New York Times

The effect is rippling beyond missing paychecks to federal services that support much of the economy.

In the hardest-hit counties, childhood vaccination rates steeply declined during the pandemic.

Kyle Kunkler fought for a restricted weed killer that can harm plants and wildlife when it drifts to nearby land. He’s now at the E.P.A., which wants to allow its use.

Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They’re the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s warehouses.

Sanae Takaichi, a fan of Iron Maiden, had an improbable rise to power. Like her mentor, Shinzo Abe, she is expected to lead Japan to the right.

The hard-line conservative is making history in a country where women are drastically underrepresented at the highest levels of power.

The air quality in India’s capital ranks among the worst in the world, but experts say politics stand in the way of improving it.

An interview with a 26-year-old entrepreneur, who has taken seven trips to China to buy handbags, clothes and jewelry. “China is the center of everything,” she said.

He earned the highest title in the chess world at 17 and built a career as an accomplished chess teacher, commentator and author.

The president had pledged that construction wouldn’t “interfere with the current building,” a promise that always seemed unrealistic given the grand scale of the plans.