U.S. and Japan Reach Deal on Battery Minerals
While the terms of the deal are limited, the agreement appears to provide a model for resolving recent trade spats between the United States and some of its closest allies.
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Inside the U.S. Pressure Campaign Over Israel’s Judicial Overhaul
President Biden and his advisers bombarded the Israeli government with warnings that the country’s image as the sole democracy in the Middle East was at stake.
Biden Acts to Restrict U.S. Government Use of Spyware
The president signed an executive order seeking to limit deployment of a tool that has been abused by autocracies — and some democracies — to spy on dissidents, human rights activists and journalists.
A Republican Spending Problem
Will the House be willing to cut programs that benefit G.O.P. voters?
U.N. Investigators Protest to U.S. Over Health Care at Guantánamo Bay
The rapporteurs filed the complaint with the United States on Jan. 11 but kept it confidential until this weekend. Washington has yet to respond.
In Canada, Biden Offers Cooperation, Not Threats
Deals on migration and trade emerge from a meeting that restored ties between the two nations after four years of tension under the former U.S. president, Donald J. Trump.
Senators Urge Biden to Send Evidence of Russian War Crimes to the ICC
Despite Pentagon resistance, a bipartisan group stressed that Congress had voted to legalize support for the court’s Ukraine war investigations.
That Missing Trump Portrait? Found, Next to Some Old Yoga Mats.
After a tip, The Times located a portrait of Donald Trump given to him by El Salvador’s president and that Democrats were eager to account for. It was propped up in an obscure spot in a Trump hotel.
U.S. and Canada Reach an Agreement on Diverting Asylum Seekers
The deal, reached just before President Biden arrived in Canada for an official visit, allows both countries to reduce a surge in migration.
The DeSantis Foreign Policy: Hard Power, but With a High Bar
The Florida governor has never been the internationalist that some old-guard Republicans wanted or imagined him to be. A close reading of his record reveals how he might lead the U.S. abroad.