What can you use your personal leave for?

People employed on a permanent basis in Australia are entitled to 10 days' paid personal leave a year to help navigate illness,...

Inquiry Into Fed Chair Jerome Powell Could Be Resurrected, Jeanine Pirro Says

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, dropped an inquiry into Jerome Powell last month after a federal judge blocked her grand jur...

It's your Sunday serve of spelling stumpers

You lot take your spelling seriously. Repeat after me: It's just an internet quiz. It's just an internet quiz.

New Video Analysis Suggests Suspect in Correspondents’ Dinner Attack Fired First

A Times analysis of footage released by the F.B.I. on Thursday night appears to show the assailant shot at a Secret Service officer, who the...

Supreme Court Asked to Restore Access to Abortion Pill by Mail

A federal appeals court temporarily halted a Food and Drug Administration regulation that has greatly expanded access to the abortion pill m...

Authorities Release Video of Gunman in White House Correspondents’ Dinner Attack

The F.B.I. and prosecutors shared an annotated video showing the suspect sprinting through a checkpoint and raising a gun. A frame-by-frame ...

Trump Threatens Higher Tariffs on European Cars

President Trump said that the European Union was not upholding its part of a trade agreement and that he would increase tariffs next week.

Florida Redistricts in Republicans’ Favor

Our politics reporter Nick Corasaniti explains how Florida redrew its congressional district maps to create four more Republican-leaning Hou...

Mills Exit Is a Blow to Schumer as Democrats Question His Strategy

Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and minority leader, considered the Maine governor his top recruit for winning the majority. Cr...

Trump Withdraws Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General

Dr. Means’s nomination had stalled in part over her views on vaccines. The president said he was instead nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a...

House Passes Stalled Homeland Security Funding Bill, Ending Shutdown

Republicans were forced to use a special maneuver to steer around opposition in their own party and speed the measure to the floor, relying ...