The attack on Iran has led to a surge in energy prices at a moment when the cost of living is a major issue heading into the fall elections.A tanker and a cargo ship in Muscat, Oman, on Monday. The war in Iran has affected the shipping of oil through the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman.
While officials look for ways to ease oil shocks, experts say higher prices will likely persist until traffic through the Strait of Hormuz returns.Black smoke filled the skies above Tehran on Sunday morning after Israeli airstrikes struck energy facilities overnight.
Iranian state media posted mangled remnants it claims were from the Feb. 28 attack in Minab. An analysis shows they have the markings of a missile made by American manufacturers
For two hours, the streets around Gracie Mansion became the stage for a heated protest, reflecting a nation seething with angst and unease.A man is detained after he was seen throwing an incendiary device at a protest near Gracie Mansion in Manhattan on Saturday.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been spare in his remarks following the attempted bombing at Gracie Mansion and arrests of two men who said they were motivated by ISIS.Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been somewhat reserved in his comments following an attack outside Gracie Mansion, issuing two short statements an
Prosecutors say one of the two men who were arrested hoped the attack would be deadlier than the Boston Marathon bombing. Officials said they are seeing increasing signs of radicalization.Police Department bomb squad officers convened near Gracie Mansion on Sunday.
The verdict comes more than a month after the trial began in Federal District Court in Manhattan where the jury heard weeks of emotional and often graphic testimony.Prosecutors say the Alexander brothers operated a sex trafficking conspiracy for nearly 20 years. Their trial ended on Monday, when the
Balendra Shah’s party won a landslide in the election that followed Nepal’s Gen Z revolution. His style is pugnacious.Balendra Shah campaigning in Kathmandu, Nepal, last month.
In a rare joint appearance, Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett M. Kavanaugh offered sharply different views on how the court should handle emergency requests.Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, left, moderator Judge Paul L. Friedman, center, and Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaug
The ruling found that the three-person leadership team in New Jersey’s federal prosecutor’s office was illegal, and sharply questioned President Trump’s priorities.Since Alina Habba left office, three attorneys have been running the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey.
More solar energy was added to U.S. grids than any other technology, but the amount installed fell by 14 percent, according to a new report.A solar field in Riesel, Texas, in 2023. Solar power is projected to account for just over half of the new power projects that will be added this year.
As the G.O.P. gathered in Miami for a party retreat where lawmakers hoped to focus on the economy, the president threatened to block his own party’s legislative agenda.Polls suggest that Republicans’ chances of keeping control of the House are growing more slim.
Hollywood’s archetypical agent has been showing a very different side of himself as a host of a video podcast called “Rushmore.”
The university said it was investigating a company owned by a podcaster after the president, Walter Carter Jr., said he had “made a mistake.”Ohio State University president Walter Carter Jr. at Ohio Stadium in Columbus last year.
Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, a Times analysis shows, and even more in some local elections. Wealthy donors are reaping the rewards.Protesters demonstrated outside the Supreme Court in 2019 as Senate Democrats proposed a constitutional amendment
Representative Joaquin Castro of Texas led a delegation of Democrats to a South Texas detention center to press for the release of the brothers and their family.Representative Joaquin Castro, Democrat of Texas, greeting Caleb Gámez-Cuéllar and his family after their release from the Dilley Immigrati
After the sprawling and chaotic federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, jurisdictions in other states have been bracing for a range of scenarios.The clashes during immigration sweeps in Minneapolis earlier this year have left local activists and officials in other cities worried that their commu
Some of the disgraced financier’s victims have said they were trafficked at the property south of Santa Fe, where the nearest neighbors are miles away.Lawmakers voted to impanel a bipartisan four-member “truth commission” with subpoena power to investigate Zorro Ranch.
The sports and marketing agency is contending with the fallout from the Epstein files, and it is continuing to look for a buyer.Casey Wasserman suffered a reputational blow early this year after files released by the Justice Department included suggestive emails he sent years ago to the longtime com
The company is seeking F.C.C. approval to test an idea to reflect sunlight to Earth at night, possibly powering solar panels. Critics say it could be bad for people and wildlife.The start-up Reflect Orbital wants to launch mirror-bearing satellites which it says could address one of the biggest weak
Only when the U.S.-Israeli bombing of Iran comes to a halt, without destroying the state, can the Iranian people sort out their fate.
President Trump’s efforts to force the Western Hemisphere into alignment will keep falling short.
“You can lie about many things in American life, but one thing you can’t lie about is gas prices,” Late Night host Seth Meyers said. “Everyone sees it.”
He served in the Special Forces, led a postwar raid to find P.O.W.s and became a voice of the right-wing anti-government fringe.Bo Gritz in the early 1990s. As a prominent figure among right-wing radicals, he tapped into a rich vein of populist anger over America’s defeat in Vietnam.
