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The government and a prominent strategist clash on whether the United States will remain dominant in Asia, and whether Australia should go it alone.

A man filed a police report in Illinois in 2016 claiming that when he was a teenager in the 1980s, Mr. Levine began sexually abusing him.

Esraa is looking to rent an apartment with her friends. In Egypt, where personal freedom can be routinely compromised in the name of religion, family and country, that makes her a rebel. Like many in her generation, she is gasping for change. Can she win?

Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, had argued for weeks that Roy S. Moore, the Republican Alabama Senate candidate, should leave the race.

Law enforcement’s embrace of A.I. and its built-in racial biases terrifies me.

In Senate Republicans’ mad dash to rewrite the tax code, lawmakers added loopholes for the wealthy and tightened deductions for middle-income workers.

Emily Dufton discusses “Grass Roots,” her look at the history of activism on both sides of the marijuana debate.

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Here’s what you need to know about the week’s top stories.

In his first interview since being put under protection of federal authorities, Grigory Rodchenkov said, “Innocent athletes should not be prevented from participating.”

Speaking to an audience that included the heads of Apple and Google, Wang Huning said China should be free to govern, and censor, its internet.

“Saturday Night Live” returned after a one-week absence and addressed a very busy news week.

Four conference championships on Saturday will help shape the lineup for the College Football Playoff on New Year’s Day.

Even in a whirlwind presidency, it was a dizzying span of hours: One of the president’s closest former aides pleaded guilty, shortly before the Senate voted to cut taxes.

In a statement, the network said the reporting “had not been fully vetted through our editorial standards process” and apologized for the “serious error.”

Pope Francis, criticized for not using the word “Rohingya” while in Myanmar, said that using the term “would have been a door slammed in the face.”

A letter published in Hyperallergic singles out five monuments or markers for removal.

The same forces that rocketed the House and Senate tax measures to passage appear likely to bond Republicans as they work to hash out the differences.

Most people make relatively few personal experiments, in both small and big things. The cost of passivity is enormous.

The former Stanford student, who served three months of a six-month sentence after being convicted of felony sexual assault, is seeking a retrial.