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How Iran Became Isolated
Christina Goldbaum, a New York Times reporter, and Katrin Bennhold, a senior writer on the international desk, discuss how the power dynamics in the Middle ...
The Challenge of Rebuilding Syria
After one of the most brutal wars of this century, a new flag flies across Syria: the emblem of the rebels who toppled the dictator ...
Were the U.S.A.I.D. Cuts ‘Efficient?’
When President Trump took office, U.S.A.I.D. was one of the first agencies to be dismantled in the name of efficiency. Amy Schoenfeld Walker, a New ...
What Happens if Vaccines Aren’t Recommended?
In recent extraordinary moves, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired and replaced a team that makes vaccine recommendations for the country. Apoorva Mandavilli, ...
The Efforts to Erase Black History
President Trump’s executive orders have sought to reframe the history of race and culture in America. Erica L. Green, a White House correspondent for The ...
How the Supreme Court’s Transgender Ruling Reveals a Shift
In its biggest ruling of the term, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law that prohibits some medical treatments for transgender youths, shielding ...
Funeral Held for Loved One Lost in Air India Crash
A cremation ceremony was held for Kinal Mistry, a victim of the Air India crash who hailed from a community that took pride in those ...
Inside Trump’s Shifting Stance on Iran
President Trump spent the first months of his term holding back Israel’s push for an assault on Iran’s nuclear program. With the war underway, he ...
In L.A.’s Little Tokyo, Protests Draw Sympathy and Frustration
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What’s Going On in the Middle East?
In sweeping attacks that started Friday, Israel struck at the regime in Tehran, hitting Iranian nuclear and military assets. Iran retaliated with barrages of ballistic ...
Relatives of Air India Crash Victims Seek Answers
Rizwan Vahora lost three relatives on the Air India flight that crashed in Ahmedabad, India. His family was among the many grieving and waiting for ...
What We Know About the L.A. Protests So Far
The Trump administration is facing legal challenges to its deployment of Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles. Shawn Hubler, the Los Angeles bureau ...
Why California Says Trump’s Military Deployment Is Illegal
California has sued the Trump administration over its move to deploy troops to Los Angeles. Eric Schmitt, a national security correspondent for The New York ...
Anti-Immigrant Rioting Stretches Into Second Night in Northern Ireland
A second night of rioting struck the town of Ballymena in Northern Ireland on Tuesday, as anti-immigrant protests spread to several other areas and the ...
Why the U.S. Brought Back Kilmar Abrego Garcia
new video loaded: Why the U.S. Brought Back Kilmar Abrego Garcia Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, was flown back to ...
Racing to Save California’s Elephant Seals From Bird Flu
During the breeding season, the center sees a lot of underweight, malnourished elephant seal pups, many of which are still too young to fend for ...
Why Trump Is Trying to Send Deportees to South Sudan
On May 20th, a flight with eight deportees left Texas headed to South Sudan, a country on the brink of civil war. But mid-flight, a ...
‘Dear Girl, Get Out!’: A Young Palestinian Escapes an Israeli Strike
It’s the early hours of Monday, May 26th. An airstrike that Israel says is aimed at a militant control center has just hit a former ...
Who Is South Korea’s New Leader?
After months of political turmoil in South Korea, Lee Jae-myung has won the presidential election by a wide margin. Mr. Lee’s campaign has ridden a ...
How a Health Movement Is Influencing New Moms on Social Media
The Make America Healthy Again movement associated with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is changing social media for parents. Emma Goldberg, a business writer ...
Inside Trump’s Attack on Harvard
The battle between Harvard University and the Trump administration has continued to escalate. Michael C. Bender, a correspondent for The New York Times in Washington, ...
Why Mexico’s Judicial Election is a Controversial Experiment
On June 1, Mexico will become the only country in the world to elect all of its judges and magistrates. Emiliano Rodriguez Mega, a New ...
Potency Enhancers: An In-Depth Guide to Effectiveness, Safety, and Smart Use
Potency Enhancers: Maximizing Performance, Vitality, and Confidence When it comes to potency enhancers, the online world is filled with myths, promises, and a fair share ...
ICE Agents and State Troopers Team Up in Nashville Operation
It’s late at night in South Nashville, and the seventh day of a weeklong immigration sweep here. Tennessee state troopers, trailed by federal ICE agents ...
We Tracked Police Killings 5 Years After George Floyd
Killings by the police didn’t go down after George Floyd’s death and the protests that followed — they went up. Steven Rich, a data reporter, ...
Inside a Trump Family Project in Vietnam
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How ‘Daniel’ Led Our Reporters to an Assembly Line for Russian Spies
For years, Russia used Brazil as a launchpad for its most elite intelligence officers, known as illegals. They started businesses, made friends and had love ...
Inside the Oval Office Meeting With South Africa’s President
John Eligon, Johannesburg bureau chief, recounts what he witnessed in the Oval Office when President Trump confronted the visiting President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa ...
Inside a Plan to Shut Down Pro-Palestinian Activism
What is Project Esther? Katie J.M. Baker, a national investigative correspondent for The New York Times, explores the Heritage Foundation’s plan to shut down pro-Palestinian ...
How Staffing Shortages Have Plagued Newark Airport
What’s causing major flight delays and disruptions at Newark Liberty International Airport? Niraj Chokshi, a reporter at The New York Times covering transportation, explains how ...
Can Trump Really End Birthright Citizenship?
For more than a century, there was broad consensus that the 14th Amendment established birthright citizenship for children born in the United States. But President ...
3 Deals in 3 Countries on Trump’s Trip
Three countries on President Trump’s Middle East tour this week are also the sites of recent investments in Trump businesses that benefit the president. Eric ...
Judge Allows Deportation of Venezuelans Under Alien Enemies Act
President Trump has long reveled in his reputation as a maximalist, issuing a huge demand, creating a crisis and setting off a high-pressure negotiation. But ...
How the India-Pakistan Clashes Unfolded and What We Know About the Cease-Fire
India and Pakistan both claimed victory on Sunday after agreeing to a truce in a rapidly escalating conflict that was sparked by a deadly terrorist ...
China Courts Lula and Latin America After Trump’s Tariff Shock
President Trump wants Latin American countries to shift closer into Washington’s orbit, raising echoes of the Monroe Doctrine, when the United States claimed the Western ...
European Leaders Visit Ukraine and Press Russia for a 30-Day Cease-Fire
The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland, on their first joint visit to Ukraine, said on Saturday that Russia would face “new and massive” ...
What We Know About the Terrorist Groups India Said It Targeted
The spark for the latest round of escalation between India and Pakistan, the most expansive fighting between the enemies in decades, was a terrorist slaughter ...
Russia’s Victory Day Parade: What to Know.
President Vladimir V. Putin will preside over a Victory Day parade on Red Square on Friday, a grand celebration of the Soviet triumph against Nazi ...
No Pope Elected in Conclave’s First Vote
After the men who will select the next pope were locked inside the Sistine Chapel without cellphones on Wednesday, the only thing left to do ...
India Strikes Pakistan Two Weeks After Kashmir Terrorist Attack
India said early Wednesday that it had conducted strikes on Pakistan, two weeks after more than two dozen civilians were killed in a terrorist attack ...
CarFrancis Opened Discussions to Those Outside the Church Hierarchy. This Cardinal Would, Too
Only about half a million people live in Malta, the tiny set of islands in the Mediterranean that make up one of Europe’s smallest countries. ...
Houthi Missile Hits Near Tel Aviv Airport
A ballistic missile launched from Yemen struck near the main terminal of Israel’s international airport close to Tel Aviv on Sunday, after the military failed ...
In Singapore’s Election, a Blow to the Fledgling Opposition
The last time Singapore held elections, it was in the throes of a global crisis. That is also true today. Five years ago, the governing ...
Trump’s cowboy capitalism and ‘anti-Nixon Shock’
PUBLISHED May 04, 2025 KARACHI: Imagine a cowboy on a turnpike, six-shooter in one hand, a foreclosure notice in the other, galloping toward Beijing on ...
Australia Election 2025: Voters Focus on Cost-of-Living Concerns Amid Global Turmoil
Voters in Australia head to the polls on Saturday, the third major U.S. ally after Germany and Canada to hold elections in a global economic ...
Marco Rubio, Secretary of Everything
Secretary of state. Acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Acting archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration. And now interim national ...
U.S. and Ukraine Sign Minerals Deal
The United States will share future revenues from Ukraine’s mineral reserves under a deal announced by the Trump administration on Wednesday that creates a joint ...
Pierre Poilievre Raised Canada’s Conservative Party, Only to Be Tossed From His Seat
When protesting truckers rolled toward downtown Ottawa and proceeded to occupy the Canadian capital for four weeks, they got a welcome from a man waving ...
Canada Election 2025 Live Updates: Polls Start to Close as Voters Choose New Leader
Immigration policy dominated the attention of Canadians in the weeks before Justin Trudeau announced his resignation as prime minister in January. But as voters cast ...
Economic fears and US threats loom over Canada’s election day
Listen to article WORLDWIDE: Canadians are voting on Monday in a closely watched election shaped by trade disputes, economic turmoil, and annexation threats from the United States. ...
At Least 11 People Killed After Car Plows Into Vancouver Filipino Festival
At first, no one found it suspicious that the black Audi SUV had gone around a portable barrier into a street packed with festivalgoers lining ...
Photos: Pope Francis’ Last Journey
By plane and boat, on foot and in an electric popemobile, Pope Francis traveled year after year of his papacy, reaching dozens of countries on ...
From Pulwama to Pahalgam
PUBLISHED April 27, 2025 KARACHI: It’s the year 2018. India prepares to head to poll next year. “Narendra Modi is facing an unexpected image problem: ...
U.S. Restores Legal Status for Many International Students, but Warns of Removals to Come
The Trump administration on Friday abruptly moved to restore thousands of international students’ ability to study in the United States legally, but immigration officials insisted ...
Trump Takes a Major Step Toward Seabed Mining in International Waters
President Trump has ordered the U.S. government to take a major step toward mining vast tracts of the ocean floor, a move that nearly every ...
Thursday Briefing: Trump Lashes Out at Zelensky
The U.S. pressured Ukraine to accept a peace proposal President Trump lashed out yesterday at President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine after he rejected a U.S. ...
How Pope Francis Catalyzed the Catholic Right in the U.S.
Pope Francis’ critics represent a minority of the American church but a powerful one. Ruth Graham, a reporter covering religion, faith and values for The ...
How Meta’s News Ban Could Disrupt Canada’s Election
After Meta blocked news from its platforms in Canada, hyperpartisan and misleading content from popular right-wing Facebook pages such as Canada Proud have filled the ...
How Violence Erupted On Syria’s Coast
Massacres have spread across once-quiet towns on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, in the deadliest outbreak of sectarian violence since rebels toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Christina ...
How China and the E.U. Are Reacting to Trump’s Tariffs
Ana Swanson, who covers trade and international economics for The New York Times, talks to Jeanna Smialek, The Times’s Brussels bureau chief, and Keith Bradsher, ...
Mark Zuckerberg Is Back in the Hot Seat in a Crucial Trial
Mark Zuckerberg has appeared before Congress more times than any other tech leader. He will testify again soon — as a witness in a federal ...
What Trump’s Meeting With Bukele Means
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has found a spot on the global stage by opening the doors of his prison system to President Trump. ...
The First Ever Sighting of a Colossal Squid
In March, Kat Bolstad returned from an Antarctic expedition where she had used a new camera system specially built to search for the elusive colossal ...
Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist who combined gritty realism with playful erotica and depictions of the struggle for individual liberty in Latin America, while ...
Russian Attack on Sumy in Ukraine Kills and Wounds Dozens
Two Russian ballistic missiles slammed into a bustling city center in northeastern Ukraine on Sunday morning, officials said, killing at least 34 people in what ...
Sudan Clinic Workers Killed in Zamzam Camp
Sudanese paramilitaries killed the entire staff of the last medical clinic in a famine-stricken camp in the western region of Darfur, Sudan, as part of ...
Trump Tariffs Live Updates: China Raises Tariffs on U.S. Imports to 125%
President Trump has taken a whipsaw approach to tariffs, widening and shifting course in determining which countries and goods will be subject to them. But ...
Trump Tariffs Live Updates: Markets Rise After Trump Pauses Most Tariffs
Since re-entering office, President Trump has issued a flurry of tariffs in an effort to rewire the global economy. At 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on ...
Trump Pauses Some Reciprocal Tariffs for 90 Days, Raises China Tariffs to 125%: Live Updates
A sharp sell-off in U.S. government bond markets and the dollar has set off fears about the growing fallout from President Trump’s sweeping tariffs, raising ...
With Trump’s Return, Netanyahu Faces Fewer Restraints on Gaza Than Ever
There was a time, not long ago, when Israel’s resumption of the war in the Gaza Strip three weeks ago — a renewed offensive that ...
Trump Tariffs Live Updates: Stocks and Global Markets Waver as Trade War Intensifies
President Trump’s global tariffs have sent stock markets worldwide into a tailspin, and the S&P 500 on Monday briefly entered bear market territory for the ...
Defiant, Le Pen Tells Supporters ‘I Won’t Give Up’ Despite 5-Year Ban
Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, told cheering supporters in Paris on Sunday that she would fight the five-year ban on her running for ...
Chemical Industry Asks Trump for Exemption From Pollution Limits
Two chemical industry groups are asking President Trump for a complete exemption to free their factories from new limits on hazardous air pollution. Under a ...
At Least 14 Dead in Russian Strike on Zelensky’s Hometown, Ukraine Says
A Russian missile strike Friday on Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine, killed at least 14 people and wounded more than 50, local officials ...
Trump Tariffs Live Updates: U.S. Markets Plunge From Shock of Tariffs
The global economic system that the United States has shaped and steered for more than three-quarters of a century was animated by a powerful guiding ...
Israel Announces Plans to Seize ‘Large Areas’ of Gaza as It Expands Offensive Against Hamas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday that Israel had seized a ribbon of territory in the Gaza Strip hours after his government laid out ...
Fourth U.S. Soldier Is Found Dead in Lithuania
The body of a fourth U.S. Army soldier was found on Tuesday in Lithuania, a week after the soldier and three others were reported missing ...
Prince Harry Resigns From Charity Amid Board Dispute: What to Know
Prince Harry announced on March 25 that he had stepped down as a patron of Sentebale, the charity he co-founded in memory of his mother, ...
Taliban Appears to Free American Woman Detained in Afghanistan
An American woman detained in Afghanistan has been released by the Taliban, according to a social media post on Saturday by a former U.S. ambassador ...
Death Toll in Myanmar Quake Rises to Nearly 700: Live Updates
Myanmar’s long isolation and its internal instability are likely to complicate the global humanitarian aid response to the earthquake that struck on Friday, despite a ...
What We Know About the Earthquake in Myanmar
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday, sending shock waves across a vast expanse of Southeast Asia and causing deaths and damage hundreds of ...
GOP Rep. Don Bacon admits they made a mistake with Trump’s tariff powers
Republican lawmakers are increasingly questioning former President Donald Trump’s broad tariff authority, with Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon suggesting Congress reclaim control over trade policy. Bacon ...
Minnesota sues Trump’s E.P.A. and Citibank over Green Bank funding freeze
Minnesota has taken legal action against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Citibank, arguing that the federal government unlawfully froze $25 million in green energy ...
European Leaders to Try to Hammer Out Ukraine Support Plans
European leaders convened in Paris on Thursday to shore up support for Ukraine, a “coalition of the willing” that wants to help the war-torn country ...
Prince Harry Steps Down as Patron of Charity He Founded
Prince Harry has resigned as the patron of a charity he founded in southern Africa, his office said in a statement on Wednesday. The move ...
Israeli Police Release Palestinian Director Hamdan Ballal After West Bank Incident
The Israeli authorities on Tuesday released a Palestinian director of an Oscar-winning documentary who was detained overnight after what he and witnesses said was an ...
Trump Administration Cites Alien Enemies Act as It Plans New Extraditions
The Trump administration said on Monday that it planned to extradite a handful of Venezuelan men to Chile after declaring them subject to the Alien ...
Russia and Ukraine to Hold U.S.-Mediated Talks in Riyadh: What to Know
The United States is holding separate talks with Russia and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia to iron out details of a possible limited cease-fire in what ...
‘So Eager to Get Back’: Travelers Pour Into a Reopened Heathrow
Throngs of passengers anxious to get on their way surged into Heathrow Airport in London on Saturday, a day after a power blackout closed the ...
U.S. Says Decision to Turn Back French Scientist Had Nothing to Do With Trump
The French government’s claim that a scientist was denied entry into the United States because of an opinion he expressed about the Trump administration is ...
Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say
President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted ...
Zelensky Says He’ll Speak to Trump About ‘Next Steps’ After Putin Call
President Trump was speaking with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Wednesday to discuss next steps after the American leader’s discussion with President Vladimir V. ...
What to Know About Israel’s Renewed Assault on Gaza
Israeli forces on Tuesday launched the largest and most deadly attacks on Gaza since a cease-fire with Hamas that began roughly two months ago. The ...
Netanyahu’s Move to Fire Shin Bet Chief Reflects Wider Push for Control
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sudden attempt to remove the head of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency is the latest salvo in a two-year campaign by the ...
Houthis Vow Retaliation After U.S. Strikes in Yemen
The Houthi militia in Yemen has vowed to retaliate after President Trump ordered large-scale military strikes on targets controlled by the group that it says ...
In Mexico, a Grisly Discovery of Piles of Shoes, Ovens and Human Remains
A group of volunteers searching for their missing relatives first received a tip last week about a mass grave hidden in western Mexico. When they ...
The People Whose Children Were Killed in Duterte’s Drug War
Emily Soriano was doing laundry this week when a friend rushed into her house with news about their yearslong quest for justice. In December 2016, ...
Russia-Ukraine War Live Updates: U.S. Negotiators Head to Moscow
As recently as January, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia emphatically rejected the idea of a temporary cease-fire in Ukraine. But after a month in ...
Europe Welcomes a Ukraine Cease-Fire Offer and a Revival of U.S. Aid
Europeans reacted with relief to the announcement on Tuesday that Ukraine had agreed with the United States on a 30-day cease-fire in its war with ...
Separatists Hijack Train Carrying Over 400 Passengers in Pakistan
Separatist militants hijacked a train carrying more than 400 people in an isolated mountainous area of southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday. The fate of the passengers, ...