Month: August 2025

Trade war: President Trump said on Tuesday that he would impose higher tariffs on India in the next 24 hours, a day after warning that he would “substantially” increase the 25 percent levy…

President Trump plans to create a task force Tuesday that would boost the federal government’s hand in preparations for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, a city where officials…

Caitlin Riley, a rare books specialist, was flicking through photographs of tattered volumes from a routine house clean-out this year when she stopped, shocked, at a familiar green cover. There,…

The acting administrator of NASA has issued a directive to fast-track efforts to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. “To properly advance this critical technology to be able to…

Soeung Chetra, a high school student in rural Cambodia, practices a centuries-old musical art form: singing improvised ballads while plucking a Cambodian lute known as the chapei dang veng. Like other…

Gagan Vaseer isn’t in the habit of staying put. Since leaving his hometown of Durham, N.C., Mr. Vaseer, 34, has taught English in rural China, worked for Google in Mountain…

Fifteen years ago, Dimitry Epelboym, a dentist born in Ukraine, set out to create his dream residence — a house that reflects the opulence and grandeur of the Old World…

President Trump unleashed his fury about weakness in the labor market on Friday, saying without evidence that the data were “rigged” and that he was firing the Senate-confirmed Department of…

San Francisco is seeing the coldest start to a summer in over two decades, and nobody has felt the chill more than the people tasked with painting the Golden Gate…

Whether you’re in a city, a suburb or a rural area, living among people you trust can mean the difference between calling a locksmith in an emergency or knocking on…