China’s Trade Surplus Climbs Past $1 Trillion for First Time

President Trump’s tariffs weren’t enough to hold back the global export flood by China, which pushed past last year’s record in just 11 months.A Geely manufacturing plant in Hangzhou, China. Carmakers and other exporters in traditional manufacturing powerhouses like Germany, Japan and South Korea ar

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China’s Weak Currency Is Powering Its Exports and Drawing Criticism

China’s renminbi is lagging the currencies of key trading partners, making Chinese goods and services cheap and helping to drive exports.An advertisement for a Xiaomi 17 Pro phone next to an Apple store in Shanghai. The weak value of the Chinese currency has hurt the ability of Chinese consumers to

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Democrats Call for Releasing Video of Deadly Boat Strike in the Caribbean

Top Democratic lawmakers who have seen the footage said Sunday that making the video public would provide transparency around the strikes that killed two survivors on Sept. 2.Representative Jim Himes said that the two survivors “were barely alive, much less engaging in hostilities.”

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U.S. Deports Second Planeload of Iranians, Officials Say

The plane, carrying about 50 Iranians and other deportees, took off from Arizona on Sunday, under a deal the Trump administration reached with Iran two months ago.Tehran on Sunday. The identities of the Iranians being deported from the United States, and their individual circumstances, were not imme

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Trump Hosts the Kennedy Center Honors, Breaking Tradition

Past presidents have attended the marquee event, but on Sunday Mr. Trump was the first to host it, putting his cultural takeover of Washington in sharp relief.President Trump and Melania Trump, the first lady, arriving at the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday.

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How Biden Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration

The Democratic president and his top advisers rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to the White House.People crossing the International Bridge from Matamoros, Mexico, into Texas in August 2021.

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4 Takeaways From The Times’s Reporting on Biden’s Immigration Record

A New York Times review of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s actions on immigration showed that they created an opening for a more aggressive Trump administration agenda.Customs and Border Protection agents taking migrants to be processed at a detention center in Jacumba, Calif., in 2023.

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Social Security at 70? Why the Gold Standard Advice Works for Only a Few

The standard advice is to hold off, but most retirees claim the benefit as soon as they can, at age 62. Here’s what to know when you’re planning the unplannable.Blair Barondes and his wife, Janet Bowdan, calculated that waiting until 70 to take Social Security wouldn’t net them more over their retir

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Cold Case Inquiries Stall After Ancestry.com Revisits Policy for Users

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records.David Gurney, head of Ramapo College’s Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center in New Jersey, said losing access to Ancestry had hindered cruci

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How Australia’s Social Media Ban for Children Will Work

The country is barring children under 16 from social media, with a sweeping federal law that is one of the first attempts at a nationwide regulation.James Tomlinson, 9, playing a game on a phone in Melbourne, Australia.

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Benin Coup Attempt to Oust Talon Has Been Foiled, Interior Minister Says

A spokesman said 14 members of the military had been arrested. The West African country’s president, who was not seen for hours, appeared on television Sunday night and said the coup plot would “not go unpunished.”Soldiers patrolled in front of Benin’s radio and television offices in Cotonou on Sund

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Hundreds Rally for Boy, 6, Who Was Separated From His Father by ICE

“Taking children from their families is not normal,” a speaker told the crowd in Queens, where Yuanxin Zheng attended school until being detained.“We’re not going to let ICE or Donald Trump or anyone else separate us or divide us from each other,” Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller, said at

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