The hotel ballroom was packed before breakfast as Jigar Shah took the stage at the oil and gas industry’s annual conference in Houston this spring. The host joked he was confident a huge crowd would come out for Mr. Shah, even at 7:30 a.m. It’s rare for a midlevel federal official to attract so much attention. But […]
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U.S. to End Title 42 Policy Blocking Migrants: Live Updates
The day before Title 42 was scheduled to end, hundreds of migrants gathered on the banks of the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas. Some of them, unable to wait any longer, cut a hole through a fence and made it to onto U.S. soil, before uniformed agents resealed the barricade. The majority retreated and bided […]
Kiel-Qingdao Sister City Plan Stalled Amid German Wariness of China
City officials in the northern German port of Kiel were flattered this year when the Chinese port of Qingdao — about 40 times its size — proposed partnering up as a sister city. They rushed to embrace the offer. The two cities had a history of cooperation dating to when the Germans helped their Chinese […]
Joran van der Sloot, Natalee Holloway Disappearance Suspect, to face U.S. charges
A man connected to the 2005 disappearance in Aruba of Natalee Holloway, an American teenager, will be temporarily extradited to the United States from Peru to face extortion and wire fraud charges, the Peruvian authorities said on Wednesday. Ms. Holloway, then 18, disappeared during a trip to the Dutch island with her Alabama high school […]
A TikTok Trend is Driving Americans to Smuggle Fruit Roll-Ups
Cocaine. Foreign currencies. Firearms. All contraband that customs agents are trained to catch. But hundreds of pounds of Fruit Roll-Ups? Welcome to the age of TikTok-influenced smuggling. Because of a recipe that spread widely on the social media platform, Fruit Roll-Ups — the American-made fruit leather snack that has been passed out to children at […]
Ukraine Claims Gains Near Bakhmut: Live News Updates
President Salome Zourabichvili of Georgia called Mr. Putin’s decision “unacceptable” and a “provocation.”Credit…Tomasz Wiktor/EPA, via Shutterstock TBILISI, Georgia — President Vladimir V. Putin on Wednesday ordered the restoration of direct flights from Russia to the mountainous former Soviet republic of Georgia starting May 15 and abolished visa requirements for Georgian nationals, in the latest sign […]
Israel Strikes Gaza Again, Saying It Is Targeting Islamic Jihad Rockets
The Israeli military carried out airstrikes in the Palestinian coastal enclave of Gaza on Wednesday, saying that it was hitting the rocket-launching infrastructure of the militant group Islamic Jihad. Shortly afterward, militants in Gaza began firing salvos of rockets toward Israel, reaching as far north as the skies above the suburbs of Tel Aviv. The […]
Your Wednesday Briefing – The New York Times
Trump found liable in civil sexual abuse case A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the former magazine writer E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million in damages. More than a dozen women have accused the former president of sexual misconduct over the years, but this is the only […]
Alberta Wildfires Force Tens of Thousands in Canada to Evacuate
CALGARY, Alberta — Judy Greenwood did not want to leave. But when the evacuation alerts on her phone blared repeatedly and emergency officials knocked on her door, she and her husband loaded their four cats into the car and drove away from their rural hamlet to escape approaching wildfires. In much of the western province […]
Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Ex-Leader, Is Arrested
Pakistan’s ousted prime minister, Imran Khan, was arrested on corruption charges Tuesday, in a major escalation of a political crisis that has engulfed the country over the past year and that raises the prospect of mass unrest by his supporters. The arrest intensified a showdown between the powerful Pakistani military and Mr. Khan, and brought […]