5+ hour, 32+ min ago   (642+ words) By DAVID E. SANGER They were brief but unmistakable allusions in President Donald Trump’s uncharacteristically disciplined speech at the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. At moments in his remarks at the Pentagon on Friday morning, Trump justified his decision to attack…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (596+ words) A former member of Puerto Rico’s Drought Committee is warning that cloud‑seeding remains an unreliable and largely unproven tool for the island, even as the government has restarted operations over the Carraízo and La Plata reservoir basins to confront…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (880+ words) By ANUPREETA DAS, SAJAL PRADHAN and BINOD GHIMIRE Two days after a catastrophic earthquake shook Nepal in April 2015, the United States Agency for International Development deployed a 128-member disaster response team to assess how it could help and pledged $10 million…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (504+ words) Like much of the world, I’ve watched and rewatched videos of the catastrophic flood that have filtered out of Nepal with horror and sadness. But unlike many, I have an intimate knowledge of this part of the world, where I…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (985+ words) Peru’s ambassador in Washington, Luis Miguel Castilla, received a stern phone call in 2015 from the State Department, after U.S. officials learned that a Chinese firm would finance a sprawling new Pacific Coast port project. Why, they asked, was Peru handing…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (759+ words) Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first stop on a three-country trip this week is Colombia. There, he plans to deliver a strong message from President Donald Trump to the country’s new president, a staunch U.S. ally, according to two…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (820+ words) New Canadian tariffs targeting roughly $20 billion in U.S. imports officially snapped into place on Tuesday, the latest escalation in an increasingly costly trade war that has ensnarled two longtime allies. The duties apply to a variety of U.S. goods, including clothing, cheese,…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (900+ words) When a far-right party won a landslide victory Sunday in a small state in eastern Germany, its reverberations could be felt from Downing Street in London to the Élysée Palace in Paris. Rarely has the result of a regional election…...

6+ day, 51+ min ago   (655+ words) After more than two weeks of finger-pointing, threats and patronizing insults between longtime trading partners, Canada’s latest retaliatory tariffs against the United States are set to take effect just after midnight Eastern time Tuesday. Polls show that Canadians strongly back…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1024+ words) Dozens of deportees are arriving in the Haitian city of Cap Haitien weekly as the Trump administration pushes to remove Haitians who lack legal immigration status in the United States, and some are now marooned in an unfamiliar place. More…...