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Oil Producers Fail to Agree on More Production Cuts
Oil prices fell after OPEC Plus’s year-end gathering failed to produce substantial cuts in output. But the group said Brazil, an oil giant, was expected to join.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesLarry Fink, Whose Photographs Were ‘Political, Not Polemical,’ Dies at 82
His black-and-white images captured the chilly anomie of Manhattan’s haute monde, the strangeness of Hollywood royalty and the lively warmth of rural America.
New York Times Top StoriesU.K. Opens Inquiry Into Jeff Zucker’s Emirati-Backed Bid for The Telegraph
British regulators announced a review into whether the bid, backed mostly by funds from the United Arab Emirates, could result in adverse foreign influence over the British press.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Georgia Lawyer, Steven Sadow, May Soon Drop His Quiet Strategy
Steven Sadow’s minimalist approach in the racketeering case against his client has created some dramatic tension, but his silence may be coming to an end.
New York Times Top StoriesWar-Inflicted Slowdown Ends Robust Year for Tourism in Middle East
Amid security concerns brought on by the Israel-Hamas conflict, international travel has shuddered to a halt in Israel and is falling in neighboring Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt.
New York Times Top StoriesAn Alleged Plot’s Burning Question: Why Would India Take the Risk?
After an indictment accuses an Indian official of ordering an assassination on U.S. soil, diplomats and experts debate how far up the chain the scheme went.
New York Times Top StoriesCOP28 Climate Summit Approves a New Fund to Help Poorer Countries
The package, which developing countries had sought for more than three decades, passed on the first day of talks in Dubai.
New York Times Top StoriesEmirati Fund to Invest Billions in U.S. Firms for Climate Projects
An Abu Dhabi fund is expected to invest at least $30 billion in climate projects with some of the biggest names in North American finance.
New York Times Top StoriesHow a Book Publishing ‘Mistake’ Reignited the U.K.’s Royal Racism Furor
The rollout of “Endgame” caused a scandal after a quickly withdrawn translation named family members said to have asked about the skin color of Prince Harry and Meghan’s future son.
New York Times Top StoriesBrain Study Suggests Traumatic Memories Are Processed as Present Experience
Traumatic memories had their own neural mechanism, brain scans showed, which may help explain their vivid and intrusive nature.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Are Nonprofit Hospitals Focused More on Dollars Than Patients?
Community hospitals have been caught doing some surprising things, given how they are supposed to serve the public good.
New York Times Top StoriesDivided by Politics, a Colorado Town Mends Its Broken Bones
Two years after death threats and aspersions roiled little Silverton, the town has found a semblance of peace and a lesson for a ruptured nation.
New York Times Top StoriesHenry Kissinger Always Tended His Image, Even With His Obituary
Interviewing Henry Kissinger was a bit like negotiating an arms control agreement: Full of complexity, nuance, evasion and declarations you had to check. And utterly fascinating.
New York Times Top StoriesA New ‘NCIS’ Is More of the Same, By Design
The long-running crime franchises “NCIS” and “Law & Order” continue to endure — and even expand — after decades on the air.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Fed’s Preferred Inflation Measure Eased in October
The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index continued to cool and consumer spending was moderate, good news for the Federal Reserve.
New York Times Top StoriesDisinformation Is Big Challenge as COP28 Opens in Dubai
Online influencers, fossil fuel companies and some of the countries attending COP28 have nourished a feedback loop of falsehoods.
New York Times Top StoriesClimate Change Drives New Cases of Malaria, Complicating Efforts to Fight the Disease
The number of malaria cases rose again in 2022, propelled by flooding and warmer weather in areas once free of the illness.
New York Times Top StoriesElon Musk and Other DealBook Summit Highlights
Artificial intelligence, antisemitism, the 2024 presidential election, war in the Middle East and other big topics that made headlines at this year’s DealBook Summit.
New York Times Top StoriesShane MacGowan, Pogues Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Dies at 65
As frontman for the Pogues, he delivered lyrics romanticizing whiskey-soaked rambles and hard-luck stories of emigration, while providing a musical touchstone for members of the Irish diaspora worldwide.
New York Times Top StoriesKissinger’s Legacy Still Ripples Through Vietnam and Cambodia
His decision to authorize the bombing of Cambodia, efforts to extricate the U.S. from the Vietnam War and role in the rapprochement with China continue to be felt in Southeast Asia.
New York Times Top StoriesAnnounced at COP28 Climate Talks: This Year Is Hottest in Recorded History
Scientists confirmed another year of extreme temperatures as world leaders gathered in Dubai for a U.N. summit on global warming.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat the Polls Say About Gaza
Four main findings from recent polls about the war.
New York Times Top StoriesHostages Freed From Gaza Recount Violence, Hunger and Fear
Hostages who have returned to Israel in the past week have come home malnourished, ill, injured and bearing psychological wounds.
New York Times Top StoriesAn Extended Truce, and Kissinger Dead at 100
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New York Times Top StoriesBig Companies Find a Way to Identify A.I. Data They Can Trust
Mainstream companies have concerns about the lineage of the data that powers A.I. applications. An industry group is addressing that challenge.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Bad Vibes Around a Good Economy
Unemployment is low and people are still spending. But that doesn’t mean they think things are going well.
New York Times Top StoriesRussia Asks Court to Label Gay Rights Movement as ‘Extremist’
Activists say the designation could put L.G.B.T.Q. people and their organizations under threat of criminal prosecution for something as simple as displaying the rainbow flag.
New York Times Top StoriesBiden Administration to Require Replacing of Lead Pipes Within 10 Years
The proposal to rip out nine million pipes across the country could cost as much as $30 billion but would nearly eliminate the neurotoxin from drinking water.
New York Times Top StoriesKissinger Kept Busy as a Diplomat Long After Leaving State Department
Just this summer, the ultimate back-channel diplomat returned to Beijing, where he had negotiated the opening to China.
New York Times Top StoriesHow a ‘Goon Squad’ of Deputies Got Away With Years of Brutality
They barged into homes in the middle of the night, then held people down while they beat and choked them, witnesses said. For years, signs of the violence went ignored.