The U.S. government has paused a tech-focused trade pledge with Britain over broader disagreements about Britain’s digital regulations and food safety rules.

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To really understand what is happening today, we must understand the ideology and thinkers behind the MAGA New Right.

Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the U.S. wants private industry to lead the way. The winner could reshape civilization.

For the sake of global security and freedom, the world’s democracies must collaborate better.

Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the U.S. wants private industry to lead the way. The winner could reshape civilization.

For the sake of global security and freedom, the world’s democracies must collaborate better.

Many understand the dance their leaders must perform to appease President Trump. But that doesn’t make them any less weary of the rounds and rounds of talks.

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Troops who play a part in deadly missions that they see as wrong or unjustified may suffer deep psychological harm as a result, research has shown.

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Governments are studying the decision to prohibit youths from using platforms like Facebook and TikTok as worries grow about the potential harm they cause.

Plus, the secret to selling 150 million books.

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Unlike during his last time in the White House, people now disapprove of Trump because of the economy, not in spite of it.

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Unlike during his last time in the White House, people now disapprove of Trump because of the economy, not in spite of it.

Threats against us aren’t limited to one hemisphere.

The nature of war has drastically changed. The editorial board argues that the U.S. must reform its military.

President Trump’s tariffs weren’t enough to hold back the global export flood by China, which pushed past last year’s record in just 11 months.

Did Pete Hegseth break the law after authorizing Venezuelan boat strikes? The Times Opinion editor, Kathleen Kingsbury, argues that there are multiple reasons the strikes were legally dubious.

When buyers can’t see the climate risks of prospective homes up front, they may take on more exposure than they can afford.

Rare pushback from his party and troubling poll numbers reflect the newly precarious situation in which Trump finds himself.

Even if the wisdom of releasing the files is a nuanced issue, the president’s behavior has been indefensible.

Progressives have an opportunity to start thinking boldly again about how to conceive of and use public authority for Americans.

While China is selling clean energy to the world, America is pushing oil and gas.

Beijing has used loans to developing nations to expand its influence, but a new study says no country has received more Chinese financing than the United States.

Russia and China abstained in the vote, which provides a legal mandate for the Trump administration’s vision of how to move past the cease-fire to rebuild the war-ravaged enclave after two years of war.

The Trump administration wants the Security Council to adopt a resolution that has the 20-point U.S. plan annexed, effectively making it international law.

The company claimed that A.I. did most of the hacking with limited human input and said it was a rapid escalation of the technology’s use in cybercrime.

Few American are becoming mariners today, but demand could soon rise because President Trump and a bipartisan group of legislators in Congress want to revitalize the American shipbuilding industry.

The shake-up in China’s armed forces comes as both Beijing and Washington are pushing through major changes in their country’s militaries, in different ways.

The two countries agreed to suspend the fees for a year as part of their recent trade pact, but America still aims to build more commercial ships.

China will require licenses for export of 13 chemicals used to make the deadly drug, another indicator of thawing tensions between the world’s two largest economies