Saudi Arabia’s refusal of support suggests that President Trump’s unpredictable approach to Iran has strained ties with one of his closest allies in the Middle East.Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at the White House with President Trump in November.
Also, the U.S. and Iran exchange fire. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.The Port of Seattle last year.
A panel of federal judges found that President Trump could not legally impose the tariff on most imports.A court found that President Trump had wrongly invoked a decades-old trade law when he applied the duties in February.
The debt is outgrowing the size of America’s economy. The president’s policies could accelerate the country’s fiscal headaches, experts say, unless policymakers intervene.The reaction to the U.S. debt has appeared muted on Capitol Hill, despite years of hand-wringing among Republicans, in particular
Stock investors are betting that companies will make enormous profits, despite the war. But investors in bonds, including U.S. Treasuries, have other concerns.People attending a pro-government demonstration in Tehran last month. The S&P 500 has hit new highs since the start of the war in Iran.
The State Department said it would review all Mexican consulates in the United States, following claims in conservative media that the consulates interfere in politics.The State Department is reviewing the 53 Mexican consulates in the U.S., including the consulate in Los Angeles.
A Dutch flight attendant and French national were among the latest to be tested in connection with a deadly outbreak on a cruise ship. But an analysis in South Africa showed no mutations in viral samples.An ambulance during an evacuation of suspected hantavirus patients, in Praia, Cape Verde, on Wed
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The Trump administration has slashed funding for infectious disease research and has far fewer employees, including disease detectives, to respond to outbreaks.An ambulance crew awaiting an evacuated passenger with a suspected hantavirus infection in Amsterdam on Wednesday. The U.S. government has r
Lawyers for Ms. Lively and Mr. Baldoni have said the two sides settled much of the contentious dispute. But one major disagreement remains.Despite the joint statement they put out, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have not settled a major issue that divides them: Is she due damages in a related legal
In an opinion piece in The Washington Post, the Pennsylvania senator wrote that while he was “at odds” with the party’s approach to some issues, his values had not changed.Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, wrote in an opinion piece in The Washington Post this week that the Democratic
After a Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Republicans carved up a majority-Black Memphis seat as the national redistricting wars continue.Representative Steve Cohen, left, Tennessee State Senator Raumesh Akbari, center, and Tennessee State Senator London Lamar, right,
In strikingly different ads, Graham Platner argued that “Susan Collins’s charade is over” while Senator Collins highlighted the economic benefits she has brought to Maine.The race in Maine between Graham Platner, a Democrat, and Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, could decide control of the Senate
In the final stages of his dementia, a long-lost memory from childhood returned, perfectly formed. What was going on in his brain?
For three weeks, thousands of children in Europe went without social media or their smartphones, or both. This is the diary of their digital detox.A teenager using a smartphone in Vienna. Some participants in a phone ban experiment felt more connected to their families and hobbies, while others stru
New drugs have made America’s deadliest cancer more treatable than ever. So why aren’t they reaching patients?
The panel that regulates rents for nearly one million apartments cast its first vote since Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office, approving ranges that included no increases.As New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board provisionally voted on a rent freeze, a member of the audience made their views clear.
A hacking group that claimed responsibility for attacking Canvas’s parent company said it had gained access to data from more than 275 million people across 9,000 schools.Harvard is one of the schools that experienced Canvas outages on Thursday.
A report by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board offers new details about the China Eastern Airlines crash in 2022, which killed all 132 people on board.Emergency workers searching for the black box at the crash site of the China Eastern flight in Teng County, China in 2022.
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The meeting at the Vatican followed President Trump’s condemnation of Pope Leo XIV for opposing the war in Iran.Pope Leo XIV meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Vatican in a photograph released Thursday by Vatican Media.
Jason Meade had been searching for a fugitive when he shot Casey Goodson Jr. in 2020. It is rare for a law enforcement official to be convicted in a killing that occurs on the job.Jason Meade in court in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday.
The university’s leader bumped into students as he drove away following an evening of debate over the long-running conflict in the Middle East.Cornell University students say the university president hit them with his vehicle. He says he was the victim in the incident.
