The order gives President Trump more military options as he considers diplomacy with Iran. It is unclear where the soldiers will go in the Middle East.Members of the 82nd Airborne Division in North Carolina in 2021. It is unclear where roughly 2,000 soldiers from the division will go in the Middle E
The 15-point plan was delivered via Pakistan, whose army chief has emerged as the key interlocutor between the United States and Iran, officials say.An apartment shattered by an airstrike in Tehran on Monday.
Ships with no ties to Israel or the United States would be allowed to pass, the government said, but it was unclear if any vessels would try.Cargo ships in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, seen from the United Arab Emirates earlier this month.
Senate Democrats failed for the third time to advance a resolution that would force the removal of troops from hostilities in Iran unless Congress approves offensive operations.Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, introduced Tuesday’s war powers resolution.
The pilots were identified as Antoine Forest, 30, and Mackenzie Gunther. They were the only two fatalities in the plane’s collision with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.The wreckage of an Air Canada Express jet after it collided with a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday.
Kathryn Garcia, who began leading the agency in February, consoled two injured firefighters and dealt with delays at the three big airports serving New York City.Kathryn Garcia, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, met with two employees who were injured in the co
Emily Gregory’s victory in Palm Beach brought the Democratic surge to President Trump’s backyard, while a union leader leads in a race for a state senate seat vacated by Florida’s lieutenant governor.Emily Gregory’s district includes President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.
Phil Berger had money, power and an endorsement from President Trump. But his critics had a long list of resentments and, on Tuesday, he lost by a mere 23 votes.Phil Berger is the country’s longest-serving active State Senate leader.
The California governor suggested that he had meant to refer to Israel’s potential future direction, not its current policies. “I revere the state of Israel,” he said.Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has long been a supporter of Israel, but he has stepped up his criticism of its government more recen
Parties normally hold conventions every four years to nominate presidential candidates, but Republicans hope to hold one this year in the face of midterm headwinds.President Trump has pushed for a major gathering before this year’s midterm elections to motivate his supporters, and Republicans are cl
A day after President Trump said he did not want a compromise, Senate Republicans sent Democrats a plan that would break off ICE enforcement funding and reopen the rest of the department.Senate Republicans said they would seek to fund ICE enforcement operations through a separate bill that would not
Scenes from extra long lines at two airports, and a surprising discovery at a third.Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport employees directing passengers in line at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint on Monday.
A reassessment of damaged 3,500-year-old statuary adds to evidence that Queen Hatshepsut wasn’t the villain that scholars long took her to be.
Nick Adams, known for his crass humor and internet trolling, was previously nominated to be the ambassador to Malaysia. But his nomination was pulled earlier this year.President Trump picked Nick Adams for a newly created position: the “special presidential envoy for American tourism, exceptionalism
Dr. Robert Malone, vice chair of the committee, was appointed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after a purge of the previous advisers.Dr. Robert Malone, the vice chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, during a meeting at the C.D.C. in Atlanta in December.
Airport escorts and “red coat” assistance for lawmakers will be suspended, the airline said on Tuesday, citing the extended partial government shutdown.Delta Air Lines said that it would suspend special services for members of Congress, amid a stalemate over funding for the Department of Homeland Se
A policy of turning back many asylum seekers at the border was rescinded in 2021, but the Justice Department wants the flexibility to reinstate it as a tool for border control.Migrants approved for asylum appointments with Customs and Border Protection lined up for permission to travel to the U.S. i
Transportation Security Administration officials told ICE that a mother and daughter under a detention order had planned to fly domestically, federal documents show.Angelina Lopez-Jimenez and her 9-year-old daughter were detained at the San Francisco International Airport and later deported to Guate
Two Minnesota-based legal groups accused the Justice Department of unconstitutionally expediting Somalis’ immigration cases.The vast majority of the 80,000 Somalis who live in Minnesota are American citizens or legal permanent residents.
The Times visited a village where the United States and Ecuador said they destroyed an armed group’s training camp. Residents said it was actually a dairy farm.The remains of a dairy cattle farm in San Martín that was burned and bombed by the Ecuadorean military.
The San Francisco school board approved a plan to restore algebra as an option at all middle schools, more than a decade after it was removed over equity concerns.The decision to stop offering algebra in middle school frustrated some families in the San Francisco Unified School District.
The assault, which came after overnight strikes across the country, was one of the largest of the war, the Ukrainian authorities said.
Moscow may be challenging President Trump’s effort to choke Cuba’s economy. China also has suspected listening posts on the island.Mr. Trump has spoken of using his economic leverage to mount a “friendly takeover” of Cuba and is pressing for the ouster of its president, Miguel Díaz-Canel.
In one of the company’s first major losses, New Mexico jurors found that it had misled consumers about the safety of its platforms, enabling sexual exploitation of young users.Meta, which is led by Mark Zuckerberg, said it would appeal a verdict in state court in Santa Fe, N.M.
