Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.A Starlink receiver sits atop a house in Kurdistan, Iran, in 2023. About 50,000 Starlink terminals are now in the
Israel is unlikely to do much to try to precipitate a regime change in Iran, seeing the government as far from the brink of collapse and the current protests as insufficient to push it to that point.A photograph posted on social media showing a protest in Tehran last week.
Since the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, administration officials have defended the use of deadly force, which agency guidelines say should be a last resort.Newly recruited Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a training center last year. President Trump and administration off
Our visual journalists David Guttenfelder and Todd Heisler describe a dramatic incident in which federal agents dragged a woman out of her car in Minneapolis near where Renee Nicole Good had been killed days before.
In refusing to let the president deploy National Guard troops in Illinois under an obscure law, the justices may have made him more apt to invoke greater powers.Federal agents in Minneapolis on Monday night.
Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, is now at the top of a global ranking of research output, supplanting Harvard University.
Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s interior minister, welcoming a flight bringing Venezuelan migrants from Mexico last year.
The Venezuelan opposition leader’s attempts to share her award with the U.S. president have shaken some Norwegians’ faith in their signature soft-power tool.The Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday.
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
The Coast Guard boarded and seized the Russian-flagged tanker, originally named Veronica, in a pre-dawn operation in the Caribbean Sea.An image from video released by the U.S. military showing the oil tanker Galileo, previously named Veronica, in the Caribbean on Thursday.
Six months after President Trump told Wall Street banks to prepare a swift stock offering, there is no firm plan for how to take the giant mortgage firms public.Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by the federal government during the 2008 financial crisis, but their status after a planned I.P
The Trump administration has signed $11 billion in agreements with African nations, in deals tied to foreign policy goals.A health clinic in Mhlosheni, Eswatini, in May. Health funding from the U.S. to Eswatini — where a quarter of adults live with H.I.V. — would drop by 34 percent under the new agr
The long-awaited plan would leave much to Congress and calls for payments to health savings accounts rather than insurance subsidies, among other broad proposals.President Trump released a video promoting what he calls “the great health care plan.”
When a pastor learned his childhood home might undergo a glow-up, he saw his beloved Brooklyn further receding — and took to a different kind of pulpit.The home in question, a modernist townhouse in Brooklyn Heights designed by Mary and Joseph Merz.
Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams.Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday announced Afua Atta-Mensah, right, who led his campaign outreach to Black voters, as t
The veteran congresswoman said she would like Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, to replace her after she retires. She also said the mayor should stay out of political races.Representative Nydia M. Velázquez was an early backer of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign.
“I want to be very public that there’s a new cop on the beat,” said Samuel Levine, the new commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.Samuel Levine was previously the director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection in the Biden administratio
How a simple catchphrase sums up the president’s theory of executive power.
Many people who use these medications don’t want to stay on them long term. But research has repeatedly shown that quitting the drugs means gaining back weight.
Mr. Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, was under a yearlong legal arrangement that allows for involuntary psychiatric treatment.Nick Reiner was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. The mental health challenges he faced in recent years are likely to be central to his legal defe
Kathleen Kennedy stepped down as Lucasfilm’s president and returned to producing. Two studio veterans took over.Kathleen Kennedy and Dave Filoni at a “Star Wars” fan convention in Japan in April.
The general sense of the world being chaotic does not necessarily help Trump.
Despite the successes of 2025, the party still needs a radical shake-up.
Also, Israel and Arab countries asked the U.S. not to attack Iran. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.Federal agents in a cloud of tear gas outside the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis today.
