We don’t know how likely it is that the attacks will be successful, nor what costs or risks they bring.
Tras bloquear los envíos de petróleo desde el extranjero a la isla, el gobierno de Trump da luz verde a la entrada de pequeñas cantidades a Cuba, siempre que no lleguen al gobierno.
There was no immediate threat from Iran. But the president saw a chance to push a weakened government over the edge, and is betting he can spark a popular uprising.
Medio Oriente se sacudió después de que EE. UU. e Israel lanzaran el sábado un gran ataque contra Teherán.
The U.S. military was once a tool of last resort for American presidents.
En un video de ocho minutos, el presidente de Estados Unidos anunció una campaña “masiva” de ataques contra Irán e instó al pueblo iraní a sublevarse cuando terminen.
Estados Unidos e Israel lanzaron un ataque contra las principales ciudades de Irán. El presidente Trump pide a los iraníes “tomar las riendas de su gobierno”.
See images from the Middle East after the United States and Israel on Saturday launched a major attack against Tehran.
The country is retaliating, and the Middle East is in crisis.
The government provided little advice in the days before the attacks or as the bombs fell, more than a dozen Iranians said in interviews.
Anxiety about Netflix gives way to anxiety about layoffs.
The round table convenes to discuss the upcoming Texas primaries and Trump’s State of the Union shortcomings.
Better to put this power in the hands of private industry or government officials?
Don’t give Trump and Hegseth unfettered control of dangerous A.I.
Readers respond to a guest essay on the president’s behavior and the ancient roots of human dignity and compassion.
Governments around the world urged restraint after the United States and Israel launched a major assault, and Iran vowed retaliation.
The United States, joined by Israel, launched an attack on major cities in Iran, as President Trump called on Iranians to overthrow the government.
A speculative public art series that began in alleyways and on buildings and a tennis court fence is opening as a chilling new show at Western University.
In a video posted on Truth Social on Saturday, President Trump warned Iranians to stay safe as the United States bombed their country and called on them to overthrow the regime and take control after the attack.
La brutalidad y la perspicacia empresarial del Mencho lo llevaron a la cima del mundo de los cárteles, hasta que cometió un error fatal.
After blocking foreign oil shipments, the Trump administration is now allowing small amounts of oil to enter Cuba — as long as they circumvent government hands.
El Mencho’s brutality and business acumen put him atop the cartel world, until he made a fatal mistake.
A new inspector general delayed a decision on whether to approve the project and is said to have raised its potential political ramifications, in a test of the watchdog system in President Trump’s second term.
Caesar Rodney, whose statue was placed in storage amid racial injustice protests in 2020, will be honored in Washington this summer.
The nearly decade-old conspiracy theory does not align neatly with the facts emerging from the documents. That does not seem to matter.
Dozens of attacks were carried out by warplanes launched from bases and aircraft carriers in the region. President Trump said the targets included missile sites, Iran’s navy and nuclear facilities.
Antes, servir en el gobierno significaba implementar políticas; ahora significa adulación.
In an eight-minute video, President Trump announced a “massive” campaign of U.S. strikes on Iran and urged the Iranian people to rise up once they end.
When Mahmoud Khalil was detained by immigration agents last year, the university’s response was restrained. It was different with Elmina Aghayeva this week.
Prime Minister Mark Carney visits India, Australia and Japan seeking deals to strengthen his country’s links to Indo-Pacific powers and break Canada’s dependence on the United States.
A Wisconsin man was found guilty of impersonating an undocumented immigrant in handwritten letters that threatened to kill the president in an effort to get the immigrant deported.
Conforme los cárteles se han arraigado cada vez más en México, los narcobloqueos han pasado a ser una manera de afirmar su poder de forma explícita
During a visit to Texas, President Trump made clear that he would be driving home his depiction of Democrats as out of step ahead of the elections in November.
The package worth billions of dollars and endorsed by lawmakers is stalled at the State Department as the U.S. and China plan an April summit.
In a draft of his memoir, Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, laid out the secret negotiations that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE.
The military needs the very best A.I. to streamline its operations. It should find ways to work with these companies, not erect barriers.
One week after the Supreme Court invalidated President Trump’s tariffs, he suggested that his administration could try to relitigate a case that was decided 6 to 3.
Actions by the president and the Pentagon appeared to drive a wedge between Washington and the tech industry, whose leaders and workers spoke out for the start-up.
Any Lucia López Belloza was deported by mistake. A judge ordered her return by Friday. When the Trump administration sent a plane, she decided not to get on.
Despite plans to close the building this summer for a two-year reconstruction project, the renamed ceremony will be held elsewhere, the center’s president said.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said President Trump was receptive to partnering on a project to build some 12,000 homes in Queens. Many hurdles still await.
Los republicanos parecían ansiosos por presionar al expresidente. Los demócratas dijeron que esperaban utilizar su comparecencia como precedente para exigir que el presidente Trump también responda.
The president expressed his negative view of the status of nuclear talks as he weighed military strikes against Iran.
The carrier has had mechanical problems throughout its eight-month deployment, but officials now say it is ready for battle. Take a look inside the ship.
Readers discuss an Opinion guest essay by Daniel Richman. Also: A response from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche; President Trump and seniors’ health.
El enfoque del presidente de Estados Unidos es un resurgimiento de la misión imperial: adquirir los territorios y recursos de pueblos soberanos.
Republicans appeared eager to press the former president. Democrats said they hoped to use his appearance as precedent to demand that President Trump also answer questions.
The move would split off the money-losing social media platform as the company pursues a merger with a fusion power company.
The A.I. firm had rejected military officials’ latest offer. Anthropic has until 5:01 p.m. on Friday to give them unrestricted access to its model.
A request made to President Trump about the war in Sudan is at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The June 2025 conflict with Iran depleted Israeli and U.S. stocks of antiballistic missiles. If there is another war, the pressure will be on to destroy Iranian missiles before they can be launched.
El estado de ánimo en el país oscila entre la ansiedad, la resignación y la expectativa, mientras el presidente Donald Trump decide si atacar Irán o no.
El canciller Friedrich Merz expuso sus quejas durante un viaje a Pekín que China había diseñado para demostrar la buena relación entre ambos países.
From a Charlotte-area House race to three statehouse races, North Carolina liberals are signaling that their tolerance for Democratic stalwarts may be coming to an end.
On what makes Congress secret and toxic.
The State of the Union was full of fearmongering. That strategy isn’t working with voters anymore — and Donald Trump is handing Democrats a gift.
In an email to embassy workers Friday morning, Ambassador Mike Huckabee warned them that if they wanted to leave Israel, they “should do so TODAY.”
Algunos funcionarios del gobierno de Trump esperan que un ataque obligue a Irán a renunciar a su programa de enriquecimiento nuclear. Otros tienen dudas.
Personnel once meant policy; now it means flattery.
“We don’t need a bulldozer,” says Alexander Stubb, Finland’s president and a golf partner of President Trump. “Reform doesn’t mean destruction.”
Tras exigir el fin del liderazgo comunista de la isla, el presidente de EE. UU. espera llegar a un acuerdo con el gobierno cubano para evitar el caos.
President Trump’s approach is a revival of the mission of empire — acquiring the territories and resources of sovereign peoples.
Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran do not hold up.
Speaking in Wisconsin to support Republicans ahead of the midterm elections, Vice President JD Vance reminded his audience that Democrats had not stood up at the president’s behest on Tuesday.
What do you bring the president when you visit the White House? Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a choice that seemed to please Donald Trump.
The office of a prosecutor based in Miami has issued new subpoenas in a wide-ranging inquiry aimed at President Trump’s perceived foes.
Representatives of the countries were in Geneva this week to discuss the fate of Iran’s nuclear program.
Trump’s State of the Union was a mirror of his administration. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” Ezra and the Times Opinion editor Aaron Retica discuss the yes-man culture surrounding Trump.
The Trump administration is signaling a different approach, after demanding an end to Cuba’s communist leadership.
Our reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs examines the context of a moment in the State of the Union speech when President Trump turned to a favorite tactic on immigration.
The Trump administration came under fire for an operation that turned lethal and politically toxic. But the show of force may also have had a bigger purpose: to serve as a warning.
Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica react to Trump’s 2026 State of the Union speech.
President Trump’s approval ratings have plummeted in his second term. But Tuesday night in his State of the Union address, he shared a very different narrative. Ezra Klein asks: What if Trump actually thinks everything he said is true?
As drug gangs have become more deeply embedded in Mexico, narco blockades have become a way for them to visibly assert their power.
President Trump’s top officials are often portrayed as cunning political strategists. But too often, it’’s their carelessness and incompetence that put Americans at risk — and citizens are paying the price, argues Times Opinion’s editor, Kathleen Kingsbury.
Mayor Mike Johnston’s order is a defiant shift from his measured stance and risks drawing attention to Greater Denver after President Trump during the campaign promised a “bloody story” there.
Experts say Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is trying to capitalize on her success standing up to President Trump.
The president has sought to end the program, known as Temporary Protected Status, for various migrants as part of his mass deportation efforts.
The former secretary of state had requested a public hearing if she was going to be forced to testify in the House Oversight Committee’s investigation, but the G.O.P. chairman had refused.
President Trump’s State of the Union address leaned heavily on rage bait for one reason, the Times Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie argues: The president is trying to distract from the fact that he is failing to govern the country effectively.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s trip to the White House on Thursday was unannounced. The topics he planned to discuss with President Trump were not immediately clear.
Tanto EE. UU. como Irán dicen que quieren evitar un conflicto. Se acaba el tiempo para eludirlo.
Plus, a big shift in the housing market.
Times Opinion convened a panel of state experts to weigh in on the Senate Republican primary.
The national mood is somewhere between anxiety, resignation and anticipation as President Trump considers whether to attack Iran.
The president is becoming the very thing that destroyed the Democrats: a reality-denying machine.
Ryan Cummings and Jared Bernstein argue that the industry is struggling because its core product is basically useless.
The Trump administration is proposing Obamacare plans that it says will lower health insurance premiums. But critics warn they would make care unaffordable.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders wants to build a huge, pricey prison to hold the inmates incarcerated under her tough-on-crime agenda, and she hopes to oust fellow Republicans on Tuesday to do it.
The Trump administration is creative when it comes to basic math.
The North Korean leader said that his country can get along well with the United States as long as Washington accepts it as a nuclear weapons state.
Los documentos publicados por el Departamento de Justicia mencionan brevemente una acusación no verificada de que Donald Trump la agredió en la década de 1980, cuando era menor de edad. Pero varios memorandos relacionados con su testimonio no figuran en los archivos.
Some officials in the Trump administration hope an attack would force Iran to give up its nuclear enrichment program. Others have doubts.
President Trump has kept up a steady drumbeat of threats and built up U.S. troops in the region. Iran’s task is to give him a win but also preserve some semblance of nuclear enrichment.
Vice President JD Vance said that the Trump administration had been forced to “turn the screws on” Minnesota so the state would respond to allegations of fraud.
The firings are part of a rolling barrage of retribution aimed at those who worked on the two federal prosecutions of President Trump.
Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica react to Trump’s 2026 State of the Union speech.
Our photojournalist Kenny Holston was the only news photographer on the House floor during President Trump’s State of the Union speech. Here’s how he captured his images.
Here’s how social media may have shaped your impressions of the State of the Union.
The president appears to be undermining Americans’ faith in the outcome, at a moment when Republicans face an uphill climb to keep control of Congress.
Two federally funded newsrooms received a draft funding agreement that could give President Trump’s appointees the power to veto their new hires for editors in chief and chief executives.
President Trump’s arguments about the country during the State of the Union on Tuesday echoed those of President Biden’s two years ago.
The U.S. and Iran both say they want to avoid a conflict. Time is running out to avoid one.
Prosecutors said that Asif Merchant traveled to the United States in 2024, under the guise of a businessman, to coordinate plots to kill leaders, including President Trump.
The ruling repudiates a key Homeland Security Department policy of sending immigrants to countries where they have no ties. The judge paused his ruling to allow for an appeal.
John DeLeeuw, an American Airlines executive, was confirmed to the seat vacated by Alvin Brown, who is suing over his ouster.
A federally appointed committee is pushing back on plans to mint gold currency depicting President Trump.
An existing law could help create new retirement savings plans for people who lack them. But there may be income restrictions on any match.
By the president’s own admission, it could be years before the matter is settled, even though the administration previously indicated it would pay.
In his State of the Union address, President Trump promoted two programs that just so happened to be named after him.
A la defensiva sobre la economía y ante la proximidad de las elecciones de mitad de mandato, el presidente Trump dejó claro que su estrategia política consiste en pintar a los demócratas como antipatriotas y “locos”.
Readers respond to the president’s address. Most but not all are critical.
Democratic congresswomen put out a call to wear white at the State of the Union. It didn’t work.
With his job approval ratings ticking down, President Trump said that his second term so far was “a turnaround for the ages.” Did he persuade voters?
Documents released by the Justice Department briefly mention a woman’s unverified accusation that Donald J. Trump assaulted her in the 1980s, when she was a minor. But several memos related to her account are not in the files.
En un discurso en el que abundó la teatralidad, el presidente Trump tachó a los demócratas de “locos” y antipatriotas.
The president said he had negotiated a deal with tech giants to cover the energy costs of data centers, but offered few details. Experts said such pledges could prove difficult in practice.
The luxury automaker said losses for 2025 had increased from the year before, as tariffs and geopolitical uncertainty take a toll on its operations.
The president boasted about a strong economy in his State of the Union address. But he spent less time on a potential weakness, affordability.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz laid out his complaints in a frank message to his hosts on a trip to Beijing that China had designed to showcase their relationship.
We’re covering the State of the Union speech.
A lo largo de casi 70 años, muchos mandatarios estadounidenses han intentado derrocar al gobierno comunista de la isla. Esta vez parece distinto.
Plus, how kids are getting around phone-free classroom rules.
President Trump delivered the longest State of the Union speech in history on Tuesday night.
El líder venezolano apostó a que el presidente estadounidense no se atrevería a atacar. La llamada entre ambos, los ultimátums ignorados y una cadena de errores de cálculo desembocaron en una ofensiva que selló su destino.
With the midterms approaching and polls showing unease about the economy, some of President Trump’s arguments about its strength sounded eerily like those of his predecessor.
Steve Pearce, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, is set to face a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
Appeasing a predatory hegemon doesn’t work.
The real state of the union.
Nine Opinion writers weigh in on the speech.
The Venezuelan leader overestimated his strength and misread his exchange with President Trump in the decisive weeks before his capture by U.S. forces.
Negotiators agree that joining the bloc is critical to Kyiv’s future. But obstacles abound, and compromises might forever change how the union works.
On the defensive over the economy and with the midterms approaching, President Trump made clear that his political strategy is to paint Democrats as unpatriotic and ‘crazy.’
President Trump portrayed the United States as safe and “winning” in his State of the Union address. He also derided Democrats, repeating baseless claims that they cheat in elections and assailing them on immigration.
President Trump turned his State of the Union address into full-blown political theater, handing out medals to war veterans and tossing the spotlight to ice hockey players.
Shortly after Secretary of State Marco Rubio was singled out for praise, a New York Times photographer captured him reading messages from Mr. Trump’s special envoy to Venezuela.
In an address that was heavy on theatrics, President Trump lashed out at Democrats as “crazy” and unpatriotic.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia delivered the Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union address.
The currency is stumbling, by many accounts. But the narrative is false.
Even as the president considers an attack, his State of the Union address offered little more than a brief repetition of vague talking points from recent days.
“We all know the answer is no,” the Virginia governor argued in her rebuttal to President Trump’s State of the Union address.
During the State of the Union address, the president said states “must ban” social transitions among young people without parental consent.
President Trump spoke for nearly two hours to a joint session of Congress.
Si China invade Taiwán e interrumpe sus exportaciones de chips a las empresas estadounidenses, la industria tecnológica de Estados Unidos, y la economía mundial, quedarían paralizadas.
The president announced medals for the U.S. men’s hockey team’s star goalie as well as several military veterans.
It’s not the first time some Democratic women have displayed unity by wearing the same color, but this time it was in part to signal opposition to the SAVE America Act.