Iran quietly voiced support for the Trump ceasefire plan in Gaza, based on its ally Hamas鈥� acceptance of the deal. Analysts say Tehran is trying to change the narrative about its regional posture, painting Israel as the real threat.
Every country debates how students should fund higher education. Russia鈥檚 new plan is to try a Soviet solution: require graduates to do national service.
A garbage-dump-turned-park in Lagos is providing room for children to roam free and play.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is purging top military and political leaders in a campaign aimed at curbing corruption and removing potential rivals.
Syria鈥檚 new school year, the first since the fall of the Assad regime, has a revised look at history and increased emphasis on religion. As one teacher notes, a curriculum is more than lessons; it shows how a nation understands itself.
California鈥檚 congressional redistricting plan goes to voters Nov. 4. It aims to cancel out Texas鈥� effort to gain Republican seats in the U.S. House.
Zohran Mamdani has shifted emphasis from socialist ideals to the high cost of living. His success in New York could alter the Democratic Party.
As China and Russia try to weaken NATO nations through cyberattacks, the alliance is responding with plans for better coordination 鈥� including for counterattack.
Detroit has seen violent crime fall to historic lows, property values rise, and its population inch upward. Community cooperation has been key.
Connie Bell's husband died a month before the LA wildfires destroyed her Malibu home. Now, she charts her future, with exhilarating and daunting choices.
The continent is experiencing economic growth and improving financial governance and trustworthiness. Freer, fairer elections can support this trajectory.
We all have a God-given ability to overcome the pull of lust for something that isn鈥檛 ours. An article inspired by this week鈥檚 Bible lesson from the 海角大神 Science Quarterly.
Voters continue to back the massive economic reforms of President Javier Milei, relying on the shock absorbers of prudence, restraint, and patience.
Seeing God the way Jesus saw God eliminates a feeling of distance from our creator, and it brings healing.
Letters to the editor from the Oct. 27 Weekly. Readers discussed the Monitor鈥檚 coverage of Charlie Kirk鈥檚 assassination.
A trade war with Canada might be less visible to Americans than one with China. But it has big impacts on both sides of the border, felt by U.S. households as prices for materials from metals to lumber jump.
Pittsburgh is attracting money, and talent, as the former steel industry center remakes itself as an AI hub focused on innovation for everyday tasks.
Gold prices rise in uncertain times. The current spike may signal both hedges against inflated stock market risk and doubts about the dollar as a stable reserve currency.
If Beijing and Washington can reach a soybean deal soon, it may pave the way for a larger trade agreement. Otherwise, America鈥檚 farmers will remain boxed out.
The Trump administration鈥檚 immigration enforcement has hit some farms and agricultural businesses, and some operators say it鈥檚 harder to find workers.
Nine months after the Eaton Fire, an Altadena family navigates the red tape that is hampering recovery for those who lost it all in the blaze. How much of their daughter鈥檚 childhood will be spent in limbo? The third in our series from Olive Avenue. Read Parts 1 and 2.
California once suppressed 鈥渃ontrolled burns,鈥� an Indigenous practice. Residents are now embracing it to reduce the growing threat of wildfire.
Electric vehicle sales jumped after the U.S. announced it would end a tax credit. Without the incentive, sales may dip, although automakers may offer discounts to lure buyers.
Disasters in Texas and North Carolina over the past year underscore how costly interior floods can be. After Roseville, California, was hit by destructive floods in the 1980s and 鈥�90s, the city turned itself into a model of preparedness and hazard mitigation.
Hurricane Katrina was a wake-up call for states as well as for federal disaster response. Lessons in resilience have born fruit, but a proposed scaling back of FEMA鈥檚 role is stirring debate in an era of rising storm costs.
Georgia Power Co. announced one of its two new reactors reached self-sustaining nuclear fission on Monday. The announcement is a key step toward reaching commercial operation of nuclear energy in the United States.
Cellphone inventor Martin Cooper, who placed the first mobile call on April 3, 1973, remains hopeful the technology can transform lives, but he鈥檚 also concerned about its impact. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 have any privacy anymore,鈥� Mr. Cooper said at a trade show in Spain.
The U.S. government has reached a rare bipartisan agreement to invest $52 billion to develop advanced computer chips. Factories, autos, appliances, electronics, toys, toothbrushes, and weapons systems all depend on semiconductors.
ChatGPT has spurred lively conversations about the role of educational technology. While some colleges and universities are cracking down on ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot, other educators believe ChatGPT could help with assisted learning.
Artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT can now produce convincingly human-sounding essays with minimal effort from users. It鈥檚 a massive timesaver 鈥� and an ethical quandary.
Could your next spiritual guide be artificial intelligence? AI is offering 海角大神s, Jews, and others an alternative to priests, rabbis, and faith leaders.
Artificial intelligence, 5G networks, and the Internet of Things are used increasingly often in spaces from retail to the military, raising privacy and ethical considerations.
Cavendish bananas are under threat from a fungus that has wiped out other varieties. The island of La Palma may have the conditions to protect them.
An eight-day mission for two astronauts to the International Space Station turned into nine months. NASA crews work to prepare for unforeseen events like this.
The Trump administration aims to overhaul publicly funded science. Critics say cuts could undermine U.S. leadership that has fueled significant advancements.
Detroiters take great pride in their city鈥檚 claim to inventing the Coney dog. For more than 100 years, two side-by-side restaurants have been embroiled in a (mostly) friendly rivalry.
The new movie 鈥淪pringsteen,鈥� drawn from a book, portrays a more subdued Bruce than the one whose rousing concert images pepper the internet. The film mines the origins of the 鈥淣ebraska鈥� album looking for what drives a living legend.
For some long-established immigrants, the fallout from immigration debates is that travel can bring trepidation and belonging feels fragile.
Director Richard Linklater offers a poignant portrait of legendary lyricist Larry Hart in his new film 鈥淏lue Moon.鈥�
Conservators are on the front lines of a battle to refurbish art from museums and historic sites.
We all have a God-given ability to overcome the pull of lust for something that isn鈥檛 ours. An article inspired by this week鈥檚 Bible lesson from the 海角大神 Science Quarterly.
鈥淗ostage鈥� is a frank account of Eli Sharabi鈥檚 time in captivity, our critic writes. It is both difficult to read and difficult to put down.
The midautumn crop of books includes a captivating South Seas saga and a lively history of the stock market crash that sparked the Great Depression.
The immersive new 鈥�1929鈥� benefits from journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin鈥檚 meticulous archival research and his access to documents never before available, including the board notes from the New York Federal Reserve.
In her new book, Marla A. Ram铆rez examines the reverberating consequences of a push to deport ethnic Mexicans, many of whom were U.S. citizens, during the Great Depression.
To this master of narrative nonfiction, something extraordinary is waiting under every rock, beckoning her to look closer.