President Trump is confronting a crisis that is not bending to his narrative of a “pretty reasonable” new regime in Iran and all-but-assured victory for the United States.President Trump in Miami last week. Mr. Trump has declared a “regime change” accomplishment in Iran, even though analysts believe
Oil prices stabilized and stocks rose on optimism that diplomatic talks could yield a permanent peace deal.
Plus, forget sneakers — Allbirds is going A.I.After President Trump threatened to wipe out Iran and attacked the pope, some former allies and advisers are questioning whether he has grown increasingly unbalanced.
Fresh off a two-week break, lawmakers returned to turmoil in the House, where legislation to reopen the Department of Homeland Security is stalled and the G.O.P. is struggling to keep its agenda on track.Speaker Mike Johnson on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday.
Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer asked staff members to bring wine to her hotel room, and to keep in touch with her husband and father.Lori Chavez-DeRemer during her Senate hearing last year to be secretary of labor.
A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities.Yale has not been directly targeted in the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education, but its president commissioned a report to understand public mistr
A steep slide in housing prices has left consumers less prosperous and less willing to spend, but the government is pouring money into new rail lines and other projects.An import and export trade show in southern China this week.
China used a visit by the Vietnamese leader to show a deepening of security ties that analysts say far outpaces U.S. defense ties in the region.China’s leader, Xi Jinping, welcomed President To Lam of Vietnam in Beijing on Wednesday. Mr. Xi said that defending Communist Party rule was a common strat
In a city of notoriously small apartments, New Yorkers keep their meaningful mementos and quirky collections elsewhere.
The vice president is also the finance chair of the Republican National Committee, allowing him to court donors who could prove helpful should he run for president.Vice President JD Vance has raised over $60 million to help the Republican Party in the midterms, and simultaneously forged relationship
Democrats in key Senate races out-raised their Republican rivals, but super PACs on the right are poised to play a powerful role in the midterms, new campaign finance filings showed.James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, raised $27 million in the first months of 2026, a remarkab
Money from Democratic donors has flowed into the coffers of the party’s top Senate candidates — especially its nominee in Texas.
The story of how President Trump quadrupled the size of the original proposal for the arch follows a now-familiar pattern.Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, showed the latest renderings for a proposed triumphal arch during a briefing on Wednesday.
Mr. Fairfax, a Democrat, served as lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022.Justin Fairfax in 2019. He served as Virginia’s lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022.
Corruption and economic mismanagement brought down Hungary’s authoritarian leader. Will his political disciples avoid those pitfalls?Viktor Orban, center right, in Budapest on Sunday, the night of his election defeat. He was voted out after 16 years in power in Hungary.
The money could jump-start affordable housing projects across the metropolitan region.The $4 billion would help pay for mixed-income projects, conversions of offices to apartments, renovations to aging buildings and new middle-income apartments built by union workers.
Amid calls from the left to tax the rich, a tax proposal on multimillion-dollar second homes in New York City, backed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, seems to have better odds of passing than in years past.The proposed tax on second homes worth more than $5 million would yield “at least $500 million” in recur
Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to tax second homes in New York City that are worth $5 million or more. Here’s how the proposal might work.Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal on taxing second homes would address the city budget gap by targeting the very wealthy.
“I wanted something new and something traditional and something that felt holy.”Worshipers of the All Saints Orthodox Church before a morning service in Raleigh, N.C.
An effort to privatize the facility is a key test of whether Kyiv can overcome concerns about Russian attacks and corruption to attract foreign investment.The Odesa Portside Plant, one of Europe’s largest fertilizer producers and a crown jewel of Ukrainian industry dating back to Soviet times.
Moscow is again ramping up missile and drone attacks on civilian targets, dispelling any notion that a temporary cease-fire for Orthodox Easter might become more lasting.A warehouse hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday.
The Saudi league, established in 2022, attracted some of the sport’s biggest stars with huge contracts.Yasir al-Rumayyan, left, the head of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, presenting a trophy at the LIV Golf championship in Michigan in 2025.
This immigration case is really about procedure.
