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Elon Musk appeared with former President Donald J. Trump on Saturday at a rally in Butler, Pa., the site of an assassination attempt on Mr. Trump earlier this year.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, the richest man in the world has involved himself in the U.S. election in a manner unparalleled in modern history. Elon Musk, seen over the weekend

Hezbollah supporters on Wednesday mourning the deaths of four comrades killed in the explosions.Credit...Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times Follow along with the latest Middle East updates as Israel-Hezbollah tensions escalate. The pagers began beeping just after 3:30 in the afternoon in Lebanon on Tuesday, alerting Hezbollah operatives to a message from their leadership in a chorus of ch

Hezbollah blamed Israel for an apparently coordinated attack in which hundreds of pagers blew up simultaneously. The Israeli military declined to comment.CreditCredit...Reuters Israel carried out its operation against Hezbollah on Tuesday by hiding explosive material within a new batch of Taiwanese-made pagers imported into Lebanon, according to American and other officials briefed on the operatio

For liberals like me, Europe has often seemed a charmed place with sound lessons for America. Europe softened the harshest edges of capitalism, provided safety nets and in important ways has exceeded the United States in well-being. European infants are less likely to die than those in America, childbirth is less dangerous in Europe than in the United States, and Europeans live longer. Northern Eu

People across Germany are installing lightweight solar panels, without the need for an electrician or heavy tools.Credit...Photographs and Video by Patrick Junker

There are no vaccines for mpox available in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of a global health emergency declared last week, even though the country first asked for the shots two years ago and the manufacturers say they have supplies. “The most important thing we need right now are the vaccines,” said Dr. Samuel-Roger Kamba, health minister of Congo. So where are the shots? They ar

Doves flying at an annual peace ceremony in Nagasaki, Japan, in 2022, on the anniversary of the American atomic bombing of the city. Credit...Kyodo, via Reuters The U.S. and British ambassadors to Japan said on Wednesday they would not attend Nagasaki’s annual peace memorial ceremony this week, which marks the day the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city, because Israel had not been in

Vance Denigrated Harris for Being Childless. Her Blended Family Is Defending Her. JD Vance’s 2021 insult of “childless cat ladies” has sparked bipartisan outrage at a moment when women’s choices are seen as a galvanizing political force.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/world/asia/japan-randoseru-backpack.html Nearly every elementary school student in Japan carries a book bag known as a randoseru, a staple of Japanese childhood for close to 150 years. No one mandates that students use these backpacks, but strong social norms lead most families to purchase them for their children. When fully loaded with textbooks, worksheets, pen

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Follow the latest news on the Trump assassination attempt. In documenting the Pennsylvania campaign rally on Saturday afternoon that turned into an attempt on a former president’s life, Doug Mills, a veteran New York Times photographer, appeared to capture the image of a bullet streaking past former President Donald J. Trump’s head. That is the assessment of Michael Harrigan, a retired F.B.I. spec

In Scranton, Pa., 155-millimeter artillery shells are being manufactured.Credit...Brendan McDermid/Reuters President Biden wants the world to believe that the biggest obstacle facing Ukraine is Republicans and our lack of commitment to the global community. This is wrong. Ukraine’s challenge is not the G.O.P.; it’s math. Ukraine needs more soldiers than it can field, even with draconian conscripti

As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Many of us find joy in looking back and taking stock of our reading lives, which is why we here at The New York Times Book Review decided to mark the first 25 years of this century with an ambitious project: to take a first swing at determini

President Biden has told key allies that he knows the coming days are crucial and understands that he may not be able to salvage his candidacy if he cannot convince voters that he is up to the job after a disastrous debate performance last week. According to two allies who have spoken with him, Mr. Biden has emphasized that he is still deeply committed to the fight for re-election but understands

Last week I had the time of my life at the Tony Awards introducing a song from “Suffs,” the Broadway musical I co-produced about the suffragists who won women the right to vote. I was thrilled when the show took home the awards for best original score and best book. From “Suffs” to “Hamilton,” I love theater about politics. But not the other way around. Too often we approach pivotal moments like t

I wrote a column recently lamenting the decline in marriage rates, noting that a record half of American adults are now unmarried. As a long-married romantic myself, steeped in statistics suggesting that marriage correlates with happiness, I found that sad. My readers, not so much. Many women readers in particular dismissed heterosexual marriage as an outdated institution that pampers men while tu

Kabosu, a Shiba Inu whose “much wow” face helped launch one of the defining memes of the last decade and inspired the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, died on Friday. She was 18 years old. She “crossed the rainbow bridge” on Friday, her owner Atsuko Sato said on social media, adding that she died without suffering, and as Ms. Sato was petting her. She died at home in Sakura, a city east of Tokyo, Ms. Sato

Linnea Sage and Paul Skye Lehrman were shocked when they heard A.I.-generated versions of their voices.Credit...Elianel Clinton for The New York Times Last summer, as they drove to a doctor’s appointment near their home in Manhattan, Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage listened to a podcast about the rise of artificial intelligence and the threat it posed to the livelihoods of writers, actors and ot

Celebrating the Tennessee Volkswagen workers’ vote to unionize.Credit...Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Last week, employees at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted by almost three to one to join the United Automobile Workers. By the numbers, this wasn’t a big deal: It involved only a few thousand workers in an economy that employs almost 160 million people. But it was an important symbol

Paul Auster, the prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel and who endured to become one of the signature New York writers of his generation, died on Tuesday evening at his home in Brooklyn. He was 77. His death, from complications of lung cancer, was confirmed by his wife, the writer Siri Hustvedt. With his hooded

Nemat Shafik during a House committee hearing on antisemitism.Credit...Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press This article has been updated to include new information about the number of arrests at Columbia University on Thursday. Columbia’s exceptionally poised president, Nemat Shafik, clearly has no intention of going down like the former heads of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, both driv