Why Jordan Is Becoming a New Focus in the U.S.-Iran War

Four Iranian attacks in five days have targeted U.S. troops in Jordan, U.S. officials said, including one on Friday that killed two soldiers and left another service member missing.American and Jordanian forces took part in multinational military exercises hosted by Jordan in 2022.

G Greg Jaffe, Julian E. Barnes and Jonathan Swan

U.S. Strikes Leave Iranians Isolated and Scared

Overnight strikes damaged a tunnel and three bridges in Hormozgan Province, the governor’s office said.The Persian Gulf off the coast of Bandar Abbas, an Iranian port city in the south of the country, in May. Residents said roads around the city were heavily damaged by U.S. airstrikes this week.

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Without Platner, Maine Democrats Scramble to Keep Grassroots Energy Alive

Graham Platner’s campaign for Senate imploded last week. The activists who backed him are seeking a candidate to carry his populist message in the race against Republican Susan Collins.“Our movement was not solely about Graham, even though he brought us together,” said Ryan Warren, a former voluntee

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A Very British CPAC: Few, if Any, Costumes and Not Much Trump

London hosted an understated version of the Conservative Political Action Conference, known in the United States for its over-the-top celebration of MAGA causes.Matt Schlapp, chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference, and the former prime minister Liz Truss onstage at CPAC’s London co

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As Trump Scraps With Meloni, His Envoy to Italy Is at Sea

Tilman J. Fertitta, the U.S. ambassador to Rome, is summering on his superyacht as President Trump squabbles with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy.Tilman Fertitta aboard his yacht, Boardwalk, on the Fourth of July.

M Motoko Rich and Gianni Cipriano

Iqaluit, Canada’s Most Northern City, Gets Its First Bus Line

Jacinto Marques left Angola for Canada’s frozen edge. Now he’s running a bus service in Iqaluit, the largest, and only city in Canada’s Arctic.Looking out the window of an Iqaluit Transit bus during its route through the city.

N Norimitsu Onishi and Renaud Philippe

Wildfires Continue To Burn in Ontario, Canada, Sending Smoke to U.S. Cities

Nearly 200 fires continued to devastate swaths of the province as smoke continued to drift across parts of Canada and the United States.Premier Doug Ford of Ontario after a news conference in Thunder Bay on Saturday. Roughly 1.7 million acres have burned in Ontario, data from the Canadian Interagenc

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What the US and Canada Can Expect from the Wildfire Smoke This Weekend

The smoke isn’t going away, but where it affects air quality will shift over the next few days. Conditions were improving Saturday for parts of the Northeast, a forecaster said.Smoke blanketed the Lake Michigan overlook at Chicago’s Navy Pier on Thursday, as wildfire smoke enveloped the Midwest and

J Judson Jones and Amy Graff