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Dozens of people are presumed dead and about 100 injured, most of them seriously, following a fire at a Swiss Alps bar during a New Year’s celebration, police said Thursday.

The legendary 95-year-old investor spent decades building his company into one of the world’s largest and most powerful. Now Greg Abel is taking it over.

For most of 2025, cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin surged as President Trump vowed to make the U.S. a crypto leader. But now, a severe sell-off has shaken the sector.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani took the oath of office in New York City after midnight Thursday. The city’s first Muslim mayor, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has promised to focus on affordability and...

The city shut down the station in 1945 on New Year’s Eve. Eighty years later, it’s a symbolic venue choice for the incoming mayor’s private swearing-in ceremony.

The U.S. military says it struck five alleged drug-smuggling boats over two days. The attacks killed eight people, while others jumped overboard and may have survived. U.S. Southern Command did not reveal where the attacks...

Former special counsel Jack Smith also described President Trump as the “most culpable and most responsible person” in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a transcript of...

Courts blocked troops from deploying in Chicago and Portland, Ore., and the Los Angeles deployment effectively ended after a judge blocked it earlier this month.