That day alone, Trump spent a 90-minute press briefing mumbling to himself over a stack of papers, alleging that “pirating ships” is the only thing that Somalis succeed at, claiming that “God is very proud” of his first year back in office, and alleging that a witness to Renee Nicole Good’s death in Minneapolis earlier […]
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That day alone, Trump spent a 90-minute press briefing mumbling to himself over a stack of papers, alleging that “pirating ships” is the only thing that Somalis succeed at, claiming that “God is very proud” of his first year back in office, and alleging that a witness to Renee Nicole Good’s death in Minneapolis earlier […]
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new video loaded: What are Trump’s Options in Iran? <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/01/14/world/middleeast/THUMBNAIL/THUMBNAIL-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp&quality=75" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width President Trump has said that “help is on the way” for Iranian protesters. Amid reports that thousands of the protesters have been killed, our national security correspondent David E. Sanger describes what some of Mr. Trump’s options might be. By David E. […]
Read MoreHe then tried to shift blame for the hastily constructed tariff plan—which was built on bad math—onto the judiciary. He claimed that the nine-justice bench would be at fault for the fallout of the plan rather than his office, which forced it through in April against the advice of at least two dozen Nobel Prize–winning […]
Read MoreHe then tried to shift blame for the hastily constructed tariff plan—which was built on bad math—onto the judiciary. He claimed that the nine-justice bench would be at fault for the fallout of the plan rather than his office, which forced it through in April against the advice of at least two dozen Nobel Prize–winning […]
Read MoreThe scale, persistence, and geographic spread of these protests mark a qualitative shift. According to data compiled by the Human Rights Activists News Agency, or HRANA, at least 544 people have been killed in the course of the protests so far, with hundreds of additional deaths still under investigation. More than 10,600 people have been […]
Read MoreIranians have agency. They have been protesting against this regime from its very beginning. In March 1979, one month after Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran, overthrew the king, and announced the start of the Islamic Republic, 100,000 Iranian women poured in the streets of Tehran to fight against the suddenly compulsory hijab. The protests have […]
Read MoreIranians have agency. They have been protesting against this regime from its very beginning. In March 1979, one month after Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran, overthrew the king, and announced the start of the Islamic Republic, 100,000 Iranian women poured in the streets of Tehran to fight against the suddenly compulsory hijab. The protests have […]
Read More“It’s too bad that the Ballroom hasn’t completed because, if it were, it would be PACKED,” Trump continued. “We apologize to those Oil Companies that we cannot take today, but Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, will see them over the next week. Everyone is in daily contact. “Today’s […]
Read More“It’s too bad that the Ballroom hasn’t completed because, if it were, it would be PACKED,” Trump continued. “We apologize to those Oil Companies that we cannot take today, but Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, will see them over the next week. Everyone is in daily contact. “Today’s […]
Read MoreIt’s worth asking how things came to this. We’ve done a lot of terrible things over the decades—installed dictators who imprisoned and murdered their people, armed death squads, and so on. But somehow, through it all, we’ve remained an international beacon for small-d democrats, immigrants who aspire to come here, and many others. I’ve often […]
Read Morenew video loaded: A Look at Iran’s Antigovernment Protests <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/01/09/world/middleeast/final-final-final/final-final-final-jumbo.jpg?auto=webp&quality=75" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width Protests have rocked Iran in recent weeks, and the country’s supreme leader has threatened to escalate a crackdown on demonstrators. Erika Solomon, our bureau chief for Iran and Iraq, discusses what’s fueling the protests with our senior writer Katrin Bennhold. By Erika […]
Read MoreTrump’s increasingly bellicose deployment of the American military and his expressed isolationist “America First” agenda are often depicted as being contradictory or hypocritical, but I think that misses the point. First, as with Trump’s insistence that the U.S. should have “taken the oil” during the Iraq War, his larger theory of American power is that […]
Read MoreThe United States is pressuring the interim Venezuelan government to expel official advisers from China, Russia, Cuba and Iran, American officials said. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, listed the Trump administration’s demands to Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodríguez, in a classified meeting on Monday with senior congressional leaders. The U.S. officials, who were granted […]
Read MoreThat decision, in turn, could hand Miller outsize influence regarding the future of the country. Miller might be tasked with the day-to-day, nitty-gritty responsibilities of supervising the regime change under the office of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio, a longtime Venezuela hawk, would be the more obvious choice to oversee the regime change—but his […]
Read More“Your vice president, JD Vance, said that the message is pretty clear: that drug trafficking must stop. So was this operation a message that you’re sending to Mexico, to Claudia Sheinbaum, the president there?” Fox’s Griff Jenkins asked. “Well, it wasn’t meant to be, we’re very friendly with her, she’s a good woman,” Trump began. […]
Read More“Your vice president, JD Vance, said that the message is pretty clear: that drug trafficking must stop. So was this operation a message that you’re sending to Mexico, to Claudia Sheinbaum, the president there?” Fox’s Griff Jenkins asked. “Well, it wasn’t meant to be, we’re very friendly with her, she’s a good woman,” Trump began. […]
Read More“Good News! George and Amal Clooney, two of the worst political prognosticators of all time, have officially become citizens of France which is, sadly, in the midst of a major crime problem because of their absolutely horrendous handling of immigration, much like we had under Sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump wrote. “Remember when Clooney, after the […]
Read More“As far as American citizens, the vast majority of American citizens, especially that the U.S. Border patrol has arrested, many of those citizens assaulted federal officers, assaulted border patrol agents, in the performance of our duties,” Bovino said. “Anyone that assaults a federal officer, you’re gonna go to jail.” The Homeland Security Department released a […]
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The elephant had been clinging to a rope for months, swinging from the rafters of a disused factory outside the Iranian capital, waiting for an audience to turn up. He was made of fiberglass, not flesh, part of a surrealist art exhibition that was supposed to open in June. Then Israeli warplanes struck, marking the […]
Read MoreLike his wife—who, it turns out, is pregnant with their second child— Eghbal may be a true believer, but he isn’t given any opportunities of his own to opine about divine intervention. Rather, he’s swiftly reduced to a prop: drugged, battered dead weight, trussed-up and locked away in the back of a van driven by […]
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Trump was referring to Israel’s 2005 removal of its ground troops and settlements from the Gaza Strip (which, contrary to Trump’s telling, occurred before Hamas won legislative elections in 2006). Israel’s withdrawal, Trump opined, had been a mistake, relinquishing prime real estate along the Mediterranean Sea: “They pulled away. They let them have it. And […]
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new video loaded: Inside Iran After the 12-Day War By Declan Walsh, Gelareh Kiazand, Nanna Heitmann, Jon Hazell and Christina Thornell•September 6, 2025 Following a 12-day war with Israel in July, which resulted in the deaths of over 1,000 civilians and many of Iran’s top nuclear scientists and officials, a New York Times team was […]
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As Rolling Stone reported, in June, the fence of the school’s play area displayed a laminated message. Its reported content, which matches a statement Cottonwood posted to Facebook, denounced the “harm being inflicted on our neighbors, ecosystem, students and school” and called on ICE to cease using weapons such as tear gas, “‘green’ gas, pepper […]
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“We have agreed to extend, for a 90 Day period, the exact same Deal as we had for the last short period of time, namely, that Mexico will continue to pay a 25% Fentanyl Tariff, 25% Tariff on Cars, and 50% Tariff on Steel, Aluminum, and Copper. Additionally, Mexico has agreed to immediately terminate its […]
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Donald Trump announced Monday that the U.S. will send more weapons to Ukraine to combat Russia—making a lot of MAGA world livid. Seemingly shifting his stance from days earlier, when the president halted certain weapons shipments to Ukraine, Trump told reporters, “We’re going to send some more weapons. We have to. They have to be […]
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Donald Trump announced Monday that the U.S. will send more weapons to Ukraine to combat Russia—making a lot of MAGA world livid. Seemingly shifting his stance from days earlier, when the president halted certain weapons shipments to Ukraine, Trump told reporters, “We’re going to send some more weapons. We have to. They have to be […]
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According to a report from The Daily Beast, Senator Ted Cruz was vacationing in Greece as tragedy struck his state. Over the July 4 weekend, flash flooding took the lives of at least 95 people in Texas, including 27 children and counselors at Camp Mystic, an all-girls camp along the banks of the Guadalupe River. […]
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Source: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Getty Donald Trump and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are threatening legal action against CNN over its recent report on a mobile app that alerts users to the presence of ICE agents. On Tuesday, during a press appearance while touring a newly constructed detention center in the Florida Everglades, […]
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Source: NurPhoto / Getty You’ve seen the routine. Some coiffed white conservative woman goes on cable news, all wide-eyed and sanctimonious, saying: “At least here we don’t force women to wear burkas like they do in Iran!” She delivers it like she’s courageously championing global women’s rights. But let’s keep it 100, she doesn’t give […]
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Even the Iranians are surprised by how little damage Donald Trump’s bombs apparently did. An intercepted communication between Iranian officials indicated that the nuclear facility airstrike had not achieved the level of damage touted by the Trump administration, reported The Washington Post, which spoke with four sources familiar with the classified material. The president’s attack, […]
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