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The Hidden Policies That Power China’s Export Boom
Huge tax breaks and a weak currency sustain exports, widen the government budget deficit and complicate the country’s efforts to rebalance its economy.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesJim Bakker, Television Preacher Felled by Sex and Financial Scandals, Dies at 86
With his wife, Tammy Faye, Mr. Bakker built a broadcasting juggernaut around the gospel of prosperity.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Separatist Parti Québécois Wins Quebec Election, Reviving Sovereignty Push
The separatist party’s victory fell short of clinching a majority that would have all but guaranteed a potential showdown with Ottawa over Canada’s future.
New York Times Top StoriesPotential Iranian Drone Attack Led to Exit of U.S. Aircraft from British Air Base
According to U.S. and British officials, 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from R.A.F. Fairford air base were withdrawn because of the risk of a drone attack ordered by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
New York Times Top StoriesWhite House Blocked Politico From Air Force One for Trump’s Trip to Nebraska
The move is the latest round in the fight over presidential access after Mr. Trump declared a ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW.
New York Times Top StoriesHochul Declares a Measles Emergency as Cases Rise in Rural New York
The state has had 108 cases this year, the most since 2019. The declaration comes amid a national resurgence of the highly contagious viral illness.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Allows Cheaper, Dyed Diesel to Be Used in Nonfarm Vehicles
In Nebraska, President Trump announced an executive order to waive an off-road requirement for the fuel, which is exempt from the federal highway tax.
New York Times Top StoriesFacing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads
The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.
New York Times Top StoriesJeffrey Archer, Novelist Whose Real Life Rivaled His Thrillers, Dies at 86
In a life of achievement and disgrace, ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal were themes that he knew intimately and that propelled his best-selling novels.
New York Times Top StoriesSupreme Court Begins Term With Major Climate Case
Also, consider these 100 big unanswered questions. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Ketamine Emerged as a Key Factor in an Alleged Cornell Sex Assault
The powerful anesthetic has gained popularity as a party drug, including among a certain social set on the university’s campus.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Big Questions About Jeffrey Epstein: What The Times Has Learned
Here is what we know about the sexual predator whose secrets spurred an international reckoning over money, power and complicity. Check back for updates.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Cities and States Are Fighting Climate Change in Courtrooms
Faced with a president who has called global warming a hoax, officials have filed dozens of suits against oil companies to try to cover the costs of extreme weather.
New York Times Top StoriesBrazil’s Problem Is Bigger Than Bolsonaro
Brazil is fertile ground for authoritarian politics, no matter who wins this election.
New York Times Top StoriesBrazil Election Could Give Bolsonaro a Key Role in Trump’s Latin America Map
Flávio Bolsonaro, now the favorite to win Brazil’s presidency, would give President Trump a critical new ally in Latin America, particularly on security.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Campaign for Ohio’s Next Governor May Be the Ugliest in the Country
The candidates for Ohio governor have significant policy differences, but the campaign ads have been strikingly personal, with exaggerated portrayals of one candidate as a con artist and the other as a drunk.
New York Times Top StoriesIn a Major Boost for the Right, Another Bolsonaro Nears Brazil’s Presidency
Flávio Bolsonaro’s first round lead leaves President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva three weeks to find the votes to stop Brazil’s, and Latin America’s, rightward shift.
New York Times Top StoriesTexas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
New York Times Top StoriesUS Solar Panel Makers Try to Catch China With a Big Leap in Technology
Manufacturers say they are close to perfecting a new, more efficient solar panel that could help the United States reclaim ground it lost.
New York Times Top StoriesHigh Interest Rates Aren’t Slowing the A.I. Boom. That’s a Problem for the Fed.
Rising borrowing costs are taking a toll on households and businesses. But they are doing little to dampen enthusiasm for investments in A.I. infrastructure, which are contributing to inflation.
New York Times Top StoriesSpain’s Leader Calls Early Election After Housing Crisis Roils Government
Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, has faced challenges including a migration crisis and several corruption scandals involving his inner circle.
New York Times Top StoriesDisappointed by Trump? There Is a Better Way to Be a Republican.
What is the future of the conservative movement?
New York Times Top StoriesRussia Moves to Tamp Down Rumors About Plague Outbreak in Siberia
The country’s consumer watchdog has said only that “an employee of an anti-plague institute in the Irkutsk Region” contracted pneumonia. Rumors and unconfirmed reports sounded a more ominous note.
New York Times Top StoriesGeography Is Back With a Vengeance
Trade blockages in the Persian Gulf have reminded the world that there are forces as great as or greater than technology and globalization.
New York Times Top StoriesAs Students Protest Handling of Cornell Sexual Assault Case, a Building Is Vandalized
An administration building was defaced and a glass door smashed early Monday after an emotional week following revelations about 2024 sexual assault allegations.
New York Times Top StoriesMidterm Elections: Who Is Winning the Race for Congress? Latest Data
It’s Oct. 5 — 29 days away from the midterms. Here’s the state of play.
New York Times Top StoriesWe Need to Rethink How We Diagnose Mental Illness
More than half of people who qualify for one diagnosis also qualify for another during their lifetime.
New York Times Top StoriesDennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Saudi Arabia’s Last War in Yemen Turned Into a Quagmire
A Saudi-led coalition has announced a military campaign against the Iran-backed Houthi militia in the country, reviving memories of its previous effort.
New York Times Top StoriesBurst of Attacks in Gulf Heightens Fears Over Fragile Energy Trade
Strikes on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia came as the region’s exporters were getting more oil to the world market.