Zelensky to Visit U.K. as Ukraine Presses Allies on Intelligence Sharing

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine received “no early warning from our partners” about a Russian attack. President Trump has said Washington is still “sharing intel.”Britain’s foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, left, and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Pryluky, Ukraine, last week.

M Michael D. Shear and Lara Jakes

A Trump Backlash Endangers Susan Collins in the Maine Senate Race

The race in Maine, which could decide Senate control, is testing whether there is still room for Ms. Collins’s brand of moderation during a sharply polarizing presidency.Senator Susan Collins of Maine has cultivated a reputation as an independent-minded Republican who delivers for her state. As she

T Tim Balk

Becerra Is a Quiet Trailblazer for Latinos in California

Xavier Becerra is a heavy favorite to become California’s first Latino governor in the modern era, though he does not talk much about the milestone.Xavier Becerra attends a “NO on Prop 39’ event, in opposition to a voter identification ballot initiative, at in Los Angeles earlier in October.

L Laurel Rosenhall, Jennifer Medina and Orlando Mayorquín

Leo XIV’s Lung Cancer Diagnosis Tests a Papacy Still Taking Shape

For a pope who appeared to have time on his side, cancer has raised questions about his longevity and brought a new urgency to his plans for the church.Pope Leo arriving at a hospital in Rome ahead of his surgery on Tuesday. The cancer diagnosis changes the outlook for a pope whose relative youth su

M Motoko Rich

Pope Leo’s Cancer Diagnosis: What Happens Next

Pope Leo XIV was diagnosed with a common form of lung cancer on Tuesday, about a year and half into his papacy. He still plans to travel to South America next month.Pope Leo arriving at a hospital in Rome on Tuesday.

L Laura Chung

‘Honey Please’: The Steep Rise and Sudden Fall of Kimberly Guilfoyle.

President Trump cut her loose after damaging news reports about her tenure as ambassador to Greece. Once a prominent Trump insider, she suggested she will now fight to defend her reputation.Kimberly Guilfoyle with President Trump at a White House event in March. In announcing her resignation, Ms. Gu

E Elisabeth Bumiller

A Pilgrim and a Retiree: Victims of the Houthi Airport Attack in Saudi Arabia

The strike was the Iran-backed militia’s most lethal against the kingdom, by far, during their long conflict.Mourners carrying the body of Mahmoud Barqawi, 33, at his funeral in Amman, Jordan, on Monday. He was killed in a Houthi missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Satur

V Vivian Nereim

How Top Trump Officials Stoked Fears of a Nuke That Could Fry the Power Grid

For more than a decade, conservative activists held that a single atomic bomb could, without killing Americans directly, lay waste to the country — a claim that built fervor for war with Iran.The test detonation in 1962 of a hydrogen bomb lit up the night sky over Honolulu and knocked out some of th

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Is It Wrong to Love a Chatbot?

Sherry Turkle, who has spent decades studying people’s relationships with machines, believes we have “a very small window” to correct our current course with A.I.

E Ezra Klein and Annie Galvin

America First?

We look at the state of the U.S.-Ukraine relationship.In Moscow last month.

S Sam Sifton

Joni Mitchell Is Now an American, After 60 Years of Living in the U.S.

On Tuesday, she announced the news of her U.S. citizenship on social media with a video and a photo of herself at the ceremony.Joni Mitchell in Hamilton, Ontario, early this year, where she won a lifetime achievement award at the Juno Awards, Canada’s equivalent to the Grammys.

R Rebecca Chao