A Times photojournalist embarked on a nuclear-powered attack sub to see how the Pentagon is training for a potential war below the frozen sea.
Citing rapid advances by China and Russia, the United States is building an extensive capacity to fight battles in space....
France has sent troops to quell violence in New Caledonia, where Paris is seen as backtracking on promises of self-determination....
Scientists say storms like those that battered Houston could become more intense as the planet warms, though pinning down trends is still challenging....
Several universities struck agreements with pro-Palestinian demonstrators to end disruptive encampments on their campuses. But some of those agreements are already under fire....
Far from the shouting, Christian therapists, writers, parents and their trans children are trying to create a space within conservative circles to acknowledge differences in how people experience gender....
The Russian leader visited an institute in Harbin known for defense research. President Xi Jinping saw him off with a rare and seemingly deliberate embrace for the cameras....
The tactic echoes one that Russia has used and Ukraine has ridiculed in the past....
A huge drone attack targeted southwestern Russia and the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea, hitting oil facilities and a substation, leading to rolling blackouts....
Nellie Bowles’s new book fights the last war....
Years of vitriolic rhetoric, worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, left Slovakia with bitter political division....
Fighting in Rafah has closed off a vital border crossing in southern Gaza, forced hundreds of thousands to flee and cut off humanitarian aid....
The move could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war. The Biden administration continues to say there will be no American troops on the ground....
Scientists in the United States are reporting “unprecedented patterns” of surface warming, an ominous sign for coral....
A deadlier version of the infectious disease is ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo, while the type that caused a 2022 outbreak among gay and bisexual men is regaining strength....
We need to be prepared to fight the next war, not the last one....
Ukraine said it was slowing Russia’s push near Kharkiv, where the president met with top commanders, but still faced pitched battles in that area and farther south....
At a summit with China’s leader, in Beijing, the Russian president called for stronger economic ties between the countries, as he intensifies his war effort....
Much of the recent international discussion of Mr. Fico’s leadership has focused on his ties to President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary....
Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans want more federal money for the military. But Democrats say domestic programs must get an equivalent boost....
Slovakia is one of two nations born out of the former Czechoslovakia, a multiethnic nation established at the end of World War I....
Things for Ukraine are likely to get worse before they get better....
The ruthless assault that freed a prisoner and set off a manhunt has turned attention to a multibillion-dollar drug trade fueling gang warfare....
China’s backing will be crucial to President Vladimir V. Putin as he intensifies his offensive in Ukraine. But his host, Xi Jinping, has other competing priorities....
Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia, an ally of Vladimir V. Putin and Viktor Orban, was shot multiple times on Wednesday, stoking fears that Europe’s polarized politics were tipping into violence....
Rafael Grossi took over the International Atomic Energy Agency five years ago at what now seems like a far less fraught moment. With atomic fears everywhere, the inspector is edging toward mediator....
While the world’s attention is focused on Ukraine and Gaza, Arab forces in Sudan seem to be trying to eliminate non-Arab tribes....
What his rants about protesters say about his authoritarian streak....
Many of the videos are trying to appeal to right-wing voters with fake messages about President Biden, experts say....
The secretary of state said active fighting in the area was taking a toll after Israel had taken some steps to improve assistance....
A Coast Guard leader told Congress that bridges around the country needed to be assessed to avoid repeating the crash that knocked down the Key Bridge in Baltimore....