The United States views Iran through a prism of global responsibilities and strategic goals. Israel has a more regional approach. After nearly three weeks of war, their paths are diverging.Refineries serving the South Pars gas field in Asaluyeh, Iran, in 2019. The facilities, which process most of I
In an online journal, Yousef Pezeshkian offers readers a mix of personal anecdotes and glimpses behind the scenes as Iranian leaders are picked off one after another.A photo released by Iranian state media shows President Masoud Pezeshkian, center, with his son Yousef Pezeshkian, in blue jacket, in
Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, said the nation’s renewable energy system has softened the financial fallout from the war in Iran. The story is more complex.Sheep grazing on a pasture next to solar panels, following a major blackout on the Iberian Peninsula, in the village of Hostalric, near
Plus, a buzzy new book was just canceled over A.I. allegations.An apartment in Tehran on Sunday. Last week, Pentagon officials told lawmakers that the first six days of the war had cost more than $11.3 billion.
The president’s company is eyeing a site for a golf course and luxury apartments. Will a huge landfill and a troubled project history stand in the way?The Trump Organization is considering a real estate project in Romania that would be near a landfill and a makeshift settlement known as Pata Rat.
During her first visit to the White House, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi drew praise from President Trump. But the war in the Middle East will test their relationship.Ms. Takaichi and President Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday.
Some people criticized President Trump’s decision to invoke a painful chapter of history. Others worried it might harm U.S.-Japan relations.President Trump met with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan in the Oval Office on Thursday.
Women describe conditions that violate longstanding agency guidelines for how pregnant detainees should be treated.Ely Lopera showing her husband a pregnancy test while on a video call from an ICE detention center.
The pace of ICE arrests nationwide has topped 1,100 per day on average in 2026, but the rate of arrests has varied across the country in sometimes surprising ways.
About 50 children were in federal detention in Dilley, Texas this week, down from about 500 in January. It is unclear how many were deported, but some are back at their U.S. schools.The number of immigrant children in detention at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas has fallen sharply
Estefany Maria Rodriguez Florez, a Nashville reporter detained by immigration agents.
After the revelations of sex abuse, the public is left to make sense of the labor leader’s work and life.The Cesar Chavez Day March in 2019 in Albuquerque, N.M.
The accusations of assault have rattled communities across the country that have revered the labor icon for decades.A mural of Cesar Chavez on a building in Bakersfield, Calif.
The superstar boy band returns after a four-year hiatus on Friday. The genre it helped turn into a global juggernaut has endured some shifts, and minted new stars.BTS onstage at the Grammys in 2022. The group is returning with its first album since that year on Friday.
As the boy band returns on Friday with “Arirang,” listen to key albums and solo releases by its seven members.
Book publishing has few safeguards in place to prevent the unwitting publication of a novel heavily generated by artificial intelligence.
Its publisher, Hachette, will not release the novel in the United States and will discontinue its U.K. edition, citing its commitment to “original creative expression and storytelling.”The cover of the U.K. edition of “Shy Girl,” by Mia Ballard, which was published by Hachette last year.
Across the United States, plasma centers are opening in wealthier areas as more people struggle with the high cost of housing, groceries and health care.Centers like this one in Webster, Texas, pay people for their blood plasma, which is used to make medical therapies. The United States provides aro
Recently released data from the Education Department showed that by the end of last year, 7.7 million borrowers had defaulted on $181 billion in federal student loans.Roughly a quarter of the 43 million recipients of federal student loans are significantly behind in their payments.
Affordable Care Act enrollment has dropped across the United States since the enhanced federal subsidies expired. But New Mexico has record numbers of people signing up.State Representative Reena Szczepanski, a Democrat, helped spearhead New Mexico’s effort to replace the lost subsidies.
In a caustic critique of the court issued on social media late Sunday night, the president inadvertently buttressed its independence.President Trump announcing international tariffs at the White House last April.
Facing financial straits, the founder is betting on a skunkworks for A.I. experiments.“We’re building like a start-up again,” said Jonah Peretti, the founder of BuzzFeed.
Boston Scientific announced multiple recalls but has said its battery issues were limited. One internal test in 2025 found batteries with an “extremely high failure rate.”
Maria Kalesnikava is campaigning for the West to engage with the regime in Belarus that imprisoned her for more than five years.Maria Kalesnikava with her flute this week in Berlin, where she now lives in exile.
