President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping, the leader of China, issued a joint rebuke to Washington on Thursday, a day before celebrations in Moscow to mark the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The leaders held talks at the Kremlin, part of a state visit […]

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Tens of thousands of faithful crammed into St. Peter’s Square exchanged befuddled looks when Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was announced as pope from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. They knew Cardinals Pizzaballa and Parolin and Tagle. But Prevost? A few people with cellphone reception started searching online as the news began to ripple through

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Joseph S. Nye Jr., an influential figure in shaping American national security policy, who wrote seminal books on foreign affairs, held top jobs at Harvard and in government, and coined the term “soft power” — the idea that America’s global influence was more than its military might — died on Tuesday in Cambridge, Mass. He

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Pope Leo XIV stepped onto a balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City on Thursday, simultaneously stepping into his new role as leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Crowds in the square and around the world rejoiced moments earlier when white smoke billowed from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel shortly after 6 p.m.,

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday it would stop tracking the cost of the country’s most expensive disasters, those which cause at least $1 billion in damage. The move would leave insurance companies, researchers and government policymakers without information to help understand the patterns of major disasters like hurricanes, drought or wildfires,