President Trump’s tariffs weren’t enough to hold back the global export flood by China, which pushed past last year’s record in just 11 months.A Geely manufacturing plant in Hangzhou, China. Carmakers and other exporters in traditional manufacturing powerhouses like Germany, Japan and South Korea ar
China’s renminbi is lagging the currencies of key trading partners, making Chinese goods and services cheap and helping to drive exports.An advertisement for a Xiaomi 17 Pro phone next to an Apple store in Shanghai. The weak value of the Chinese currency has hurt the ability of Chinese consumers to
Top Democratic lawmakers who have seen the footage said Sunday that making the video public would provide transparency around the strikes that killed two survivors on Sept. 2.Representative Jim Himes said that the two survivors “were barely alive, much less engaging in hostilities.”
The plane, carrying about 50 Iranians and other deportees, took off from Arizona on Sunday, under a deal the Trump administration reached with Iran two months ago.Tehran on Sunday. The identities of the Iranians being deported from the United States, and their individual circumstances, were not imme
Past presidents have attended the marquee event, but on Sunday Mr. Trump was the first to host it, putting his cultural takeover of Washington in sharp relief.
President Trump has repeatedly ousted leaders of independent agencies despite federal laws meant to shield those regulators from politics.Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and other conservatives on the Supreme Court have embraced the so-called unitary executive theory, which holds that the Constitu
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to oust a Federal Trade Commission leader offer parallels to the current fight over President Trump’s actions.The battle between William E. Humphrey and Franklin D. Roosevelt has resurfaced in a blockbuster case the Supreme Court will hear on Monday,
The Democratic president and his top advisers rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to the White House.People crossing the International Bridge from Matamoros, Mexico, into Texas in August 2021.
A New York Times review of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s actions on immigration showed that they created an opening for a more aggressive Trump administration agenda.Customs and Border Protection agents taking migrants to be processed at a detention center in Jacumba, Calif., in 2023.
Carbondale, Ill., a liberal enclave within driving distance of 10 states with abortion bans, has become a hub for the procedure. Last year there were nearly 11,000 abortions in this city of 21,000.
Each side accused the other of firing first. The fighting came weeks after President Trump had cast himself as a peacemaker in the decades-old border dispute.The fighting ignited panic among civilians in both countries. Some people in Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province moved away from the border on Mo
Poland has charged a little-known Russian opposition figure with espionage and participating in a bomb plot. His friends are perplexed.Igor Rogov in the Polish Parliament building.
The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records.David Gurney, head of Ramapo College’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center in New Jersey, said losing access to Ancestry had hindered cruci
The standard advice is to hold off, but most retirees claim the benefit as soon as they can, at age 62. Here’s what to know when you’re planning the unplannable.Blair Barondes and his wife, Janet Bowdan, calculated that waiting until 70 to take Social Security wouldn’t net them more over their retir
A traditional Japanese festival is being adapted for poodles and Pomeranians, amid a booming pet industry and a dearth of children.
A former secretary of homeland security on the illegality of Trump’s boat strikes.
A decade after the end of the one-child policy, China has over 30 million so-called surplus men. Can this dating boot camp help them find love?
Huge reductions in foreign aid by the United States and Europe have led the U.N.’s emergency relief coordinator to slash its fund-raising targets for next year.Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under secretary general for humanitarian affairs, said U.N. agencies have been “under attack” as the United
“Taking children from their families is not normal,” a speaker told the crowd in Queens, where Yuanxin Zheng attended school until being detained.“We’re not going to let ICE or Donald Trump or anyone else separate us or divide us from each other,” Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller, said at
In her 40s, the self-described New Jersey housewife started building a women’s fiction empire, churning out dozens of popular books.
Ms. Perry and Mr. Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, posed together in photos and videos on Instagram, making them “Instagram official.”
