Across Asia, where countries are highly exposed to rising oil and gas costs and tightening supply, governments are acting to mitigate economic harm.The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow passage between Iran and Oman. Historically 20 million barrels pass through it each day, most of it bound for Asia.
The war in the Middle East has sent prices soaring, showing how much the world continues to depend on reliable supplies of oil and gas.An oil tanker off the coast of El Segundo, Calif., last week. The United States is the world’s biggest producer of oil and natural gas but is still feeling the effec
The U.S. markets fell at Monday’s open, while Asian and European markets tumbled as tensions in the Middle East led to more energy supply disruptions, rattling investors.
Plus, the “slop bowl” is losing its appeal.Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran in 2019. Top clerics in Iran have said he will succeed his slain father as supreme leader.
The Oklahoma senator whom President Trump chose to run the Department of Homeland Security has risen in Washington by styling himself as a MAGA warrior and Trump loyalist.If Mr. Mullin were to be confirmed by the Senate, he would take the mantle of a federal agency carrying out the president’s immig
The agreement, which requires a judicial sign-off, would avoid a breakup of the concert giant. But states who joined the suit object to the terms.The tentative settlement ends a case that had bipartisan political support in Washington.
Pet owners are extending their health beliefs and practices to their furry friends.Vivian is grooming her dog, Porcini, a 2-year-old Norwich terrier, who requires a technique called hand stripping that not many groomers can do.
Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections. Wealthy donors are reaping the rewards.Protesters demonstrated outside the Supreme Court in 2019 as Senate Democrats proposed a constitutional amendment
300 billionaires and their families spent more than $3 billion on federal elections in 2024. Here’s a snapshot of how a surging class of ultrawealthy people is spending money on political change.Before the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling that lifted many remaining campaign finance restrictions, the shar
Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, traveled east to visit frontline troops trying to stave off Russian attacks, and invited reporters for The New York Times to go with him.President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Kramatorsk on Friday. “They need a lot of things,” he said of the soldiers. “And e
As the war in Iran spreads, Kyiv is eagerly offering its hard-won expertise and advanced technology to counter Iranian drones.Soldiers in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in December, monitoring the sky to shoot down Russian Shahed drones using a 30-millimeter antiaircraft gun.
The Export-Import Bank is providing a $10 billion loan to Project Vault, an initiative to stockpile critical minerals. The project is the administration’s latest effort to reduce reliance on China.
The artificial intelligence company filed two lawsuits against the Department of Defense, saying it was being punished on ideological grounds.
The attack, in the eastern Pacific, was part of a continuing campaign by the U.S. Southern Command to target people suspected of smuggling drugs by sea.
J. Todd Inman, who was prominent in the investigation of the midair collision in Washington last year, said no reason was given for his firing two years into his term on the transportation safety board.J. Todd Inman of the National Transportation Safety Board during a Jan. 27 hearing on the midair c
James Talarico, the Democratic nominee from Texas, hopes to counter what he sees as a conservative takeover of the American church.James Talarico has cast his Senate candidacy as an opportunity for Christians to reclaim what he sees as core principals of their faith in American political life.
The longest-serving Black Democrat in Mississippi, Bennie Thompson is a formidable political force. But he is not immune to a national trend of younger candidates going after older incumbents.Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, was first elected to Congress in 1993. He now faces
The groups are working to educate voters in the South about how they would be affected if the court strikes down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.The Rev. Al Sharpton said that this year’s march in Selma, Ala., was about continuing, rather than commemorating, the fight to protect voting righ
Josh Payne, the chief executive of Nscale, raised $2 billion from investors. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Facebook executive, is joining his board.
The Trump administration has yet to announce a process to return fees paid by companies and shoppers for tariffs now deemed illegal.Dr. Andrew Angel paid a tariff on a pendant he bought from an eBay seller in Japan as a gift for his wife, Dr. Irina Angel.
Delusional infestation is one of the darkest embodiments of medical uncertainty.
America is a big oil producer. But its overreliance on crude and the president’s efforts to keep it that way mean times like these can hurt.
We examine the Middle East’s role in food production.In India.
After a frigid, snowy, seemingly interminable winter, the first taste of mild air had people shedding layers and flocking to parks.Washington Square Park on Sunday, as the temperature rose above 60 degrees.
