Israel Thought It Could Spur Rebellion Inside Iran. That Hasn’t Happened.

President Trump’s hopes that an Israeli plan to ignite an internal uprising against Iran’s theocratic government could bring the war to a swift end have so far been dashed.The aftermath of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in Tehran on Saturday. Three weeks into the war, American and Israeli intelligence asse

M Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong and Ronen Bergman

Gas Prices Have Risen More Than 30% in Some States in Weeks Since Iran War Began

Across the South and Southwest, where price hikes have been the most severe, drivers have lamented how the increased costs have cut into their budgets.In states like Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico, where the price spikes have been the steepest, motorists say the cost of gas has begun to sting.

C Chris Hippensteel and Steven Rich

ICE to Help TSA at Airports Amid Partial Shutdown, Trump’s Border Czar Says

Tom Homan, President Trump’s chief border official, cast the operation largely as one to help ease long security lines that have been frustrating passengers at U.S. airports.Security lines at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Sunday. Tom Homan, the White House border czar, sai

E Erica L. Green and Gabe Castro-Root

The Supreme Court Could Make it Harder to Vote by Mail in the Midterms

The Republican National Committee wants to toss ballots arriving after Election Day. Critics say thousands of votes — a majority cast by Democrats — are at stake.The Supreme Court in Washington. Watson v. Republican National Committee will be the subject of oral arguments on Monday.

N Nick Corasaniti

For ‘Buffy’ Fans, Nicholas Brendon’s Xander Was a Complicated Everyman

The actor, who died on Friday, was a fan favorite on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” even as his character mixed quiet heroism with hostility toward the show’s women.Nicholas Brendon, bottom left, as Xander Harris in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” His castmates included Alyson Hannigan, top left, Charisma

D Derrick Bryson Taylor

Anti-Muslim Comments by G.O.P. Congressman Reflect a Rising Trend

On Capitol Hill and in Nashville, comments by Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee have sown division and underscored a growing tolerance on the right for Islamophobia.Representative Andy Ogles, who has made a series of Islamophobic comments, represents a sizable Muslim population in a Nashville-a

A Annie Karni and Emily Cochrane

Meteorite Crashes Through Roof of House Near Houston

No one was injured, but a woman was startled on Saturday when a meteorite pierced the roof of her home, ricocheted off the floor and struck a bedroom ceiling.Chief Fred C. Windisch of the Ponderosa Fire Department in Harris County, Texas, shared a photo of an apparent meteorite that crashed through

J Johnny Diaz

J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize Winner for Cancer Research, Dies at 90

He helped discover cancer-causing genes. Later, as chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, he led a major expansion.J. Michael Bishop in his lab in 1982. He won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1989 and was the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, f

D Delthia Ricks

Not All Malls Are Struggling

A certain type of shopping mall has become a surprising bright spot for real estate investors.Roosevelt Field, a mall in Uniondale, N.Y., earlier this week.

I Ian Frisch

Attack on a Sudan Hospital Kills Dozens, Head of W.H.O. Says

The group’s director general said 13 children were among those killed in the latest violence in the Darfur region, and he decried the targeting of health care facilities in the civil war.Refugees waiting to be registered at the Oure Cassoni camp in Chad after fleeing the civil war in Sudan, in Febru

L Lynsey Chutel