On Gaza, President Trump put few, if any, guardrails on Israel’s offensive, bucking international demands for a cease-fire. Then he changed course.A memorial in Tel Aviv for victims of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
Israel says 20 living hostages have been freed as part of a prisoner exchange. Here’s what we know about them.Chairs, some with images of hostages, along a road in southern Israel on Thursday.
President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard.
As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.One of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s signature projects since he joined the court 20 years ago has been to grant the president more and mor
Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration. Here are four who focused on keeping pandemics at bay.Dr. Stéphie-Anne Dulièpre lost her job at U.S.A.I.D. in February. “It’s devastating, because I have barely scratched the surface of what I can do with all of
Stocks in the United States recovered from their worst decline in months, after President Trump softened his tariff threat on China. But markets in Asia dropped.President Trump has said that the United States would impose a 100 percent tariff on Chinese products starting on Nov. 1.
An organization that fought abortion rights in the United States is now an unlikely conduit between MAGA Republicans and Britain’s ascendant Reform U.K. party.Demonstrators at the March for Life in London last month. The event attracted religious and anti-abortion groups from around the world, inclu
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate and sustain economic growth,” an award committee member said.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences to Joel Moky
The maligned sculpture — “weird,” “odd,” “bizarre” — is no longer a working fountain or a skateboarding mecca. But its supporters consider it an important city symbol.Vaillancourt Fountain was completed in 1971 and survived a powerful earthquake in 1989. “It’s going to be the shame of the city of Sa
A 2012 stroke has largely kept him from acting, but not from writing — and recording — a new memoir. “It was very peculiar not to be able to speak,” he says.“It felt like somebody had paddled around in my brain,” Tim Curry says of the medical treatment he received after his stroke.
A group of financiers is trying to convince the public to invest heavily in private equity and crypto — a risky gambit with some real 1920s vibes.
Long criminalized as the raw material for cocaine, coca is woven into Bolivian life. The government is lobbying the U.N. to ease international restrictions.Marilin Catari, 57, who has worked her whole life in the coca trade, walking to tend to her coca leaf crop in the community of Arapata, Bolivia.
With Russian forces gaining slowly on the battlefield, Ukraine hopes its long-range drone campaign will help persuade Vladimir V. Putin to change course.Even though they are far from the front lines, drone teams wear protective gear for fear of being detected and targeted by Russia.
The Kremlin will only negotiate if missiles and drones bring the pain of war home to Russians, Ukrainian officials say.A satellite image overview of destroyed ammunition depots at Engels airfield in Russia’s Saratov region in March after a Ukrainian drone attack.
A visit to The New York Times’s Kyiv bureau stayed with an editor based in Manhattan. So too did the air alert app that is widely used to warn civilians of Russian military activity.In Kyiv, emergency workers in August responded to a residential building that had been hit by a Russian ballistic miss
Key power brokers attacked Zohran Mamdani and raised millions for his leading opponent in the Democratic primary. Now many are talking to him behind the scenes.Zohran Mamdani met influential New Yorkers last week at a breakfast hosted by the Association for a Better New York. One real estate develop
In her first public appearance since she was indicted on a federal charge of bank fraud, Ms. James is expected to rebuke President Trump and make a case for Mr. Mamdani.Zohran Mamdani has staunchly defended Attorney General Letitia James of New York since she was indicted last week.
The storm has been moving up the East Coast since the weekend, dumping heavy rain and flooding roads on its way toward New England.A downed tree in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on Monday.
The aquatic park, a South Florida landmark for 70 years and also the subject of complaints over animal rights, drew visitors on Sunday before closing for good.
What does it means to be a “good” Muslim in America?
A principle is hollow if it’s not defended under pressure.
We’re covering the release of hostages in Gaza and of Palestinian prisoners. We’re also covering President Trump’s visit to Israel.In Hostages Square, in Tel Aviv.
An interrogator covertly used a power drill and handgun to menace a prisoner, without permission from the agency’s headquarters.The document offers some insight into the way Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was tortured.
Drawn by local talent, cheap labor and state cash incentives, start-ups building the weapons of the future are revitalizing manufacturing in once-vibrant industrial towns.A worker inspecting a drone at Swarm Defense Technologies’ factory in Auburn Hills, Mich.
