If President Trump flies to China as planned in May, the primary topic will clearly be the rippling economic effects of a war that Beijing has made clear it viewed as unnecessary.A mural in Tehran last week showing Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz. China imports about a third of its oil and gas
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a statement that Iran would establish “new legal frameworks” for the Strait of Hormuz. He also said his country would retain its nuclear capabilities.Iranians held photos of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, at a government-organized march i
The longer the disruption to Middle East fuel supplies lasts, the risk grows that higher energy costs will feed into broader inflation that could dent economic growth.
Gross domestic product expanded at a 2 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, a period including first weeks of conflict in the Middle East.The U.S. economy continued to prove resilient in the first three months of the year, even as energy prices soared in the early weeks of the
The United Arab Emirates is walking away from OPEC this May. The New York Times’ energy reporter, Rebecca Elliott, breaks down how the war with Iran provided the perfect opening for the Emirates to go solo.
Jerome H. Powell will remain a governor at the Federal Reserve after his term as chair ends, in a bid to guard against a further incursion by the Trump administration on the central bank’s independence.Jerome H. Powell on Wednesday during what is expected to be his final news conference as chair of
The Bank of England and European Central Bank held interest rates steady on Thursday, as officials search for signs of possible longer-term damage and warn of the impact of a prolonged energy shock.A gas station in Paris. The war in Iran had an almost immediate impact on European inflation, increasi
Black Democrats in the South already face steep challenges when seeking political office. But the Supreme Court’s ruling could be felt for a generation.Evan Turnage, a former congressional aide, recently challenged the veteran Democratic lawmaker Bennie Thompson in a Mississippi district vulnerable
The majority said the law was a victim of its own success and no longer needed. Dissenters responded that Congress should make the call.People lining up to register to vote in Selma, Ala., in February 1965.
It was not immediately clear whether Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, would postpone the May 16 primary election for House races after the court ruled the state’s congressional districts unconstitutional.Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, a Republican, outside the White House in 2025. Mr. Landry is weigh
Since his early days as a lawyer and in his first years on the bench, the chief justice has worked to limit the force of the Voting Rights Act.John Roberts and other nominees to the federal bench with President George W. Bush in 2001.
Her withdrawal reflects the energy of the party’s left and voters’ unease with older candidates and paves the way for Graham Platner to challenge Senator Susan Collins in November.Gov. Janet Mills of Maine was not able to match the fund-raising of Graham Platner, a progressive political newcomer, or
In this sequel, Andy (Anne Hathaway) and Miranda (Meryl Streep) encounter a series of crises that set the stage for a larger, existential catastrophe.
The 2006 comedy is filled with moments big and small that have stood the test of time, thanks in no small part to Meryl Streep’s turn as Miranda Priestly.
States are responding to a rise in high-profile squatting cases, in luxury homes and public housing alike.Police officers are often reluctant to get involved in what they deem a civil matter.
Corn estimates were off by 4.5 million acres last year. A lack of survey responses, not job cuts, led to the miss, the Agriculture Department said.A cornfield in Earlham, Iowa, last fall. The Agriculture Department botched its estimate for the size of the 2025 corn crop.
High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence.
Officials are investigating similar attacks across Europe, all claimed by a shadowy Islamist group that may be using low-cost, unsophisticated methods to sow fear in Jewish communities.An arson attack in the Golders Green neighborhood of London in March destroyed four ambulances run by a Jewish orga
The British police said the attack on Wednesday was being treated as terrorism, and they warned of rising antisemitic hate crimes.A crime scene investigator at the site of a stabbing attack in the Golders Green neighborhood of London on Wednesday.
A Jewish security group told police an attack on the community was “likely” because of heightened antisemitism, days before December’s mass shooting in Sydney.A memorial at Bondi Beach, the site of the attack, in Sydney, Australia, in December.
In the 1960s, she invited an audience to cut off her clothes. As attacks on women’s rights escalate, “Cut Piece” and other decades-old works of feminist art feel more relevant than ever.
The Trump administration says the cities shouldn’t be penalized for unhealthy air because pollution can blow in from abroad. Some experts say that’s preposterous.Phoenix has long struggled with smog collecting in its bowl-shaped topography. The city failed to meet a federal air pollution standard in
A research lab in Washington State tracks ecological changes in a warming climate and provides scientific guidance for forest managers. It is one of 57 such facilities being shuttered.
Some consider the regular feeding of late-stage dementia patients to be nonnegotiable. Others see it as extending life unnecessarily.Linda and Stan Lawson were married for more than 50 years.
