An LPG gas tanker at anchor as traffic is down in the Strait of Hormuz, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Shinas, Oman, March 11, 2026. Benoit Tessier | Reuters Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian within hours of Tehran’s new supreme leader vowing to keep the Strait of Hormuz…
Under a new “ethnic unity” law, Mandarin Chinese must now be the language of teaching. Parents must guide their children to love the Communist Party. Neighborhoods should be mixed.
For decades, software companies designed their products for a single type of customer: a human being staring at a screen. Every button, menu, and dashboard existed to translate a person’s intention into a machine’s action. But a small startup based in San Francisco and Zurich believes that era is ending — and that the future…
The Cheltenham Festival has been happening this week. It’s a somewhat fancy horse race, and I believe Zara Tindall has some kind of formal association with the festival. She attends every day. Well, Wednesday was ladies’ day, which meant Princess Anne and Queen Camilla joined Zara and Mike Tindall for a day at the races….
In this game of “he said, he said,” Luka Doncic got the last laugh. Doncic, fueled by trash talk from his opponents Thursday, recorded his first 50-point game with the Lakers, checking out with 1:41 remaining to a standing ovation with 51 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists to lead the Lakers to a 142-130…
new video loaded: Where Israeli Strikes Are Hitting Beirut Our Beirut bureau chief, Christina Goldbaum, shows how Israeli airstrikes have affected Lebanon and its capital. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled areas around Beirut and in a huge swath of southern Lebanon after Israel issued evacuation warnings in its conflict with Hezbollah. By Christina…
In the U.S.- and China-led race to put astronauts back on the moon, there is, in fact, one overlapping goal: establishing a sustainable, permanent, crewed moon base. But each of the two nations’ specific plans to achieve that moonshot are far from similar, with key differences that could dictate which country gets there first—and, just…
The attacks heightened fears that the war was expanding beyond Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds into parts of Beirut once considered comparatively safe. New strikes were also reported in Iran, Iraq and Israel.
Deaths related to the opioid fentanyl have rapidly declined in the US Thomas Simonetti/Bloomberg/Getty Images Drug overdose deaths have plummeted in the US, which can be traced to illegal supplies of fentanyl becoming less pure, and therefore less potent. The question is: does this mark a turning point in the opioid epidemic or just a…
New York Knicks coach Mike Brown speaks of a standard, not unlike former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin’s. “The standard is the standard,” Tomlin would often say in his news conferences during his near two-decade run on the sideline. That standard was about Super Bowls. Tomlin took the Steelers to two of them, winning one….
