Little is known about Pickaxe Mountain, but some experts say it illustrates the impossibility of relying on force alone to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb.A satellite image provided by Vantor shows the tunnel complex at Pickaxe Mountain in Iran last month. Last fall, satellite images reve
The Trump administration made the announcement hours after Iran said that the Strait of Hormuz was open to commercial ships.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday that the U.S. government would not renew the sanctions exemption on Russian oil already at sea.
Separate from the regular Iranian Navy, with boats that often go more than 115 miles per hour, it’s what a retired U.S. official calls a “disruptive force.”An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps speedboat and navy ship in the Persian Gulf, in 2024.
The judge said the two television companies could not combine operations while an antitrust lawsuit proceeded. Nexstar said its deal was already done.A federal judge temporarily blocked Nexstar from combining its operations with the station group Tegna.
Sean Hannity criticized the pope. Tucker Carlson attacked Mr. Hannity. And President Trump suggested ranking MAGA figures: “good, bad, and somewhere in the middle.”President Trump has sharply criticized the pope after his comments about the war in Iran.
He will read a passage from the Old Testament that his Christian supporters cite as a call to national repentance and divine blessing.The authorities dispersed protesters in 2020 so President Trump could have his photo taken with a Bible in front of a Washington church.
His visit includes a trip to a shrine where enslaved Africans were baptized before being forced into the treacherous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.Pope Leo XIV in Cameroon on Thursday. He is scheduled to visit Angola on Saturday as part of his 10-day trip through Africa.
After his election last year, Leo XIV developed a reputation as a mild-mannered mediator. President Trump’s attacks have made him more combative.Pope Leo XIV in Cameroon on Friday. His strident speeches in Africa this week have marked a shift in his rhetoric.
A career Justice Department lawyer, Maria Medetis Long, in Miami is said to have raised concerns about whether the evidence justified moving forward with a bid to prosecute John O. Brennan.John O. Brennan during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Jan. 10, 2017, when he was still C.I.A. direc
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifying before the House Committee on Ways and Means on Thursday.
Friday’s meeting at the White House followed the introduction of Anthropic’s powerful new artificial intelligence model, Mythos, which U.S. officials believe could be critical for security.The Trump administration is seeking to strike a compromise with Anthropic after the Pentagon named the company
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain addressing Parliament in March.
The remarkable catalog of dates is one of the longest-running records of climate change. Its creator died, setting off a search for a successor.Cherry blossoms at Rokkakudo Temple in Kyoto, Japan, recently.
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada on Parliament Hill this week in Ottawa.
Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s commerce secretary, derided Canada’s trade strategy and said a North American deal needed to be reworked.Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Commerce Secretary, in Washington in February.
The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move environmental lawsuits out of state courts, to friendlier federal venues.Wetlands along the Mississippi River as it nears the Gulf of Mexico in southeast Louisiana.
San Diego County is shopping a surplus of desalinated seawater to Western states that are facing increasingly urgent drought and short supplies.A view of San Diego and the Pacific Ocean from Cabrillo National Monument.
A month of efforts to help a stranded humpback escape the Baltic Sea have culminated in a tourist and media spectacle, with no guarantee of success.Off Poel Island in northern Germany on Thursday. A humpback whale has been stranded in the area for almost a month.
The tax expert Ray Madoff explains why the American tax system is broken, and how to make it fairer.
The profit motive was on trial. The verdict was scathing.Bruno Lafont, the former chief executive of Lafarge.
One reported tornado downed trees and damaged cars in Lena, Ill., an official said.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer appears to have been kept in the dark repeatedly over Peter Mandelson, the Jeffrey Epstein associate — fueling an image of weakness.British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Paris on Friday. “That I wasn’t told that Peter Mandelson had failed security vetting when he’s appoi
A blast on Thursday night turned out to be for a video shoot, but it unnerved residents who had lived through a propane plant explosion in 2008.Drake performing in London last year. He posted two images on social media of an explosion that startled residents near Downsview Park in Toronto.
