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Xi Jinping, who rules with absolute authority, has shown he is willing to let the Chinese people endure hardship. President Trump revealed he has limits.

After years of building relationships with congressional Republicans and conservative think tanks, officials in Somaliland believe President Trump will grant their ultimate wish: statehood.

President Trump may be turning relations with NATO and Russia inside out, but winter war games revealed that two militaries’ cooperation was unchanged.

Fan gatherings present opportunities to geek out with fellow enthusiasts. Can we cultivate some of that energy in everyday life?

Pierre Poilievre’s 25-point lead in the polls evaporated, and he struggled to switch voters’ focus to the economy, crime and other issues.

In the city of Machala, a former booming economic hub now ravaged by drug violence and unemployment, residents are split between two candidates ahead of a runoff election on Sunday.

What explains the Trump administration’s radical reversal toward Moscow?

Moscow is hinting that the company would be welcomed back as part of a thaw under President Trump. Industry skepticism runs deep.

Agustín Escobar and Mercè Camprubí Montal, both executives from Spain, died on Thursday in a crash near New York City along with their three children and the pilot.

The slumping dollar and increase in yields on U.S. government bonds were signs that the world’s faith in the United States economy had been shaken.

President Trump’s auto tariffs remain in place even after he paused many other levies. In Solihull, where Jaguar Land Rover employs 9,000 people and has suspended exports to the United States, residents are anxious.

Ursula von der Leyen is trying to ensure that if the international trading system is remade, the E.U. is at the center of what comes next.

More than 10,000 people will be put on track for deportation in May and June as a result of the Department of Homeland Security’s action.

President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.

Although the military did not say why the colonel had been dismissed, it said it would not tolerate any subversion of President Trump’s agenda.

In the usually steady government bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury has risen to about 4.5 percent from less than 4 percent at the end of last week.

A new declaration targeted eastern Gaza City, including several areas that had been declared evacuation zones. The United Nations said 390,000 people had been displaced in recent weeks.

Appearing publicly in street clothes for the first time as pontiff, Pope Francis went into St. Peter’s Basilica to pray and greet the faithful.

Pete Hegseth’s predecessor as defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, started the roughly 50-nation group to support Kyiv after Russia invaded in 2022, but he has given up leadership.

Xi Jinping has refused to back down in China’s tariff confrontation with President Trump. But he’ll have to persuade his people that the pain is worth it.