Optimism for a resolution to the conflict and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz was checked after the United States said it had carried out strikes on missile launch sites in Iran.
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group, has also kept up rocket and drone attacks on Israeli troops, as the escalations threaten to complicate diplomatic efforts.Smoke rises after an Israeli air raid on the village of Yohmor in southern Lebanon on Tuesday.
Aspects such as drone technology and diplomacy show how the wars intersect on the battlefield and in global alignments, providing a model for future conflicts.Assessing the damaged buildings following Russian strikes in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on Sunday.
Plus, will anyone want an electric Ferrari?There are various pathways for foreigners to obtain green cards, which grant them the ability to live and work in the United States as permanent residents.
Judges and grand juries have increasingly lost faith in the Justice Department as the president uses it to reward his friends and go after his opponents.The examples of grand jury malfeasance come on top of the many cases in which Justice Department prosecutors have failed to get grand jurors to ret
The co-founder of a prominent A.I. company was nearby as the pope implored A.I. leaders to slow down and consider the technology’s possible perils.Pope Leo XIV at the presentation of his encyclical titled “Magnifica Humanitas,” or “Magnificent Humanity,” on Monday at the Vatican.
In his letter, the first American pontiff called for putting care for humans at the heart of technological change.Pope Leo XIV speaks during the presentation of “Magnifica Humanitas,” his first encyclical, at the Vatican on Monday.
The risk of a large explosion has been averted, officials say. But a smaller blast remains possible, and 16,000 people remain displaced.An aerial view of water being sprayed onto a tank at GKN Aerospace in Garden Grove, Calif., on Saturday.
Michael Bay wasn’t remotely worried about the science in his 1998 science-fiction action hit that launched an elite ensemble cast to space.
Even by the standards of a music that prizes individuality, he stood out, as both a musician and a personality.Sonny Rollins in 2006. He flirted with the avant-garde, jazz-rock fusion and other styles over the years, but he was ultimately unclassifiable.
The towering saxophonist, who died at 95, was a master of living in the moment. Listen to some of his most compelling work, onstage and in the studio.Sonny Rollins performing in Nice, France, in 2009.
Burt Jones, the leading G.O.P. candidate for governor, worked with Trump allies to try to overturn the election, and even talked to the president himself.While campaigning, Burt Jones boasts about his efforts in 2020.
Matthew Perry’s assistant injected the ketamine that killed his employer. His sentencing has some in the demanding profession considering the power dynamics involved.An autopsy report attributed Matthew Perry’s death in 2023 to the “acute effects" of ketamine. The actor’s personal assistant had foun
How prediction-market ‘sharps’ have made millions wagering on everything from war to Rotten Tomatoes.
Thousands who fled Russia after the invasion of Ukraine have built an enclave in Phuket. An air of impermanence hangs over their community.A Russian flag on Patong Beach in Phuket.
Haitian women are having babies in squalid, unsupervised settings after the Dominican Republic started sending immigration agents to detain migrants at hospitals.Katty Joseph, 20, in the room where she gave birth in the Dominican Republic. She said she delivered on the floor of her home because she
Iceland has stood apart from the rest of Europe. But President Trump’s threats to Greenland have provoked a reconsideration.
At the prestigious garden show, attendees jockeyed to buy prizewinning blooms and debated the role of whimsy as a ban on garden gnomes was temporarily lifted.The change in policy to allow gnomes at the Chelsea Flower Show this year set off discussion about the place of kitsch in the traditional Engl
We must use our leverage to end Israel’s occupation and establish two states with full political and legal rights for all.
We respond to reader queries about weapons sales, the national debt and more.In the Gaza Strip.
The British oil group said that Albert Manifold had been removed, after concerns were raised “related to important governance standards, oversight and conduct.”BP has gone through a series of leadership changes in recent years, amid investor discontent over its financial performance.
Three years after riots tore apart Manipur, the state remains in disarray. Barbed wire and armed checkpoints made it difficult for Times reporters to cross, even before the recent clashes.Security personnel at a buffer-zone checkpoint between Imphal and Churachandpur in Manipur, India, in March.
The Italian sports car maker unveiled Luce, its first all-electric model, amid wider worries about the luxury E.V. market.
Dong Guangping, 68, fled China at least three other times but was always sent back. His friends hope things might be different this time.
