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The International Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that Israel, as an occupying power, must allow United Nations humanitarian aid into Gaza and may not use starvation as a method of warfare. In its ...

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It's the end of the week, and we are wrapping up, and there are still some loose ends we are tying up from the week. We have one last power ranking to cover. In what shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, ...

Three teams in the top five of last week's Power Rankings lost in Week 5, and five of the top 10 overall lost. Two of them were thankfully enjoying their bye weeks. And two that won had to hang on for ...

After two years of war and acrimony, “Red Alert” and “One Day in October” focus on the horrors of a single day. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief television critic of The New York ...

Donald Trump’s assault on the world — not to mention democracy, diplomacy, basic human decency and the rule of law — may look like an incoherent series of vindictive episodes aimed at “flooding the ...