Fertilizer prices are climbing as a result of disruptions in the Middle East, putting global food supplies at risk.A farmer spread fertilizer on his mustard field this week in Pampore, India. Large parts of Asia, particularly India and Thailand, are most exposed to fertilizer supply shortages.
A small street stall and a big restaurant chain in India rethought how to cook after the war in the Middle East squeezed their supply of liquified petroleum gas.
Diesel has climbed faster than gasoline this month, directly hitting businesses, from brewers to trucking companies. Those higher costs are likely to make their way into consumer prices.The rising price of diesel fuel is driving up costs for Maui Brewing, a brewery in Kihei, Hawaii, that imports raw
It takes a lot of fuel to produce this delicate fruit, which can be a sensitive barometer as oil costs rise.Raspberry prices can be a harbinger for other food costs. The wholesale price of fresh berries has doubled since January.
President Trump said on Thursday he would delay an imminent deadline to begin attacking Iran’s power grid.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s highly unusual decision to remove officers from a one-star promotion list has spurred allegations of racial and gender bias.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said repeatedly that he is determined to change a Pentagon culture corrupted by “foolish,” “reckless” and “w
President Trump is poised to be the first sitting president to have his signature appear on the U.S. dollar.The addition of President Trump’s signature to dollars is the latest example of his emblazoning national institutions with his personal brand.
Since the start of the war in Iran, the average price of gas in the United States has climbed by nearly a dollar.Cameron Joudi manages an independent gas station in suburban Jacksonville, Fla.
The authorities have made a wave of arrests to stop people posting footage of strikes, citing security risks. Experts also see a fear of damage to the countries’ image as safe havens.Inspecting damage this month from a drone strike at a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
A jumble of emissaries — a friend, a family member, a dove and a hawk — on the Iran crisis reflects President Trump’s improvisational approach.As the war stretches on, President Trump appears to be casting about for a diplomatic offramp even as he threatens an escalation.
Markwayne Mullin, the new homeland security secretary, has promised a different approach, but how much change is likely? Our reporter Hamed Aleaziz describes what we know.
Some conservative sheriffs have raised concerns about the aggressive enforcement tactics that Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has embraced.Florida made more immigration arrests in 2025 than any state but Texas.
For 20 years, Tim O’Harrow has asked lawmakers to acknowledge that America’s food supply depends on immigrants. Politics went in the other direction.Tim O’Harrow, 79, has tried to persuade politicians he has supported that they needed to fix the nation’s immigration system.
After a fatal runway collision between a jet and a fire truck, one of the key questions is why the truck didn’t heed frantic calls to stop.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it was investigating an incident involving a helicopter that crossed in front of a commercial plane in California this week.
A generation ago, foreign fury over the Iraq invasion often blurred into anti-Americanism. Now, some Europeans seem ready to distinguish between the president and the American people.President Trump in Washington this month.
Thousands of demonstrations against the Trump administration are scheduled to take place in cities and towns across the country on Saturday.Protesters at a No Kings protest in Washington, D.C., in October.
NBC said that she would return as an anchor of the show on April 6, a little more than two months after the disappearance of her mother.Savannah Guthrie on the “Today” show set at Rockefeller Plaza earlier this month.
When the world map of literal power changes, the political hierarchy shifts, too
Women in their 60s and beyond will likely play a key role in choosing which Democrat will face Senator Susan Collins: Mr. Platner, 41, or Gov. Janet Mills, 78.A town hall meeting held by the Platner campaign in Ogunquit, Maine in October.
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York has demonstrated her ability to negotiate with the president and his team on thorny issues like immigration enforcement.Even as Gov. Kathy Hochul tries to find common ground with President Trump, she has also tried to draw attention to ICE raids in New York that have re
Voters in Virginia will decide on April 21 whether to redraw the state’s congressional map. Turnout is even higher, thus far, than it was in last year’s governor’s election.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine skepticism is posing challenges for the Trump administration. Top health jobs are unfilled, and a court has blocked his vaccine schedule changes.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine agenda — his insistence that vaccines are somehow linked
Though the health secretary falsely claimed a victory in a recent podcast, a federal proposal to review all new food ingredients is still in the early stages and drawing fierce opposition.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a public unveiling of new dietary guidelines at the Department of Heal
