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Trump juggles Iran, a World Cup, and a UFC cage fight.

But Iranian news reports that Tehran has not yet agreed to a deal.

Trump's appointment of Bill Pulte as spy chief pushed centrist Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries to rally against a domestic spying law.

The Trump administration is borrowing Russia’s “shadow fleet” tactics to get ships moving.

None of Trump’s stated goals in his war with Iran have been achieved.

Spanning 110 quadrillion kilometers, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi transport an enormous amount of planet-warming carbon.

The Knicks were in the midst of blowing a fourteen-point lead halfway through the fourth quarter, and my excitement at this situation, the sheer merriment and life force of it all, mingled with my grief at what was unfolding, and my awareness of how absurd it was to feel grief about such a thing in a hospital, which, I know firsthand, is a scene of real grief.

Central banks are again poised to raise rates against an oil-shock inflation — and again the costs will dwarf the effects.

A recent history of the World Cup suggests the tournament can triumph over Trump.

The following weekend, I returned to the storage lockers with my partner, Blair. Upon arriving, we removed the picnic table and wooden chairs and machinery and placed it all on the gravel road that ran through the facility. Blair climbed in first, swinging their legs through a hole in the rafters and rifling through box after box.

A strategic rethink is needed in an era of U. S. unreliability.

After three months of war, Tehran feels it has little left to lose.

From architectural traditions to ancient courtship rituals, evidence of animal cultures is overwhelming but underacknowledged.

Designating the group as such could help bring an end to Sudan’s civil war.

At one time, kelp forests — which shelter fish, slow erosion, and sequester carbon — grew along a third of the world’s coastlines. Now, scientists are working to bolster heat-stressed kelp by attacking the urchins that prey on them and transplanting hardier kelp varieties.

The sport is a marker of a particular relationship to the wider world.

As the United States closes itself off from the world, its co-host is doing the opposite.

Soccer is egalitarian. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is anything but.

The “60 Minutes” correspondent describes Weiss’s horrific pro-Trump meddling, but he also shows how “both sides” journalism was already dooming our country.

Accusations of defense “freeloading” hit the third rail of Wellington’s politics.