Estimates vary on how long it could take before a crucial pipeline is repaired, but a prolonged shutdown could push oil prices to their highest levels in months.Commercial vessels anchored off Yemen’s coast last week at the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which can be used to transport oil to Asia.
Our White House and national security correspondent, David Sanger, compares past “forever wars” that President Trump campaigned against with an Iran War that has no clear endgame.
The Iran-backed militia in Yemen said it had downed a Saudi jet, while the Saudi-led military coalition accused it of firing a drone near Mecca. The Houthis denied doing so.
The package would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel.Smoke rising after an Israeli bombardment of Gaza last year. Israel’s use of 2,000-pound bombs in the crowded enclave has caused widespread civilian harm.
Plus, the Russian businessman who rented an island for Donald Trump Jr.
America’s position of global economic stability is starting to look shakier as the Trump administration piles on debt and doubles down on sanctions.
The central bank is widely expected to raise interest rates on Wednesday, less than two months before the midterm elections.Kevin M. Warsh and his colleagues on the Fed’s policy-making committee have limited latitude to avoid lifting rates.
Canada and the European Union have been confronting an increasingly challenging relationship with the United States under President Trump.Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, and Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Wedn
“Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress — and risk.Jeff Clune a computer scientist and researcher at the University of British Columbia in Canada and founder of Recursive Superintelligence, one of
Lower wage growth and slower hiring in some sectors may be the result of artificial intelligence, especially for younger workers.
A Times/Siena poll shows many voters are still uncertain on the issue, including which party would do a better job on it.
The accidents occurred back to back when an S.U.V. broadsided a bus and then a local news helicopter covering the story crashed and burst into flames.A screenshot from video showing firefighters on the scene of a helicopter crash in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
The announcement came after President Trump said he would cancel a $257 million renovation of the venue if his name is not returned to the building.A federal judge ruled that the Kennedy Center did not have the authority to place President Trump’s name on the exterior of the building.
In a letter, the Interior Department detailed what it hoped to convey on 12 signs to be installed outside the National Museum of American History.The Trump administration is pushing forward with a plan to install signs outside the National Museum of American History to warn visitors of the content i
Dr. Nicole Saphier is the third nominee for surgeon general, a position that has remained empty since President Trump took office last year.
Washington says South Africa has not done anything to fix what President Trump sees as discrimination. South Africa’s president has called Mr. Trump’s policies racist.President Trump and President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa meeting in the Oval Office in Washington last year.
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
Three early and unpublished works by the author of “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.”Annie Dillard
Experts say that after childbirth, intrusive thoughts are common and mostly benign. Lindsay Clancy’s story provides a disturbing exception.
Republican leaders brought Bo French, an anti-Muslim hard-liner, into the fold. Then he attacked Texas football fans.Bo French, a candidate for the Texas Railroad Commission, drew bipartisan criticism for his social media posts. Above, at a conservative conference in March.
His powerful super PAC is suddenly spending heavily on some races, after drawing fire from some Republicans that the group might not throw its weight behind the party’s candidates.President Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc., has amassed more than $400 million.
Mr. Guckian, a self-described “compassionate conservative,” will face Helena Foulkes, a former CVS executive, in the general election.Aaron Guckian at the French Heritage Society’s New York Gala Dinner Dance in November. Photo by Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
Members from both parties say the legislative branch has descended into a state of dysfunction in the Trump era.
What’s missing in the national conversation on mental health medication.
