The Persian Gulf island, targeted by U.S. strikes, is home to Iran’s main oil export terminal. Any disruption could jolt global energy markets.Smoke billowing from a flare stack at the Port of Kharg Island oil terminal in Iran in 2017.
Although President Trump said seizing tankers would be a financial boon, the cost of maintaining just one aging ship has already reached $47 million.The oil tanker Skipper, seized by the United States, seen off the coast of Texas near Galveston in December.
Iran’s response to days of aerial bombardment and long-range artillery strikes has proved more resilient than Trump administration officials anticipated.Navy ships in Nagasaki, Japan, in 2023.
Judge James E. Boasberg derided the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington for pursuing a case against Jerome H. Powell that appeared to be motivated by President Trump’s desire for vengeance.“The government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, committed
Since Richard Grenell was appointed by President Trump, the arts center has endured waves of cancellations and departures. It will soon close for lengthy renovations.During Richard Grenell’s tenure as president of the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera announced it would find a new home.
A group of Democratic attorneys general had sued to overturn the Trump administration’s new policy that demanded the past seven years of student application data.Linda McMahon, the education secretary, at a briefing at the White House last year.
“I didn’t breathe until I knew all of the kids were OK,” one teacher recalled after a truck crashed through the doors of a Michigan synagogue this week.Smoke rising from Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Mich., on Thursday.
The man, a U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, lost family members during an airstrike there last week. The attack on a Michigan synagogue rattled Jewish communities across America.Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., on Friday.
Days before the antisemitic violence, an imam recalled seeing Ayman Mohamad Ghazali at a service for his relatives who had been killed in the war in Lebanon.Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who officials said was killed after driving a car into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., had stopped sho
In the industry where René Redzepi reigned, fellow chefs are debating how, and how much, restaurant kitchens can change.René Redzepi stepped down Wednesday as the chef of Noma, the restaurant that made Copenhagen a global dining destination, after he was accused of past physical abuse.
The large fee is the latest example of the White House’s inserting itself into corporate deal making in unusual and aggressive ways.The new investors paid the Treasury roughly $2.5 billion of the fee when the deal closed in January.
It’s a movie about Black feminist revolutionaries that some Black feminists are calling a 911 emergency.
Spanish cinema has entered a new and more diverse era, film experts say. Oliver Laxe, the director of Oscar-nominated “Sirat,” embodies the shift.The Spanish director Oliver Laxe questioned “if my cinema is Spanish or not,” and said that his Oscar-nominated film, “Sirat,” differed from the work of h
For Diane Warren, the work is the reward. But after 16 losses, an original song Oscar would be nice, too.Diane Warren this year received her 17th Oscar nomination without a single win. “I’ve never taken awards as validation,” she said. “The work is validation.”
Lt. Col. Brandon Shah flew hundreds of combat missions as a war-zone helicopter pilot before being shot and killed in his Old Dominion University classroom by a radicalized military veteran.The authorities on Thursday investigated the scene at Constant Hall at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.
Before opening fire in a university classroom, the gunman asked people if they were there for a Reserve Officers Training Corps event, court documents said.Law enforcement officers investigating the shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., on Thursday.
A formal tally on Friday showed Sam Page ahead of Phil Berger, the powerful longtime leader of the State Senate. A recount is expected but experts say that is unlikely to flip the results.Sam Page, a Republican candidate for North Carolina State Senate and a small-town sheriff.
The move, as other Republicans confirmed they would not run, all but assured Representative Kevin Hern would succeed Senator Markwayne Mullin.President Trump endorsed Representative Kevin Hern in a social media post on Friday night and called him “a true friend of MAGA.”
Wait, that’s not the real James Talarico …The real James Talarico. Republicans recently released a video with an A.I.-generated version of him reading his old tweets.
The school also said that it would review policies about philanthropy and donor engagement after new revelations about the disgraced financier were made public.
In the years after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution, Jeffrey Epstein rebuilt his reputation by hosting gatherings with leaders in all sorts of trades, including comedy.
A tech company made a deepfake of my mind. I’m fighting back.
The war in Iran is a victory for the Israeli prime minister.
The ground delays, which also affected the airport serving Richmond, Va., were expected to last until at least midnight, according to the F.A.A., which said the smell had affected air traffic controllers.Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was among the airports where the F.A.A. halted flights
