President Trump’s comments on Friday reflected yet another shift in the goals of U.S. military actions.Iranians mourning the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, in Tehran on Thursday night.
Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs looks into how Trump’s base is responding to the administration’s conflicting messages on the war with Iran.
In opening a military campaign against Iran, President Trump is the first president in modern times to take the United States to war without the backing of the public.President Trump on the USS George H.W. Bush in October. Polling shows public support for striking Iran is below what his predecessors
The move comes as President Trump is ratcheting up his rhetorical assault on Cuba’s leadership.Jason A. Reding Quiñones, the United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida, is said to be looking to bring criminal charges against Cuba’s leaders.
He hosted a home improvement radio show, fought in cage matches and inherited a plumbing business before becoming a “MAGA warrior” in Congress.Senator Markwayne Mullin, whose first name is a mash-up honoring two uncles, took questions on Capitol Hill after President Trump announced his nomination on
The executive director, Jean Davidson, said her departure reflects frustration at the turmoil that has engulfed the arts center.“It’s no secret that this has been a really hard year,” the executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra, Jean Davidson, said of her decision to leave her post aft
The large-scale, public event in Chicago on Friday caps two weeks of memorials for Mr. Jackson, the civil rights leader, who died at 84.Three of the four living former presidents were invited to speak at Rev. Jesse Jackson’s public service in Chicago on Friday.
An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force, forming a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people and seeking the presidency. His mission, he said, was “to transform the mind of America.”The Rev. Jesse Jackson acknowledged the applause of delegates at the 2000 Democratic Nati
Market movements this week had already been choppy as investors weighed the inflationary impact of the conflict in the Middle East. On Friday, the jobs report complicated matters.
Employers shed 92,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate rose to 4.4 percent.
The Federal Reserve is still widely expected to hold interest rates steady when its officials next meet on March 17-18.Before Friday’s jobs report, Fed officials had been widely expected to hold interest rates steady again at their next policy meeting in March.
The weaker-than-expected numbers quickly became a source of tension between the two parties ahead of the midterm elections.Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, said the economy could “go over the cliff.”
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One inmate paid lobbyists and lawyers with ties to the president’s team and walked free. Others are following his blueprint, but it is not always clear who can deliver.
Reporters tapped sources, combed through public records and scrutinized social media to penetrate the web of influence and money underlying the president’s clemency grants.Over the course of his first term and the first year of his second, President Trump has granted pardons or commutations to at le
The pop star’s arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence this week was a breaking point, years after she regained control of her life and finances.Some observers have questioned whether Britney Spears, after successfully fighting to be released from a 13-year conservatorship, now needs more
“Hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life,” a representative for the pop star said after she was released from jail.Britney Spears was pulled over after officers observed her driving erratically at high speeds, a California Highway Patrol spok
Sales and traffic at restaurant chains like Cava, Chipotle and Sweetgreen are falling, as customers grow tired of both salad bowls and their rising price tags.Consumers are growing weary of healthy-but-kinda-mushy meals.
A star writer from the heyday of magazines reveals the family secret behind his award-winning stories.
New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits.Dimorphos is about 525 feet around and orbits a larger parent asteroid, Didymos.
Farmers in the Upper Midwest are investing in homegrown oats. It’s good for the land. But can it work as a cash crop?The original Oat Mafia members: from left, Kevin Connelly, Martin Larsen and Tom Pyfferoen. They remember growing oats when they were younger for animal feed. Now they are growing it
The character “Daryl Hannah” in “Love Story” is not even a remotely accurate representation of my life or my conduct — and these kinds of lies don’t go away.
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