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
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
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Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
In China’s push for self-reliance in artificial intelligence, DeepSeek and Huawei have teamed up to develop software tools for advanced chips.DeepSeek’s headquarters in Hangzhou, China. The company announced a partnership with Huawei for software tools.
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.
In 2024, these voters were an essential part of the winning Republican coalition. Now, many feel abandoned and furious, complicating the party’s chances in November.
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
Across the country, especially in the North Carolina Senate race, Republicans have charged opponents with being soft on crime, even as President Trump brags over plunging crime rates.Roy Cooper, the Democratic candidate for Senate in North Carolina, at a rally in Durham, N.C.
Mayor Karen Bass and her onetime ally, Nithya Raman, made their case to voters with just five weeks left until the election.
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
Prosecutors have reopened the case of a woman who said she was sexually assaulted on campus in 2024. The woman’s lawsuit brought renewed pressure to reopen the investigation.Students walk past the now shuttered Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
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
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
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.
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
A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
More than two dozen people have died in crashes involving electric bikes and scooters in New York City this year. Officials are moving to address a growing safety crisis.The Manhattan intersection where a 15-year-old girl riding an electric Citi Bike was struck and killed by a truck this month.
Lawmakers are expected on Wednesday to discuss a raft of proposals to regulate the use of electric bikes and scooters, after a series of fatal crashes.Of the 20 cyclists that have died this year, most were riding electric bikes, some of which can far exceed the speed limit on these devices.
Kenneth C. Griffin, the hedge fund executive, pledged to give $3 billion, much of it to build a campus in Miami.The donation from the hedge fund executive Kenneth C. Griffin is more than the record $2 billion gift given to Oregon Health and Science University recently.
This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.
Nearly a century ago, Keynes predicted that technology would liberate us from work. To imagine what he would think of artificial intelligence today, a Princeton economist used A.I.
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“Yeah, everyone’s afraid of A.I., and nobody trusts the federal government, so Trump was like, ‘Let’s combine them,’” Jimmy Fallon said.
