Shipments of goods to the United States plunged by 21 percent in April, but spiked to Asia as President Trump imposed sky-high tariffs on China.
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....
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....
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....
The Trump administration said the Middle East would “recede” in importance as the China challenge took priority. But the president started the war in Iran....
The United States is discussing ways to end hostilities with Iran, even as the Pentagon dispatches more troops....
Republicans are cautiously optimistic about a statewide referendum now at the center of the country’s gerrymandering war, but Democrats have a huge cash advantage....
Moscow’s forces are intensifying their attacks in southern Ukraine after Kyiv made rare gains along the front....
Stopping Iran’s production of drones is critical to opening the Strait of Hormuz and halting its attacks on Gulf nations. But can it be done?...
F.B.I. agents thought they had weakened an online hate group known as the Base. A string of European terrorism cases indicates it has resurged....
In one swoop, it overturned the conditions for conciliation....
Josh Johnson was puzzled by what kind of gift the president could have received “from the people you are currently at war with.”...
Investors reacted to signals of possible de-escalation of the war in the Middle East....
Senate Democrats failed for the third time to advance a resolution that would force the removal of troops from hostilities in Iran unless Congress approves offensive operations....
Moscow may be challenging President Trump’s effort to choke Cuba’s economy. China also has suspected listening posts on the island....
Intentionally targeting the country’s energy infrastructure could constitute a war crime under international law....
The 15-point plan was delivered via Pakistan, whose army chief has emerged as the key interlocutor between the United States and Iran, officials say....
The assault, which came after overnight strikes across the country, was one of the largest of the war, the Ukrainian authorities said....
How the fight in Iran compares to past conflicts....
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sees a “historic opportunity” to remake the region, according to people briefed by U.S. officials on the conversations....
The war with Iran could change how the whole world thinks about energy security in the future. The energy policy expert Jason Bordoff explains....
Fifty years after the military dictatorship, Argentina’s government is defunding human rights groups and promoting a revisionist account of the junta’s crimes....
Plus, how dancing the tango can help patients with Parkinson’s disease....
President Trump once called Prime Minister Keir Starmer a friend. But Britain’s decision not to join the attacks on Iran has led to merciless mocking by the president....
09/05/2025 08:30
New York Times
