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Xi Zhongxun was purged by the Communist Party he served and went on to help reform Chinese politics. His son is the most authoritarian leader since Mao.

Six people were hospitalized after a man used a “makeshift flamethrower” on a crowd in Boulder, Colo., honoring Israeli hostages in Gaza. The authorities are investigating the attack as an act of terrorism.

Facing a complex set of thorny challenges at home and abroad, Lee Jae-myung says he will deal with them with “pragmatism.”

Three Opinion writers on the death of empathy in America.

Both of the main candidates support the alliance with the United States, but the front-runner favors diplomacy with North Korea and China to improve strained relations.

Last year’s Democratic vice-presidential nominee has thrown himself into a robust atonement-and-explanation tour, though aides insist there is no grand strategy.

The former assistant is being questioned by Sean Combs’s lawyers, who say her testimony of sex abuse and violence is at odds with the warmth she showed him in text messages.