The president has shifted the foundations of American policy toward China, throwing aside the adversarial approach of recent years.President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China arriving for the state banquet in Beijing on Thursday.
Having fought the Trump administration to a draw, China’s Xi Jinping is proposing “constructive strategic stability,” aimed at drawing lines he thinks the U.S. should not cross.President Xi Jinping of China welcomed President Trump in Beijing on Thursday.
On Threads and other sites, liberal-minded Chinese accounts were mocking the proceedings and offering a rare window into opinions on Xi Jinping and his leadership style.President Trump was cheered by children upon his arrival in Beijing on Thursday
The engagement between the president and the Chinese leader may have tested a decades-old U.S. assurance to Taiwan not to consult Beijing on the topic.President Xi Jinping of China, left, and President Trump discussed American arm sales to Taiwan in “great detail,” according to Mr. Trump.
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi is accused of directing and urging others to attack American and Israeli interests. Prosecutors say he is a leader of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia with ties to Iran.
Having deferred to the president for months, G.O.P. lawmakers missed crucial milestones to try to limit his war powers. That has tied their hands in seeking parameters and exit criteria.Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, during a Senate appropriation hearing last month.
Many were detained during January’s mass protests, according to a rights group, amid concerns the authorities are trying to intimidate Iranians from returning to the streets.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader who was killed in an airstrike in February, pictured on a billboard in Tehran th
Hopes for an end to the war in Iran faded after President Trump failed to secure a commitment from China to help persuade Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
In a new tactic, the Justice Department this week instructed federal prosecutors to build criminal drug cases against Mexican officials using terrorism statutes.Flags at the U.S. border with Mexico in Tijuana last year.
Cartel insiders say that in exchange for bribes and political support they were allowed to operate in Sinaloa state with near total freedom.Cartel gunsmiths in a village on the outskirts of Culiacán, in Mexico’s Sinaloa state, in October.
For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.The necropolis of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, where a nonroyal mummy was found with some lines on papyrus from Book 2 of Homer’s “Iliad.”
This was the third time Harvey Weinstein was on trial accused of raping an aspiring actress at a hotel in Manhattan in 2013.Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood producer, has faced three sex crimes trials in Manhattan.
Jerome H. Powell is passing the chair’s baton to Kevin M. Warsh at the Federal Reserve, an institution that President Trump’s pick says needs an overhaul.
Our reporter Colby Smith, who covers the Federal Reserve and the economy, looks back at Jerome Powell’s tenure as chair of the Fed.
Intel, along with Taiwan and South Korea, are the latest winners, our columnist says. True diversification is hard to find.Only a year ago, Intel needed a bailout by the U.S. government. This year, it has made a remarkable comeback.
The comedy star, who is the subject of a new documentary, has faced a series of unimaginable losses. Yet he says there are always laughs to remember.Grieving gives you “muscles to survive,” Martin Short said.
The administration has said DACA isn’t a right to stay in the United States “indefinitely.” One man with DACA was detained and deported to Mexico in a matter of days.Martin Padilla’s wife, Cynthia, relocated for several months to be closer to the border so she and the couple’s children could visit M
They were shackled and sent to Kinshasa by the Trump administration. Now they face a dangerous choice: Go back to Latin America or stay in Africa.Hugo Palencia was deported from the U.S. to Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, last month.
The call, initiated by Friedrich Merz, came soon after he told young people, “I am a great admirer of America. My admiration is not increasing at the moment.”Chancellor Friedrich Merz meeting with people in Würtzburg, Germany, on Friday.
Representative Thomas Massie, the incumbent, has opposed President Trump’s military strikes on Iran. He is now facing the biggest challenge of his career.
Nancy Pelosi and Jerrold Nadler are retiring, prompting competitive races to succeed them. Whoever wins their seats could tap big donors and shape the Democratic Party.Representative Jerry Nadler and Nancy Pelosi, then the House speaker, loomed large in their respective districts. Now that they are
The loyalist, Dan Bishop, put his fealty to the president on display when he pressed the F.B.I. to chase investigative leads it had already rejected.During his time in the House, from 2019 to 2025, Mr. Bishop served on the subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government.
Representative Steve Cohen, a Democrat who has represented Memphis since 2007, leaving the field possibly to his young rival, Justin J. Pearson, after Republicans redistrict his seat.Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, held a news conference in his office on Capitol Hill on Friday to
It is not clear when another trial would take place. But both prosecutors and defense lawyers said they would be forced to revise their legal strategies.Alex Murdaugh, center, during a hearing in 2024 in Columbia, S.C.
