President Trump likes his military and diplomatic victories quick, clean and decisive. On his desk in the Oval Office, he keeps models of the B-2 bombers that took out three Iranian nuclear sites in one night, not quite a year ago. In the opening weeks of the Iran conflict this year, he talked often about…
Graham Platner’s insurgent bid for Senate in Maine was gathering steam last summer when his campaign was confronted with some potentially explosive information. Mr. Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, told a senior campaign aide that he had been exchanging sexual messages with multiple other women. It was the kind of revelation with the potential to damage…
For decades, the computing industry has followed a simple formula: make transistors smaller and pack more of them onto a chip. That strategy fueled the extraordinary rise in computing power predicted by Moore’s law. But as components approach atomic scales, engineers are increasingly running into the physical limits of silicon and the effects of quantum…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Asia’s military leaders on Saturday that America would put its most committed partners at “the front of the line” for U.S. support, suggesting that countries must vie for American attention even as many look for more help to counter an emboldened China. In a region already concerned that America may…
When Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan was asked on Thursday during a Democratic primary debate for Senate what it meant that she had accepted campaign contributions from donors to AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying group, she spoke 160 words without coming remotely close to answering the question. Instead, Ms. Stevens said her campaign was “a love…
Cricket greats, writers and broadcasters hail 15-year-old Rajasthan Royal opener after his 29-ball 97 in IPL playoffs. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has been termed a generational talent after the Rajasthan Royals teenager smashed 97 off 29 balls to power his side to victory in their Indian Premier League eliminator against Sunrisers Hyderabad. The 15-year-old also broke Chris…
David HaleMay 26, 2026, 07:00 AM ET CloseCollege football reporter.Joined ESPN in 2012.Graduate of the University of Delaware. Multiple Authors Ranking quarterbacks three months before the first game is inherently more art than science. There’s a lot of projection, a lot of guesswork and a lot of “Who is this guy?” and “Wait, he’s on…
A week after launching the war with Iran, President Trump was asked whether the map of the country would still look the same after the end of hostilities. His response was striking: “That I can’t tell you. Probably not.” In an administration that frequently confuses swagger with strategy, this remark was nonetheless extraordinary. Iran is…
It’s no secret that gross domestic product, the number that serves as a measure for economic progress around the world, is hardly a barometer of human flourishing. It registers the harvest of a forest as timber income, for example, without recognizing the resulting erosion and water quality degradation. It measures spending on hospitals, but not…
Opinion piece by Isaac Hammouch Modena, May 16, 2026. Salim El Koudri, a man of Moroccan origin in his thirties, deliberately drives into pedestrians in the center of the Italian city. Eight people are injured, four of them seriously. A woman loses both her legs. He exits his vehicle with a knife in hand before…
