Keir Starmer and the End of the Old Certainties
On the face of it, the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, is one of the most inoffensive politicians imaginable. A...
Backyard Battalions
Westen Champlin, an auto enthusiast and YouTube personality in Kansas, owns a tank. Specifically a 1962 Centurion battle tank. It...
Mail-Order Abortions Have Quickly Become Common
Mail-order abortion pills prescribed online — which the Supreme Court said Thursday could continuefor now — have become a major...
U.S. and China Will Start Discussing A.I. Safety, Bessent Says
The United States and China will discuss guardrails on artificial intelligence, including establishing a protocol for keeping powerful A.I. models...
Vance Blames Democrats as U.S. Halts Some Medicaid Payments, Claiming Fraud
Vice President JD Vance took his anti-fraud message to Maine on Thursday, telling a rowdy crowd in an airport hangar...
Enter the Killer Robots: The Ukrainian Forging the Future of Warfare
As Ukraine’s 35-year-old defense minister strolled about in tennis shoes, jeans and a fleece, gazing at displays of his country’s...
Aging Palestinian Leader Boosting His Son’s Political Rise, Officials Say
For years, the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has held an iron grip on power by ousting rivals,...
U.S. Migrants Deported to Congo: ‘Where on Earth Is This Place?’
Hugo Palencia said he was delivering meals in Aurora, Colo., for DoorDash and Uber around this time last year. Now,...
China Starting to Fulfill ‘Promises,’ U.S. Trade Representative Says
Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said he expected China to agree to purchase more than $10 billion in U.S....
Former Oklahoma Death Row Prisoner Freed Before Retrial in a 1997 Killing
Richard Glossip, a former death row inmate in Oklahoma whose decades-long challenge to his conviction prompted the U.S. Supreme Court...
Man Charged With Posting Bomb Instructions Used in New Orleans Attack
Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a former Army serviceman they accused of distributing instructions on how to build explosives...
Trump-Ordered Citizenship Lists for Voting Are Likely Unreliable, Justice Dept. Says
Citizenship lists that the Trump administration has ordered be compiled and shared with state election officials this year are likely...
Trump’s and Xi’s Body Language at the Summit Mirrored Their Styles
They shook hands. They took a long walk. One man touched the other’s arm, then he did it again. They...
Should Every Party Be Allowed to Vote in a Primary?
When Louisiana voters cast ballots on Saturday, Senator Bill Cassidy’s political demise could be hastened by a decision his fellow...
OpenAI Considers Legal Action Against Apple in Strained Relationship
As OpenAI nears the end of a trial to decide a multibillion-dollar lawsuit filed against it by Elon Musk, one...
