Amid mounting criticism from other countries and his own administration, President Trump told reporters that the U.S. didn’t need help opening the Strait of Hormuz.
A U.S. attack or a move to seize control of Iran’s main oil export hub could cripple the country’s ability to profit from its natural resources. But it would also risk sending energy prices even higher.
Israel is the rare U.S. ally that pulls its weight, shares the risk and contributes to victory.
As the conflict enters its third week, some nations are trying to reduce energy use, including a mandatory energy holiday in Sri Lanka.
The public remarks from Chief Justice John Roberts were his first since President Trump excoriated the justices who ruled against his tariffs in harsh and personal terms.
The country appears to be cracking down on people linked to the acquisition of Manus, a Singapore company with Chinese roots, as President Trump prepares to visit Beijing.
President Trump has faced mounting criticism over the U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran from allies and even members of his own administration.
A new Senate report argues the Trump administration has also pushed costs up by stifling clean energy.
Readers discuss developments in the Iran war, including strains with allies. Also: The high cost of opera, not just at the Met.
Aún en guerra con Irán y con el control en Venezuela, el presidente Trump está dando señales de que está a punto de intervenir en otro país.
Aunque algunos países europeos dijeron que estaban discutiendo formas de ayudar a reabrir el estrecho de Ormuz, varios rechazaron las peticiones del presidente Trump de enviar buques de guerra.
President Trump said “a president should not have learning disabilities,” prompting criticism from a group that advocates equal opportunities for people with learning disabilities.
El Ford entra ahora en su décimo mes de despliegue tras llegar a Medio Oriente procedente del Caribe.
President Trump says his NATO allies are disloyal for not helping the United States to clear an oil blockade. But they have a long list of incentives to refuse.
Still at war with Iran and in control in Venezuela, President Trump is signaling that he is about to intervene in another country.
Officials say the crippling of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which the president himself created, could open elections to cyberattacks and foreign influence.
The legislation would require voters to prove their citizenship in person upon registration, ban IDs without a photo at polling places and criminalize failures to enforce such requirements.
New York transit officials are seeking nearly $60 million in overdue federal funding to extend the subway line to East Harlem. The administration’s rationale for the freeze has been inconsistent.
It’s an affliction — and not one relegated to the Trump administration.
Energy prices continued to climb around the world as war in the Middle East intensifies. That has scrambled President Trump’s foreign policy strategy.
We explain why America’s allies aren’t coming to the rescue in the Strait of Hormuz.
Plus, the champion of “Swedish death cleaning” dies at 91.
President Trump said on Monday that he believed he would have “the honor of taking Cuba.” His comments came during a nationwide blackout and energy crisis on the island.
The first Trump administration defended cluster munitions as “legitimate,” but on Monday, Adm. Brad Cooper condemned them as “inherently indiscriminate.”
The Republican leader said he couldn’t overcome a filibuster but, under relentless pressure from the president and the far right, would put Democrats on the record against the restrictive voter I.D. bill.
The Justice Department’s Live Nation settlement took everyone by surprise, even its lead counsel.
Canada’s prime minister chooses pragmatism in a turbulent world, which means doing business with countries that do not share Canada’s democratic values. Some critics see this as weakness.
Proposed settlements would block wind farms off New York State and North Carolina, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
Barraged by Iranian attacks and questioning the value of security ties with the United States, nations in the Gulf have turned to Ukraine, Australia and Italy for help.
As the U.S.-Israel-Iran war continues, conservatism’s most famous figures are in a rhetorical brawl over America’s role.
With the Xi-Trump summit almost certainly delayed, and tensions rising over the war in Iran, vital issues for both the U.S. and China are also being cast into uncertainty.
The early reality of the Iran war is not cooperating with President Trump’s bluster.
EE. UU. le ha dicho a Cuba que, para que se produzcan avances significativos en las negociaciones, el presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel debe dimitir, dijeron personas familiarizadas con las conversaciones.
R.A.F. Fairford was the site of repeated antiwar protests during the Iraq war in 2003. Now it is being used again as a base for U.S. bombing missions in the Middle East.
Oil had not flowed through the pipeline since a 2015 rupture caused an environmental disaster on California’s Central Coast. It sets up a new fight between the Trump administration and state officials.
President Trump said he might postpone a trip to China to focus on the war. More than a million people have been displaced in Lebanon this month, according to the country’s health ministry.
Is the U.S. repeating a century-old mistake in Iran? On “The Ezra Klein Show,” Ali Vaez, the Iran project director for the International Crisis Group, warns that Western-backed “short-term gains” often lead to unintended consequences.
The New York Times reached out to people close to President Trump’s predecessors. They disputed Mr. Trump’s claims.
What is the price of President Trump’s failed diplomacy? Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, tells Ezra Klein that Trump’s preference for “surrender” over “marginal improvements” cost the U.S. a historic nuclear breakthrough.
The outspoken border official drove the agency’s aggressive immigration policy in U.S. cities, including Minneapolis, until January.
The United States has told Cuba that for meaningful progress to be made in negotiations, President Miguel Díaz-Canel must step down, said people familiar with the talks.
Also, Trump raises the possibility of the U.S. “taking Cuba.” Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
The president is approaching the war in Iran as if he’s selling another Trump product, the writer E.J. Dionne Jr. says on “The Opinions.” But “selling war is a very serious business,” he adds, unlike selling Trump Steaks or Trump University.
Las palabras del presidente Trump se produjeron cuando se anticipaba que las autoridades de Cuba anunciaran una medida para abrir la economía a los inversores extranjeros, entre ellos los exiliados cubanos.
President Trump spoke to journalists for about 40 minutes before holding a news conference on Monday, offering a glimpse into his priorities.
The Ford is now entering its 10th month of deployment after arriving in the Middle East from the Caribbean.
Margaret A. Ryan is leaving the agency just six months after joining it, a surprise given that most people hold the position for years.
The justices will hear arguments over the president’s efforts to terminate the program, known as Temporary Protected Status, for migrants from Haiti and Syria as part of his mass deportation efforts.
El presidente Trump ha instado a China, el Reino Unido, Francia, Japón y Corea del Sur a que envíen barcos para ayudar a reabrir el estrecho de Ormuz, aunque no estén implicados en el ataque a Irán.
Ruling on a lawsuit brought by several prominent medical organizations, a district court said the federal government had not based its decisions on science in limiting Covid shots and revising the childhood immunization schedule.
The administration has begun discussing a new “Board of Trade” with China to try to balance what U.S. officials see as an unequal economic relationship.
The meeting, planned for this month, will focus on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
President’s Trump’s words came as a top Cuban official said his country would announce on Monday a move to open the economy to foreign investors, including Cuban exiles.
The president is no stranger to staking out contradictory stands, part of what his aides say is his negotiating style. But on Iran, his shifting positions are colliding with the consequences of war.
A medida que el conflicto con Irán se intensifica, las opciones de Trump —seguir luchando o declarar la victoria y retirarse— conllevan consecuencias problemáticas.
The branding of the U.S. military operation against Iran is a quintessentially Trumpian choice for a leader whose tenure has been marked by anger.
The president leaned on House Speaker Mike Johnson to name a Florida Republican whose grave prognosis was imperiling the party’s already slim voting margin. Both said his prospects had improved.
Wiles dijo que la enfermedad se había detectado en sus primeras fases y que permanecería en su puesto. El presidente expresó su apoyo en redes sociales.
Ahead of a vote on whether to close the center for two years of construction, the president criticized its previous financial management and physical condition.
A Florida bill that would have regulated artificial intelligence, backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, failed to gain traction after President Trump made it clear he did not want states to rein in the technology.
El enfoque bélico del gobierno de Trump, promovido por el secretario de Estado, favorece la sumisión del régimen de las naciones rivales, no el cambio.
Readers respond to a column by Nicholas Kristof. Also: Artificial intelligence pitfalls in school.
Ms. Wiles said that the disease was caught in its early stages and that she would remain in her role.
What did Speaker Mike Johnson mean when he talked about a “course correction” in the Trump administration’s deportation approach? Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs analyzes how the message around deportation is changing.
President Trump on Sunday called on NATO allies to help end the de facto Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping lane for about one-fifth of the world’s oil.
While some European countries said they were discussing ways to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, several rejected President Trump’s calls to send warships.
President Trump’s war in Iran has raised some costs just as many Americans are starting to see savings from last year’s tax cuts.
JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois and a Trump antagonist, has become a national figure for Democrats. Where will that lead?
President Trump is getting little to no support so far for his call that other countries do their part to try to ease an energy crisis prompted by U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran.
President Trump ordered officials to remove information deemed disparaging to the United States. A review of government documents shows little guidance and striking inconsistencies.
President Trump warned that he could postpone a meeting set to begin in just over two weeks if China refuses to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Plus, highlights from the Oscars.
Do the United States and Israel share similar goals? What kind of leadership will Iran have next? How does The Times report on wartime deaths?
Does the president need congressional approval to engage in a war? A former Trump official, Nadia Schadlow, says it’s more complicated than you might think on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Muchos agricultores han celebrado los cambios al programa de visados conocido como H-2A. Pero hay quienes se oponen debido a que reducirá sus salarios.
A ruling Friday that derailed an investigation into the Federal Reserve chair at an exceptionally early stage showed the limits of President Trump’s campaign of legal retribution.
This time, President Trump went to war without preparing the public, seeking U.N. approval or even consulting allies. But they will have to pick up the pieces.
The Federal Reserve is set to hold interest rates steady this week as officials grapple with a host of new economic risks stemming from the conflict in the Middle East.
How to fix the Democratic Party’s toxic brand.
The restrictions on half the continent have been called racist and unfair. “We don’t come to the United States because we’re running away,” one N.B.A. fan said.
A local campaign against the small school reflects growing Islamophobia in conservative enclaves in America and among G.O.P. officials.
A 339-mile buried transmission line is on schedule to bring clean electricity to New York City this spring.
The National Endowment for the Humanities seldom gave seven-figure grants. Now big awards flow to handpicked projects, including an institution with three full-time employees.
A defeated Iran will not produce the transformation of the Middle East sought by many.
Conan O’Brien, the ceremony’s host, noted in his opening monologue that viewers were “all too aware that these are very chaotic, frightening times.”
The planned vote to close the center for renovations was listed on an agenda circulated to the center’s board of trustees on Sunday, less than a day before the meeting.
Five missiles struck the Baghdad International Airport and injured four people. Israeli and Iranian attacks continued as global economic concerns about the war mounted.
As the conflict with Iran expands and intensifies, President Trump’s options — to fight on, or to move toward declaring victory and pulling back — both carry deeply problematic consequences.
Markwayne Mullin’s financial dealings take on new importance as the Senate considers his nomination to lead an agency whose budget has vastly expanded.
President Trump has urged China, Britain, France, Japan and South Korea to send warships to help reopen the waterway, even though they were not involved in the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Strait of Hormuz, a critical passageway for oil shipments, remained unsafe for tanker passage. Iran has been firing projectiles and laying mines.
Canada’s prime minister got a warm welcome from leaders still smarting about President Trump’s remarks two months ago about taking over Greenland.
We have reached end-stage polarization.
Moms donating their breast milk to strangers, dads taking someone else’s kids to school: Minnesotans showed a basic human impulse to look out for their neighbors.
The governments of both countries have repeatedly cast the other as evil, perpetuating a cycle that has culminated in the present war.
Where Washington, Idaho and Oregon meet, elk are straying from public to private lands, causing conflict and concern. If the Trump administration opens national forests further, it could get worse.
As the president’s immigration policies squeeze an already tight supply of farm labor, the Trump administration is making it cheaper to hire foreign farmworkers.
Buffalo’s Arakan Rohingya community was rattled after a disabled man’s death. “Our worry comes from future incidents that may happen,” one resident said.
Right now it does matter a lot whether actors can find the right words.
The latest clash between the two countries illustrates the depths to which relations have sunk and the struggle to forge a new path forward.
President Trump had envisioned a growing economy and improving fortunes for American families in 2026. That appears at risk in his war with Iran.
The comment from Brendan Carr came on the heels of a social media message from President Trump criticizing the news media’s coverage of the war with Iran.
The email from the group Never Surrender seeks donations for President Trump from those who want access to “private national security briefings” from him.
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was attacked overnight. Israeli strikes continued to hit the capitals of Iran and Lebanon, as Iran refused to relinquish control over a vital oil route.
The unit’s arrival in the coming days will give the Pentagon the ability to quickly launch raids.
La izquierda de América Latina ha visto a la isla como su referente ideológico. Ahora, líderes de todo el espectro dudan en ayudar a una nación que está en la mira del gobierno de Trump.
The facility would replace trailers and tents the Secret Service uses to screen visitors to the White House. It would be the latest presidential building project.
A judge ordered that Representative Joyce Beatty, a Democrat, be given access to planning documents and have the chance to oppose changes to the center at a board meeting next week.
Don’t hold your breath.
The $5 billion project in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to produce up to 10 billion barrels of oil by the end of this decade. Critics say it could endanger people and marine life.
Ali Vaez, the Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, explains the history of miscalculations that led to the war in Iran.
The Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson joins E.J. Dionne Jr. and Robert Siegel to discuss Trump’s falling approval rating and what it portends for November.
The country aims to expand domestic satellite systems and cut dependence on American networks like Elon Musk’s Starlink.
The governor of Illinois and Trump antagonist has become a national figure for Democrats. Where will that lead?
An investigation of the Federal Reserve was thwarted on Friday, but a department appeal could reimpose an obstacle in Kevin Warsh’s path.
Israel’s prime minister wanted regime change in Iran. But President Trump seems prepared to settle for something less.
Latin America’s left saw Cuba as its lodestar. Now leaders across the spectrum are hesitant to aid a nation in the Trump administration’s cross hairs.
Unleashing his inner hawk, Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans President Trump’s military interventions. So far, they favor regime compliance, not change.
The orders could undermine bipartisan legislation the Senate passed earlier this week, the most significant housing package in decades.
The large fee is the latest example of the White House’s inserting itself into corporate deal making in unusual and aggressive ways.
The move, as other Republicans confirmed they would not run, all but assured Representative Kevin Hern would succeed Senator Markwayne Mullin.
Experts condemned the U.S. campaign at a human rights meeting in Guatemala, and the Trump administration condemned the meeting.
President Trump’s son-in-law is trying to raise $5 billion or more from foreign governments and others for his private equity firm.
President Trump is the first American leader to embrace fighting a full-fledged, joint war with Israel. Washington has tried to avoid that level of coordination in the past.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday would be the most intense day of the U.S. air campaign in Iran as a vital oil supply route remained choked off.
The strikes on Kharg Island targeted Iranian military forces, not economic infrastructure on the island, a U.S. military official said.
The judge said she was staying the order indefinitely in large part because the Trump administration had been unprepared to defend it in court.
A group of Democratic attorneys general had sued to overturn the Trump administration’s new policy that demanded the past seven years of student application data.
Darren Beattie, despedido del primer gobierno de Trump por asistir a una reunión de supremacistas blancos, se convirtió en el nuevo asesor principal del Departamento de Estado para la política hacia Brasil.
The veteran, Jay Carey, was arrested the same day that President Trump signed an executive order to punish flag burning, a First Amendment right.
The October episode sent shrapnel onto California Highway Patrol vehicles on Interstate 5 during a celebratory exercise conducted for Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Wait, that’s not the real James Talarico …
The guilty verdicts marked the first time that terrorism charges had been successfully brought against purported members of antifa.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz were “something we are dealing with.” And about 2,500 Marines were headed to the Middle East to bolster the war effort.
Since Richard Grenell was appointed by President Trump, the arts center has endured waves of cancellations and departures. It will soon close for lengthy renovations.
Darren Beattie, the U.S. policy adviser on Brazil, planned to visit former President Jair Bolsonaro in prison and meet his son, who is also seeking the presidency.
Iran’s response to days of aerial bombardment and long-range artillery strikes has proved more resilient than Trump administration officials anticipated.
Judge James E. Boasberg derided the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington for pursuing a case against Jerome H. Powell that appeared to be motivated by President Trump’s desire for vengeance.
Although President Trump said seizing tankers would be a financial boon, the cost of maintaining just one aging ship has already reached $47 million.
President Trump said protesters risk getting shot “right through the head,” a change in tone from his earlier comments that Iranians must seize the chance to take over their government.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the Cuban government was talking with the United States as the effective oil blockade imposed by the Trump administration has continued to deepen the island’s energy crisis.
The defense secretary said the leader of an Iranian unit that had planned to assassinate President Trump had been killed. But U.S. officials privately acknowledge the story is not that simple.
President Trump’s aggressive stance toward Iran, during his first term and since returning to office last year, is key to understanding the conflict.
El secretario del Tesoro, Scott Bessent, dijo que era “desafortunado” que la medida pudiera beneficiar a Rusia, pero mantuvo que era solo a corto plazo.
The gas, ethylene oxide, plays a crucial role in sterilizing medical devices. But long-term exposure is linked to several types of cancer and other ailments.
Correos electrónicos muestran el caos en el Departamento de Justicia mientras el FBI trataba de comprender los archivos sobre Trump y otros 14 hombres cercanos a Epstein.
A presentation from a headhunting firm aimed to recruit Wall Street investors to the Pentagon by offering “unmatched access” to government officials and fund-raising opportunities among foreign sovereigns.
Proposals include transferring a supercomputer to the University of Wyoming and shifting a space weather lab to a private company.
At a news conference, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave no indication of how long it would take before the Navy could escort civilian cargo ships through the Strait of Hormuz.