Iranians Brace for Economic Impact of New U.N. Sanctions
Already suffering a 40 percent inflation rate and critical shortages of power and water, many in Iran expect conditions to get worse.Read More
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Is Expected to Make Rare Visit to Egypt
Ambassador Mike Huckabee is to travel to Cairo for talks that officials said would focus on the Gaza war and tensions between Israel and Egypt.Read More
Trump Says He Has Ordered Troops to Portland, Oregon, to Protect ICE Facilities
The president characterized Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities as being under siege from domestic terrorists.Read More
Doctors Without Borders Closes in Gaza City as Israel Intensifies Offensive
Doctors Without Borders pulled its staff from Gaza City as the medical system buckled. The U.N. has warned that more hospitals may have to close.Read More
F.B.I. Fires More Agents, Including Those Who Knelt During Racial Justice Protests
Agents group says the latest dismissals are part of a “dangerous pattern” of weakening the nation’s top law enforcement agency.Read More
Trump’s Repeated Attacks May Undercut Case Against Comey
The president’s voluble vitriol could provide defense lawyers with an avenue to protect the very people he most wants to punish.Read More
Trump Displays Little Interest in Fostering Unity Amid Political Violence
After an assassination attempt, Gov. George Wallace, the segregationist, got a surprise visitor: Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress. Could this happen today?Read More
Netanyahu’s Defiant U.N. Speech Aimed at Home as Well as the World
The Israeli prime minister faced walkouts and protests at the United Nations but sent a message to his political base that he won’t bend to international pressure.Read More
Unexpected Critics of Trump’s Attacks on Wind Energy: Oil Executives
Business leaders and trade organizations have been especially worried by attempts to stop work on wind farms that had already secured federal approval.Read More
Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump.
The University of California, one of the Trump administration’s biggest targets so far, is in an uproar over how to respond to the president’s attacks. So is the rest of higher education.Read More