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The administration has signaled to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that closing the Strait of Hormuz is a “red line” that would provoke a response, officials said.
“Super PACs” and changes in how delegates are awarded are helping keep the Republican field crowded.
Top policymakers did not seriously consider the idea that problems in the housing market would bring a recession, newly released transcripts show.
Christiania, an alternative community, rejects landownership, so helpful outsiders are buying shares in the land it’s been living on. Above, members of the group.
Bitter ethnic tensions that were set aside in pursuit of independence have ruptured into a cycle of massacre and revenge.
In a State of the City speech, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg seemed to relish diving into controversial ideas.
A recording of Marines urinating on Taliban corpses is likely to weaken America’s position at a crucial moment.
The lack of frozen precipitation in New York City is a relief to some people — no lost power, no snarled commutes, no lagoons of slush. But others miss the season’s rhythms.
In only the second procedure of its kind, Swedish surgeons gave a Baltimore man a laboratory-made trachea.
Patron X, an audience member whose iPhone alarm interrupted a New York Philharmonic performance, apologized.
Tougher international sanctions have had some effect on Iran, but talks are also needed.
With a radical street art scene and one of Mexico’s most exciting regional cuisines, Oaxaca is as cosmopolitan as it is architecturally stunning.
Christmas season was the perfect time to visit the villages of Trás-os-Montes, in the isolated northeast corner of Portugal.
The market in Monaco has stabilized since a precipitous fall several years ago, but homes tend to take a while to sell.
The electric cars on display this week at the Detroit auto show are adopting one of two overriding design philosophies: make it exciting, or make it familiar.
John Donovan of AT&T; says that getting credit isn’t as important as assembling and leading the best team.
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