Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has built a global profile by standing up to U.S. President Donald Trump.

The Supreme Court had ordered the military to ensure a West Bank family that fled violence could go back. But settlers blocked the effort, with the authorities accused of not doing enough to stop them...

A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.

Artificial intelligence workers may have leverage to make the world safer.

There were no handshakes between Ireland and Israel players before their contentious Nations League match, with the Irish team wearing black armbands for its 3-0 win.

Our government is being run by a clique of middle-aged guys.

Millions of people face deadly climate-related disasters as international aid programs are slashed. Floods in Nepal on Aug. 26 killed over 1,400 people and left thousands missing.

Since May, the Coast Guard has deployed six surveillance drones across the Great Lakes to stop the flow of drugs and illegal border crossings from Canada. But there is little illegal activity on the n...

The Trump administration plans to deliver 60,000 of the powerful munitions at a time when opposition is growing in Washington to arms sales to Israel.

Tetsuo Sato is one of 100,000 Japanese who are now over 100 years old. He plans on celebrating his 107th birthday at a hot springs hotel.

The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.

Nearly every category of product costs more than it would have had prepandemic trends continued. And many product prices are still rising faster than they were before.

Redistributing money from single working parents to married ones is not a pro-family policy.

Researchers investigating how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure weren’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.

The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

The notion of enduring the summer rather than embracing it has spread far beyond the Sun Belt.

Demonstrators held a trio of events to protest what they say is the failure of the Trump administration and Congress to help the region fully rebuild.

How senior leaders of the armed forces dodge accountability.

In Spain, the traditional folding hand fan, or abanico, is having a moment due to the summer's intense heat.

A charity tied to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s wife received the money from a state Medicaid settlement and diverted it to political committees supporting a cause favored by the governor.

A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society b...

Spheres of conflict have multiplied and are merging. Meanwhile, the West is a mess.

Lèse-majesté, American-style.

The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait.

Artemis Ghasemzadeh, who had escaped religious persecution, was deported to Panama under Trump’s immigration crackdown. Now, Canada has given her asylum.

After the departure of thousands of federal workers, rural communities report problems obtaining loans, grants, technical assistance and support for infrastructure and other services.

‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Barbie’ show a zeitgeist shift that goes beyond Hollywood: The hero’s narrative is corroding our political and public life.

In the ancient world, debt forgiveness was a regular tool to control the economy. Why have we forgotten it?

Gas station giant Buc-ee’s has sparked a backlash in Ohio over one of its frequent trademark infringement lawsuits.

The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.

President Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order and reduce the amount of America’s debt burden have been undercut by spending on the Iran war, tax cuts and tariff refunds.

The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.

The U.S. ambassador to Israel has condemned a siege by Israeli settlers of a Palestinian American family’s home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at a national landmark. This is the untold back story of the fallout.

To face our history, we must be honest about it.

Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?

Show trials are bad for democracy.

The U.S. economy expanded at a sluggish 1.5% pace from April through June as rising imports weighed on growth. But consumer spending rose.

The future of artificial intelligence depends on finding more skilled humans for some very physical jobs.

Federal officials involved in the prosecution of James Comey misled judges, submitted false statements and withheld key facts during the course of the investigation.

Right-wing Israeli activists are ramping up their fringe campaign to establish Jewish settlements inside Syria by staging frequent incursions across the border.

A comedian and his friends are transforming a vacant retail space at the West 4th Street station with freebies, art and puppet shows to make commutes more enjoyable.

Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?

In “The Lost Founder,” the journalist Jesse Wegman looks back at a largely forgotten and singular voice that helped make the United States what it is today.

What is essential reading? Texas has an answer: Classics, including the Bible.

Some people have fought Ebola containment measures in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Scholars have seen similar responses across societies and throughout history.

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