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Earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the purpose of the department would exclusively be "war fighting."

The number of people killed in state-sanctioned executions worldwide rose to a 44-year high in 2025, according to a new report from Amnesty International.

U.K. police said Sunday they are investigating whether a string of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London are the work of Iranian proxies, the latest of which caused minor damage on Saturday night.

The missile defense system deployed to Turkey in 2013 will be withdrawn so the batteries can be updated and modernized, according to a joint U.S.-Turkey statement.

On a day when Australians often bested the U.S. in the swimming pool at the Paris Summer Olympics, four Americans seized gold from the Aussies in the men's 4x100-meter freestyle relay.

Bring on the dancing. The Metropolitan Opera has a hot new production of Camille Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila (Samson and Delilah) complete with…

Welcome to Opera Abbreviated, your very own series of podcasts designed to give you a pithy sense of the operas being presented by the Metropolitan…

If a scenario plays out that Team USA is eliminated from Olympic hockey, don’t be surprised to see a ton of midwesterners rooting for Russia in the…

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick about how the burning of wood pellets instead of coal has led to increased deforestation in the U.S.

Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson reflects on what figure skater Adam Rippon means to him. Rippon is the first openly gay American athlete to qualify for the Winter Olympics.