Investors now expect that the Fed will delay a rate cut until September instead of July, as they had before the war in Iran began.Economists expect energy-related price pressures to push inflation up to some degree in the coming months.
His father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had turned what was traditionally a religious affairs office into a shadowy national security juggernaut.Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran in 2019.
Iran has accused the United States of bombing a desalination plant on Qeshm Island. The country was already facing a severe water shortage.An enormous sinkhole and land subsidence in Khuzestan, southwestern Iran, in 2021.
The Trump administration, which said it is investigating harassment, sued the University of Pennsylvania after it refused a request to provide information about Jewish students and staff.The University of Pennsylvania campus. The school has been fighting a request that it hand over contact informati
A new legal filing accused Mr. Martin, a senior Justice Department official, of an unethical pressure campaign against Georgetown University.Ed Martin has overseen the efforts by President Trump to use the Justice Department to punish the president’s perceived enemies.
The secretary of health and human services, known for his Make America Healthy Again campaign, is expected to be back at work on Monday.Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is undergoing rotator cuff surgery on Tuesday.
It’s Primary Day in Mississippi, where a younger Democrat is trying to oust a House veteran, and in Georgia, where Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former seat is up for grabs.Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, is defending his seat against Evan Turnage.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the D.N.C. sought to compel the government to say whether it plans to deploy armed federal officers in this year’s elections.Voters at a polling site last week in Rockingham County, N.C.
The verdict comes more than a month after the trial began in Federal District Court in Manhattan where the jury heard weeks of emotional and often graphic testimony.Prosecutors say the Alexander brothers operated a sex trafficking conspiracy for nearly 20 years. Their trial ended on Monday, when the
The Bay Area Rapid Transit system was once so successful, it could rely mostly on riders to sustain itself. But the pandemic dealt BART an unusually heavy blow.BART directors say that Bay Area residents can rescue the system by passing a new sales tax in November.
Two companies have withdrawn from a series of dinners in Los Angeles after The Times reported allegations that René Redzepi attacked workers.René Redzepi, pictured here at a 2017 Noma pop-up in Tulum, Mexico, has been accused of physical and psychological abuse by dozens of former employees.
Dozens of former employees say René Redzepi inflicted physical and psychological violence on the staff for years.Noma, in Copenhagen, has become one of the world’s most famous restaurants under its chef, René Redzepi. Former workers have come forward to say that its reputation was built on abusive w
In Nigeria, customs officers and conservationists are confronting the grim impacts of the $20 billion trade.Imelda Effiong taking care of Bili, a gorilla, at Pandrillus’s wildlife-rehabilitation center in Calabar, Nigeria, in April 2025. Bili was rescued from traffickers by the Nigeria Custom Servic
At 67, the actress is still reinventing herself, with two new TV shows, “The Madison” and “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” and an evolving attitude about her work.
Mounting evidence shows that excessive computer use can harm children, so parents are cutting back at home. Now, the debate has shifted to the classroom.Some families are reining in their children’s screen time at home only to find it expanding at school.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been spare in his remarks following the attempted bombing at Gracie Mansion and arrests of two men who said they were motivated by ISIS.Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been somewhat reserved in his comments following an attack outside Gracie Mansion, issuing two short statements an
A high school senior and a recent graduate, both from the Philadelphia suburbs, were charged by federal prosecutors with trying to support a terrorist group.Emir Balat, 18, was arrested outside Gracie Mansion, the New York City mayor’s residence, on Saturday. He is accused of throwing a homemade bom
Yuval Sharon’s debut production featured an astonishing performance by the soprano Lise Davidsen. It is the event of the season.Michael Spyres, left, and Lise Davidsen in the tunnel as the title lovers in “Tristan und Isolde” at the Metropolitan Opera.
Nadia Schadlow, a deputy national security adviser during Trump’s first term, explains how the U.S.-Israel war with Iran fits in with an “America first” agenda.
Only when the U.S.-Israeli bombing of Iran comes to a halt, without destroying the state, can the Iranian people sort out their fate.
We look at the conflict’s global economic impact.In Oman yesterday.
If you are saving money and have a plan for the future, we want to hear how it’s going and any advice you have for others.
After the Justice Department reached a settlement with the concert giant, the judge overseeing the trial asked the states and the company to do the same.The Justice Department, joined by 39 states and the District of Columbia, sued Live Nation in May 2024, arguing that the company was a monopoly tha
Ms. Stockwell, who recently left The Washington Post, is the third person named to the job in the past three years.
