Stocks may be soaring again, but the war in Iran has started to pinch the finances of many Americans.The energy surge has made groceries more expensive while also raising costs for farmers.
Despite the economic risks from the war, Beijing will likely stick to a hands-off approach. It is wary of being entangled in a conflict it opposed and has little sway over.A mural representing the Strait of Hormuz, on a building in Tehran this week. The strait is a critical passageway for China’s en
Plus, forget sneakers — Allbirds is going A.I.After President Trump threatened to wipe out Iran and attacked the pope, some former allies and advisers are questioning whether he has grown increasingly unbalanced.
Fresh off a two-week break, lawmakers returned to turmoil in the House, where legislation to reopen the Department of Homeland Security is stalled and the G.O.P. is struggling to keep its agenda on track.Speaker Mike Johnson on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday.
Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer asked staff members to bring wine to her hotel room, and to keep in touch with her husband and father.Lori Chavez-DeRemer during her Senate hearing last year to be secretary of labor.
A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities.Yale has not been directly targeted in the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education, but its president commissioned a report to understand public mistr
Ohio State isn’t the only university in turmoil, but few others have faced so many issues lately. One lawmaker called the school “a national embarrassment.”Ohio State University recently named Ravi Bellamkonda, middle, as president. He’s the fourth person to hold the post in six years.
A steep slide in housing prices has left consumers less prosperous and less willing to spend, but the government is pouring money into new rail lines and other projects.An import and export trade show in southern China this week.
China used a visit by the Vietnamese leader to show a deepening of security ties that analysts say far outpaces U.S. defense ties in the region.China’s leader, Xi Jinping, welcomed President To Lam of Vietnam in Beijing on Wednesday. Mr. Xi said that defending Communist Party rule was a common strat
In a city of notoriously small apartments, New Yorkers keep their meaningful mementos and quirky collections elsewhere.
Mr. Fairfax, a Democrat, served as lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022.Justin Fairfax in 2019. He served as Virginia’s lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022.
The story of how President Trump quadrupled the size of the original proposal for the arch follows a now-familiar pattern.Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, showed the latest renderings for a proposed triumphal arch during a briefing on Wednesday.
The vice president is also the finance chair of the Republican National Committee, allowing him to court donors who could prove helpful should he run for president.Vice President JD Vance has raised over $60 million to help the Republican Party in the midterms, and simultaneously forged relationship
Democrats in key Senate races out-raised their Republican rivals, but super PACs on the right are poised to play a powerful role in the midterms, new campaign finance filings showed.James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, raised $27 million in the first months of 2026, a remarkab
Money from Democratic donors has flowed into the coffers of the party’s top Senate candidates — especially its nominee in Texas.
Nearly 600 people have been sickened across the state, which has seen an increase in vaccine exemptions among children in recent years.
The money could jump-start affordable housing projects across the metropolitan region.The $4 billion would help pay for mixed-income projects, conversions of offices to apartments, renovations to aging buildings and new middle-income apartments built by union workers.
Amid calls from the left to tax the rich, a tax proposal on multimillion-dollar second homes in New York City, backed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, seems to have better odds of passing than in years past.The proposed tax on second homes worth more than $5 million would yield “at least $500 million” in recur
Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to tax second homes in New York City that are worth $5 million or more. Here’s how the proposal might work.Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal on taxing second homes would address the city budget gap by targeting the very wealthy.
Rama Duwaji apologized for using what she said was “harmful” language as a teenager, in her first interview since her husband, Zohran Mamdani, took office.Rama Duwaji, the wife of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, said she was “truly sorry” for what she acknowledged was harmful language that she used as a teena
“I wanted something new and something traditional and something that felt holy.”Worshipers of the All Saints Orthodox Church before a morning service in Raleigh, N.C.
Corruption and economic mismanagement brought down Hungary’s authoritarian leader. Will his political disciples avoid those pitfalls?Viktor Orban, center right, in Budapest on Sunday, the night of his election defeat. He was voted out after 16 years in power in Hungary.
The upstart golf circuit couldn’t conquer the sport, despite big spending by Saudi Arabia. Its end signals limits to how much the country will spend.The sports world was stunned to learn that Saudi Arabia is close to pulling the plug on its LIV Golf venture.
