert­ing that he inten­tion­ally let the coronavirus rip through the coun­try and kill hun­dreds of thou­sands in a failed bid to achieve herd immunity and revive Latin Amer­ica’s largest eco­nomy.

A report from a con­gres­sional probe, invest­ig­a­tion, excerpts from which were viewed by The New York Times ahead of its sched­uled release this week, also recom­mends crim­inal charges against 69 other people, includ­ing three of Bolson­aro’s sons and numer­ous cur­rent and former gov­ern­ment offi­cials.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — In Pakistan’s rugged tri­bal regions along the bor­der with Afgh­anistan, a quiet and per­sist­ent warn­ing is cir­cu­lat­ing: The Taliban are return­ing.

Pakistan’s own Taliban move­ment, which had in years past waged a viol­ent cam­paign against the Islamabad gov­ern­ment, has been emboldened by the return to power of the Taliban in Afgh­anistan.

Repub­lican House Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy believes there will be more retire­ments among Demo­crats lead­ing up to the midterm elec­tions in 2022, as they grapple with the likely pos­sib­il­ity of los­ing their major­it­ies in the next term.

The shame­ful sea­son of the ger­ry­mander is in full bloom as state law­makers redraw legis­lat­ive and con­gres­sional dis­tricts so they can choose their voters rather than the other way around.

Just weeks after the 2020 Census data was released show­ing the pop­u­la­tion has shif­ted and grown, redis­trict­ing knives came out.

Texas Repub­lic­ans carved up the Hou­s­ton dis­trict that House Demo­cratic Rep. Sheila Jack­son Lee has held for three dec­ades, strip­ping out pre­dom­in­antly Black neigh­bor­hoods and poten­tially for­cing her into a primary against another Demo­cratic incum­bent.

ISTANBUL, Tur­key — U.N. agen­cies are gear­ing up to vac­cin­ate all of Afgh­anistan’s chil­dren younger than 5 against polio for the first time since 2018, after the Taliban agreed to the cam­paign, the World Health Organ­iz­a­tion says.

For the past three years, the Taliban barred U.N.-organ­ized vac­cin­a­tion teams from door-todoor cam­paigns in parts of Afgh­anistan under their con­trol, appar­ently out of sus­pi­cion they could be spies for the gov­ern­ment or the West. Because of the ban and ongo­ing fight­ing, some 3.3 mil­lion chil­dren over the past three years have not been vac­cin­ated. The Taliban’s repor­ted agree­ment after becom­ing the rulers of Afgh­anistan appeared aimed at show­ing they are will­ing to cooper­ate with inter­na­tional agen­cies. The Taliban lead­er­ship did not con­firm its agree­ment, and Taliban offi­cials did not imme­di­ately respond to requests for com­ment.

The UK gov­ern­ment’s long-awaited strategy for reach­ing net zero emis­sions falls short on ambi­tion and is not backed up with adequate fund­ing, experts and cam­paign­ers have warned. Min­is­ters r...

WASHINGTON — More than six weeks after prom­ising a new vac­cin­a­tion-or-test­ing rule cov­er­ing the mil­lions of Amer­ic­ans at com­pan­ies with 100 or more work­ers, Pres­id­ent Joe Biden’s most aggress­ive move yet to com­bat the COVID-19 pan­demic is almost ready to see the light of day.

WASHINGTON — The Biden admin­is­tra­tion, bow­ing to an aggress­ive lob­by­ing cam­paign by the bank­ing industry and push­back from Repub­lic­ans, has agreed to sup­port a far more lim­ited plan for the Internal Rev­enue Ser­vice to try to crack down on tax cheats.

Sen­ate Demo­crats are expec­ted to roll out a new pro­posal Tues­day that would nar­row the scope of inform­a­tion that banks must provide to the IRS about cus­tomer accounts. Under the new plan, banks would be required to provide data on only accounts with total annual depos­its or with­draw­als worth more than $10,000, rather than the $600 threshold that was ini­tially pro­posed. The report­ing require­ment would not apply to payroll depos­its for wage and salary earners or to bene­fi­ciar­ies of fed­eral pro­grams such as Social Secur­ity.

WASHINGTON — Health reg­u­lat­ors on Tues­day unveiled their pro­posal to allow Amer­ic­ans to buy hear­ing aids without a pre­scrip­tion, a long-awaited move inten­ded to make the devices more access...

Face­book is pay­ing a $4.75-mil­lion fine and as much as $9.5 mil­lion to eli­gible vic­tims to resolve the Justice Depart­ment’s alleg­a­tions that it dis­crim­in­ated against U.S. work­ers in favor of for­eign­ers with spe­cial visas to fill high-pay­ing jobs.

In the next four years, Miami-Dade County’s plan­ning office pre­dicts a mile­stone for real estate: Developers will finally run out of build­ing sites for new single-fam­ily homes.

That won’t mean the...

The Free Applic­a­tion for Fed­eral Stu­dent Aid – also known as the FAFSA – rolled out Oct. 1 for stu­dents who plan to attend col­lege next fall. This is one of the most import­ant steps stu­dents and their fam­il­ies can take to secure money to pay for col­lege since schools use it to determ­ine eli­gib­il­ity for grants, schol­ar­ships, loans and work- study.

If you’re a fan of Apple Air­Pods, Monday’s announce­ment may be music to your ears.

The tech giant revealed dur­ing a vir­tual event the third gen­er­a­tion of its pop­u­lar Air­Pods wire­less ear­buds. They cost $ 179 and are avail­able for pre­order start­ing Monday. The new Air­Pods go on sale Oct. 26.

The updated Air­Pods fea­ture a new con­tour design with a shorter stem and a force sensor for more intu­it­ive con­trol of music and phone calls. There is also sup­port for spa­tial audio for fuller sound and adapt­ive EQ for a more accur­ate listen­ing exper­i­ence.