And their decline has led to a steep drop in tax rates for the affluent.

Moon Hyeong-wook, 25, was accused of luring young women with promises of high-paying jobs and then forcing them into pornography.

As China grows stronger and bolder, some experts want to end Washington’s decades-long policy of “strategic ambiguity.”

After an earthquake and a tsunami hit Japan in 2011, Hiroko Masuike, a Times photographer, spent a decade documenting the attempts by 15 people to rebuild their community.

France’s delayed #MeToo.

Since the start of the year, well-known men from diverse fields have been accused of sexual abuse and placed under investigation.

Kyaw Zwar Minn, Myanmar’s ambassador to Britain, said he was locked out of the embassy in London on Wednesday, apparently for criticizing the Burmese military, which staged a coup in February.

The B.1.1.7 variant, first identified in Britain, is now the source of most new coronavirus infections in the United States, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Every state has now heeded President Biden’s call to begin opening vaccinations to all adults by April 19.

The move will once again make the United States a leading donor to the United Nations agency that assists about 5.7 million Palestinians in the Middle East.