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Two were seized after Israel and the United States attacked Iranian targets in June, and two others have been held since 2024.

Hours after data showed cracks in the U.S. economy, President Trump said without evidence that Erika McEntarfer “rigged” the data “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.”

The agency asked five climate skeptics to write a report criticizing the consensus on global warming. Scientists are pointing out its errors.

An Oxford museum’s collection of objects taken from the Naga people includes human remains. What to do with them now is not a simple matter.

The Russian president didn’t directly respond to President Trump’s ultimatum that Moscow halt its offensive by the end of next week or face financial penalties.

After a scrubbed launch on Thursday, four astronauts lifted off from Florida and will dock at the International Space Station on Saturday.

President Trump has long wanted to rework world trade. The tariffs set to go into effect next week will carry out that plan.

In an interview with Jack Nicas of The New York Times, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rejected President Trump’s demands for Brazil. Here’s how the United States and Brazil reached this point.

“Hamas must end its rule in Gaza,” reads a declaration endorsed by the 22 member nations of the Arab League.

Steve Witkoff went to the Palestinian enclave amid growing pressure on Israel to ease a deepening hunger crisis there. Hamas derided the visit as a “propaganda show.”

Mexico’s president, battling U.S. accusations that the cartels have gripped her government, is facing a scandal in which two former officials are on the run and their old boss is now a top senator.

The Department of Defense said it no longer planned to shut down a program that makes satellite data publicly available to researchers and forecasters.

President Nayib Bukele has cracked down on gangs and civil rights, jailing tens of thousands of people. The National Assembly also extended the presidential term to six years.

Global outrage at the Netanyahu government’s actions has grown since the war began, and the suffering of children in the enclave has accelerated the disdain.

The imbalance in President Trump’s treatment of America’s closest trading partners may come from his desire to make Canada the 51st state, some Canadians believe.

Osama Krayem, a Swedish citizen, was found guilty in Stockholm of a war crime. He had already been convicted of terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels.

“I wanted something decent,” said a woman at a shelter near Ukraine’s border with Russia. “But this is how it turned out.”

Plus, our art critic shares his favorite places in Rome.

The European Union acknowledged for the first time that a top official reviewed the messages, but said it had no duty to keep them, despite intense interest.

“A little restraint, please!” wrote the mayor of Les Sables d’Olonne, who is leading an effort to stop visitors from wandering the town in just their swimwear.