Copies of The Wall Street Journal for sale in Manhattan, April 9, 2025. A federal judge on Monday, April 13, 2026, dismissed President Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the publisher of The Wall Street Journal over its report of his lewd birthday greeting to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. (Juan Arredondo/The New York Times) By KATIE ROBERTSON A federal judge earlier this week dismissed President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the publish

The opposition leader Peter Magyar campaigns in Keszthely, Hungary, on March 29, 2026. Magyar’s Tisza party scored a crushing victory in Hungary’s general election on Sunday, April 12, 2026. (Akos Stiller/The New York Times) By AMELIA NIERENBERG and LILI RUTAI Some Hungarians had feared that Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party would try to block the results of Hungary’s national elections Sunday if returns did not favor him. But when news came that Orban had lost — decisively

By LILY KUO China’s leader, Xi Jinping, said Tuesday that the world cannot risk reverting “to the law of the jungle,” a thinly veiled criticism of the United States, in his most direct public comments on the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. “Maintaining the authority of international rule of law means not using it when it suits us and abandoning it when it doesn’t,” he said in a meeting with the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in Beijing. Xi’s remarks, in addition

A Lebanese man looks down from a destroyed building as workers and relatives continue the sixth day of searching for missing victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a residential building in Beirut, April 14, 2026. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By MICHAEL CROWLEY, EUAN WARD, ANUSHKA PATIL, FRANCESCA REGALADO and JOHN YOON Israeli and Lebanese officials concluded more than two hours of direct talks Tuesday in Washington as Israel’s military campaign agai

Wall Street executives said they were stress‑testing or monitoring ⁠private ⁠credit portfolios as the asset class comes under scrutiny, but said ⁠they were comfortable with their exposure. The comments came after three of the six biggest U.S. lenders disclosed about $108 billion financing exposure to private credit or ​related loans during their quarterly earnings. Private credit has been in the spotlight after AI risks, fund outflows and fears of credit stress hammer alterna

Phil Collins performs “Up Close and Personal: Phil Collins Plays 60s Motown and Soul” in New York, June 23, 2010. Collins, who first entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of the British band Genesis, will now be honored for his solo work, which includes seven No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. (Chad Batka/The New York Times) By DERRICK BRYSON TAYLOR When the British rock group Oasis began its reunion tour last summer, after more than a decade of feudin

POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – El presidente de Puerto Rico Academy of Aesthetic Practitioners, José Ángel Marrero, advirtió el martes que el Proyecto del Senado 971, según está redactado, podría limitar el acceso de pacientes a servicios médicos y restringir el ejercicio de la medicina estética en Puerto Rico, por lo que pidió enmiendas antes de su aprobación. “La medida, tal como está redactada, podría limitar el acceso de miles de pacientes a servicios médicos y restringir el ej

POR CYBERNEWS SAN JUAN – El secretario del Departamento de Salud (DS), Víctor Ramos Otero, informó el martes una agenda de actividades enfocada en prevención y educación que incluye una cumbre sobre cannabis medicinal, una jornada sobre hepatitis virales y una iniciativa para el recogido seguro de medicamentos expirados o no utilizados, mientras la isla se mantiene bajo control en varios indicadores de vigilancia epidemiológica. “El acceso a información confiable puede marcar

A crowd during an anti-government concert on Heroes’ Square in Budapest, Hungary, April 10, 2026. (András Zoltai/The New York Times) By MICHELLE GOLDBERG On Saturday, the day before the election in Hungary, I went to Puspokladany, a run-down town of about 16,000 in the northeastern part of the country, for the penultimate rally of the opposition leader, Peter Magyar. Though the region has traditionally been a stronghold of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party, the squar

Coal ash at the Arrowhead Landfill in Uniontown, Ala., on Aug. 20, 2009. The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would weaken cleanup requirements for hundreds of sites that contain waste from burning coal, a move that environmental groups said threatens drinking water for millions of people. (Meggan Haller/The New York Times) By LISA FRIEDMAN The Environmental Protection Agency announced late last week that it would weaken cleanup requirements for hundreds of s