Before the sun could rise over Los Angeles International Airport on a recent Tuesday, hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers had formed a queue nearby, stretching around the block. It was 5 a.m., and the waiting game was about to begin. In a few minutes, the line of cars would file into a fenced-off parking…
President Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for the first major overseas trip of his second term. Over four days, he also plans to visit the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, from which he is trying to acquire a plane for use as Air Force One. The Middle East has big security challenges, but…
In one image, a plume of smoke obscures the vibrant sunrise over a Himalayan landscape. In another, men carry a casket past soldiers on the verdant grounds of a damaged mosque. The famed beauty of Kashmir has once again been scarred by military confrontation. Indian strikes on Wednesday hit several sites on the Pakistani-administered side…
With its horse-trodden roads, endless fields of almond blossoms and cowboy heritage, the 20,000 person town of Oakdale, Calif., fits the American West of imagination. And for decades, its media diet was classically all-American, too. Nightly news broadcasts played on living room televisions. Copies of local newspapers lined doorsteps on Sunday mornings. The town even…
The presidential pardon signed by Jimmy Carter in 1977 was a sweeping invitation to thousands of Americans to come home and help heal a nation torn apart by the Vietnam War. Those who had left for Canada to avoid the draft had wanted no part of the conflict, which killed about 60,000 Americans. Canada had…
Francis set the stage for his own mourning late last year, when he approved a simplified procedure for papal funeral rituals. Simplicity, of course, is relative — in this case to the breathtaking grandeur bequeathed by centuries of Roman Catholic tradition. The procession above took place Wednesday morning, when Francis’ coffin was carried from the…
The Cold War-era airstrip, its asphalt gleaming in the sunlight, stretched toward the coastline on the Horn of Africa. A few miles away, dock workers unloaded cargo at a port on the Gulf of Aden, a vital global shipping route frequently under attack by Houthi rebels from Yemen. These two maritime facilities in Berbera city…
Their lives intersected around a playground on a sunny Friday evening in Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine. Kostiantyn Novik, 16, had come with his cousin to hang out with friends. Serhii Smotolok, a 57-year-old welder, was nursing a beer nearby on the terrace of a restaurant, unwinding after his workday. Radislav Yatsko, 7,…
The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas collapsed last month, and the dead and wounded again pour into the hospital. The injured are triaged at a tent in the hospital’s courtyard, set up to relieve the pressure on the packed emergency room inside. When people arrive, medical workers sort them into three categories: green, yellow and…
On a recent morning, I knocked on the front door of a handsome two-story home in Redwood City, Calif. Within seconds, the door was opened by a faceless robot dressed in a beige bodysuit that clung tight to its trim waist and long legs. This svelte humanoid greeted me with what seemed to be a…