Overnight and into Friday, Iran reported U.S. strikes on infrastructure that can serve civilian purposes and has targeted similar sites in Gulf countries that host American bases. In the afternoon, the U.S. military announced a new round of attacks on Iran.Tehran in early July.
Most G.O.P. lawmakers had little to say about the president’s claims of election vulnerabilities, and he did not appear to move the needle on the voting restriction bill he championed.President Trump, seen on a screen during his speech at the White House on Thursday. Mr. Trump has made baseless asse
Chinese officials appear to think that President Trump’s accusations that China interfered in the 2020 U.S. elections were driven by domestic politics, not foreign policy.Xi Jinping and President Trump participated in events at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in May.
Also, U.S. start-up activity is booming. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.An image from social media shows bridges reduced to rubble in southern Iran.
Like his predecessors, President Trump has struggled to turn battlefield successes into long-term victories.“We’re going to knock out all their power plants,” President Trump told Fox News this week. “We’re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.”
Shipping traffic was at its lowest level in more than a month and oil prices moved higher as the Iran war continued to disrupt the supply of energy.
China’s Moonshot AI unveiled a freely available artificial intelligence model that seemed to narrow the gap with cutting-edge offerings from U.S. tech companies.The Moonshot AI booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference on Friday in Shanghai. The company’s Kimi K3 model performed as well
Investors are growing uneasy about increasing competition from China in the global race to dominate artificial intelligence.
A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business for Meta.A data center owned by Meta in Georgia. A deal with Anthropic could potentially alleviate pressure on Meta from investors, who have questioned how much it has been s
The president said on Friday in a social media post that Canada was failing to manage its wildfire response as smoke has blanketed U.S. cities including New York and Chicago.President Trump departing Joint Base Andrews, en route to New York, on Friday.
The state told thousands of people to be ready to evacuate.
The interplay between the burning fires, the smoke itself and quickly changing weather patterns is making the next few days more uncertain than usual.Wildfire smoke hung over pickleball players in Manhattan on Thursday. While the smoke decreased in the city early Friday, it could return later as wea
Satellite imagery shows the wide footprint of the smoke across the continent.
The Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage estimate they’ve removed 6,000 pounds of refuse from ponds on Cape Cod. “There’s no better feeling,” one said.
The California company grows produce in more than 12 states, and in Mexico and Canada. Taco Bell and food distributor Sysco have pulled Taylor Farms lettuce from supply chains.
The F.D.A. is planning to inspect farms and a lettuce shredding facility to determine how lettuce supplied by the produce company Taylor Farms to Taco Bell became contaminated and where it was shipped.The Food and Drug Administration’s investigation is focusing on the source of the contamination by
Federal health officials have linked a large cyclosporiasis outbreak to shredded lettuce served at Taco Bell. Is lettuce from grocery stores and restaurants OK?
The Boisas went out on the San Francisco Bay to spread the ashes of one of their own. Then a wave toppled their boat.Alcatraz Island a day after a boat named Volare capsized in rough seas near the island.
Among those connected to companies that worked on 235 East 42nd Street were a man who once bribed city officials and a developer who gave a loan to Bernard Kerik.Two columns inside a Midtown high-rise construction project buckled last week, sowing panic and causing evacuations around the East 42nd S
Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez’s withdrawal scrambled the race in Wisconsin.
A coalition backed by the Google co-founder Sergey Brin and wealthy tech investors is trying to neutralize a proposed one-time tax on the state’s richest residents.A campaign event for a proposed billionaire tax in Los Angeles in February.
Senator Darline Graham had been seen as a caretaker for her brother’s seat after his sudden death. Now she has the president’s nod in what was shaping up to be a crowded fight to succeed Lindsey Graham.Darline Graham, left, was sworn in on Tuesday at the Capitol.
The fund-raising race is tighter than it seems.Supporters of Ken Paxton last month at the 2026 Republican Party of Texas convention in Houston. Mr. Paxton, the party’s nominee for Senate, has been drastically out-raised by his Democratic rival, James Talarico.
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