The U.S. and Israel have pounded Iran’s leadership and undercut its defense capabilities, but President Trump has offered wildly different explanations for what he hopes to achieve.
The many similarities between the White House’s justification for war in Iran and Russia’s messaging on Ukraine underscore the risks of a vaguely defined, open-ended war.
President Trump traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to witness the transfer of the remains of five men and one woman killed in an Iranian drone strike.
Citing national security, an unusual executive order gave protection to the herbicide Roundup. It also protected the U.S.’s only supply of a controversial, highly flammable munition.
The ruling, which said that Kari Lake’s appointment to oversee V.O.A.’s parent agency was invalid, was a major rejection of President Trump’s attempts to dismantle the government-funded news group.
At a gathering in Florida, the president asked the leaders of a dozen Latin American and Caribbean nations to help the U.S. military crush armed trafficking groups.
Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced President Trump’s agenda.
President Trump made Mr. Khalil the face of his crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests. Mr. Khalil is now living with uncertainty as the courts consider his deportation.
The Met has looked to a foreign government, to new strategies, even to outer space, in its scramble to find money to sustain the country’s largest performing arts organization.
Representative Thomas Massie’s race against a rival backed by President Trump is shaping up as a key midterm testing ground for G.O.P. attitudes on the war.
Politicians in Colombia have increasingly become targets of violence. A rise in kidnappings, death threats and assassinations has shaken the country ahead of the vote.
President Trump has both called for Iranians to rise up and oust the ruthless theocracy and then said that he’s fully prepared to deal with a new religious leader.
The former Secretary of D.H.S. faced criticism for misspending funds, prioritizing her own self-promotion, and reflexively defending even the most brutal acts of the Trump Administration’s deportation efforts.
The regime in Tehran knows it likely can’t win the war, but it can certainly globalize the pain of the conflict—even if it’s ultimately at its own expense.
After speaking out about the Atlanta Hawks’ promotion of a strip club, the backup center for the San Antonio Spurs drew unexpected attention to his blog, which is shaped by his faith, sense of humor, and personal reflection.
The Trump Administration has decided that it need not make a case for military action. In the current media environment, that approach makes a disturbing kind of sense.
In a tightly contested Democratic Senate race, the state representative defeated Jasmine Crockett. Republican Senator John Cornyn and state attorney general Ken Paxton face a prolonged contest.
On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away.
The state’s primaries on March 3rd will determine candidates for House and Senate races in November, with major implications for the balance of power in Congress.
So far, explanations are few and the goals—from regime change to ending a nuclear program the President already claimed to have “obliterated”—are many.
Amid the controversy over redrawn district maps, a bitter senatorial primary race between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton, and growing dissatisfaction with Donald Trump, has the Party overreached?