As renewed fighting with Iran sends oil and gas prices soaring, President Trump has imposed new global tariffs that could push up prices further.A gas station on the Massachusetts Turnpike near Boston. The national average price for a gallon of gas topped $4 this week, according to AAA.
The president has unveiled a complicated system to forge ahead with his trade war, after the Supreme Court struck down his original levies.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond has risen steadily this year, as the Iran war rages, government spending worries intensify and artificial intelligence spending boosts growth.Scott Bessent, the U.S. Treasury secretary, has previously pointed to the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond as a “baro
Despite threats from President Trump, the overall average weighted tariff on Chinese goods remained about the same, and is now lower than countries like Brazil and Canada.The tariffs imposed on China are part of Mr. Trump’s broader effort to transform global trade.
Plus, the Friday news quiz.President Trump has unveiled a complicated system to forge ahead with his trade war, after the Supreme Court stuck down his original tariffs.
Devastated by cycles of violence and economic crisis, many are giving up on work and their futures as the United States batters Iran again.Street vendors beneath a billboard of the former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran last week.
Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton was killed in recent days, one of 18 U.S. soldiers who have lost their lives since the beginning of the war in Iran.
Three military officials and a Pentagon spokesman gave conflicting explanations for why the number of Americans killed in the Iran war had changed.The remains of U.S. Army First Lt. Tyler James Feehan, who was killed in Jordan, in a dignified transfer this week.
The Trump administration has sent mixed messages on vaccinations against measles as cases have continued to climb.A patient with measles symptoms was assessed in South Carolina, where an outbreak sickened nearly 1,000 people in 2025 and 2026.
The agency is considering whether compounding pharmacies should be allowed to produce BPC-157, TB-500 and other previously banned peptides.
Advances in A.I. are making it possible to create all kinds of music from scratch, but they also raise questions about what is legal and who will actually listen.
A French government delegation will travel to its southern neighbor to learn how it copes with long spells of hot weather.Trying to stay cool in Paris during a heat wave last month.
The president initially backed a little-known congressman. Then he talked to Gov. Henry McMaster and Ms. Graham herself.Mr. Trump’s support for Darline Graham, the sister of the late senator Lindsey Graham but a political unknown, is a gamble as Republicans and Democrats battle for control of the Ho
Top officials overseeing state elections and law enforcement are stepping up plans to prepare for what they worry could be interference in the midterms.Democratic attorneys general and secretaries of state, who oversee law enforcement and elections in their states, are aiming to work more diligently
Beijing banned shipments of important supplies to 14 companies on the cutting edge of chemicals processing, electric motors and defense.China imposed tariffs on Rheinmetall, Germany’s largest defense contractor, as part of its retaliation over Europe’s measures against Chinese companies accused of h
Europeans say they fear a rising dependence on American energy even with a Jan. 1 deadline to end liquefied natural gas imports from Russia.A port for liquefied natural gas tankers in Tuscany, Italy.
In very different films, the director’s penchant for playing with time is in service to a larger concern about human bonds across eras.
There’s a difference between ordinary influence peddling and the first family’s outright self-enrichment.
In a recent study, scientists devised a way of reversing the buildup of compounds that lead to some age-related diseases.
Here’s what happened when some teenage girls dared to compete in the dangerous sport of “kok-boru.”From left, Begimai Bakirova and her teammates Aisuluu Birimkulova, 17, and Shoola Kenenbaeva, 16, laughing after a game.
The Amaurys of Paris own the race, but won’t share any of the $170 million in media revenue. Sponsors and riders say their resistance is dooming the sport.The Tour de France, a spectacle of sport and commercialism since 1903, resists change.
Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.
I’m not the target audience for online content about frontier chores and child-rearing. But if I’m honest, domestic rituals help to keep me sane.
Yesterday was a big day for mathematics. We look at the winners of the Fields Medals.
