The largest perils may lie in the aftermath, many experts say, just as they did in Afghanistan and Iraq.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/us-bomb-iran-risks.html
The president’s supporters are warring over two dueling campaign promises: to steer clear of foreign wars and to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/trump-maga-base-iran-israel.html
The nation’s key program for retiree benefits continues to see financing shortfalls. Unless Congress acts, those drops could lead to payment cuts in eight years.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/social-security-benefits-shortfall.html
The justices ruled that the state’s law, which prohibited some medical treatments for transgender youths, did not violate equal protection principles.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/supreme-court-trans-children.html
Justice Sotomayor also read her dissent from the bench, a move typically reserved to emphasize a justice’s extreme displeasure with a decision.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/sotomayor-transgender-care-dissent-scotus.html
While some in the party denounced the Supreme Court’s decision, other top leaders remained quiet, underscoring the party’s discomfort on the issue.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/democrats-supreme-court-transgender-ruling.html
The decision to uphold the Tennessee law will most likely mean a patchwork of laws throughout the country, a map that traces current political polarization.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/supreme-court-trans-what-we-know.html
Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors from entering the country for jobs set to begin in weeks.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/health/medical-residents-travel-ban.html
President Trump decided to check the immigration status of a work crew installing a new flagpole at the White House.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/trump-flagpole-immigrants.html
She is one half of a Trump-world power couple. But she’s on Team Elon. It’s gotten complicated.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/style/katie-miller-stephen-miller-trump-musk.html
A jury cleared Ms. Read of charges related to the 2022 death of John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, and convicted her only of drunken driving, in a trial that attracted wide attention.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/karen-read-trial-verdict.html
The drug could change the course of the AIDS epidemic. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/health/hiv-fda-lenacapavir.html
The chef, who died Tuesday, built her stardom on a big, down-to-earth personality in which viewers could see themselves.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/dining/anne-burrell-food-network.html
Following news of the chef and TV personality’s death at age 55, remembrances poured in on social media.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/dining/anne-burrell-death-reactions-tributes.html
Officials at the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged, as they brace for the effects of President Trump’s policies on trade, taxes and immigration.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/fed-interest-rates.html
President Trump’s trade war is likely to lead to higher prices and slower growth, a challenging combination for the Fed. War in the Middle East could make the job harder still.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/fed-stagflation-trump-tariffs.html
Under its new leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee has been plagued by infighting and a drop in big donations, raising alarms from Democrats as they try to win back power.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/dnc-ken-martin.html
Researchers found children with highly addictive use of phones, video games or social media were two to three times as likely to have thoughts of suicide or to harm themselves.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/health/youth-suicide-risk-phones.html
About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/science/ancient-human-adaptation-environments.html
The regal seat continues to be part of Black American social traditions.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/realestate/peacock-chair-black-experience.html