At least a half-dozen federal agencies have taken action against the state that has led the nation in environmental protections.An oil platform seen from Sands Beach next to Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Plus, could tweaking flight paths reduce global warming?President Trump has promised to restore fiscal order, though his biggest initiatives to cut spending and increase revenue have failed to materialize.
President Trump’s decision to curtail the military exercises came as allies question the U.S. commitment to longstanding alliances.American and South Korean troops participating in the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises last year.
Just last year, Prince Harry said he couldn’t imagine ever bringing his family back to Britain.Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, in Sydney, Australia, in April.
The couple are moving back after six years in the United States. What they will do, and much else, are still unclear.Prince Harry and Meghan visiting Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, in April.
For weeks, there has been no diplomatic progress, but also no full-scale fighting, as both sides seem to believe they can hold out longer than the other.A butcher in Tehran in July. The United States appears to be betting that putting Iran in a tighter economic stranglehold will succeed where milita
The United Arab Emirates, Iran’s most important regional trading partner, announced a total embargo on transactions with Tehran on Tuesday.Smoke billowing from Jebel Ali port after an Iranian attack, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in March.
Werner Kalecinski is a social media sensation among young Germans. How did he go from heartbroken widower to partying on a yacht?
Hui Ka Yan’s punishment caps the downfall of a property empire whose collapse set off a prolonged crisis in the Chinese economy.Hui Ka Yan, the founder and former chairman of Evergrande, at a news conference in Hong Kong in 2017.
President Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order and reduce the amount of America’s debt burden have been undercut by spending on the Iran war, tax cuts and tariff refunds.President Trump has promised to restore fiscal order, though his biggest initiatives to cut spending and increase revenue have
Bond markets remained volatile, as investors assessed the geopolitical turmoil.
Walmart and other big U.S. retailers have warned that consumers were being cautious, even if personal balance sheets seemed healthy.Comparable U.S. sales at Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, rose 2.6 percent in its most recent quarter, the weakest growth in more than six years.
The Treasury Department’s plan for bond interventions has calmed markets. But Wall Street is worried about the fallout for inflation and more.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent surprised Wall Street in announcing a new intervention in the bond market. Did he take the Fed by surprise, too?
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
The company’s fortunes cratered as demand for Covid-19 vaccines plummeted. But it was busy working on something else.A lab at Moderna’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass., in 2024.
The pen Mr. Paxton pocketed more than a decade ago has resurfaced as a campaign issue.
A series of recent losses has eroded the president’s winning record, raising new questions about his hold over the party’s voters.On Tuesday night, several candidates President Trump had endorsed in Florida and Wyoming lost their Republican primary races.
The decision was a win for Republicans, who have been pushing for the new map in an effort to help maintain the party’s narrow control in the U.S. House in November.Missouri was one of the first states to try to redraw its maps as part of President Trump’s national push to increase Republicans’ chan
Moscow is taking advantage of Ukraine’s depleted stock of interceptors and is intensifying attacks, worsening the civilian death toll.Evacuating a resident from a damaged apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday.
After years of pounding power plants and cities, Russia’s air war has taken aim at Ukraine’s supermarket warehouses.Firefighters at the site of a food warehouse hit by a Russian missile strike in the Kyiv region of Ukraine on Thursday.
In the fast-growing field of data annotation, workers in a small city in south India train A.I. to improve how it performs tasks traditionally done by people.
Gen Z-ers are forming after-school clubs, speaking at community meetings — and sometimes wrestling with their own dependence on the technology.A demonstration this month against a planned data center in Pittsburg, Calif.
How “lore” turns fact into fiction — and vice versa.
More Republicans and Democrats are seeing reality for what it is. Does it matter?
