Martial Law Declared in South Korea: What to Know

President Yoon Suk Yeol has been locked in a bitter fight with the opposition, which controls ParliamentSouth Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol during a press briefing on Tuesday at the presidential office in Seoul.

C Choe Sang-Hun, Jin Yu Young, John Yoon and Ephrat Livni

Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Tennessee’s Ban on Transgender Care

On Wednesday, the justices will hear the marquee case of the term, a challenge to a Tennessee law banning several forms of medical care for transgender youths.The Supreme Court’s decision, expected by June, may determine the fate of the law and similar ones in more than 20 other states.

A Adam Liptak

China Announces a Ban on Rare Minerals to the U.S.

The move escalates supply chain warfare and comes a day after the Biden administration expanded curbs on the sale of advanced American technology to China.China, which produces almost all the world’s supply of critical minerals, has been tightening its grip on the materials.

D David Pierson, Keith Bradsher and Ana Swanson

Why Republicans Might Oppose Trump’s Push to Undo Biden’s Triumphs

President Biden wants to make it more difficult for President-elect Donald J. Trump to repeal his signature legislation, which sent money flowing to Republican districts nationwide.President Biden in Chandler, Ariz., where he announced that his administration would award billions of dollars in fundi

Z Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Madeleine Ngo

The 10 Best Books of 2024

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

T The New York Times Books Staff

Investigation Into Forced Adoptions From Ukraine Points Finger at Putin

Yale researchers traced hundreds of children taken to Russia in the war, finding what they described as “a higher level of crime than first understood.”President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his commissioner for children, Maria Lvova-Belova, in a photo released by the Russian state news media in

C Carlotta Gall

Amid Syria’s Rebel Offensive, a Geopolitical Cauldron Simmers

Iran and Russia, both stretched by conflicts of their own, have experienced setbacks in Syria after a rebel offensive in the northwest of the country.Syrian opposition fighters last month. They have made their most significant advance in years against government forces, shaking up a civil war that h

C Carlotta Gall

Syria Fighting Worsens Already Dire Conditions in Idlib and Aleppo

Years of war and a powerful earthquake had led to crushing poverty, displacement and breakdowns in services. But over the last several days, the region’s misery deepened.Damage from an airstrike in Idlib, a rebel-held city in northern Syria, on Monday. Russian and Syrian fighter jets have targeted t

M Muhammad Haj Kadour and Vivian Yee

America’s Hidden Racial Divide: A Mysterious Gap in Psychosis Rates

Black Americans experience schizophrenia and related disorders at twice the rate of white Americans. It’s a disparity that has parallels in other cultures.Earl Miller works with people experiencing homelessness, addiction and psychological conditions around Springfield, Mass. He himself began hearin

D Daniel Bergner

Earn $800,000? You Might Get Financial Aid at an Elite N.Y.C. School.

The average tuition of $65,000 a year at private schools has separated New York’s truly rich, who can afford to pay full tuition, from its merely wealthy.New York City’s elite private schools, many of which are clustered on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, typically charge about $65,000 a year.

E Eliza Shapiro

Top U.N. Envoy Says Gaza War Followed Years of Weak Diplomacy

World leaders failed to focus on a permanent solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and risk making the same mistake again, the departing United Nations’ envoy in the region says.Tor Wennesland, the top United Nations envoy for the Middle East peace process, says: “Politics failed. Diplomacy f

P Patrick Kingsley

Why Israel and Hezbollah Are Still Firing Amid a Lebanon Cease-Fire

Some violations of the truce, and some amount of violence, are to be expected, analysts say, and do not necessarily mean the deal will collapse and war will resume anytime soon.Israeli troops leaving Lebanon on their way back to Israel, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on Monday.

E Ephrat Livni

What’s Next for Google’s Search Monopoly

The federal judge who ruled Google was a monopolist in search is weighing the U.S. government’s proposal to force the company to sell its Chrome browser. Here’s what happens now.In resolving an antitrust case, Judge Amit P. Mehta could adopt either the government’s proposal or Google’s ideas wholesa

D David McCabe and Nico Grant

Jurors Set to Weigh Daniel Penny’s Fate in Choking Case That Divided New York

Prosecutors in Daniel Penny’s manslaughter trial finished closing arguments Tuesday. The trial has touched on fears about crime and the city’s failure to help its most troubled residents.Prosecutors said Daniel Penny held Jordan Neely in a chokehold for more than six minutes as he died on the floor

H Hurubie Meko and Anusha Bayya