U.S.-Saudi Deal Prompts Fears of a Global Nuclear Arms Race

In Europe, Asia and the Middle East, countries seek nuclear capabilities to hedge against aggressive neighbors and a receding Washington, potentially creating a more freewheeling era.A French nuclear submarine. France has expanded its nuclear deterrence to cover some allies as the United States has

M Mark Landler

For South Korea, U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal Exposes a Double Standard

President Trump has put Saudi Arabia on the path to enriching uranium on its own soil, a demand South Korea has been making for years.A beach near Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant in Gyeongju, South Korea, in 2022. The country has one of the biggest nuclear power industries in the world.

C Choe Sang-Hun

U.S. to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists

A federal judge raised questions about the government’s handling of the subpoenas, which The Times said were an attempt to intimidate the free press.The New York Times’s effort to quash subpoenas issued by the Justice Department was the subject of a court hearing on Thursday.

M Michael M. Grynbaum and Jonah E. Bromwich

Trump Prepares Yet Another Strategy to Resurrect Global Tariffs

The administration’s 10 percent global tariffs are set to expire at midnight, but officials have been preparing replacements.Trucks waiting to enter the United States via Port Huron, Mich., from Sarnia, Ontario, Monday. President Trump imposed new tariffs on Canadian imports this week.

A Ana Swanson

Trump Administration Drops Subpoena Demanding List of Jews From Penn

The move was a rare pullback for the Trump administration, which has used investigations as leverage. Few schools resisted as Penn did after it was pressed for antisemitism complaints and a list of campus groups involved with Judaism.The University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia.

A Alan Blinder and Rebecca Davis O’Brien

Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought

First as a Marine and then as a journalist, I spent years tied to Afghanistan. I returned one last time to speak to a former enemy in search of answers, and perhaps closure.Mullah Abdul Rahim Gulab in Marja, Afghanistan, in 2021.

T Thomas Gibbons-Neff

The Tate Brothers Are Losing Right-Wing Allies After Their Arrest

After Andrew and Tristan Tate, prominent leaders of the so-called manosphere, were arrested in Miami, many of their onetime allies on the American right pulled back support.Andrew Tate, right, and Tristan Tate in Bucharest, Romania, in 2025.

M Megan Twohey, Isabella Kwai, Matei Barbulescu and Alan Feuer

ICE Targets ‘Detention Desert’ With New Facility in North Carolina

Even as ICE has retreated from its plan to buy warehouses, the new complex near the Virginia border signals that the agency remains determined to increase its detention capacity.Internal documents obtained by The New York Times show that ICE plans to open a detention center at the old Rivers Correct

E Eduardo Medina and Hamed Aleaziz

The Devotion of Willow Smith

The daughter of a Hollywood power couple, she has gone above and beyond to prove herself. Virtuosity and spiritual aspirations fill her latest, “The Thread.”

J Jon Pareles