When it came to wildfires, 2021 was an increasingly common kind of year in Montana: Flames consumed 747,000 acres, an area nearly the size of Long Island. About 2,700 of those acres were on Don Harland’s Sheep Creek Ranch, where ever-drier summers have turned lodgepole pines into matchsticks ready to ignite. After the smoke cleared,…
President Biden used the normally festive St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the White House on Sunday to acknowledge growing international concern, including among the Irish, about the humanitarian situation of Palestinians in light of Israeli military action in Gaza. “The Taoiseach and I agree on the urgent need to increase humanitarian assistance in Gaza and…
The Biden administration will provide up to $6.6 billion in grants to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the leading maker of the most advanced microchips, to bring some of the most advanced semiconductor technologies to the United States. Funding from the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act will help support the construction of TSMC’s first major U.S….
The flags of China and Hong Kong are displayed in rows. Bloomberg Creative | Creative Bloomberg Photos | Getty Images The Chinese embassy on Thursday responded to U.S. criticism of Hong Kong’s new national security law, saying the U.S. should “respect China’s sovereignty.” Hong Kong lawmakers passed a new national security law on Tuesday that…
As Democrats face a presidential campaign against a resurgent and resilient Donald J. Trump and a brutally challenging Senate map, they believe they have an increasingly powerful political weapon: ballot measures protecting abortion rights. Two key presidential and Senate battlegrounds, Arizona and Nevada, are expected to put such measures squarely before voters. The same goes…
Senator Robert Menendez arrives at the federal courthouse in Manhattan, New York City on May 13, 2024. Fatih files | Anadolu | Getty Images A judge warned lawyers Monday not to play legal games shortly after they were called in to begin the federal corruption trial of Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. “There has been too…
MSNBC placed a big bet on becoming comfort TV for liberals. Then it doubled down. Time slots on the cable network once devoted to news programming are now occupied by Trump-bashing opinion hosts. The channel has become a landing spot for high-profile alumni of President Biden’s administration like Jen Psaki, who went from hosting White…
After a setback at two Mercedes-Benz plants in Alabama on Friday, efforts by the United Automobile Workers union to organize other auto plants in the South are likely to wane and may struggle to make headway. About 56 percent of Mercedes workers who voted opposed the UAW in an election after the union scored two…
Enlarge symbolArrows point outwards Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, Russian citizen and one of the leaders of LockBit. Courtesy: U.S. Department of the Treasury Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced criminal charges against a Russian citizen, Dmitri Yuryevich Khoroshev, for allegedly founding, developing and managing the ransomware-as-a-service group LockBit. At the same time, the US State Department offered…
After years of closely guarding his privacy and keeping him out of the political arena, former President Donald J. Trump’s youngest son, Barron, has been selected as one of Florida’s delegates to the Republican National Convention. Barron, who turned 18 earlier this year and will graduate high school this month, will be one of 41…
