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    Who is the Taliban’s de facto leader?Taliban rule has been disastrous for many of the country’s 40m citizensAn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear is one...

    image: Getty ImagesA growing number of Chinese women are pushing for control over family-planning decisions. That can cause discomfort in a society where t...

    AS THE DEATH toll surpasses 100, we report from Maui where fires have ravaged the island in the deadliest American wildfire in over a century. Why was this...

    Corals are bleaching and dying earlier in the year than ever beforeScientists are evacuating corals off the coast of Florida to save themTo read more of Th...

    DETERRENCE CLEARLY failed in Ukraine. In the run-up to Russia’s invasion in February 2022, America and its NATO allies took steps to warn Russia of dire co...

    image: ReutersFOR A MAN who faces multiple charges of terrorism and inciting violence across Pakistan, the case that eventually landed Imran Khan in jail w...

    IN THE COMING days, both Russia and India hope to land robotic probes near the South Pole of the Moon. Conquering the South Pole remains one of the grandes...

    THE REGION IS home to most of the world’s known lithium. Given the mineral’s usefulness in batteries and electric vehicles, could it be on the cusp of a co...

    Who is the Taliban’s de facto leader?Taliban rule has been disastrous for many of the country’s 40m citizensHave you ever wondered why it’s so hard to soun...

    WHEN IS ECONOMIC decoupling not economic decoupling? When it drives your allies to tighter commercial links with your adversary. That’s the situation the U...

    image: Hilary Swift/NYT/Redux/eyevineIN THE EARLY 2010s reports emerged of a nightmarish drug appearing in Russia and eastern Europe. Krokodil, a cheap sub...

    Corals are bleaching and dying earlier in the year than ever beforeScientists are evacuating corals off the coast of Florida to save themTo read more of Th...

    image: Getty ImagesPRESIDENT JOE BIDEN has conceded that the name was a mistake: the success of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), his flagship legislation...

    FOR WEEKS the regional bloc ECOWAS has threatened to undo the putsch by force. But appetite for a military response—the ultimate deterrent in a coup-prone ...

    image: Dan WilliamsSINCE ITS transformation from an investment category into a political club in 2009—when the heads of state of Brazil, Russia, India and ...

    image: EyevineON AUGUST 20TH England’s footballers face Spain’s in the women’s World Cup final. It is a fitting culmination to the biggest and best edition...

    image: LandmarkPosterity holds much crueller fates for politicians than to be reincarnated as Helen Mirren. Such is Golda Meir’s lot in “Golda”, which dram...

    How to sound like a local when speaking a foreign languageSome phrases can stump even the most seasoned linguistsIn the two years since the Taliban took ov...

    image: NetflixTHE MONKEY King, like many iconic fictional heroes—Harry Potter, Batman, Little Orphan Annie—had an unhappy childhood. Born from a rock on a ...

    Washington has been busy debating what to do about China. Arguments abound about whether to try to engage with the Communist Party, or to focus on deterren...

    Do abortion-related benefits help American firms recruit?A new paper shows that they attract some potential employees but may turn off othersTo read more o...

    The Biden administration has promised billions of dollars to help Hawaii recover from its deadly wildfires this month — but not a federal investigation int...

    In a focus group last week, eight men of color who voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 were asked to describe their feelings about the economy. The answe...

    When then-Rep. Marsha Blackburn hired veteran debate coach Brett O'Donnell for her 2018 Senate campaign, her Democratic opponent publicly mocked the decisi...

    SAN FRANCISCO — Gavin Newsom hasn’t been mayor of San Francisco for more than a decade, but this spring he summoned his Cabinet for a meeting in the city’s...

    The United Arab Emirates is considering creating a multibillion-dollar fund to spur clean energy investments across the world that it plans to unveil at th...

    The coup in Niger is injecting fresh tension into the France-U.S. alliance. The two countries are at odds over how to respond to the ouster of the West Afr...

    Donald Trump’s campaign is upping its efforts to stop Republicans who use his name and likeness to fundraise without the former president’s consent. On Fri...

    Indiana GOP chair Kyle Hupfer, a former general counsel of the Republican National Committee who ran unsuccessfully for RNC co-chair earlier this year, pla...

    Self-funding businessperson Perry Johnson may have just snagged a last-minute invitation to next week’s Republican debate. And he might not be the only par...

    Former Vice President Mike Pence has qualified for the second GOP presidential debate, setting up another opportunity for a faceoff with former President D...

    A tussle over tax hikes in California is intensifying. California Democrats have answered a tax-reform push by business groups with their own proposal to u...

    Ron DeSantis met privately with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday, the latest in his effort to fortify relationships with three Republican governors aliena...

    CAMP DAVID, Md. — President Joe Biden on Friday signed historic agreements with the leaders of South Korea and Japan, bridging the fraught history between ...

    When Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo lands in Beijing for an expected visit next week she’s likely to hear an unprecedented request from her hosts: Help u...

    Former New York Sen. James Buckley, an early agitator for then-President Richard Nixon’s resignation and winner of a landmark lawsuit challenging campaign ...

    President Joe Biden will chalk up a fresh victory in his campaign to boost U.S. influence in the Indo-Pacific by sealing a deal with Vietnam next month aim...

    ATLANTA — Republican presidential hopefuls gathered here Friday for an event Donald Trump wasn't invited to and didn't attend. They still couldn't escape t...

    Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy vowed Friday to attract “voters of diverse shades of melanin” to the polls if he is chosen as the 2024 GO...

    Officials say ‘egos in the room’ are obstructing efforts to agree common AI rules.