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China Has Another Lever to Pull in Showdown With Trump: Factory Lines

In Washington, China hawks say its economy is too weak to withstand a tariff shock. In the city of Yiwu, factories are showing why that may be a miscalculation.

5 min read

Japan Has a New Leader, and She’s a Heavy Metal Drummer

Sanae Takaichi, a fan of Iron Maiden, had an improbable rise to power. Like her mentor, Shinzo Abe, she is expected to lead Japan to the right.

6 min read

Part of White House Is Torn Down. Trump’s Ballroom Will Take Its Place.

President Trump had pledged that construction wouldn’t “interfere with the current building,” a promise that seemed unrealistic given the scale of the plans.

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Vance Heads to Israel as U.S. Tries to Shore Up Gaza Truce

With the cease-fire deal under strain, Vice President JD Vance was set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders.

2 min read

How the Louvre Jewelry Heist Unfolded

Thieves used a truck-mounted ladder to break into the museum in Paris and steal items of “incalculable” value.

Workers assemble a car at a factory.

Hundreds of Korean Workers Were Detained by ICE. Hyundai Is Not Deterred.

The revival of America’s industrial base is happening amid pine forests and peanut farms in Georgia. And it’s being led by a South Korean company.

7 min read

Why Diwali Is Also the Start of Air Pollution Season in New Delhi

The air quality in India’s capital ranks among the worst in the world, but experts say politics stand in the way of improving it.

5 min read

In China, a Forbidden Question Looms: Who Leads After Xi?

Xi Jinping seems to believe that only his continued rule can secure China’s rise. But as he ages, choosing a successor will become riskier and more difficult.

5 min read

President Xi Jinping of China at a ceremony with military guards.

Amazon Outage Forces Hundreds of Websites Offline for Hours

Amazon Web Services cited a problem at its data center in Northern Virginia. The outage highlighted the fragility of global internet infrastructure.

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The Amazon Web Services pavilion at a trade fair in Hanover, Germany, in March.

How an Elite Public High School Set Mamdani on the Path to Politics

For Zohran Mamdani, his time at Bronx High School of Science expanded and helped shape his views of New York, from the cricket pitch to politics.

10 min read

With SpaceX Behind Schedule, NASA Will Seek More Moon Lander Ideas

Lockheed Martin and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin are among the contractors that may compete with Elon Musk’s company in the race back to the lunar surface.

5 min read

A computer-generated image of an astronaut standing on the surface of the moon and in front of a lunar lander.

The Great Read

Colin Jost, Pete Davidson and the Staten Island Ferry Fiasco

Nearly four years after the “Saturday Night Live” stars bought an out-of-service ferryboat, their plans for a floating event space may be running aground.

11 min read

The large orange ferryboat, next to wooden pilings. The Manhattan skyline rises in the distance.

7 A.M. Is Too Early for a Meeting, Right?

Our Work Friend columnist also offers advice on how to navigate earning a promotion over a colleague.

7 min read

A man in a red shirt, bluejeans and a cap carries a briefcase as he walks on a college campus.

University Retirement Communities Let Residents Go Back to College

6 min read

Taylor Swift, in a red dress, poses for photographers on the red carpet at the Grammys earlier this year.

Can Taylor Swift Be an Underdog and the Biggest Pop Star on Earth?

5 min read

Domingo (Marcello Hernández) and the besties make a surprise off-key appearance at a birthday party, granting the fondest wish of their friend Kelsey. It wasn’t her birthday, though.

On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ a Milestone for Domingo

4 min read

A person is crouched and holding a phone to take a photo of a broken mirror on the floor of a room. In the background, another person is standing with two rolling suitcases in front of an open window that leads to a balcony.

Oops, You Broke Something at an Airbnb. What Now?

4 min read

George Santos, wearing sunglasses, stands in a crowd next to a man in a MAGA hat.
An illustration of a face with multiple colored lines below a hat with an American flag on it.

Carlos Lozada

You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish.

10 min read

More News

Leaked Wedding Video Tarnishes Hard-Line Iranian Official

Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani oversaw a brutal crackdown on women, but traditional notions of Islamic morality were little on display at his daughter’s wedding.

4 min read

Cable Used in Deadly Funicular Crash in Lisbon Not Cleared for Public Transport

A preliminary report on the accident said an incorrect cable was used, but that it was not yet possible to know how that figured in the crash.

2 min read

What to Know About the World Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers, the defending champions, will face the Toronto Blue Jays, a team that hasn’t been to the Fall Classic in more than 30 years.

From The Athletic

The chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky stands in a hallway wearing a gray T-shirt.

Daniel Naroditsky, Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 29

He earned the highest title in the chess world at 17 and built a career as an accomplished chess teacher, commentator and author.

3 min read

The Athletic

Sports coverage

What to to Know About the Dodgers vs. Blue Jays World Series Matchup

From a historical perspective, the teams in this year’s Fall Classic could not be more different.

Which N.B.A Team Is the Best? We Ranked All 30 Before the Season Begins.

Five franchises begin in the tier of top title contenders.

What Is the Greatest Performance in Sports History?

Shohei Ohtani’s three-homer, 10-strikeout game prompted a debate.

Well

Culture and Lifestyle

The Woman Behind Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Restaurant Empire

Sixty restaurants later, Lois Freedman is still the person who “always tells it how it is.”

4 min read

Lois Freedman has worked alongside Jean-Georges Vongerichten for 39 years, steadily opening restaurant after restaurant.