Israel Warns Thousands to Evacuate Rafah, and Hollywood’s Summer Gets Off to a Rocky Start

After China performed two days of military drills intended to punish Taiwan, Representative Michael McCaul of Texas on Monday stood alongside the island nation’s newly elected president, Lai Ching-te, and issued a promise. “The United States must maintain the capacity to resist any resort to force or coercion that would…

House Republicans chose and then quickly repudiated yet another of their nominees for speaker on Tuesday and rushed to name a fourth, pressing to put an end to a remarkable three-week-long deadlock that has left Congress leaderless and paralyzed. Representative Mike Johnson, a little-known social conservative from Louisiana, emerged on…

The article will be updated. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky state veterinarians on Saturday morning scratched Forte, the favorite to win the Kentucky Derby, after examining him and finding him unfit to compete. The veterinarians did not give details, but rumors that the colt was unwell had swirled throughout the backside…

At least 133 people were killed and more than 140 injured Friday night in an attack at a popular concert venue near Moscow, the deadliest act of terrorism in the Russian capital in more than a decade. A branch of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack; American officials,…

In the weeks and months before President Biden’s politically devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta, several current and former officials and others who encountered him behind closed doors noticed that he increasingly appeared confused or listless, or would lose the thread of conversations. Like many people his age,…