President Bashar al-Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a fake political address.

The police said “criminality is suspected” in the death, which they said appeared to be a homicide. It happened aboard a subway car at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station on Sunday morning.

The authorities said they were struggling to understand the motives behind ramming a car into a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg, which left a 9-year-old boy among the five dead.

Two bills on pediatric cancer research and a football stadium site had been left out of the main spending package, but passed early Saturday as separate legislation.

Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere.

First there was Christmas Eve … and then a new celebration was created.

A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?

America can’t go backward on drug policy.

We cover a new film about the singer-songwriter.

In a party that has grown less religious, some prominent Democrats say discussing their deepest beliefs can be a way to connect — when it’s authentic.

As Donald J. Trump returns to office, the rebuilt program is under threat. Many vulnerable people approved for resettlement in the U.S. could be stranded abroad.

Restaurants are experimenting with automation. But in the kitchen, human labor is hard to replace.

While some agree with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the agency needs reform, their ideas for fixing it are very different from his.

Some college students and faculty members are seeking space for nuanced perspectives on the Israel-Hamas war on deeply divided campuses.

Christian Surfers, a group of missionaries who surf, have expanded to a remote part of Costa Rica, where people come from afar looking for the “perfect wave.” And maybe a little Jesus?