San Francisco hosted a victory parade on Wednesday for the new W.N.B.A. champions, a team that’s not even two years old but has made the Bay Area swoon.

How an unpopular president and an unpopular war provided an opening for Democrats to make sweeping gains in the midterms.

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After a decade at the center of American politics, President Trump is politically wounded, with diminished power. Those who know him say the next two years will be unpredictable.

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His party just suffered a drubbing unseen in decades. But the president, leading a tour of his ballroom project, was placid and eager to wax on about construction instead.

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Expectations were low for the Golden State Valkyries, the W.N.B.A.’s first expansion team in 17 years, but they captivated Bay Area sports fans and surprised the league by securing a playoff spot in their first season.

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While the U.S. is playing catch up on drones, it has a lead over China in AI, the Pentagon’s technology chief told the WSJ Tech conference.

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The Democrats sweep in the US midterm elections is the focus of Thursday's papers.

The suspect in a fire that nearly destroyed Limoges’s city hall offers a window into the radical activists fueling the protests.

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Outstanding orders add to existing aid commitments as Democratic gains signal greater scrutiny of military assistance to Israel.

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The trial was condemned as "unethical" and "neocolonial" because half of the babies would not be given the vaccine.

X is introducing a new version of its web app that it says is much faster than before, and it's now rolling out the updated app "one country at a time" for signed-in users.

"Open a profile on X.com over a slow connection," principal engineer Yagiz Nizipli said in a blog post about the changes. "On the old web app, you'd stare at the X logo for more than 22 seconds before the first post appeared. On the new one, it shows up in 2.7." The post also goes into technical detail about how the updated app "replaces the three servers we used to run for people, search crawlers, and link previews with one."

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Is it symptom a health service at breaking point - or a positive way of involving the public?

From angry voters to an unpopular president, here is why Americans in traditional Republican areas turned to Democrats.

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Most analysts are predicting an increase from 3.75% to 4%, the first increase in more than three years.

Authorities in British Columbia say evidence suggests an animal may have been involved in the women's deaths.

Pound reaches highest level against a basket of currencies since the Brexit referendum a decade ago

A world record of 43 players and eight members of staff were sent off during an under-20 championship match between Uberlandia and Mamore in Brazil.

Even for countries where typhoons are a way of life, the last few months have brought unusually wild weather.