Bashar al-Assad is gone, and Russia and Iran have stepped back. But Israel, Turkey and the United States are carrying out airstrikes.
Stocks and bonds wavered after President Trump issued a new warning to Iran....
The humanitarian relief system, decimated by cuts, faces a grave challenge as the Middle East war causes soaring costs for food, fuel and fertilizer....
Iranian attacks and the stoppage of seaborne transit have paralyzed Qatar’s vital gas exports, stalling the economic pivots intended to anchor the country’s growth....
For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward both computer security and individual digital privacy. And he developed solutions....
The president has never pretended to be an ordinary American, but a recent “truth bomb” has opened him to criticism that he doesn’t grasp the economic strain of his war with Iran....
Just months before another election that may hinge on the economy, the war in Iran has sent gas and other goods soaring....
A long-shot emergency request to restore a voting map was the latest salvo in an all-out legal war over control of the House....
The Russian leader will go to Beijing on Tuesday for talks with President Xi Jinping. The Kremlin said he had watched President Trump’s visit closely....
An analysis of oil export data offers clues about which nations have benefited from higher prices, and which have lost a lot of revenue....
Having deferred to the president for months, G.O.P. lawmakers missed crucial milestones to try to limit his war powers. That has tied their hands in seeking parameters and exit criteria....
Representative Thomas Massie, the incumbent, has opposed President Trump’s military strikes on Iran. He is now facing the biggest challenge of his career....
Watch an exchange between the two men in which the Chinese leader sought to signal exclusivity and name-dropped Russia’s president....
Hopes for an end to the war in Iran faded after President Trump failed to secure a commitment from China to help persuade Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz....
Suits her, sir....
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s 35-year-old defense minister, sees futuristic military technology as crucial to his country’s survival....
Jerome H. Powell is passing the chair’s baton to Kevin M. Warsh at the Federal Reserve, an institution that President Trump’s pick says needs an overhaul....
Authoritarians go after data. The president has already started....
But two vulnerable Republicans joined Democrats in the effort to force President Trump to win authorization from Congress, in the latest sign of G.O.P. jitters over the war....
Adm. Brad Cooper said a strike on an Iranian school may have been the only civilian casualty incident of the war....
The Gulf Arab states have been grappling with how to deter Iran after the war made clear the limits of American security guarantees....
Higher fuel prices are a burden on low-income families....
A pledge for more Chinese investment could face backlash given longstanding national security concerns in the United States....
He has minimized soaring gas prices, rising inflation and the American economy’s need for the Strait of Hormuz....
President Xi Jinping of China is buying time for Beijing and may see an opening with a U.S. president weakened by the war in Iran....
Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, appears prepared to thrust the state into the nation’s redistricting wars....
Asked if he was motivated by Americans’ financial woes to make a deal to end the war with Iran, he responded, “Not even a little bit.”...
Also, Kevin Warsh is confirmed as the next Fed chair. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday....
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska became the latest Republican to switch her vote to halt the conflict and require President Trump to win congressional approval to continue it....
The visit to meet with the Emirati leader, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, was another sign of how Israel and the Emirates have drawn closer together....
President Trump’s pick to replace Jerome H. Powell takes the helm at a highly uncertain moment for the economy and with heightened concern about the Federal Reserve’s ability to operate independently....
10/12/2024 05:20
New York Times
