The president is trying to ratchet up the economic pressure on Tehran, but Iran’s government is unlikely to make a deal without a big, face-saving compromise.A billboard in Tehran last week, depicting a closed Strait of Hormuz over the mouth of President Trump.
Violence flared in the waterway on Monday after President Trump said the United States would help guide stranded ships. It’s not clear exactly how the plan is working.Ships in the Strait of Hormuz near Musandam, Oman, last week. Some 1,600 vessels are believed to be stranded.
The Education Department’s civil rights arm said admitting “biological males” to the women’s college may violate anti-discrimination laws.Smith College, one of the nation’s largest single-sex schools with about 2,500 students, has been admitting transgender students since 2015, along with several ot
Officials withheld a detainee’s overseas arrest warrant from a federal judge. When she ordered his release, they used the same information to attack her publicly.Judge Melissa R. DuBose, left, after being sworn in as a U.S. district judge in Cranston, R.I., last year.
The Federal Aviation Administration proposed a system for designating certain “critical infrastructure” sites off limits to unmanned aircraft.A drone flying over Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Ind., before a college football game.
The president is seeking political payback for Republican state legislators in Indiana who rejected his push to redraw the state’s political map last year.Indiana state legislators met in Indianapolis last year before a vote on redrawing the state’s congressional map.
The Texas attorney general is heading into the runoff against Senator John Cornyn without the support of some of his longtime backers.On the campaign trail for U.S. Senate, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has presented his fund-raising gap as a strength.
The House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, sent a familiar emissary to the New York State Capitol to convey the party’s urgency to draw more favorable maps.Representative Joseph Morelle, a former New York State legislator, returned to Albany on Tuesday to push Democrats to pass a redistricting meas
Ohio’s unusual contest — with a little-known incumbent and a well-known challenger — shows how Democrats are hoping to capitalize on G.O.P. voters’ anger at the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.Former Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, left, is running again for the chamber against Senator Jon Husted, a Republic
The agency’s scientists and data contractors reviewed millions of patient records for studies that were pulled back before release.A Covid-19 vaccine distribution site in Salt Lake City in 2022.
Our attachment to an institution may seem counterintuitive, especially with comedy, a rebellious art form. But with Stephen Colbert’s program, there was a lot at stake.
As fears of A.I.-driven job losses mount, economists warn that unemployment benefits and other programs to help displaced workers aren’t sufficient.
The University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles.
The largest U.S. crypto exchange said it was cutting jobs because of cryptocurrency market volatility and to “optimize” for the artificial intelligence era.Coinbase, which went public in 2021, is cutting 14 percent of its work force.
The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors’ copyrights.Mark Zuckerberg in March 2026.
Guests at the Met Gala had different interpretations of the night’s dress code.Kim Kardashian, in an orange fiberglass breastplate by the British pop artist Allen Jones.
Devotees of the diet, which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. follows, bonded over brisket and butter at Meatstock.
With his triumph in West Bengal state elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has moved closer to his dream of an opposition-free India.Supporters of Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party celebrating in Kolkata as the party headed to victory in the West Bengal state assembly elections on Monday.
A deal for Vox Media, which generates more than $80 million through podcasts alone, would elevate Mr. Murdoch’s company, Lupa Systems, as a major player in U.S. media.James Murdoch, the younger son of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch, in Washington, D.C., in 2020.
Hannah Natanson’s reporting anchored a package of articles from The Washington Post that won a Pulitzer on Monday, four months after agents seized her devices.Hannah Natanson, a reporter and member of the winning team for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, in the Washington Post newsroom on Mond
The Muslim Democratic Club was founded to increase political clout among the city’s Muslims. Now some of its founders are the mayor’s top aides.Faiza Ali, one of the founding members of the Muslim Democratic Club, is now commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs in New York City.
Steven Roth, the chief executive of Vornado Realty Trust, likened “tax the rich” to hate speech.
The captain, James G. Wilson, was also filmed calling Democrats a “waste of human race.”
The nominated performers include the film stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rose Byrne, John Lithgow and Lesley Manville.“Schmigadoon!” is adapted from a comedic Apple TV series and received 12 Tony nominations, tied with “The Lost Boys” for the most.
