Blinken meets Xi, and Supreme Court Considers Presidential Immunity

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At 86, his gnarled hands grasping a walking stick as he ambled around his small patch of land facing Mount Kenya, Joseph Macharia Mwangi recalled with bitterness the years that he had spent fighting the British colonial government in Kenya. Seven decades ago, he had camped with Mau Mau rebels…

All trains between New York and Philadelphia were suspended on Wednesday evening because of fallen electrical wires in Kearny, N.J., that power the trains at Pennsylvania Station, according to Amtrak. The power outage stopped Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains, an Amtrak spokesman, Jason Abrams, said in an email. Long…

Updated  Jan. 17, 2024, 3:53 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2024, 3:53 p.m. ET Secretary of State Antony Blinken with his entourage at Davos.Credit…Markus Schreiber/Associated Press Every day at this week’s Davos World Economic Forum, I have had to respond to Arab officials and friends who are unable to sympathize to…

Before Donald J. Trump was indicted four times over, he was sued by New York’s attorney general, who said that for years the former president, his business and members of his family had fraudulently overvalued their assets by billions of dollars. Before any of those criminal trials will take place,…

“We believe that the ratification vote that Elon demanded and coerced is deeply flawed as a matter of law, legally ineffective and does not impact our case,” Greg Varallo, a lawyer for the disenchanted Tesla shareholders who challenged Musk’s pay in court, said in a statement. With the pay package,…