Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are readying themselves to fend off a Russian attack—with the help of the United States, or without it. One evening this summer, in the village of Bezdonys, in eastern Lithuania, I watched as a platoon of riflemen arrived at a train station occupied by enemy forces. …
The president made the announcement hours after Europe caved to U.S. pressure and agreed to release from its stockpiles of the fuel. President Donald Trump said Friday he was ruling out a diesel export ban and never really considered one in the first place, hours after Europe caved to U.S. pressure …
A reduction in refineries has already driven the price of diesel to record highs, threatening economies. An U.S. export ban would be “tremendous shock and blow.” The Iran war has sent diesel prices soaring around the world, straining national budgets, adding costs to businesses and snarling supply …
The number buried inside it is unlike anything Wall Street has seen from an AI company. Anthropic has spent months building toward one of the largest …
Anne Applebaum on Donald Trump’s global shakedown
Anne Applebaum joins Paul Wells to discuss her Atlantic magazine cover story, "Empire of Grift." She argues that...
One iron law of current politics is that nobody who associates themselves with Donald Trump emerges with a shred of credibility. For some, that’s not …
The story of a missile system placed in a role for which it was never intended illuminates the broader challenges facing the U.S. military. Mohamed bin Zayed was worried about Iran—so worried, in fact, that he decided to gamble with his nation’s future. “We are living in a dangerous neighborhood,” …
Nvidia says a security platform for artificial intelligence that it announced on Monday can help stop autonomous AI agents from misbehaving. The chipmaker unveiled its Open Agent Safety Platform amid an intensifying debate about AI safety, fueled a string of alarming recent incidents involving AI …
The cost of borrowing money is moving unrelentingly higher, with profound implications for savers, borrowers and the U.S. government's fiscal outlook. …
In early March, as President Trump basked in the success of a military intervention in Venezuela, he joined Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in the West Wing for a private celebration. A businessman also attended, and brought along a pile of gold. The president looked approvingly at the 10 Venezuelan …
Blame Trump for rising borrowing costs. This has been a week of pain for anyone who borrows money. All over the world, lenders are demanding higher interest rates. The global bond market is extracting higher yields from every borrower, starting with the biggest borrowers of all: national governments. …
The tech may soon become an existential risk to humanity, but it’s already a risk to many Americans in a more mundane way: their banks. Updated 2:07 p.m. ET on September 25, 2026 Today’s AI agents have become exceptional hackers, and they’re already posing a threat to some of the most important …
The state visit by Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, so far has been long on pomp but short on substance on issues like artificial intelligence. Andrew here. We’ve got a full rundown of the state dinner for Xi Jinping, China’s leader, and the C.E.O.s who made the pilgrimage to the White House. Many …
Researchers are asking why patients, like former Senator Ben Sasse, inevitably develop resistance to the drug daraxonrasib. Last week, the former senator from Nebraska Ben Sasse announced that his Stage 4 pancreatic cancer had developed resistance to a cutting edge treatment. Cancer specialists were …
Anthropic announced today that its Claude artificial intelligence (AI) system identified a previously unknown biological system in the DNA of viruses …
Measles showed up at a children’s hospital. The health secretary showed up at an anti-vax conference. EVERY DAY THERE ARE YOUNG, sometimes tiny human …