A majority of ownership in a proposed multibillion-dollar deal would go to a group of Middle Eastern investors, including some with business ties to U.S. negotiators.A Lukoil refinery near Burgas, Bulgaria. Once the sale of the Lukoil international assets is complete, the buyers plan to expand and r
At least 30 people were killed in a Russian strike on a commuter bus in the country’s east, officials said, a day after an attack on an apartment building far behind the combat zone killed 22.A handout photo shows firefighters in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, where a bus was struck by projectiles on Thursday
Middle-of-the-night evacuations and fears about death have become the norm for workers at Russian e-commerce companies targeted by Ukraine.A warehouse for a Russian e-commerce company near St. Petersburg after it was hit by Ukrainian drones in July.
Signs are emerging that dispirited Republican voters may stay home in November, bringing a Democratic surge without many conversions.
Half of homes in Maine rely on heating oil. Rising costs driven up by President Trump’s war with Iran have become central to the state’s Senate race.Residents entering the town hall of Windham, Maine, on Wednesday. Windham is the type of politically divided town that could be critical to determining
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.David Milstein, a top official in the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, has been entrusted with much of the mission’s portf
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.The Training Ship Golden Bear, which was used to educate cadets at Cal Poly Maritime Academy for 30 years, is one of the ships being considered u
Vice President JD Vance singled out the tech firm as he and other officials accused an array of companies and universities of committing visa fraud.“Our message to Microsoft is: You’re a great American company, but you’ve got to hire great American workers,” Vice President JD Vance said in Washingto
The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.Anne Carson en un recital en Nueva York en 2008.
Carson has mind-boggling range and formal audacity, our poetry columnist writes, but however much she toys with obscurity she remains too hilarious to be intimidating.
The Canadian poet won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. If you’ve never read any of her work, here’s where to start.Anne Carson in 2015
They thought it might explain why their health had diverged. Instead, it stirred up feelings that weren’t so easily quantified.
The aircraft carrier, whose crew endured food shortages, spent much of its nearly 11-month deployment in combat without a day off.Crew members looking out from aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln as it arrived Thursday in San Diego, Calif.
French bond investors are demanding sharply higher interest rates, a cautionary development for other high-debt countries.France’s fiscal turmoil highlights the risks facing heavily indebted governments as borrowing costs rise and public spending on health care, pensions and defense grows.
Mass protests over decrepit schools and absent teachers are in their third week, with more planned. Officials have failed so far to quell a movement drawing many adult supporters.Protesters in Nantes, France, clashed with the police on Thursday as part of a wave of demonstrations across the country.
Anger about classroom overcrowding, teacher shortages and broken-down buildings has boiled over in recent weeks, and threatens to coalesce into broader grievances in a heated political season.Protesters in Nantes, France, clashed with the police on Thursday as part of a wave of demonstrations across
Federal data show Duke math majors earning a bigger median income four years after graduation than any other majors from any school. It’s a small cohort.
What to make of the president’s uptick in profanity?
Welcome to the postliterate era.
As rumors spread about a possible plague outbreak in Siberia, the Kremlin turned to a familiar playbook: offering little information about potential bad news.The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, on Wednesday. The researcher who died worked in the
