Like his predecessors, President Trump has struggled to turn battlefield successes into long-term victories.“We’re going to knock out all their power plants,” President Trump told Fox News this week. “We’re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.”
Shipping traffic was at its lowest level in more than a month and oil prices moved higher as the Iran war continued to disrupt the supply of energy.
Most G.O.P. lawmakers had little to say about the president’s claims of election vulnerabilities, and he did not appear to move the needle on the voting restriction bill he championed.President Trump, seen on a screen during his speech at the White House on Thursday. Mr. Trump has made baseless asse
Chinese officials appear to think that President Trump’s accusations that China interfered in the 2020 U.S. elections were driven by domestic politics, not foreign policy.Xi Jinping and President Trump participated in events at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in May.
Intelligence agencies provided the White House with a trove of declassified documents that President Trump cited on Thursday as evidence of election vulnerabilities.
Markwayne Mullin reiterated the president’s false claims about voting security while escalating the administration’s legally questionable attempts to control state elections.Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of homeland security, repeated several false claims made by President Trump in a prime-time sp
China’s Moonshot AI unveiled a freely available artificial intelligence model that seemed to narrow the gap with cutting-edge offerings from U.S. tech companies.The Moonshot AI booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference on Friday in Shanghai. The company’s Kimi K3 model performed as well
Investors are growing uneasy about increasing competition from China in the global race to dominate artificial intelligence.
A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business for Meta.A data center owned by Meta in Georgia. A deal with Anthropic could potentially alleviate pressure on Meta from investors, who have questioned how much it has been s
The president said on Friday in a social media post that Canada was failing to manage its wildfire response as smoke has blanketed U.S. cities including New York and Chicago.President Trump departing Joint Base Andrews, en route to New York, on Friday.
The interplay between the burning fires, the smoke itself and quickly changing weather patterns is making the next few days more uncertain than usual.Wildfire smoke hung over pickleball players in Manhattan on Thursday. While the smoke decreased in the city early Friday, it could return later as wea
The Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage estimate they’ve removed 6,000 pounds of refuse from ponds on Cape Cod. “There’s no better feeling,” one said.
The Salinas, Calif., company grows produce in more than 12 states, and in Mexico and Canada. Some Taylor Farms lettuce suspected of causing sickness ended up at Taco Bell.
The F.D.A. is planning to inspect farms and a lettuce shredding facility to determine how lettuce supplied by the produce company Taylor Farms to Taco Bell became contaminated and where it was shipped.The Food and Drug Administration’s investigation is focusing on the source of the contamination by
Federal health officials have linked a large cyclosporiasis outbreak to shredded lettuce served at Taco Bell. Is lettuce from grocery stores and restaurants OK?
Among those connected to companies that worked on 235 East 42nd Street were a man who once bribed city officials and a developer who gave a loan to Bernard Kerik.Two columns inside a Midtown high-rise construction project buckled last week, sowing panic and causing evacuations around the East 42nd S
At a time of political upheaval and economic stagnation, Andy Burnham will on Monday become the seventh prime minister in a decade.Andy Burnham, the new leader of the Labour Party, speaking in London on Friday.
With the Voting Rights Act weakened, Black representation will depend less on Black voters and more on broad, multiracial appeal or on ideological outsider campaigns.“The idea that Black candidates are only electable in Black districts is patently false,” said Representative Lauren Underwood, who re
Voting-rights activists said the changes are a blatant attempt by G.O.P. leaders to make it harder for Black voters and students, who tend to vote for Democrats, to cast ballots this fall.Republican changes to early voting locations in North Carolina have prompted more than a dozen disputes between
Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez’s withdrawal scrambled the race in Wisconsin.
The fund-raising race is tighter than it seems.Supporters of Ken Paxton last month at the 2026 Republican Party of Texas convention in Houston. Mr. Paxton, the party’s nominee for Senate, has been drastically out-raised by his Democratic rival, James Talarico.
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The company recently opened a new production line to keep up with strong demand for its 737 Max, though orders for its new planes lag rival Airbus.
After 165 years, the tourist ritual — which now costs $77.22 for the first 20 minutes — may be coming to an end. Here’s a tour through the archives.The carriage ride through the park has been a rite of passage for visitors to the city for ages.
