President Trump postponed his threat to strike power plants in Iran, citing “productive conversations” with the Iranians. But officials said the talks were in an early stage and not substantive.Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, in Tehran last year. He is said to have conveyed to the U.S. that
President Trump once called Prime Minister Keir Starmer a friend. But Mr. Starmer’s decision not to join the attacks on Iran has led to merciless mocking by the president.President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Chequers, the official estate of Britain’s leader, in September 2025.
The combat forces would come from a brigade of about 3,000 soldiers capable of deploying anywhere in the world within 18 hours.Troops from the 82nd Airborne Division deploying from Fort Bragg, N.C., to Eastern Europe in response to the war in Ukraine in 2022.
A collision between an Air Canada Express jet and a fire truck on Sunday night left two pilots dead and dozens injured.Investigators on Monday at the scene of a fatal plane crash involving an Air Canada flight and an airport fire truck on a runway at LaGuardia Airport.
Two controllers were said to be working at LaGuardia Airport’s control center at the time of the crash that killed two pilots, and one had been dealing with an odor on a United Airlines plane.
A Cherokee Nation member who has served as Oklahoma’s junior senator, Mr. Mullin will take charge at a pivotal time.
In choosing Senator Markwayne Mullin, who has warm relationships across the Capitol and the political aisle, President Trump was reverting to a bygone tradition.Senator Markwayne Mullin during his confirmation hearing last week. Senators from across the ideological spectrum suggested that they had b
President Trump has long fixated on mail-in-voting to bolster his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. But he recently used the method in a Florida special election.President Trump at Palm Beach International Airport on Monday.
A majority of the justices appeared skeptical of Mississippi’s mail-in ballot law in a case that could upend the way that states handle mail-in ballots throughout the country.Sorting ballots in California last November.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a candidate for governor, recently took possession of more than 650,000 ballots as part of a fraud probe. Election officials say his investigation is baseless.Riverside County sheriff Chad Bianco’s investigation involves ballots cast in the 2025 special election
The country’s experiment with psychedelic medicine has led to positive outcomes, psychiatrists say, but also highlights the limitations of the nascent field.With the blinds drawn to reduce natural light, Zoe Marshall takes a quiet moment as clinicians begin the dosing process for her MDMA-assisted t
The Defense Department said it would close the Pentagon’s work area for journalists, among other changes, after a judge found the existing media policy unconstitutional.In October, the Pentagon adopted a policy that empowered it to declare journalists “security risks” and revoke their press passes i
In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere.Under the terms, TotalEnergies would forfeit its leases in federal waters for two wind farms that would have been built off New York and North Carolina.
The inquiries target antisemitism and admissions policies. The university called it retaliation for refusing to give in to the administration’s demands.Harvard University has been increasingly targeted by the federal government since President Trump abruptly reversed his position on a potential deal
President Trump mused about whether he could beat Elvis Presley in a fistfight and used a golden Sharpie to sign a replica of one of the singer’s guitars.President Trump holding up a replica of an Elvis Presley guitar after signing it while visiting Graceland, the singer’s home in Memphis, on Monday
With the use of electronic jamming systems and interceptor drones, the Ukrainian national oil and gas company may be a model for others.A damaged area of a Naftogaz gas facility following Russian missile and drone attacks, in an undisclosed location in Ukraine in December.
New, friendly media operations and expanded state-run television are pushing Pakistan’s message while independent news outlets face repression.A live news broadcast at Asia One, a new 24/7 news channel, in Karachi earlier this year.
A military aircraft transporting 128 people was involved in an accident as it took off from southern Colombia, according to the authorities.The aircraft had taken off from Puerto Leguízamo, Colombia, at 9:50 a.m. There were 114 soldiers and police officers and 11 crew members on board, officials sai
Many current and former employees say the actions of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are undermining the agency’s role in safeguarding public health.
A woman who took medication to induce an abortion, and then delivered the baby, was arrested on a murder charge. But on Monday, a state judge expressed deep skepticism about the case.The charges against the woman did not specifically cite Georgia’s abortion ban, although the affidavit supporting the
Known early on for skin-baring temptress roles, she later earned rave reviews, a Cannes award and an Oscar nomination for her performance in the Lenny Bruce biopic “Lenny.”Valerie Perrine in “Malibu,” a 1983 television movie on ABC. “Unlike most sex symbols of the past,” one critic wrote, she “has a
Pax Americana, meet Lax Americana.
David French talks with the retired general about the “great seduction” America fell for in Iran.
A California jury found that Mr. Cosby had abused Donna Motsinger in 1972 after inviting her to attend one of his comedy shows.Bill Cosby was accused in the civil suit of sexually assaulting Donna Motsinger in 1972 when he was a celebrated entertainer and she was a waitress in a restaurant he visite
