Why China Is Worried About Trump’s Tariffs on Mexico
Officials in Beijing are increasingly worried that President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico may be the start of a broad campaign to force developing countries around the world to choose between…
Schumer Says He’ll Vote for GOP Spending Bill to Avert Government Shutdown
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, broke with his party on Thursday and lined up enough Democrats to advance a Republican-written bill to keep federal funding flowing…
Mahmoud Khalil Has Not Been Allowed to Speak Privately With Lawyers
Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate detained by the Trump administration last weekend, have not been able to hold a private conversation with their client since his arrest.…
Parts of L.A. Urged to Evacuate as ‘Widespread’ Rain and Snow Hit California
A potent storm is expected to deliver significant precipitation across California on Wednesday and Thursday, soaking coastal areas and bringing up to an inch and a half of rain to…
Selma Miriam, Founder of the Feminist Restaurant Bloodroot, Dies at 89
Selma Miriam and Noel Furie were unhappy housewives, as they put it, when they met at a gathering of the National Organization for Women in Connecticut in 1972. Soon after,…
China Cools on Musk: ‘Two Cars for the Price of One Tesla’
Tesla is getting crushed in China, its most important market outside the United States and one that it had dominated for years. When Liu Jie, 32, decided to buy an…
Opinion | Pope Francis Projects a Lonely Moral Voice in a New World of Politics and Trump
Pope Francis has been in a Rome hospital for a month, battling double pneumonia and its complications. His condition would be serious for anyone but could be more threatening for…
Plans for a Chinese Port in the Black Sea Roil Georgia Politics
For more than a year, pro-Western marchers in Georgia, a former Soviet republic that borders Russia, have been accusing their government of allowing Moscow to increasingly reassert its sway over…
Putin Visits Kursk to Cheer Russian Troops Trying to Oust Ukraine
Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, dressed in fatigues, visited a command post near the front in Kursk late Wednesday to cheer on his military’s ejection of Ukrainian forces from much…
‘Let’s Not Talk About It’: 5 Years Later, China’s Covid Shadow Lingers
Bit by bit, the traces of Shanghai’s coronavirus lockdown in 2022 have disappeared from around Fu Aiying’s stir-fry restaurant. The smell of rotten eggs, from when officials carted her off…