The Latest Breaking News from Nobel Committee

On Friday, the White House criticized the Nobel Committee for what it called a political decision to deny President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, which instead went to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado in recognition of her persistent fight for democracy and her nonviolent challenge to authoritarian rule. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored her "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

It’s been riddled with controversy, there are egregious omissions in the list of winners. But it remains an important reminder to read more widely, and in translation, across cultures and geographies.

SAN DIEGO — K. Barry Sharpless of La Jolla, California's Scripps Research on Wednesday won a second Nobel Prize in chemistry, this time for helping create a swift, efficient method for building molecules that has revolutionized drug development and aided in the mapping of DNA.

The Nobel Prize in Physics went to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for their experiments on photon entanglement.

The physics Prize this year is an award for experiments establishing the foundational concepts of quantum mechanics.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, Russian news agencies reported. One of the most talked about people in the world, here are some quotes about him.