Ship operators already faced severe risks in navigating the region, and now the danger is higher as Houthi militias assert control in the Red Sea.An oil tanker in the Red Sea in August. Houthi militants on Friday expanded their control of the sea, which had become a critical alternate route for Pers
Oil prices remain elevated and the price of U.S. diesel fuel hit a new high over mounting fears that fighting in the Middle East could further threaten energy supplies.Governments, businesses and farmers are paying more for diesel fuel to run trucks, farm machinery and other heavy equipment.
The militia captured the island in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a choke point for trade. Saudi Arabia also announced it had shut down a critical oil pipeline after a drone attack launched from Iraq.A satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC in 2025 of Perim Island off Yemen.
At a ceremony in Lower Manhattan, elected officials and loved ones of those killed in the 2001 terror attacks gathered in solemn remembrance.At the memorial pools where the World Trade Center towers stood, relatives and visitors can read the etched names of the nearly 3,000 people killed on Sept. 11
In recent weeks, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has visited firehouses around New York City as part of an effort to direct the public’s attention toward the victims, and away from himself.Mayor Zohran Mamdani has attended several events commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, including a F
The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.Workers sprayed blue coating Thursday as part of ongoing repairs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington.
The 64-year-old Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled.The J.H. Campbell coal plant in West Olive, Mich.
The president made clear as his convention wrapped up that he wants to carry his party through a tough midterms. He just won’t go too far out of his way to do it.President Trump told supporters at his convention on Thursday night to “pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United Stat
After the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a congressional map used in the primary, election officials, candidates and voters are scrambling to adjust before November.Demonstrators at the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City earlier this month protested a map redrawn to benefit Republicans.
The long, odd two-night TV production hoped to reach a select audience of die-hard voters (if football didn’t intercept them).President Trump spoke on both nights of a Republican convention that wasn’t technically a convention.
The president attacked three Democrats running for Senate this week with inaccurate claims to portray them as too extreme.President Trump appeared at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas this week.
A new crop of college students is finding balance at daytime parties with yoga, saunas and cold plunges.
The odds of a quarter-point rate increase at the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week surged to 90 percent after August’s Consumer Price Index report.
If the AARP’s projection holds, the cost-of-living adjustment would be the largest since 2023.“Older adults, especially seniors on Social Security, are experiencing higher costs on everything,” said Bill Sweeney, AARP’s senior vice president for government affairs.
Cardiologists are struggling to figure out why a drug that should have prevented heart attacks didn’t work at all.An illustration of a lipoprotein A particle. Scientists are asking themselves: If Lp(a) is a marker, what is it marking? Is there another cause of heart disease that no one has thought o
For five decades, the artist has made sculptures that are larger-than-life — and also singularly reflective of his own.
The nation’s reaction to the 11-1 deadlock that resulted in a mistrial for Lindsay Clancy was, like the jury itself, fiercely and unbridgeably divided.
If money is no object, the luxury options are plentiful. But if you take the subway and don’t mind watching the match on a screen, a budget day at the finals is possible.Across the stadium, guests in luxury suites watch a quarterfinal match between Coco Gauff and Mirra Andreeva of Russia.
A dispatch from Dallas 2026.
We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe.
The teenager survived in the Bering Sea off Alaska without food or water before a fishing vessel pulled him to safety, the Coast Guard said.A 15-year-old whose mother identified him as Derek Parker Aghnaanga was pulled to safety from the overturned hull of his skiff on Monday by the crew of a fishin
