An American delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance, was meeting with Iranian negotiators. The conflict in Lebanon is complicating efforts to reach a broader peace and keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
Neither the war nor the agreement terminated the main threats emanating from Iran, many analysts said.A painting of Iran’s first two supreme leaders in Tehran this month. The second, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed at the start of the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran this year.
A member of the Lebanese army surveying damage in Nabatieh, Lebanon, on Sunday.
The possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz may not prompt China to return quickly to prewar levels of oil purchases from the Persian Gulf.An oil refinery in Nanjing, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province, last month. Chinese companies kept their refineries running throughout the war.
Federal prosecutors had been examining the circumstances behind the commutation of David Gentile’s sentence. He was aided by a Catholic priest friendly with the president.David Gentile, a private equity executive who was convicted in a $1.6 billion fraud scheme, was released from a New York prison d
In a battle of symbols, the Catholics of Las Cruces, N.M., argue that religious freedom should stop the wall from scarring a mountain that has attracted pilgrims for nearly a century.
The pool has taken on clouds of algae after a hasty renovation. A three-time Olympian was charged with destroying government property after he says he touched one of the strands of blue paint peeling off the pool’s bottom.Workers attempt to clean algae bloom from the newly renovated reflecting pool
The strength of the mayor’s political brand will be tested on Tuesday, when his slate of leftist congressional candidates takes aim at Democratic incumbents.Mayor Zohran Mamdani has backed Claire Valdez, left, Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier in primary races on Tuesday.
Democrats say the president started an economically painful war that resulted in nothing positive. Republicans are more divided, even as they show some signs of relief at falling gas prices.President Trump has contended that the war remade the Middle East in America’s favor and protected Israel from
A possible referendum in Oregon on animal rights would end fishing, hunting, even pest control, just when Democrats are trying really hard not to be seen as “weirdos again.”David Michelson, the organizer of the People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions, wants “a system where we’re not
An ally of Keir Starmer’s told the BBC on Sunday that Mr. Starmer was “taking the time to think through what the political realities are today compared to last week.”Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, second from right, on Friday in London.
Lovers’ quarrels on sidewalks, acts of kindness on public transportation, friendships forged under awnings in the rain and so much more of the city’s daily poetry.Metropolitan Diary, a column featuring readers’ stories, began appearing in November, 1976.
Some notable friends of Metropolitan Diary, including the actors Andrew Rannells and Tony Danza, share their stories in the first of a special series of columns marking the feature’s 50th anniversary.
A landscaper’s difficult life and lonely death reveal the human cost behind the Hamptons’ manicured landscape.Landscaper Gilberto Camey walks out of the woods on his way to a day job, retracing the route his brother took before he was found dead after a winter storm.
The Trump administration is the nation’s chief threat to the rule of law.
Becoming a father taught Zach Ellams how to overcome shame.
We catch up with The Times’s restaurant critics.Tejal Rao and Ligaya Mishan.
As the anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn approaches, relatives of the two men still grapple with the legacy of a contentious moment in U.S. history.
