The development comes as the U.S. military is drawing up options for President Trump to consider, including possible strikes inside the country.Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, in Caracas last month. American officials have been clear, privately, that the Trump administration aims t
When President Javier Milei of Argentina faced an economic meltdown, President Trump vowed to come to his aid. But that lifeline is coming at a cost.President Trump with President Javier Milei of Argentina at the White House on Tuesday.
The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.Some of the dozens of white South Africans who accepted an invitation from the Trump administration to come to the
Top officials, unwilling to fight for the historical independence of their institutions, watched on Wednesday as President Trump continued his pursuit of controlling law enforcement.President Trump on Wednesday singled out people he wanted prosecuted. Looking on during the news conference were, from
The layoffs have raised fears that the administration could be effectively ending an initiative that provides contraception for millions of low-income women.The Office of Population Affairs operates within the Health and Human Services Department.
Representative Kevin Kiley of California has criticized his own party for keeping the House out of session during the shutdown. He is battling boredom and disaffection as the stalemate drags on.Representative Kevin Kiley, Republican of California, in his office on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, the 14th d
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, defended his positions while parrying questions about the Israel-Gaza war.Mr. Mamdani was quizzed on his stance on Israel, his relationship with police officers and how he viewed President Trump’s role in the Israel-Hamas cease-fire.
The Great Storm of 1987 was a forecasting blunder that left at least 18 people dead, felled 15 million trees and caused a billion pounds’ worth of damage.
The Palestinian militant group said it needed special equipment to locate and extract the remaining remains.A Hamas fighter during the handover of hostages on Monday in Gaza.
A video this week captured Hamas fighters in Gaza executing Palestinian rivals as the militant group tries to assert that it is still the dominant force in the territory after two years of war with Israel.Palestinian militants standing guard on Monday, the day that hostages in Gaza were handed over
In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the justices grappled with whether there should be a time limit on using race as a factor in carving up voting districts.President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders watching, i
Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.
Xi Jinping’s need to project strength before a crucial meeting of Communist Party leaders may help explain why Beijing announced new rare earth controls.President Trump greeting China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, at the Group of 20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said China’s dominance of rare earths calls for a more assertive American industrial policy.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, with the U.S. trade representative, Jamieson Greer. Mr. Bessent said the United States must become less reliant on China for rare-earth
An influence campaign has relied on allies of the president, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, to cast a Serbian politician as a victim of political persecution.Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, with Milorad Dodik, center, the leader of Republika Srpska, a Serb-controlled region of B
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth offered unusually strong criticism of Russia, just as Ukraine seeks American Tomahawk missiles.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attending a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels on Wednesday.
The singer and songwriter’s art of elegant seduction never required him to raise his voice, or lose his desperation, humor or awareness.D’Angelo onstage in 2000. The singer, songwriter and producer who helped reshape R&B in the 1990s and 2000s died on Tuesday at 51.
The conversation heats up on social media.
Guidance and messaging on parenting has never seemed more confusing to some. At a gathering for mothers, the point was to focus on what they had in common.
Some local G.O.P. officials who participated in the text exchanges are losing their jobs or being pressured to resign. But top Republicans have been dismissive.The group chat involved elected G.O.P. officials and leaders of local groups for young party activists in New York, Vermont, Arizona and Kan
The global activist gets candid in her new memoir. She spoke with us about struggling with panic attacks, finding her personal style and changing her mind about what marriage could be.
Astoria, Ore., the setting of the classic 1985 teen movie, invites fans to follow their inner adventurer and explore a scenic corner of the Northwest.The “Goonies House” looks much as it did in 1985, when the film hit theaters. It includes a Rube Goldberg-like gate-opening mechanism that resembles t
Who would have imagined I’d ever praise something Trump did in the world of foreign policy?
The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.
