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One of the world’s most important interest rates hit a level recorded only once since the global financial crisis, as investors continued to rebuff the Trump administration’s efforts to sway the bond market.

City officials — and one determined mother — are working to stop the spread of cychlorphine, which is far more potent than fentanyl.

A Times/Siena national poll suggests Republicans are reeling. Can they come back by depicting Democrats as too far to the left?

As fears grow about the threat of artificial intelligence, neither party has claimed an advantage on the technology, a New York Times/Siena poll found. But voters are united in opposition to data centers.

Today’s chatbots aren’t likely to help lone actors invent a deadly pathogen, experts say. But newer models, trained in biology, may need stronger safeguards.

Survivors tell the stories of the people and places buried under the mud after a disaster in Nepal.

Siranudh Scott, an heir to Thailand’s Singha beer empire, has prompted a rare public reckoning about a topic considered taboo.

The Democratic nominee for Senate faces strong headwinds in a decidedly Republican-leaning state. She has been a fighter, and an underdog, for years.

As the Bank of Japan weighs another rate increase on Friday, a divide over how Japan should confront inflation is widening.

Warnings from industry leaders about doomsday scenarios ignore the power that people have to control how artificial intelligence is used, policy experts say. They are urging lawmakers to act now.