Justice Dept. Announces More Arrests in Plot to Kill Iranian Writer

Three men were enlisted to assassinate Masih Alinejad, a human-rights activist in Brooklyn who has criticized Iran's repression of women, the indictment said. “I have gone the full extent of my executive authority to do, on my own, anything about guns,' President Biden said. [Read more]

An officer turns a corner and spots the assailant, who he shoots several times, the footage from his body camera shows. [Read more]

The grand jury that is hearing evidence in the hush-money investigation might not meet on Wednesday, and the timing of any potential indictment remains unknown. [Read more]

The ruling in Washington was the latest setback to efforts by former President Donald J. Trump's legal team to limit testimony to grand juries investigating him on various matters. [Read more]

A new study quantified the benefits of pollution reduction in terms of race and class. [Read more]

Forty-one bent or twisted iron nails, unearthed from a second-century imperial burial site, were meant to keep the deceased in their place. [Read more]

More than 8,000 gallons of an acrylic polymer solution leaked on Friday into a tributary of the Delaware River, a source of the city's drinking water. [Read more]

Some researchers claim that chatbots have developed theory of mind. But is that just our own theory of mind gone wild? [Read more]

The administration's Summit for Democracy begins this week amid crises in several countries allied with the United States, including Israel. [Read more]

The swift advance of artificial intelligence in politics is already blurring the boundaries between fact and fake. [Read more]

The ruling in Washington was the latest setback to efforts by former President Donald J. Trump's legal team to limit testimony to grand juries investigating him on various matters. [Read more]

Mississippi is one of 10 states, all with Republican-led legislatures, that continue to reject federal funding to expand health insurance for the poor, intensifying financial pressure on hospitals. [Read more]

Creighton's Arthur Kaluma and San Diego State's Adam Seiko have faced each other at the N.C.A.A. tournament, and plenty of other times, before. [Read more]

The move comes amid a reckoning of the fraught history of team names across American sports. Potential new names include: “Ambassadors,' “Blue Fog,' “Revolutionaries' and “Sentinels.' [Read more]

While interviewing Rob Manfred for his book about baseball, Joe Kelly, an outspoken reliever, realized their goals weren't all that different. [Read more]

Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, sent a letter to 66 colleges and universities, demanding information about their efforts to partner with sports betting companies. [Read more]