Source: LUDOVIC MARIN / Getty It appears that an initial agreement by the United States and Iran to halt this costly, absurdly senseless war in the Middle East has been reached, and, well — look, I’m not going to lie, it just looks like President Donald Trump caved to Iran in order to end this […]
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As Iranian drones and missiles bombarded Gulf Arab countries over the past few months, killing civilians and damaging critical infrastructure, the public has responded with outrage. But few commentators or officials in these authoritarian monarchies have mentioned the awkward fact that the Iranian government has kept repeating in justifying its attacks: The targeted countries host […]
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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has cut off a significant source of liquefied natural gas, but the United States, the biggest exporter of the fuel, is unlikely to pick up that slack because it has no spare capacity. A two-month pause on L.N.G. shipments from Qatar, a Persian Gulf country near the strait, […]
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“All U.S. Ships, Aircraft, and Military Personnel, with additional Ammunition, Weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded Enemy, will remain in place in, and around, Iran, until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with,” Trump wrote on Truth […]
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But Zarif is only on the periphery of power in Iran. The country’s current leadership is fronted by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of previous Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated in February by a U.S.-Israeli joint operation. The junior Khamenei is considered even more extreme, and has been described as his father […]
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It was one of three pieces of legislation signed by Sherrill to protect immigrant rights across the state and push back against Trump’s unlawful immigration agenda, a promise she campaigned on before taking office in January. A nearly identical bill was vetoed by former Governor Bill Murphy in his final day of office. “As we’ve […]
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Source: UCG / Getty There’s been a lot of confusion around how peace talks between the U.S. and Iran are going — or if they’re going at all — with President Donald Trump claiming, “We have had very, very strong talks,” and “points of agreement,” and the Iranian government mostly denying the “talks” are even […]
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“Instead of sharing information, federal authorities took exclusive possession of evidence that had been collected, and they denied Minnesota investigators access to key information,” the lawsuit reads. The state argues this failure to cooperate violates its “responsibility to protect against and address violence within its borders, including by prosecuting homicides, attempted homicides, and assaults.” All […]
Read MoreTrump’s January invasion of Venezuela, in which the United States arrested President Nicolás Maduro and brought him to the United States for trial, left Maduro’s corrupt Marxist regime in place, raising the question of why we’d bothered. We’d bothered, it turned out, because Trump fantasized that he could bring American companies back to Venezuela, whose […]
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new video loaded: The Effects of High Oil Prices <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/16/arts/Ben-Casselman-oil-gasoline-inflation/Ben-Casselman-oil-gasoline-inflation-jumbo.png?auto=webp&quality=75" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width Our chief economics correspondent, Ben Casselman, breaks down how gasoline prices have responded to the oil crisis in the Persian Gulf, and what is in store for inflation if the price of oil remains above $100 per barrel. By Ben Casselman, Sutton […]
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Source: Tom Williams / Getty President Donald Trump is finding it to be quite lonely on the battlefront, now that his deadly and expensive strike on Iran is growing increasingly unpopular, and losing him allies, both abroad and, apparently, within his own administration. On Tuesday, the man Trump appointed as a top counterterrorism official resigned […]
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Source: NurPhoto / Getty President Donald Trump campaigned on no new wars and bringing down the cost of living. Just over a year into his second term, Trump has started a war with Iran that has significantly increased prices. Gas prices have skyrocketed in recent weeks, with no sign of easing in the near future. […]
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