President Trump vowed to increase tariffs on cars, trucks, auto parts and steel to 50 percent starting Jan. 1, as the countries edged toward a full-blown trade war.Trade tensions between the United States and Canada have spiraled over the past few days, after the two sides failed to reach a trade de
The sailor, Joshua Aviles, was on his way home from the Middle East aboard the beleaguered aircraft carrier when he learned his father had been detained.Joshua Aviles, right, with his father, Luis Manuel Aviles, in 2025, shortly before Joshua shipped out for the Middle East aboard the aircraft carri
The Treasury Department said it could begin to buy back more of its debt, and bond market investors are assessing the potential effects on borrowing costs.
The president rallied for the sister of Lindsey Graham in her South Carolina Senate run and pressured allies to endorse her. A super PAC run by his advisers has spent nearly $800,000 on her campaign. Will it be enough?President Trump rallied for Senator Darline Graham of South Carolina in Myrtle Bea
The ultraconservative congressman who has broken with the president on spending is hoping voters reward his experience, contrarian streak and all.Representative Ralph Norman’s recalcitrant posture may have widened the rift that cleared the way for President Trump’s endorsement of Senator Darline Gra
Republicans still have some clear advantages on the map, but President Trump’s unpopularity has opened the door for an outcome that once seemed far-fetched.James Talarico, a Democrat, is trying win a Senate race in Texas after decades of disappointments for his party.
For Eon Huntley, who won his primary in New York in June, good clothes and populist policies go together.Eon Huntley, a 41-year-old candidate for New York State Assembly, has juggled his full-time job at the luxury department store with running a Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed campaign.
After loosening requirements during the Covid era, some schools are shaking up admissions again, facing pressure from the Trump administration, A.I. and even their own professors.Can you use A.I. to apply to college? Will the school ask for your test scores? Some schools are changing their policies.
I traveled around the country to find out if “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” still has a place in the classroom.
States are spending millions of dollars on cloud-seeding technology, backed by new data on its effectiveness — and driven by desperation for water.Staff members of Rainmaker, a company based in El Segundo, Calif., that uses drones to seed clouds, prepared for a test flight in southern Idaho last yea
Christina Stanton offers a very specific and deeply personal tour of the World Trade Center site to remind visitors what happened 25 years ago.Christina Stanton leads a North Carolina church youth group on a tour at the 9/11 Memorial reflecting pools. She carries a scrapbook of photos, including tho
Federal investigations of Mark Walter’s business empire have put a spotlight on private-equity-owned insurers that invest premiums in risky assets.Under Mark Walter, speaking in 2022, Guggenheim Investments acquired insurers after the 2008 financial crisis.
Regulators sent subpoenas to major Wall Street banks seeking information about the trading of Situational Awareness, three people briefed on the outreach said.Situational Awareness was founded two years ago by Leopold Aschenbrenner, formerly of OpenAI.
When OpenAI’s agents went rogue in July, they demonstrated ingenuity and drive beyond what many experts imagined — a dangerous harbinger of what such bots could do in the future.
Hugging Face, a start-up that was breached by rogue bots from OpenAI, is using the hack to push for openness in A.I. development.Clément Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face, which is a vocal supporter of open-source artificial intelligence.
Five decades after the “war on drugs” sought to make substance abuse unaffordable, illicit drugs are cheaper and more powerful than ever. A visit to Baltimore shows why.Last summer, the city of Baltimore experienced several mass overdose crises, the result of fentanyl being mixed with powerful synth
The “war on drugs” sought to reduce substance abuse by driving up prices and lowering demand. Today, street drugs are less expensive and more dangerous than ever.
Years ago, she donned a dinosaur costume to help make ends meet. Now she is a first-time Emmy nominee for her role in “Widow’s Bay.”
The class-based violence of the past was part of a broader struggle. Today, the violence is the end in itself.
The federal government was supposed to release a definition of ultraprocessed foods. What happened?
The Hawk fire has burned more than 15,000 acres since it began on Saturday in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada near Reno.The Hawk Fire, has burned more than 15,000 acres and has not been contained since it began on Saturday in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
