The move by some influential companies has raised concerns about work-life balance in a country where long hours at the office are common.

With money from an oil boom, Norway, a force at the Winter Olympics for generations, is now churning out elite performers in track, soccer and other sports, too.

Olympic gymnastics would be more enjoyable on TV and in the arena if choreography were less of an afterthought, our critic writes.

Foreign employees have become much more visible in Japan. But policies designed only for short-term stays may hurt the country in the global competition for labor.

Many on the state’s northwestern coast felt they knew what to expect from Debby, which is forecast to make landfall as a hurricane, after a much stronger storm hit the area last year.

Suggesting that there is something contrived about a mixed-race person identifying as Black assumes that the choice wasn’t already made for her.

The athlete, Claire Michel, who swam in the Seine River during the women’s triathlon last week, was taken to a clinic in the Olympic Village on Sunday for treatment.

After another dubious election victory, Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, appears firmly in power. The only real potential threat, history shows, may come if his own security forces betray him.

Mr. Kennedy, an independent presidential candidate, confessed to dropping off the bear cub 10 years ago and making it appear that a bike had hit the animal.

Expanded student protests this weekend, after more than 200 people were killed in a government crackdown in July, have plunged the country into a particularly dangerous phase.

A couple planted as sleeper spies in Slovenia posed as an Argentine art dealer and an entrepreneur. They were caught in December 2022 and sent to Moscow in a sweeping prisoner exchange last week.

Protests escalated over the weekend in towns and cities in England and Northern Ireland, with dozens arrested and more demonstrations unfolding on Sunday.

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza City killed at least 30 people, according to a Palestinian emergency agency and local media outlets. Israel said it targeted Hamas “command and control centers.”

The numbers game is everything to Donald J. Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris’s first big rally appears to have gotten under his skin.

The numbers game is everything to Donald J. Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris’s first big rally appears to have gotten under his skin.

The U.S. is trying to stop China from getting Nvidia microchips to advance its military. The private sector is fighting back.

The creation of an urban national park on an unprepossessing parcel of land in the automaking hub of Windsor, Ontario, is also meant to serve as an act of Indigenous reconciliation.

The justice talks about everything from his indictment of the regulatory state to the rights of Native Americans.

Tony West, the top lawyer for Uber, is weighing in on polling and running mates. His presence has made some liberals anxious.

The Times found an active trade in Nvidia chips in China despite U.S. national security restrictions, as well as unreported incidents of how the technology had been used to further defense research.