China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, and other members of the Politburo standing committee in Beijing this month. Mr. Xi and senior officials released a five-year plan for the country that outlines a continued push on industrial and technical power.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivering remarks during an event at the Pentagon last month. Mr. Hegseth said that the latest strikes — three of them — took place in international waters and that there had been one survivor.
China’s leader draws on lessons from Lin Zexu, a Qing official whose defiance of Britain led to China’s humiliating defeat but made him a national hero.
The court ruled that Bill Essayli had been acting “unlawfully” as U.S. attorney in Los Angeles but that he could stay on as the office’s top deputy for now.
A handful of Republicans crossed party lines to side with Democrats in the first of several votes this week aimed at challenging the president’s trade war.
“Emergencies are like war, famine, tornado,” said Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, the sole Republican sponsor of the resolution rejecting the tariffs on Brazil and the president’s emergency justification.
President Trump speaking in Japan on Tuesday. Mr. Trump, who is scheduled to arrive in South Korea on Wednesday, has repeatedly offered to meet with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.
The authorities have been scrambling to accommodate this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Gyeongju, which is known for tombs, temples and pagodas.
Gyeongju, South Korea, the venue for 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum does not have the infrastructure to host a major international gathering.
Senate Republicans cited a call by the American Federation of Government Employees to pass a funding extension in an attempt to pressure Democrats to relent. The effort fell flat.
The authorities said the deadliest operation in Rio’s history had killed four police officers and at least 60 other people. It was an attack on “narco-terrorists,” the state governor said.
A Lufthansa flight from Chicago to Germany was forced to divert to Boston after a passenger attacked two teenagers with a metal fork, according to the federal prosecutors.
The speaker said he did not see a path to amending the Constitution to allow the president to seek a third term, but that it was fun to pretend he could to inflame Democrats.
A P-3 Orion hurricane hunter plane, nicknamed Kermit, preparing to take off from Lakeland, Fla., to collect data on what became Hurricane Helene last September.
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