The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), sails in the Ionian Sea, July 29, 2025. The carrier arrived in the Caribbean on Tuesday. By ERIC SCHMITT The Navy’s largest and most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, moved into the Caribbean region on Tuesday, adding to the capability of the United States to strike boats suspected of carrying drugs or targets on land in Venezuela as the Trump administration weighs further military steps a

People walk by the Hangar Convention Center in Belém, Brazil on June 25, 2025, venue of the COP30 global climate summit this month. World leaders shared vivid stories about the increasingly severe effects of a warming planet last Friday, the second day of the summit. (María Magdalena Arrellaga/The New York Times) By DAVID GELLES and BRAD PLUMER In Spain, intense heat waves and floods have claimed thousands of lives in recent years. In Namibia, higher temperatures have resulte

Typhoon Fung-wong in Borongan, Eastern Samar, Philippines. Categorized as a super typhoon by the state weather bureau, Fung-wong made landfall Sunday evening in Aurora province, on the country’s main island of Luzon. (Wikipedia/TheNuggeteer) By JASON GUTIÉRREZ High waves whipped up by Typhoon Fung-wong swamped Sinbanali, a seaside village near the Philippine capital of Manila, forcing residents to flee their homes amid torrential rain. Ivy Villamor said the storm’s menacing h

Residences damaged by Hurricane Melissa, one with rooftop solar panels, at Treasure Beach in Jamaica, Nov., 2025. Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. (Abbie Townsend/The New York Times) By HIROKO TABUCHI The morning after Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica, Jennifer Hue, a retired tax auditor living close to hard-hit Treasure Beach, woke up to devastation. Her mango, breadfruit and papaya trees were l

Secretary of State Marco Rubio flies with President Donald Trump to a NATO summit in the Netherlands, on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By LISA FRIEDMAN, MAX BEARAK and JEANNA SMIALEK More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships. That’s when the United States launched a pressure campaign that officials around the world have called extraordinary, even by the standards of the Trump adminis

President Claudia Sheinbaum leads Mexico’s annual cry of independence from a balcony of the National Palace in Mexico City on Sept. 15, 2025. Anger over corruption helped deliver Morena, Sheinbaum’s party, the presidency in 2018; now the disconnect between officials’ public statements and the lifestyles of certain politicians has created a firestorm. (Luis Antonio Rojas/The New York Times) By ANNIE CORREAL and EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA A day after a man groped Mexico’s presiden

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 3, 2025. Some foes of the Trump administration see America’s absence from the COP30 climate summit in Brazil as a blessing in disguise. “If we’re going to be at the table and turn it over, then I think it’s best if we don’t show up,” Schatz said. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By LISA FRIEDMAN For the first time since countries began gathering 30 years ago to wrestle with global warming, the United States will n

By DAVID E. SANGER, TYLER PAGER, HELENE COOPER, ERIC SCHMITT and DEVLIN BARRETT The Trump administration has developed a range of options for military action in Venezuela, including direct attacks on military units that protect President Nicolás Maduro and moves to seize control of the country’s oil fields, according to multiple U.S. officials. President Donald Trump has yet to make a decision about how or even whether to proceed. Officials said he was reluctant to approve op

A shipping container blocked a road after it was swept away by the floods brought by Typhoon Kalmaegi in Mandaue City, Cebu province on Wednesday. By JASON GUTIÉRREZ, AIE BALAGTAS SEE and JIAWEI WANG At least 85 people were killed and hundreds of thousands of others forced to flee their homes in the central Philippines, authorities said, after Typhoon Kalmaegi brought destructive winds and devastating flooding to a region still reeling from a deadly earthquake. Many of the vi

Cleanup in Black River, Jamaica, in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, Nov. 1, 2025. Ninety percent of the homes in Black River, Jamaica, were destroyed by Hurricane Melissa, reflecting the broader devastation and rebuilding facing many Jamaican communities. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times) By FRANCES ROBLES The courthouse, the library, schools, the downtown shopping district and most everybody’s roof — all gone, wiped out by the most powerful hurricane to ever hit Jamaica.