| Trump 2.0
- We look at the first year of the president’s second term.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:55:17 +0000
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| Carney Speech on U.S. ‘Rupture’ and Canada’s Survival Draws Standing Ovation at Davos
- Prime Minister Mark Carney got a standing ovation in Davos for starkly describing the end of Pax Americana. He is looking for new allies to help his country survive it.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:32:10 +0000
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| Man Gets Life in Prison for Killing Shinzo Abe, Former Leader of Japan
- Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, had admitted to shooting Mr. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister; but his case divided Japan.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:51:26 +0000
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| Taiwan’s $40 Billion Military Spending Plan Stalled by Political Impasse
- Taiwan’s domestic gridlock is revealing a deep-seated fracture over how the island should defend itself and how much it can depend on the United States.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:41:10 +0000
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| Majority of Latin Americans Endorsed Trump’s Intervention In Venezuela, Polls Show
- Several polls show that a majority of Latin Americans who were questioned endorsed the intervention, suggesting a shift, at least for now, from ideology to pragmatism.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:33:35 +0000
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| Supreme Court to Weigh Trump’s Bid to Fire Lisa Cook
- The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor whom President Trump is trying to fire. Our reporter Colby Smith describes the importance of Cook’s case for the independence of the central bank.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:20:22 +0000
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| Canada’s Leader Warns of a ‘Rupture’ in the Global Order, and ICE Is Accused of Killing Detainee
- Plus, what’s the point of learning cursive?
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:00:20 +0000
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| An Anxious Japan Restarts the World’s Biggest Nuclear Plant
- Japan is reviving nuclear power, balancing the need for more clean energy against the lingering trauma of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:29:26 +0000
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| Supreme Court Considers Trump’s Attempt to Fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook
- The justices deferred a decision on the president’s efforts to oust Cook, agreeing to hear arguments on Wednesday instead.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:05:10 +0000
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| What ‘Marty Supreme’ Says About Being Jewish in America
- The film’s unapologetic depiction of the experience in all of its complications rejects the idea that such characters have to suffer.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:04:50 +0000
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| Uber Faces Growing Pressure Over Sexual Assault Record
- From the ballot box in California to the halls of Congress and Wall Street, several new initiatives would require more oversight of how the company protects its passengers.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:03:36 +0000
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| What’s a Human Life Worth? The E.P.A. Says Zero Dollars.
- The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:03:16 +0000
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| You Can’t Denaturalize Me
- Is purging America of immigrants so crucial that in the process you must unmake America itself?
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:03:00 +0000
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| Inside Trump’s Campaign to Tame Higher Education
- Donald J. Trump has unleashed the power of the presidency against American colleges, with mixed results.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:02:58 +0000
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| Late Night Cringes Over Trump’s Texting Spree
- Jimmy Kimmel quipped that the president “can do so much damage in one three-day weekend — I don’t know if anybody has ever done more.”
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:04:39 +0000
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| Trump’s Politics Are Not America First. They’re Me First.
- Donald Trump is the most un-American president in our history. And in his second term, there is no one to constrain his un-American impulses.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:00:06 +0000
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| In Court Record, Official Describes Assault Before ICE Agent Shot Man in Minneapolis
- The agent told an investigator that he was assaulted with a broom and a shovel before he fired a single shot that wounded a Venezuelan man.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:51:35 +0000
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| Halligan Leaves as U.S. Attorney After Mounting Pressure From Judges
- For weeks, judges have pressed Ms. Halligan to explain why she continues to identify herself in court filings as the U.S. attorney, despite a ruling in November that she was unlawfully appointed to the job.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 02:59:26 +0000
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| Miami Beach Nightclub Is Condemned for Playing Kanye West’s Song ‘Heil Hitler’
- The club, Vendôme, was hosting several right-wing influencers, including Andrew and Tristan Tate, the brothers who are being investigated in Europe in connection with human trafficking.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 02:25:15 +0000
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| House Foreign Affairs Members Call for Machado to Govern Venezuela
- The Venezuelan opposition leader stressed the need for free elections in her latest bipartisan meeting with lawmakers.
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:45:44 +0000
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