While it remains unclear how long Todd Blanche will stay in the job, whoever ends up taking over permanently will lead a department that he has shaped in his own image.
A Times investigation found that abductions of women and girls from Syria’s Alawite minority were more common, and more brutal, than the government has acknowledged.
Shanghai’s many layers of architecture, culture and politics have made it a difficult fit for the Communist Party’s preferred narrative of Chinese victimhood and Western sins.
The board had been expected to vote to approve the project last month, but it was delayed after about 32,000 mostly negative comments rolled in from across the country.
President Trump has been talking about the emergency facility beneath what was once the East Wing, details of which are usually kept secret, as he tries to justify his renovation.
The House speaker first panned, then endorsed, then punted on, then pitched and now is delaying a bill to reopen the Homeland Security Department, showing his vulnerability in the face of party rifts.
The Palestinian children were born prematurely in the early days of the war and moved from a besieged hospital to Egypt. They have now returned home to the enclave, which lies in ruins.
President Trump is “on a bit of a firing spree,” Jimmy Fallon said on “The Tonight Show” on Thursday, adding, “Ironically, the only staffer who has immunity is RFK Jr.”
The Cuban government said the releases were a humanitarian gesture during Holy Week. It was not clear if they were related to ongoing negotiations between Cuba and the United States.
After college, I joined an odd little utopia of movie nerds working out of an office on lower Broadway. Then the sustainability of the setup started to seem questionable.
At the Men of War Crucible, you bear-crawl through rivers. At Warrior Week, you dig your own grave. At the Squire Program, your teen-ager can take part, too.
As Iran imposes a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, squeezing the global economy, Trump faces a crisis that echoes one of history’s most revealing strategic failures.
ICEBlock was meant to be an early-warning system to help people avoid immigration enforcement—the Trump Administration claims that it endangered the agents of its mass-deportation campaign.
Hezbollah, Iran, and Israel helped fuel a disastrous political crisis in Lebanon. Now the Netanyahu government is using it to justify a larger conflict.
As wealthy owners threaten to relocate their franchises to secure stadium subsidies, a new bill aims to give cities a fairer chance at keeping them at home.
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.