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.
A U.S. invasion of islands in the world’s most vital oil corridor would come with extraordinary risks.
The Trump administration’s campaign to curtail international students is not just hitting the elite schools targeted by the government.
Long concerned about geopolitical crises, China redoubled efforts to secure energy security when President Trump started raising the stakes in his first term.
President Trump taunted Iran on social media, while strikes continued in Iran, Israel, Lebanon and some Gulf states.
An Air Force officer whose fighter jet was shot down in Iran was rescued by U.S. Special Operations forces in a risky Saturday night mission that took commandos deep into enemy territory, President Trump said on social media early on Sunday.
In an expletive-laced social media post, the president said Iran should open the Strait of Hormuz or he would bomb bridges and power plants.
A swing-district Republican called the war an “incredible operation,” and President Trump drew backlash from political figures in both parties over a social media post.
President Trump first gave Iran 48 hours to reopen the vital oil shipping route on March 21. The deadline has been reset many times since.
For the Iranians, the Air Force colonel whose fighter jet had been shot down was possible leverage. For the U.S. military, finding him was a moral imperative.
Un oficial de la Fuerza Aérea de un F-15E Strike Eagle derribado el viernes por Irán pasó un día en territorio hostil con poco más que una pistola como protección.
The president said he would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.” Until this administration, American leaders had insisted they were trying to follow international law in war.
The group of influential oil exporters also said it was increasing its production quotas, a largely symbolic move.
The intelligence agency also executed a deception campaign aimed at drawing Iranian forces away from where the missing Air Force officer was hiding.
In an expletive-filled social media post, Mr. Trump said Iran should open the Strait of Hormuz or he will bomb bridges and power plants.
Readers respond to “Change Your Life. Start a Band,” an Opinion guest essay by Hugo Lindgren. Also: Bruce Springsteen’s art.
After Iran shot down a U.S. plane and U.S. forces pulled off a risky ground operation to extricate a stranded airman, both sides claimed victory. That confidence could fuel further escalation.
The pontiff’s Easter remarks follow a Palm Sunday homily in which he said God rejected the prayers of “those who wage war.”
Is this a great way to audition and select our leaders, especially for executive offices? Not particularly.
Defense systems that shoot projectiles out of the sky have become one of the most important components of warfare, so much so that militaries face a diminishing supply.
The architect of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign wants “a moratorium on immigration from third world countries until we can heal ourselves as a nation.” The chaos in Minneapolis has not pushed him off that course.
After seesawing between diplomacy and threats, the president may find it harder to knock down prices by suggesting pauses in attacks or progress in talks.
An Air Force officer of a F-15E Strike Eagle shot down on Friday by Iran spent a day in hostile territory with little more than a pistol for protection.
The U.S. military’s search-and-rescue operation for a missing American airman entered its second day. The Israeli military struck a major petrochemical complex in Iran.
The Trump administration had said it would collect data from colleges to ensure compliance with a Supreme Court ruling ending affirmative action in admissions.
En un agudo contraste con los llamamientos del gobierno de Trump a las oraciones cristianas por el esfuerzo de guerra, el papa León XIV dice que la dominación militar es “totalmente ajena al camino de Jesucristo”.
Desde 1979, Irán ha utilizado en repetidas ocasiones a estadounidenses y europeos detenidos en su territorio para obtener concesiones frente a adversarios más poderosos.
El verdadero motivo del descontento de Trump con la fiscala general era, al parecer, su incapacidad para satisfacer su necesidad de venganza contra sus enemigos.
A military analyst identified markings consistent with a squadron based at R.A.F. Lakenheath, one of two British bases that host the largest U.S. fighter jet operation in Europe.
The White House’s attacks on academia and budget cuts for research have provided an opening for other countries to poach leading scientists.
Trump girls gone wild — or just gone.
Our strength and leverage over events in Iran are growing, not diminishing.
From Tehran to the Supreme Court, a look at Trump’s relentless battles.
Since 1979, Iran has repeatedly used Americans and Europeans detained on its territory to win concessions over more powerful adversaries.
The name atop the Justice Department’s organizational chart matters less than the presence of a president whose demands for revenge have become so extreme that even his most obsequious appointees have fallen short.
While the federal deficit has started to shrink under President Trump, his plans could make the long-term situation worse.
The administration’s videos are possible only in a country that asks little from its people beyond their YouTube clicks.
Politically disconnected young men, especially Latinos, helped fuel President Trump’s victory, but in this economy, they could move to unconventional candidates like Dan Osborn in Nebraska.
The White House has turned deportations, a signature domestic issue, into a major piece of foreign policy. Here’s what we know about the program.
The memorandum calls for paying employees at the Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who have gone without pay during a record-long shutdown.
With the midterms approaching, the president may be running out of time to get new cabinet members confirmed without bipartisan support.
Un helicóptero de rescate también fue atacado y otro avión militar de la Fuerza Aérea, un A-10 Warthog, se estrelló el viernes en la región del golfo Pérsico.
President Trump and administration officials have extended more pronounced overtures to Christians in public statements and executive orders.
If Iran wins this war, victory “will be tremendously emboldening for a regime that has been very dangerous even at its weaker moments,” Suzanne Maloney, the director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, argues on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Iran will become “the toll collector at the gulf” if Trump preemptively walks away from the conflict in Iran, Suzanne Maloney, the director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, argues on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Iran believes time is on its side, and that the West isn’t ready for the economic shock of a blocked Strait of Hormuz, warns Suzanne Maloney, the director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution.
The president’s request for 2027 reflects his preoccupation with eliminating programs that support diversity and civil rights.
Iran has sent waves of missiles and drones at Israel and Gulf states in recent weeks and shot down an American fighter jet on Friday.
Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations.
One crew member was rescued. The risky operation to find the second airman came as the United States and Israel struck infrastructure targets in Iran, prompting Iranian retaliation in the Gulf.
An F-15E Strike Eagle was lost to enemy fire and an A-10 Warthog crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, officials said. A rescue helicopter was also fired upon.
Since launching the war in Iran on Feb. 28, President Trump has altered his position on regime change and shifted the timeline of operations.
The plan faces significant local political opposition and the dilapidated state of the site poses considerable logistical challenges.
Representative LaMonica McIver is facing crushing legal fees and prison time as she seeks to get the Justice Department assault case against her dismissed, citing her legislative prerogatives.
El presidente de Francia, Emmanuel Macron, criticó al presidente Trump por lo que calificó de una actitud poco seria ante la guerra en Irán y sus ataques constantes contra la OTAN.
In sharp contrast to the Trump administration’s calls for Christian prayers for the war effort, Pope Leo XIV says military domination is “entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ.”
Readers react to President Trump’s firing of the attorney general. Also: A.I. and therapy.
Los detalles de la instalación subterránea suelen ser secretos. Pero ahora que el proyecto del presidente se enfrenta a desafíos legales, Trump ha hablado más abiertamente del búnker
Pam Bondi tenía la sensación de que sus días como fiscala general de Estados Unidos estaban contados. Pero no esperaba que el presidente Trump la destituyera tan pronto.
The Iran expert Suzanne Maloney explains how Iran views the war, and why the United States is losing.
El paradero de la tripulación del avión no estaba claro. Las autoridades estadounidenses se apresuraban a organizar una operación de búsqueda y rescate.
The pain inflicted on Iran has not forced it into submission. It is not clear what will.
The fate of the plane’s crew was unclear, as American officials scrambled to mount a search and rescue operation.
The massive, proposed increase would be offset in part by steep cuts to domestic programs, some of which the administration describes as wasteful.
La medida permitirá que la dirigente encargada del país realice transacciones con empresas estadounidenses e incluso se reúna con el presidente Trump.
How the former attorney general’s missteps led to the loss of her job.
No existe una oposición organizada en la isla porque muchos críticos del régimen han huido. Pero las protestas antigubernamentales han aumentado.
Demand Justice plans to tie Republicans running for Senate this year to a possible fight to fill vacancies that could emerge on the Supreme Court.