Germany Embraces LNG as It Weans Itself Off Russian Gas
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Germany realized that its dependency on natural gas piped from Russia had endangered its energy security. It had no ports to bring in alternative…
Party Politics Is Said to Have Played a Role in Kennedy’s Firing of Vaccine Advisers
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to make decisions rooted in “gold-standard science,” fired an entire committee of vaccine advisers in part because all were appointed by…
John L. Young, 89, Dies; Pioneered Posting Classified Documents Online
John L. Young, who used his experience as a computer-savvy architect to help build Cryptome, a vast library of sensitive documents that both preceded WikiLeaks and in some ways outdid…
Newsom Says Trump Is Destroying U.S. Democracy in Speech on L.A. Protests
Gov. Gavin Newsom made the case in a televised address Tuesday evening that President Trump’s decisions to send military forces to immigration protests in Los Angeles have put the nation…
Appeals Court Pauses Order to Give Deported Venezuelans Due Process
A federal appeals court on Tuesday said the Trump administration did not have to comply for now with a judge’s order to give due process to scores of Venezuelan immigrants…
U.S. and China Agree to Walk Back Trade Tensions
The United States and China have agreed to a “framework” that is intended to ease economic tension and extend a trade truce that the world’s two largest economies reached last…
Los Angeles Protests Amplified by Influencers and Online Creators
As protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration stretched into their fifth day on Tuesday, social media creators have at times outnumbered the traditional press corps at rallies and…
After 2020, Report Urged Caution in Deploying National Guard in L.A.
During the volatile early days of the racial justice protests in 2020, city officials in Los Angeles at first resisted calling for National Guard assistance before deciding that troops were…
Democrats Grill N.I.H. Leader on Cuts: Who Is Calling the Shots?
As the Trump administration clamped down on the country’s medical research funding apparatus in recent months, scientists and administrators at the National Institutes of Health often privately wondered how much…
Reagan Invoked the ‘Welfare Queen.’ The New G.O.P. Target Is a Lazy Gamer.
Ronald Reagan and his fellow Republicans once invoked what they referred to as “welfare queens” as they made the case for reining in social spending in the 1970s and 1980s,…