The duties are a retaliation against President Trump’s recent tariffs, raising concerns about further escalation.A shipment of Montana lumber last week in Canada, where it will be used to build beehives.
Americans in border regions have had symbiotic relationships with Canadians, but the trade war is testing their bonds.Blaine, Wash., a border town, has had a close relationship with Canadians in the past. But tensions have risen since President Trump imposed tariffs last year.
Investors are focused on strong corporate earnings and A.I., while looking past the war in Iran. But rising interest rates are an increasing risk to the rally.
Plus, could crushable concrete stop the next plane crash?U.S. government investigators are subjecting roughly 50 members of the military’s Joint Staff to polygraph tests, according to officials briefed on the move.
The Mamdani administration is releasing more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
Much of the research on exposure to the World Trade Center residue has focused on emergency workers, but people there when they were young say their health is at risk, too.Jacob Fortinsky and Sarah Fortinsky were growing up across from the World Trade Center. The Sept. 11, 2001, attack still casts a
The latest escalation threatens to drag Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthi militia back into a full-blown war.Members of the Houthi security force standing guard in Sanaa, Yemen, in July.
A longtime ally of Israel, the U.K. has condemned plans to expand the settlements, which are widely considered illegal under international law.Palestinian villagers harvesting olives in the village of Turmus Aya, with Israeli settlements in the background, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.Senator Roger Marshall spent 25 years practicing obstetrics before running for Congress.
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The attack, discovered by A.I. researchers, could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.Researchers at Calif, a security company, recently built a hacking tool in a little more than a week that could run roughshod across WeChat, the popular messaging platform.
Listing sites are littered with homes with fake fireplaces, improved views and virtual landscaping, raising false advertising concerns.
Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence.A Mistral event in Paris in May. The company, which started making artificial intelligence models in 2023, will now also build data centers and other A.I. infra
Jacob Tsimerman, a recent recipient of the Fields Medal, believes that higher mathematics can help curb the dangers of runaway artificial intelligence.Canadian mathematician Jacob Tsimerman, who has announced the founding of the Mathematical A.I. Safety Institute (MAISI).
Melting ice is opening a trade route through the Arctic. China has begun the first regular service, part of its polar ambitions.
China’s exports grew by a quarter in the month of August, weeks before its leader, Xi Jinping, is set to meet with President Trump in Washington.Containers at a port in Nanjing, China, on Monday. Some of the demand for Chinese goods globally has been driven by a voracious appetite to build out artif
Chancellor Friedrich Merz was a drag on his conservative party in its disastrous loss to the far right in a state election. He has vowed better communication, but no policy changes.Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor and the Christian Democratic Union party leader, at a press briefing in Berlin on
In an era of heavy rain, a transit system with 47,000 openings is bound to leak.Flooding in Penn Station, Aug. 20. New York City is no longer dealing just with the usual water challenges of the past century. The rain has become worse — a lot worse.
Residential buildings with fewer than 10 units are required to put out their trash in official “NYC Bins” as part of the city’s efforts to deter rats. Owners who don’t comply will be fined.The grace period is ending: Residential buildings with nine or fewer units that do not use official city bins f
Almost a year after the brazen Louvre heist, thieves targeted a museum that was formerly the artist’s home in the south of France.Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s study at his museum in Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France, in 2016. The museum was broken into early Tuesday, and several artworks were stolen.
Less than two years after a catastrophic election, the Democratic brand remains unpopular, and the party is still in the grip of a divisive identity crisis.
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We look at escalating tensions between the United States and Canada.Prime Minister Mark Carney
