With the war against Iran underway, and the U.S. military as a powerful ally, the Israeli government is seizing its chance to move against other adversaries.A worker breaking down structural steel after American airstrikes on Tehran on Monday.
Stocks and bonds slumped as investors retrenched from the uncertain and unpredictable effects that the fighting could have on the world economy.The New York Stock Exchange on Monday. A late-day rally was fully reversed in premarket trading on Tuesday.
Many residents of Tehran managed to get out of town when the U.S. and Israel attack began, but others who could not described living under bombardment.People are standing behind a yellow line after a police station on Niloufar street was hit by US-Israel attacks and damaged the next door buildings i
Plus, fighting phone scams.The scene after a direct hit by an Iranian ballistic missile in Beit Shemesh, Israel, on Sunday.
Starting in North Carolina on Tuesday, older House Democrats face a test of their staying power and the appetite of voters to replace them.Representative Christian Menefee is giving Representative Al Green, a fellow Democrat of Texas, his first competitive primary in years.
The Texas Democratic Senate primary is more about persona than policy, and the same is true for many other races.James Talarico has tried to position himself as someone who could win Trump voters.
Politicians quickly cited the attack in their campaign messaging. Some Republicans called for stopping immigration, while Democrats called for gun control.The attack unfolded early Sunday morning at a bar near the University of Texas.
General Motors, Ford and other established automakers risk becoming relics if they don’t catch up to Chinese carmakers and technology companies in electric vehicles and self-driving cars.A Ford Motor factory in Wayne, Mich. U.S. automakers are facing difficult choices.
Chocolate makers and fig-paste importers are facing a tangle of unknowns, including whether to seek refunds for tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court.“The level of uncertainty is crazy,” Matt Weyandt, a founder of Xocolatl, said of the tariff changes.
The Trump administration has eliminated health care positions left vacant after a wave of resignations and retirements at the V.A. last year.Dr. Katie Phelps, a psychiatrist who left the V.A. last spring, said the departure of medical staff was “very worrisome.”
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
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, is also likely to face questions about how her department’s shutdown is affecting counterterrorism work after the U.S. assault on Iran.Senators may also question Kristi Noem about the closure of air space twice in recent weeks after incidents in which th
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
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
In the wake of the U.S. bombing of Iran and its dismissal of European allies, an anxious continent’s best chance at security runs through its largest economy.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, left, with President Trump in October.
Soon the country’s armed forces budget could exceed those of Britain and France combined. In Paris, there are concerns that European “strategic autonomy” will have a German accent.A training drill in Ahlen, Germany, in November. The country is already spending much more money on its military than it
Universities from Harvard to Hampshire have admitted significantly more students with disabilities over the last decade, as diagnoses for A.D.H.D. and anxiety increase.At Macalester College, a private liberal arts school in St. Paul, Minn., 29 percent of students had a disability in 2024, up from 5
The military ruler of Myanmar, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, is expected to seek a civilian post to add a veneer of legitimacy after sham elections.Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing leaving a polling station in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, in December.
Spartanburg County in South Carolina is ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. One school has a vaccination rate of 21 percent.Uptake of the vaccine has been slow, like at this public health fair at The University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville, S.C.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Parks Department plans to become New York City’s “agency of affordability,” though the mayor has not increased the agency’s funding.Parks advocates have long called on New York City to direct 1 percent of the municipal budget to parks.
Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision is imperialism
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One of Us, run by Denmark’s health ministry, works with people with mental health conditions to share their stories in schools, hospitals and police stations, helping turn fear into understanding.Pernille Petersen and Giuseppe Parlatore, ambassadors for the program.
