Ten years ago, the most mysterious and expensive album of all time was announced by the Wu-Tang Clan as a protest against the devaluation of creativity in the age of the internet. “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” limited to one hyperdeluxe physical copy, was bought for a reported $2 million by the “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli and later acquired by an online art collective for $4 million.

Steady rain showers were falling for the fourth consecutive day across South Florida on Friday morning, capping a week in which the soggy weather pattern caused major travel disruptions and flooded homes and roadways.

“Donald hates his birthdays,” Ivana Trump once said of her ex-husband.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Wednesday challenging President Joe Biden’s decision to shut down the southern border to nearly all migrants seeking asylum in the United States.

Space changes you, even during short trips off the planet.

GENEVA — A United Nations commission investigating the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent conflict in the Gaza Strip has accused both Palestinian armed groups and Israel of committing war crimes, and the panel said that Israel’s conduct of the war included crimes against humanity.

A multiagency coalition of law enforcement agents will begin tackling the unruly market of illegal e-cigarettes, under pressure from antismoking groups, lawmakers and the tobacco industry urging federal authorities to stop the flood of vaping devices favored by adolescents.

WILMINGTON, Del. — Jurors in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial began deliberations late Monday after prosecutors concluded their case with an exhaustive inventory of evidence they presented over the past week in hopes of proving that Biden knowingly falsified a firearms application in 2018.

Former President Donald Trump, who was convicted last month on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, is expected to have a virtual interview with a New York City Probation Department official today, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

One of the suspects in the mass shooting in Sacramento, California, that killed six people in 2022 died in a county jail Saturday, his lawyer said.

JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers and special operations police rescued four hostages from the Gaza Strip on Saturday amid a heavy air and ground assault and flew them back to Israel by helicopter to be reunited with their families. The news was met with jubilation in Israel, where anxieties over the fate of the roughly 120 remaining captives have been rising after eight months of war.

Maj. William A. Anders, who flew on the first manned space mission to orbit the moon, the Apollo 8 “Genesis flight” of Christmas Eve 1968, and took the color photograph “Earthrise,” which is credited with inspiring the modern environmental movement, died Friday morning when a small plane he was piloting alone dived into the water near Roche Harbor, Washington, northwest of Seattle. He was 90.