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Today — 19 December 2025Main stream

Trump Signs Law Repealing Tough Sanctions on Syria

The Caesar Act was imposed in 2019 in response to widespread and systematic violations of human rights by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad.

© Nicole Tung for The New York Times

A heavily damaged neighborhood in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, Syria, in August. The lifting of U.S. sanctions will bolster Syria’s new government’s efforts to rebuild a nation in ruins.

Trump Signs Law Repealing Tough Sanctions on Syria

The Caesar Act was imposed in 2019 in response to widespread and systematic violations of human rights by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad.

© Nicole Tung for The New York Times

A heavily damaged neighborhood in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, Syria, in August. The lifting of U.S. sanctions will bolster Syria’s new government’s efforts to rebuild a nation in ruins.

U.S. Will Pay $450,000 to Wildfire Fighters With Cancer

19 December 2025 at 18:03
They will be eligible for a one-time payment as well as college tuition for their children. The effort is part of a legislative push to address the dangers of working in toxic smoke.

© Loren Elliott for The New York Times

Members of a wildfire crew last August in San Luis Obispo County, Calif.

A Reddit Post Led to a Breakthrough in the Brown Shooting Investigation

19 December 2025 at 14:45
A Reddit user provided information that helped identify Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as not only the suspect in the campus shooting, but also the murder of an M.I.T. professor.

© Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times

A vehicle is loaded onto a tow truck outside the storage facility in Salem, N.H., where the Brown University shooting suspect’s body was found on Thursday.

‘A Singularly Turbulent Time’: Deeper Uncertainty in Store for Global Economy

19 December 2025 at 13:00
A reordering of the rules of trade, set on top of transformational change in technology, demographics and climate, is remaking jobs, politics and lives.

© Linh Pham for The New York Times

A furniture factory in Vietnam. Chinese exports are surging not just into Europe but even more sharply into Southeast Asia.
Yesterday — 18 December 2025Main stream

Iran’s President Says He Can’t Make ‘Miracles’ to Solve the Country’s Woes

Amid sky-high inflation, water and energy cuts and prospects for a deal with the U. S. dimming, President Masoud Pezeshkian has apparently thrown up his hands.

© Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times

President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran attending a protest in Tehran in June after the U.S. attacks on nuclear sites in Iran.

Trump Finds That Retribution Isn’t Always So Easy

In some ways, Trump’s broader flexing of power has achieved what he set out to do. But his attempts to push prosecutions of rivals have been far less successful.

© Allison Robbert for The New York Times

Letitia James, the New York attorney general.

Trump’s Claim That Venezuela ‘Stole’ U.S. Oil Fields Sets Off a Nationalist Reaction

18 December 2025 at 07:25
President Trump said the United States wanted to reclaim expropriated oil assets, setting off a nationalist reaction in a country where the resource holds a mythical status.

© Getty Images

Derricks in the Maracaibo oil fields of Venezuela in the early 20th century. American oil companies invested millions of dollars in the region, generating profits that flowed to the United States, rather than Venezuela.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Heating Costs Expected to Rise 9.2% This Winter

By: Ivan Penn
17 December 2025 at 18:02
Colder weather and rising electricity and fuel costs will lead to a big jump in costs for individuals, according to estimates from a group representing state energy officials.

© Tristan Spinski for The New York Times

Higher electricity and natural gas prices coupled with unusually cold temperatures are expected to fuel more bill increases as the winter months settle in across the country.

Trump Revised Chevron’s Venezuela Deal. Maduro’s Oil Trader Profited.

A firm controlled by a businessman tied to a seized tanker carrying Venezuelan oil has sold millions of barrels from a Chevron-operated oil field.

© Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times

A statue outside Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA headquarters in Caracas.
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