Forecasters in California are using some of their strongest language to warn that windy conditions may help fires spread this week.
As the U.S.-Israeli campaign enters a second month, analysts see a growing toll. One forecast predicts oil hitting $200 a barrel....
The meeting in France is slated to discuss efforts to stop the war in the Middle East, end Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile development, and reopen maritime trade routes....
Since the start of the war in Iran, the average price of gas in the United States has climbed by nearly a dollar....
Plus, the Friday news quiz....
Never before has America arrived at the threshold of a quagmire so quickly....
It takes a lot of fuel to produce this delicate fruit, which can be a sensitive barometer as oil costs rise....
The war in the Middle East risks worsening an inflation problem that the Federal Reserve has struggled for years to subdue....
When the world map of literal power changes, the political hierarchy shifts, too...
Open-ended military conflict in Europe could, at some point, intersect with open-ended military conflict in the Middle East....
Statehood had been a key issue in this tiny Danish archipelago before President Trump threatened Greenland. Now, Faroese voters are focused more on their own economy than geopolitics....
For centuries, an Omani exclave has been defined by a peculiar duality: rugged isolation and proximity to one of the world’s most important trade routes....
With a third of the global supply offline because of the war in Iran, gas companies are scrambling to assure critical A.I. chip makers there will be no disruptions....
The S&P 500 tumbled 1.7 percent on Thursday and oil prices continued rising as investors fret about when the war would end....
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is drafting a formal authorization for the use of military force in Iran, seeking to put some parameters around the operation as the Trump administration has boxed out Congress....
The drones are an improved version of a weapon that Iran sent to Russia for use in its war in Ukraine....
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the United States hit 6.38 percent, the fourth increase since the war began....
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that President Trump “still chooses a strategy of putting more pressure on the Ukrainian side.”...
The region’s stores of natural gas are running at the lowest level in years, and filling them up is increasingly daunting as the U.S.-led war in Iran pushes up prices....
The State Department had to lift sanctions on Russian lawmakers invited by a Kremlin-friendly member of Congress....
Federal judges are weighing strategies for how to respond to the high stakes, anonymous threats and politicized atmosphere of the Trump era....
No one apart from the Congolese people has ever paid a price for the CIA-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba....
Higher energy prices and uncertainty over the war in the Middle East will boost inflation and weigh on economic growth, a new forecast says....
The rarely seen “Angelus Novus” by Paul Klee was supposed to arrive at New York’s Jewish Museum, but remains in Israel instead....
Elderly people in isolated villages are going without medicine. One woman said she hadn’t seen a doctor in four years....
European politicians risk angering their voters if they join America’s war. Yet they could also face domestic upheaval if they take no action to reopen shipping routes that Iran has blocked and ease an energy crisis....
G.O.P. lawmakers who have given the Trump administration wide latitude to wage war with no congressional input are growing frustrated as officials offer little detail about ground troops, cost or timeline....
Republicans and Democrats alike have criticized the Trump administration’s moves, taken to stabilize oil markets rocked by the war with Iran, warning that it is benefiting two U.S. adversaries....
Kharg Island exports 90 percent of Iran’s crude oil. It has also become a potential U.S. target. Peter Eavis, our Business reporter, examines how the small island in the Persian Gulf has become a strategic target with significant risks....
The president has domestic and international political motivations for touting negotiations to end the war. Iran has similar ones to deny discussions....
What happens when a narcissist goes to war....
05/11/2024 22:19
New York Times
