Optimism for a resolution to the conflict and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz was checked after the United States said it had carried out strikes on missile launch sites in Iran.
Aspects such as drone technology and diplomacy show how the wars intersect on the battlefield and in global alignments, providing a model for future conflicts.
Judges and grand juries have increasingly lost faith in the Justice Department as the president uses it to reward his friends and go after his opponents.
Burt Jones, the leading G.O.P. candidate for governor, worked with Trump allies to try to overturn the election, and even talked to the president himself.
All eyes will be on the Republican Senate runoff between the incumbent John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton. But Tuesday’s runoffs in Texas will feature other key contests.
Haitian women are having babies in squalid, unsupervised settings after the Dominican Republic started sending immigration agents to detain migrants at hospitals.
Matthew Perry’s assistant injected the ketamine that killed his employer. His sentencing has some in the demanding profession considering the power dynamics involved.
At the prestigious garden show, attendees jockeyed to buy prizewinning blooms and debated the role of whimsy as a ban on garden gnomes was temporarily lifted.
Three years after riots tore apart Manipur, the state remains in disarray. Barbed wire and armed checkpoints made it difficult for Times reporters to cross, even before the recent clashes.
Becky Hill, a court employee possibly trying to maximize sales of her book, pressured jurors to convict the South Carolina lawyer for the murders of his wife and son. Was she acting alone?
Dallas Jenkins’s show—a prestige drama about Jesus’ life that became the biggest crowdfunded television project in history—has come to model the sort of bottom-up, fandom-first entertainment that is quietly reshaping the industry.
The outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola expose the shortsightedness of America’s retreat, under the Trump Administration, from its role as a global-health leader.
Even as the U.S. claims to be nearing an agreement to end the conflict, Tehran’s ability to close the Strait of Hormuz and hold the global economy hostage has reinforced the power of regime hard-liners.
Mark Burns, an evangelical pastor, explains that Trump’s supporters don’t think of him as a godlike figure, even as the President posts pictures of himself as Jesus.
The President’s stock dealing, $1.8-billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund, and grant of immunity from the I.R.S. demonstrate the need for major ethics reforms.
The U.F.C. president on his decades of friendship with Donald Trump, his relationship with Joe Rogan, and his “awesome” night at the White House Correspondents’ dinner.
The astronaut Reid Wiseman talks about going deeper into space than anyone in history, eating maple cookies in microgravity, and deciding how to spend his first day off after returning to Earth.
The cases of Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried at least offered a pleasant sense of comeuppance. But in Musk v. Altman, to root against Tweedledum was effectively to root for Tweedledee.
Senator John Cornyn is trying to fight off Texas’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, in a battle to see how far right the state can be pushed. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee, may benefit.