The debt is outgrowing the size of America’s economy. The president’s policies could accelerate the country’s fiscal headaches, experts say, unless policymakers intervene.The reaction to the U.S. debt has appeared muted on Capitol Hill, despite years of hand-wringing among Republicans, in particular
Stock investors are betting that companies will make enormous profits, despite the war. But investors in bonds, including U.S. Treasuries, have other concerns.People attending a pro-government demonstration in Tehran last month. The S&P 500 has hit new highs since the start of the war in Iran.
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
The immigrant detention center in the Everglades, which Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, opened last July, may be too expensive to keep operating.President Trump and Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary at the time, toured the immigration center known as Alligator Alcatraz with Gov. Ron DeSa
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.
In the final stages of his dementia, a long-lost memory from childhood returned, perfectly formed. What was going on in his brain?
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.,
A Dutch flight attendant was among the latest to be tested in connection with a deadly outbreak on a cruise ship. One infected passenger had briefly boarded a plane to the Netherlands before she died.An ambulance during an evacuation of suspected hantavirus patients, in Praia, Cape Verde, on Wednesd
The Trump administration has slashed funding for infectious disease research and has far fewer employees, including disease detectives, to respond to outbreaks.An ambulance crew awaiting an evacuated passenger with a suspected hantavirus infection in Amsterdam on Wednesday. The U.S. government has r
Here’s what to know about the virus, how it spreads and the risk to the general public.
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.
In strikingly different ads, Graham Platner argued that “Susan Collins’s charade is over” while Senator Collins highlighted the economic benefits she has brought to Maine.The race in Maine between Graham Platner, a Democrat, and Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, could decide control of the Senate
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.
New drugs have made America’s deadliest cancer more treatable than ever. So why aren’t they reaching patients?
The health agency has been particularly strict in abolishing at-home work, overriding accommodations that were granted years before the pandemic.Katie Schenk, an infectious disease epidemiologist, was hired as a remote C.D.C. employee in 2024 and lost her telework accommodation. After trying in vain
Half of U.S. adults under 50 now get wellness advice from influencers. A new report examines their qualifications.
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
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a handshake budget deal with state lawmakers that also seeks to push back on federal immigration enforcement in the state.The state budget agreement announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday came more than five weeks after the April 1 deadline.
State and local officials will also be prohibited from formally cooperating with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement under the agreement.Masked federal agents have been a frequent presence outside immigration courtrooms in New York City.
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.
A report by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board offers new details about the China Eastern Airlines crash in 2022, which killed all 132 people on board.Emergency workers searching for the black box at the crash site of the China Eastern flight in Teng County, China in 2022.
Gen. Wei Fenghe and Gen. Li Shangfu are likely to spend the rest of their lives in prison after receiving suspended death sentences.
With little tethering them to home, some empty nesters are taking to the road.Beverly Brown has been living out of her camper van since 2019. “It’s my dream van now,” she said.
More miles of the country’s rivers were reconnected last year thanks to dam removals than at any other time in history.
