The president escalated his drive to take charge of the Danish territory, targeting eight countries with tariffs.President Trump said the new tariff would increase to 25 percent on June 1 if his demands were not met.
Black female professionals have seen a steep drop in employment over the last year. They are turning to each other for pep talks and résumé advice.Nneka Obiekwe started a chat group for Black women professionals looking for work. Within 24 hours, 500 people had joined.
Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate change and reshape finance, its efforts have largely collapsed.Climate activists protest BlackRock in New York City in 2023.
The first veto of the president’s second term killed legislation that would have brought clean water to some of the most conservative parts of the state. Residents wonder why.Ed Brown can’t consume water that comes out of the tap at his house because it is contaminated with unsafe levels of radium a
The Justice Department’s investigation is a major escalation in the state-federal battle over the conduct of immigration agents in Minneapolis.Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, at a news conference this month. He and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota are being investigated by the Justice Department, ac
With the Trump administration unlikely to bring a federal case against the ICE agent who killed Renee Good, our criminal justice reporter Jonah Bromwich explains some of the obstacles for any Minnesota prosecutors trying to charge the agent.
A federal judge ordered agents not to retaliate against people “engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity” in the state and not to stop drivers who are not “forcibly obstructing” officers.Minnesota residents have clashed with federal agents since late 2025, when the federal government
An intense cat-and-mouse game is putting enraged locals face-to-face with heavily armed agents.Federal agents detained a man along Lake Street in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Three reporters discuss the Minneapolis chaos and how it could play a role in the midterms.Federal agents in Minneapolis.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2024 in Tehran.
The nationwide demonstrations that have roiled Iran for weeks appear to have been largely quelled after a brutal government crackdown.An image taken from a social media post on Jan. 9 shows demonstrators gathered in Tehran.
Even as some instructors remain fervently opposed to chatbots, other writing and English professors are trying to improve them.Attitudes toward artificial intelligence are evolving, with some academic groups saying students must learn how to use it critically.
Stores of all kinds are using artificial intelligence to sell everything from luxury handbags to hay for horses.John Furner, incoming chief executive of Walmart, left, and Sundar Pichai, Google’s leader, said at a conference in New York City this week that the two companies would use artificial inte
A video from Ken Paxton, a Republican primary challenger to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, depicted A.I.-generated imagery of the senator twirling with Jasmine Crockett, a Democratic Senate candidate.Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, is challenging Senator John Cornyn, a fellow Republican.
The outreach by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team has demonstrated how the mayor is taking care to not inflame tensions on either side of the Israel-Gaza war.The protests outside a Queens synagogue on Jan. 8 featured insults and slurs from the pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups that gathered at night,
By doubling its force while slashing training time, ICE has scaled up its culture of violence into an unrestrained and unaccountable machine.
One year into the president’s second term, America risks losing a central feature of our democracy: that we are a country ruled by laws, not by the whims of one man.
In the run-up to the Oscar nominations, a chat with a reporter who has followed every twist and turn of the race.
Bobi Wine, the main opposition candidate, accused the government of vote rigging and has called for street protests.Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has ruled the country for four decades.
The robbery at the Poké Court on Wednesday was the latest in a string of thefts of high-value Pokémon trading cards.Three robbers burst into a Pokémon card shop in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and stole at least $110,000 worth of merchandise, the store owner said.
The aid group has refused to comply with new Israeli rules restricting speech and demanding information on staff. Patients are stunned. “I need this place,” says one.Aseel Hamada, 24, awaiting a physical therapy appointment at a Doctors Without Borders clinic in Gaza City.
Abnormally blustery temperatures this weekend could usher in snowy weather across the East. Exactly where remains uncertain, but even the Deep South is on alert.
