A month since the first U.S.-Israeli attacks and Iran’s response effectively shut off Persian Gulf oil, drivers are paying significantly more to fill up.Lines in mid-March at a gas station in Hawthorne, Calif.
Delivering salmon, fruits and other perishable foods has become more expensive as the war with Iran pushes up diesel prices.As fuel costs rise because of the war in Iran, surcharges are being added to the shipping cost of certain food items, such as seafood imported from far-flung locations.
Since the Iran conflict began on Feb. 28, gas prices across the United States have increased about 35 percent. They are now above $4 a gallon, and drivers are wincing.In Harlingen, Texas, and everywhere else, drivers are strategizing about how to stay on the road at a reasonable price.
As leaders are killed and replaced, Iranian negotiators may not know what their government is willing to concede in any negotiations.Many senior Iranian leaders and their deputies have been killed, and those who survive have had difficulty communicating.
Barely out of prototype testing, the Precision Strike Missile is shrouded in secrecy — including which Persian Gulf countries the Army is launching them from.
As the United States expands its armada of warplanes on British soil, Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he is trying to defend Britain’s interests while keeping the country out of war.Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at a meeting in London on Monday. “We will not be drawn into the wider war,” h
A memo that President Trump signed on Friday ordering the Department of Homeland Security to pay T.S.A. officers did not specify whether they would be paid on a regular schedule.Transportation Security Administration officers at a security checkpoint in Pittsburgh International Airport on Monday.
With Congress in recess, much of the Homeland Security Department remains without money because of the impasse on Capitol Hill, even as airport security workers are to begin getting paid.“If we had something good to go today, we could have done it today,” Senator John Hoeven said on Monday.
Airport security officials have been sharing passenger data with immigration agents, but the program received little attention until videos captured a woman and her daughter being detained at San Francisco’s airport.The Transportation Security Administration began sharing passenger information with
Claudia Sheinbaum, president of Mexico, said her country would take legal steps to demand better conditions at immigration detention facilities, where she said 14 Mexican citizens had died since President Trump took office.President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico at a news conference on Monday.
The White House press secretary said the United States would evaluate oil shipments to Cuba on a “case-by-case basis,” after a Russian tanker full of crude reached the island.An oil tanker near the coastline of Matanzas, Cuba, on Monday. The ban on foreign oil imports has plunged the country into a
The airport near West Palm Beach will be rebranded the President Donald J. Trump International Airport on July 1, if approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.President Trump at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., last month.
Architects and preservation organizations have warned that little scrutiny has been given to the project’s design plans.President Trump showing a new rendering of the proposed White House ballroom’s south portico, without the grand staircase that appeared in previous plans.
Experts use artificial intelligence to analyze data, plus thousands of crowdsourced photos, to forecast the prized flowers, which are a multibillion-dollar attraction.Visitors gathered beneath cherry blossoms at Ueno Park in Tokyo last week.
At a sparsely attended Conservative Political Action Conference, young Republicans were eager to start the post-Trump era.The annual Conservative Political Action Conference has been gradually waning in energy for years, but empty convention halls and an anemic speakers list gave many young people i
Here’s a crash course on what’s coming up next.The Democratic primary race for Senate in Maine is between Graham Platner and Gov. Janet Mills
The former South Carolina governor and congressman filed papers to run for his old seat, six years after running for president and nearly two decades after a high-profile affair.Mark Sanford in 2023. His star has risen and fallen in Republican politics over the years.
Polling has consistently found that most people would prefer NASA spend money on things like monitoring climate change and averting asteroid collisions rather than human spaceflight.Artemis II pilot Victor Glover met with young space enthusiasts at the Kennedy Space Center in January. While overall
States ranging from California to Utah are taking steps to place guardrails on the technology even after the president ordered them to stop.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, issued an order requiring safety and privacy guardrails for artificial intelligence companies contracting with the state.Gov. Gavin Newsom. California has been a leader in tech lawmaking, and was the first state to pass a law mandating safety and transparency from the
The police chief in Fargo, N.D., acknowledged “missteps” but stopped short of apologizing to Angela Lipps, a Tennessee resident who said she had never been to North Dakota before she was arrested.Angela Lipps outside her home in Elizabethton, Tenn., before she was arrested in July 2025. She spent fi
Thieves broke into the Magnani-Rocca Foundation outside Parma, Italy, officials said, and made off with paintings worth millions.“Les Poissons” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of three paintings stolen this month from a museum in Italy.
A spate of popular social media accounts offer advice on how to achieve an “old-money” look.The appearance of wealth, and how to get it, has become a hot topic on social media.
The president and the Republican Party deserve to pay a political price for the pardons.
