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President Trump’s envoys negotiated with Iran over its nuclear program. But Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel wanted much more.

How long prices remain high will depend on what the United States, Israel and Iran do next.

While most Democrats have opposed his decision, their responses reveal differences over Middle East policy and national security that loom over the party’s future.

President Trump did not deliver a formal address to the American public to explain why the country was at war, a departure from his predecessors.

In a brief interview, he said the country’s hardened military should simply surrender their weapons to the Iranian public.

Woodrow Wilson’s presidency has taken on new resonance among historians and critics of President Trump, particularly when it comes to race.

President Trump again deployed heavy force against a country with which he had been negotiating, continuing a pattern seen in previous attacks on Iran and Venezuela.

The grim toll signaled that Iran was more prepared for war than the Trump administration anticipated, U.S. military officials said.

Our national security correspondent David E. Sanger examines the war of choice that President Trump has initiated with Iran.

President Trump’s ambiguous appeal comes after he undermined U.S.-funded media outlets that normally would have helped the administration reach people inside the country.

The killing of Iran’s supreme leader and other top Iranian officials came after close intelligence sharing between the United States and Israel, according to people familiar with the operation.

President Trump has become increasingly willing to assert American power overseas, a decade after propelling himself to the highest office by promising to focus on “America first.”

Should Democrats concentrate on swing voters or their base? Can more traditional Republicans win in the MAGA era? Tuesday’s Senate primary in Texas will show the direction the parties are taking.

Republicans largely supported the decision, while Democrats mostly opposed it — but divisions appeared in both parties.

Questions remain about how much effort the Trump administration will put into changing the Iranian government.

Exchanges between two X accounts appear to offer a vivid example of how campaigns may sidestep campaign-finance law to share strategic information.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused Yale, Princeton, Brown and other elite colleges and think tanks of indoctrinating service members with liberal ideologies.

The public’s appetite for a U.S. attack on Iran was low before President Trump and Israel took action on Saturday.

The president made unsupported and exaggerated claims in a speech announcing the attack on Iran.

Critics say the president is violating the Constitution, and many Democrats and at least two Republicans in Congress say they must vote on whether to enter such a conflict.