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In an interview with Jack Nicas of The New York Times, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rejected President Trump’s demands for Brazil. Here’s how the United States and Brazil reached this point.

The luxury automakers Mercedes-Benz and Porsche slashed their forecasts for earnings this year as the double whammy of President Trump’s tariffs and slowing demand in China hit the German companies hard.Mercedes said on Wednesday that revenue in 2025 would come in “significantly below” last year. The company also lowered its projection for profit margins.The automaker reported a plunge in profit in the first half of the year, more than halving from the year before. Its vehicle sales fell 6 percent in the United States and 14 percent in China over that period, “primarily due to tariff policy,” the company said.Porsche,…

While much remains obscure, what is clear is that, while global markets remain uneasy, the market in Palm Beach real estate continues to be, as the broker Ms. DeWoody noted, “bulletproof.”Surely, the most famous part-time resident is President Trump. Yet he is far from the wealthiest. Bloomberg has pegged the net worth of the Palm Beach homeowner Julia Flesher Koch and her family, for instance, at more than $80 billion. Other multibillionaires in that economic stratum and the same neighborhood include the brokerage magnate Thomas Peterffy and the Blackstone Group chief executive Stephen A. Schwarzman.Originally envisioned as a haven for…

Instant Brands announced a new line of pots emblazoned with the slogan “Make America Great Again.” David Fahrenthold explains what’s behind this decision and explores the link between this brand and others that have created Trump-related products.

Facing growing pressure amid nationwide protests, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine backtracked on controversial legislation that would have weakened the country’s independent anticorruption institutions. Katrin Bennhold, a senior writer, and Marc Santora, an international news editor for The New York Times, explain the events that led to the reversal.

new video loaded: ‘Eddington’ | Anatomy of a ScenetranscriptBacktranscript‘Eddington’ | Anatomy of a SceneThe writer and director Ari Aster narrates a sequence from his film featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal.My name is Ari Aster. I am the writer- director of “Eddington.” As we start, I just want to say that this is a pivotal scene in the film, and it is best for you to have watched the film before watching this, as this is a spoiler. So we are nearing the midpoint of the film here, and we are now following Joaquin Phoenix’s character, Sheriff Joe cross, who’s…

new video loaded: In the Latest Space Race, It’s China vs. SpaceXBy Selam Gebrekidan, Nikolay Nikolov, Jon Hazell, Laura Salaberry and Malika Khurana•July 24, 2025China has made it a national priority to catch up with SpaceX’s nearly 8,000 Starlink internet-providing satellites in low-Earth orbit, which it regards as a military threat. Despite successes in other parts of its space program, China has just 124 internet-providing satellites in low-Earth orbit. Selam Gebrekidian, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, explains why China is lagging behind in this new space race.Recent episodes in Behind the ReportingShow more videos from Behind the…

Austria’s government will make good on pledges to double its military budget over the next seven years, its chancellor has affirmed, in the latest example of a newly unsettled global outlook driving a boom in defense spending in Europe.The chancellor, Christian Stocker, who took office in March and is a member of the center-right Austrian People’s Party, told The New York Times in an interview in Vienna on Monday that the historically neutral Alpine nation must respond to growing threats and uncertainties. That means reversing a decades-long trend of shrinking military budgets as a share of the economy.“After the fall…

I’m James Gunn. I’m the writer and director of ‘Superman.’ So in this scene, we have David Corenswet as Clark Kent slash Superman and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. They are dating. And Lois calls out Clark for writing interviews with himself to put in the newspaper. And he says, well, you could interview me sometime. And she says, right now? And this is the beginning of the part where she interviews him. “Well, Boravia invaded Jarhanpur. And I showed up and told them that wasn’t right.” “And?” “And smashed some tanks and things, and a couple of planes, and…

More than 1.4 million Afghans have been forced out of Iran since January amid a governmental crackdown. Elian Peltier, an international correspondent at The New York Times, reports from the Afghanistan-Iran border. There, he met with Afghans grappling with an uncertain future, as they return to a country with widespread poverty and severe restrictions on women’s and girls’ rights.