President Trump has yet to make a decision, but his advisers are pressing a range of objectives — from attacking drug cartels to seizing oil fields — to try to justify ousting Nicolás Maduro.
Accurate, reliable results play a role in free and fair elections. So does explaining the data and helping people understand when and how it will be reported.
The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and medical journals, most likely using chatbots to boost the number of citations they’ve published.
A research scientist who published a paper in a scientific journal about controlling mosquito-borne malaria infections was asked to rebut a letter to the editor sent by a scientist who had suddenly become improbably prolific starting in 2025.
Diamonds are mined in various countries but are often cut and polished in India. President Trump used emergency powers to impose a 50 percent tariff on Indian exports in August.
President Trump is showing mounting frustration at his inability to win confirmation of U.S. attorneys in blue states or break the filibuster's grip on the Senate. The G.O.P. has been uncharacteristically uncooperative.
The murder of Mexico’s most vocal anti-crime mayor shows that, despite President Claudia Sheinbaum’s crackdown on drug cartels, the battle is just beginning.
A Ukrainian soldier from an artillery unit of the 59th Assault Brigade in the Dnipropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine last month. Until now, the country’s troops have served under open-ended contracts.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed the idea that his presence could be seen as an attempt to intimidate the court on a case that President Trump considers vital to his economic policy.
A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change.
Dick Cheney at a House committee hearing in 1990, when he was the secretary of defense under President George H. W. Bush. At left is Gen. Colin L. Powell.
Bucking the anti-immigration trend in British politics, remote areas of Scotland would like to attract foreign workers to offset declining local populations.
The Liberty Justice Center led by Sara Albrecht is better known for backing right-leaning causes, but it filed the tariff case that will be heard by the Supreme Court this week.
“We’re going to make them proud,” Mike Lindell, the owner of LindellTV, said of the administration. His outlet supports the president and is among those that agreed to the Pentagon’s new press rules.