President Trump knows that even if a cease-fire runs out with no final agreement on the issues dividing Washington and Tehran, the political risk of renewing hostilities is high.
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Tanto EE. UU. como Irán hablan ahora de imponer tasas a los barcos que utilicen el paso vital. Eso podría contradecir un tratado que acabó con siglos de anarquía en alta mar.
The model, Muse Spark, performed better than Meta’s previous A.I. models but lags rivals on coding ability.
Workers could shut down America’s busiest passenger rail service beginning on May 16 if they do not reach a deal with transit officials.
El alto al fuego fue, sin duda, una victoria táctica en la cuerda floja. Pero no resuelve ninguno de los problemas fundamentales que llevaron a la guerra.
Six of the eight women whom Mr. Heuermann said he killed worked as escorts and advertised on sites like Craigslist and Backpage.
El primer pontífice nacido en EE. UU. ha hecho un llamado constante al diálogo en Medio Oriente. Se refirió a las amenazas de Trump a Irán como “verdaderamente inaceptables”.
When I hesitate to give him money, he guilts me.
Israel continued its large-scale bombing of Hezbollah targets after saying that a two-week cease-fire with the United States and Iran did not extend to Lebanon.
Skilled electricians, plumbers and factory workers are in demand, but job openings have dropped.
Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris spent years in a Tehran prison. An Iranian court convicted them of espionage, charges that France said were baseless.
The plan, which reasserts Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz and maintains the country’s right to nuclear enrichment, is not the same as the one President Trump said was a “workable basis” for negotiations.
While chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT can help narrow the information divide between patients and providers, they can also dispense flawed advice.
President Trump said “we have already met and exceeded” his military objectives. But his goals are largely unresolved.
President Trump said “we have already met and exceeded” his military objectives. But his goals are largely unresolved.
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Mr. Heuermann was a successful architectural consultant who lived on Long Island with his family. He was arrested in 2023.
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Countries including Australia, Spain and others have already passed bans or are working on plans to restrict teenagers’ access to social sites.
The American defense secretary warned President Trump could still order a commando raid to seize 970 pounds of enriched uranium buried in Isfahan if Iran does not agree.
The Acquavella Galleries in Manhattan offer more than 50 works, many from private collections. The show caps a surge of exhibitions on the great painter.
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Pakistani officials have aggressively courted the Trump administration and made use of their longstanding ties to Iran.
President Trump has vowed to stop Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but he has also hinted that the enriched material could stay in Iranian territory.
With a tenuous cease-fire in place, Iranians are left picking up the pieces of their lives. Some fear the government will crack down on its domestic critics.
A handful of vessels have crossed the crucial waterway since the U.S.-Iran truce began, but shipowners, insurers and others are wary of safe passage.
Analysts and traders are anxiously watching the Strait of Hormuz and whether peace talks can resolve big differences between the United States and Iran.
The agreement to pause the fighting for two weeks came hours after President Trump threatened to destroy Iran’s “whole civilization.” Much remains uncertain.
Since the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, authority has shifted to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Younger military leaders have come to the fore.
We look at the cease-fire and the discussions that led to war.
The airline said demand for tickets remained very strong despite the effects of the war in Iran.
El anuncio del acuerdo de un alto al fuego de dos semanas se hizo 90 minutos antes de que venciera el plazo fijado por el presidente Trump.
The countries will have to re-evaluate their relationships with Israel, Iran and the United States after a war that has exposed their vulnerability.
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A deal came shortly before President Trump’s deadline for Tehran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face devastation.
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Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, April 9, 2026.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, April 9, 2026.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, April 9, 2026.
Beijing appeared to have helped push Tehran to accept the two-week deal with the United States, reflecting China’s growing influence and its stake in avoiding a wider war.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contradicted an earlier statement from Pakistan that said the deal included Lebanon, where Israel is at war with the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.
Across Europe and the globe, the war has damaged economies, roiled politics and underscored a lack of options in dealing with President Trump’s whims.
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President Trump announced a cease-fire deal with Iran on Tuesday, shortly before a deadline for the country to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face devastating attacks.
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A new Marist poll found that about half of New Yorkers approved of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s job performance, while a larger share of respondents believed the city was moving in the right direction.
Some wells can be turned on in days or weeks, but bringing the Gulf’s energy system back to something akin to normal will take months.
Rex Heuermann, who is charged with murdering seven women dating back to the 1990s, was arrested in 2023 and has pleaded not guilty. His trial is set to start after Labor Day.
“Everyone, most notably the people of Iran, were wondering if their civilization was going to die tonight. Well, good news, it didn’t,” Jimmy Kimmel said after a cease-fire was announced.
Esta palabra ha aparecido en 2 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
This word has appeared in two articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
La carrera ha experimentado un crecimiento masivo en los últimos años. ¿Qué está impulsando su popularidad?
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Markets reacted positively after the United States and Iran reached a last-minute cease-fire agreement.
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Corrections that appeared in print on Wednesday, April 8, 2026.
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Alicia Halvensleben, the president of the city’s Common Council, defeated a Republican legislator, continuing a string of Trump-era mayoral wins for Democrats.
Democrats continued to raise serious questions about a path forward while Republican leaders were mostly mum on President Trump’s decision to de-escalate tensions.
Shawn Harris lost by about 12 percentage points in the 14th Congressional District, but he shifted the district 25 points to the left.
Los últimos comentarios del mandatario llevan la marca de un líder acostumbrado a salirse con la suya y que ahora no está consiguiendo lo que quiere.
The first U.S.-born pontiff has consistently called for dialogue to resolve the war in the Middle East. He referred to Trump’s Iran threats as ‘truly unacceptable.’
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Our reporter Helene Cooper walks us through the high-stakes operation to rescue a downed U.S. airman in Iran.
The changes came as President Trump has moved to erase diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. A Justice Department official still said the report seemed “fishy/illegal.”
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This year’s election has featured more undecided voters and lower overall awareness compared with recent cycles.
The reality star and her former boyfriend, Dakota Mortensen, have filed dueling court petitions that paint each other as the main aggressor in a recent altercation.
The acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, said during his first news conference on Tuesday that “nobody has any idea” why President Trump fired Pam Bondi last week.
President Trump had been under increasing pressure to find a way out after he threatened to wipe out Iran’s civilization on Tuesday night unless Iran reopened the Strait of Hormuz.
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Lynette Hooker was traveling with her husband from Hope Town to Elbow Cay on Saturday when she went overboard, the authorities said.
The contest for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former seat could continue a streak of special election results that have shown a significant shift to the left.
President Trump, in vowing to systematically destroy civilian infrastructure and annihilate Iran’s entire civilization, appears to be creating evidence about his intentions.
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Even if the president does not carry out his threat, his violent rhetoric risks damaging his credibility as a negotiator and the country’s standing in the world.
After a grueling year in a German prison camp during World War II, he endured crushing nightmares and survivor guilt back home, leading him to spread the word about veterans’ suffering.
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Over half a million U.S. residents are at least partly of Iranian descent. They may have left Iran, but many treasure it still.
The vote came hours before an 8 p.m. deadline set by President Trump to reach a deal to reopen the waterway.
U.S. and Israeli forces hit targets in Iran as President Trump threatened to wipe out a “whole civilization.”
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Members in both chambers of Congress said the president was threatening war crimes, and a growing number, questioning his mental fitness, called for his removal.
A “whole civilization will die tonight,” the president said as he turned up the pressure on Iran’s leaders to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
And in Tehran, the truth should be clear.
The islands are expected to see heavy rain through Friday. Thousands of people were displaced by flooding last month.
Senator Ron Johnson said he hoped President Trump was making empty threats, but most in the G.O.P. cheered his warning that Iran’s “whole civilization” would be wiped out.
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Amid the war with Iran, the president has proposed to scale back some of the very programs meant to ease families’ financial burdens.
U.S., Iranian, Israeli and other officials offered varying accounts about the state of negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
No one was killed or injured in the fire in Ontario, Calif., but a gigantic building was destroyed in an act of arson, officials said.
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American and Canadian airlines, squeezed by surging fuel costs from the war in Iran, are adding “sticky” new bag fees and surcharges, on top of higher fares.
The Venezuelan doctor, who was forced out of his hospital job by a federal visa pause, was detained by Border Patrol on Monday.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson and Senator Ron Johnson were among those pushing back against President Trump’s threats toward Iran.
The president’s apocalyptic rhetoric clashes with the responsibility of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to protect the military’s honor.
It was a highly unusual move by Justice Department leadership to direct a case that appears to involve accusations of lying to Congress to a division that normally focuses on civil rights abuses.
In his first news conference since being elevated to acting attorney general, Todd Blanche said that “nobody has any idea” what led to Pam Bondi’s dismissal other than President Trump.
The vast majority of commercial trucks in the U.S. run on diesel, but that may be changing as fuel prices rise and Tesla ramps up production.
A six-alarm fire consumed a 1.2 million square foot warehouse of the paper company Kimberly-Clark in Ontario, Calif.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government blocked the artist formerly known as Kanye West from entering Britain for the three-day Wireless Festival in July.
His best-received book explored the state’s infatuation with voter initiatives, which were sometimes pushed with anti-immigrant fervor.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani chose Rebecca Jones Gaston, who oversaw child welfare efforts for the Biden administration, to lead the Administration for Children’s Services.
The warning did not name specific facilities that had been struck or say whether any damage had been done.
Dujjonku, a portmanteau of “Dubai” and “jjondeuk” (the Korean word for chewy), spread like wildfire in Gimpo, South Korea. The confection, which is less a cookie than a truffle with the crunchy pistachio cream filling of Dubai chocolate, wrapped in marshmallow and dusted with cocoa powder.
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President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s eagerness to recount details of the rescue of a downed airman followed weeks of silence on the deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian school.
The couple had gone to the husband’s Army base to complete paperwork so they could move in together. But within hours that plan derailed, and New York Times reporting about the case quickly spread.
A medida que se acercaba la fecha límite del presidente Trump para nuevos ataques, Irán transmitió sus condiciones a través de intermediarios paquistaníes.
La periodista estadounidense fue secuestrada por una milicia aliada de Irán y retenida durante una semana. Funcionarios iraquíes afirman que fue liberada a cambio de la puesta en libertad de miembros de la milicia.
As the United States’ 8 p.m. deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz approaches, Iran vowed to retaliate if its power plants were attacked.
It is illegal for any military to target civilians, as President Trump has suggested he would in threats against Iran. But the U.S. has sought significant leeway in defining a civilian target.
A federal official said the agents were pursuing a “wanted gang member” who tried to run one of them over. No confirmation of that account was immediately available.
Both the U.S. and Iran are now talking about imposing fees on ships using the vital passageway. That could fray a treaty that ended centuries of lawlessness on the high seas.
Las autoridades se apresuraron a asegurar a los mexicanos que una colección de estimadas obras de arte regresaría en 2028. Un testamento pocas veces visto podría aclarar los deseos de la coleccionista.
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The company said on Tuesday that it was holding back on releasing the new technology but was working with 40 companies to explore how it could prevent cyberattacks.
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Despite speculation that the Iran war could scuttle commitments from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries, their investments have been secured.