A Celebrated French Writer Loved Russia. War Forced a Reckoning.

How New York’s Mayoral Race Became a Vote on the Middle East

Many New Yorkers have been agonizing over the war between Israel and Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023. Now they are casting their ballots....

Halloween Becomes Another Target of the Kremlin’s Culture Wars

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....

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Cloud Computing Deal With Amazon

After signing agreements to use computing power from Nvidia, AMD and Oracle, OpenAI is teaming up with the world’s largest cloud computing company....

Trump Administration Live Updates: Trump Says War With Venezuela Is Unlikely but Won’t Rule Out Land Strikes

Putin Brandishes Menacing Nuclear Weapons as Talks With U.S. Falter

Touting new weapons tests, Moscow signals to Washington that it must contend with the Kremlin’s power and negotiate....

Why Won’t Congress Use Its Power?

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....

Fed Risks a Recession if It Doesn’t Cut Rates Rapidly, Stephen Miran Warns

Stephen I. Miran, the newest member of the central bank’s Board of Governors, thinks some of his colleagues are too worried about inflation....

How Britain Got Investors to Line Up for Nuclear Power

Developers have finally broken ground on the project, known as Sizewell C, but getting there meant navigating wary investors and local opposition....

Republicans in Congress Show Signs of Angst Over Trump’s Trade War

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....

Xi Delivers Veiled Warning to Nations Not to Take the U.S.’s Side

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....

How the Trump-Xi Meeting Eased a Major Trade War

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....

Air Traffic Controller Staff Shortage Causes Delays in Orlando and at Other Airports

The F.A.A. warned that a lack of certified air traffic controllers in Orlando could cause delays throughout the East Coast....

Trump’s Call to Resume Nuclear Testing After Decades Revives a Cold War Debate

President Trump explained the order by saying other, unnamed nations were testing their own nuclear weapons, even though no country has tested since 2017....

Why Trump’s Talk About Nuclear Testing Is Dangerous

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....

Trump Revived a Cold War Debate

Also, Prince Andrew is being stripped of his royal title. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday....

Trump Officials Warn of Air Travel ‘Disaster’ in November

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....

Democrats Condemn Trump Officials for Boat Strike Secrecy

Senator Mark Warner said the administration’s decision to hold a Republicans-only briefing on the campaign was “corrosive to our democracy.”...

Volkswagen, Hit by Tariffs, Reports $1.5 Billion Loss and Warns of Chip Shortage

Europe’s largest automaker said a shortage of semiconductors could further hurt productivity....

Trump and Xi Ease Off the Trade War, but New Nuclear Threat Brings a Chill

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....

From Gaza to New York’s Mayoral Race, Jewish Identity Splits Over Israel’s Future

After two years of war, political shifts and deep family divisions, new institutions are emerging....

Syria’s Rocky Transition Brings New Waves of Displacement

More than 400,000 Syrians have been displaced in the year since the civil war ended, according to the United Nations, driven by a mix of sectarian violence, acts of revenge and property disputes....

Trump and Xi Agree to a Yearlong Trade Truce

The leaders struck a deal this morning in their first meeting since Trump opened a trade war against China...

Trump and Xi, Hoping to Ease Trade War, Agree to 1-Year Truce

China agreed to suspend for a year some of its limits on exports of rare earth metals, while the U.S. halved its fentanyl-related tariffs....

What Palantir Sees

The tech company’s C.T.O. on surveillance, A.I. and the future of war....

He Survived the Invasion. What He Really Wanted Was a Friend.

During the war, a Ukrainian boy lost his home, his father and his friends. Could he find new buddies at a camp in the mountains?...

As Trump Weighs Sale of Advanced A.I. Chips to China, Critics Sound Alarm

The president signaled he would discuss the sale of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips in a summit on Thursday, a move U.S. officials warned would be a “massive” national security mistake....

Trump Lost the Trade War to China

Xi now sees our weakness and will try to exploit it, perhaps leaving America a diminished presence in Asia....

Putin Announces Test of Tsunami-Making Nuclear Weapon

The test comes days after President Vladimir V. Putin announced the previous trial of another Russian nuclear weapon....

Mamdani’s Candidacy Roils Jewish Communities Across the Country

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City, has said he cannot support Israel as long as it is an officially Jewish state. More than 1,100 American rabbis are warning that the safety of Jews is at risk....

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”...