Business leaders and investors remain on edge ahead of President Trump’s expected announcement of a sweeping new round of tariffs.

The attack on the outskirts of Lebanon’s capital was the second in less than a week, raising fears that a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah could unravel.

The collapse of the Sky Villa complex in the Myanmar city of Mandalay buried an unknown number of people amid the earthquake on Friday that killed more than 2,700.

The 7.7-magnitude quake caused widespread damage in Myanmar, a country already in chaos because of civil war. It was also felt in neighboring countries, including Thailand.

China’s former top spy catcher is among six security enforcers targeted as the Trump administration turns its attention to human rights issues in the city.

Plus, the return of the rotating restaurant.

Rep. Andy Ogles has achieved a difficult feat: In a GOP House caucus known for sycophancy, the second-term Tennessee Republican has become President Donald Trump’s most cloying lackey. Since January, Ogles has introduced a bill to “Make Greenland Great Again,” moved to amend the Constitution so Trump (but not Barack Obama) can run for a […]

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s push to repurpose the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amid funding cuts and staffing losses poses a huge threat to water safety and environmental advances in one of the big environmental success stories in the US […]

Even with Republican congressional majorities, Trump favors the flourish of the order over the hassle of lawmaking.

Two dozen trade experts gathered recently to simulate how a global trade war would play out. The results were surprisingly optimistic.

“The White Lotus” highlights a common phenomenon in long-term friend groups: Nobody ever changes.

President Trump justifies his plan to shutter the Education Department by saying that states should control schools. He’s using the idea to explain other policies now, too.

President Trump justifies his plan to shutter the Education Department by saying that states should control schools. He’s using the idea to explain other policies now, too.

Astead Herndon, a New York Times politics reporter and host of the podcast “The Run-Up,” unpacks what the voters and the polling say about President Trump’s signature economic policy: tariffs.

President Trump’s policies are straining trade ties and challenging a long-held truth in China about the centrality of the U.S. market.

In Florida, Brightline has proved that it can operate reliable, well-designed passenger trains that people want to ride. Can the public sector do the same?

The Russian government has unleashed a wave of repression against L.G.B.T.Q. people, with the police raiding gay night clubs and investigators targeting people they suspect of being gay.

The races are an important bellwether for the country’s political pulse in the second Trump era.

The state attorney general had raised the possibility of charging doctors with criminal conspiracy for recommending abortion care out of state.

The state attorney general had raised the possibility of charging doctors with criminal conspiracy for recommending abortion care out of state.

President Trump says there are “methods” by which he could get a third term. “I think you tried one a few years ago,” the “Daily Show” host quipped.

Taiwan can no longer shelter under the delusion that the U.S. will defend it against China.

A brewing shift toward religious conservatism has emerged from the political vacuum in this country of 175 million people.

During Ramadan, political parties used the events to signal potential alliances after the ouster of the country’s authoritarian leader.

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, mandated that physical fitness requirements for combat jobs be “sex-neutral,” a move that is likely to significantly reduce the number of women who qualify.

In Britain, amid growing evidence of harm to young people from extreme content online, a “Smartphone Free Childhood” campaign is going viral.

A judge dismissed an attempt to use a bankruptcy court to resolve tens of thousands of claims that the company’s talcum power products caused cancer.

The Constitutional Court will announce on Friday whether Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached in December for declaring martial law, will be permanently removed from office or restored to power.

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke in their first news conference since returning to Earth two weeks ago from an unexpectedly long I.S.S. stay that lasted more than nine months.

A federal judge ordered the agency to reconsider its firings of employees who had been assigned to diversity recruiting.