The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq offered a stark lesson in the limits of military force. The Iran attacks suggest an era of postwar wariness is over.President Trump in Corpus Christi, Texas, last week. His sudden embrace of U.S. military power is a stunning reversal.
President Trump’s embrace of military action in Iran was spurred by an Israeli leader determined to end diplomatic negotiations. Few of the president’s advisers voiced opposition.
Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged the possibility of an extended campaign, as the military announced that six U.S. service members had been killed so far.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during the Tru
The Republicans John Cornyn and Ken Paxton — and the Democrats Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico — are battling in bitter and expensive races.Senator John Cornyn greeted by supporters at a campaign event in Schertz, Texas, on Monday.
In an emergency ruling, the justices preserved the district of a Republican congresswoman, despite a lower-court ruling that it illegally diluted the power of minority voters.A voter at a polling center on Staten Island in October.
Third Way, the moderate Democratic advocacy group and think tank, has an expansive and expensive plan to shape the 2028 presidential campaign.Jon Cowan, left, president of the group Third Way, and Jim Messina, a Democratic strategist.
The move amounts to a surrender in a clash that has led many law firms to submit to the president rather than face the threat of his executive orders.The Justice Department told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Monday that it was no longer interested in pursuing the cases co
The new pact includes additional protections to prevent the use of the company’s technology for mass surveillance of Americans.“It’s critical to protect the civil liberties of Americans, and there was so much focus on this, that we wanted to make this point especially clear,” OpenAI’s chief executiv
President Trump at the White House on Monday.
The mentalist Oz Pearlman is this year’s speaker. “Hopefully, it will be something very Special,” the president wrote on Truth Social.The Marine Corps Band playing at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington in 2024.
Christian teachers and parents challenged the state’s policies, which they say require schools to hide students’ transgender status from their parents.A protester holding a transgender flag outside the Supreme Court last month.
NYU Langone Health had stopped providing puberty-blocking medication and hormone treatments after the federal government threatened to pull its funding.Demonstrators rallied at NYU Langone Health in February 2025 demanding that the hospital commit to providing services to transgender adolescents.
As the midterm elections approach, the health secretary is focusing on “real food.” Anger is rising among some of his supporters.Derrick Wynne was discharged from the Army for refusing a Covid shot. “He was using our movement to gain a huge amount of traction,” he said of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Citing rising costs and shortfalls in federal support, about 20 states are toughening eligibility requirements for patients in drug assistance programs.This week, thousands of Floridians were cut off from benefits that make H.I.V. medications more affordable. The medication Biktarvy was also dropped
Jackson, Wyo., has long been a refuge for the rich. But the last five years saw a boom in wealth of a kind never before seen. Across the country, the 2017 tax cuts minted hundreds of new billionaires.Jackson, Wyo. Teton County is both the richest county in America and a place that in some areas is s
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was defiant. Former President Bill Clinton spoke of President Trump’s ties to Epstein. A Republican raised a conspiracy theory.Hillary Clinton speaking to reporters after her closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee, as part of its investi
Palmer Luckey, who founded the defense tech start-up Anduril, has become the It Guy as President Trump aims to modernize the U.S. military with autonomous weapons.
The shooting happened about 26 hours after the United States and Israel attacked Iran. Officials identified the three who died in the shooting.Law enforcement officers near the scene of the shooting on Sunday in Austin.
Ryder Harrington, 19, Savitha Shan, 21, and Jorge Pederson, 30, were confirmed dead by officials on Monday. The shooting is being investigated as a possible act of terrorism.A shooting occurred at Buford’s, a popular bar near the University of Texas at Austin campus, early on Sunday.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the private sector needed more autonomy, as the island confronts a U.S. oil blockade that has deepened a humanitarian crisis.President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba, center, at a funeral in January for those killed in U.S. strikes on Venezuela.
Staffers at Film at Lincoln Center keep a list of the incorrect movie titles they’ve heard from patrons. That list is very, very long.
Trump’s foreign policy has often been less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a mutation of it.
The American public has received too little information to effectively judge the goals and objectives of the largest U.S. military operation in the Middle East in a generation.
Also, how the U.S. decided to strike Iran. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.The Gandhi Hospital in Tehran today.
