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
Iranian officials did not confirm most of Mr. Trump’s claims and disputed several of them.President Trump during an event in Las Vegas on Thursday.
The S&P 500’s rise on Friday caps a striking three-week streak, powered by investors’ optimism about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and strong corporate earnings.
Also, a college with a cookie house. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.An oil tanker sailing through the Strait of Hormuz today.
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
A three-judge panel gave a group of 17 transgender women a few weeks to seek further recourse in court before their transfer to men’s facilities could take effect.The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House, which houses the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained for weeks by the Trump administration after co-writing a pro-Palestinian opinion essay, has graduated and returned home.Rumeysa Ozturk was taken to an immigration facility in Louisiana. She sued and was released after six weeks in detention.
The contract for five planes doubles the Department of Homeland Security’s fleet of jets to expel immigrants, and includes two Gulfstream planes, according to documents and interviews.Deportees boarding a chartered plane at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport in February.
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
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.
The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters.
In 1984, Jay McInerney was a famous, young, hedonistic novelist. Now 71, he is wistful as he wraps up his tetralogy about a couple whose city, and marriage, are tested by the pandemic.Jay McInerney, author of “See You on the Other Side,” at The Odeon restaurant in Tribeca.
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 era of “Girls” is long gone, but its creator still has much to teach us.
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.
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
Producers and the cultural authorities hope that technology can overcome a language barrier and take the country’s shows to the world.
The Silicon Valley chip maker filed a prospectus just as SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI prepared for their own listings, in what is shaping up to be a wave of enormous initial public offerings.Cerebras makes specialized computer chips for building artificial intelligence technologies and delivering th
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 recently.
The deal would provide pay raises and maintain free health insurance for about 34,000 apartment building workers.The union representing apartment building workers had been negotiating a contract with the owners of about 3,500 buildings.
As state leaders determine how much owners of high-priced second homes in New York City may have to pay, they are also wrestling with opaque L.L.C.-ownership issues.Gov. Kathy Hochul is discussing a potential surcharge tax on second homes that would kick in on properties worth at least $5 million, w
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.
