Amid Trump’s Threats, NATO Labors to Survive the Iran War

President Trump is citing the unwillingness of European nations to back the United States in the conflict as another reason to scale back or abandon the alliance. And he still wants Greenland.President Trump and Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, in the Netherlands in June. The two met again

A Anton Troianovski

Iran’s Battered Leaders Emerge From War Confident — and With New Cards

For Iran’s theocratic rulers, just surviving the U.S.-Israeli onslaught means victory. But the seeds of their next crisis may already be planted.A woman waving an Iranian flag in Tehran. Iran’s leadership is entering into renewed negotiations after the cease-fire with a new set of demands.

Y Yeganeh Torbati and Erika Solomon

Israel Agrees to Hold Talks With Lebanon

Also, vegetative patients may be more aware than we thought. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.The site of an airstrike in Beirut, today.

M Matthew Cullen

Melania Trump Says She Was Not Associated With Jeffrey Epstein

Responding to what she said were smears, the first lady said she never had knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and was not a victim of his. She called for a congressional hearing for his victims.Melania Trump, the first lady, made an unexpected statement about Jeffrey Epstein at the White House on

S Shawn McCreesh

3 Russian Submarines Detected Near Britain Were Spying, U.K. Says

John Healey, the defense secretary, said the vessels were gathering information about undersea pipelines, and said he believed President Vladimir V. Putin “would want us to be distracted by the Middle East.”Defense Secretary John Healey said on Thursday that the U.K. military operation “reinforces t

M Michael D. Shear

How Trump Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations

Judges are ordering an unprecedented number of people deported after coming under significant pressure from the administration to do so or risk losing their jobs.

N Nicholas Nehamas, Allison McCann, Steven Rich, Jazmine Ulloa and Hamed Aleaziz

New Charter Allows RFK Jr. to Reclaim Vaccine Policy Despite Court Ruling

The charter, published on Thursday, alters the makeup and purpose of the panel, opening the door for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to reclaim his revision of national vaccine policy.Aaron Siri, a lawyer aligned with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaking at a meeting of the Adviso

A Apoorva Mandavilli

Trump Officials Push Allies to Pursue Antifa and Far Left as Terrorist Threats

The Trump administration aims to deploy counterterrorism tools against far-left groups, even as it has offered little evidence they present a dire threat.Left-wing protesters clashing with police in Milan in February. A State Department official said the episode showed why Western governments must c

J Jack Nicas, Alan Feuer, Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Edward Wong and Jim Tankersley

5 Takeaways From the U.S. Push Against the Far Left

The Trump administration has made countering antifa and other far-left groups a counterterrorism priority, despite increasing threats from the Middle East.Antifa protesters at a rally in Paris last month.

J Jack Nicas

Venezuela Approves New Law to Open Mining to Foreign Investors

The move opens the country’s coveted mineral fortune up to foreign investors, the latest move that Venezuela’s leadership has taken to satisfy the Trump administration.An illegal gold mine in Las Claritas, Venezuela, in 2016.

L Luis Ferré-Sadurní

Getty Center in Los Angeles Is Closing for Year of Renovations

The art museum will close to the public in March 2027 to replace its aging tram system and modernize some galleries.The Getty Center, which opened on the Westside of Los Angeles in 1997, contains paintings by van Gogh, Rembrandt, Rubens, Monet and Degas.

M Matt Stevens

Florida Attorney General Investigates OpenAI and ChatGPT Over F.S.U. Shooting

The state’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, said ChatGPT “may likely have been used to assist” the suspect in last year’s shooting at Florida State University.Students and members of the community leaving flowers outside the taped-off perimeter on Florida State University’s campus after a shooting

P Patricia Mazzei