JAKARTA – Poor oversight of plantations and urban developments in the mountainous northern Bandung region have reduced the area’s water absorption capacity, a factor academics and environmental groups ...

No child should be collateral damage in the ongoing race to develop artificial intelligence programs and services. Yet that is the risk we face as the federal government has moved to weaken ...

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THE tragic blast in Islamabad that killed a newly-wed couple and six others, and left many injured, has once again exposed the lethal risks surrounding Pakistan’s widespread use of liquefied petroleum ...

Fareed Zakaria and his take on if America’s founders would be stunned by the power of the modern presidency and if the Supreme Court has enabled such powers. Plus, Walter Isaacson, author of “The ...

For many travelers, checking luggage is non-negotiable. Checking a bag can make a trip easier in some ways: It frees up your hands, and rather than lugging your belongings in and out of the plane ...

It has been a bad month for the MAGA movement. While voters were rejecting candidates aligned with President Trump, MAGA leaders were fighting with one another over how much antisemitic bigotry and ...

"DOGE" has adopted a maximalist approach to numerous departments and agencies after nominally having been tasked with finding waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. Staff with the ...

Staff with the “Department of Government Efficiency” are operating with “unchecked” access to American’s personal data across multiple government agencies, according to a Senate report released ...

Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years. Checks and balances. I can’t count how many times I heard those words in the history and social ...