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BRUSSELS — President Emmanuel Macron of France struck a chummy tone with President Donald Trump even as he corrected him with a smile in Washington on Monday. That one-two punch of flattery and...

LONDON — At his inauguration, President Donald Trump said that “the golden age of America begins right now.” He was right, in one sense. The price of gold has been bursting through records in...

HONG KONG — As President Donald Trump uses tariffs as a weapon in his quest to even the score on trade with the world, Asia is emerging as target No. 1. And it’s not just because of China. Asia...

These should be wonderful times at Finca El Puente, a coffee plantation carved into the mountains of southwestern Honduras. On world markets, the price of ordinary coffee has more than doubled over...

Chickpeas aren’t peas; they’re beans. And more broadly, they’re pulses — a category of legumes celebrated for their copious health benefits. Here’s what nutrition experts have to say...

A tourist trying to photograph a shark in shallow water at a beach in the Turks and Caicos Islands this month was bitten by it and flown off the island to receive medical care, the local government...

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI’s board of directors on Friday rejected a $97.4 billion bid by Elon Musk and a consortium of investors to gain control of the artificial intelligence company, deepening a...

Nearly 4 in 10 American adults are estimated to have a liver condition that can lead to serious complications and even death. Commonly known as fatty liver disease, the illness often goes undiagnosed...

ROME — Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday for diagnostic tests and to treat an ongoing case of bronchitis, the Vatican said, reviving concerns about the 88-year-old pontiff’s health. In a brief...

At 60-something, I am often troubled by regret over interactions with my three children when they were young. During their preteen and teen years, I would lose my temper as a result of their doing...

Apple and Google restored TikTok to their U.S. app stores Thursday evening, several weeks after they removed the Chinese-owned video platform to comply with a new law that banned it in the country. ...

SEOUL, South Korea — At least six people were killed and 25 others injured Friday in a fire at a construction site for a luxury hotel in Busan, a port city in southeastern South Korea, fire...

Every July, at the opening ceremony of the San Fermín festival signaling the imminent start of the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, more than 5,000 people cram into the city’s central...

We have spent much of the past 24 hours on the telephone trying to get to the bottom of Elon Musk’s hostile bid for Sam Altman’s OpenAI. It was a development in their corporate battle (or soap...

NEW DELHI — As he prepared to go to Washington this week, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, spoke of building on the warm relations he shared with President Donald Trump during his first term...

Traveling with a baby or a toddler can be fun, frustrating, and even revelatory. Planning is key, and so is your willingness to tailor the trip to the youngest traveler. As Dr. Elizabeth Barnett,...

President Donald Trump said the nearly 2 million Palestinians that he wants to displace from the Gaza Strip would not be allowed to return to the territory under his hypothetical plan to rebuild it. ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that he could cut aid to Jordan and Egypt if they refused his demand to permanently take in most Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, substantially...

When Nia Darville Stokes-Hicks and Armondi Stokes-Hicks married two years ago, they set up five bank accounts. Each had an individual bank account for personal spending, and they shared a checking...

Chaos erupted aboard a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Houston this past week when a man started bashing a window and several seats around him, prompting other passengers to subdue him with...