The New York Times

The global economy has proved resilient and inflation has declined, but any widening of the conflict in the Middle East could increase price pressures and dampen growth.

It is not Donald J. Trump who has come in for sustained criticism from witnesses. It is his former fixer, who paid the hush money at the heart of the case.

Abortions in the U.S. have risen slightly since Roe was struck down. One factor: pills ordered online.

Senator Robert Menendez’s attorneys want a psychiatrist to testify at his corruption trial about the impact of his father’s death by suicide. Prosecutors are objecting.

Often amenable in flavor with a texture like pork, the fruit has become a recent favorite among vegetarians.

Highlights from a Times Magazine profile of the basketball star.

The Biden administration wants to focus on a cease-fire and rebuilding Gaza, but Israel’s leader is pushing a new offensive.

In an interview, the basketball star reveals her humiliation — and friendships — in Russian prison, and her path to recovery.

He helped shape the band’s futuristic sound, which blended Beatles-esque pop with orchestral arrangements.

The school was ill prepared when protesters blocked students from accessing parts of campus and counterprotesters violently attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment.

“If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that,” Donald Trump told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.”

School officials in Mount Horeb, Wis., southwest of Madison, said that no one else was harmed and that schools were placed on lockdown.

The former president recalled a key detail central to testimony before the Jan. 6 committee during a campaign event in Wisconsin.

“The time is now,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken declared, urging Hamas to accept the terms of a proposed truce. He also made clear that he expected more from Israel.

In her conversation with the vice president, Drew Barrymore allowed informality to veer into disrespect.

I worry that the more aggressive demonstrators may be hurting the Gazans they’re trying to support.

A heated hearing produced no new evidence that Peter Daszak or his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, were implicated in the Covid outbreak.

In the suit, lawyers for the former Nickelodeon producer called the documentary a “hit job” that had falsely painted him as a “child sexual abuser.”

The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged for a sixth straight meeting and suggested that rates would stay high for longer.

But the scope of the outbreak among cattle remains uncertain, and little human testing has been done.

Two Republican state senators broke with their party to ensure final passage of the repeal. Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, is expected to sign it.

Even opponents of abortion saw such curbs as too controversial just over a decade ago. Times have changed.

The vice president sought to tie former President Donald J. Trump to the state’s six-week abortion ban, which took effect on Wednesday.

Also, the Fed eyes a longer period of high rates. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.

“Panda diplomacy” has represented an area of cooperation between the United States and China despite tension over weighty issues of trade and national security.