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  1. China’s Trade Surplus Climbs Past $1 Trillion for First Time

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:15:18 -0000

    President Trump’s tariffs weren’t enough to hold back the global export flood by China, which pushed past last year’s record in just 11 months.
  2. China’s Weak Currency Is Powering Its Exports and Drawing Criticism

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:18:52 -0000

    China’s renminbi is lagging the currencies of key trading partners, making Chinese goods and services cheap and helping to drive exports.
  3. A Major Test of Presidential Power, and How States Make Billions From Online Casinos

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:00:08 -0000

    Plus, the social changes sweeping Iran.
  4. A Weakened Hamas Still Dominates Gaza, Building Day by Day

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:15:50 -0000

    A cease-fire after two years of war with Israel has allowed Hamas to tighten its grip on power again. “It’s still standing,” one Israeli official said.
  5. Syrians Celebrate Anniversary of Bashar al-Assad’s Fall

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:23:33 -0000

    A year ago, rebels overthrew President Bashar al-Assad, ending decades of dictatorship and civil war. But challenges remain for the new leadership.
  6. The New Syria

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:08:17 -0000

    The country certainly still faces many challenges. But some things are now going right there — and those are worth our attention, too.
  7. Powell Faces Pressure From Multiple Fronts as Fed Prepares to Cut Rates

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:03:07 -0000

    The chair of the central bank is dealing with internal divisions while being besieged by President Trump and front-runners jockeying to replace him.
  8. U.S. Deports Second Planeload of Iranians, Officials Say

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:34:15 -0000

    The plane, carrying about 50 Iranians and other deportees, took off from Arizona on Sunday, under a deal the Trump administration reached with Iran two months ago.
  9. Trump Hosts the Kennedy Center Honors, Breaking Tradition

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:03:19 -0000

    Past presidents have attended the marquee event, but on Sunday Mr. Trump was the first to host it, putting his cultural takeover of Washington in sharp relief.
  10. Trump Looms Over Netflix’s Deal for Warner Bros. Discovery

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:19:31 -0000

    President Trump said the acquisition “could be a problem,” suggesting he will insert himself into the regulatory review of the transaction.
  11. Must the Military Disobey Unlawful Orders? Pam Bondi Has Said Yes.

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:04:56 -0000

    As a lawyer for a conservative think tank, Ms. Bondi, now the attorney general, filed a Supreme Court brief last year saying service members who followed such orders were committing crimes.
  12. Supreme Court to Hear Major Test of Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:03:11 -0000

    The court’s conservative majority has generally let President Trump remove leaders of independent agencies like the Federal Trade Commission, at least temporarily.
  13. Thai Jets Bomb Cambodia as at Least 5 Die in New Wave of Fighting

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:41:34 -0000

    Each side accused the other of firing first. The hostilities came weeks after President Trump had cast himself as a peacemaker in the decades-old border dispute.
  14. He Was a Russian Activist in Exile. His Own Wife Accused Him of Spying.

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:01:06 -0000

    Poland has charged a little-known Russian opposition figure with espionage and participating in a bomb plot. His friends are perplexed.
  15. 4 Takeaways From The Times’s Examination of N.Y.C. Subway Collisions

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:00:06 -0000

    New York City train operators witness more people being struck by trains than drivers in any other American system. Afterward, many struggle to get the help they need.
  16. New Orleans Restaurants Feel Squeezed as Border Patrol Sweeps In

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:03:40 -0000

    Ripple effects from a federal crackdown illustrate how heavily the city’s robust dining scene depends both directly and indirectly on immigrant workers.
  17. Golden Globes Announces 2026 Nominations

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:35:41 -0000

    Movies like “One Battle After Another” and “Hamnet” were considered strong contenders for the top film awards, as the nominations kicked off Monday.
  18. What Trump’s East Wing Demolition Says About Our Preoccupation With ‘Renovation’

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:02:37 -0000

    The gutting of the East Wing of the White House and our national preoccupation with “renovation.”
  19. A Corruption Scandal in Ukraine

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:03:47 -0000

    We examine an investigation that is testing Volodymyr Zelensky’s government.
  20. United Nations Cuts Its 2026 Emergency Aid Budget in Half

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:01:12 -0000

    Huge reductions in foreign aid by the United States and Europe have led the U.N.’s emergency relief coordinator to slash its fund-raising targets for next year.
  21. Miami Hasn’t Had a Democratic Mayor in Almost 30 Years. Is That About to Change?

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:03:02 -0000

    Democrats see their voters energized in a county that President Trump won. Republicans fear the runoff could add to recent losses.
  22. Obamacare Users Face Higher Deductibles, Higher Premiums

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:01:02 -0000

    People who have insurance under the Affordable Care Act are being asked to pay more for plans that will cover less of their care.
  23. Dogs in Kimonos: Japan Reinvents a Children’s Holiday With Pets in Mind

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:01:09 -0000

    A traditional Japanese festival is being adapted for poodles and Pomeranians, amid a booming pet industry and a dearth of children.
  24. Konrad Kay and Mickey Down, the Finance Bros Behind HBO’s “Industry”

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Konrad Kay and Mickey Down failed as financiers—but they’re making a killing by depicting the profession on HBO.
  25. How to Leave the U.S.A.

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    In the wake of President Trump’s reëlection, the number of aggrieved Americans seeking a new life abroad appears to be rising. The Netherlands offers one way out.
  26. Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
  27. And Your Little Dog, Too, by David Sedaris

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Two small dogs, both unleashed, rushed toward me, snarling, and one of them bit me on my left leg, just below the knee. It all happened within a second.
  28. Katy Waldman on Mary McCarthy’s “One Touch of Nature”

    Sun, 07 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    A reader trusts the author’s voice instinctively, charmed by its opaline assessments and zinging aperçus. Still, one can quibble.
  29. The Trump Administration’s Chaos in the Caribbean

    Sun, 07 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Pete Hegseth’s conduct is a case study in how the government’s growing sense of heedlessness and unaccountability is shaping disastrous policy.
  30. Mikie Sherrill Intends to Move Fast

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Sherrill, the governor-elect of New Jersey, argues that if Democrats don’t learn to work at Donald Trump’s pace, “we’re going to get played.”
  31. What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year

    Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    When Dragon Bravo ignited, in Grand Canyon National Park, officials decided to let it burn. Then the fire spread out of control.
  32. The Dishonorable Strikes on Venezuelan Boats

    Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:08:32 -0000

    New reporting suggests that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated multiple rules of war.
  33. The Legal Consequences of Pete Hegseth’s “Kill Them All” Order

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:57:57 -0000

    A former military judge on the Trump Administration’s contradictory—and likely unlawful—justifications for its Caribbean bombing campaign.
  34. How M.B.S. Won Back Washington

    Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:43:55 -0000

    After the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi leader became a pariah. He’s been slowly rehabilitated, and is now being celebrated in the Oval Office.
  35. How the Conflict in Sudan Became a Humanitarian Catastrophe

    Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    After a coup devolved into open warfare, countries across the region have pursued their own policy and commercial interests by backing one side or the other.
  36. What the Democrats’ Good Night Means for 2026 and Beyond

    Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:05:20 -0000

    The senior elections analyst at RealClearPolitics on what the Party might’ve learned, and how the electorate is changing.
  37. What Happens When an “Infinite-Money Machine” Unravels

    Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    After Michael Saylor’s software company Strategy stockpiled hundreds of thousands of bitcoins, he was hailed as an alchemist. Then things went awry.
  38. The Weird Spectacle of the World Cup Draw

    Sun, 07 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    At the event, the matchups seemed beside the point, eclipsed by FIFA’s bizarre Peace Prize ceremony for Donald Trump and other cringey moments.
  39. What Can Economists Agree on These Days?

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    A new book, “The London Consensus,” offers a framework for rethinking economic policy in a fractured age of inequality, populism, and political crisis.
  40. The N.B.A.’s Breakneck Momentum

    Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Are the higher speed and intensity that have made the game so fun to watch the very forces that are sidelining its stars with injuries?
  41. Building a State of Fear in “Extremist”

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Alexander Molochnikov’s short film reinterprets an act of protest that called attention to the invasion of Ukraine, and led to the imprisonment of Sasha Skochilenko, a young Russian artist, in 2023.
  42. War Is Peace, the Dozing Don Edition

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:37:11 -0000

    The outcry grows over Trump’s undeclared war in the Caribbean.
  43. The Undermining of the C.D.C.

    Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold standard, evidence-based science”—doublespeak that might unsettle Orwell.
  44. What are Putin’s Ultimate Demands for Peace in Ukraine?

    Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The Trump Administration has claimed that it’s nearing a deal to end the war, but, for now, the conflict’s essential impasse still holds: Moscow won’t accept what Kyiv can stomach.
  45. Ukrainian Men Approaching Military Age Are Fleeing in Droves

    Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:53:52 -0000

    A new policy has led to an exodus of male citizens. Will they return if the war ends?
  46. Jeffrey Epstein, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the Future of American Politics

    Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Life after Trump may not be what we expect.
  47. Big Apple Jackpot

    Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Inside the fight to bring casinos to New York City.
  48. For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    By putting the religious rights of potential foster parents above the civil rights of L.G.B.T.Q. youth, a new executive order reënacts the original sin of the child-welfare system.