For Iran, Flexing Control Over Waterway Is New Deterrent

Iran’s government could emerge from the conflict with a blueprint to keep adversaries at bay, regardless of any restrictions on its nuclear program.A satellite image showing ships’ movements in a section of the Strait of Hormuz this month.

M Mark Mazzetti, Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes

Reopening Strait of Hormuz Would Ease Oil Crisis but Only So Much

Analysts said energy and shipping companies would be reluctant to fully restore operations until they were confident that hostilities were over.An oil tanker off Basra, Iraq, on Friday. If the Strait of Hormuz were to fully open, it would take weeks for substantial amounts of Persian Gulf oil and ga

R Rebecca F. Elliott

‘Turning Point Was Charlie Kirk’: Why This Student Group Moved On

Students at the University of Arkansas disagreed with Turning Point’s direction, pointing to challenges ahead for the conservative group.Ava Lacey, left, an executive board member of Young American Revival, and Dino Fantegrossi, right, the group’s president, at the University of Arkansas in Fayettev

R Richard Fausset

The Doctor Will Seek Your Vote Now

Dozens of Democratic doctors are running for office in the midterms, including some spurred by opposition to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vaccine stance.

N Nina Agrawal

In Angola, Pope Leo XIV Faces the Legacy of Colonialism

His visit includes a trip to a shrine where enslaved Africans were baptized before being forced into the treacherous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.Pope Leo XIV in Luanda, Angola, on Saturday. Angola’s is the oldest Catholic community in southern Africa, dating back more than 500 years.

C Cláudio C. Silva and John Eligon

Trading Spaces

With spring comes the urge to spring-clean. It’s about so much more than just organizing your closet.

M Melissa Kirsch

Who Is the New Leader of Hungary?

Our reporter Andrew Higgins describes why Hungary’s voters chose Peter Magyar over Viktor Orban in a landslide, ending Orban’s 16 years in power.

A Andrew Higgins, Christina Thornell and Leila Medina

New PEPFAR Data Show Worrying Declines in Testing and Treatment for H.I.V.

The numbers are the first to quantify the effect of the Trump administration’s shutdown and restarting of a program that has saved millions of lives worldwide.A woman held H.I.V. medication that she received through funding from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, along w

A Apoorva Mandavilli