Demining the Strait of Hormuz

Our reporter John Ismay, who served as a Navy explosive ordnance disposal officer and deep-sea diver for eight years, explains why mines in the Strait of Hormuz may outlast the war. This video was originally published June 19 and was updated on June 22 to reflect news developments.

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U.S. Temporarily Lifts Oil Sanctions Against Iran, Citing ‘Productive’ Talks

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance pointed to progress on Iran’s nuclear program, but officials in Tehran said “no new commitments” had been made.Vice President JD Vance after the United States and Iran held high-level talks at the Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland on Monday.

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Keir Starmer Resigns as UK Prime Minister

His departure in the coming weeks clears a path for Andy Burnham, a popular Labour Party mayor, to become the country’s seventh prime minister in a decade.Prime Minister Keir Starmer outside 10 Downing Street in London where he announced his resignation on Monday.

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Trump on the Shabby Condition of the Reflecting Pool: Not My Fault

President Trump said the blooms of green algae and the peeling polyurethane had nothing to do with the rushed $16.4 million makeover he had ordered.Ongoing work on Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been troubled for decades by leaks and algae blooms that turn its water green.

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Judge Blocks Bans on Using Food Stamps for Sugary Drinks and Candy

A federal judge ruled that the Agriculture Department lacked the authority to approve state waivers that restrict what SNAP participants can buy with their benefits.The decision on Monday, by a federal judge in Washington, was a rollback of restrictions that officials have characterized as a major a

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Clive Davis, Music Industry Titan Who Signed Whitney Houston, Dies at 94

He rose from a midlevel position at Columbia Records to become one of music’s most powerful executives, shepherding stars like Barry Manilow and Whitney Houston.One of the few executives in music to become a household name, Clive Davis maintained a visible role as a starmaker for more than five deca

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11 Essential Songs Shepherded by Clive Davis

The label boss, who died on Monday, had a passion for hits — especially ones he masterminded — during his formidable tenures at Columbia, Arista and J Records.After Clive Davis, right, assured Carlos Santana that “Smooth” would be the most important song on the album “Supernatural,” it spent three m

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Carlos Santana, Patti Smith and Other Celebs Pay Tribute to Clive Davis

Davis “treated me with the same respect and kindness as a 22-year-old nobody as he did after all my success,” Springsteen said after the music executive’s death on Monday.Clive Davis and Gladys Knight at a pre-Grammy Awards gala in 2024. “There will never be another Clive,” Knight said after Davis’s

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How Remote Work Has Helped a Generation of Working Parents

Post-pandemic, a new openness to accommodating family needs has made it possible for more mothers and fathers to balance work and parenting — particularly mothers of young children.Elizabeth Terhune, with her children in Santa Fe, N.M., worked from home when her youngest was born during the pandemic

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Doctors Thought It Was Asthma. A.I. Flagged a Serious Heart Problem.

Artificial intelligence programs can spot patterns in electrocardiograms that humans miss. Now, one program is going to be widely available — for free — to doctors.A clinical trial using an A.I. program found evidence of possible severe heart damage in the electrocardiogram of a 45-year-old patient.

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Flight of the Conchords and the Perils of Reunions

Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are routinely asked about performing their musical satires again. They always said no, until this year. What changed?Clement said, “One of my favorite things to do was when someone heckled us, we talk about why that hurt our feelings.”

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Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Architect of Cuba’s Surveillance State, Dies at 94

Considered the country’s most powerful leader after the Castro brothers, he was the first director of the Interior Ministry, keeping a close eye on dissent.Ramiro Valdés Menéndez in 2003. A veteran of the earliest days of the Cuban revolution, he was alternately in and out of favor during his long c

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