The war with Iran revealed just how much influence the world’s biggest oil importer has over prices and other countries’ supplies of jet fuel, gasoline and diesel.A refinery in Jiujiang, China. Traditionally, oil exporting countries, like Saudi Arabia and the United States, have held the power, not
Many countries blunted the most painful effects of the energy shock from the war in Iran. But prices remain elevated and risks are multiplying.An onion field in Somalia. Spiraling costs for imported energy and fertilizer threaten to reduce harvest yields and drive up food prices across Africa, hitti
Also, Kennedy tells anti-vaccine group they have a friend in the White House. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.Representative María Elvira Salazar on Capitol Hill in May.
Representative María Elvira Salazar, a three-term representative from Miami, won re-election by 20 percentage points in 2024. Her ad suggests worry among some Republicans about their standing with Hispanic voters.Representative María Elvira Salazar, a Florida Republican, released a television ad on
A measure aimed at stemming the tide of corporate money in politics will be on the November ballot. Opponents say it violates a high court ruling.Montana voters will be asked whether to bar businesses, unions and nonprofit groups from donating to political candidates or parties.
Under pressure, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan this week rejected Hasan Piker’s argument that the U.S. has caused more terror than Al Qaeda.Some Democrats have pressured Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to fully disavow Hasan Piker after his comments on terrorism.
Bruce Blakeman is trying to unseat Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, attacking her on the economy, crime and immigration by using Trump-like tactics and A.I.Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, is seeking to become the first Republican governor of New York in 20 years.
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Dallas last week. On Thursday, Mr. Kennedy plunged headlong into the topic of vaccines, in a conference
The selections suggest the Trump administration may be trying to move the United States Preventive Services Task Force in a direction that serves its political ideology.
The face of London in the 1960s is living her best life at the age of 77.“Twiggy: The Woman Behind the Icon,” arrives in America this month.
Images captured through the windows of Air Force One showed President Trump reviewing a poster with the title “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED.”President Trump aboard Air Force One after landing at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Wednesday night.
The federal judge denied a Democratic lawmaker’s request for an emergency hearing on the closure, which began on Tuesday.Matt Floca, the executive director of the Kennedy Center, has said the building has serious maintenance needs, including structural steel corroded by water infiltration.
Clashes between Iranian-backed Houthi fighters and Saudi-backed government forces have been reported near oil-rich Marib Province.A tank in Marib, Yemen, in 2024.
Mistakes that led to the deaths of more than a hundred children “went beyond negligence,” investigators said. They also cited a separate strike the same day that killed a reported 22 civilians.A memorial in Tehran for the victims of an airstrike on an elementary school in Minab.
The conflict underscored the distance between world powers over the United States’ pressure campaign on Iran.Vasily Nebenzya, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, condemned what he called “the destructive path of our Western colleagues” when it came to exerting pressure on Iran.
An escalating confrontation on Native land southwest of Tucson threatens to upend decades of uneasy cooperation between the Tohono O’odham Nation and the United States.“It’s like me bulldozing right through the Arlington Cemetery,” said Verlon Jose, the chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation.
The policy, set to take effect Friday, would give immigration officers broader authority to deny permanent residency to people using public benefits.A parcel at a Boston-area food bank seen in April. The policy is the Trump administration’s latest effort to restrict legal immigration and deter peopl
A former superintendent in Joplin, Mo., is trying to apply what he learned to other shattered districts — and reckoning with the toll of the disaster on his own life.C.J. Huff
Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more effective.
The gene is found predominantly in Southern Appalachia and may be one of the most powerful cancer-risk mutations ever found.Caroline Blanchard, a nurse practitioner in New Orleans, has the lung cancer gene, known as EGFR T790M. One in 15,000 people in the United States have it.
This is what I see when I look at the picture Bo French hates.
A 35-foot fall didn’t kill Michael Wagner. The nearly 18-year failure of the safety net did. Before he died, he recorded 694 videos explaining how.
Alex Gibney’s “Musk” will arrive in United States theaters next month. Universal says it remains committed to releasing it overseas but has yet to set dates.Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk has received strong early reviews.
