Trump’s 50% Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Imports Go Into Effect
Companies that import steel for their products will now pay higher costs as a result of President Trump’s latest increase of tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum.
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on June 2025
China Really Wants to Attract Talented Scientists. Trump Just Helped.
Portraits of world-class scientists displayed in the main academic building of Westlake University in Hangzhou.
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on June 2025
U.S.-China Trade War Morphs From Tariffs Into Fight Over Supply Chain
The jet engine technology that powers airplanes comes mostly from U.S. companies, but the engines can’t function without rare earth minerals that are manufactured largely in China.
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on June 2025
Drone Attacks Are the New Front in War. Can NATO Keep Up?
Soldiers with Ukraine’s 42nd Separate Mechanized Brigade who watch for, and try to shoot down, Russian drones, in the Kharkiv region last month.
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on June 2025
As Trump Wavers, Europe Is More Optimistic About Defending Ukraine
A Ukrainian soldier on the lookout for armed Russian Shahed drones at an air defense position in the Kharkiv region last month.
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on June 2025
Why South Korea’s New Leader Name Checked North Korea but Not China
President Lee Jae-myung giving his inauguration speech at the National Assembly in Seoul on Wednesday, hours after he clinched a comfortable election victory.
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on June 2025
Amid Rising Heat, Hajj Becomes Test of Endurance for Pilgrims and Saudi Arabia
Muslim gathered for prayers around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque complex in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Monday.
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on June 2025
How a 3D-Printed Rifle Ended Up in the Middle of the Baltic Sea
Elias Andersson in his workshop with a Printax rifle. He built the gun because, he said, he had to create his own next thing on an isolated island.
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on June 2025
French Lawmakers Vote to Promote Alfred Dreyfus Amid Rising Antisemitism
An undated photograph of Alfred Dreyfus. He was publicly stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on false charges of espionage before being exonerated.
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on June 2025
Police Renew Searches in Madeleine McCann Investigation in Portugal
Portuguese officials said a new investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann started on Monday and will end on Friday.
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on June 2025
Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Calls U.S. Nuclear Deal Proposal ‘Nonsense’
In a photo released by the Iranian state news media, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waved during a speech in Tehran on Tuesday.
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on June 2025
Israeli-Backed Aid Sites in Gaza Close Temporarily After Deadly Shootings
Receiving treatment at a hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday after gunfire broke out at an aid distribution site in the area.
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on June 2025
As Trump’s Tariffs Nudge Canada Toward Free Interprovincial Trade, Gerard Comeau Gets His Revenge
“If you’re going to be a country, you’ve got to be open to trade between the provinces,” Gerard Comeau said. The police fined him for bringing too much beer from Quebec to New Brunswick.
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on June 2025
Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher.
Electricity demand is surging for the first time in decades, partly because of data centers needed for A.I., and power companies are already struggling to keep up.
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on June 2025
Vietnam Abolishes Two-Child Policy
A family in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, which instituted a two-child policy in 1988.
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on June 2025
Meet Rachel Hauck, the Set Designer Behind the Tony-Nominated Ship From ‘Swept Away’
No idea is too big to bring to life for Rachel Hauck, the Tony-nominated set designer of the Broadway musical “Swept Away.”
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Thomas
on June 2025
Wednesday Briefing: Staggering Casualties in Ukraine
Volunteers identifying the remains of Russian soldiers.
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on June 2025
Mexico’s Supreme Court Likely to Be Dominated by the Governing Morena
The chamber of the Supreme Court in Mexico City. After the court blocked some of the plans of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, he pushed to change the system to one in which voters elect judges at every level.
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on June 2025
South Korea’s New President Will Face Deep Divisions and the Trump Administration
Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s new president, at a post-election rally with his wife, Kim Hye-kyeong, in Seoul early Wednesday.
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on June 2025
U.S. Proposal in Iran Nuclear Talks Allows Some Enrichment of Uranium
The proposal is the first concrete indication since President Trump took office that the United States and Iran might be able to find a path to compromise.
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on June 2025
The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.
Keeling flasks used to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in a research laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California in April.
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on June 2025
Results of Muon Experiment Offer More Precision But No Added Clarity
The Muon g-2 ring in its detector hall at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., in 2017.
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on June 2025
Where South Korea’s New President Lee Jae-myung Stands on Trump and North Korea
South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party, is expected to change the country’s course on key issues at home and abroad.
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on June 2025
Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Former Prime Minister, Pushes Kindness in New Book
Since she resigned as prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern got married, temporarily relocated to the United States and began a fellowship at Harvard University.
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on June 2025
Ukraine Reports Striking Russia-Crimea Bridge With Underwater Explosives
The Kerch Strait Bridge, connecting the Russian mainland and Crimean peninsula, in 2023. Ukraine first attacked it the previous October, with a truck bomb.
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on June 2025
Ukraine’s Drone Strike on Russia Aims to Change Putin’s Calculus
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, seen here in an image released by Russian state media in May, has not yet publicly commented on Ukraine’s weekend operation.
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on June 2025
Michael Boren Built an Airstrip on Protected Land. Now He Might Lead the Forest Service.
The airstrip at Mr. Boren’s Hell Roaring Ranch in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho.
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on June 2025
Dutch Government Collapses After Geert Wilders Withdraws Right-Wing Party
Geert Wilders, the far-right leader of the Netherlands’ biggest political party, speaking to reporters on Tuesday. He announced his decision on social media.
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on June 2025
Young South Korean Voters Are Disenchanted With Their Choices
Protesters demonstrating against President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea in Seoul in December.
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on June 2025
South Korea Presidential Election 2025: What to Know
Voters cast their ballots in the South Korean presidential election in Seoul on Tuesday.
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on June 2025
Ukraine Shows It Can Still Flip the Script on How Wars Are Waged
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Monday that Sunday’s drone strikes, known as Operation Spider Web, had “seriously weakened” Russia’s military operations.
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on June 2025
What to Know About Ukraine’s Drone Attack on Russia
Ukrainian soldiers firing toward Russian positions near the front line in the Donetsk region on Saturday.
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on June 2025
Tuesday Briefing: South Korea Votes
Polls opened at 6 a.m. in South Korea.
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on June 2025
Mount Etna Erupts in Sicily, Sending Hikers Scrambling for Cover
Mt. Etna, on the island of Sicily, is one of Europe’s most active volcanoes and it erupted again on Monday.
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Thomas
on June 2025
South Koreans Begin Voting to Elect a New President
Election posters featuring presidential candidates
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on June 2025
German Border Police Barred From Rejecting Asylum Seekers Arriving From E.U. Nations Without Review
German federal police officers stopping vehicles attempting to enter from Poland at a border control station in Guben, Germany, in May.
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on June 2025
Poland’s Presidential Election Result Highlights Trump-Europe Divide
Karol Nawrocki waving to supporters after Sunday’s presidential election in Poland. He is an ally of the populist former governing party.
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on June 2025
In Drone Attacks on Russia, Ukraine Aims for Strategic and Symbolic Blow
Ukrainian soldiers firing toward Russian positions near the front line in the Donetsk region on Saturday.
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on June 2025
Who Is Karol Nawrocki, Poland’s Next President?
Poland’s next president, Karol Nawrocki, in Warsaw on Sunday.
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on June 2025
U.K. Faces Most Serious Military Threat Since Cold War, Starmer Says
Prime Minister Keir Starmer walking past a Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine at a shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, England, in March.
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on June 2025
Bangladesh’s Ousted Leader Sheikh Hasina Faces New Arrest Warrant
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in her office in Dhaka in 2023.
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on June 2025
Gaza Cease-Fire Negotiations Hit A New Impasse Over An Old Dispute
Israeli military strikes on Gaza have added to the suffering of Palestinian civilians as cease-fire talks have dragged on.
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Thomas
on June 2025
Scientific Dreams in the Balance
A model of the Giant Magellan Telescope at the University of Arizona’s Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory.
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on June 2025
Ukraine and Russia Met for 2nd Round of Talks as Attacks Escalate
Emergency workers on Sunday at the scene of a Russian attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
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on June 2025
China Rejects Trump’s Accusation That It Violated Trade Truce
Officials from the United States and China reached a trade truce last month following a meeting in Geneva.
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on June 2025
Bulletproof Vests and Glass: South Korean Candidate Tightens Security
Lee Jae-myung, the leader of South Korea’s Democratic Party, wore a bulletproof vest as he kicked off his presidential campaign last month.
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Thomas
on June 2025
South Korea’s New President Will Lead A Country More Divided Than Ever
Whoever becomes the next president in South Korea will not be accepted by a large swath of the polarized society.
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Thomas
on June 2025
Trump’s Domestic Policy Bill Could Hurt Global Poor, Especially Africa
Low Turnout in Mexico’s Judicial Election Fuels Legitimacy Concerns
At Least 27 Killed After Israeli Soldiers Open Fire Near Gaza Aid Site
Macron and Meloni Meet, Searching for Unity in a World of Conflict
Which Cooking Oil Is Best for the Planet?
She Crowdfunded Surgery to Repair Damage From Genital Cutting