Curbing trade with China to curry favor with the United States would be “selfish and shortsighted,” the government said, promising to retaliate.
The far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said the more crucial goal was ensuring that Hamas no longer ruled the Gaza Strip....
The app, which was introduced in 2014 and has hundreds of millions of users, is widely viewed as the safest messaging tool because of its encryption technology....
At least in the capital, Damascus, the Christian holiday festivities were protected and joyfully observed. Religious minorities are still wary, however, about the new leaders’ commitment to inclusivity....
President Zelensky said that the front lines had seen artillery fire and drone attacks and that his troops were responding. Russia accused Ukraine of breaking the cease-fire....
Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the controversy....
A sectarian-fueled killing spree exposed how fragile peace is in Syria, where the government’s control is limited and tension runs deep after nearly 14 years of civil war....
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote that the court’s overnight order blocking the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans under a wartime law was not “necessary or appropriate.”...
President Trump’s trade war is forcing companies to cut costs, raise prices, shrink profits, discontinue products and find other suppliers....
Legal challenges over the powerful wartime law have gone all the way to the Supreme Court....
Many thought President Trump would be able to finish the war. Now they are not so sure....
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said that he had ordered his forces to “stop all military activity” from Saturday evening through Sunday. Ukraine’s leader said Putin was trying to “play with people’s lives.”...
What happens if we run out of rare-earth metals or bond prices collapse?...
A teenager in Lexington, Mass., has for years been teaching people about the battle that started the war 250 years ago this weekend. Her entertaining website has drawn praise and raised eyebrows....
Some young adults with disposable incomes for the first time in their lives are trying to make sense of how tariffs are affecting how they should save and spend....
The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe....
More than 50 Venezuelans are believed to be scheduled to be flown out of the country, presumably to El Salvador, from an immigration detention center in Anson, Texas....
President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both suggested Friday that the United States might wash its hands of the peace effort....
“If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he departed meetings in Paris....
President Trump says he wants Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to call him to talk tariffs. Mr. Xi is ghosting Mr. Trump, and markets are plummeting....
People in the community called the remarks dehumanizing and warned they could perpetuate harmful stigma....
The United States accounted for only 3 percent of China’s natural gas imports last year. Those purchases could now dry up entirely in the trade war....
Students on Thursday protested the president’s attacks on Harvard, but at town hall meetings, defiance mixed with uncertainty as faculty members examined the toll of the White House’s actions....
The signed memorandum of understanding was thin on details, and the White House did not comment. But President Trump has said he expects to sign a minerals deal with Kyiv soon....
The trade war has hurt the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy luxury empire. Bernard Arnault, head of the company, said a failure to strike a deal with President Trump would be “the fault of Brussels.”...
President Emmanuel Macron of France hosted a lunch with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s envoy, as European delegations converged on Paris....
Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned in a speech that protectionism erodes productivity....
Trump thinks he holds all the cards in this high-stakes game, but he’s wrong....
Vitalii Dribnytsia engages with Russians online to correct Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine. Over time, he has come to realize his more important audience is Ukrainians themselves....
Beijing is using a mix of carrots and sticks to try to prevent other countries from siding with the United States in isolating China....
Researchers who have lost funds warned of long-term repercussions, but several said their school should still refuse to comply with the federal government....
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