Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media
The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook con…
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Japan’s Cherry Blossom Database, 1,200 Years Old, Has a New Keeper
The remarkable catalog of dates is one of the longest-running records of climate change. Its creator died, setting off a search for a succes…
Stocks Extend ‘Astonishing’ Rally as Middle East Tensions Ease Further
The S&P 500’s rise on Friday caps a striking three-week streak, powered by investors’ optimism about the reopening of the Strait of Horm…
Lutnick Blasts Canada Ahead of Trade Talks
Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s commerce secretary, derided Canada’s trade strategy and said a North American deal needed to be rework…
Tufts Student Who Was Held in Immigration Detention Returns to Turkey
Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained for weeks by the Trump administration after co-writing a pro-Palestinian opinion essay, has graduated and r…
Europe Wants to Help Restore Shipping in the Strait. It Just Isn’t Sure How.
Amid conflicting reports about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, European leaders gathered on Friday to coordinate a plan to guard it.
Why Lebanon Has Long Struggled to Contain Hezbollah
Lebanon’s government has been caught between Western demands to disarm the Shiite Muslim militant group and fears of inflaming sectarian t…
Oil Prices Fall Sharply After Iran Says Strait of Hormuz Is Open
But analysts said it was not clear how quickly the oil industry in the Persian Gulf would be able to get back to normal.
How Do You Measure an A.I. Boom?
A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A.I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A.I…
Supreme Court Sides With Oil Companies in Louisiana Coastal Lawsuits
The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move environmental lawsuits out of state courts, to friendlier federal venues.