The president insists conflict with Iran will be brief, but world leaders are preparing for severe economic blowback.President Trump has repeatedly said that the war he commenced with Iran would be short-lived, rendering it unnecessary for the U.S. government to mount a major economic response.
Across Asia, where countries are highly exposed to rising oil and gas costs and tightening supply, governments are acting to mitigate economic harm.The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow passage between Iran and Oman. Historically 20 million barrels pass through it each day, most of it bound for Asia.
The S&P 500 ended slightly higher on Monday as investors interpreted President Trump’s comments as a signal that the conflict could end soon.
For two hours, the streets around Gracie Mansion became the stage for a heated protest, reflecting a nation seething with angst and unease.A man is detained after he was seen throwing an incendiary device at a protest near Gracie Mansion in Manhattan on Saturday.
Representative Joaquin Castro of Texas led a delegation of Democrats to a South Texas detention center to press for the release of the brothers and their family.Representative Joaquin Castro, Democrat of Texas, leaving the Dilley Immigration Processing Center on Monday.
After the sprawling and chaotic federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, jurisdictions in other states have been bracing for a range of scenarios.The clashes during immigration sweeps in Minneapolis earlier this year have left local activists and officials in other cities worried that their commu
As the G.O.P. gathered in Miami for a party retreat where lawmakers hoped to focus on the economy, the president was threatening to block his own party’s legislative agenda.Polls suggest that Republicans’ chances of keeping control of the House are growing more slim.
The subpoena was issued in recent days to the Arizona State Senate, which oversaw a sprawling but partisan audit of the vote result in Maricopa County.Election workers counting ballots in Phoenix in 2020. An F.B.I. subpoena indicated that the Justice Department had added Arizona to its efforts to re
The ruling, which found that the three-person leadership team in New Jersey’s federal prosecutor’s office was illegal, will again throw the direction of the office into question.Since Alina Habba left office, three attorneys have been running the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey.
Court papers submitted as part of the agreement with Halkbank, which was accused of doing business with Iranian entities, said Turkey’s assistance “was instrumental” in the Israel-Hamas cease-fire.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has long pressed President Trump to quash the case against the
Antonio Wiley’s mother, Anita, vanished during a time when her hometown Detroit was wracked by drugs and crime. It took three decades and an extraordinary effort by a missing persons detective to locate her.Antonio Wiley at the gravesite of his mother, Anita Wiley, who died in 1987.
The sports and marketing agency founded by Casey Wasserman dropped his name in the latest fallout from the Epstein files.Casey Wasserman’s name was dropped Monday from the sports and marketing agency he founded.
Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections. Wealthy donors are reaping the rewards.Protesters demonstrated outside the Supreme Court in 2019 as Senate Democrats proposed a constitutional amendment
As President Trump prepares to close Washington’s premier performing arts venue for two years, loyal patrons wonder where they’ll get their cultural fix.Since the Kennedy Center opened in 1971, some three million people have relied on it for concerts, plays and other cultural offerings each year, ac
Washington National Opera managed to resume performances within two months of its abrupt departure. But there are still challenges ahead.Washington National Opera’s new production of Scott Joplin’s “Treemonisha,” which opened at Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University on Saturday.
The university said it was investigating after the president, Walter Carter Jr., said he had “made a mistake.”Ohio State University president Walter Carter Jr. at Ohio Stadium in Columbus last year.
“There is tape in the Oval Office,” said Mr. Butterfield, a former White House aide, in testimony that rocked the Watergate hearings and led to the president’s resignation.Alexander P. Butterfield testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee in July 1973. He revealed to the American public the e
Influencers have long hawked supplements on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Increasingly, the influencers are fake.
Delusional infestation is one of the darkest embodiments of medical uncertainty.
Iran’s new supreme leader has been selected not to break with the regime but to preserve it.
The agreement, which requires a judicial sign-off, would avoid a breakup of the concert giant. But states that joined the suit object to the terms.The tentative settlement ends a case that had bipartisan political support in Washington.
Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, traveled east to visit frontline troops trying to stave off Russian attacks, and invited reporters for The New York Times to go with him.President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Kramatorsk on Friday. “They need a lot of things,” he said of the soldiers. “And e
Mayor Zohran Mamdani will announce that New York City is expanding free preschool for 3-year-olds, adding 1,000 seats to meet demand across the city.Mayor Zohran Mamdani playing with prekindergarten students at the Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center last November.
The company is seeking F.C.C. approval to test an idea to reflect sunlight to Earth at night, possibly powering solar panels. Critics say it could be bad for people and wildlife.The start-up Reflect Orbital wants to launch mirror-bearing satellites which it says could address one of the biggest weak
