The Iranian government is taking an increasingly aggressive approach as it confronts a growing economic threat and worries that its grip on the Strait of Hormuz is slipping, analysts say.Iranians are feeling the strain of the war, which has made a longstanding economic crisis worse.
With few good options for safely shipping oil, Saudi Arabia’s exports have plunged to a 13-year low.A vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off southern Yemen in July.
The cost of crude has risen 40 percent since the start of the war in Iran, pushing up the price of gasoline, diesel and other refined fuels.
At an unusual gathering in Dallas, some of the party’s top candidates will be forced to decide just how tightly to tether themselves to an unpopular president.Normally, national party conventions are held only in presidential election years, but President Trump pushed for a Republican midterm conven
City officials erected barricades, mapped out street closures and coordinated with federal agencies as protesters planned anti-Trump marches and demonstrations near the convention venue.Volunteers set up signs and barricades outside of the American Airlines Center in Dallas, where the Republican Nat
A recently created Republican group tied to the president’s super PAC is pumping cash into half a dozen key midterm races, with the largest amounts going toward Senate contests in Michigan and Ohio.President Trump’s main super PAC, MAGA Inc., has reported a war chest of more than $400 million.
The industry’s rapid expansion has scrambled traditional political alliances and forced G.O.P. leaders to respond to a backlash from some of their most reliable rural voters.Voter anger with rapid data center development is growing across rural Texas. Above, a data center construction site outside t
Amid conflicting rulings, Missouri’s highest court ordered the secretary of state to respond to claims that he violated an order on redistricting.People opposing a congressional redistricting plan rally outside the Missouri Supreme Court in Jefferson City, Mo., this month. They hold signs displaying
The plan, which two dozen states have challenged as unconstitutional, puts in place new requirements about who can receive mail ballots.
The 9/11 completist community wants to know and see everything. The Holy Grail? Pictures from inside the twin towers.
Plots involving some kind of artificial intelligence are even part of soap operas. Here’s how they’ve evolved over the decades.
The money, listed as “cash gift for the holidays,” was detailed in financial disclosure forms released by the administration.Natalie Harp, a White House special assistant, in the Oval Office in August.
Bond yields rose after the announcement, suggesting investors were underwhelmed by the size of the purchases.Scott Bessent said his job as Treasury secretary is to ensure that markets are not misreading the fundamental dynamics of the economy.
U.S. military officials in the past two weeks have sunk six large fishing vessels accused of providing fuel to fast boats carrying drugs from South America.An image released by the U.S. military shows what it says is a floating refueling station being boarded last week. The Trump administration has
The lawsuit, the first of its kind since revelations against the union leader emerged this year, accuses two foundations of failing to prevent “abusive, rogue and inappropriate” behavior.The suit accuses two foundations of failing to properly supervise Cesar Chavez, the labor leader.
Gov. Jim Pillen’s family business is one of the nation’s largest pork producers. As he seeks re-election, he has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda even though his farms have taken on undocumented laborers.
Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador was set to expire on Wednesday. The Trump administration said it would make an announcement about the program’s future at the “appropriate time.”Members of the National TPS Alliance hold a rally in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals courthouse in P
Hawaii’s housing crisis was at a breaking point even before the fire. Since then, displaced families have struggled to rebuild their lives.Lahaina, on the west coast of Maui, three years after a fire destroyed the town.
The state is considering extending the life of its last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, and allowing construction of new reactors to help meet its clean energy goals.Established nuclear plants like Diablo Canyon in California tend to produce relatively affordable power.
We are suffering the consequences of the conservative revolution that began in the 1980s.
A new book reveals how the infamous lawyer helped shape Donald Trump.
We take stock of the AfD’s success.Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, faces pressure from the far right.
The three jurors, who voted to acquit Lindsay Clancy of murder, described the tense deliberations in an interview with a Boston TV station.Lindsay Clancy reacting to the jury’s saying it could not reach a verdict, during her murder trial in Plymouth, Mass., last week.
