President Trump has repeatedly said he’ll restart military action against Iran, only to stop short of plunging the United States directly back into an unpopular war.A U.S. military official said that Iran had been able to study the flight patterns of American fighter jets and bombers.
In any new round of fighting, Iranian officials could adopt new tactics, including intensified strikes on neighbors and trying to close off a second strait.The Iranians have used their proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, a critical trade waterway, to exert immense pressure on the global economy.
Videos show birds, turtles and crabs trapped inside mounds of tar around Shidvar island, a protected wildlife sanctuary with turquoise waters and white sand beaches.A video verified by The Times shows oil coating the shoreline of Shidvar Island as smoke rises from the Lavan refinery, seen in the dis
San Diego police arrived to find three people dead. Nearby, they found two teenagers, the attackers, dead in a car. The violence shattered an idyllic Southern California city.Police officers raced around San Diego before converging at the mosque.
A visitor said that the mosque is highly diverse. Its services are in English, because attendees come from all over the world.People embracing near the scene of a shooting outside the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said complaints about bias against Muslims are at levels unseen in decades.Law enforcement officers swarmed to the scene of a shooting at the Islamic Center in San Diego on Monday.
Commuters took lengthy detours on the third day of a strike by Long Island Rail Road workers, who had gone without raises for years. Workers and transit officials reached a deal late Monday.
Initialism or acronym? It doesn’t matter. No one can agree on how to pronounce it.The Long Island Rail Road is frequently abbreviated to L.I.R.R. But how is that pronounced?
Louisiana wants the Food and Drug Administration to curtail access to the medication. Doing so could cost Republicans at the polls.A lawsuit against the F.D.A. threatens access to medication abortion, and the Trump administration has remained strikingly silent about the case, even as it reached the
Our chief theater critic looks at this year’s nominees and makes some predictions (and recommendations).Susannah Flood, seated, and fellow cast members in “Liberation.”
The Trump administration’s practice of detaining migrants at federal courthouses had stirred outrage.Mask-wearing federal agents had become a regular presence in the hallways of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan.
The Trump administration argues that an “emergency refugee situation” in South Africa merits bringing more Afrikaners to America, at a cost of some $100 million.President Trump and his aides have claimed that white South Africans face racial persecution, an assertion strongly disputed by officials i
A Los Angeles police detective, he was discredited during Mr. Simpson’s 1995 murder trial by defense lawyers who pointed to his past use of racist language.Mark Fuhrman on the witness stand during the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson. He was called as a star witness for the prosecution but was thor
The arrangement was denounced by critics as a slush fund for supporters of President Trump, possibly including Jan. 6 rioters.President Trump, two of his sons and his family business had argued in the case that the Internal Revenue Service should have done more to prevent a former contractor from le
Brian Morrissey, the department’s general counsel, stepped down hours after the Trump administration announced the $1.8 billion fund.The Treasury Department’s general counsel, Brian Morrissey, resigned on Monday, three people familiar with the move said.
The campaign appearance was an extraordinary breach of military decorum, even for Mr. Hegseth, who has stretched the boundaries of partisan politics as defense secretary.Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, testifying at the Capitol last week.
Officials ordered more than 29,000 to evacuate after a brush fire broke out in Simi Valley, Calif.The blaze, called the Sandy fire, broke out on a warm, breezy day in Simi Valley.
The shipwrecked man was rescued from Channel Islands National Park, but the flares set off a 14,600-acre fire that has burned park buildings, forced evacuations and threatened rare Torrey pines.
A deal between a powerful union and an industry group substantially boosts annual pay for workers coping with New York City’s high cost of living.A contract agreement between hotel owners and workers averts a potential strike during the World Cup.
A “drip” painting by the Abstract Expressionist sold for $181.2 million with fees, while a bronze head by the Romanian sculptor brought in $107.6 million at Christie’s, both from the S.I. Newhouse collection.“Number 7A, 1948,” by Jackson Pollock, one of the treasures of S.I. Newhouse’s collection at
A nine-member jury found that Mr. Musk had waited too long to sue. The setback for the tech mogul frees OpenAI to continue in the artificial intelligence race.OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, right, was also named in Mr. Musk’s lawsuit.
Even as protests increase, the collapse of Mr. Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman will speed up the artificial intelligence juggernaut.Elon Musk on Monday lost his lawsuit accusing OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, of breaching the company’s founding contract.
It took a jury less than two hours to decide that Mr. Musk had waited too long to sue. But the testimony over three weeks was still illuminating.The federal courthouse in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, when a jury decided that Elon Musk had waited too long to file his lawsuit against OpenAI.
Early surveillance and testing failed to identify the rare species of Ebola responsible for the current outbreak. An American doctor is among the confirmed cases.At a hospital in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, the center of a new Ebola outbreak.
