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Saudi Arabia, Rich With Oil, Wants to Be Known as the A.I. Exporter

The kingdom is pouring money into data centers and working with U.S. and Chinese tech giants, landing its A.I. ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle for tech power.

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A New Dynamic in the Trump-Netanyahu Relationship

Since an Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal came into effect, the U.S. effort to sustain it appears to have constrained Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, left, and President Trump in Israel’s Parliament this month. A new phase in the countries’ relationship has been taking form.
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As This President Tours Asia, Democracy’s Ideals Aren’t on the Agenda

Several of the leaders President Trump will encounter are either autocrats or presiding over fragile democracies. And some admire his willingness to break the rules.

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Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia welcoming President Trump to Kuala Lumpur, the capital, on Sunday.
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Strains in Short-Term Markets Raise Urgency of Fed Balance Sheet Debate

Warning signs in crucial money markets have raised the prospect that the central bank will soon stop reducing its portfolio of government debt and mortgage bond holdings.

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Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, recently sent his strongest signal yet that the central bank would soon end its balance sheet reduction program, known as quantitative tightening.
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How the Firebombing of His Home Changed Josh Shapiro

In an interview, the Pennsylvania governor offered his most detailed accounting yet of the April attack — and how he’s grappling with its aftermath.

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“The hardest part for me has been navigating this as a dad,” Gov. Josh Shapiro said in an interview this month.
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How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught

History lessons are being wiped from the internet, and California is retreating from ethnic studies, as education swings away from curriculums that are seen as too progressive.

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Japan’s New Leader Faces an Early Test: Winning Over Trump

As Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi seeks reassurance from President Trump on trade and security, she will likely play up her ties to Shinzo Abe, a mutual friend.

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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan will meet President Trump for the first time during a state visit that starts on Monday.
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Javier Milei’s Party Triumphs in Argentina Midterm Election

The result, which gives Mr. Milei enough legislative support to keep his vetoes from being overturned, showed that many voters still back the president’s libertarian experiment.

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President Javier Milei of Argentina in the city of Rosario on Thursday.
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Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, Is Resurgent

A Somali hospital ward packed with gasping children shows how war, climate and mistrust of vaccines is fueling the disease’s return.

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Dr. Mohamud Omar, a pediatrician examining a child’s tonsils in the diphtheria ward of Demartino Public Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, last month.
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U.S. Assessment of Israeli Shooting of Journalist Divided American Officials

A U.S. colonel has gone public with his concern that official findings about the 2022 killing of a Palestinian American reporter were soft-pedaled to appease Israel.

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A memorial at the site of Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing in Jenin, in the West Bank. Ms. Abu Akleh, a reporter for Al Jazeera, was fatally shot during a confrontation between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in 2022.
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2 U.S. Navy Aircraft Go Down in South China Sea

A helicopter and a fighter jet went down in separate incidents while operating from a U.S. aircraft carrier on Sunday, the Navy said. The crews were rescued.

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A MH-60R Sea Hawk on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan in the South China Sea in 2020. The same model of helicopter went down in the sea on Sunday.
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In U.K., China Is a Threat and a Coveted Trade Partner

A botched spying case prompted accusations that the British government was soft on China, highlighting tensions between economic and national security interests.

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Protesters in February against a proposal to move China’s embassy in London to the former site of the Royal Mint.
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Japan Deals With the Price of Playing to Trump: $550 Billion

A new prime minister must decide whether to maintain the previous administration’s deferential negotiating strategy that secured a contentious trade deal.

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Scott Bessent, the U.S. Treasury secretary, with Ryosei Akazawa, who led Japan’s side of trade negotiations, in Osaka, Japan, in July.
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