The White House is rescinding millions for education programs that support migrant students and international education.

As A.I. capabilities accelerate, the technologist is shocked by the “complete lack of engagement” with the question of how to manage its risks.

President Donald Trump has cited “hundreds of billions of dollars” in mutually beneficial gains since the U.S. arrested Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, in January. Data suggests Trump’s figure ...

In an interview with The Times, Meta’s chief executive took aim at Anthropic and OpenAI, which have pushed to tightly control A.I. development, and said he supported “more openness.”

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Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, et al offer what they see as the greatest or most pressing challenge to democratic governance in 2026.

Experts say a major labor shortage looms because of population shifts and a mismatch between new graduates’ skills and employers’ needs.

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Class-war rhetoric from Democratic candidates jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda, an expert on rural and working-class communities argues.

AI-driven hiring slowdowns are hitting some entry-level jobs for college graduates as companies like Ford and AT&T ramp up recruiting for skilled trade workers.

Amid the barrage of messages and misinformation swirling online and on Capitol Hill, about what damage U.S. military sites incurred during the conflict with Iran, a Times analysis of satellite imagery...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency “blatantly used” race, gender and protected characteristics to execute mass termination of federal grants, a judge said.

A new study finds the Gulf once reached what is now the northshore, and warns it could return there in the coming centuries.

Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.

The new civics movement should heed that warning.

Big-name campuses turn away students while hundreds of lesser-known schools struggle to fill seats.

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

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The US lifted sanctions against acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez yesterday. It’s the latest in a series of changes that began when President Nicolás Maduro was captured and brought to the U...

La intervención no trajo elecciones ni transición. El rumbo dependerá de las elecciones de medio término en EE.UU. y del costo político interno para Trump.

They have responded to public skepticism with appeals to their own authority. It’s not working.

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Targeting followed opinion piece critical of town’s police and anonymously posted anti-ICE fliers

The “New York Times” columnist on the sins of the educated class, what Trump gets right, and why he’s leaving the newspaper to take a new job at Yale University.