Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was left to square the president’s comments about an imminent nuclear threat from Iran with a letter from one of her trusted aides.Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, during a Senate hearing into worldwide threats on Wednesday.
Iran’s military retaliation, along with the political defiance of its new leaders, evokes a decades-old pattern of unrealized goals for American interventions in the region.An Iranian flag wrapping a building that was damaged in an airstrike in Tehran on Sunday.
On Wednesday, the director of national intelligence and C.I.A. director contradicted one of the justifications the Trump administration had given for its attacks on Iran.Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
The arrest of Dylan Lopez Contreras was the first case of a public school student in the city being taken by federal agents last year. “I still can’t believe that I’m out,” he said.Raiza Contreras, the mother of Dylan Lopez Contreras, fought for the release of her son from immigration detention.
An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that the United Farm Workers co-founder groomed and sexually abused girls who worked in the movement.Cesar Chavez during a demonstration in New York in 1969.
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, emphasized the high degree of uncertainty stemming from the conflict as he acknowledged the potential for surging energy prices to lift inflation and dent growth.Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair. “The thing I really want to emphasize is
Jerome H. Powell, who leads the central bank, also said he would not leave the Fed until a criminal investigation into his handling of renovations was over.Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, can stay on as chair of the central bank until a successor is named, and can remain as a governor u
A recent surge of A.I.-related imports has become an impediment to the smaller trade deficit President Trump wants.Unlike cars, steel and other goods, President Trump has intentionally avoided putting import taxes on electronics.
A restrictive voter I.D. bill under consideration in the Senate could severely limit mail-in voting. Conservatives are pressing to end the practice outright, taking aim at an option that is widely used by voters.Democrats are solidly opposed to the measure, and even some Republicans are balking at t
Ms. Stratton, a Democrat whose viral campaign ad featured voters’ profane views of Mr. Trump, said her campaign’s aggressive messaging was resonating.Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton of Illinois during a campaign event last week. She will enter the general election as the prohibitive favorite in her deep-b
After 20 years of racing, I wanted to take my sled dogs back into the wilderness.Dora (center left) and her grandmother Pepé leading Blair Braverman’s pack of retired sled dogs in northern Minnesota.
The man said his attackers stripped him naked, beat him and zip-tied his genitalia, an account corroborated by family members and a rights activist who were also beaten.Suhaib Abualkebash, with a bruised eye, in Khirbet Humsa, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. He said he had been assaulted by Israe
Tech companies have been reluctant to directly confront Trump administration officials over their contract feud with the A.I. start-up.Anthropic’s stance on how its artificial intelligence can be used in autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance infuriated officials at the Pentagon.
The tech giant has been rebuilding its relationship with the Defense Department and is poised to benefit as it sidesteps competitors’ controversies.Google, which swore off military work in 2018, is quietly rebuilding its relationship with the Defense Department.
Montserrat treats the holiday as both a national celebration and a more somber milestone: a commemoration of a failed slave rebellion.
At least 143 people were killed in a Pakistani airstrike that hit a drug rehabilitation facility in Kabul on Monday, according to a top U.N. official.A mass burial was held on Wednesday for people who died on Monday in a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Imprisoned for murder, Aleksandr Abbasov-Derskhan sought a new start in life and freedom by signing up to fight in Ukraine. But he says promised benefits proved illusory.Aleksandr Abbasov-Derskhan in the factory dormitory where he works, reattaching his prosthesis after disinfecting stitches on his
An attack forced its crew to abandon ship in early March. No country has intervened, despite fears of environmental disaster.The Arctic Metagaz, a Russian fuel tanker, adrift between Malta and Lampedusa, Italy, on Sunday.
Kyiv accuses Alexander Butyagin, a prominent antiquities scholar, of destroying cultural heritage during his excavations in Russia-occupied Crimea. The Kremlin has condemned his arrest.Alexander Butyagin at a court in Warsaw in January. He was detained in Poland on a Ukrainian arrest warrant in Dece
A chance encounter in Brooklyn led to a decades-long project following the boys’ lives, from childhood to national prominence as critics of President Trump.
Declaring victory and ending the war might not be so easy.
Kent’s resignation letter is partly rooted in truth, even if it taps into old antisemitic tropes about occult Jewish control.
Also, oil prices jump after airstrikes hit a crucial energy site. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.Cesar Chavez in 1969.
The child care giant will also surrender permits for a Manhattan branch where workers were charged with abusing toddlers.Bright Horizons fired three workers last year after they were accused of abusing 1- and 2-year-olds at a branch in Columbus Circle. One worker has now pleaded guilty.
