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Follow our live coverage of Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit. TAIPEI, Taiwan — In Washington, there has been anxious debate over whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi should risk the visit. In Beijing, there have been anger and threats. In Taiwan, where Ms. Pelosi landed late Tuesday, the new flare-up in tensions has…

LONDON — Less than three weeks after he announced his resignation, and with rumors already swirling that he plans a comeback, Britain’s scandal-scarred prime minister, Boris Johnson, received the sort of self-care advice best dispensed by a family member. “If you ask me,” Rachel Johnson, the prime minister’s sister, said…

The demise of Roe v. Wade is causing harms that extend well beyond abortion patients. In places where abortion is heavily restricted, women with ectopic pregnancies and those experiencing inevitable miscarriages have reported delays in care that have risked their health, life and future fertility. Some have struggled to get…

More heavy rain was expected on Tuesday morning across a large portion of Kentucky, potentially complicating efforts to rescue hundreds of people still unaccounted for days after severe flooding left at least 37 dead. Flood watches were in effect until 9 a.m. Tuesday across an area of eastern Kentucky where…

Al-Zawahri was long believed to have been living in Pakistan. That he was killed in Kabul is a testament to not only the porous border between the two countries but also to Al Qaeda’s decades-long use of facilities, houses, buildings and compounds throughout both countries, a U.S. official said. And…

Ayman al-Zawahri, the Egyptian-born surgeon-turned-jihadist who assumed the leadership of Al Qaeda after the killing of Osama bin Laden and who died at 71 in a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, over the weekend, according to U.S. officials, led a life steeped in secrecy, betrayal, conspiracy and violence, most murderously…

Heavy rain was expected to produce more flooding across already-saturated eastern Kentucky on Monday night, after flash floods in the area last week killed at least 35 people and left dozens missing. An onslaught of rainfall since last week has soaked the soil and made it unable to absorb more….

The secretary general of the United Nations warned on Monday that humanity was “just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” citing the war in Ukraine among the conflicts driving the risk to a level not seen since the height of the Cold War. “All this at a time…

Deshaun Watson, the Cleveland Browns quarterback accused by more than two dozen women of sexual misconduct during massage treatments, was suspended Monday for six games for violating the N.F.L.’s personal conduct policy and was not fined. The N.F.L. and the N.F.L. Players Association did not immediately return calls for comment….

Social scientists have made it a priority in recent years to understand upward mobility. They have used tax records and other data to study which factors increase the chances that children who grow up in poverty will be able to escape it as adults. Education, spanning pre-K through college, seems…