Trump Faces the Complicated Reality of a Costly, Unpopular War in Iran

President Trump’s predictions of a relatively short-term conflict with minimal economic consequences appear to be crumbling.President Trump, on Saturday in Florida, is facing the reality that many Americans in a midterm election year disapprove of the war with Iran.

Z Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Jordanians Struggle as Mideast Wars Scare Tourists Away

Though Jordan mostly sat out the conflicts, its tourism high season was nearly wiped out at popular sites. Visitors canceled flights, hotels and tours.A few tourists in front of the 2,000-year-old Treasury building in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, last month.

R Raja Abdulrahim, Rana F. Sweis and Laura Boushnak

A California Dream? Some Democrats Fear Harris Picked the Wrong Race.

Some wish Kamala Harris had decided to run for governor in California, where Democrats are struggling to break through, rather than weigh another White House run.As the California primary for governor approaches, some Democrats wish former Vice President Kamala Harris had jumped into the race.

J Jennifer Medina

Indiana Primary Election Will Test Trump’s Influence With Republicans

The election on Tuesday will test the influence of President Trump, who endorsed challengers to Republican state senators who scuttled his push to redraw political maps.Candidates for a seat in the Indiana Senate at a candidate forum at Parke Heritage High School in Rockville, Ind., last month.

M Mitch Smith

The Last Days of Butter Ridge

The Watsons were dairy farmers for generations, the rhythms of their lives defined by their cows. Until this spring.

E Eli Saslow and Erin Schaff

Kathryn Stockett Has Finally Followed Up ‘The Help’

It was a blockbuster hit, yet she says she was “fired” by her publisher. After a spell in Bali, she’s back on home turf with “The Calamity Club.”“It’s impossible to write about a place like Mississippi, especially in the 1930s, and not talk racism and sexism,” Kathryn Stockett says of her new novel,

E Elisabeth Egan

Fear and Vigilance Are Now Constant Companions for Many American Jews

Each new attack, like the London stabbings last week, brings a heightened sense of caution to an already wary population.The police declared a stabbing attack in the Golders Green neighborhood of London a terroristic act against Jews.

P Patricia Mazzei, Robert Chiarito, Miles G. Cohen and Mark Bonamo

The U.S. Set Off a Corruption Scandal That Is Gripping Mexico

The U.S. indictment of a Mexican governor has spotlighted cartel corruption, strained cross-border relations and handed President Claudia Sheinbaum a thorny choice.Suspicions have long swirled around Rubén Rocha Moya, the governor of Sinaloa State in northwestern Mexico, home of the Sinaloa Cartel.

J Jack Nicas

Norway’s Northern Lights Nightmare

This Arctic region has seen a boom in tourism, but as tourists chase the northern lights, scammers chase their money.A guided tour in February to see the northern lights in Grotfjorden, near Tromso, Norway.

L Lynsey Chutel, Louise Krüger and Nicole Tung

The New Schoolyard Fight: Shrinking Enrollments and Too Many Classrooms

A battle in one New York neighborhood echoes struggles unfolding in school systems across the nation that are experiencing a decline in students.Public School 9, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, is a favorite of families in the neighborhood. But with popularity has come overcrowding.

M Matthew Haag