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As Bhattacharya comes into his new role, fellow scientist and Christian Dr. S. Joshua Swamidass interviewed the NIH director ...

Whether the biggest foreign-policy gamble of Mr Trump’s presidency has paid off will remain unclear. If Mr Trump has really ...

Pope Leo XIV is urging the warring sides in the Israel-Iran war to “reject the logic of bullying and revenge.” He's urging ...

President Trump ordered U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities without getting the go-ahead from Congress.

Suspected Iran-backed militias targeted bases in Iraq that are known to have housed US troops and contractors as the ceasefire between Iran and Israel took effect. The Trump administration did not ...

As the bombs fell on Iran’s nuclear sites, the voices that helped shape the moment ranged from TV pundits to evangelical ...

Once a U.S. and Israeli ally, Iran has become their defiant adversary—arming proxies, building nukes, and aligning with ...

"We should pay attention to this in our policy discussions," a former U.S. Central Command chief told Newsweek.

That Tehran telegraphed its retaliatory attack to the Americans indicates that it wants to retain space for negotiations and ...

After one of the most brutal wars of this century, a new flag flies across Syria: the emblem of the rebels who toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Ben Hubbard, The New York Times’s Istanbul bureau ...

Heads of state and heads of government just about never decide to kill each other, even in wartime. For if you to do it to ...