From a distance, across the opalescent waters of the Venetian lagoon, the cluster of low red-brick buildings looks like a factory or a boatyard. It’s only when you get closer and see the huge silver space rocket, the fluorescent pink tree and the neon sign that reads “PATRIARCHY = CO2” that you realize this island…
Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, is doing what he can, as quickly as he can, to shed the “acting” label. Mr. Blanche, who ran the day-to-day operations of the Justice Department as the top deputy to his predecessor, Pam Bondi, before her unceremonious ouster this month, has long been a target of pro-Trump influencers…
NFL NationApr 23, 2026, 09:07 PM ET CloseNFL Nation is made up of 32 team-specific reporters who cover the NFL year-round across ESPN.com, ESPN television shows, ESPN Radio, ESPN+ and social media platforms. It was established ahead of the 2013 season. Multiple Authors The 2026 NFL draft began Thursday night in Pittsburgh at 8 p.m….
President Trump wanted one thing, more than anything else, from his secretary of the Navy, John Phelan: a new class of battleships. “They’ll be the fastest, the biggest and by far — 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” Mr. Trump boasted at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate and resort in…
Since the Iran war began in late February, the United States has burned through around 1,100 of its long-range stealth cruise missiles built for a war with China, close to the total number remaining in the U.S. stockpile. The military has fired off more than 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles, roughly 10 times the number it…
In recent weeks, President Trump has been talking about a substance he says is key to ending the United States’ war against Iran: “nuclear dust.” In the president’s telling, Iran’s nuclear program was so badly damaged by U.S. bombs last year that all that remains under the rubble is a sort of powdery aftermath. The…
In a European football landscape shaken by years of tension, economic rivalry, and institutional fractures, stability has become both fragile and essential. The Super League episode exposed, with unprecedented clarity, the deep divisions that run through the system—divisions not only of interests, but of vision. What followed was not merely a crisis, but a defining…
President Trump wanted one thing, more than anything else, from his secretary of the Navy, John Phelan: a new class of battleships. “They’ll be the fastest, the biggest and by far — 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” Mr. Trump boasted at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate and resort in…
A Kuwaiti-American journalist who was detained for nearly two months in Kuwait after posting about the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran on social media was acquitted on Thursday of all the charges against him, an attorney representing two members of his family said. The journalist, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who has contributed to the BBC and Al Jazeera…
On a sweltering night in August 2024, moments before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed then-candidate Donald J. Trump at a packed rally in Arizona, a conservative young wellness podcaster named Alex Clark had a fleeting backstage conversation with the once-and-future president. “I said, ‘Mr. President, please keep talking about food and pharma; this has a…
