| Jimmy Lai’s 20-Year Sentence Follows Beijing’s Playbook on Dissent
- The sentence for the media mogul, along with long prison terms for his editors, shows how Hong Kong enforces Xi Jinping’s red lines with a new severity.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:28:37 +0000
|
| Venezuela Frees Key Opposition Figures, Then Rearrests One
- Hours after at least 35 political prisoners were released, one of the most prominent was apparently back in custody, raising doubts about the government’s direction and control.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:25:35 +0000
|
| San Francisco Teachers Begin Strike, Closing School for 50,000 Students
- The strike closed public schools for more than 50,000 students in the city and had no end date. Health care costs are a key issue in negotiations.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:11:59 +0000
|
| Hollywood Braces for New Round of Labor Talks
- The last time writers and actors negotiated contracts, in 2023, dual strikes froze the industry.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:02:51 +0000
|
| Is the King Cake Baby Jesus?
- Does the popular figurine represent Jesus or the Crescent City’s typical joie de vivre?
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:02:12 +0000
|
| Vietnam’s Leader Has New Power, and He’s in a Hurry
- To Lam is a former security chief who carved his way to prominence and relishes the good life. He has promised to make Communist Vietnam rich and influential.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:00:56 +0000
|
| A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho
- Wilder, Idaho, prided itself on comity. Then federal agents stormed a racetrack outside of town in October, and the reverberations are still shaking the community.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:00:30 +0000
|
| We Legalized Marijuana. Now We Must Regulate It.
- Given the growing harms from marijuana use, American lawmakers should do more to regulate it.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:00:16 +0000
|
| What We Can Learn From Southern Red States About Education
- Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana traditionally were America’s educational basement, but now they are showing blue states a way forward.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:00:09 +0000
|
| Japan Stocks Surge on Takaichi’s Landslide Election Win
- Stocks climbed on Monday as investors cheered a result seen as a mandate for the prime minister’s high-spending economic agenda.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:47:25 +0000
|
| Apple Daily Sentences Show a New Era of Media Peril in Hong Kong
- Two editors and an opinion writer from Jimmy Lai’s now-shuttered newspaper were each sentenced to 10 years in prison, a significant escalation in media prosecution in the once freewheeling city.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:46:35 +0000
|
| Five Years After Myanmar Coup, ‘Even Hope Has Become a Risk’
- The country’s cities have been spared the violence of a hard-fought civil war. But as the economy has hollowed out, many urbanites have become desperate.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:01:42 +0000
|
| After M23 Takeover, Goma Carries Violent Memories and Signs of Hope
- A year after a rebel takeover, residents of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, carry violent memories and signs of hope.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:01:23 +0000
|
| Bad Bunny Delivers a Love Letter to Puerto Rico at Super Bowl Halftime
- His performance featured a sugar cane field, a wedding seemingly officiated onstage and a New York-style street scene, along with appearances by Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:47:18 +0000
|
| Jimmy Lai’s 20-Year Term Follows a Familiar Chinese Pattern
- The heavy sentence for the Hong Kong publisher aligns with mainland cases where influential critics of the Communist Party have been sent to prison for many years.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 03:22:52 +0000
|
| Japan’s Sanae Takaichi Wins Snap Election in a Landslide
- Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won a sweeping mandate from voters for her economic agenda and tough stances on immigration and China.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 02:19:19 +0000
|
| Cold Deaths in New York Climb to 18 as Frigid Winds Linger
- A person was found dead in the Bronx on Saturday morning, the police said. An 81-year-old man was also found dead on a rooftop, though it was unclear whether the cold was to blame.
Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:03:24 +0000
|
| Portugal Elects a President, With Leftist Beating a Surging Far Right
- Despite a decisive victory for António José Seguro, a nationalist’s presence in the runoff showed that Portugal is not immune to Europe’s rising far-right tide.
Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:48:39 +0000
|
| Extreme Cold Persists in the Northeast With Record-Setting Temperatures
- Punishing winds have combined with low temperatures to produce dangerously cold conditions across the Northeast. Forecasters say, though, that relief is on the horizon.
Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:30:14 +0000
|
| Iranian Nobel Laureate Gets Second Prison Sentence and Ends Hunger Strike
- The activist Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to another seven years, bringing the total she must serve to 17 years, her foundation said.
Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:19:00 +0000
|
