Iran Makes Moves to Assert Control Over the Strait of Hormuz

After Iran weaponized the waterway by making it too dangerous for businesses, experts say, the country is now looking to charge fees to vessels seeking to transit the vital water.Vessels anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, off the port city of Khasab on Oman’s northern Musandam Peninsula last month.

E Ephrat Livni

5 Major Supreme Court Decisions to Watch, and the Rise of Sewage Surveillance

Plus, where did all the cottage cheese go?Over the next two weeks, the Supreme Court justices will release more than a dozen final opinions, including high-profile decisions on birthright citizenship, the Federal Reserve and transgender athletes.

T Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, Ian Stewart and Jan Hoffman

Markets Recoil in Global Sell-Off Driven by Tech Stocks

Chipmakers led the way down in South Korea, where the main index plunged 10 percent. Stocks in Europe were lower and S&P 500 futures pointed to a sharp fall.The shares of South Korea’s leading chip companies, crucial to the boon in artificial development, plunged on Monday.

D Daisuke Wakabayashi and Jason Karaian

Brexit Has Cost the UK Growth, Analysts Say, in the Decade Since the Vote

Citing lower trade and investment, analysts broadly agree that Britain’s economy is smaller than it would have been if the country had stayed in the E.U.Ten years ago, British voters approved by a slim margin a proposal for the country to leave the European Union. The economic results, economists sa

E Eshe Nelson

Those British Strawberries Are Being Picked by Central Asian Workers

Ten years after Brexit, most seasonal workers in Britain are from countries such as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Without them, agricultural chiefs say, many farms would fail.Shukrat Djuraev at Homefield Farm, in Kent, England, this month.

S Stephen Castle and Aigerim Turgunbaeva

Major Supreme Court Decisions Testing Trump’s Policies Remain

Over the next two weeks, the justices will release more than a dozen final opinions, including high-profile decisions on birthright citizenship, the Federal Reserve and transgender athletes.The justices will resolve a series of high-profile cases testing the Trump administration’s policies to expand

A Ann E. Marimow

Looking Back on the U.S.A.’s Many Founders, 250 Years In

In the past 50 years, the way we tell the story of the Revolution has become dramatically more complex. Can it still inspire us all?The five-man drafting committee presenting the Declaration of Independence to Congress, in an early 19th-century painting by John Trumbull.

J Jane Kamensky

New York Primary Elections: What to Know and How to Vote

Several closely watched races are taking place in New York City and beyond. Nine days of early voting preceded Primary Day on Tuesday.Among this year’s primary elections are several competitive races between Democrats in New York City.

C Claire Fahy

How Mark Rutte of NATO Manages an Unpredictable Trump

Secretary General Mark Rutte is headed to Washington. His style has at times frustrated the very European leaders who need him to hold the alliance together.President Trump and Mark Rutte, the NATO secretary general, at the World Economic Forum in January.

M Mara Hvistendahl and Steven Erlanger

Trump on the Shabby Condition of the Reflecting Pool: Not My Fault

President Trump said the blooms of green algae and the peeling polyurethane had nothing to do with the rushed $16.4 million makeover he had ordered.Ongoing work on Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been troubled for decades by leaks and algae blooms that turn its water green.

L Luke Broadwater and Maxine Joselow

The Dispute Over Events for America’s 250th Birthday, Explained

Two national groups, including one backed by President Trump, have planned an array of activities to celebrate the country’s semiquincentennial. States are also hosting many events.A worker climbs a Ferris wheel being constructed for Freedom 250’s Great American State Fair, which will begin later th

P Pooja Salhotra and Jennifer Schuessler

China Takes Supercomputer Crown From U.S. For First Time Since 2017

A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world’s fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units.China’s National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi in 2020. LineShine, a supercomputer in Shenzhen, has been declared the world’s fastest

D Don Clark

Bread and Roses

We look at the democratic socialists who are leading some of America’s big cities.Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani at a rally last week.

S Sam Sifton