The Trump administration wants revenues from Ukraine’s natural resources, according to a draft obtained by The New York Times, with no security guarantee in exchange.An ilmenite mine near Kirovohrad, Ukraine, this month.
The legal onslaught on Moscow’s second-largest airport has been seen as part of the Kremlin’s wartime drive to seize control of key assets still in private hands.Domodedovo Airport, in Moscow, is Russia’s largest airport still in private hands.
The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, upends a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman traditionally remains in place as administrations change.Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., known as C.Q., was only the second African American to hold the chairman’s job.
The general made an impression in 2018 when he said, according to the president, that the Islamic State could be defeated in a week.Dan Caine, a retired Air Force lieutenant general, most recently served as an associate director for military affairs at the C.I.A. from 2021 to 2024.
Adm. Lisa Franchetti spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet.Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, during a media conference in Perth, Australia, in July 2024.
The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.Elon Musk has been a central figure in the first month of the Trump administration.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has three active investigations of Tesla, according to agency documents.
Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.Karen Ortiz, an administrative judge at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said her ability to send emails was shut off after she sent an agencywi
DNA testing had found that remains returned a day earlier purportedly of Ms. Bibas, a dead Israeli hostage, were in fact not hers, stirring outrage in Israel.A poster showing Shiri Bibas in Jerusalem on Friday.
Two of the captives had been in the hands of Hamas for about 10 years. The rest were taken during the attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.Eliya Cohen, a hostage held in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, was released in a ceremony in Nuseirat, Gaza, on Saturday.
Villagers say they worry that incursions into border areas of Syria by Israel’s military could turn into a prolonged occupation. Israel says the raids are needed to protect the border.Children heading home from school in the Syrian village of Suwaisah, where people fear that Israel’s incursions into
Climate change is behind the windfall gains, and growers are worried about whether they can adapt.Workers spreading coffee beans at a farm in Honduras. The history of coffee is in no small measure the story of exploitation in pursuit of expanding supplies to drive prices lower.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
Germany’s economy is stalled and its politics fractured. But it sees an opening for a new chancellor to lead Europe’s response to a changing America.Campaign posters for Germany’s upcoming elections in Frankfurt on Thursday.
A new band of influencers unafraid of confrontation has helped elevate the Alternative for Germany party to second in pre-election polls.Young activists are forming a new core of Germany’s nationalist, anti-immigrant party.
Emissaries of far-right parties overseas, gathering this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, described a resurgence spanning continents, buoyed by the U.S. president.Nigel Farage, a key figure in the Brexit campaign of 2016, was one of several leaders of right-wing
Hours after Coinbase said the S.E.C. was dropping a lawsuit against it, another major cryptocurrency exchange reported a potentially record-setting theft.Bybit, run by Ben Zhou, shown speaking at a conference in December, said it had been hit by a billion-dollar theft.
Mayor Karen Bass criticized Kristin Crowley for sending firefighters home before a blaze devastated the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.Kristin Crowley, chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, was criticized for sending home 1,000 firefighters before the Palisades fire broke out last month.
Mr. Williams, the New York City public advocate, is preparing himself to serve as interim mayor if Eric Adams resigns or is removed.Jumaane Williams has been increasingly critical of Mayor Eric Adams, a fellow Black Democrat.
In their silence, Republicans are betraying the Ukrainians, national security and their own party’s values.
We can’t let Trump be a cruel emperor.
When we lose things, it’s tempting to think we need to keep better track of them, to hold on to stuff more tightly. What if the opposite is true?
Texas reported 90 cases this week, while New Mexico reported nine. A majority of the cases have been in a Texas county where vaccination rates have lagged behind the rest of the state.Health care workers conducted drive-through measles tests outside a hospital in Seminole, Texas, on Friday.
As vast swaths of Congolese territory are seized by a Rwandan-backed armed group, Congo’s president looks to make a minerals deal with the United States.President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo arriving to cast his vote at a polling station in Kinshasa in 2023.
