A Saudi Royal Shake-Up With a Goal of Stability

A Saudi Royal Shake-Up With a Goal of Stability
Bernie Sanders Announces Campaign for President
South Korea’s Governing Party Skates Through Elections Despite Scandal

Baltimore Leaders Try to Curb Expectations Over a Pending Police Report
Trying to Locate the Living, Nepal Rescuers Find Only Frustration
Obama Administration Steps Back From Effort to End Federal Death Penalty
Health Problems Take Root in a West Baltimore Neighborhood That Is Sick of Neglect
Wife’s Illness Leaves Marc Leishman With New Outlook
U2’s Flight to Now (Turbulence Included)
Shinzo Abe of Japan Avoids Specifics in Speech on Trade Accord
A Bach Portrait, Heading to Germany, Gets Musical Send-Off
Miliband Takes His British Election Pitch to Russell Brand’s Audience
Canadian Partnership Shielded Identities of Donors to Clinton Foundation
French School Deems Teenager’s Skirt an Illegal Display of Religion
F.A.A. Raised Questions About Andreas Lubitz’s Depression Before Germanwings Crash
Rubella Has Been Eliminated From the Americas, Health Officials Say
California Governor Orders New Target for Emissions Cuts
ArtsBeat: Letterman on Letterman: 11 Key Quotes
Supreme Court Hears Oklahoma Inmates’ Lethal Injection Case

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 11:25 PM PDT

With Saudi Arabia locked in proxy wars with Iran, King Salman put the two princes most responsible for the kingdom's security into the line of succession.

Bernie Sanders Announces Campaign for President

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 11:11 PM PDT

The Vermont senator's candidacy will inject a leftist voice into the contest and provide Hillary Rodham Clinton with her first official challenger for the Democratic nomination.

South Korea’s Governing Party Skates Through Elections Despite Scandal

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 10:00 PM PDT

Despite a bribery scandal that led the prime minister to resign, President Park Geun-hye's Saenuri Party won three of four parliamentary seats filled Wednesday.

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 07:39 PM PDT

Baltimore Leaders Try to Curb Expectations Over a Pending Police Report

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 06:42 PM PDT

An edgy peace held as a crowd took to the streets Wednesday night, and the mayor and police sought to tamp down expectations that residents would learn details soon about how a young black man died.

Trying to Locate the Living, Nepal Rescuers Find Only Frustration

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 06:33 PM PDT

Residents of Bhaktapur told a search-and-rescue team that had traveled from Fairfax County, Va., that there was no one left to save in their shattered city after Saturday's earthquake.

Obama Administration Steps Back From Effort to End Federal Death Penalty

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 06:19 PM PDT

The obstacles the Obama administration faced in ending the federal death penalty provide vivid examples of just how politically fraught the debate remains.

Health Problems Take Root in a West Baltimore Neighborhood That Is Sick of Neglect

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 06:16 PM PDT

In Upton-Druid Heights — one of Baltimore's poorest neighborhoods and the scene of some of its most vocal protests — residents die from nearly every major disease at substantially higher rates than the city as a whole.

Wife’s Illness Leaves Marc Leishman With New Outlook

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:59 PM PDT

Audrey Leishman's near-death experience disabused her husband of the notion that he has anything to lose on a golf course.

U2’s Flight to Now (Turbulence Included)

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:28 PM PDT

After trouble on the runway, the band's "Innocence and Experience" tour is taking off.

Shinzo Abe of Japan Avoids Specifics in Speech on Trade Accord

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 03:15 PM PDT

In the first address by a Japanese prime minister to a joint meeting of Congress, Shinzo Abe appealed to skeptical American lawmakers to back a Pacific trade accord.

A Bach Portrait, Heading to Germany, Gets Musical Send-Off

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 02:51 PM PDT

The philanthropist William H. Scheide bequeathed the painting to a German archive, and a man who grew up with it in his home conducted its farewell.

Miliband Takes His British Election Pitch to Russell Brand’s Audience

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 02:24 PM PDT

Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, went to the apartment of Russell Brand, a bawdy comedian, to give him an interview, which was posted on YouTube.

Canadian Partnership Shielded Identities of Donors to Clinton Foundation

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 01:38 PM PDT

The foundation says that the partnership is not bound by an agreement that Hillary Rodham Clinton signed to make all donors public while she led the State Department, and that under Canadian law, contributors' names cannot be made public.

French School Deems Teenager’s Skirt an Illegal Display of Religion

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 12:12 PM PDT

A secondary school in northeast France sent a 15-year-old student home for wearing a long skirt that the principal judged was "an ostentatious sign" of the girl's Muslim faith.

F.A.A. Raised Questions About Andreas Lubitz’s Depression Before Germanwings Crash

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 12:05 PM PDT

The American aviation agency granted a pilot's license to Mr. Lubitz only after it was assured by his doctors that he had recovered from depression.

Rubella Has Been Eliminated From the Americas, Health Officials Say

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 11:45 AM PDT

The disease, also known as German measles, is no longer a threat in the region, a scientific panel set up by global health authorities announced on Wednesday.

California Governor Orders New Target for Emissions Cuts

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 11:44 AM PDT

Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order Wednesday dramatically ramping up the state's already ambitious program aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

ArtsBeat: Letterman on Letterman: 11 Key Quotes

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 11:16 AM PDT

Mr. Letterman discussed his early talk show innovations, his rivalry with Jay Leno, his sex scandal and the changing late-night landscape, among other subjects.

Supreme Court Hears Oklahoma Inmates’ Lethal Injection Case

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 11:00 AM PDT

One year after a botched execution, the justices will examine whether a new drug combination violates the Eighth Amendment by posing a risk of terrible suffering.