Rights groups and relatives said Iran planned to put an antigovernment protester to death for the first time during the latest wave of unrest in the country.A still from a video posted on social media of cars set on fire during a protest in Tehran last week.
Nonessential personnel are being removed from Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the main U.S. air operations hub in the region, as President Trump weighs a military response to Iran’s crackdown on protests.Members of the military at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in May.
Its security forces have brutally defended the Islamic Republic, but the protests show that many Iranians consider it stagnant and ideologically hollow.Some parts of Tehran saw heavy damage during protests in recent days.
The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate warms, Greenland is losing ice. That has consequences.A frozen sea inlet outside Nuuk, Greenland, last year. In the 12 months ending on Aug. 31, 2025, Greenland lost 105 billion
A visit to Greenland reveals a swirl of feelings as people nervously await talks with the Trump administration about the island’s future.Nuuk’s old harbor, Greenland, on Tuesday. People on the island have reacted with shock, anger, confusion and fear to President Trump’s interest in buying or taking
The treaty that created NATO did not contemplate an attack by one ally on another. A seizure of Greenland by President Trump would test the endurance of the mutual-defense pact.A frozen corner of the main fishing harbor in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
In Minneapolis and other cities where federal agents have led immigration crackdowns, residents have formed loose networks to track and protest them.Activists in Minneapolis have been following federal agents as they carry out the Trump administration’s immigration operation.
The refugees, many of them from Somalia, had passed security screenings before coming to the United States. The Trump administration has vowed to “re-examine thousands of refugee cases.”U.S. Border Patrol agents clashed with community members after federal immigration officers crashed into a vehicle
It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home.The Washington Post headquarters. Its reporter had spent the past year covering the Trump administration’s effort to fire federal workers.
Republican election officials welcome the review, which relies on a federal verification tool, but they say they have not discovered a major problem when it comes to noncitizen voters.People vote during the 2024 presidential election in Detroit. Mr. Trump and his allies have claimed for the past dec
President Trump has left himself plenty of room for maximal intervention, in Tehran, Caracas and elsewhere.
The question in the case was not a mail-in ballot rule itself but whether political candidates have the right to challenge the rules governing the vote count in their election.A vote-by-mail ballot drop box in Chicago. The Illinois case is one of several lawsuits brought by allies of President Trump
In “A Private Life,” the actress takes on her first solo lead role in which she speaks fluent French, but her French connection goes all the way back to childhood.To prepare for her role in ”A Private Life,” Foster read French books aloud at home and then turned up in Paris to immerse herself in Fre
The companies that turn oil into gasoline and diesel are likely to benefit more, right away, than the businesses that pump oil out of the ground.A Valero Energy refinery in Houston. U.S. refining companies are poised to profit if more Venezuelan oil starts flowing to the United States.
Félix Plasencia, an envoy of the interim government, will travel to the United States on the day the opposition leader María Corina Machado is to meet President Trump.Félix Plasencia, then Venezuela’s foreign minister, in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2022.
Hundreds of families are hoping their loved ones will be freed by the Venezuelan government, which has said little about who would be released or when.Family members of political prisoners holding a vigil outside of the Rodeo I detention center last week in Guatire, Venezuela.
Building the instrument is hard enough. Turning a profit is a killer. But Jim Phelan is bent on reviving one of the great names in classical music.
China’s surplus reached $1.19 trillion last year, a 20 percent increase from 2024, as Beijing kept the currency weak and pursued self-reliance to replace imports.The production line at a car factory in Hangzhou, China, in October. Exports to the United States fell, but rose to much of the rest of th
Neel T. Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, defended Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, in an interview. He also said interest rates should be held steady this month.Neel T. Kashkari of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis said the central bank had an opportunity “to exp
Many indicators appear to suggest that the United States is growing despite tariffs, not because of them.President Trump on Tuesday toured a Ford Motor factory in Dearborn, Mich., and extolled the benefits of tariffs in strengthening the country’s economy.
Under Bill Pulte, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have pulled away from efforts to help low-income people buy homes.The Federal Housing Finance Agency has been repealing rules, firing teams of people focused on fair lending and climate risk, and reducing the agency’s focus on low-income home buyers.
A stretch of big news revealed growing pains for CBS’s new evening anchor and problems with its Bari Weiss-era philosophy.Tony Dokoupil, the new anchor of “CBS Evening News,” interviewed President Trump in Detroit on Tuesday night. Dokoupil has been broadcasting from different cities since his debut
The real story of how immigrant labor came to define the construction industry.
After securing strong recruits on a tough Senate map, the Democratic leader is not only predicting an upset 2026 victory, but also naming the states he thinks his party can flip.Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has been under intense pressure within the Democratic Party, but he has managed to secur
