The threats to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz are complicating President Trump’s calculations about how and when to end the war.An oil tanker anchored in Muscat, Oman, on Thursday. Iran has throttled traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil was passing before
The defense secretary has disparaged restrictive rules for opening fire that are aimed at reducing the risk of mistakes and civilian casualties.“The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we’re doing here,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week.
Plus, the Friday news quiz.An oil refinery in Russia. The U.S. Treasury Department estimated that freeing Russian oil could add hundreds of millions of barrels of crude to global markets, curbing prices that have hovered near $100 per barrel.
Economic growth at the end of 2025 was revised downward and consumer prices rose at the start of 2026.The latest price data offers a worrisome setup for inflation going forward.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada would build three bases in the region. The government also plans to improve infrastructure and airports in the north.Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, visited the Royal Canadian Air Force 440 Transport Squadron, in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, on Thu
Facing a massive energy crisis and increasing protests on the streets, the Cuban government acknowledged that it had entered into negotiations with the Trump administration.President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba delivers a speech in Havana in January.
“We are synagogues — we are houses of worship,” one rabbi said. “We are not Fort Knox.”A gunman killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018.
The attacker who drove into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, a 41-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, is dead. No one else was killed.Emergency personnel after an attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., on Thursday.
The F.B.I. said the shooting, which wounded two other people at the university, in Norfolk, Va., was being investigated as an act of terrorism.The police responded to a report of a shooting on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., on Thursday morning.
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Venezuela gave Trump a taste of success. This isn’t the first time an American president has gotten hooked on overthrowing foreign governments.The 1953 coup in Iran — engineered by the C.I.A. — helped usher in a wave of regime change operations by the United States.
The Texas Democrat has used his perch in Congress to highlight sympathetic cases in his push to free detainees and call attention to the consequences of President Trump’s immigration agenda.
Ukraine wants to leverage its defense expertise into security partnerships and to reap potentially vast profits for its arms industry.Demonstrating the Bullet interceptor drone in the Kyiv region of Ukraine on Wednesday.
Despite ethical concerns about using battlefield videos to train artificial intelligence, Ukraine’s defense ministry said it needs to improve A.I. targeting to compete with Russia.Ukrainian soldiers training with drones in the Kharkiv region last year.
Many cybercrime victims are retargeted by online scammers posing as lawyers or other professionals who promise they can recover stolen money.Nick Jonas requested a video call with a lawyer who said he could help his father, who had fallen victim to a scam. The lawyer was a fraud.
The Japanese company’s retreat echoes moves by other traditional carmakers as the industry divides between electric vehicle haves and have-nots.Honda once planned to retool its plant in Marysville, Ohio, to make electric vehicles. The company announced this week that it was scrapping plans for three
Recent marketing campaigns and TikToks reflect the craze for “Love Story.” They show that the Kennedy archetype still can’t be purchased.
The surge in capital punishment is a cruel and unjust development.
Trump’s plans for Washington bring to mind what Mussolini did — and tried to do — to Rome.
Iran is turning the Strait of Hormuz into a battlefield, proving that a short and surgical war with Iran could be a fantasy.An oil tanker anchored in Muscat, Oman.
The “Late Night” host Seth Meyers said President Trump is letting Americans “choose your own adventure” in the war with Iran.
The black Fender Stratocaster, played by David Gilmour on six of the band’s albums including “The Dark Side of the Moon,” broke the record for the most expensive guitar sold at auction.A Fender Stratocaster known as “The Black Strat,” part of the David Gilmour Guitar Collection, was displayed at Chr
A study tracks how the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade competition with Mexico led to earlier deaths for American factory workers.A steel mill in Braddock, Pa. Researchers found that the North American Free Trade Agreement sped up the decline of the U.S. manufacturing industry.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been reluctant to force people indoors, even in dire weather. But conditions, whether on the streets or in shelters, can be dangerous.A team from NYC Health + Hospitals, the public health system, work with homeless people in Manhattan as part of a program called WARM, which
