The sanctions are among the most significant measures that the United States has taken against the Russian energy sector since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The White House is demolishing the entirety of the East Wing to make way for President Trump’s $200 million ballroom, a construction project that is far more extensive than he let on.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Two narratives — China as cheater and China as colossus — are simplistic reactions to something far more complex. Yet their popularity reveals something deeper about the American psyche.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: With the cease-fire deal under strain, the US Vice President is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Spanish has become a sanctioned indicator of potential criminality in the United States. The world’s fourth most spoken tongue has been deemed the sound of bad hombres in our midst.
Airlines have been ordered to ignore gender-neutral ‘X’ passport markers and classify all travellers as male or female under a new Trump-era directive.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: What happens in the group chat sure doesn’t stay in it, but the latest onslaught of racist and misogynistic messages is just a symptom of a depressingly perpetual story.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Xi faces a dilemma familiar to long-serving autocrats. Naming a successor risks creating a rival centre of power and weakening his grip, but failing to could jeopardize his legacy.
Thousands of Palestinians have returned to Gaza City to find their neighbourhoods destroyed and lives in limbo, as a fragile ceasefire halts the fighting but offers little clarity about what comes next.