Whether any mines had been laid in the Strait of Hormuz since the war began on Feb. 28 is unclear. The Pentagon said 140 American service members had been wounded, eight severely, in the war.

As the war between Iran, the United States and Israel rages on in the Middle East, social media users have circulated ...

Fred Brathwaite—better known as Fab 5 Freddy—contains multitudes. Born and raised in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, he grew up in a house steeped in books, music, and radical Black consciousness. Skipping school ...

In reality, it was a mass expulsion carried out despite the Supreme Court's recognition of tribal sovereignty. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term "genocide," defined it broadly as the destruction of ...

We usually stop and chat with him for a moment, most often about the weather. Sometimes the kids, Max, Abby, and Cam, wave to him again before running back to the car. It is a small, ordinary ritual, ...

When the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes against Iran on 28 February 2026, the response was not ...

The most likely scenario is that the war will go on up an escalatory ladder for another two or three weeks. After that, depending on which pain threshold is reached first, we will see the direction.

This week. the House of Representatives of New Hampshire, one of the states that pioneered public education, passed on a party-line vote yet another bill limiting what teachers can teach. Many such ...

Sixty-three years ago today, one of the most important record producers of the 20th century was born in New York.