The Iranian government is taking an increasingly aggressive approach as it confronts a growing economic threat and worries that its grip on the Strait of Hormuz is slipping, analysts say.Iranians are feeling the strain of the war, which has made a longstanding economic crisis worse.
Iran retaliated by launching missiles at Jordan, raising the specter of still more fighting.A satellite image released by the European Space Agency showing Kharg Island, a key oil export terminal for Iran.
After losing in two courts and winning in another, Missouri officials said they planned to forge ahead with using a congressional map that was redrawn to benefit Republicans.Protesters outside the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City last September.
Voting rights organizations had challenged a Trump administration overhaul of a government database, arguing it could be used to disenfranchise eligible voters.Election workers in Fremont, Calif., last month.
The three jurors, who voted to acquit Lindsay Clancy of murder, described the tense deliberations in an interview with a Boston TV station.Lindsay Clancy reacting to the jury’s saying it could not reach a verdict, during her murder trial in Plymouth, Mass., last week.
President Trump does not have the power to wipe away the state murder charges Ms. Clancy faces. Her lawyer’s spokesman said the comments were “a statement to the country.”Kevin Reddington, right, with Lindsay Clancy in court last week. A judge declared a mistrial in the case on Friday.
As Republicans face down tough midterm elections, President Trump has appeared out of step with the party on Iran, the economy and other issues.President Trump has been living an unusually isolated existence, with an extremely small group of advisers and officials helping him arrive at decisions.
Mr. Pappas, a moderate Democrat who has served four terms in the House, will face former Senator John E. Sununu, the Republican nominee, in November.Representative Chris Pappas speaks to supporters after winning the New Hampshire Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday.
The general election race to replace Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, could help determine control of the U.S. Senate.John E. Sununu speaking at his election night watch party in Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday.
Two photographers, a fashion designer, a stylist, a creative director, an editor and a supermodel debate the images that have had an indelible impact on how we dress.
The sequence of events detailed by National Transportation Safety Board investigators showed that the pilots lost crucial seconds before the plane ran off the runway in Miami.National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy speaking at Miami International Airport Monday about the Amazon c
Days after an Amazon cargo jet plowed into a van at Miami International Airport, killing five, portraits of the victims started to emerge.An Amazon cargo plane lay damaged near a parking lot on Tuesday, two days after overshooting a runway at Miami International Airport.
The agency played an important role in responding to earlier disasters like the 2015 earthquake. But the U.S. and other countries have pulled back, Nepali officials and humanitarian groups say.Houses buried in mud and debris in the Nuwakot district of Nepal on Aug. 28, two days after a glacial colla
President Trump invoked a 1930 law after Canada imposed new tariffs on U.S. goods, which followed his own recent tariffs in a widening trade war.A shipment of Montana lumber last week in Canada, where it will be used to build beehives.
With tariffs on U.S. goods in effect and high-profile international engagements coming up, the Canadian leader keeps moving toward his goal.Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former investment banker and central bank governor, is working to draw global investors to Canada.
Under Lonnie G. Bunch III’s leadership, President Trump accused the Smithsonian of liberal, anti-American bias. Supporters say he was dedicated to nonpartisan scholarship.Lonnie G. Bunch III announced on Tuesday that he would step down as the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
The president shared a provocative new look for the next-gen Space Force ’fit.
China’s economic competition with the United States makes Chinese companies a legitimate target, the agency’s deputy director, Michael Ellis, said at a conference.Tourists walking out of the Forbidden City in Beijing last week. Michael Ellis, the deputy C.I.A. director, said that China “poses a fund
President Trump has long sought to position himself close to the Sept. 11 recovery effort and has made a series of questionable and provocative statements to burnish his political brand.President Trump renewed his claim that he had taken a crew to a building near the site where the World Trade Cente
Welles Remy Crowther, an equity trader and volunteer firefighter, is credited with saving 18 people at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 before being killed.Paige Crowther Charbonneau, left, and Alison Crowther accepted a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Trump on behalf of th
Temperatures soared across the region on Tuesday. The muggy weather will get worse before it gets better.Waves crashed in Long Beach, Calif., on Monday.
Israel and the United States each hold elections one week apart in the fall. The fate of their democracies lies in the balance.
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