What We Know About the Deadly High-Speed Train Crash in Spain

The collision, caused by the derailment of one of the trains, was the deadliest in Spain since at least 2013.Read More
What Vietnam’s Communist Party Congress Hopes to Achieve

One of Asia’s most dynamic nations is weighing how to balance government control with raising per capita G.D.P. by about 70 percent in five years.Read More
European Union Officials Lean Toward Negotiating, Not Retaliating, Over Trump Tariff Threat

European Union ambassadors held an emergency meeting on Sunday, and leaders from across the 27-nation bloc will meet in Brussels later this week.Read More
San Francisco Mourns Its Beloved Alligator, Claude

The 30-year-old albino resident of the California Academy of Sciences died last month. On Sunday, thousands paid tribute.Read More
One Month Later, CBS Airs Postponed ‘60 Minutes’ Report With Few Changes

A 13-minute segment about Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration had been pulled at the last minute by CBS News’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss.Read More
China’s Population Shrinks Again as Policies Fail to Reverse Decline

With fewer babies and more deaths, China’s population fell for a fourth straight year as policymakers face a demographic crisis in the making.Read More
Real Estate Crash Weighs on China’s Economic Growth

Falling apartment prices have erased the savings of millions of Chinese households, but exports lifted the economy to 5 percent growth last year.Read More
In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters

Legal and criminal justice experts said a ruling by a federal judge last week revealed conduct by immigration agents that evokes the civil rights era.Read More
Josh Shapiro Writes That Harris Team Asked if He Had Ever Been an Israeli Agent

In his new memoir, the Pennsylvania governor suggests that when Kamala Harris’s team vetted him to be her running mate, aides focused on Israel to an extent he found offensive.Read More
Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota Protests, Then Backtracks

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order, then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents deployed.Read More