As investigators acknowledged on Tuesday that they had few answers about who may have kidnapped the mother of the “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie, NBC Sports said Ms. Guthrie would not be part of the network’s coverage of the Winter Olympics in Italy. The search for Nancy Guthrie, 84, who …

Since taking the reins of the world’s most populous superpower nearly 14 years ago, Xi Jinping has ravaged the ranks of the Chinese Communist Party. He has taken down ruling officials, security chiefs and children of the party’s “red aristocracy. ” But even by those standards, his latest purge was …

In the first malpractice verdict against providers of gender-affirming care for minors, a jury in New York State has awarded a woman $2 million in damages for a double mastectomy she received as a teenager that she said had left her disfigured. The plaintiff, Fox Varian, 22, of Yorktown Heights, …

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommended on Tuesday that its members refrain from performing gender transition procedures on young patients until they reach age 19, a shift that comes at a time of mounting opposition to such care at the state and federal levels. The group’s new position stands …

President Trump’s determination to blow up the current global order has spawned a cottage industry devoted to explaining his view of how the world works and America’s role in it. Professors and pundits have invoked great-power politics and ruthless realism, as well as previous presidents and authoritarian strongmen. But there …

“We do train, we do prepare for the games and, in our case, during the opening ceremony, we have our own Olympics final,” Mr. He recalled breathing a sigh of relief when the biggest controversy around the opening ceremony two years ago in Paris related to artistic performance and not …

For years, Lee Kyong Min’s life revolved around shuttling her two daughters from school to cram schools to home. It was a routine followed by nearly every other parent she knew, all sharing the same goal: making sure their children got into South Korea’s best universities. The decisive element was …

He invoked a freedom song from the civil rights movement, “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ’Round,” to criticize the Trump administration officials who had pursued his arrest, charging in an indictment that he had helped organize the protest and had threatened churchgoers who were exercising their rights. “They don’t …

Nearly one month after a federal immigration agent shot and killed Renee Good, 37, in Minneapolis, two of her siblings, Brent and Luke Ganger, appeared on Capitol Hill on Tuesday and urged lawmakers to move to rein in the deportation crackdown. “In the last few weeks, our family took some …

President Trump laced into the CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins in the Oval Office on Tuesday, calling her “the worst reporter” and scolding her for not smiling as she tried to ask about the latest release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. “She’s a young woman — I don’t think I’ve …