Cease-Fire Fails to Reopen Hormuz Oil Lifeline
The two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran was supposed to calm the world’s most important oil chokepoint. Instead, it has revealed how little a paper truce can do…
When Rising Prices Reach the Home
Cost-of-living pressures are showing up in places both intimate and global: in the price of food staples vulnerable to the weather, in the cost of a cot or nappies for…
Ceasefire With Iran Opens New Battles in Washington and Beyond
A fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran is rippling far beyond the battlefield, stirring a new confrontation in Washington over presidential war powers, prompting warnings of lasting damage…
Britain Warns of Russian Submarines Near Critical Atlantic Infrastructure
Britain said on Wednesday that it had recently tracked three Russian submarines operating near critical undersea infrastructure in the North Atlantic, a public warning from London that reflects a deepening…
The AI Race Moves to Courtrooms, Contracts and Data Centers
The contest to dominate artificial intelligence is no longer being fought only in research labs or on public leaderboards. It is now unfolding across courtrooms, Pentagon procurement systems and the…
Trump’s Third-Country Deportation Push Faces Growing Resistance
The Trump administration is pressing ahead with one of the most contested elements of its immigration agenda: deporting people not only to their home countries, but to nations with which…
OpenAI Halts Landmark A.I. Project in Britain
OpenAI has put on hold a marquee plan to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure in Britain, a setback for the country’s ambitions to become a leading home for the data…
Oil Nears $100 as Hormuz Disruption Outlasts Ceasefire
Oil prices climbed back toward $100 a barrel on Thursday, while stocks fell and bond markets lurched again, as investors confronted an uneasy reality about the two-week ceasefire between the…
A Fragile Truce Frays Across the Middle East
The two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, announced with urgency after nearly six weeks of war, was showing signs of fraying on Thursday as disputes deepened over Israeli…
Treasury Yields Hold Steady Ahead of Inflation Data
U.S. Treasury yields were little changed early Thursday as investors waited for a fresh round of inflation data that could help determine whether the Federal Reserve is still on track…