For Iran, Flexing Control Over Waterway Is New Deterrent

Iran’s government could emerge from the conflict with a blueprint to keep adversaries at bay, regardless of any restrictions on its nuclear program.A satellite image showing ships’ movements in a section of the Strait of Hormuz this month.

M Mark Mazzetti, Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes

Reopening Strait of Hormuz Would Ease Oil Crisis but Only So Much

Analysts said energy and shipping companies would be reluctant to fully restore operations until they were confident that hostilities were over.An oil tanker off Basra, Iraq, on Friday. If the Strait of Hormuz were to fully open, it would take weeks for substantial amounts of Persian Gulf oil and ga

R Rebecca F. Elliott

More Displaced Lebanese Head Home as Cease-Fire Is Tested

The truce appeared to mostly hold even as Israel said it had carried out strikes on what it called “terrorists” approaching its forces in southern Lebanon. Separately, a U.N. peacekeeper was killed.Displaced Lebanese residents returned to their homes in the south on Saturday.

E Euan Ward, Sarah Chaayto and Christina Goldbaum

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

A former lawyer for President Trump’s campaign, Joseph diGenova, is said to be planning to split time between Miami and Fort Pierce, where a grand jury overseen by a Trump-favored judge sits.Joseph diGenova, 81, who served as a U.S. attorney in the Reagan era, has been given the title of counselor t

C Charlie Savage and Alan Feuer

Potential 2028 Democrats Audition in Michigan,With a Focus on Trump

Former Vice President Kamala Harris, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky spoke at a gathering of party insiders in Detroit, fueling presidential speculation.Former Vice President Kamala Harris addresses the crowd at the Michigan Democratic Women’s Caucus Legacy Lunche

T Tim Balk and Steve Friess

‘Turning Point Was Charlie Kirk’: Why This Student Group Moved On

Students at the University of Arkansas disagreed with Turning Point’s direction, pointing to challenges ahead for the conservative group.Ava Lacey, left, an executive board member of Young American Revival, and Dino Fantegrossi, right, the group’s president, at the University of Arkansas in Fayettev

R Richard Fausset

U.S. Officials Visited Havana to Lay Out Proposals for Cuban Reforms

The delegation told Cuba’s leadership that it had only a narrow window of time to make the economic and political changes demanded by the Trump administration.A street in Havana last month. During the talks last week, a State Department official said, the American delegation insisted that President

E Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

New York’s Anti-Rich Current Reaches Apex With Second-Home Tax Plan

With a new tax proposal, the threat of a building workers’ strike and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s shunning of the Met Gala, the city’s wealth gap was on full display.A mix of events appeared to show new levels of intolerance for New York’s über-wealthy, particularly nonresidents with second homes in the

D Dionne Searcey

Mamdani and Obama Lead Preschool Singalong to Promote Free Child Care

In their first public appearance together, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former President Barack Obama met up for some joking and singing on Saturday at a Bronx child care center.The meeting between the two men came as Mayor Zohran Mamdani was seeking to expand free child care for 2-year-olds.

E Emma G. Fitzsimmons

Activists Tear-Gassed at Failed Raid of Beagle Research Facility

Some 1,000 protesters tried to storm a private breeding and lab facility in Wisconsin in an effort to steal thousands of beagles that are bred for medical experimentation.Animal rights activists and the police face off outside a research facility in Blue Mounds, Wis., on Saturday.

K Katie Benner and Taylor Glascock

Remains Linked to Submerged Car Solve 1958 Mystery of Missing Oregon Family

The case of the missing Martin family was unsolved until a diver found a car in an Oregon river in 2024. Officials, relying on DNA tests, said Thursday that they had identified the remains of three people.Remains recovered from an Oregon river in 2025 were identified as three family members who went

R Rylee Kirk