Even as the U.S. claims to be nearing an agreement to end the conflict, Tehrans ability to close the Strait of Hormuz and hold the global economy hostage has reinforced the power of regime hard-liners.

A Ukrainian flying ace is leveraging his aerobatics skills to protect his countrymen from nightly attacks.

The Presidents stock dealing, $1.8-billion anti-weaponization slush fund, and grant of immunity from the I.R.S. demonstrate the need for major ethics reforms.

Flesh-eating bacteria is spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?

National pride in America has plummeted in the Trump era. Is it worth trying to salvage?

Dallas Jenkinss showa prestige drama about Jesus life that became the biggest crowdfunded television project in historyhas come to model the sort of bottom- up, fandom-first entertainment that is quietly reshaping the industry.

The President may have committed the rare offense that turns Republican lawmakers against him.

The astronaut Reid Wiseman talks about going deeper into space than anyone in history, eating maple cookies in microgravity, and deciding how to spend his first day off after returning to Earth.

The outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola expose the shortsightedness of Americas retreat, under the Trump Administration, from its role as a global-health leader.

Four years ago, her country went to war. Then she became a mother. She returned to tennis a different player.

Pennsylvanians who voted for the President last time around revisited.

The U.F.C. president on his decades of friendship with Donald Trump, his relationship with Joe Rogan, and his awesome night at the White House Correspondents dinner.

A familys desperate search after the deadliest day of the war between Hezbollah and Israel.

In a recent speech, the Justice made clear that he views the movement, past and present, as anti-American.

The cases of Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried at least offered a pleasant sense of comeuppance. But in Musk v. Altman, to root against Tweedledum was effectively to root for Tweedledee.

Senator John Cornyn is trying to fight off Texass attorney general,Ken Paxton, in a battle to see how far right the state can be pushed. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee, may benefit.

The prize, for a Profile of the far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin, follows recent recognition for the magazines celebrity photography by Gilian Laub.

More than six months after the U.S.-negotiated ceasefire, Israel still controls more than half the territory in Gaza, and Hamas refuses to disarm.

As the number of new high-school graduates drops, colleges will close, some will merge, and others may change beyond recognition.

The G.O.P. picks a challenger to face Jon Ossoff in the U.S. Senate election; and a Trump-backed lieutenant governor tries to hold off a billionaire challenger in the Republican primary for governor.

A race to replace Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate and Thomas Massie tries to hold on to his seat in Kentuckys Fourth Congressional District.

Why has a Republican contest in Kentucky become the most expensive House primary of all time?

The Israeli Prime Ministers government is bringing radical change to the countrys democratic institutions.

The Trump Administration has started repaying more than a hundred and fifty billion dollars to companies that paid its import duties. So far, most of their customers are still waiting to see much benefit.

A young girl was brought from Guinea to a wealthy suburb near Dallas. She spent the next sixteen years of her life in forced servitude.

The annual draft is watched by millions, and analyzed by a set of professional and amateur prognosticators. Still, it comes down to a crapshoot.

An unprecedented gerrymandering effort led by Donald Trumpand internal divisions among Democratshas made the Minority Leaders path to victory harder than ever.

Pitchers like Jacob Misiorowski are throwing harder than ever, a result of modern baseballs pitching development. But what does that kind of velocity do to the human arm?

Boots Rileys zany movies combine pop aesthetics with radical politics.

Their electoral prospects are finally improving, but opportunities can quickly give way to divisions. Does the Party have a plan?

The Presidents talks with Xi Jinping, whose leadership style he seems to envy, yielded potential deals for airplanes and soybeans but no apparent agreement on Iran.

Bill Cassidy tries to defend his seat against a Trump-endorsed challenger; congressional races are postponed in the wake of the Louisiana v. Callais decision.

Nate Cohn, the New York Times chief political analyst, on whether the Democrats can match the G.O.P. in the fight over redistricting.

The President swept off to Beijing to court Xi Jinping. Back Stateside, it was non-Presidential motorcades, video games, and a languid vibe at the White House.

After a disastrous set of election results, the British Prime Ministers authority is in tatters.

The wall is opposed by environmental groups, local sheriffs, and a pro-gun YouTuber running for Congress. Its happening anyway.

A law passed after Watergate makes Presidential records government property. The Trump Administration has declared it unconstitutional.

What happened when the Trump Administration turned its back on the worlds most vulnerable.

Pedro Snchez, the Socialist Prime Minister, has led the European opposition to the Iran war from the start.

Mark Burns, an evangelical pastor, explains that Trumps supporters dont think of him as a godlike figure, even as the President posts pictures of himself as Jesus.