The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.Gold miners at work in El Callao, Venezuela.
With U.S. support, traders arrived and cut deals. That investment has so far failed to improve the bleak conditions in the mining industry.El Callao, the town at the heart of Venezuela’s gold mining industry.
Five British men were arrested as they approached R.A.F. Fairford, a base used by the United States in its war against Iran. The men are being held on suspicion of terrorism.Police officers at an entrance to the R.A.F Fairford base in England after the arrests on Sunday.
The move marked the final step in the administration’s efforts to dismantle policies aimed at speeding the shift to electric vehicles.The new standards should be relatively easy for automakers to meet, analysts said.
Mr. Bailey, who was part of a three-person leadership team atop the bureau, lasted barely a year.An internal F.B.I. email indicated that Andrew Bailey was departing from his role for family reasons.
The fate of two cotton brokers highlights how the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has scaled back its regulatory actions not just for crypto cases but also for the kinds of cases it has long policed.The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, led by Michael S. Selig, has slowed enforcement. It ha
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
The Russian region of North Ossetia has suffered a heavy toll, yet many accept the Kremlin’s line that the fighting must continue until victory is secured.Oksana Abaeva and her husband, Khetag Zaseyev, at the grave of her son, Albert Abaev, in Vladikavkaz, the capital of the Russian region of North
The reception to Paul Verhoeven’s lurid 1995 melodrama starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan and Gina Gershon was humiliating, but it’s since become a thought-provoking camp favorite.
As the Trump administration scrambles to increase the production of munitions, these special screws are expensive and hard to source.A ball screw prototype designed by Saginaw Precision, based Michigan. Only a handful of American companies are capable of making these screws for the U.S. military.
It’s Sept. 28 — 36 days away from the midterms. Here’s the state of play.
Even some devoted conservatives know more about Sherrod Brown, the Democratic challenger, than the Republican incumbent, who needs the MAGA base to turn out.Some Ohioans said they don’t know much about Senator Jon Husted, the Republican incumbent. Some said they thought Sherrod Brown, the Democrat,
Gov. Kathy Hochul is counting on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to help her campaign in New York, but how he does so is still being worked out.Gov. Kathy Hochul visited parts of Queens on a recent weekend, campaigning in neighborhoods that provided the core of Zohran Mamdani’s support last year.
A torch bearer for the great 19th-century tradition of social realism, she’s become one of the most important novelists of her generation.
The increase comes four months after the chip giant added $80 billion to its buyback program, bringing the total remaining authorized amount to $235 billion.Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, has led the company as its stock price has skyrocketed amid the explosion in demand chips that are the
Christa Pike could be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. Her supporters say she has changed in isolation; her victim’s family wants her to die.Christa Pike and her lawyers have mounted a last round of appeals to stop her execution, including during a recent hearing in stat
As Brazil prepares to hold elections next month, Latin America’s biggest nation is taking steps to shield its democracy from potential American meddling.Supporters of the right-wing presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro waved American flags and brandished a blowup doll of President Trump clutching
Fresh pies. Book groups. Puzzle challenges. Developers of master-planned communities see fear of social isolation and desire for friends as a business opportunity. Welcome to Amity Lane.A cross street in Indigo, a master-planned community outside Houston that tries to foster connection.
If Democrats can embrace what affordability is really about, they might do even more than win elections.
Eleven years later, the novelist revisits a guest essay she wrote about marriage.
We look at the market for products with added protein.
Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?
