Passenger Describes Chaos Aboard FlyDubai Flight

The passenger, Miriam Ohayon, said people on board felt the jet lose control and heard screams. “When they opened the cockpit, there was a lot of blood,” she told Israeli television.Security vehicles outside Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Airport in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday.

D David M. Halbfinger and Natan Odenheimer

After Two Decades, U.S. Forces Leave Iraq to an Uncertain Future

Some Iraqis are celebrating the end of an American military presence that unleashed waves of bloodshed. Others fear what happens next for their country, trapped between Washington and Tehran.A giant Iraqi flag hung from the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul’s old city on Tuesday. With the end of Oper

E Erika Solomon, Falih Hassan and Eric Schmitt

American Forces Withdraw From Iraq 23 Years After Invading

The Americans did not understand the country when they invaded in 2003. Over a correspondent’s many trips there, it was not clear that this ever changed much.In March 2003, a statue of Saddam Hussein was still standing near a communications center in Baghdad that had been bombed two days earlier. A

A Alissa J. Rubin

Troubles at Situational Awareness Point to Record Stock Market Leverage

A meltdown at Situational Awareness, an A.I.-focused investment firm, is raising tough questions about the Wall Street banks that lent billions to the upstart firm.Big banks lent Leopold Aschenbrenner’s firm billions to invest in the artificial intelligence boom. Then the firm had a meltdown.

M Matthew Goldstein and Rob Copeland

Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him

Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas, as President Trump addressed him during the second day of the Republica

T Theodore Schleifer

Fed’s Preferred Inflation Gauge Points to Continued Price Pressures

The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index showed little sign of easing in August, though revised data showed inflation had been slightly cooler than previously believed.The immediate question confronting Federal Reserve officials, led by Kevin M. Warsh, is how quickly they need to deliver ad

B Ben Casselman and Colby Smith

Trump’s New Tariffs Face a Familiar Court Challenge

For the third time in less than two years, the Trump administration is set to return to court on Wednesday to defend its power to wage a punishing global trade war.Despite two years of economic shocks and uncertainty, President Trump still sees sky-high tariffs as potent economic tools for his polic

T Tony Romm

D.A. in Cornell Case Hopes to Speak to Accuser as He Weighs New Evidence

District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said a woman’s report to police in 2024 saying she had been raped at a fraternity did not support a criminal case. But he said he is now reaching out to her.Matthew Van Houten, district attorney for Tompkins County, N.Y., said some new evidence is emerging in an

H Hurubie Meko

Can Trump Legally Demolish the Kennedy Center? Experts Say Not Easily.

The president has entertained the idea of tearing down the performing arts venue. Analysts say any plan would face multiple daunting challenges.An image of President Trump reviewing a poster that appears to relate to the demolition of the Kennedy Center has led to heightened concerns he might move t

J Julia Jacobs

How Ukraine’s Naval Drones Are Remaking War at Sea

They began as modified motorboats. Now, Ukrainian sea drones act as miniature aircraft carriers, and other countries want in.A Magura sea drone at a test site in central Ukraine in June.

M Maria Varenikova and Nicholas Kulish

New Cancer Drugs Are Revolutionary. Why Don’t More Patients Get Them?

Targeted gene therapies are highly effective at stopping cancers, but the very abundance of the treatments, plus cost and sluggish change, are hindering access.When John Ebers, a commercial beekeeper in Comstock Park, Mich., was diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer, he was not given the option o

G Gina Kolata

See How El Niño Is Washing Ashore in California

An enormous pulse of wave energy will soon reach Southern California and continue north, raising sea levels by half a foot and increasing threats from swells and tides.A wave crashes into a sea wall protecting beachfront homes in Long Beach, Ca., where a boardwalk was damaged by Hurricane Marie.

R Raymond Zhong