We look at the relationship between digital stars and their followers.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/briefing/fan-encounters.html
The decommissioning would leave the United States with no icebreaker to study the southern seas and cede scientific leadership to rival countries like China.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/climate/nathaniel-b-palmer-ship-budget-cuts-polar-science.html
Some parents are reliving a golden era of boy bands and girl groups — “but now I’m handing out juice boxes instead of dancing like a rave with a glow stick,” one said.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/arts/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix.html
In Edison, thousands of immigrant workers toil in hundreds of warehouses, sorting millions of boxes arriving from nearby ports.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/nyregion/immigration-raids-edison-new-jersey.html
New York Times reporters witnessed supporters of Mayor Eric Adams handing out cash-filled envelopes. Sometimes, that money went to reporters from Chinese-language outlets.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/nyregion/eric-adams-chinese-cash-envelopes.html
Advocates say hanging up England’s St. George’s Cross flag is patriotic. But critics say the flag has been co-opted by the far right for nationalistic purposes.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/22/england-flag-immigration-protest-racism/
More than half a million people in and around Gaza City are facing catastrophic conditions “characterized by starvation, destitution and death,” the IPC said.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/22/gaza-city-famine-ipc/
For Greece, a gateway into the 27-member European Union, the lengthy incarceration of irregular migrants could soon be the new norm.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/22/greece-migrants-criminalization-detention-trump/
A wave of attacks by armed groups across Colombia this year has left Colombians fearing a return to the country’s more violent past.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/21/colombia-truck-bomb-helicopter-attack/
Jalal al-Labbad and his brothers were imprisoned over charges stemming from participation in Arab Spring protests. He and one of his brothers have since been executed.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/21/saudi-arabia-execution-minor-shia-protester/
Cesar Atencio and Lina Arias wanted a better life. Instead, they faced gangs, kidnappers and a closed border. Their journey toward the U.S. shows a region reshaped and a dream reimagined.https://www.wsj.com/world/they-set-out-to-find-the-american-dream-theyre-stuck-in-a-mexican-nightmare-a9aeb59d
Recent optimism for peace has faded, and President Trump is looking for new answers.https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-ukraine-peace-deal-trump-push-0da03328
Food-security experts said a famine has taken hold in the Gaza City area, the first-ever such determination in the Middle East and one that puts more pressure on Israel.https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/famine-announced-in-parts-of-gaza-8b1763d0
Wages in the eurozone rose at a slightly faster pace during the three months through June as unemployment remained at record lows.https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/eurozone-wage-growth-gains-pace-likely-adding-to-ecb-caution-b351c581
Oil prices rose on fading optimism for a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine.https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/oil-steady-russia-ukraine-potential-peace-talks-in-focus-5c174b86
Concerned citizens and bartenders are campaigning to end the lines snaking out of pubs. “I know this is England, but please stop queuing.”https://www.wsj.com/world/britains-pub-culture-faces-a-mortal-threat-the-single-file-queue-0b6688af
A Black Hawk was attacked by cocaine-trafficking group, officials said, the latest in an escalating series of drone attacks against security forces.https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/police-helicopter-downed-by-drone-in-colombia-killing-12-48117a0d
A week after Alaska, it looks like nothing has changed in the Kremlin.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-volodymyr-zelensky-ukraine-russia-e08c4bcb
The Seven Churches pilgrimage in Rome made for a powerful Holy Year exercise.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-hopeful-tour-of-the-eternal-city-8a088eb9
The president is handing a weapon to trading partners who feel they’ve been bullied into trade deals.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-approach-to-antitrust-is-as-bad-as-bidens-20eb7eff