Over the past two decades, Iran repeatedly threatened to close down the waterway. President Trump underestimated Iran’s ability to do so.Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz has become a huge source of leverage in negotiations with President Trump.
Plus, how Marcia Lucas was “the heart” behind “Star Wars.”Bill Pulte, a Trump loyalist who leads the federal housing finance agency, will oversee the U.S. intelligence agencies.
The president’s pick for governor of Iowa lost his primary, while Democrats in the state chose their nominee in what they hope will be a competitive Senate race.Representative Randy Feenstra, a Republican, lost his primary bid for governor of Iowa despite a late endorsement from President Trump.
Without a dominant candidate in the governor’s race, Democratic voters ultimately wanted to ensure that their party wasn’t shut out of the general election.Kevin Stull, right, fills out a ballot as barber Bryan Diaz waits to give a haircut at Ana’s Hair Salon on Election Day in the Mission District
Trump administration officials said they planned to impose levies of up to 12.5 percent on countries that failed to crack down on goods made with forced labor.Cotton being loaded in Xinjiang, China, in 2021.
Mr. Pulte has had difficulty boosting the housing market as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Now he will also serve as acting intelligence director.Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, had some early success in bringing down mortgage rates, but housing prices ha
The acting attorney general said the administration was preserving a broad order protecting the president and his family from audits of already filed returns, despite dropping a $1.8 billion payout fund.
The acting attorney general told lawmakers that he would leave in place an order forcing the I.R.S. to drop investigations into President Trump, his family and his businesses.Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, made clear to a House committee on Tuesday that the fund proposal would be permane
Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in October.
Prime tickets on the floor for the N.B.A. Finals are coveted and very hard to get. The No. 1 requirement: You must love the Knicks.Timothée Chalamet, Kylie Jenner and Ben Stiller are courtside regulars at Knicks games.
The decision came on Wednesday as the Knicks prepared for Game 1 of their series against the Spurs for the N.B.A. title.New York City had canceled watch parties outside Madison Square Garden after multiple arrests during playoff celebrations.
In her first public comments on the firing, Ms. Weiss, the CBS News editor in chief, said that the longtime correspondent had “broken” the trust in the newsroom.“Despite our attempts to engage with Scott Pelley and to find a way back, unfortunately we weren’t able to do so, and so we had to part way
Mr. Pelley, a former “CBS Evening News” anchor, was ousted after months of tensions between staff and Bari Weiss, the network’s editor in chief.Scott Pelley was fired a day after a tense meeting where he accused the CBS editor in chief, Bari Weiss, of “murdering ‘60 Minutes.’”
A chronic lack of investment in development of better tests has left clinicians blind and allows deadly viruses to spread unchecked.Health workers suiting up in Mongbwalu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Without sufficient testing, people with symptoms that could be Ebola are often isolated tog
The arts school and camp is still contending with the fallout from its former ties to Mr. Epstein, an alumnus and donor accused of preying on two girls he met there.
Here is what we know about the sexual predator whose secrets spurred an international reckoning over money, power and complicity. Check back for updates.
Black-crowned night herons could go the way of the passenger pigeon, vanishing from the city. Why remains a mystery.They’re big, and they’re friendly (mostly). But black-crowned night herons and their chicks, pictured above, face perilous times.
The artist shares stories behind some of her biggest hits, her love of a “rant bridge” and how life in the public eye informs the stories she tells in her songs.
Lincoln would know how to deal with these Republicans.
A case for mourning the American dream.
We look at the state of the Iran war three months on.In the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.
“Oh, I’m sorry, is wrapping up the war you started not interesting enough?” Michael Kosta said on Tuesday, after the president called negotiations with Iran “boring.”
The authorities had been negotiating with a man inside an office building in Bakersfield, Calif., that included a Chase Bank branch. It was unclear how many people he held hostage.Police vehicles on Tuesday at the Chase Bank where a man barricaded himself in Bakersfield, Calif.
