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FBI Director Says China Agreed To Curb Fentanyl Precursors Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, FBI Director Kash Patel said at a press briefing on Nov. 12 that during his recent trip to China, Chinese officials agreed to take significant steps to curb fentanyl precursor exports to the United States. “That was the sole purpose of my trip to China, to eliminate these precursors, and if successful, we would suffocate the drug trafficking organization’s ability to manufacture fentanyl in places like Mexico,” Patel said. His one-day trip to China last week was the first such trip by the head of the FBI

"Chicagoans Do Not Want Us To Bankroll The Regime": Chicago Will No Longer Buy Treasury Bonds Authored by Jonathan Turley, “It’s a bold statement, isn’t it?” Those words of Chicago City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin hardly capture the moment. Yesterday, Conyears-Ervin declared that her office would no longer invest in U.S. Treasury bonds to protest what she called the “authoritarian regime” of President Donald Trump. It is more bonkers than bold. It makes about as much sense as President Trump saying that he will not eat deep-dish pizza to protest Chicago. My hometown of Chicago is facing an economic meltdown due to towering debt and massive spending. Mayor

WTI Holds Gains Despite Big Crude Build, New Record US Crude Production Oil prices are bouncing modestly off of yesterday's ugly drop driven by OPEC+'s outlook for a sizable surplus (glut) ahead. The IEA also flagged a deteriorating outlook for a sixth consecutive month, saying in a report on Thursday that supply will exceed demand by just over four million barrels a day next year. > “There’s a lot of oil supply that’s coming back from the OPEC+ countries,” Chevron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth told Bloomberg Television. > > “There’s a period of time when it would appear we’re going to see

Verizon Set To Axe 15,000 Jobs Right Before Thanksgiving Holiday The optics look awful for Verizon Communications if the Wall Street Journal's report is accurate: the carrier is preparing for its largest job cuts ever just days before millions of Americans hit the road for Thanksgiving.  WSJ says Verizon is planning to cut 15,000 jobs. If that figure is correct, Bloomberg's latest data suggests this would be about 15% of its roughly 100,000-person workforce. WSJ notes this would be the largest workforce reduction on record for the carrier.  Most of the job reductions will come from direct layoffs, and the carrier will shift 200 corporate stores into

Michael 'Big Short' Burry Rage-Quits Market, Liquidates Hedge Fund We'll begin with the famous quote from economist John Maynard Keynes: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." It's a reminder that even the smartest traders in the room, the ones who've built entire careers calling bubbles and shorting tops, can be steamrolled when markets detach from reality. Case in point: "Big Short" investor Michael Burry, who periodically disappears into X hibernation, nuking his account every so often, only to reemerge months later with cryptic warnings like his latest: "Sometimes, we see bubbles." > Sometimes, we see bubbles. > Sometimes, there is

Ukraine Ruled By "Wartime Mafia Network" With "Countless Ties" To Zelensky: Viktor Orban Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is having a "told you so" moment as Ukraine's massive corruption scandal which has already taken down the country's Justice Minister and several other high officials has come to light. The crisis has entered Ukraine's presidential office, with at least one close Zelensky business associate, Tymur Mindich, having fled the country already, just as the major embezzlement and kickbacks scandal involving the state-owned nuclear power company was made public. Orban commented on X in a scathing denunciation of Zelensky's rule that Ukraine has been taken over

A New Oil Price War Is Now Underway Authored by Robert Rapier via OilPrice.com, * OPEC+ raised output to defend market share, signaling a deliberate shift away from price stabilization. * U.S. shale’s record production and rapid adaptability have weakened OPEC’s traditional pricing control. * Oil prices now hinge as much on market psychology and expectations as on physical supply and demand. Contrary to popular belief, oil prices aren’t determined by any one country, company, or cartel. Instead, they’re the product of a global tug-of-war among producers, traders, and policymakers. It’s a market defined not just by physics, but by psychology, where

Disney Shares Sink Most In Seven Months As Soft Earnings, Film Costs Drag Outlook Shares of Disney tumbled the most in seven months early in the U.S. cash session after the media company missed quarterly revenue expectations and warned that film-studio expenses will drag on the current quarter, particularly costs tied to major releases. Disney posted uninspiring fourth-quarter revenues, flat at about $22.5 billion and below the Bloomberg consensus estimate of $22.8 billion. Adjusted EPS beat at $1.11 versus the $1.07 expected. The miss sent shares in New York down 8% in the cash session, the largest intraday decline since April 3. The

California Cancels 17,000 CDLs Following Federal Audit Authored by John Gallagher via FreightWaves.com, The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has cancelled 17,000 non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses following a federal audit of the state’s CDL program, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. In a press statement on Wednesday, DOT asserted that state officials admitted to illegally issuing the CDLs “to dangerous foreign drivers,” and that DMV sent notices to the license holders that their license no longer meets federal requirements and will expire in 60 days. “After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed,” said

New 2x Levered Energy ETFs Launched As Investors Scramble For Upside Amid Relentless AI Power Demand In pursuit of the seemingly relentless retail bid, Tradr ETFs has launched four new single-stock levered ETFs today, adding fresh instruments to a market incessantly infatuated with leverage-focused products. Notably, these new products land squarely in the middle of the energy sector - and includes names that stand to profit generously once what we dubbed the "Next AI Trade" (i.e., powering up the armada of newly-built data centers) takes off - at a time when power demand has never been greater thanks to AI. The new offerings

Schumer Who? How Centrists Broke Ranks To End Shutdown As Democratic Rift Widens The political breakthrough that ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. history did not come from the Oval Office or from the Senate’s top Democrat. Instead, it emerged from a quiet, late-night meeting in a nearly deserted Capitol, where a small band of centrist Democrats forged an agreement with senior Republicans - over the objections of their own leadership. Moderate Democrat senators who cut deal to end the government shutdown: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., top row from left, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Sen. John Fetterman,

White House Says Trump Committed To $2,000 Tariff Dividend Payments For Many Americans Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump remains committed to paying $2,000 to many Americans from funds from tariff revenues, the White House said on Nov. 12, adding that officials are exploring how to make the president’s proposal happen. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump’s team is mulling implementation options for the dividend, which the president first mentioned over the weekend. In a Nov. 9 post on Truth Social, Trump celebrated the tariffs, highlighting the funds they are bringing into the government. He suggested

Futures Drop As Markets Sell News Of Government Reopening Futures are slightly lower as the market sells the news that the US government has finally reopened, and as traders now seek to identify a near-term catalyst before NVDA’s Nov 19 earnings release while the data vacuum is likely to persist for at least several days. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are down 0.2% as the government reopening rally runs out of fuel; Nasdaq futures slip 0.1% with Mag7 names mixed premarket. Semis are under pressure, cyclicals are mixed, defensives are bid (healthcare and staples), and commodity-related plays are poised to outperform. Bond yields

US Flight-Cuts Frozen At 6% As More Controllers Show Up For Work With the record-long government shutdown now in the history books and more air traffic controllers coming to work, the Department of Transportation has decided to freeze the level of flight cuts imposed on US carriers at 6% -- rather than continuing a schedule that would have had cuts rising to 10% by week's end. After being hammered by customer service headaches, lost revenue from refunded tickets and higher costs from idling jet engines on clogged taxiways, airlines are now urging reluctant would-be travelers to jump back into action.  Even if

'Bankers Know Gold Is Their Money Of Last Resort'; Morgan Warns End Of American Empire Looms Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, More than a year ago, economic analyst and financial writer David Morgan predicted we were entering a global Great Depression.  With massive AI layoffs, sky rocketing silver and gold prices, exploding debt and civil unrest increasing, it looks like Morgan was right—again.  On the money side, demand is so shaky for US Treasuries that former Trump Federal Reserve nominee, Judy Shelton, was pitching a gold-backed US Treasury Bond on CNBC.  Was Shelton running a flag up the pole to gauge the reaction for the White House?  Morgan say: > “You are not getting on

White House, FTC Turn Up The Heat On Institutional Shareholder Services & Glass Lewis  Federal scrutiny of proxy-advisory firms and major index-fund managers intensified this week, following reports that the White House is weighing new measures to rein in their growing influence over corporate America, as well as news that the Federal Trade Commission just launched a preliminary investigation into whether these firms violated U.S. antitrust laws by influencing shareholder votes on politically sensitive issues. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that White House officials are discussing an executive order that would restrict proxy-advisory firms such as Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)

Elon Musk Is Building The Backbone of America's High-Tech 2030s Economy - And The Numbers Prove It Authored by Larry Goldberg, Managing Partner of Knowledge Partners International,  Few understand that quite apart from making himself rich, Elon Musk is a job-creating, tax-paying, economy-boosting force. Through his companies - Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, The Boring Company, and Neuralink -Musk has funneled hundreds of billions into American pockets over the past five years (2021-2025). This isn't abstract Wall Street stuff; it's real money circulating in communities, from factory floors in Texas to engineering hubs in California. Let's break it down with hard numbers, showing how Musk's ventures pump

Coinbase Abandoning $2 Billion Deal For Stablecoin Company BVNK Coinbase Global has scrapped plans to acquire BVNK, a London-based stablecoin infrastructure startup, ending what would have been a roughly $2 billion deal — and one of the largest stablecoin-focused acquisitions to date, according to Yahoo Finance. “We’re continuously seeking opportunities to expand on our mission and product offerings,” a Coinbase spokesperson said. “After discussing a potential acquisition of BVNK, both parties mutually agreed to not move forward.” Yahoo writes that talks had reached late stages, with the firms entering exclusivity in October that prevented BVNK from seeking other buyers. The transaction had been

How Far Will Ukraine's Corruption Scandal Go? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, A major scandal is rocking Ukraine after its National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which Zelensky unsuccessfully tried to subordinate over the summer, charged several important figures in connection with its investigation into a $100 million energy graft scandal. This includes Timur Mindich, Zelensky’s longtime business partner, who fled abroad as the authorities were closing after being tipp`ed off about his imminent arrest. He’s alleged to have also influenced the former Energy and Defense Ministers. Speculation is now swirling that Zelensky himself either profited from this corruption or at the very least was aware of it but did nothing since it involved his

After 43 Days, Congressional Democrats Fold, Vote To End Historic US Govt Shutdown Update (0800ET): After a record 43 days (and 14 failed votes)... ...the shutdown is finally over as Democrats folded (amid the fire and brimstone from their colleagues), voting with Republicans to reopen the government. The 222-209 vote saw 6 Democrats vote to reopen the government and 2 Republicans vote against the measure (h/t Jake Sherman) There was some drama when Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) shocked and dismayed colleagues with a rogue effort to condemn retiring Rep. Chuy García (D-Ill.) for effectively ensuring his chief of staff would succeed him in Congress. But

Climate Action Tracker report finds pledges made in past year have not cut the forecast for global heating More than half of all delegation members at Cop30 have withheld or obscured details of their affiliations, potentially concealing conflicts of interest and undermining trust in the Cop process, warns Transparency International. According to the campaign group’s examination of the UNFCCC’s official list of registered participants, 54% of participants in national delegations either did not disclose the type of affiliation they have or selected a vague category such as “Guest” or “Other”. Yet, at Cop30, thousands of delegates still do not share enough information, most

Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN A row over the definition of the term “gender” threatens to bog down pivotal talks at the Cop30 climate summit. Before the UN talks in Brazil, hardline conservative states have pushed to define gender as “biological sex” over their concerns trans and non-binary people could be included in a major plan to ensure climate action addresses gender inequality and empowers women. Continue reading...

Secretary for women presents plan, including prison sentences, after Claudia Sheinbaum was groped on street The shocking public groping of Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has prompted rapid political action to tackle sexual abuse, as well as public debate on how best to address the problem, which is widespread across the country. Citlalli Hernández, Mexico’s secretary for women, presented a presidential plan to confront the issue, which would include actions such as ensuring prison sentences for sexual abuse across Mexico, encouraging women to report incidents, and training prosecutors and other officials on how to handle the matter. Continue reading...

This live blog is now closed. You can read the full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in Brazil here Hello comrades, this is Nina Lakhani in chilly New York City taking over the blog for the next few hours. Thanks very much to my colleague Matt Taylor in London Town who will be back in the hot seat on Friday morning. Leading climate activists and influencers have signed a letter criticising PR firm Edelman over its role at the Cop30 summit in Brazil. Continue reading...

Country explores taking part in the glitzy song contest as it distances from the US and seeks to deepen ties with Europe When Canada released its federal budget this month, much of it was standard fare, from the plans to downsize the public service to the boost in defence spending. But one line tucked in the nearly 500-page document has captured imaginations on both sides of the Atlantic: a mention that the government is working with Canada’s national broadcaster to explore participation in the Eurovision song contest. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Vincent Karremans says row with Beijing that threatened global car production is ‘wake-up call’ to west A bitter battle over the future of a Chinese-owned chipmaker in the Netherlands that threatened to cripple the global car industry is a “wake-up call to Europe and the west”, the minister at the heart of the row has warned. The six-week standoff between the EU and Beijing over Nexperia and its vital supplies of automotive semiconductors has served up a sobering lesson to world leaders over their dependency on China, says Vincent Karremans. Continue reading...

Videos show schoolgirls fighting off animals, while others show people feeding bears, with some so realistic that users struggled to distinguish between fact and fiction If a record number of fatal bear attacks wasn’t terrifying enough, experts say a torrent of AI-generated videos in Japan purporting to show people in close encounters with the animals is only adding to public anxiety – and could put people at greater risk. While headlines about real attacks and disruption appear on a regular basis, monitors of online content are warning social media users not to be taken in by realistic videos on platforms such as

The truce broke down this week after a Thai soldier lost a leg to a landmine blast, prompting Thailand’s PM to say the peace deal was ‘now over’ One person has been killed by gunfire along the Thai-Cambodia border as conflict heats up between the two nations days after a Trump-backed ceasefire agreement has broken down. Fighting erupted between Thai and Cambodian troops over five days in July, with 43 people killed and 300,000 displaced in the worst fighting along the border in a decade. Donald Trump oversaw the signing of a ceasefire agreement between the two nations in Malaysia this October,

She Zhijiang’s empire includes gambling complex Shwe Kokko that US has tied to regional scam and trafficking networks She Zhijiang, an alleged transnational crime kingpin accused by Beijing of having run more than 200 illegal online gambling operations, is being extradited to China from Bangkok on Wednesday, Thai police have said. The Chinese national is perhaps the most prominent figure among Asia’s alleged cybercrime operators to be arrested, and has been linked to regional scam networks by the US. Continue reading...

The geomagnetic storm, caused by powerful bursts of energy from the sun, also postponed the launch of two Mars-bound Nasa spacecraft in the US * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Skywatchers enjoyed a stunning treat on Wednesday night, with the southern lights visible across large parts of Australia and New Zealand. The aurora australis that lit up the sky resulted from what has been dubbed a “cannibal” solar storm. Continue reading...

Labor joins governing Liberals as Tasmania’s lower house votes 25-9 for $1.3bn project. Follow today’s news live * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The federal government will spend $37m over five years to improve working with children checks (WWWC) in early childhood and care, including monitoring changes to criminal history. The attorney-general, Michelle Rowland said the funding boost would go towards establishing the national continuous checking capability (NCCC), first announced earlier this year to provide “continuous, near real-time monitoring of changes to criminal history information for WWCC holders, significantly strengthening safeguards for children and young people”. That’s

Since late 2024, registrations of 11 VET organisations have been cancelled, voiding diplomas, certificates and statements of attainment * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast At least 30,000 people have lost their qualifications in the past year as the regulator cracks down on Australia’s shonky vocational education and training providers. Since late 2024, the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has cancelled the registrations of 11 training organisations and voided diplomas, certificates and statements of attainment that providers had issued. Continue reading...

Jacinta Allan’s Labor government takes a leaf out of the playbook of conservative oppositions: focus on crime and hope voters see them as knights in shining armour * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast To put it in language those in the Victorian government who are enamoured of tabloid newspapers and talkback radio will understand: are these new laws tough on crime, or merely a coward punch? A decision by the Victorian government to introduce adult crime, adult time laws has been widely condemned as an easy

Bingo card-style game, where supporters encouraged to ‘buy’ words and phrases linked to contentious abortion bill, condemned by crossbench MLCs as a ‘grift’ that trivialised debate * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A “fun little game” launched by the anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe to raise funds during an emotional debate over late-pregnancy abortion in South Australia has been referred for investigation. Howe, who has worked with conservative politicians to introduce various state and federal bills to water down abortion rights, said the bingo card-style game was

The International Energy Agency, once known for an anti-renewables bias, now says a more ambitious transition will lower prices * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Just as the Liberal party walked away from a firm net zero emissions target, a new International Energy Agency report told the world that a more ambitious clean energy transition means lower household power bills. The timing is exquisite. Continue reading...

Bells ring out across French capital marking 10th anniversary of country’s deadliest peacetime attack * Paris attacks anniversary – in pictures France has paid tribute to the 130 people killed 10 years ago by Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers who targeted a stadium, bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall in the country’s deadliest peacetime attack. “The pain remains,” Emmanuel Macron wrote on social media on Thursday as he visited each of the sites that were attacked. Bells rang out across the city as a remembrance ceremony began at a memorial garden in central Paris attended by relatives and survivors. Continue reading...

Government established joint venture with Trump’s son-in-law in February 2024 to build hotel, apartments and museum complex The Serbian government has established a joint venture with a property development company owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to develop a hotel complex in Belgrade, giving Serbia until next May to demolish the existing buildings, according to leaked documents. An independent Serbian news magazine, Radar, published what appears to be a 2024 investment agreement giving Kushner’s firm, Atlantic Incubation Partners LLC, a 77.5% stake in the joint venture, and the Serbian government a 22.5% stake. Continue reading...

Proposal includes 72,000 social homes to tackle housing crisis, but critics call it ‘old wine in a new bottle’ The Irish government has announced a long-awaited plan to tackle the country’s severe housing shortage by building 300,000 new homes within five years. It plans to boost supply by increasing construction capacity and the amount of zoned and serviced land, and to increase support for vulnerable groups, according to proposals published on Thursday. Continue reading...

Judges in Luxembourg say EU law prohibits use of term ‘non-alcoholic gin’, in case brought by German lobby group The makers of spirits may be raising a toast to the European judges of Luxembourg after the EU’s court ruled that non-alcoholic drinks cannot be called gin. Only spirit drinks based on ethyl alcohol flavoured by juniper berries with a minimum alcoholic strength of 37.5% by volume can be known as gin, the court said in a judgment issued on Thursday. Continue reading...

Yulia Svyrydenko says government will conduct major audit of Energoatom and other state-owned firms in bid to fight corruption allegations A bitter battle over the future of a Chinese-owned chipmaker in the Netherlands that threatened to cripple the global car industry is a “wake-up call to Europe and the west”, the minister at the heart of the row has warned. The six-week standoff between the EU and Beijing over Nexperia and its vital supplies of automotive semiconductors has served up a sobering lesson to world leaders over their dependency on China, says Vincent Karremans. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Ramsi Woodcock, who calls for an ‘end’ to Israel and military intervention against it, says the university violated his first amendment rights A tenured law professor sued the University of Kentucky on Thursday after he was banned from teaching and from the law school for comments he made about Israel, including characterizations of the state as a “colonization project” and calls for the world to wage war against it. In a lawsuit filed in federal court, Ramsi Woodcock, an antitrust law scholar, argued that the public university violated his first amendment and due process rights when it abruptly placed him under

Isaac Herzog makes rare statement on often-ignored violence as settlers injure Palestinians and attack soldiers Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, injuring four Palestinians and attacking Israeli soldiers in the latest incident of rising settler violence. The settlers attacked the Palestinian villages of Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf, setting vehicles on fire and damaging property belonging to a Bedouin community, with charred remains of cars left behind the next day. Continue reading...

Isaac Herzog can pardon convicted criminals in some circumstances, but cases against Israeli PM are ongoing Donald Trump has repeated a request to Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, for a pardon for Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial in three separate corruption cases. The Israeli prime minister has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the ongoing court cases. No rulings have been delivered, and his supporters have dismissed the trials as politically motivated. Continue reading...

Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites Israeli armed forces and settlers have attacked Palestinian water sources more than 250 times in the past five years, amounting to the most sustained assault on civilian water supplies in recent years, new research reveals. Bombs, dogs, poison and heavy machinery were among the weapons used to attack Palestinians and their infrastructure at drinking water, irrigation and sanitation sites in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on at least 90 occasions between January 2024 and mid-2025, according to the Pacific Institute, a California-based

Two fathers in Britain enlist law firm to get government to follow through on evacuation promises made months ago The British government is facing legal action over its lack of action to help evacuate families in Gaza after committing to do so months ago. Two families have argued that the government’s failure to act is unlawful and in breach of their family’s human rights. They are among a number of separated families to which the government has failed to keep its evacuation promise, according to the law firm Leigh Day, which is representing them. Continue reading...

Cabinet says explosion near Red Fort that killed 12 is suspected to have been perpetrated by ‘anti-national forces’ India has confirmed it is treating the explosion that killed 12 people outside Delhi’s Red Fort on Monday as a “terror incident” perpetrated by “anti-national forces”. The statement by the cabinet, led by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, confirmed mounting speculation that a terrorist attack was behind the blast that took place during peak time in one of the capital’s busiest areas and outside one of India’s major landmarks. Continue reading...

Critics say constitutional amendment, which will also limit supreme court’s independence, is ‘funeral for democracy’ Pakistan’s parliament has passed a controversial amendment to its constitution that will expand the powers of the army chief and grant him lifelong legal immunity while limiting the independence of the supreme court, in a move critics described as a “funeral for democracy”. Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan’s powerful army chief who is widely seen as a de facto ruler of the country, was the main benefactor from the 27th constitutional amendment, which was passed by the parliamentary lower house on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Pakistani ministers attribute deadly suicide attack to Indian state terrorism but India denies claim Pakistan has opened an investigation into the suicide attack that killed 12 people outside district court buildings in Islamabad, after the prime minister made unsubstantiated claims that “Indian state terrorism” was behind the blast. The attack took place in the middle of the day on Tuesday as the area was thrumming with people. The bomber made several attempts to get inside the buildings before detonating a device next to a police car, killing 12 people and injuring 27. Continue reading...

Statements from government ministers suggest they do not see explosion that killed eight people as an accident Indian police are investigating a car explosion that killed eight people outside Delhi’s historic Red Fort under an anti-terror law, as they focus on the final movements of the vehicle involved. The explosion on Monday occurred at about 7pm, a peak time when Delhi’s old city is usually packed with people and traffic. Continue reading...

Defence minister says country is in ‘state of war’ after suicide blast kills 12 and injures 27 outside court buildings At least 12 people have been killed in a suicide blast in Islamabad carried out by the Pakistan Taliban, as the country’s defence minister said a deadly surge in terror attacks had put the country in a “state of war”. The explosion, which was confirmed as a suicide attack by several government ministers, took place outside district court buildings in the capital on Tuesday at about 12.30pm. The area is usually heavily crowded with lawyers and litigants attending trials. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Communities secretary calls meeting over two councillors seeking electoral candidacy in Bangladesh The communities secretary, Steve Reed, has called a meeting with officials overseeing the running of Tower Hamlets council as concerns about the governance of the east London authority continue. Envoys were sent to Tower Hamlets after a team of government-commissioned inspectors published a report last November that uncovered a “toxic” and secretive culture dominated by the inner circle of the local mayor, Lutfur Rahman. Continue reading...

Closeup of studded stilettos in trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 causes fashion debate on social media Posting the first trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 on Instagram on her birthday this week, the film’s star Anne Hathaway captioned the video with “it’s everybody’s birthday”, prompting copious comments featuring emojis of flames, hearts and – of course – the red shoe now associated with the film’s poster. But with the trailer circulating on social media, it’s the shoes that have become the focus of fashion debate – and not in a good way. Continue reading...

This blog has now closed, you can read more on this story here PA Media has more on what the monthly performance figures from NHS England show. PA says: The data shows 180,329 people in England had been waiting more than a year to start routine hospital treatment at the end of September, down from 190,549 at the end of August. Some 2.4% of people on the list for hospital treatment had been waiting more than 52 weeks in September, down from 2.6% the previous month. The NHS waiting list is 230,000 lower than July last year, even as the health service ‘approaches its

Exclusive: Supporters say grants largely going to middle-class households, but experts warn move will slow transition from gas boilers Hundreds of thousands of homeowners will lose their right to subsidies for eco-friendly heat pumps as a result of government plans to bring down energy bills at the budget. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is planning to announce a series of measures to bring down energy bills amid concerns the country’s stubbornly high cost of living is driving millions of voters to Reform UK. Continue reading...

MoD survey also finds nearly one in 10 have been subject to non-consensual sexual activity and a third have been groped or touched Nearly one in 10 women serving in the British military have been subjected to an assault or other non-consensual sexual activity in the past year, according to the first official survey of sexual harassment across the armed forces. A third said they had been groped or touched in a way that made them feel uncomfortable, according to the Ministry of Defence, and two-thirds reported at least one form of sexual harassment or sexualised behaviour – proportions significantly higher than

Diana Santillana Galeano’s detention sparked outrage after agents dragged her from a daycare A Chicago daycare worker whose arrest by federal agents last week sparked widespread outrage has been released from custody. On Thursday, Diana Santillana Galeano’s attorney said she was released from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Clay county, Indiana, on Wednesday night. Her release followed a federal judge’s ruling earlier in the day that her arrest was “unlawful” as she had not had a preliminary bond hearing. Continue reading...

White House press secretary says Jeffrey Epstein emails that mention Trump are part of ‘Democrat + Mainstream Media hoax’; House to hold vote next week * Trump faces prospect of congressional vote on releasing Epstein files * Epstein emails: key takeaways from 20,000 pages of newly released files Democrats appear more enthusiastic than Republicans about voting in next year’s congressional elections following the party’s victories in recent state and local contests, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, which showed Republican President Donald Trump’s approval steady at 40%. The six-day poll, which closed on Wednesday, showed 44% of registered voters who called themselves

Lawsuit against US government alleges ‘life-threatening’ medical neglect and says residents frequently go hungry Seven people detained at California’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center have sued the US government, alleging they have been denied essential medications, frequently go hungry, and are housed in a “decrepit” facility. The federal class-action complaint filed against ICE on Wednesday challenges the “inhumane conditions” at the California City detention center, which opened in late August inside a shuttered state prison. The suit alleges “life-threatening” medical neglect, with the plaintiffs saying they have been denied cancer treatment, basic disability accommodations and regular insulin for diabetes. Continue

Republican Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie Wipf * After a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid execution Tremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution on Thursday in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection. Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that

Senator released humorous health update after he was released from hospital, suggesting he was doing well * US politics live – latest updates The Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman was hospitalized on Thursday after a heart condition flare-up caused him to fall on his face outside his home. According to a statement from his press secretary, the Democrat was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital following the early-morning slip, and doctors determined he had experienced ventricular fibrillation that left him feeling light-headed before he fell and sustained minor facial injuries. Continue reading...

Israeli settlers torched and defaced a mosque in a Palestinian village in the central West Bank overnight, scribbling hateful messages in a show of defiance a day after some Israeli leaders condemned a recent attack by settlers against Palestinians. One wall and at least three copies of the Koran and some of the carpeting at the mosque in the Palestinian town of Deir Istiya had been torched when an AP reporter visited Thursday. On one side of the mosque, settlers had left graffitied messages...

The longest government shutdown in US history has ended, but it could take days - and in some cases a week or more - before normal operations resume. Payroll systems must be updated to pay out weeks of back wages. Backlogs of grant disbursements, loan applications and customer calls that went unanswered for 43 days would need to be cleared. Delayed environmental permits, workplace inspections and contracting activities have stacked up across federal agencies. The work of reopening the government...

Anthropic plans to spend US$50 billion to build custom data centres for artificial intelligence work in several US locations, including Texas and New York, the latest expensive pledge for infrastructure to support the AI boom. The new sites, which Anthropic is developing with UK-based Fluidstack, would start coming online throughout 2026, the company said Wednesday in a statement. The project marks the first major data centre buildout that the AI firm has taken on directly, rather than through...

Incumbent Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani claimed victory for his coalition on Wednesday in Iraq’s general election after preliminary results showed it had secured a decisive lead. Supporters of Sudani, who is vying for a second term, flocked late in the evening to Tahrir Square in Baghdad to celebrate with fireworks and music. Casting the victory as one for all Iraqis in a televised speech, Sudani congratulated the country “on your coalition winning first place in the parliamentary...

A former aide to two New York governors went on trial on Wednesday on charges she sold her influence to the Chinese government and illegally profited from the state’s bulk purchase of face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic. Linda Sun and her husband, Chris Hu, were arrested last year during a US crackdown on alleged Chinese secret agents. They were charged again in June as part of the government’s efforts to root out pandemic fraud. “Linda Sun was for sale,” prosecutor Amanda Shami told jurors...

Democrat Adelita Grijalva was sworn in as the newest member of Congress on Wednesday, more than seven weeks after she won a special election in Arizona to fill the House seat last held by her late father. Grijalva was sworn in by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday shortly before the House returned to session to vote on a deal to fund the federal government. After delivering a floor speech, Grijalva signed a discharge petition to eventually trigger a vote to release files related...

A Chinese scientist charged in Michigan with smuggling biological materials pleaded guilty on Wednesday, but was given no additional time in jail beyond the five months she already spent in custody. Jian Yunqing, who was a temporary researcher at a University of Michigan lab, will be released and quickly deported. A judge called it a “very strange” case involving an “incredibly accomplished researcher”. Jian, 33, was arrested in June and accused of conspiring with a boyfriend to study and nurse...

The year began with promise for US-India relations. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington reinforced both countries’ intent to sustain the partnership’s momentum. Their personal rapport, forged during US President Donald Trump’s first term, appeared to offer political capital for a results-driven agenda. India entered 2025 buoyed by a bipartisan consensus in Washington that New Delhi was central to the Indo-Pacific balance. Yet as the year closes, optimism has faded. A...

The US sanctioned dozens of firms and people supporting Iran’s ballistic missile and drone manufacturing industry across countries in Asia and the Middle East as part of the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran. The Treasury Department announced sanctions Wednesday on 32 individuals and entities in Iran, the UAE, Turkey, China, Hong Kong, India, Germany and Ukraine that it said have helped procure key components, including missile propellant precursors, for the drone...

Modern conflicts are already being fought in space and the next wars will begin there, French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday, singling out the threat posed by Russia and announcing a multibillion-euro increase in spending on military activities in space. “The war of today is already being fought in space, and the war of tomorrow will begin in space,” Macron said in Toulouse, France’s space and aviation hub, which is home to its new space military command centre. “Space is no longer a...

Italy is working to adopt a tax on low-value postal packages from non-European countries, senior politicians said, as part of measures to protect its fashion industry from low-cost imports mostly from China. The move targets online platforms such as Shein and Temu. “Our measures will be in force by the end of this year,” Industry Minister Adolfo Urso told reporters. Italy’s ruling parties plan to apply a levy to consignments worth less than €150 (US$175), in line with a proposal being discussed...

Ukraine’s energy and justice ministers resigned on Wednesday, the government said, over their alleged involvement in a sweeping corruption scandal in the country’s energy sector. Investigators alleged a key ally of President Volodymyr Zelensky orchestrated a US$100 million kickback scheme to siphon off funds, triggering public anger at a time of widespread power outages caused by Russian attacks. Ukraine has long been plagued by corruption and cracking down on graft is seen as a key requirement...

A ferry company operating in Britain has apologised after children were left “screaming” when an adult film was played on one of its ships from France to southern England. Danish-based ferry operator DFDS has said it is “very sorry” after the incident, which happened on board the ferry from Dieppe in France to the British port of Newhaven. It said that an “adult film” was mistakenly broadcast on the lounge television to passengers after watching a Formula One grand prix, causing children on...

Jeffrey Epstein suggested Donald Trump knew about the disgraced financier’s abuse and “spent hours” with one of the victims at his house, according to emails released by Democrats on Wednesday that raised awkward new questions for the US president. Trump has repeatedly denied any knowledge of the sex-trafficking activities of his former friend - who died by suicide in 2019 while in prison awaiting trial - and accused Democrats of trying to “deflect” from their own failings. But the scandal has...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday a strong and independent BBC was needed in a time of disinformation, but he said the broadcaster must get its “house in order” after US President Donald Trump threatened legal action. The British Broadcasting Corporation has been plunged into its biggest crisis in decades after its two most senior staff, its director general and head of news, quit following criticism over standards and accusations of bias at the BBC, including over how it...

China launched a charm offensive at a new Northern Ireland trade forum on Tuesday, as Beijing’s chief diplomat to the United Kingdom promised fresh investment and opportunities to tap the vast consumer market of the world’s second-largest economy. The efforts come as China’s widening trade surpluses face rising criticism and scrutiny from European countries – including the UK – amid mounting trade tensions between China and the West. “China is Northern Ireland’s second-largest source of imports...

US President Donald Trump’s recent call for the military to immediately restart nuclear weapons testing, apparently ending a 33-year moratorium that began under president George H.W. Bush in 1992, has sent shock waves across the globe. The announcement was made via social media moments before the much-anticipated meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit, the first meeting between the...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday sent a letter to Israel’s president asking him to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a long-running corruption trial that has bitterly divided the country. It was the latest attempt by Trump to intervene in the case on behalf of Netanyahu, raising questions about undue American influence over internal Israeli affairs. Trump also called for a pardon for Netanyahu during a speech to Israel’s parliament last month, when he made a brief visit to...

Hundreds of South Korean engineers who were arrested and detained during an immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG Energy Solution battery plant in Georgia in September are preparing to sue US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alleging unlawful detention and mistreatment. According to industry sources and a report by ABC News earlier this week, roughly 200 of those detained in the weeklong ordeal are preparing to file a lawsuit against ICE, alleging racial discrimination, human rights...

Most Chinese companies are faring well in the European Union despite rising challenges such as higher labour costs, trade barriers and the bloc’s efforts to reduce dependence on Beijing, the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU (CCCEU) said in its annual report. Over 80 per cent of surveyed companies reported stable or improved performance in Europe in 2024, with more than half posting revenue growth and 40 per cent turning higher profits, according to the report published on Wednesday by the...

British health minister Wes Streeting denied on Wednesday he was plotting to bring down Keir Starmer, after allies of the prime minister briefed newspapers that they feared an attempted coup could come later this month after the budget. Starmer steered his Labour Party to one of the biggest election victories in British history in 2024, but just 16 months later it is languishing in the polls and poised to break one of its main election pledges to increase income taxes for the first time since...

The signing of the Asean-China free trade agreement upgrade last month looked procedural. It wasn’t. The protocol adds chapters on digital trade, the green economy, supply chain connectivity, and the nuts and bolts of trade facilitation. These elements matter more than tariff cuts. As US tariffs on Chinese goods remain high, including on electric vehicles (EVs), batteries and solar cells, agreements that reduce friction, harmonise standards and streamline certification are becoming strategic...

Russia said its forces had pushed deeper into the eastern Ukrainian cities of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk on Tuesday, with one video showing Russian soldiers rolling into Pokrovsk on motorbikes and even on the roofs of battered cars and vans. Moscow has said that taking Pokrovsk, dubbed “the gateway to Donetsk” by Russian media, would give it a platform to drive north towards the two biggest remaining Ukrainian-controlled cities in the Donetsk region: Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. Russia has been...

With US President Donald Trump skipping the UN’s climate summit in the Amazon, California Governor Gavin Newsom grabbed the spotlight on Tuesday and unleashed a barrage of attacks on the fossil fuel agenda of his political nemesis. The well-coiffed Democrat - seen as a potential 2028 presidential candidate - blasted Trump for twice leaving the Paris climate accord and for “doubling down on stupid” through his support of Big Oil. Newsom said a future Democratic administration would rejoin the...

On October 26, East Timor officially acceded to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) at the opening of the annual summit, as the 11th member of the regional bloc. Known officially as Timor-Leste, the country gained full independence on May 20, 2002, after a United Nations-supervised referendum in 1999. With a population of 1.4 million and its capital in Dili, East Timor is rich in oil and natural gas reserves located in the Timor Sea. The country also exports coffee, vanilla and...

Dozens of Indigenous protesters forced their way into the Cop30 climate summit venue on Tuesday and clashed with security guards at the entrance to demand climate action and forest protection. Shouting angrily, protesters demanded access to the UN compound where thousands of delegates from countries around the world are attending this year’s UN climate summit in the Amazon city of Belem, Brazil. Some waved flags with slogans calling for land rights or carried signs saying: “Our land is not for...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday extended an order blocking full Snap payments, amid signals that the government shutdown could soon end and food aid payments resume. The order keeps in place at least for a few more days a chaotic situation. People who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme to feed their families in some states have received their full monthly allocations, while others have received nothing. The order will expire just before midnight on Thursday. The Senate has...

Iraqis voted for a new parliament on Tuesday, with an unexpectedly high turnout of more than 55 per cent, at a pivotal time for the country and the wider region. Iraq, which has long been vulnerable to proxy wars and is closely watched by Iran and the United States, has recently regained a sense of stability. But, even as it tries to move past two decades of war since a US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, the country of 46 million suffers from poor infrastructure and public services,...

A Turkish prosecutor demanded on Tuesday a prison sentence of more than 2,000 years for Ekrem Imamoglu, the jailed opposition mayor of Istanbul, for allegedly leading a vast corruption network that cost the state billions of lira. Imamoglu, who is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, has previously denied all the accusations against him, saying they are politically motivated, and his party on Tuesday rejected the new indictment as “nonsense”. In a separate move that also...

US President Donald Trump boasts that his tariffs protect American industries, lure factories to the United States, raise money for the federal government and give him diplomatic leverage. Now, he is claiming they can finance a windfall for American families, too – he’s promising a generous tariff dividend. The president proposed the idea on social media on Sunday, five days after his Republican Party lost elections in Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere largely because of voter discontent with...

Turkey on Wednesday said 20 of its soldiers were killed when a military transport plane crashed in Georgia a day earlier, marking the Nato member’s deadliest military incident since 2020. The C-130 cargo aircraft left Azerbaijan for Turkey and crashed in Georgia on Tuesday, leaving chunks of twisted metal strewn across a grassy knoll. Ankara has not provided a reason for the crash, but said Turkish and Georgian authorities have started inspections at the site, located in the Sighnaghu...

A Chinese woman described as a “super villain” who orchestrated a multibillion-dollar investment fraud to buy bitcoin was sentenced to 11 years and eight months in jail by a London judge. Qian Zhimin, who evaded arrest in China after fleeing on a moped to the Myanmar border, travelled through Southeast Asia and Europe using fake passports before settling in Britain under a fake name - Yadi Zhang. She was arrested as part of the largest bitcoin seizure ever by British police - now worth US$6.4...

Unicef said on Tuesday, essential items including syringes to vaccinate children and bottles for baby milk formula are being denied entry into Gaza by Israel, preventing aid agencies from reaching those in need in the war-devastated territory. As Unicef undertakes a mass children’s vaccination campaign with a fragile ceasefire in place, it said it faces serious challenges getting 1.6 million syringes and solar-powered fridges to store vaccine vials into Gaza. The syringes have awaited customs...

A US aircraft carrier strike group has arrived in Latin America, escalating a military build-up that Venezuela has warned could trigger a full-blown conflict as it announced its own “massive” deployment. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, entered an area under the control of the US Naval Forces Southern Command, which encompasses Latin America and the Caribbean, the command said in a statement on Tuesday. The vessel’s deployment was ordered nearly three weeks ago, with...

A de facto partition of Gaza between an area controlled by Israel and another ruled by Hamas is increasingly likely, multiple sources said, with efforts to advance US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war beyond a ceasefire faltering. Six European officials with direct knowledge of the efforts to implement the next phase of the plan told Reuters it was effectively stalled and that reconstruction now appeared likely to be limited to the Israeli-controlled area. That could lead to years of...

Global technology leaders will pack Lisbon’s annual Web Summit from Tuesday to talk about artificial intelligence, robots and start-ups – all under the shadow of tensions over cutting-edge tech and the natural resources needed to build it. Over four days, the “Davos for geeks” is set to welcome more than 70,000 visitors including 2,500 start-ups and 1,000 investors, according to organisers. Tech leaders gathered at Monday’s opening night, starring Swedish start-up founder Anton Osika, whose...

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had foiled a plot by Ukrainian and British spies to tempt Russian pilots to steal a MiG-31 jet armed with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile for US$3 million, state media reported on Tuesday. The RIA news agency cited the FSB as saying that the hijacked jet was to be flown toward a Nato airbase in the Romanian city of Constanta, where it could have been shot down by air defences, the agency reported. The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB,...

Lebanese authorities released the son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Monday after he paid a US$900,000 bail, ending his 10-year detention for allegedly withholding information about a missing Lebanese cleric, security officials and a member of his defence team said. One of Hannibal Gaddafi’s lawyers, Charbel Milad al-Khoury, told Associated Press that Gaddafi was released on Monday evening after necessary paperwork was finished. Two security officials, speaking on condition of...

The first shipments of Nexperia chips are already on their way to Europe after Beijing granted exemptions to its export restrictions, German auto suppliers told the Post, easing the pressure on the battered European car industry. But supply chain risks remain as Beijing and The Hague have yet to hammer out a final deal to decide the chip firm’s fate and US-China tensions continue to linger in the background. “The decision by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce to ease the previously existing export...

The longest-ever US government shutdown moved towards an eventual resolution on Monday, after several Democratic senators broke ranks to join Republicans in a 60-40 vote passing a compromise deal, sparking intraparty backlash. Since October 1, the first day of the shutdown, more than a million federal workers have been unpaid, while government benefits and services have been increasingly disrupted. Severe impacts on air traffic have begun to mount in recent days, with more than 1,000 flights...

The dollar is regaining its crown as one of the world’s most appealing assets, defying talk of a “Sell America” trade that had raised troubling questions about the outlook for the global reserve currency. A simple strategy of borrowing in low-yielding currencies like the Japanese yen or the Swiss franc and putting your money in dollars looks set to beat the implied returns on markets such as European stocks and Chinese government bonds once the volatility of these assets is taken into account,...

Think of Monaco: a glittering harbour, vibrant city, global icon and financial hub. Sound familiar? I have always been fascinated by the similarities between Monaco and Hong Kong. Today, I see an exciting future amid the fast-growing opportunities developing for Hong Kong thanks to our increasing economic, financial and cultural ties with the principality. From capital flows and marine infrastructure to yacht tourism, trade and ocean research, a deeper alliance between Hong Kong and Monaco could...

It used to be a political match made in Maga heaven. But US President Donald Trump fell out with hard-right lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, saying she had “lost her way” after a series of critical comments. The firebrand Republican congresswoman from Georgia was previously a diehard pro-Trump supporter but has emerged as an unlikely - and rare - dissenting voice on a host of issues. In recent months Greene, 51, has broken ranks with the 79-year-old president on issues ranging from...

The BBC’s top leader and head of its news division resigned over criticism of how the broadcaster edited US President Donald Trump’s speech before some of his supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. The scandal leading to Sunday’s resignations is hardly the first controversy to hit Britain’s publicly funded broadcaster - or to topple one of its leaders. The editorially independent British Broadcasting Corporation was founded in 1922 to be impartial, act in the public interest and...

A small turboprop plane on a hurricane relief mission to Jamaica crashed on Monday morning into a pond in a gated residential neighbourhood of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs, killing two people shortly after take-off and narrowly missing homes, authorities and a local resident said. The Coral Springs Police Department confirmed the deaths in a statement on Monday afternoon. Police did not provide further details about the occupants of the plane and did not immediately return...

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday released more than 20,000 pages of documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. Times reporters provide context on key emails.

Proponents of fuller transparency used an arcane rule to prod their leaders to act. When it became clear they had succeeded, the speaker agreed to hold a vote.

Mr. Wolff was enough of an insider to provide advice to Jeffrey Epstein on how to handle his dealings with Donald J. Trump.

A 17-year-old with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men. She wants the public to have a fuller understanding of how she was victimized.

Colombia was a top U.S. ally in Latin America until the Trump administration began deadly strikes in international waters. Now, one family wants justice.

The judge in the case gave little signal of how she intended to rule, but her promise to decide within two weeks was a clear sign that she wanted to move quickly.

Ms. Comey, the daughter of the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, sued the Trump administration after she was abruptly fired over the summer, saying the action was retaliation.

The man showed up outside the office of the U.S. attorney in New Jersey on Wednesday evening and was later allowed to enter without the bat. Law enforcement authorities are seeking his arrest.

The biggest thing holding Penn Station back from a much-needed rehaul is what’s on top of it: Madison Square Garden.

As Pakistan has hired lobbyists with close ties to President Trump, it has also received favorable tariff treatment and unique access in Washington.

William Kennedy raised money for the food pantry at his old church by reading from “Legs,” the gangster novel he began his celebrated Albany cycle with half a century ago.

Military analysts and some Ukrainian commanders worry that Kyiv may be repeating the mistake of staying in an embattled city longer than it should, aiming to inflict far more casualties than it suffers.

The Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk is on the verge of becoming another shattered trophy for the Russian Army.

Since the 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas, growing settler violence and Israeli attacks on Palestinian militants have thrown the West Bank into turmoil and displaced tens of thousands.

Kevin Roberts, under fire for defending Tucker Carlson’s interview with a white nationalist, said that he did not keep up with the news and that he had simply read an aide’s script.

Sales of expensive battery-powered cars like the Ford F-150 Lightning have stalled, forcing automakers to slow production and offer more affordable vehicles.

Gov. Kathy Hochul must decide by year’s end whether to sign a law that would mandate two-person crews on all trains, a practice critics say is costly and outdated.

State Senator James Skoufis of New York has been a steady critic of Gov. Kathy Hochul, a fellow Democrat. Her vetoes of his bills seemed intended to send a message.

Erik Bottcher, a Democrat from Chelsea, began his career as an L.G.B.T.Q. rights activist. He faces a growing field of rivals vying for a Manhattan House seat.

The great Cuban modernist, whose politics and Afro-Asian roots shaped his paintings and inspired generations of artists, gets a revelatory survey at MoMA.

Trump has a favorite power.

What James and Maurene Comey’s cases tell us about President Trump.

The accusations follow recent federal charges filed against figures from Mafia families accused of running illegal poker games that involved former N.B.A. players.

This is the second flight of the orbital rocket from Jeff Bezos’ space company and will include a key test of whether it can land a booster stage for later reuse.

The study’s findings track with recent research on the alarming rise of the cancer in younger adults.

The company is shifting its video game strategy to focus more on popular games you already know, such as Pictionary and Boggle.