U.S. Sanctions Zigzag in New World of Economic Warfare

With oil prices in mind, the Trump administration has deployed a haphazard approach to sanctions on Russia and Iran.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, where he said the decision to extend the waiver on sales of Russia oil came after developing countries lobbied him.

A Alan Rappeport and Ephrat Livni

How the War in Iran Is Draining the U.S. of Critical Weapons

The United States has blown through weapons as the cost of the war in Iran has hit nearly $1 billion a day. Our national security correspondent Eric Schmitt explains how American costs may go beyond the financial.

E Eric Schmitt, Gilad Thaler, Nour Idriss, Stephanie Swart, June Kim, Paul Abowd and Zach Wood

Islamabad Reopens After U.S.-Iran Talks Fail to Materialize

Officials had locked the city down, anticipating talks between U.S. and Iranian delegations. But they didn’t happen. “What did I close my business for?” one business owner asked.A reopened road on Sunday near the venue that hosted the first round of talks between the United States and Iran in Islama

E Elian Peltier

40 Years Ago, a Nuclear Catastrophe at Chernobyl

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation and the long-term consequences of the world’s worst nuclear accident.The Chernobyl nuclear power plant three days after the explosion in April 1986.

T The New York Times

Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast Lets You Eavesdrop on the A.I. Elite

Dwarkesh Patel was a bored college sophomore looking for intellectual stimulation. Now he commands interviews with Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg and holds his own with deeply nerdy A.I. researchers.Dwarkesh Patel in his office and studio in San Francisco. “He’s very much in the community, in the

B Benjamin Wallace