The choice of how to retaliate is existential as a wider war risks not only increased violence but could also threaten regime survival, according to analysts.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/22/iran-us-strike-response/
Iran reiterated its right to self-defense as President Donald Trump repeated his claim that U.S. strikes caused “monumental damage” to Iranian nuclear sites.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/23/israel-iran-live-updates-us-trump/
The risk of a spiraling conflagration that pulls the U.S. in deeper flies in the face of Trump’s own rhetoric about righting the wrongs of an earlier era of U.S. overreach.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/22/iran-trump-war-iraq-history-ghosts/
The heavy attack on the capital came the same day Russia said it would be reaching out to Ukraine to set a date for the next round of peace negotiations.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/23/ukraine-russia-kyiv-drones-attack/
Iran’s foreign minister is in Moscow seeking support, but other than condemning the attack, Putin has not taken any major moves to back Iran.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/23/iran-russia-alliance-strikes-nuclear/
In the past, following other U.S. military actions, it has taken years for the full dimensions of Iran’s intended campaigns of revenge to come into view.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/23/iran-retaliation-terrorism-assassination/
NATO leaders meeting this week in The Hague will confront the prospect of another open-ended U.S.-led war outside the North Atlantic region the alliance was created to defend.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/23/nato-summit-trump-iran-strike/
Visuals, expert analysis and official statements shed light on Iran’s nuclear sites after U.S. strikes.https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/06/22/iran-strikes-nuclear-site-damage-visuals/
Trump said the U.S. hit the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites. Iran’s foreign minister called it a “dangerous military operation” against his country.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/22/israel-iran-live-updates-us-trump/
Unifi survived competition from China by helping fashion brands meet sustainability goals. But not everyone agrees that its polyester made from recycled plastic bottles should be produced in the US.https://www.wired.com/story/repreve-recycled-polyester-saved-unifi-factory-environmentalists-hate-it/
Thousands of people are signing up to see the highly automated assembly lines of Chinese EV brands like Xiaomi and Nio.https://www.wired.com/story/china-electric-vehicle-factory-tours-xiaomi/
These are our favorite gender-inclusive vibrators, wand massagers, and sleeves to give you and your partner(s) a helping hand.https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-sex-toys-and-tech/
The company debuted its autonomous ride-hailing service Sunday. The limited program is invite-only and uses around 20 cars—signs that Tesla has a long way to go to catch up to its robotaxi rivals.https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-robotaxi-service-launches-austin-texas/
It’s important to regularly clean the wax out of your hearing aids. Here’s how.https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-clean-hearing-aids/
The stylized and wide keycaps, paired with a deep and snappy typing experience, make for a competent mechanical keyboard, if you don’t mind the space-age aesthetics.https://www.wired.com/review/asus-rog-azoth-x/
This sticky-note dodecahedron for your desk lets you color-code in style.https://www.wired.com/review/poppin-sticky-memo-ball/
The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already endedhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-confederate-raider-fired-the-final-shots-of-the-civil-war-in-the-arctic-two-and-a-half-months-after-robert-e-lee-surrendered-180986847/
Minted in Peru in 1707, the money bolsters the evidence that the wreck is the Spanish ship "San José," which sank off the Colombian coast in 1708 with treasure worth billions on boardhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-gold-coins-may-solve-the-mystery-of-the-worlds-richest-shipwreck-confirming-its-identity-as-a-legendary-18th-century-galleon-180986856/
For the critically endangered red-shanked douc, proximity to an urban center has had surprising benefitshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/majestic-monkey-become-beloved-neighbor-millions-vietnam-180986808/
Tracing the centuries of innovation that sent the golf ball on a wild ride through historyhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/600-years-golf-ball-evolved-primitive-wood-sphere-smart-ball-sensors-180986813/