The country’s longest war came to an end exactly five years ago. Today it offers lessons for policymakers seeking to avoid an endless war in Iran.A U.S. military helicopter over Kabul, Afghanistan, in May 2021.
Only a fraction of the over 2,500 missing are turning up among the dead, underscoring a bleak reality: The death toll is likely to keep rising for days to come.Officers at a mass burial of unidentified victims in the Devghat forest area of Bharatpur, Nepal, on Sunday. The downstream city has receive
A massive landslide and glacial collapse may have caused catastrophic flooding even without heavy rainfall. More than 3,000 people remained missing.Houses damaged and partially submerged in thick mud and debris from the flood, in Devighat, Nepal, on Friday.
For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district. Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department.Judge Reed O’Connor in 2018. He has built a reputation as a conservative stalwart and became the chief judge of the Northern District of Texas las
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.A plane carrying deportees from the United States at the international airport outside of Monrovia, th
A judge temporarily blocked the agency from implementing a strict new rule governing mail voting. The policy could disproportionately affect Democrats and many battleground elections.Stacked ballots in a processing center in City of Industry, Calif.
Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has emerged as a vocal defender of transgender rights as he tries to fend off a primary challenge from Representative Seth Moulton.“Trans athletes should be able to play,” Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts said in an interview this past week with The New York Time
The closure of a crucial Rhode Island bridge for safety reasons in 2023, and the traffic nightmare that followed, have dogged Gov. Dan McKee in the Democratic primary.Gov. Dan McKee, a Democrat seeking a second term in Rhode Island, is facing a close and heated primary showdown against Helena Foulke
Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.
With “The Disappearers,” the Booker Prize-winning author has written his most personal novel yet.“I don’t go to novels to be safe,” Marlon James said. “I go to novels to be titillated, to be scared, to be educated, to be frightened — honestly, to be appalled.”
A New York Times analysis shows that the pace of office-to-residential conversions like the former Pfizer building, where two steel columns buckled in July, has quickened sharply.
The players, the rivalries and the dramas to follow at this year’s tournament.
At least 62 people were evacuated on Saturday after flooding destroyed nearly all the footbridges across Bright Angel Creek in Arizona and cut off hikers’ access, the National Park Service said.The Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch areas of the Grand Canyon National Park were damaged in flas
Many people think Greg Chism is a freak — or worse. He says he was just following the incentives of the platform.
For many Americans, Ms. Parton represented an idealized style of faith: one centered in small rural congregations that prize community over ideology.The Robert F Thomas Chapel at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge Tennessee on Wednesday.
Dolly Parton met Carl Dean outside a Nashville laundromat in 1964. For decades, she was as protective of her marriage as he was fiercely private.
Like any life, mine has had its pain, yet from the outset it seems to have been graced by unbelievable people and events. An anthology of miracles.
Josh Shapiro announced two measles deaths. Things went downhill fast.
Local authorities said 267 people were aboard the catamaran-type vessel when it began taking on water shortly after its departure from Kyrenia.Passengers arrived on shore in northern Cyprus after being rescued when their ferry capsized off the coast of Kyrenia on Sunday.
