President Trump’s announcement came as talks on Capitol Hill over funding the Department of Homeland Security faltered, and airport lines continued to grow.
The Justice Department’s demands for admissions-related data from Stanford, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego, reveal an expansion of its higher-education pressure campaign.
President Trump waxed on about the virtues of the pen, calling it more economical and a better instrument than the fancier writing tools preferred by his predecessors.
Iran has allowed a small number of vessels to pass, but that won’t alleviate pressure or risk for the shipping industry and energy markets any time soon.
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.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine skepticism is posing challenges for the Trump administration. Top health jobs are unfilled, and a court has blocked his vaccine schedule changes.
Joel Schumacher apologized for “Batman & Robin,” his corny 1997 superhero movie, but thanks to its ice puns and bat nipples, it’s since become an accidental parody worth howling at.
President Trump wants to restrict voting by mail, which he says amounts to “cheating.” But he defended his own use of the practice in a special election this week.
Often treated as throwaway pets, hermit crabs can live 50 years. Mary Akers, a self-taught expert, wants people to appreciate them as much as she does.
The city was counting on a 15 percent rise in bonuses to produce tax revenues to fill its budget gap. The actual increase was 9 percent, the state comptroller said.
A boy, the son of a New York police officer, may have been playing with a gun when it accidentally went off, killing Ka’Mardre Coleman, 16, according to prosecutors and the boy’s lawyer.
The longtime owner of the restaurant, a Theater District mainstay, is bowing out, and the Shubert Organization plans to reopen after a renovation, with the celebrity caricatures intact.
The country is in survival mode, and effectively fighting back by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz and blocking the transport of much of the world’s oil supply.
A journalist who was wrongfully detained for five hundred and forty-four days never got to say goodbye to Tehran. Now he’s fielding messages about chaos and destruction in the home he left behind.
For more than a hundred years, the city’s most isolated borough has threatened to leave. After the election of Zohran Mamdani, some on the island think it’s time.
Hezbollah, Iran, and Israel helped fuel a disastrous political crisis in Lebanon. Now the Netanyahu government is using it to justify a larger conflict.
The cruellest irony is that of a President who addresses the Iranian people in the language of liberation and then threatens freedom of the press back home.
What drew many people to the city was not luxury but, rather, stability and the feeling of remove from war. As Iran attacks the U.A.E., that sense of distance is eroding.
The state’s lieutenant governor has won the Democratic race to fill Dick Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat; Republicans elect Darren Bailey to challenge Governor J. B. Pritzker.