Our national security correspondent David E. Sanger examines the war of choice that President Trump has initiated with Iran.
The killing of Iran’s supreme leader and other top Iranian officials came after close intelligence sharing between the United States and Israel, according to people familiar with the operation.
President Trump did not deliver a formal address to the American public to explain why the country was at war, a departure from his predecessors.
President Trump’s ambiguous appeal comes after he undermined U.S.-funded media outlets that normally would have helped the administration reach people inside the country.
Republicans largely supported the decision, while Democrats mostly opposed it — but divisions appeared in both parties.
Questions remain about how much effort the Trump administration will put into changing the Iranian government.
Exchanges between two X accounts appear to offer a vivid example of how campaigns may sidestep campaign-finance law to share strategic information.
There was no immediate threat from Iran. But the president saw a chance to push a weakened government over the edge, and is betting he can spark a popular uprising.
President Trump has become increasingly willing to assert American power overseas, a decade after propelling himself to the highest office by promising to focus on “America first.”
Former F.B.I. officials say Mr. Patel beefed up field office staffing near his girlfriend in Nashville and ordered a team to ferry her on errands and to events.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused Yale, Princeton, Brown and other elite colleges and think tanks of indoctrinating service members with liberal ideologies.
The public’s appetite for a U.S. attack on Iran was low before President Trump and Israel took action on Saturday.
The president made unsupported and exaggerated claims in a speech announcing the attack on Iran.
Several top state and federal offices are up for grabs amid a period of crisis with few if any precedents in the state’s history.
During a visit to Texas, President Trump made clear that he would be driving home his depiction of Democrats as out of step ahead of the elections in November.
Following the attack, Democrats and a few Republicans escalated their calls for swift votes on whether to curb the president’s power to continue using force against Iran without explicit authorization.
A new inspector general delayed a decision on whether to approve the project and is said to have raised its potential political ramifications, in a test of the watchdog system in President Trump’s second term.
The court is set to decide a major case that could scramble the country’s congressional maps. One crucial factor for this year’s elections is when the ruling lands.
The band condemned the Trump administration for using the song “Let Down” in a post showing victims of violent crimes that federal officials said had been committed by illegal immigrants.
Scouting America said it had staved off a demand from the Pentagon to ban girls from the organization and change its name back to Boy Scouts of America.