The war with Iran is preventing huge amounts of oil from flowing out of the Persian Gulf, but the prices that many people track don’t fully capture the scale of the disruption.
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
Estados Unidos les ha imposibilitado quedarse legalmente, y su propio país les dificulta el regreso.
Vice President JD Vance is leading negotiations this weekend toward an end to a war that he had opposed starting.
The president is giving old people a bad name.
States and small businesses challenged the 10 percent tax on many imports that President Trump imposed after the Supreme Court struck down a previous slate of tariffs.
Without Trump on the midterms ballot, how will his party fare?
What are the implications if the administration of the world’s most powerful country is chaotic in its thinking and not reliably in touch with reality?
The foreign policy analyst Fareed Zakaria explains how the Iran war has been a turning point in America’s standing in the world.
The U.S. has made it impossible for them to stay legally, and their own country makes it difficult for them to return.
Ahead of a summit with Donald Trump, the Chinese leader is using a rare meeting with a Taiwanese politician to cast Beijing as a peacemaker and squeeze the island’s president.
Even after a cease-fire, Iran is keeping a chokehold on traffic, forcing countries to cut deals that could put them at odds with the U.S.
The directive came amid a surge of suspiciously well-timed trades on oil and prediction markets just ahead of crucial moments in the conflict.
In a lengthy social media post, the president attacked Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and others in starkly personal terms. He also criticized the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal.
Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon threatened the cease-fire between the United States and Iran ahead of scheduled peace talks.
A classified ruling recertified the Section 702 program for a year but objected to systems that can filter Americans’ messages outside querying limits.
Our reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan discuss how individual members of President Trump’s administration felt in the leadup to the war in Iran, and how they communicated their thoughts to Mr. Trump.
La medida sigue a una ley similar aprobada recientemente por los legisladores venezolanos que pretende abrir el sector petrolero del país a la inversión extranjera.
President Trump is citing the unwillingness of European nations to back the United States in the conflict as another reason to scale back or abandon the alliance. And he still wants Greenland.
El gobierno del presidente Trump busca designar como terroristas a grupos de extrema izquierda alrededor del mundo, aunque haya pocas pruebas de que representan un peligro inminente.
The move opens the country’s coveted mineral fortune up to foreign investors, the latest move that Venezuela’s leadership has taken to satisfy the Trump administration.
President Trump said he had asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to scale back Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon.
A conference of climate change deniers, a warning about the world’s largest penguin species, record low snowpack in the West, plus more climate news.
La primera dama de EE. UU. dijo que nunca tuvo conocimiento de los abusos de Epstein a sus víctimas e hizo un llamado al Congreso para que siga investigando.
Most Europeans, and much of the world, have concluded that no amount of flattery will win more than fleeting approval from President Trump.
Talks to end the war in Ukraine could resume soon, said President Volodymyr Zelensky as he expressed skepticism about a breakthrough.
When President Trump returned to office, he pardoned about 1,500 Jan. 6 offenders. Since then, many of them have been charged with new crimes, including assault and child abuse. As the midterm elections approach, the Times editorial board argues that the Republican Party should pay a political price for prioritizing loyalty over public safety.
Will the shooting really stop? What should be Trump’s red lines? A discussion on where America’s war on Iran stands.
Responding to what she said were smears, the first lady said she never had knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. She called on Congress to continue investigating.
Europeans and Iran warned that the Israeli offensive against Hezbollah threatened the truce in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
President Trump will meet privately at the White House on Thursday with disenchanted leaders of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement.
Los esfuerzos del presidente Trump por eludir la realidad sobre el terreno y avanzar hacia un proceso de paz se han visto obstaculizados por un adversario que sigue teniendo influencia.
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay about digital consumption. Also: A failure of leadership; deconstructing Trump-speak; “moon joy.”
The Trump administration has made countering antifa and other far-left groups a counterterrorism priority, despite increasing threats from the Middle East.
The Trump administration aims to deploy counterterrorism tools against far-left groups, even as it has offered little evidence they present a dire threat.
A former jewelry-counter magnate, he served in Hungary under his friend President Trump, strengthening relations between the two countries as Orban tilted rightward.
Ya estaban surgiendo fracturas en el limitado alto al fuego. El vicepresidente JD Vance encabezará una delegación estadounidense para las conversaciones de este fin de semana.
As the focus shifts to negotiations between the United States and Iran, no formal Israeli participation is planned.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya objected to the study’s methodology, saying it gave an inaccurate picture of the vaccine’s benefits.
Questions about how freely ships can pass through the waterway have pushed up oil prices and weighed on stocks.
Plus, the latest country planning to ban social media for teens.
President Trump lashed out after hosting Mark Rutte, NATO’s secretary general, at the White House on Wednesday.
If an unlawful order comes from the president himself, to whom does the soldier appeal?
A conference near the White House drew dozens of people who reject the scientific consensus on climate change. The mood was triumphant.
Our children will pay the price for the president’s indifference.
Judges are ordering an unprecedented number of people deported after coming under significant pressure from the administration to do so or risk losing their jobs.
In person, on social media and in campaign ads, Democratic politicians are swearing with glee. It is usually aimed at President Trump.
Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule could be coming to a close.
Critics wonder if this is America’s “Suez moment,” when a leading power signals the start of its international decline.
After careening from one diplomatic extreme to another, President Trump finds himself with a fragile deal that is already showing signs of fraying.
The first day of a tentative cease-fire had the region on edge.
Fractures were already emerging in the limited cease-fire. Vice President JD Vance will lead a U.S. delegation in talks this weekend.
The vice president sought to downplay Israel’s continued bombardment of Lebanon, which he insisted had “nothing to do with” Iran.
ArcelorMittal, a European steel maker, is donating tens of millions of dollars of foreign steel for President Trump’s new ballroom.
The investigation into the nation’s second-largest school district was prompted by a lawsuit from parents who say the policies contributed to their child’s death.
On the first day of the pause, Iran fired missiles and launched drones in the region. It said an oil refinery on Lavan Island had been attacked. Israel continued its strikes in Lebanon.
A growing chorus of disaffected Trump supporters is sounding off in the replies to his posts on the social media platform he founded.
A day after a pause in fighting was announced between the United States and Iran, many questions remained, including the status of the Strait of Hormuz.
In a week in which President Trump has veered from threatening to wipe out Iranian civilization to declaring a cease-fire, Congress is out of session and lawmakers with the power to declare war are mostly in the dark.
En Europa y en todo el mundo, la guerra ha dañado las economías, ha agitado la política y ha puesto de relieve la falta de opciones para hacer frente a los caprichos del presidente Trump.
Analysts said oil and natural gas energy companies would not quickly restore production unless attacks stopped and ships started moving through the Strait of Hormuz.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party is expected to win two special elections that could give the government broader powers in Parliament.
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.
Readers respond to news articles about the Iran cease-fire and the road to war. Also: Betting on matters of life and death.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
Analysts and traders are anxiously watching the Strait of Hormuz and whether peace talks can resolve big differences between the United States and Iran.
We look at the cease-fire and the discussions that led to war.
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.
A deal came shortly before President Trump’s deadline for Tehran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face devastation.
Plus, the great pistachio gamble.
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.
The debate over words we can and can’t say.
Democrats need to become a real political party again — and that’s no easy feat.
En una serie de reuniones, el presidente Trump sopesó sus instintos frente a las profundas preocupaciones de su vicepresidente y una evaluación pesimista de los servicios de inteligencia. Esta es la historia sobre cómo se tomó la decisión.
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.
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.’
The rapid advance of artificial intelligence is happening now.
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.
El vicepresidente de Estados Unidos carga con la guerra en Irán y una popularidad en declive.
President Trump, in vowing to systematically destroy civilian infrastructure and annihilate Iran’s entire civilization, appears to be creating evidence about his intentions.
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.
Over half a million U.S. residents are at least partly of Iranian descent. They may have left Iran, but many treasure it still.
U.S. and Israeli forces hit targets in Iran as President Trump threatened to wipe out a “whole civilization.”
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.
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.
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.
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 medida que se acercaba la fecha límite del presidente Trump para nuevos ataques, Irán transmitió sus condiciones a través de intermediarios paquistaníes.
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.
Readers discuss the ways writing and artificial intelligence don’t mix. Also: A degraded civil culture.
The United States and Israel are trying to force Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, according to American and Israel officials.
U.S. forces launched more than 90 “restrikes” on Kharg Island, Iran’s oil export hub, early on Tuesday but have avoided hitting oil infrastructure.
New details from the weeks leading up to the campaign show how President Trump’s alignment with Benjamin Netanyahu and a lack of sustained opposition from his inner circle put the United States on a course to war.
In a series of Situation Room meetings, President Trump weighed his instincts against the deep concerns of his vice president and a pessimistic intelligence assessment. Here’s the inside story of how he made the fateful decision.
The U.K. government underlined its previous stance that the United States could only use British bases for defensive purposes, after President Trump threatened to strike civilian targets.
Bankers say companies are braving higher oil prices and whipsawing stock prices to seize on the willingness of federal antitrust enforcers to approve mergers.
President Trump has threatened devastating attacks if Iran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Some Iranians questioned what had happened to American values.
Oil prices are rising and stocks are selling off as investors fret that the president will carry out his threats to “decimate” Iran.
Plus, a look behind the moon.
As the Persian Gulf conflict boosts the oil revenue that finances Moscow’s war against Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces are striking at Russia’s ability to refine and ship its crude.
The president’s deference to authoritarian leaders has profoundly corrupted American foreign policy.
President Trump, his administration and G.O.P. lawmakers have claimed widespread issues with mailed ballots and fraudulent voting, but the evidence doesn’t support them.
Both the Democratic and Republican parties in Arizona have been locked in a legal battle with a chapter of the group “No Labels” as it tries to rechristen itself.
NASA’s Artemis II crew received a call from President Trump, who congratulated them for the successful lunar flyby.
La Casa Blanca ha convertido las deportaciones, un asunto interno emblemático, en una pieza importante de la política exterior. Esto es lo que sabemos sobre el programa.
President Trump's Tuesday evening deadline for a deal approached after he rejected a cease-fire proposal as “not good enough.”
The vice president gets saddled with the Iran war and eroding popularity.
The conversation celebrated a small, but significant, step in an ambitious plan for missions to the moon and Mars that Mr. Trump had set early in his first term.
A scheduled visit by the American vice president, JD Vance, makes clear that Russia is not the only country invested in a victory for Hungary’s leader, Viktor Orban.
President Trump endorsed Steve Hilton, a Republican, in the governor’s race, which could help Democrats avoid being shut out of the general election.
Una contrapropuesta de Irán de 10 puntos para poner fin a la guerra representa una posible salida. El presidente Trump la calificó como un paso significativo, pero “no suficiente”.
The president indicated he would ask an unnamed media outlet to reveal the sources behind its coverage of Iran’s successful strike on a U.S. fighter jet, and of its crew.
President Trump escalated his threats ahead of his pending Tuesday deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
President Trump has threatened to launch a massive attack targeting bridges, power plants and other civilian facilities by Tuesday evening.
President Trump renewed threats of attacks on Iran if the country does not agree to a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday night deadline. The warnings came on Monday as the president gave more details on the rescue of a missing American airman shot down over Iran on Friday.
As deadlines approach in the next two weeks, neither is going quite according to the partisan plan.
President Trump described the risky mission to rescue an Air Force colonel whose fighter jet had been shot down, but he offered no clear path out of the war.
The Easter Bunny was out of earshot as President Trump spoke to reporters about the war in Iran and his predecessor’s mental acuity.
As President Trump’s deadline for new attacks loomed, Iran conveyed its conditions through Pakistani intermediaries.
One potential off-ramp appeared when Iran offered a 10-point counterproposal for ending the war that President Trump called a significant step, if “not good enough.”
On “The Opinions,” the columnist David French says that no matter how much havoc Trump wreaks on Iranian targets, as long as they maintain control of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran can keep going.
The Education Department said there was no precedent for the federal government terminating settlements stemming from civil rights investigations into schools.
Readers react to President Trump’s increasingly bellicose rhetoric. Also: Two moon missions, 58 years apart.
The new tax-sheltered savings and investment accounts will start accepting deposits this summer.
La agencia de inteligencia también ejecutó una campaña de engaño destinada a alejar a las fuerzas iraníes del lugar donde se ocultaba el oficial de la Fuerza Aérea desaparecido.
The new deadline comes as the president and Iranian leaders have ramped up bombastic threats against one another.
En una publicación en las redes sociales llena de improperios, Trump dijo que bombardeará puentes y centrales eléctricas si Irán no abría el estrecho de Ormuz.
Preocupada desde hace tiempo por las crisis geopolíticas, China redobló sus esfuerzos para garantizar la seguridad energética desde el primer mandato de Donald Trump.
Stephen K. Bannon, a former close aide to President Trump, was convicted for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack.
In his annual letter to shareholders, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, said investors and businesses faced a series of challenges.
Today we take on more reader questions about the news.
Global leaders are struggling in their efforts to find a way to end the American-Israeli war on Iran, and they are spooked about what President Trump might do next.
Washington’s European allies have refused to get more involved in the war in Iran.
Tuesday’s special House election runoff in a conservative stretch of Georgia is one of the first to showcase disagreements over the conflict, including within the G.O.P.