WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to invite President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to visit Washington in the fall, the White House said Thursday — an...
Thursday’s proposals also include a change that, while technical, could give the government greater leeway to play down climate change in judging whether a plant or...
Asia and Australia Edition (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. A new gambit from Russia, a new definition of Israel...
The law is now one of more than a dozen basic laws that together serve as the country’s Constitution and can be amended only by a...
The Room8 Button Call button systems like those in hospitals have traditionally been the best option for sending alerts in medical settings. Patients recovering from surgeries or...
STOCKHOLM — As Europe grapples with near-record temperatures and sustained drought, Sweden has become the latest nation to confront a wave of wildfires as far north...
It is an unfathomable proposition that the day would ever come when America could rightly question the loyalties of its own president, but that is precisely...
More recently, after the Trump administration blocked the Broadcom bid, White House actions have been problematic for Qualcomm. In April, the administration issued an order preventing...
President Trump resumed his criticism of the European Union on Thursday, assailing the bloc for the record antitrust fine it levied against the Silicon Valley giant...
Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) It stretches more than 650 miles, from south of Los Angeles to north of...
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — In the middle of David Britt’s campaign to get BMW to put a car factory here, a man grabbed him by the tie...
Bird and Lime are among the electric scooter start-ups leading the craze in Los Angeles and San Francisco, “but in New York City, it’s still anyone’s...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: A clear message, muddied • President Trump’s shifting...
The European Council president, Donald Tusk, said that “it is the common duty of Europe and China, but also America and Russia, not to destroy this...
Scenario 2: Watergate With Russian Burglars But in outlining the previous scenario I’ve conceded that people around Trump, including his own family members, did show a...
It also should not be surprising that at least some in the breakfast crowd were positively disposed to the Russian visitors. The bond between America’s Christian...
Amid high-level turnover at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Trump administration critics are expressing alarm over whether politics is playing a role in the...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. President Trump faces pushback, the E.U. fines Google, and the British Open tees off...
“After taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the hotel industry, we’re not surprised the City Council refused to meet with their own...
Israel’s Parliament passed legislation early Thursday that declared Israel to be the “national home of the Jewish people,” drawing heavy opposition from those who said it...
WASHINGTON — Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered...
Keeping Ms. Palacios off the ballot would leave the Republican incumbent, Matt Dubnik, running unopposed, in a year when Democrats could pick up some seats in...
The president has been on something of a winning streak in Republican primaries, asserting himself forcefully as the leader of his party even as he has...
Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, said in an interview published Wednesday that he would not automatically remove denials that the Holocaust took place from the...
‘Protection Inside the Jails’ The Trinitarios trace their roots back nearly three decades, to the simultaneous jailing of Leonides Sierra and Julio Marine, both Dominicans, on...
“Instead of supporting the film’s content to fight against authority, the majority of the people expressed either a sense of defeat, saying that there is no...
WASHINGTON — Montenegro may have a few questions for President Trump. In an interview that aired Tuesday evening with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Mr. Trump...
The case has parallels to a similarly significant action against Microsoft in the early 2000s, when it was heavily penalized in Europe for using its power...
BANGKOK — Before they were discovered trapped in a flooded cave in northern Thailand, the 12 members of the Wild Boars youth soccer team and their...
WASHINGTON — A woman charged with secretly acting on behalf of Russia was working as a covert agent in the United States and was recently in...
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Wednesday that “many people at the higher ends of intelligence” loved his performance during Monday’s joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland,...
A day after President Trump’s remarks alongside President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia led to harsh criticism, Mr. Trump said that he accepts the findings of...
Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) To understand the kind of re-election battle Representative Dana Rohrabacher is facing, take a...
Good morning on this flawless Wednesday. A bill being introduced in the City Council today would require green roofs, solar power or wind turbines to be...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: Beware the double negative • It was, according...
A federal judge on Tuesday denied Paul Manafort’s request to move the first of his two criminal trials hundreds of miles away from Washington. Mr. Manafort,...
NEW DELHI — On a sweltering Wednesday in June, a rail-thin woman named Rehmati gripped the doctor’s table with both hands. She could hardly hold herself...
Representative Martha Roby of Alabama prevailed on Tuesday in a Republican primary election that unfolded as a test of fealty to President Trump, defeating a challenger...
Near unanimous bipartisan majorities in both the House and the Senate passed tough new sanctions authorities in part to punish Russia for its election interference last...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. President Trump makes a U-turn, the E.U. signs a major trade deal and Brexit...
HONG KONG — The Hong Kong authorities said Tuesday that they were considering banning a political party that advocates the city’s independence from China, an aggressive...
Mark Richards thought he was done being a photojournalist. Then he had rare cancer diagnosed. He had devoted his life to documenting the world, but now...
WASHINGTON — It was really just a mix-up, he insisted. Like confusing “effect” and “effect,” but for unprecedented global cyberaggression. “I thought I made myself very...
By 2015, the companies had sent Adam Skelos more than $300,000, ostensibly for consulting or employment contracts, even though he did not bring in any clients,...
Breaking Political Isolation Russian analysts, including Kremlin critics, agreed that the meeting had allowed Mr. Putin to show that Russia is indispensable in world affairs —...
So it went in interviews with Republican voters across the country on Monday and Tuesday, most of them devoted to the president’s policies generally. They quickly...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. A Trump U-turn, troubling climate trends in South Asia and the danger of Myanmar’s...
The Trump administration will end a longstanding requirement that certain nonprofit organizations disclose the names of large donors to the Internal Revenue Service, a move that...
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that he had misspoken a day earlier in Helsinki, Finland, when he appeared to take the word of President...
President Trump is inciting a trade war, undermining NATO and painting Europe as a foe. It’s no wonder, then, that the European Union is looking elsewhere...
Last week, the American public saw for the first time detailed, specific evidence that President Vladimir V. Putin’s military commanders in Russia were engaged in a...
Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, seconded him. “I would completely agree with that,” he said. “We all ought to start rowing in the same direction,...
Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Some California magazines have been edited in San Francisco. Others hailed from Los Angeles....
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: Trump sides with Putin • President Trump, in...
HELSINKI, Finland President Vladimir V. Putin did not get President Trump to endorse his seizure of Crimea, lift sanctions, halt a new arms race that Moscow...
WASHINGTON President Trump, who gleefully defies the norms of presidential behavior, went somewhere in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday where none of his predecessors have ever gone:...
Here is what he said in that interview: “Well, I think we have a lot of foes. I think the European Union is a foe, what...
MOSCOW A few days before the summit in Helsinki, Finland, between President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia, Yury Ushakov, one of Mr. Putin’s...
HELSINKI, Finland President Trump stood next to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Monday and publicly challenged the conclusion of his own intelligence agencies...
There are six petitions arguing against Section 377 before the court. They are from activists, students and alumni of elite engineering institutes, and a celebrity...
No matter how low your expectations for the summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Monday, it was hard not to be staggered by the...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. President Trump sides with Russia, France embraces multiculturalism and China steps up surveillance....
WASHINGTON For nearly two years, Republicans have watched uncomfortably, and often in silence, as President Trump has swatted away accusations that Russia interfered in the...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. “They said they think it’s Russia; I have President Putin,...
SECAUCUS, N.J. Tucked inside a nondescript commercial warehouse here sits a sophisticated marijuana-growing operation. A custom filtration system feeds a proprietary cocktail of nutrients into...
It was the first thing that CNN viewers heard as the news conference ended, an assessment both acidic and incisive, the sort of judgment not usually...
A well-known turtle researcher who was being honored last week for his lifelong scientific achievements ignited a controversy when he gave a presentation on river turtles...
The top Massachusetts court unanimously ruled on Monday that a judge can require defendants with substance use disorders to remain drug-free as a condition of probation...
WASHINGTON A Russian woman who tried to broker a pair of secret meetings between candidate Donald J. Trump and the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin,...
From the beginning of his administration, President Trump has responded to every new bit of evidence from the C.I.A., F.B.I. and N.S.A. that Russia intervened...
This is the choice David Buckel made one crisp April morning, when he walked from his Brooklyn apartment to Prospect Park, doused himself in gasoline...
One letter was written in 1987 while Archbishop McCarrick was aboard a plane in Poland on a mission for the Vatican. “I just wanted to tell...
Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Violence in Central America has brought thousands of L.G.B.T. migrants to the United States...
LONDON The world’s first-ever theory of war, concerning two Greek cities, might appeal to President Trump. Athens and Sparta, old allies, went to war 2,500...
The message from WikiLeaks in July 2016 to a group of Russian intelligence officers who prosecutors say were posing as a Romanian hacker named Guccifer 2.0...
Good morning on this bright-and-balmy Monday. Have you ever wondered what those small plastic circles were on New York City streets? They are asphalt tags, “A-tags”...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: Live updates from Finland • President Trump...
There is no giant balloon portraying Mr. Trump as a big angry baby in diapers in the Finnish capital, as there was in London last...
LONDON Taste is changing. When private collectors and public museums acquire works of art, these acquisitions are being made in a very different cultural climate...
Former President Barack Obama has arrived in Kenya, his father’s home country, in what was expected to be a lower-profile visit than the ones he made...
The third approach takes this kind of support arrangement to the next level. Since the turn of the century, center-right parties in Italy and Austria have...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. President Trump and President Vladimir Putin are set to meet this afternoon. Today, let’s...
Asia and Australia Edition (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. A victory for France, a U.S.-Russia summit meeting and election...
The press never tires of the “Democrats in disarray” story line, but that doesn’t mean it’s always wrong. Its latest manifestation concerns the pickle Senate Democrats...
WASHINGTON President Trump has raised more than $88 million for his re-election campaign over the last year and a half, giving him a dramatic head-start...
Gen. John W. Nicholson, the commander of the United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was instrumental in initiating last month’s rare cease-fire. As further indication...
The wild book prices were in the remote corners of the Amazon bookstore that the retailer does not pay much attention to, said Guru Hariharan, chief...
CHARLESTON, S.C. Three years after a racist bloodbath in its fellowship hall — and 200 years after its defiant founding as one of the South’s first...
As he mingled with supporters at a soda fountain in Moultrie, Mr. Kemp, in jeans in a pair of wine-dark cowboy boots, made the “deplorables” comparison...
BONDY, FRANCE The cheers could be heard all the way from Calais to Marseille when the final second ticked past and France was the indisputable...
Even after the swap, he was able to damage the G.R.U.’s infrastructure. In 2012, he visited intelligence officers in the Czech Republic who had long felt...
One of the scientists warned that work on neutrons that create the chain reaction for a nuclear explosion must be hidden. “‘Neutrons’ research could not be...
CAMBRIDGE, England — Some residents of Cambridge are so fond of their local cattle that only Latin can do justice to their feelings. “It gives a...
Mr. Sanders’s generational peer, Mr. Biden, 75, is preparing to test a contrasting message this fall, with plans to campaign up to four days a week...
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He also targeted individual journalists for trying to ask him questions about his strategy with Russia. At one point, he disparaged an NBC journalist for asking...
LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday revealed the advice President Trump had given her on how to negotiate Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union:...
MOSCOW — When President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia sits down with President Trump in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday for a meeting he has long wanted,...
Such judgments are purely social — to linguists, the distinctions are arbitrary. However, the notion of the neutral, perfect accent is so pervasive that speakers with...
Garrett Matthias, 5, thought about what his funeral would look like one day. He didn’t want a solemn gathering; he wanted a carnival-like atmosphere. “Funerals are...