By attacking Iran, President Trump has shown he is willing to engage in a distant war. This raises questions in Beijing about what he might risk for Taiwan.
A military exercise for repelling an amphibious landing, in Taiwan in 2023.
Many Muslim Americans in New York City were impressed by Mr. Mamdani’s campaign and thrilled at being able to see themselves reflected in a mayoral candidate.
Tanveer Malik, left, and her daughter Laiba, of Richmond Hill, Queens, said Zohran Mamdani’s focus on affordability had resonated with them. “I work on Wall Street, and look where I live,” Tanveer Malik said.
The administration suggested an initial report of less-severe damage was already outdated as the president continued to defend his assertion that key facilities had been “obliterated,” though no intelligence official has yet directly echoed his view.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not been seen publicly or heard from in nearly a week. That absence has surprised and unnerved everyone from political insiders to the general public.
Officials have said Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been sheltering at a bunker and refraining from electronic communication to prevent assassination attempts against him.
Darrell Harris, a high school student, died after an encounter with men who were having a water gun fight at a local park, an official with knowledge of the incident said.
In a heated hearing, Kari Lake, the Trump ally in charge of the federally funded international broadcasting network, called the media agency “a rotten piece of fish” that should be defunded.
“President Trump wants to eliminate the agency,” Kari Lake said, referring to her global media agency. “We need to eliminate this agency, find what’s salvageable and move it over to the Department of State.”
The U.S. Treasury found ties between drug cartels and the Mexican companies, including a brokerage firm controlled by a former chief of staff of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The temperature on Tuesday reached 99 degrees in Central Park, where the city’s official weather station is. A thermometer there last reached that temperature in 2012.
After Zohran Mamdani’s performance in the New York City mayoral primary, Republicans and suburban Democrats attacked him, and party leaders seemed to be hedging their bets.
In a post-election interview, Zohran Mamdani, the likely winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York, said he took some lessons from Donald Trump’s focus on the cost of living.
While Zohran Mamdani won over some Jewish supporters, other Jewish Democrats suggested that concerns about their community’s safety are being dismissed in a movement and a city they helped build.
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani celebrated on election night with Brad Lander, New York City’s comptroller. They had formed an alliance with cross-endorsements in the mayoral race.
During a confirmation hearing for an appeals court opening, Emil Bove III was repeatedly questioned about a whistle-blower complaint that portrayed political appointees as willing to mislead judges.
Dylan Lopez Contreras was arrested by immigration authorities. This week, he was remembered during the commencement for a school devoted to immigrants.
The term has no singular definition. But simply put, it’s an ideology rooted in its opposition to capitalism and wanting to shift power from corporations to workers.
Zohran Mamdani’s performance in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York on Tuesday positions him to potentially become one of the most prominent democratic socialists in the country.
Jerrold Nadler, who represents parts of Manhattan in Congress, had previously endorsed one of Zohran Mamdani’s opponents, Scott Stringer, in the Democratic mayoral primary.
The plans for strips of land in Texas and Arizona are the latest step to militarize the boundary to stem an already dwindling number of migrant crossings.
President Trump has long pushed the European allies to be more self-sufficient on defense, relying less on American protection. NATO committed to a major increase over the next decade.
President Trump, together with Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense, and Marco Rubio, secretary of state, during a new conference during the NATO summit in The Hague, on Wednesday.
The Education Department cited Gov. Gavin Newsom’s own words questioning transgender girls in female sports, and said the state had violated federal civil rights law.
The Trump administration declared on Wednesday that the California Department of Education had violated federal law by allowing transgender girls to compete on female sports teams.
Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews.
Mr. Panov with his wife at the time, the ballerina Galina Ragozina, on the roof of a London building in 1975, a year after they were finally allowed to move to Israel.
Lawyers for the administration said that a rule issued by a judge in Maryland intruded on the White House’s inherent powers to “enforce the nation’s immigration laws.”
The U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md. The lawsuit filed by the Trump administration against the district’s chief judge and 14 other federal judges who serve on the bench in Maryland makes clear how strained the relationship between the executive and judicial branches has become.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S. strikes had destroyed a facility that is key to turning highly enriched nuclear fuel into a working bomb. He railed against a less optimistic U.S. intelligence report.
The reconstituted C.D.C. panel will revisit the standard vaccination schedule. The former head of an anti-vaccine group is now a special federal employee.
At least half of the eight new members of a C.D.C. panel, who are meeting for the first time on Wednesday, have expressed some skepticism about vaccines.
The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.
The administration is pushing nations around the world, including ones at war, to take people expelled by the U.S. government who are not citizens of those countries.
The American Airlines flight with 153 passengers, which was headed to Charlotte, N.C., returned to Las Vegas shortly after takeoff. No one was injured.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at The Hague on Tuesday. Mr. Zelensky met with President Trump on Wednesday, at the margins of a NATO summit in the Netherlands.
Supporters of tax breaks for wind and solar are fighting to retain them in the G.O.P. tax bill. They’re facing a conservative effort to kill them entirely.
Old friends are bewildered by the turn taken by the second lady, a onetime Democrat and former litigator for a San Francisco firm. Others say she’s happy in the role.
Usha Vance, who clerked for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and was a top editor on The Yale Law Journal, referred to herself as a “former lawyer” in a recent appearance.
The Trump Organization’s preliminary talks this spring about affixing its brand to a tower near a recent missile strike highlight the complexities of its international deal-making.
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