Last Wednesday, my eight-year-old daughter and I biked through a playground and down a long series of strip-mall parking lots, avoiding the gonzo drivers of greater Boston, past a farm and a Girl Scouts...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister said Friday the United States and Iran have agreed to wording of an agreement aimed at ending their war in the Middle East and that mediators were working...

Today, Iran continues to use people as leverage; six Americans are currently imprisoned there. The reality is that the Islamic Republic, though outgunned, outmanned, and far weaker militarily than the U.S., has adapted its...

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.When Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s son, Hersh, was taken hostage by...

DUBAI/WASHINGTON/PARIS, June 12 (Reuters) - A memorandum between the United States and Iran to halt the war in the Gulf could be signed as soon as Sunday, a Western source told Reuters on Friday,...

Earlier this week, a Sudanese man who was seeking asylum in the U.K. was arrested in Belfast for attempted murder, after allegedly stabbing someone in the street. Following this attack, violence broke out across...

3. Charles Barkley speaks his truth. And surely that counts for something. Sir Charles, the Chuckwagon, the Round Mound of Rebound, has an unerring talent for getting to the point. His merciless postgame point...

For most onlookers, the defining moment of the previous World Cup, held in Qatar, four years ago, came at the very end. Argentina had defeated the defending champion, France, via penalties in the tournament’s...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he had called off new military strikes on Iran, claiming a breakthrough in negotiations to end the war just hours after the...

MOSCOW, June 10 (Reuters) - Russian investigators said on Wednesday that they had arrested at least two suspects behind a car bombing in Moscow, detaining teenagers who the domestic security service said were convinced...