David E. Sanger

President Biden is beginning to acknowledge that he is simply running out of time to help forge a cease-fire and hostage deal with Hamas, his aides say. And the risk of a wider war has never looked greater.

World leaders are gathering in New York as devastating conflicts rage on in Ukraine, Sudan and the Middle East. President Biden will address the gathering on Tuesday morning.

The Ukrainian leader, President Emmanuel Macron of France and heads of several African nations will address the U.N. General Assembly.

Hours after President Biden delivered his final U.N. speech, Masoud Pezeshkian, who was elected in July, gave his first.

The fast-growing Tampa Bay region, home to about three million people, hasn’t had a direct hit from a hurricane since 1921. More than 5.5 million Florida residents were urged to evacuate.

Plus, the Kenyan police battle gangs in Haiti.

Assassinating Yahya Sinwar was Israel’s Osama bin Laden moment. But getting a cease-fire deal done in the last three months of the Biden presidency is a much bigger reach.

What the soldiers are doing is “left to be seen,” the U.S. defense secretary said.

Experts inside and outside the Biden administration fear that Iran may conclude it has only one defense left: racing for an atomic weapon.

A second Donald J. Trump presidency would almost certainly mark a return to an era of foreign policy decrees, untethered to any policy process, at a moment of maximum international peril.