Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit to Washington, long planned, is now likely to be dominated by discussions of the attack, which Europeans did not take part in.
The country has one of the most feared armed forces in Africa, yet within its own borders, it has repeatedly failed to stop abductions and attacks.
A protracted conflict in the Middle East risks a spike in energy prices and broader inflation.
The new pact includes additional protections to prevent the use of the company’s technology for mass surveillance of Americans.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was defiant. Former President Bill Clinton spoke of President Trump’s ties to Epstein. A Republican raised a conspiracy theory.
The first lady advocated an increased focus on education and empathy, as her husband has waged war in the Middle East and sought to cut education funding at home.
Americans in Riyadh and other cities were advised to shelter in place immediately.
Third Way, the moderate Democratic advocacy group and think tank, has an expansive and expensive plan to shape the 2028 presidential campaign.
The mentalist Oz Pearlman is this year’s speaker. “Hopefully, it will be something very Special,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
President Trump’s image — in paint and pixels, on posters and sculptures — is ubiquitous inside the White House, and beyond.
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq offered a stark lesson in the limits of military force. The Iran attacks suggest an era of postwar wariness is over.
The risks for President Trump from the assault on Iran are escalating as casualties mount, oil prices rise and the war expands across the region.
Much of Tehran’s arsenal of missiles may be hidden underground, making it harder to destroy.
The move amounts to a surrender in a clash that has led many law firms to submit to the president rather than face the threat of his executive orders.
President Trump gave a “brief update” on the Iran operation. And then he stayed true to form.
Trump’s foreign policy has often been less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a mutation of it.
The United States and Israel started a war with Iran by killing its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Rwanda’s government responded by claiming the sanctions unjustly targeted only one party to the conflict and misrepresented the facts.
President Trump also declined to rule out sending ground troops into Iran as the conflict spread into the Gulf countries and Lebanon and Israel exchanged strikes.
The Trump administration said in a memo it wanted to “avoid the risk of impaired objectivity” by hiring former staff members to wind down operations at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
President Trump’s physician did not explain what the skin condition was or what medication he was using to treat it.
Iran is expanding the conflict to put pressure on the U.S. and its allies.
A surge in sensors and cameras, combined with artificial intelligence, has transformed U.S. intelligence’s ability to locate foreign heads of state. Add to that an American president willing to capture or kill them.
Satellite imagery showed flattened warehouses at the base that served as the nerve center of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, a prized asset for the Taliban.
¿Se reproducirá la estrategia aplicada en Venezuela? ¿O el pueblo iraní tomará el gobierno? En una entrevista, el mandatario no parecía seguro: “Es muy pronto”.
Muchos cubanos se preguntan si Trump planea atacar a continuación al gobierno comunista de su país.
The American public has received too little information to effectively judge the goals and objectives of the largest U.S. military operation in the Middle East in a generation.
The state’s congressional map looks much different, and so do those in other states across the country.
Readers debate the justification for President Trump’s decision to take military action against Iran.
The announcement was a significant step in forging a European deterrent as Russia grows more aggressive and the U.S. steps back.
Testimony and evidence in Asif Merchant’s trial has so far portrayed him as a zealous yet bumbling operative who never came close to his mission, which prosecutors say was backed by Iran.
La Copa del Mundo es una oportunidad para que EE. UU. demuestre que es más que Trump.
President Trump’s embrace of military action in Iran was spurred by an Israeli leader determined to end diplomatic negotiations. Few of the president’s advisers voiced opposition.
Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said more troops and fighter jets were heading to the region. He acknowledged the possibility of an extended campaign.
Many Cubans are wondering if the Trump administration plans to target their country’s Communist government next.
The president’s flat 10 percent tariff is most beneficial to nations that previously faced the highest rates. But it’s not clear how much that will prompt a new surge in imports.
As a candidate, Donald J. Trump criticized regime change as “a proven, absolute failure.” Now he finds himself pursuing the exact kind of regime change he once criticized. Our chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, tracks the president’s evolution on this issue.
An industry report shows high interest rates, fewer infrastructure projects and tariffs pressures have slowed growth and decreased jobs in the sector.
Higher fuel prices and lower demand for international flights are eating into airlines’ profits.
Palmer Luckey, who founded the defense tech start-up Anduril, has become the It Guy as President Trump aims to modernize the U.S. military with autonomous weapons.
Ali Larijani, seen as a pragmatist who could negotiate with Washington, struck a defiant tone and vowed to fight on.
China and its neighbors scrambled to soften the blow of a disorderly trade war. Conflict in the Middle East now threatens to disrupt the oil imports that power their economies.
Plus, what to know about the A.I. videos that kids are watching.
Disregarded by President Trump over Iran, Europe’s leaders are adapting to a world in which they are little more than bystanders.
The old U.S.-led order is dead; the new one feels unstable and ominous, as if a storm could descend at any moment.
President Trump has said the attacks were necessary for the security of the United States and to free the Iranian people from oppression. Do voters agree?
California’s governor challenges the usual criteria for a presidential nominee.
GOP lawmakers ensured there was enough money for the immigration crackdown, but the funding pause threatens other Homeland Security work.
The case involves a Texas man charged after agents found drugs and a gun in his home and tests the constitutionality of the federal law.
The president still has a lot of leeway to impose tariffs. That’s an invitation for businesses to curry favor with him.
A jury will decide whether the music colossus, which owns venues, represents artists and operates Ticketmaster, is a monopoly, as the Justice Department contends.
The World Cup Is a Chance for the U.S. To Show It Is More Than Trump
Friedrich Merz’s chancellorship is in choppy waters.
The Afghan military said it had thwarted a Pakistani airstrike on the former U.S. base, Bagram airfield, amid an intensifying campaign that has targeted dozens of military sites across the country.
In a brief interview, he said the country’s hardened military should simply surrender their weapons to the Iranian public.
Iran has fired nearly 400 missiles and over 800 drones across the Persian Gulf in the past two days, according to government reports.
Woodrow Wilson’s presidency has taken on new resonance among historians and critics of President Trump, particularly when it comes to race.
Nadie debería llorar al ayatolá Jamení, pero Trump está creando la oportunidad para el caos y la violencia con su campaña contra Irán.
President Trump again deployed heavy force against a country with which he had been negotiating, continuing a pattern seen in previous attacks on Iran and Venezuela.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. Whoever takes his place will shape the Middle East’s future.
How long prices remain high will depend on what the United States, Israel and Iran do next.
The grim toll signaled that Iran was more prepared for war than the Trump administration anticipated, U.S. military officials said.
Lawmakers questioned whether the United States faced an “imminent” threat from Iran, a requirement for the president to lawfully initiate military action without congressional approval.
El ambiguo llamamiento del presidente Trump se produce después de que socavara los medios de comunicación financiados por Estados Unidos que normalmente habrían ayudado al gobierno a llegar a la gente dentro del país.
American hearts should be moved by moments like this, when free nations band together to administer justice and supply hope.
El asesinato del líder supremo de Irán y de otros altos cargos iraníes se produjo tras un estrecho intercambio de información entre Estados Unidos e Israel, según personas familiarizadas con la operación.
In an interview with The Atlantic, President Trump said the country’s new leaders after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “want to talk” but did not say whom he was referring to.
Readers offer varied perspectives, including praise and criticism, on the strikes again Iran.
No one should mourn Ayatollah Khamenei, but Trump is creating the opportunity for chaos and violence with his campaign against Iran.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in a major assault launched by the United States and Israel.
President Trump’s envoys negotiated with Iran over its nuclear program. But Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel wanted much more.
While the latest tranche of documents about the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has exposed a deeply American scandal, it is Europe where the aggressive enforcement is taking place.
No existía una amenaza inmediata por parte de Irán. Pero el presidente vio la oportunidad de llevar al límite a un gobierno debilitado, y apuesta por desencadenar un levantamiento popular.
We should not squander this moment, when Iran is uniquely weak and vulnerable and we hold all of the advantages — literally.
The Constitution isn’t a technicality.
John Cornyn says his challenger doesn’t have the character to serve in the Senate. MAGA voters might not care.
Our national security correspondent David E. Sanger examines the war of choice that President Trump has initiated with Iran.
The killing of Iran’s supreme leader and other top Iranian officials came after close intelligence sharing between the United States and Israel, according to people familiar with the operation.
President Trump did not deliver a formal address to the American public to explain why the country was at war, a departure from his predecessors.
Republicans largely supported the decision, while Democrats mostly opposed it — but divisions appeared in both parties.
President Trump’s ambiguous appeal comes after he undermined U.S.-funded media outlets that normally would have helped the administration reach people inside the country.
How should Americans feel about the potential for regime change? What happens now?
The State of the Union was very revealing.
President Trump has become increasingly willing to assert American power overseas, a decade after propelling himself to the highest office by promising to focus on “America first.”
Questions remain about how much effort the Trump administration will put into changing the Iranian government.
The public’s appetite for a U.S. attack on Iran was low before President Trump and Israel took action on Saturday.
U.S. military interventions have often gone poorly for the countries in question. But there is much the world, and Iranians, can do.
The president made unsupported and exaggerated claims in a speech announcing the attack on Iran.
Critics say the president is violating the Constitution, and many Democrats and at least two Republicans in Congress say they must vote on whether to enter such a conflict.
The United States and Israel have declared their war aim as paving the way for a popular uprising against the government in Tehran.
The ballet company, one of the country’s most prestigious, had been under pressure to cancel its shows amid President Trump’s takeover of the performing arts center.
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.
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The round table convenes to discuss the upcoming Texas primaries and Trump’s State of the Union shortcomings.
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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.
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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.