The slowdown is worrying for the Kremlin but not serious enough to significantly hobble its war effort.
Europe’s dependence on the United States for NATO security limits its options. Its strongest response could be retaliating with its own trade “bazooka.”...
In previously unreported remarks, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that Mr. Trump would “sue” the news outlet if it did not air an interview unedited....
The outreach by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team has demonstrated how the mayor is taking care to not inflame tensions on either side of the Israel-Gaza war....
Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be “gray zone” pressures, such as cutting internet cables....
Russia has targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in past winters, but this year intensified its attacks as temperatures in Ukraine plunged well below freezing....
The company’s co-chief executive sat down for an extensive interview for the first time since announcing plans to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s film and TV business....
Documenting ICE is dangerous. This man wants you to do it anyway....
A backlash over a rant against Ukrainian officials has raised questions about Eastern Europe’s welcome of Russian dissidents....
With no dragons and no warring dynasties, HBO’s “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is the first test of whether the “Thrones” formula works on a human scale....
Kathleen Kennedy stepped down as Lucasfilm’s president and returned to producing. Two studio veterans took over....
The Coast Guard boarded and seized the Russian-flagged tanker, originally named Veronica, in a pre-dawn operation in the Caribbean Sea....
The veteran congresswoman said she would like Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, to replace her after she retires. She also said the mayor should stay out of political races....
Israel is unlikely to do much to try to precipitate a regime change in Iran, seeing the government as far from the brink of collapse and the current protests as insufficient to push it to that point....
The members of Crew-11 — two American, one Russian and one Japanese — splashed down after one became ill, prompting an early return....
The Kremlin has tried for years to freeze Ukraine into submission. This winter, its attacks have been the most devastating ever....
G.O.P. leaders succeeded in pressuring fellow senators who initially supported the measure that would have limited President Trump’s military authority in Venezuela....
The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate warms, Greenland is losing ice. That has consequences....
It is unclear what possible crime might involve Senator Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, who has warned in dire terms about the dissolution of American democracy....
Former department officials warned that such a broad inquiry raised the specter that forms of political protests could be criminalized....
Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”...
Also, Iran said it is ready for war, but open to negotiate. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday....
Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, asked a federal judge to block the Trump administration from disciplining him for a video warning about illegal military orders....
The comments came after President Trump said he was “ looking at some very strong options” to curb the Iranian authorities’ harsh repression of anti-government protests....
The Massachusetts senator signaled alarm about her party’s movement toward the center, warning in a speech that Democrats should not cozy up to the wealthy and the powerful....
The announcement was the latest in a series of increasingly aggressive actions by Paramount to buy Warner Bros....
A brewing storm could lead to heavy snow across the Northeast by Thursday. But a lot is still uncertain, forecasters warned....
The Venezuelan regime had high-powered air defense systems from its allies in the Kremlin, but failed to set much of it up....
Plus, Russia’s push to indoctrinate Ukrainian kids....
The president’s embrace of fossil fuels and withdrawal from the global fight against climate change will make it hard to keep warming at safe levels, scientists said....
A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse is seen as a warning....
02/12/2024 18:25
New York Times
