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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 04:01:11 +0000 |
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 04:01:05 +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 |
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 |
White House Works to Preserve Gaza Deal Amid Concerns About Netanyahu - The Trump administration strategy is to try to keep Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel from resuming an all-out assault against Hamas, U.S. officials said. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:04:11 +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 |
Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives. - A perverse delight in degradation has always coursed through MAGA circles. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:31:08 +0000 |
Iranian Wedding Video Plunges Top Official Into Scandal - Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani oversaw a brutal crackdown on women, but traditional notions of Islamic morality were little on display at his daughter’s wedding. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:13:45 +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 |
Your November Election Guide (Yes, This November) - It’s not a presidential election year, or even the midterms, but races this fall will offer a sense of voters’ moods in the first year of the new Trump administration. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:43:46 +0000 |
Appeals Court Lifted a Block on Trump’s Deployment to Oregon - Also, the search is on for the Louvre jewel thieves. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:02:30 +0000 |
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Operations Unravel - The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has suspended its aid operations because of the cease-fire, but it is also running low on funds and faces logistical obstacles to resuming its work. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:40:11 +0000 |
How an Elite Public High School Set Mamdani on the Path to Politics - Zohran Mamdani’s time at the Bronx High School of Science expanded and helped shape his views of New York, from the cricket pitch to politics. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:56:57 +0000 |
George Santos and President Trump’s Theory of Mercy - More than any other presidential actions, clemencies tell us who presidents are. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:53:54 +0000 |
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