China’s population fell for a fourth straight year and its birthrate tumbled as policymakers failed to slow a demographic crisis.Despite sweeping efforts to boost births, China’s population has shrunk and aged for a fourth straight year as deaths again outnumbered births.
Falling apartment prices have erased the savings of millions of Chinese households, but exports lifted the economy to 5 percent growth last year.China is still grappling with a property market crash that began four years ago, after many years of overbuilding.
One of Asia’s most dynamic nations is weighing how to balance government control with raising per capita G.D.P. by about 70 percent in five years.Signage for the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam outside the National Convention Center in Hanoi this month.
European Union ambassadors held an emergency meeting on Sunday, and leaders from across the 27-nation bloc will meet in Brussels later this week.The flag of Greenland flying outside the Danish Parliament on Friday.
The American president’s vow to get Greenland, the semiautonomous Danish territory, has thrown the tiny, pro-American Nordic nation into crisis.Demonstrators gather at Råduspladsen, City Hall in Copenhagen on Saturday. People gathered in different cities in Denmark and Greenland to protest against U
Legal and criminal justice experts said a ruling by a federal judge last week revealed conduct by immigration agents that evokes the civil rights era.Federal agents hold down a protester outside the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis on Jan. 11.
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order, then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents deployed.Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, at the White House last week.
In a surprise appearance in New Jersey, the musician dedicated his song “The Promised Land” to Ms. Good, who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this month.Bruce Springsteen performing in Los Angeles in October.
Pull up a stool at Ye Old Pickle Factory and listen to a story about America’s urban-rural divide.Outside of the Twin Cities area, at places like Ye Old Pickle Factory in Nisswa, Minn., support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement is widespread.
The collision, caused by the derailment of one of the trains, was the deadliest in Spain since at least 2013.A person affected by a deadly train derailment is transferred for treatment to the Caseta Municipal in Adamuz, Spain, on Sunday.
The 30-year-old albino resident of the California Academy of Sciences died last month. On Sunday, thousands paid tribute.A nearly life-size sourdough loaf depicting Claude, the albino alligator who died last month, was created by Boudin Bakery, in San Francisco.
In previously unreported remarks, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that Mr. Trump would “sue” the news outlet if it did not air an interview unedited.Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, at a briefing at the White House on Thursday.
A 13-minute segment about Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration had been pulled at the last minute by CBS News’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss.The report featured the stories of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador.
The traditional rhetoric of the World Economic Forum centered on global integration, climate change and international cooperation. Not anymore.Attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last year.
The World Economic Forum, which takes place in Switzerland, aims to meet at least some of the goals its leaders set for the rest of the world.The town of Davos, Switzerland, site of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. Over the years, the event’s organizers have been working to reduce the envi
In his new memoir, the Pennsylvania governor suggests that when Kamala Harris’s team vetted him to be her running mate, aides focused on Israel to an extent he found offensive.A new memoir by Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania goes into detail about his experience being vetted to be former Vice Presi
The potential 2028 presidential candidates showcased a Democratic midterm strategy that would assail G.O.P. votes in favor of cutting Medicaid and allowing health care subsidies to expire.Pete Buttigieg argued that pressure from Wisconsinites had led their Republican congressional representative to
The president urged Representative Julia Letlow of Louisiana to run against Mr. Cassidy, in a move that is likely to further complicate his relationship with Senate Republicans.Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, has sometimes criticized President Trump and voted to convict him in his sec
The author of the memoir “I’m Glad My Mom Died” hopes her debut novel, about a teen’s sexual relationship with her teacher, will make readers uncomfortable.“Anger’s a really useful place to write from,” says Jennette McCurdy about “Half His Age,” her first novel.
Jennette McCurdy follows “I’m Glad My Mom Died” with “Half His Age,” a debut novel that confirms her gift as a chronicler of disaffected girlhood.Jennette McCurdy in 2020, just before the release of her memoir, “I’m Glad My Mom Died.”
Raj Subramaniam took over three years ago from FedEx’s founder, who ran the company for nearly 50 years. Since then, technology, tariffs and other disruptions have “fundamentally shifted” patterns of global trade.FedEx, which handles more than 17 million packages per day, is the “heartbeat of the in
More than 1 percent of New Zealand’s population left over the year ending in October. Many of the migrants were chasing salaries and opportunities in neighboring Australia.Travelers at Wellington International Airport, in New Zealand last month.
Everyone expected “The Kholops,” a drama exploring oppression, to be shut down soon after it opened in St. Petersburg. Instead, it is two years into a sold-out run.
Getting family members to listen to you when you think they are headed down a dangerous financial path can be difficult. But there are preventive steps you can take.In 2024, Rianka Dorsainvil’s mother came to her with a check that looked legitimate. It turned out to be part of a common check fraud s
