The country’s gross domestic product from April through June declined 4 percent from a year earlier, new government data shows.
The number raises the prospect that about half a million soldiers in total have died on the Russian and Ukrainian sides....
The event, shrunken because of security fears, adds to a sense that Moscow and other Russian cities can no longer be insulated from the war....
How the economic shock waves of Trump’s Iran war will be felt globally....
The war in Iran, trade, artificial intelligence and Taiwan are expected to be on the agenda. But expectations are modest....
The landlocked body of water has taken on new significance, with Russia shipping military and commercial goods to bolster Tehran’s ability to withstand the U.S. assault....
Taiwan, one of the world’s biggest plastic users, is facing supply disruptions caused by the war in Iran. The crunch is already trickling down into everyday life....
The secretary of defense has argued that military retirees are subject to freedom of speech restrictions. Let that sink in....
Employers added 115,000 jobs and the unemployment rate remained at 4.3 percent despite higher energy prices and instability spurred by the war with Iran....
The war in Iran will cost trillions — far more than current estimates....
As the country heads into Victory Day, the economy is stalling, internet restrictions are growing and the Kremlin is fearing Ukrainian attacks....
“A Rumor of War,” about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed “the things men do in war and the things war does to them.”...
The United Arab Emirates has borne the brunt of Iranian attacks throughout the war, hardening the government’s resolve to reassess its list of friends and foes....
Oil prices rose after the United States attacked Iranian military sites in retaliation for Iran firing on U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz...
America’s ability to deter China in a war over Taiwan is weakened, Chinese analysts say, giving Beijing leverage in an upcoming summit with President Trump....
Already having faced an energy crisis five years ago, more European consumers believe they are “one Trump-ignited war away” from crushing costs....
After a Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Republicans carved up a majority-Black Memphis seat as the national redistricting wars continue....
Despite a previous order, the administration has continued to follow guidance from January empowering immigrations agents to widely make arrests without probable cause, judge says....
The United States and its partners have burned through an enormous amount of air defense missiles in the Iran war, and production is slow....
A three-judge panel in Washington heard arguments in the lawsuit aimed at stopping the Pentagon from disciplining Senator Mark Kelly for a video warning about illegal military orders....
Our most transactional president is having trouble processing....
Representative Tom Barrett, a Michigan Republican facing a tough re-election race, introduced a bill to impose limits on the use of military force in Iran and end the fighting this summer....
Stock investors are betting that companies will make enormous profits, despite the war. But investors in bonds, including U.S. Treasuries, have other concerns....
The meeting at the Vatican followed President Trump’s condemnation of Pope Leo XIV for opposing the war in Iran....
Kremlin officials said a large strike on Kyiv would be “inevitable” if Ukraine disrupted the May 9 event, a prospect President Volodymyr Zelensky has appeared to allude to....
The spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, Esmail Baghaei, said late Wednesday that his government was reviewing an American response to a 14-point Iranian proposal to end the war and would give its response to Pakistan, a key mediator....
The war in Iran has left China’s neighbors appealing for help, handing Beijing the kind of sway it has long sought....
Plus, the conflicting messages on the state of the war....
Bond investors are expected to scrutinize the results of critical local elections on Thursday as the war in the Middle East adds inflation pressure on the government....
In 1775, George Washington sent Henry Knox, a Boston bookseller, to fetch 60 tons of artillery. We followed Knox’s route to see how the country has changed....
After Trump used the terms “miniwar” and “excursion” to describe the conflict in Iran, Jimmy Kimmel predicted that the president would next call the war “a tiff. It will be a $200 billion tiff.”...
12/08/2022 19:52
New York Times
