Category: US & World

One pledged he would confront Iran’s enemies, the other vowed to make peace with the world. One intends to double down on social restrictions, the other promises to ease stifling rules for young people and women. One identifies as an Islamic ideologue, the other as a pragmatic reformist. The race to become Iran’s next president […]

Two people were killed and seven others were injured after an apparently impaired driver of a pickup truck plowed into a crowd of people celebrating July 4 in a park on the Lower East Side, the authorities said. Several of the injured were transported to hospitals, four of them in critical condition, the authorities said […]

Nigel Farage, a supporter of former President Donald J. Trump, a driving force behind Brexit and Britain’s best known political disrupter, was elected to Parliament for the first time. The new insurgent party he leads — Reform U.K. — was projected in the national exit poll to have captured four seats, more than many analysts […]

A weakened Hurricane Beryl churned toward the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico on Thursday after tearing through the eastern Caribbean, where it left islands flattened, communities inundated and at least eight people dead. The storm, the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, was at Category 2 strength by 8 p.m. Eastern time, with […]

Keir Starmer is all but certain to become the next prime minister of Britain, after an exit poll projected that his Labour Party would win the general election in a landslide on Thursday. The exit poll, which has accurately predicted the winner of the last five British general elections, indicated late Thursday that Labour was […]

A destructive wildfire that engulfed buildings and forced 29,000 people to evacuate the area near Oroville in Butte County, California, is showing signs of slowing, officials said. Fire crews battled flames overnight, and on Thursday morning, the spread of the blaze, named the Thompson fire, remained relatively stable, at around 3,500 acres burned. The fierce […]

The Claremont Institute has been located in Southern California since its founding in the late 1970s. From its perch in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, it has become a leading intellectual center of the pro-Trump right. Without fanfare, however, some of Claremont’s key figures have been leaving California to find ideologically friendlier climes. […]

“Will this be the thing that causes his voters to abandon him? How much will this hurt his numbers?” are questions that I, as a pollster, have been asked a lot over the past eight years. And the answers are almost always the same: You know, as crazy as it may seem, any one event […]

The Raven, the story goes, alighted on the beach and heard sounds coming from a giant clamshell. He found creatures cowering inside but, ever the trickster, he cajoled them out into the world. Liberated, they became the first people of the islands of Haida Gwaii. The Haida people have lived for thousands of years on […]

In the 1980s, a French punk rock band coined a rallying cry against the country’s far right that retained its punch over decades. The chant, still shouted at protests by the left, is “La jeunesse emmerde le Front National,” which cannot be translated well without curse words, but essentially tells the far right to get […]