Li Chenggang is expected to travel to Washington this week in a sign that the U.S. and China seek to establish regular dialogue.https://www.wsj.com/world/china/top-chinese-trade-negotiator-set-to-head-to-u-s-as-talks-resume-b2c3f913
Germany’s Friedrich Merz says the current welfare state isn’t affordable.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/friedrich-merz-germany-welfare-spending-europe-39d01121
He says Biden wouldn’t let Ukraine fight back. Will he do better?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-vladimir-putin-sergei-lavrov-185b324d
Beijing fears dependency on American technology. Companies will find ways around the mandates.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/chinas-nvidia-ban-is-a-win-for-the-u-s-332d3cfc
Ismael Zambada García will spend life in prison. He had been charged with running a criminal network that sold cocaine, heroin and other illegal drugs.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/nyregion/el-mayo-sinaloa-drug-trafficking-plea.html
A private and politically connected gem merchant, he was thrust into the public spotlight when his personal relationship with the former first lady became known in the late 1980s.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/business/maurice-tempelsman-dead.html
Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, claimed that its Grok chatbot app was being artificially suppressed in Apple’s App Store.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/technology/elon-musk-xai-sues-apple.html
With its mission up for renewal, the U.N. force is under pressure to disband even as Israeli airstrikes continue along one of the world’s most volatile borders.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/world/europe/lebanon-israel-un-unifil-peacekeeping.html
The president has long railed against cashless bail, but studies have not backed up his claims that changes in bail laws lead to an increase in crime.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/politics/trump-cashless-bail.html
Reporters across The Times spent months working to understand the ways the Chinese government wields its influence in New York politics.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/insider/investigating-china.html
A G.O.P. request for information and interviews comes amid Trump administration claims that crime in the capital is worse than it appears.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/politics/house-republicans-crime-washington.html
Members of Congress went back to their districts for the summer, and they discovered that being at home is just as hard as being in Washington.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-endless-august-recess
Mary Petty was reclusive, uncompromising, but she peered into a fading world with unmatched warmth and brilliance.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/the-mysterious-cover-artist-who-captured-the-decline-of-the-rich
The writer’s new novel, “Will There Ever Be Another You,” is a singular account of losing her mind, body, and art to COVID—and of trying to get them back.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/patricia-lockwood-profile
Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/the-history-of-the-new-yorkers-vaunted-fact-checking-department
Patrick Drahi made a fortune through debt-fuelled telecommunications companies. Now he’s bringing his methods to the art market.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/how-a-billionaire-owner-brought-turmoil-and-trouble-to-sothebys
Ahead of next year’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the White House has issued a directive to the Smithsonian.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/the-trump-administrations-efforts-to-reshape-americas-past
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/the-ai-profits-drought-and-the-lessons-of-history
Ace the school year with special perks—like cheap software, phone plans, and classroom supplies.https://www.wired.com/story/best-teacher-discounts/
Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, Sinaloa cartel’s leader for 40 years, is charged with smuggling tons of drugs into the U.S.https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mexican-cartel-patriarch-pleads-guilty-to-u-s-drug-charges-7a156af9