Iran sees its control over the Strait of Hormuz as critical leverage in peace talks with the United States. It seems willing to risk the cease-fire to maintain that power.Boats anchored off Oman’s northern Musandam Peninsula near the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.
Dahiya, a sprawling area and Hezbollah stronghold, is stirring back to life amid a tense truce with Israel. “This war has brought so much loss,” one resident said.A main street in Dahiya, a collection of neighborhoods south of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, in June. On any given day, Dahiya hums with
The United States and Iran have engaged in rounds of attacks and counterattacks in recent days, eroding hopes for a quick return to normalcy in the Middle East.Vice President JD Vance after the United States and Iran held high-level talks at the Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland on Monday.
An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten.
The Central Asian nation is aggressively courting President Trump’s Washington to counterbalance its powerful neighbors, Russia and China.Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana.
Behind the scenes, the Trump White House went to extensive lengths to advance its theory of executive power, potentially giving the president remarkable leeway to install loyalists at nearly every echelon of government.The Trump administration maintains that the president can direct the actions of f
After decades, deferred maintenance totals an estimated $50 billion. But getting repair funds from Congress is a laborious process.Hoses and plastic bags being used to manage a leaky roof in an Internal Revenue Service building on the Chamblee campus in Georgia.
A medical team set out from the capital to rescue people in the hardest-hit part of the disaster zone, La Guaira. They found silence in the ruins instead.Dr. Zaira Medina, left, hugging a rescue worker outside her collapsed apartment building in La Guaira, Venezuela, on Friday.
The outpouring of volunteer aid after Venezuela’s earthquakes clogged the only road into the disaster zone, delaying rescue crews.The Pérez de León Hospital medical team in a truck in La Guaira, Venezuela, on Friday night. The doctors were handing out food, water and medical supplies to people on th
The Democratic primary on Tuesday is likely to decide the next governor, and Senator Michael Bennet, once seen as a shoo-in, is in a dogfight with Attorney General Phil Weiser.Mr. Weiser, second from left, spoke with voters at Bluebird Café in Glenwood Springs, Colo., earlier this month.
Zohran Mamdani did it last year. So did Claire Valdez in her recent run for Congress. Some candidates are campaigning after dark to court young voters.Clubgoers cheered Mr. Mamdani at Mood Ring last November.
If she reaches the Senate, Ms. Letlow would replace Senator Bill Cassidy and become the first G.O.P. woman to represent Louisiana in the chamber.Representative Julia Letlow, who is running for Senate in Louisiana with the support of President Trump.
Their bodies were brought by helicopter to a Colorado airport, where their soot-covered comrades drove them to the coroner’s office. Fires are raging in the arid Southwest after a warm winter.A helicopter dropping water on the Cottonwood fire burning near Beaver, Utah, on Saturday.
Forecasters warned that temperatures could break records in some areas. The heat is expected to last into the Fourth of July holiday weekend.Pedestrians on the Brooklyn Bridge during a heat wave in 2024. New York City, Philadelphia and Washington are likely to have days above 100 degrees this week,
How one silly syllable ignited a bitter dispute over the nature of reality on Polymarket.
The people who want to visit can’t function without the people who have to live there.
When speaking up actually means risking something, for once, it is more necessary than ever.
The annual celebration on Sunday took place in a city where many in the L.G.B.T.Q. community are optimistic about their local leaders but face challenges from the Trump administration.
