Geography and regional rivalries have prevented Gulf countries from finding a true alternative to the strait, which the war with Iran has effectively shut down.A naval vessel sailing this month in the Strait of Hormuz. The waterway remains the only option to export most of the energy produced in the
Unleashing his inner hawk, Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans President Trump’s military interventions. So far, they favor regime compliance, not change.Secretary of State Marco Rubio is at the helm of President Trump’s aggressive campaigns to reshape the governments of Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and b
The $5 billion project in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to produce up to 10 billion barrels of oil by the end of this decade. Critics say it could endanger people and marine life.An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico in 2024.
An investigation of the Federal Reserve was thwarted on Friday, but a department appeal could reimpose an obstacle in Kevin Warsh’s path.The path for Kevin M. Warsh to become the Federal Reserve chair may be complicated by an inquiry into renovations at the central bank’s headquarters.
Josh Nass, a lawyer and lobbyist, had recently represented Joseph Schwartz, a former nursing home executive pardoned by the president late last year.Josh Nass, a lawyer and lobbyist who recently represented a former nursing home executive seeking a pardon, was arrested on an extortion charge on Frid
The large fee is the latest example of the White House’s inserting itself into corporate deal making in unusual and aggressive ways.The new investors paid the Treasury roughly $2.5 billion of the fee when the deal closed in January.
Since Richard Grenell was appointed by President Trump, the arts center has endured waves of cancellations and departures. It will soon close for lengthy renovations.During Richard Grenell’s tenure as president of the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera announced it would find a new home.
Latin America’s left saw Cuba as its lodestar. Now leaders across the spectrum are hesitant to aid a nation in the Trump administration’s cross hairs.The Capitolio Nacional in Havana. Cuba’s isolation is deepening in the region.
The Cuban immigrants sailed from the Florida Keys and wound up in a gunfight off Cuban shores. They were anti-Communist militants from fringe groups.Cuban exile groups held a ceremony in Miami last weekend honoring the 10 men who had sailed to Cuba from Florida with an apparent cache of weapons.
The Cuban government, which has so far outlasted 13 U.S. presidents, faces its gravest challenge yet. Images from The New York Times and others record nearly seven decades of political turmoil, economic crises and small moments of ordinary life.Old Havana, the capital’s historic center, is a warren
In the industry where René Redzepi reigned, fellow chefs are debating how, and how much, restaurant kitchens can change.René Redzepi stepped down Wednesday as the chef of Noma, the restaurant that made Copenhagen a global dining destination, after he was accused of past physical abuse.
Several attacks, including one on a synagogue in Michigan and a shooting at a university in Virginia, may be linked to the fighting in the Middle East.An attacker rammed a vehicle into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., on Thursday.
“I didn’t breathe until I knew all of the kids were OK,” one teacher recalled after a truck crashed through the doors of a Michigan synagogue this week.Smoke rising from Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Mich., on Thursday.
Lt. Col. Brandon Shah flew hundreds of combat missions as a war-zone helicopter pilot before being shot and killed in his Old Dominion University classroom by a radicalized military veteran.The authorities on Thursday investigated the scene at Constant Hall at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.
No one was hurt in the explosion at a Jewish school in Amsterdam, or in an earlier one at a Rotterdam synagogue.Police officers on Saturday outside the Amsterdam school where a blast damaged an outer wall. The mayor said Jews in Amsterdam were “increasingly confronted with antisemitism.”
The billionaire newspaper owner, dissatisfied by years of losses, wants the newsroom to double productivity with half its budget.
Cole Walliser grabs celebrities for red-carpet close-ups. In recent years, he has become known in his own right, for better or for worse.
Online wagering is all the rage. But the crowdsourced data generally doesn’t interest experts who have built a brand predicting Academy Awards races.
It will be a tight race for best picture and actor, while the In Memoriam segment looks to be supersized this year.After a well-received debut last year, Conan O’Brien, center, is back as the Oscars host.
The United States helped create safeguards to limit the brutality of war, and now I fear President Trump is dismantling them.A residential building in Tehran with its sides torn off.
“Love Story” is restoring Camelot’s sheen, tarnished by R.F.K. Jr.
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At once, Mahmood Mamdani’s fame was eclipsed by his son’s. At the same time, the election of Zohran Mamdani has attracted new interest in his father’s work.Since his days as a scholar in Tanzania in the 1970s, Mahmood Mamdani has wrestled with subjects including the nature of colonialism and its end
