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Tariffs Are Reshaping China’s Trade. This Tanzanian Sees an Opportunity. - An interview with a 26-year-old entrepreneur, who has taken seven trips to China to buy handbags, clothes and jewelry. “China is the center of everything,” she said. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:20:05 +0000 |
Trump’s Self-Inflicted Soybean Problem - Tariffs don’t seem to be working as planned. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:02:10 +0000 |
Vance Heads to Israel as U.S. Tries to Shore Up Gaza Cease-Fire Deal - With the cease-fire deal under strain, Vice President JD Vance is set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:57:11 +0000 |
Sanae Takaichi is Japan’s New Prime Minister, and She’s a Heavy Metal Drummer - Sanae Takaichi, a fan of Iron Maiden, had an improbable rise to power. Like her mentor, Shinzo Abe, she is expected to lead Japan to the right. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:05:05 +0000 |
France Sends Former President Nicolas Sarkozy to Prison to Start 5-Year Sentence - Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France from 2007 to 2012, reported to a prison in Paris weeks after his conviction in a corruption trial. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:51:30 +0000 |
Who Is Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s First Female Prime Minister? - The hard-line conservative is making history in a country where women are drastically underrepresented at the highest levels of power. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:55:40 +0000 |
With Diwali Comes the Start of Air Pollution Season in New Delhi - The air quality in India’s capital ranks among the worst in the world, but experts say politics stand in the way of improving it. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:13:28 +0000 |
G.O.P. Senators Oppose Trump Watchdog Nominee After Report of Racist Texts - At least four Republican senators, including the Senate majority leader, signaled their opposition to Paul Ingrassia, the president’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:35:09 +0000 |
China Has Another Lever to Pull in Showdown With Trump: Factory Lines - In Washington, China hawks say its economy is too weak to withstand a tariff shock. In the city of Yiwu, factories are showing why, for now, that may be a miscalculation. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:01:12 +0000 |
Daniel Naroditsky, Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 29 - He earned the highest title in the chess world at 17 and built a career as an accomplished chess teacher, commentator and author. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:46:26 +0000 |
White House’s East Wing Partially Demolished to Build Trump’s Ballroom - The president had pledged that construction wouldn’t “interfere with the current building,” a promise that always seemed unrealistic given the grand scale of the plans. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 01:52:38 +0000 |
Amazon’s AWS Disruption Creates Outages for Hundreds of Websites for Hours - Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud services, cited a problem at its data center in Northern Virginia. The outage highlighted the fragility of global internet infrastructure. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 01:33:14 +0000 |
All but 2 Universities Decline a Trump Offer of Preferential Funding - One of the two, Vanderbilt University, signaled it had reservations. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 01:16:30 +0000 |
With SpaceX Behind Schedule, NASA Will Seek More Moon Lander Ideas - Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, and Lockheed Martin are among the contractors that may compete with Elon Musk’s company in the race back to the lunar surface. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:58:45 +0000 |
Louvre Museum Remains Closed After Jewelry Robbery: What to Know - A stunning heist has raised uncomfortable questions about security at the Paris museum. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:52:28 +0000 |
What to Know About Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights - The biggest public holiday in India, Diwali features prayers for prosperity and good fortune — and lots of sweets. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:37:51 +0000 |
A Flat $40 Train Ticket From NYC to Albany? It’s Happening Next Year. - For the first time, Metro-North will run trains past Poughkeepsie through the Hudson Valley to Albany. Some Amtrak service will also be restored. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:29:50 +0000 |
Appeals Court Ruling Allows Trump to Deploy National Guard Troops to Portland - Deployment can move forward, for now, under a preliminary ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. But legal wrangling will likely continue. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:45:15 +0000 |
Man Is Arrested After Threatening to Open Fire at Atlanta Airport, Police Say - The man, Billy J. Cagle, 49, was arrested after family members told the police that he was headed to the airport, “in their words, ‘to shoot it up,’” Atlanta’s police chief said. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:11:43 +0000 |
To Counter China’s Hold on Rare Minerals, Trump Turns to Australia - The United States hopes to become less dependent on China by increasing access to mineral-rich countries. Rare earth metals are vital to an array of modern industries. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:46:37 +0000 |
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