A Texas Community Attracts Migrant Home Buyers, and Republican Ire
In the dense, damp forests northeast of Houston, a pair of brothers hit on a viable real estate business model: Offer plots of cheap land and unconventional loans for people…
Amid Strikes, One Question: Are Employers Miscalculating?
The list of gains that the Hollywood writers secured to end a nearly five-month strike with studios once seemed ludicrously ambitious: not just wage increases, but also minimum staffing levels…
A Georgia Town Where ‘Stranger Things’ Is Shot Yearns for Production to Return
Before a hole could pierce open a parallel dimension, unleashing murderous creatures like a Demogorgon into the placid existence of Hawkins, Ind., there needed to be another invasion. Hawkins, the…
Rape, Race and a Decades-Old Lie That Still Wounds
The phone echoed in Farid El Haïry’s home in northern France. It was February 1999. A rural police officer was on the line, asking if he could come down to…
Biden’s Hopes for the Middle East Imperiled by Eruption of Violence
For months, the Biden administration has been pursuing an ambitious diplomatic project to design a new Middle East for a new era. But the old Middle East, it turns out,…
On Latin America Trip, Adams’s Warning Meets Skepticism From Migrants
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City flew by helicopter on Saturday to the Caribbean coast of Colombia, where hundreds of thousands of desperate migrants enter the jungle passageway called…
Earthquakes in Afghanistan Kill Nearly 200, Officials Say
The World Health Organization sent 12 ambulances to hard-hit districts in Herat Province to help evacuate casualties, it said, cautioning that the areas were remote, making rescue operations difficult. Houses…
Israel’s defense failures may change strategy toward Hamas and Gaza.
Hamas’s attack on Saturday took Israeli intelligence officials by surprise, particularly the methods the militants used to enter and leave Israel, according to a senior defense official familiar with the…
Fighting in Israel and Gaza, in Photos
Israel and Gaza were on a war footing on Saturday after Palestinian militants launched one of the biggest attacks in years from the Gaza Strip, sending thousands of rockets into…
Violence between Palestinians and Israelis has been seething for months.
Updated Oct. 7, 2023, 7:25 a.m. ET Oct. 7, 2023, 7:25 a.m. ET Israel and Gaza were at war on Saturday after Palestinian militants launched an early morning assault on…