Iran sees its control over the Strait of Hormuz as critical leverage in peace talks with the United States. It seems willing to risk the cease-fire to maintain that power.Boats anchored off Oman’s northern Musandam Peninsula near the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.
The United States and Iran have engaged in rounds of attacks and counterattacks in recent days, eroding hopes for a quick return to normalcy in the Middle East.Vice President JD Vance after the United States and Iran held high-level talks at the Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland on Monday.
An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten.
After decades, deferred maintenance totals an estimated $50 billion. But getting repair funds from Congress is a laborious process.Hoses and plastic bags being used to manage a leaky roof in an Internal Revenue Service building on the Chamblee campus in Georgia.
Volunteers in a middle-class neighborhood in Caracas used drills, picks and hammers to break through concrete, trying to find anyone in need of rescue.Rescue workers at the Residencia Rita in Caracas, Venezuela, on Saturday.
Back-to-back quakes in northern Venezuela killed more than 1,400 people and set off an agonizing search for survivors. It was the latest ordeal for a country rocked by economic and political turmoil.Rescuers, civilians and emergency medical workers looking for survivors in the rubble of several coll
A medical team set out from the capital to rescue people in the hardest-hit part of the disaster zone, La Guaira. They found silence in the ruins instead.Dr. Zaira Medina, left, hugging a rescue worker outside her collapsed apartment building in La Guaira, Venezuela, on Friday.
Fires are raging in the arid Southwest after a warm winter. Forecasters say the fires may grow rapidly, and parts of Colorado have been ordered to evacuate.The flag-draped body of one of the three wildland firefighters who died Saturday while battling a blaze was moved from a medevac helicopter to a
Forecasters warned that temperatures could break records in some areas. The heat is expected to last into the Fourth of July holiday weekend.Pedestrians on the Brooklyn Bridge during a heat wave in 2024. New York City, Philadelphia and Washington are likely to have days above 100 degrees this week,
As partisan tensions swirl around festivities in Washington, red and blue states alike are leaning into complex history — and their own stories.
While prices are up overall, there’s a surprising pattern depending on your destination.
The annual celebration on Sunday took place in a city where many in the L.G.B.T.Q. community are optimistic about their local leaders but face challenges from the Trump administration.
In an era of electronic timepieces, he marketed $40,000 handmade watches as status symbols, breathing new life into a struggling industry.Philippe Stern in 1992. He was the third generation of his family to run the luxury watchmaker Patek Philippe and helped the Swiss watch industry survive the “qua
The people who want to visit can’t function without the people who have to live there.
When speaking up actually means risking something, for once, it is more necessary than ever.
Mr. Maher, a frequent critic of President Trump, is receiving a top comedy award at the institution that once bore the president’s name.Bill Maher at the Kennedy Center on Sunday. He has recently likened President Trump to an emperor, mocked his approval ratings, and said the president has done “thi
