The development comes as the U.S. military is drawing up options for President Trump to consider, including possible strikes inside the country.Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, in Caracas last month. American officials have been clear, privately, that the Trump administration aims t
Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.
There is little information in court filings about the dozen plaintiffs who challenged the state’s voting map as an illegal racial gerrymander.A sign for a polling place in Coushatta, La., last November.
Montana is defending the actions of law enforcement officers who did not have a warrant when they responded to a possibly suicidal Army veteran.The Supreme Court will consider when the police can enter a home without a warrant based on reports that someone inside may need emergency help.
The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.Some of the dozens of white South Africans who accepted an invitation from the Trump administration to come to the
The move would allow county officials to provide financial aid to those affected by Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids.California National Guard members stand ready as people protest against the detention of migrants by federal law enforcement in downtown Los Angeles in June.
A video this week captured Hamas fighters in Gaza executing Palestinian rivals as the militant group tries to assert that it is still the dominant force in the territory after two years of war with Israel.Palestinian militants standing guard on Monday, the day that hostages in Gaza were handed over
Hamas has handed over the bodies of eight people, but says it is struggling to find the remains of others after two years of war.Mourners walking behind a vehicle carrying the coffin of Guy Ilouz in Israel on Wednesday.
A deep sense of unease has gripped Iran since American and Israeli airstrikes in June, but on a recent visit to the capital, we found that many Iranians seemed to be just trying to get by.Young Iranians gathering in the Darband neighborhood of Tehran in July.
The Great Storm of 1987 was a forecasting blunder that left at least 18 people dead, felled 15 million trees and caused a billion pounds’ worth of damage.
Xi Jinping’s need to project strength before a crucial meeting of Communist Party leaders may help explain why Beijing announced new rare earth controls.President Trump greeting China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, at the Group of 20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.
A new analysis found that nearly 700 drugs approved for use in the United States depend on chemicals solely produced in China.The allergy medicine best known as Benadryl is made using a chemical that is solely produced in China.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said China’s dominance of rare earths calls for a more assertive American industrial policy.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, left, with the U.S. trade representative, Jamieson Greer. Mr. Bessent said the United States must become less reliant on China for rare-earth
The justices on the State Supreme Court heard arguments in a long dispute about whether the Tesla chief executive’s compensation was fair to shareholders.The Delaware Supreme Court heard arguments about Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar pay package on Wednesday.
An influence campaign has relied on allies of the president, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, to cast a Serbian politician as a victim of political persecution.Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, with Milorad Dodik, center, the leader of Republika Srpska, a Serb-controlled region of B
President Ahmed al-Shara is making his first trip to Moscow, which backed the regime his rebels overthrew. Both sides have reasons to put the past aside.Russian military vehicles near Hmeimim, Syria, in August. Moscow still has an air base in the area, despite the overthrow last year of its ally Bas
A shuttered plant is reimagined as Manresa Wilds, an example of an old facility repurposed to solve a new century’s problems.
The conversation heats up on social media.
Guidance and messaging on parenting has never seemed more confusing to some. At a gathering for mothers, the point was to focus on what they had in common.
The singer, songwriter and producer’s 2000 album was the result of years in the studio listening to inspiring music, jamming and rediscovering his artistic purpose.D’Angelo performing at the North Sea jazz Festival in the Netherlands in 2000. That year he released his second album, the genre-blendin
Astoria, Ore., the setting of the classic 1985 teen movie, invites fans to follow their inner adventurer and explore a scenic corner of the Northwest.The “Goonies House” looks much as it did in 1985, when the film hit theaters. It includes a Rube Goldberg-like gate-opening mechanism that resembles t
The best safeguard against tyranny is a legion of people who believe in an authority higher than any political program.
“The Late Show” host called President Trump’s photo the “worst Georgia O’Keeffe ever.”
Some local G.O.P. officials who participated in an online group chat are losing their jobs or being pressured to resign. But top Republicans have been dismissive.The group chat involved elected G.O.P. officials and leaders of local groups for young party activists in New York, Vermont, Arizona and K
