Israel said it killed the naval commander, Alireza Tangsiri, in an airstrike on Thursday morning. Iran has not commented.Alireza Tangsiri in a photo released by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps last month.
Kharg Island exports 90 percent of Iran’s crude oil. It has also become a potential U.S. target. Peter Eavis, our Business reporter, examines how the small island in the Persian Gulf has become a strategic target with significant risks.
The region’s stores of natural gas are running at the lowest level in years, and filling them up is increasingly daunting as the U.S.-led war in Iran pushes up prices.
Plus, OnlyFans’ billionaire owner dies at 43.Meta and YouTube harmed a young user’s mental health with addictive design features, a jury found.
A pair of verdicts held social media companies accountable for harming young users, highlighting a growing backlash as Congress struggles to pass legislation.Mark Lanier, a lawyer for a plaintiff who was awarded $6 million in damages against Meta and YouTube, speaking outside Superior Court of Los A
Regulators in Brussels accused the social media platform of maintaining a weak age-verification system, and steering younger users toward inappropriate experiences.Henna Virkkunen, the European commissioner overseeing digital policy, said that the European Union’s Digital Services Act “demands high
Back-to-back courtroom losses have put technology giants, including Meta and Google, in uncertain territory as they face lawsuits and bans on teen users.The legal heat is growing on social media giants like Meta, and its C.E.O., Mark Zuckerberg.
Landmark trials are testing a new legal strategy claiming that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube caused personal injury through addictive products.The lawsuits are for the first time putting social media companies on the spot for creating harmful products, exposing them to new kinds of liability.
Federal judges are weighing strategies for how to respond to the high stakes, anonymous threats and politicized atmosphere of the Trump era.
Ahead of the midterms, President Trump told a Republican gathering that he wants to go after repeat offenders and “rogue judges that are criminals.”President Trump and top aides have been railing against judges who have ruled against him, including justices on the Supreme Court.
At least 163 people have been killed in the Trump administration’s campaign against suspected drug smuggling.The Pentagon said it blew up a boat in the Caribbean on Wednesday, the 47th such attack since the campaign started in early September.
The agreement that President Trump struck with the European Union has cleared a major hurdle that delayed it for months.President Trump and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Scotland, where a U.S.-E.U. trade deal was signed last Jul
Kirsty Coventry, the first woman to lead the International Olympic Committee, has frequently spoken about what she says is the need to protect women’s competitions at the Olympic Games.Kirsty Coventry, president of the International Olympic Committee and a former Olympic swimmer from Zimbabwe.
It was unclear whether having agents helping with screening passengers would improve wait times. Some travelers expressed worries.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on Wednesday.
Officials expect the airport in New York to be fully operational later on Thursday. One of its two runways had been closed since Sunday, when a jet hit a truck, killing two pilots.An airport maintenance crew at LaGuardia Airport removed the wreckage of a fire truck and an Air Canada jet on Wednesday
As in other Hispanic areas of the country, voters shifted toward Republicans in 2024. But there are increasing signs that this was a blip more than a durable trend.
Renewable energy leaders said their industry got “rolled” in President Trump’s tax bill. Now they’re fighting back, starting in Texas.The Roseland solar and storage facility in Riesel, Texas. The state ranks first in wind and second in solar capacity in the country, generating nearly $300 million in
The law, which mirrors national Republican priorities, requires newly registered voters to show that they are U.S. citizens in order to cast a ballot in state or local races.Gov. Larry Rhoden of South Dakota at a ceremony in Keystone, S.D., last fall.
Her interview on the “Today” show came more than 50 days after her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was taken from her home near Tucson, Ariz.Savannah Guthrie on the set of the “Today” show this month. On Thursday, she gave her first interview since her mother, Nancy, was abducted.
The world’s largest crypto exchange is under fire after investigators found accounts moving $1.7 billion to Iranian entities. Clues about those accounts were in plain sight for over a year.A villa in Singapore whose address was shared by the chief executive of Blessed Trust, which was a vendor to Bi
Students and others are asking universities, including Harvard and Ohio State, to take down the names of high-profile donors with connections to Jeffrey Epstein. They have not done so yet.The main building of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government bears the name of Leslie Wexner, a major
It’s blunt instead of vague, brash instead of evasive, bold instead of cautious. And yet the word obfuscates as much as old defense jargon.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that President Trump “still chooses a strategy of putting more pressure on the Ukrainian side.”President Volodymyr Zelensky at a command post near Sloviansk, in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine.
Elderly people in isolated villages are going without medicine. One woman said she hadn’t seen a doctor in four years.
