The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Maine legislators to temporarily restore the voting power of a state lawmaker after she had been censured for a social media post that criticized transgender athletes’ participation in girls’ sports. The order was unsigned and did not provide the court’s reasoning, as is typical in such emergency applications. No […]
Even as the United States and China take steps to rein in their trade war, Beijing is preparing for broader rivalry with Washington to continue. For China, that means its search for economic and diplomatic opportunities across Asia is unlikely to soften its tough line on its regional territorial claims and military competition. Both sides […]
Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, never styled himself as an anti-Trump figure in his pitch for re-election. He said he trusted President Trump, and that he respected America’s democratic process. He rarely invoked Mr. Trump by name, redirecting questions about him to discussions of budget surpluses or a comment that he was focused on Australia. […]
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For months, Moscow and Pyongyang had been vague about the deployment of North Korean troops in Russia’s war against Ukraine, even after Kyiv publicly paraded two North Korean soldiers its forces had captured. Then, in back-to-back statements, the leaders of the two countries confirmed that North Korean troops have been fighting shoulder to shoulder with […]
Former President Moon Jae-in of South Korea was indicted on a bribery charge on Thursday, becoming the latest ex-leader to face a criminal trial in a country where subjecting former leaders to criminal investigations has become a recurring pattern. Mr. Moon, who left office after his five-year term ended in 2022, faces the corruption charge […]
As Argentines bid farewell to Pope Francis, the grief of the faithful has been deepened by a lingering sorrow, a question that has hung in the Buenos Aires air: Why did their native son never return home? “I have to be honest, I didn’t like that he never came to Argentina,” Laura Aguirre, 50, a […]
Elon Musk might be this country’s most famous pronatalist. He has a well-documented obsession with the declining birthrate, which he believes could doom humanity. “Unless that changes,” he told Bret Baier last month, “civilization will disappear.” He has also taken this on as something of a personal mission. Musk has at least 14 children with […]
Ukraine and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding late on Thursday on a minerals agreement, according to Ukraine’s economy minister, bringing both sides closer to a deal that has gone through multiple, contentious rounds of negotiations. The signing fell short of a full agreement on the final terms of a minerals deal, which […]
Siding with the Trump administration, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, said on Monday that he would not send back a Salvadoran migrant, whom the U.S. authorities deported from Maryland in error last month, an expulsion that set off a legal battle that has reached the Supreme Court. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the […]
