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Outside a children’s clinic-turned-bomb shelter in Kyiv, a huddle of passers-by wrestled with a question that has haunted Ukraine’s capital for over a day: Who is to blame for their neighbors’ deaths?Three people, including a woman and her child, were killed in an explosion around the entrance of their neighborhood shelter early Thursday morning, having been locked out in the middle of an air raid. At least a dozen others […]

The White House will renew its effort to draw China into discussions about entering arms control talks, President Biden’s national security adviser said on Friday, and will attempt to establish a global accord that specifies that artificial intelligence programs can never be used to authorize the use of nuclear weapons without a human in the decision loop.The speech by Jake Sullivan, the adviser, was the first to describe with some […]

The NewsThe search for seven missing employees of a call center led Mexican authorities to a gruesome discovery earlier this week, when at least 45 trash bags with several human remains were recovered from the bottom of a ravine on the outskirts of Guadalajara, in the state of Jalisco.“Part of the investigation and the proceedings bring us precisely to this area,” the Jalisco state prosecutor, Luis Joaquín Méndez Ruiz, told […]

About 2,500 people have been evacuated in Russia’s Belgorod region after days of Ukrainian shelling and incursions, according to the local governor, underscoring the rapid transformation of parts of the country’s western border into a war zone.“The conditions are quite difficult,” the governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said in a post on the Telegram messaging app on Friday, adding that the evacuated residents were in temporary shelters in sport centers before being […]

As Ukrainian commanders gear up for a pivotal counteroffensive to push Russian forces back in Ukraine’s war, 23-year-old Vadym, a military recruit from Kyiv, says he wants to be on its front lines, even if it means losing his life.“We’re going to die, probably,” Vadym said bluntly, as he trained on Friday at a military camp in Yorkshire, England. He was one of several hundred Ukrainians who volunteered for a […]

Did you watch the finale of “Succession” on HBO this week? If so, did the final shot of Tom and Shiv in their car make you think of “Bargaining With Patriarchy,” Deniz Kandiyoti’s 1988 article that is a foundational text of Indian feminist thought?Me too! And not just because “Bargaining With Patriarchy” would make an extremely literal three-word summary of the entire series. For while “Succession” was not overtly about […]

In the coming months, Donald Trump’s mounting legal troubles could get even worse. At least three investigations could bring more criminal charges against him.Federal officials are investigating both Trump’s handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, culminating in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Separately, a grand jury in Georgia could charge Trump by September for his attempts to change the state’s election results. […]

As Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke on Friday in the capital of NATO’s newest member, Finland, he made the case for sustained Western aid to Ukraine and warned against the allure of cease-fires that might play into Russian hands.In an address at Helsinki’s City Hall that was billed as an important overview of Washington’s thinking about the war in Ukraine, Mr. Blinken also cataloged what he called the […]

“Yes, there is,” said Robert Mulvihill, an ornithologist at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. “I know my position is at odds with some of my colleagues, but I don’t blame the house sparrow,” he said. “Introduced or not, they are now a fully naturalized wild North American species, and I don’t think any wild bird should be labeled the bad guy just for doing what it naturally does to survive.”Mulvihill […]