9+ hour, 15+ min ago   (893+ words) By MICHELLE GOLDBERGIn a series of private speeches last year, Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and Silicon Valley thought leader, said the young activist Greta Thunberg represented the spirit of the Antichrist. It was more than just a hyperbolic…...

10+ hour, 30+ min ago   (642+ words) By DAVID E. SANGER They were brief but unmistakable allusions in President Donald Trump’s uncharacteristically disciplined speech at the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. At moments in his remarks at the Pentagon on Friday morning, Trump justified his decision to attack…...

10+ hour, 33+ min ago   (283+ words) A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it ordered that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s workforce be cut in half. “Frankly, the FEMA staffing plan number appears as if pulled from thin air,” Illston wrote. The…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (966+ words) Iran has signaled that it is willing to escalate its fight with the United States, with senior leaders issuing increasingly sharp warnings in recent days after attacking U.S. warships for the first time. The U.S. military said Tuesday that it had destroyed…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (880+ words) By ANUPREETA DAS, SAJAL PRADHAN and BINOD GHIMIRE Two days after a catastrophic earthquake shook Nepal in April 2015, the United States Agency for International Development deployed a 128-member disaster response team to assess how it could help and pledged $10 million…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (985+ words) Peru’s ambassador in Washington, Luis Miguel Castilla, received a stern phone call in 2015 from the State Department, after U.S. officials learned that a Chinese firm would finance a sprawling new Pacific Coast port project. Why, they asked, was Peru handing…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (759+ words) Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first stop on a three-country trip this week is Colombia. There, he plans to deliver a strong message from President Donald Trump to the country’s new president, a staunch U.S. ally, according to two…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (820+ words) New Canadian tariffs targeting roughly $20 billion in U.S. imports officially snapped into place on Tuesday, the latest escalation in an increasingly costly trade war that has ensnarled two longtime allies. The duties apply to a variety of U.S. goods, including clothing, cheese,…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (655+ words) After more than two weeks of finger-pointing, threats and patronizing insults between longtime trading partners, Canada’s latest retaliatory tariffs against the United States are set to take effect just after midnight Eastern time Tuesday. Polls show that Canadians strongly back…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1024+ words) Dozens of deportees are arriving in the Haitian city of Cap Haitien weekly as the Trump administration pushes to remove Haitians who lack legal immigration status in the United States, and some are now marooned in an unfamiliar place. More…...