Under pressure from President Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel held off from attacking Beirut. But he vowed to continue Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah, which could threaten peace talks with Iran.
Doctors nationwide are encountering more children with whooping cough, bacterial infections and other serious illnesses, as well as more adults refusing tetanus shots.
Plus, the rocky, unpredictable race for California governor.A water crisis is spreading across the American West after one of its hottest, driest winters ever.
An Israeli campaign that started with high hopes has devolved into a kind of impasse, with Hezbollah looking more capable than it did when the war began.People fleeing the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday after Israel threatened to attack targets there.
President Trump told CNBC that he “couldn’t care less” if the negotiations with Iran break down.President Trump at the White House in Washington in May.
The U.N. panel met after Israel had threatened to attack southern Beirut. President Trump said later that Israel and Hezbollah had agreed not to attack each other.Fleeing the southern suburbs of Beirut, a family sheltered on the roadside Monday amid growing traffic, after Israel warned the area woul
The fund has drawn backlash from critics who said it was a scheme to reward President Trump’s political allies with public benefits.Beyond the legal challenges, President Trump has also faced increasing pressure from both parties on Capitol Hill to torpedo the fund.
The race to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom has been unpredictable for months, while Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles is trying to fend off two challengers.Election workers sort ballots at Contra Costa County’s election operations facility in Martinez, Calif.
Democrats have a competitive Senate primary race in Iowa, where the party is hoping to make gains, while a smokejumper is running in a contested House primary in Montana.Iowa is holding contests to succeed two retiring Republicans — Senator Joni Ernst and Gov. Kim Reynolds — and Democrats see each r
A super PAC created to counter spending from powerful pro-Israel groups will try to help Democrats critical of Israel’s wars and military actions.American Priorities intends to spend $2 million to help three House candidates in New York. From left to right: Claire Valdez, Brad Lander and Darializa A
In Chicago, the $850 million Obama Presidential Center aims to remake a neighborhood with a 19.3-acre community hub and a brooding 225-foot museum.
Moscow’s repeated warnings of a major strike, combined with the delay before it happened, seemed intended to inflict a psychological toll on the Ukrainian capital.The aftermath of a Russian strike on a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, on Tuesday.
A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline.OpenAI is just one of the artificial intelligence firms that has begun training its models in higher mathematics.
The request for sanctions, from Colombia’s defense minister, shows failures at both ends of the supply chain for illegal gold.Pedro Sánchez, center, Colombia’s defense minister, visiting an illegal mining operation in and around a military base last month.
As New York City faces slowing job growth and broader economic concerns, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has not offered a detailed plan to create jobs.New York City has added jobs this year, though it lost 3,100 private-sector jobs in March, the most recent month for which data is available.
The city is moving forward with a redesign of 34th Street in Manhattan that the White House halted last year after threatening to withhold federal funding for other transit priorities.Buses on 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan move at about five miles per hour.
President Trump has argued that the United States is “stupid” for granting citizenship at birth. Most countries don’t do so, but that can create problems.Mariam Sobayo was born in Dublin in February 2005, a few weeks after the country halted its longstanding practice of granting citizenship to all c
Gen Z might be using the abbreviation for “point of view” incorrectly. But linguists think it’s exciting.
The political risk analyst Ian Bremmer argues that the greatest driver of risk in the world right now is President Trump.
We discuss the epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo.In Congo.
“Instead of music, the entertainment will be an 80-year-old man yelling about windmills,” Jimmy Kimmel said after President Trump said he would headline a summer concert series.
The Bundibugyo virus, a little known type, previously had caused just two small outbreaks. Now it’s at the center of a rapidly widening epidemic in Africa.Health workers disinfected a coffin containing the body of a man presumed have died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
