Days before tariffs on steel and aluminum take effect, it’s dawning on foreign leaders that decades of warm U.S. relations carry little weight with a president dismissive of diplomatic norms.
More than a decade of deprivation and desperation has led thousands of young Gazans to throw themselves into a bloody protest against Israel. Here’s a look at how one man ended up there.
Mike Pompeo, the new U.S. secretary of state, said Israelis “have the right to defend themselves” in the face of the Gaza protests and declined to fully back the two-state solution.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has endorsed one candidate for Ohio governor. Senator Bernie Sanders calls the other an old friend. Which is the true progressive?
Michelle Wolf’s remarks about Sarah Huckabee Sanders opened a partisan divide in an awkward evening of comedy and politics at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
South Korean officials said the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, had told them he would abandon his nuclear weapons if Washington ended the Korean War and promised nonaggression.
John R. Bolton, the new national security adviser, pointed to Libya as an example of how to rid a hostile dictatorial state of its nuclear program. But the violent end of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi is likely to serve as a cautionary tale for Mr. Kim.
With the merger, the two companies are betting that regulators will allow the U.S. wireless market to shrink to three big players. The new company would have nearly 100 million retail subscribers.
Last week, we visited the city to find further signs of recovery as Detroit moves out from under budgetary oversight.
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A peace treaty between North and South Korea could bring reunions for the thousands of families who have been separated for more than six decades.
We’re generally pretty awful at assessing our skills. But there’s hope.
It took forever to find a qualified candidate for an opening. Now the new guy is struggling and resists supervision. How can he be reined in and guided toward success?
From Spain to Macedonia, celebrating food, flowers, seasons and traditions.
Hundreds of migrants who have traveled en masse through Mexico, drawing a furious response from President Trump, prepared to apply for asylum.
Efforts to curb gun violence have stalled in part because of the power of the N.R.A. The movement inspired by shootings in Parkland, Fla., aims to change that.
Hoping to learn from its time in Seattle, Amazon has surprised officials in cities vying for the company’s second headquarters by asking how to avoid soaring housing costs and paralyzing traffic.
In her new book “The Pisces,” Melissa Broder manages to knead together the genres of magical realism — a merman presumed to be real — and erotic literature.
Research shows a correlation between greater academic demands and a reduction in drinking, smoking and drug use.
New guidelines, including a requirement that airlines make sure gates are free before sending planes to the airport, are expected to be announced Monday.
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Ballarat, once the center of Australia’s gold rush, is learning to talk about a dreadful history: decades of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests.
The government will set aside 500 million Australian dollars to help the global treasure after years of damage from warming waters caused by climate change.
Her photographs often featured her own children in startling costumes, but the most attention-getting one involved no clothes at all.
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“Hey Ladies” charts a year of correspondence between eight women as they plan for a wedding, and everything a wedding requires.
A few brushes with mortality helped a woman reset her lifelong rivalry with her brother.
Maybe last fall’s Alabama Senate race wasn’t a fluke after all.
Generals and researchers provide growing evidence that the administration’s claims about transgender troops are false.
The Toronto van attacker was probably familiar with the Islamic State’s vehicle rampages. But did he know what else he shared with the group?
Social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo embody his critical spirit.
We need to hear from prisoners about the conditions they’re living in.
Recent residential sales in New York City and the region
