Robert Downey Jr. dramatically reveals MCU return for upcoming ‘Avengers’ movies as villain Doctor Doom

Broadway theaters will be allowed to drop their mask mandates starting July 1, the Broadway League announced Tuesday. The League described the new policy as “mask optional,” and said it would be re-evaluated monthly. Broadway had maintained fairly restrictive audience policies since theaters reopened last summer. The theaters required patrons…

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, could take some form of lethal military action against South Korea in the coming months after having shifted to a policy of open hostility, U.S. officials say. The officials have assessed that Mr. Kim’s recent harder line is part of a pattern of provocations, but…

Iran and Sweden exchanged prisoners on Saturday, breaking a logjam that brought relief to families but also concern over capitulation to Tehran’s practice of taking foreigner citizens hostage on trumped-up charges to extract concessions. Iran released Johan Floderus, 33, a European Union diplomat and Swedish national, who was arrested in…

Scenes of flood-ravaged neighborhoods in one of the planet’s driest regions have stunned the world this week. Heavy rains in the United Arab Emirates and Oman submerged cars, clogged highways and killed at least 21 people. Flights out of Dubai’s airport, a major global hub, were severely disrupted. The downpours…

The super PAC supporting Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida in his presidential campaign, which has seen a series of changes in the last month, went through another shake-up this week when it fired its new chief executive officer who had stepped in just nine days earlier, according to two people…

But that reality apparently has not sunk in. If anything, Mr. Putin has grown more belligerent, focusing new fire on Mariupol as Russian forces seek to secure all of the Donbas region in the coming weeks. He has insisted to visitors like Mr. Nehammer that he remains determined to achieve…