The attack on Iran has led to a surge in energy prices at a moment when the cost of living is a major issue heading into the fall elections.A tanker and a cargo ship in Muscat, Oman, on Monday. The war in Iran has affected the shipping of oil through the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman.
His father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had turned what was traditionally a religious affairs office into a shadowy national security juggernaut.Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran in 2019.
Iran has accused the United States of bombing a desalination plant on Qeshm Island. The country was already facing a severe water shortage.An enormous sinkhole and land subsidence in Khuzestan, southwestern Iran, in 2021.
Plus, space mirrors?President Trump spoke after House Republicans went to his golf club near Miami on Monday for their annual policy retreat.
More solar energy was added to U.S. grids than any other technology, but the amount installed fell by 14 percent, according to a new report.A solar field in Riesel, Texas, in 2023. Solar power is projected to account for just over half of the new power projects that will be added this year.
In a rare joint appearance, Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett M. Kavanaugh offered sharply different views on how the court should handle emergency requests.Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, left, moderator Judge Paul L. Friedman, center, and Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaug
The Trump administration, which said it is investigating harassment, sued the University of Pennsylvania after it refused a request to provide information about Jewish students and staff.The University of Pennsylvania campus. The school has been fighting a request that it hand over contact informati
The verdict comes more than a month after the trial began in Federal District Court in Manhattan where the jury heard weeks of emotional and often graphic testimony.Prosecutors say the Alexander brothers operated a sex trafficking conspiracy for nearly 20 years. Their trial ended on Monday, when the
What once involved an actor and a casting director in a room is now a technologically advanced exercise with pros and cons for performers.
Best picture is the only Oscar category decided by preferential ballot. Our reporter Marc Tracy explains how that works.
It’s primary day in Mississippi, where a younger Democrat is trying to oust a House veteran, and in Georgia, where Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat is up for grabs.Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, is defending his seat against Evan Turnage.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the D.N.C. sought to compel the government to say whether it plans to deploy armed federal officers in this year’s elections.Voters at a polling site last week in Rockingham County, N.C.
Mounting evidence shows that excessive computer use can harm children, so parents are cutting back at home. Now, the debate has shifted to the classroom.Some families are reining in their children’s screen time at home only to find it expanding at school.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been spare in his remarks following the attempted bombing at Gracie Mansion and arrests of two men who said they were motivated by ISIS.Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been somewhat reserved in his comments following an attack outside Gracie Mansion, issuing two short statements an
Though high rates of the disease persist among the nearby Indigenous communities, the Canadian government is weighing rules that may allow energy giants to release treated mining waste into the river system.A Syncrude facility near Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Balendra Shah’s party won a landslide in the election that followed Nepal’s Gen Z revolution. His style is pugnacious.Balendra Shah campaigning in Kathmandu, Nepal, last month.
Nadia Schadlow, a deputy national security adviser during Trump’s first term, explains how the U.S.-Israel war with Iran fits in with an “America First” agenda.
Only when the U.S.-Israeli bombing of Iran comes to a halt, without destroying the state, can the Iranian people sort out their fate.
We look at the conflict’s global economic impact.In Oman yesterday.
“You can lie about many things in American life, but one thing you can’t lie about is gas prices,” Late Night host Seth Meyers said. “Everyone sees it.”
Ms. Sherrill will present her first budget as New Jersey governor in Trenton on Tuesday, and with it a robust preview of her policy priorities.Governor Mikie Sherrill at her swearing-in ceremony in Newark, N.J. earlier this year.
Some of the disgraced financier’s victims have said they were trafficked at the property south of Santa Fe, where the nearest neighbors are miles away.Lawmakers voted to impanel a bipartisan four-member “truth commission” with subpoena power to investigate Zorro Ranch.
He served in the Special Forces, led a postwar raid to find P.O.W.s and became a voice of the right-wing anti-government fringe.Bo Gritz in the early 1990s. As a prominent figure among right-wing radicals, he tapped into a rich vein of populist anger over America’s defeat in Vietnam.
The fireball from space was spotted by a network of sky-watching cameras in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany.
