The war in Iran has left China’s neighbors appealing for help, handing Beijing the kind of sway it has long sought.Oil storage tanks at a depot in Hong Kong. Shipments of Chinese oil products to select countries have offered relief during the war and underscored how Beijing engenders good will in ti
Candidates debated housing and insurance policy in the first half, then furiously attacked one another at the end.Seven candidates competing to be the next governor of California met for a debate at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Low approval ratings? MAGA divisions? The president was able to turn out party loyalists in an Indiana primary to help him oust Republican state lawmakers who had crossed him.
The Republican senator from Maine, running for re-election at age 73 in one of this year’s top Senate races, made the disclosure after mounting online scrutiny on the left.Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican, is likely to face Graham Platner, a 41-year-old Democrat and a political newcomer,
The ruling is the latest in a saga driven by President Trump’s desire for redemption in the state, which he lost in 2020. The county is likely to appeal.The F.B.I. searched an election center in Fulton County, Ga., in January.
A federal judge released the note, which Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate said he found in a graphic novel. The New York Times has not authenticated that Mr. Epstein wrote it.
Polls predict historic losses for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party on Thursday as anti-immigrant Reform U.K. makes gains, and a new era of multiparty politics takes shape.A mural showing Aneurin Bevan, the Labour Party hero who helped create the U.K.’s National Health Service, in Tredegar,
Local elections in England, and parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales, take place on Thursday. The governing Labour Party is expected to do very badly.Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at the launch of the Labour Party’s local election campaign, in Wolverhampton, England, in March.
Bond investors are expected to scrutinize the results of critical local elections on Thursday as the war in the Middle East adds inflation pressure on the government.Investors are betting the Bank of England will approve several interest rate increases this year, reversing previous expectations that
The new season of “Jersey Shore: Family Vacation” will be the last on MTV. The castmates said it’s only a matter of time before it returns somehow.From left: Pauly D, Deena Cortese, Vinny Guadagnino, Jenni Farley, Nicole Polizzi, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Sammi Giancola and Angela Pivarnick.
President Trump and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who have had a rocky relationship, will meet on Thursday for talks on security, trade and critical minerals.President Trump with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum meeting last year
At a private event in Washington last month, Mr. Smith, the former special counsel, accused Justice Department leaders of targeting people for prosecution to please and impress the president.Jack Smith, the special counsel who twice indicted President Trump, testifying at a hearing in January in Was
Here are ways Florida’s advanced high school history program, which students can use for college credit, differs from other curriculums.Gov. Ron DeSantis has pushed forward a more conservative agenda for Florida’s schools, including through criticism of Advanced Placement courses.
The media mogul, who died this week, amassed roughly two million acres and revived entire ecosystems.Ted Turner, a media giant, was also a visionary landowner, reshaping American conservation.
The city where he planted his empire came to embody his ambitions and his confidence. Mr. Turner died on Wednesday at 87.Ted Turner shows off his World Series Championship ring before the Atlanta Braves’ season-opening game in 1995.
Across the country, police and city officials are trying to crack down on sometimes violent youth gatherings, but the teens themselves say they need some way to socialize and blow off steam.Police officers detained a young person after chasing him down a street amid rumors of a “teen takeover” in th
People in at least three states are being monitored after being on the ship. None have shown symptoms, officials said.Three sick people aboard the MV Hondius were evacuated on Wednesday.
Here’s what to know about the virus, how it spreads and the risk to the general public.
In 1775, George Washington sent Henry Knox, a Boston bookseller, to fetch 60 tons of artillery. We followed Knox’s route to see how the country has changed.Henry Knox and his Noble Train of Artillery crossed 300 miles of snowy wilderness and icy lakes between northern New York and Cambridge, Mass.,
More miles of the country’s rivers were reconnected last year thanks to dam removals than at any other time in history.
Rather than making city buses free for all riders, elected officials and transit advocates are pushing to expand a transit program for low-income New Yorkers.The Fair Fares program charges low-income New Yorkers half price to take mass transit, but many of those who are eligible are not enrolled.
The panel that regulates rents for nearly one million apartments is set to weigh in on potential increases for the first time since Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office.New York City tenants and activists protested at a public meeting last year, during which the Rent Guidelines Board approved increases
A confluence of factors is causing public schools in New York and across the country to experience dramatic reductions in enrollment.New York City’s public schools have lost more than 123,000 students since the Covid-19 pandemic.
We can’t be certain — and that’s the point.
