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In 1950, though it didn’t know it yet, the American government held one of the keys to winning the Cold War: Qian Xuesen, a brilliant Chinese rocket scientist who had already transformed the fields of aerospace and weaponry. In the halls of the California Institute of Technology and M.I.T., he had helped solve the riddle…

At the top of a slender ​98-foot-tall traffic camera tower in central Seoul, Kim Hyoung-su is living under a tarpaulin shelter. It is so small he can’t stretch fully when he sleeps. But Mr. Kim has been up there for 77 days, protesting one of the biggest economic problems in South Korea — labor inequality.…

A planned merger of the Japanese and American giants, announced in 2023, has traveled through an election, two presidents and strong union opposition. A year and a half after Nippon Steel unveiled its $14 billion bid for U.S. Steel, the acquisition could be finally drawing to a close. Last week, President Trump announced what he…

Companies welcomed a court decision striking down President Trump’s tariffs. Then a stay of that ruling left no one breathing easy. Emma Mcilroy’s apparel company, Wildfang, had been working overtime to move its production out of China in the months since President Trump launched his trade war. Finding another factory that could produce jumpsuits and…

A court ruling invalidating President Trump’s sweeping tariffs was halted hours later, throwing into question the administration’s overall approach to trade. A head-spinning series of court rulings over President Trump’s signature tariffs left Washington, Wall Street and much of the world trying to discern the future of U.S. trade policy on Thursday, including whether import…

The world’s richest man created disruption and fear before giving up on revamping government. But his companies will now face less oversight. Just three months ago, Elon Musk stood before a crowd of roaring conservatives and held up a chain saw. He was at the height of his influence, swaggering in a self-designed role with…

Students said the latest move had upended their plans and intensified their fears. It had been all figured out, Cici Wang said. Summer at home in China, then back to get her master’s degree in Chicago. After that, if she was lucky, a job in the United States. Now all of that is up in…

Employees of federal agencies continue to wrestle with the shocks of Elon Musk’s drive to purge the government of diversity programs and slash employment even as the billionaire leaves Washington. A Forest Service employee spent his own money to mow the lawn at a government property he manages. Spending freezes and new bureaucratic sign-off requirements…

Critics say President Trump has used the vast pardon powers of the presidency not to settle accounts, as President Biden did, but to burn the ledger. President Trump is employing the vast power of his office to redefine criminality to suit his needs — using pardons to inoculate criminals he happens to like, downplaying corruption…

He was the last of three generations spanning nearly the entire history of the United States: When his grandfather was born, George Washington had just become president. Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the last surviving grandson of John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, who was born just after George Washington became president 236 years…