“It sounded like we were going to war against the United States government,” a former member of the militia group testified.
Kataib Hezbollah, a hard-line Iraqi militia linked to Iran, held Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, hostage for more than two years....
In Ukraine, unmanned weapons hunt the wounded and medics alike. Moving injured soldiers to safety has never been more difficult....
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, recounts a harrowing story of cruelty, survival, U.S. diplomatic pressure and, finally, release from the grip of a group backed by Iran....
A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change....
He tried to warn Americans about Trump, but they had already learned not to believe him....
Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some of his longtime critics....
Her haunting work focused on the lingering traces of conflict in places like Bosnia and Sierra Leone, after the firing had stopped....
Once pitched as dispassionate tools to answer your questions, A.I. chatbots are now programmed to reflect the biases of their creators....
The country will introduce fixed-term military contracts to try to attract recruits and ease the strain on soldiers after years of fighting....
Many New Yorkers have been agonizing over the war between Israel and Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023. Now they are casting their ballots....
The Russian authorities canceled a festival in St. Petersburg, branding it “Satanist,” as part of a larger assault on anything viewed as a Western influence....
After signing agreements to use computing power from Nvidia, AMD and Oracle, OpenAI is teaming up with the world’s largest cloud computing company....
Emmanuel Carrère’s best sellers on Russia grew out of a deep affection. Since Moscow invaded Ukraine, he has traveled to the war-torn country to rethink his views....
Touting new weapons tests, Moscow signals to Washington that it must contend with the Kremlin’s power and negotiate....
Five Republicans just voted with Democrats to block Trump’s tariffs. This proves Congress can act. So why isn’t it using that same power to address hunger, health care costs or undeclared wars? The New York Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, explains....
Stephen I. Miran, the newest member of the central bank’s Board of Governors, thinks some of his colleagues are too worried about inflation....
Developers have finally broken ground on the project, known as Sizewell C, but getting there meant navigating wary investors and local opposition....
Senators opposed the president’s plan to import beef from Argentina and voted three times this week to end his power to enforce sweeping tariffs....
At an Asia-Pacific summit, the Chinese leader urged countries to “resist unilateral bullying,” an appeal that seemed at odds with his country’s recent actions....
President Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping just had a highly anticipated meeting in South Korea. David Pierson, a New York Times foreign correspondent covering China, breaks down what they accomplished and how they de-escalated a major trade war....
The F.A.A. warned that a lack of certified air traffic controllers in Orlando could cause delays throughout the East Coast....
President Trump explained the order by saying other, unnamed nations were testing their own nuclear weapons, even though no country has tested since 2017....
The president’s ambiguity on nuclear testing is worrisome not only because America’s public can’t know what he means, but because America’s adversaries don’t....
Also, Prince Andrew is being stripped of his royal title. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday....
If the shutdown continues, administration officials predicted, air traffic controllers going without pay will start to leave the job just in time for the holiday travel season....
Senator Mark Warner said the administration’s decision to hold a Republicans-only briefing on the campaign was “corrosive to our democracy.”...
Europe’s largest automaker said a shortage of semiconductors could further hurt productivity....
The two leaders reached an agreement on fentanyl, some tariffs and rare earths, at least for a year. But even as the global trade picture cleared a little, Mr. Trump spurred new worries about nuclear proliferation....
After two years of war, political shifts and deep family divisions, new institutions are emerging....
06/10/2022 23:04
New York Times
