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After an early wobble, markets resumed rising after Chinese officials contradicted suggestions from President Trump and others about tariff negotiations.

How Democrats found their way out of the political wilderness once before, and how they could do it again now.

America needs to figure out how to dominate the industries of the future. Call me a “Waymo Democrat.”

How luxury cars, $500,000 bar tabs and a mysterious kidnapping attempt helped investigators unravel the heist of a lifetime.

The $160 million Davis Center, with upgrades to six bucolic acres and a lake, writes a new chapter for the Harlem end of the park.

Smooth floors. Public restrooms. A built-in audience: The lower level of Moynihan Hall doubles as a rehearsal space for a variety of dance groups, including K-pop, salsa and Brazilian Zouk.

Online mockery of President Trump is fodder for the Communist Party’s propagandists. For liberal-minded Chinese, it is a creative expression of shock at his policies.

President Trump has said his punishing tariffs would force companies to build factories in the United States. But it is far from clear that they will have the effects he predicted.

It was the latest move by President Trump in his effort to shift the ideological tilt of the higher education system as he battles elite universities.

A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.

More than 20 vehicles in a town on Cape Ann, Mass., have been damaged by a woodpecker in mating season. “You still see him out here,” one resident said. “Peck, peck, peck, peck.”

Growing case numbers suggest that the national total will surpass that seen during the last large outbreak in 2019.

They had been placed on administrative leave after refusing to abandon the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams. “We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none,” they wrote.

After two hours of deliberation, a jury rejected Sarah Palin’s claim that a 2017 editorial defamed her.

The Venezuelan man did not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends had no idea of his whereabouts.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India called the shooting, the worst against civilians in the region for years, a “terror attack” and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice.

The statement came a day after Harvard University sued the administration over its decision to freeze billions of dollars in federal funding, following the school’s refusal to submit to a list of demands.

New York’s education leaders moved to ban Native American-inspired mascots in 2022, drawing a lawsuit from the Massapequa school district. Now, the president has weighed in.

A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological conditions.