Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is taking on a problem that the Pentagon and Congress have tried, and mostly failed, to address for years.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is attempting to take on the shortcomings in the Pentagon’s weapons procurement systems while pushing for a $1.5 trillion budget.
President Trump said he had postponed a “very major attack” against Iran, as Pakistan continued its mediation efforts to end the war.President Trump said the U.S. military was prepared for a “full, large scale assault” against Iran.
Videos show birds, turtles and crabs trapped inside mounds of tar around Shidvar island, a protected wildlife sanctuary with turquoise waters and white sand beaches.A video verified by The Times shows oil coating the shoreline of Shidvar Island as smoke rises from the Lavan refinery, seen in the dis
Plus, a North Korean soccer team hits the road.President Trump, two of his sons and his family business had argued in the case that the Internal Revenue Service should have done more to prevent a former contractor from leaking tax information.
Traveling across the country, justices defend the role of the court even as strained relations among its members emerge in writing and remarks.Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Supreme Court talks with Judge Richard Gergel of the U.S. District Court in South Carolina during a fireside chat hosted
Brian Morrissey, the department’s general counsel, stepped down hours after the Trump administration announced the $1.8 billion fund.The Treasury Department’s general counsel, Brian Morrissey, resigned on Monday, three people familiar with the move said.
San Diego police arrived to find three people dead. Nearby, they found two teenagers, the attackers, dead in a car. The violence shattered an idyllic Southern California city.Police officers raced around San Diego before converging at the mosque.
Three men were killed in the attack at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Two teenage suspects were found dead in a car nearby, police said.Families escorting their children from the Islamic Center in San Diego, after a deadly shooting on Monday.
While President Trump remains overwhelmingly popular within the Republican coalition, a New York Times/Siena poll found, a sizable share wants the party’s next nominee to take a different approach.
The Republican primary in Representative Thomas Massie’s district has drawn vast spending, but it is just one of several contests on Tuesday that will test the power of big money.
Steven Rosenbaum, author of “The Future of Truth,” said he had started his own investigation after The New York Times asked about the fake quotes.OpenAI’s ChatGPT on a laptop. The rise of A.I. has set off fears among publishers that they may accidentally release books from authors who improperly use
On the website Blind, professionals share advice — and gallows humor — anonymously. It is chronicling the curdling of tech optimism.Sunguk Moon, a founder and the chief executive of Blind, said sentiment on the site “went from personal career planning to mass anxiety.”
A jury’s rejection of Elon Musk’s $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI was a major hurdle crossed. But the maker of ChatGPT faces a list of other problems.Lawyers for OpenAI, who won a resounding victory on Monday, outside the federal courthouse in Oakland, Calif.
With the upheaval in the Persian Gulf disrupting oil and gas supplies, Russia is looking to deepen its energy ties to China.A photo released by Russian state media shows Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing, last year.
After invading more than four years ago, Moscow has usually been the one causing ecological disaster. But Kyiv’s strikes, intended to cut into the Kremlin’s oil revenue, have flipped the script.A satellite image from the aerial mapping company Vantor of a Russian oil facility in Tuapse, Russia, afte
Health officials reported more than 130 suspected deaths and 513 cases, a sharp rise since the outbreak was first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.A visitor has their temperature checked before entering Kyeshero Hospital in Goma on Monday.
An American doctor working with a Christian missionary organization in the Democratic Republic of Congo was exposed to the deadly virus while treating patients, the organization said.People wait near an ambulance at a hospital in Bunia, Congo on Sunday.
More than 130 deaths and over 500 cases are suspected. The United States restricted entry for people who have been to three African countries after a global health emergency was declared.Outside a hospital in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sunday.
Transit officials and unions representing Long Island Rail Road employees agreed to a new contract on Monday, ending a three-day strike. But service remained limited on Tuesday morning.Long Island Rail Road service was suspended on Tuesday morning, even after a deal was reached to end a strike by ra
A San Francisco biotech start-up races sex cells on tiny tracks. Can an internet joke become a serious business?
Is there anything Democrats can do to break free of a deeply polarized political system in which parties are constantly winning and then losing office?
We look at where the parties stand leading up to the midterms.Representative Thomas Massie campaigning in Kentucky last week.
“He was gone for a couple of days in China. We were scared,” Stewart said of President Trump on Monday’s “The Daily Show.” “But now he’s home, and I’m sure he brought us all the goodies.”
NextEra’s proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy comes as Americans are paying a lot more for electricity, and data centers are demanding a lot more power from utilities.NextEra Energy’s acquisition of Dominion Energy would consolidate utility operations along much of the East Coast, which could sh
