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For Iran, Flexing Control Over Waterway Is New Deterrent

Iran’s government could emerge from the conflict with a blueprint to keep adversaries at bay, regardless of any restrictions on its nuclear program.

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Reopening Strait Would Ease Oil Crisis, but Only So Much

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More Displaced Lebanese Head Home as Cease-Fire With Israel Is Tested

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Tensions Rise in Strait of Hormuz Over Ship Attacks and Iranian Threats

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they were closing the strait until the U.S. lifted its blockade. Two ships reported being hit as they tried to pass through the strait.

How Iran’s Cheap, Low-Tech Drones Have Cost the U.S.

The United States and its allies have historically prioritized accurate but expensive defense solutions. Drones challenge that math.

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Why The Times Is Expanding Its Supreme Court Coverage

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Maduro Is Gone, and the Purge Has Begun

The successor to Venezuela’s captured president, Nicolás Maduro, is purging the people who kept him in power.

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U.S. Officials Visited Havana to Lay Out Proposals for Cuban Reforms

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What to Know About the Bulgarian Election

Months after mass protests brought down Bulgaria’s government, the country is preparing to vote for new leadership, its eighth election in five years.

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Former President Rumen Radev, wearing a dark suit and a red tie, speaks at a green lectern. Many people dressed in suits stand behind him. — Nikolay Doychinov/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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A video of Charlize Theron wearing a suit jacket with a light silk scarf and necklace. The first cut is Theron looking off camera and then moving her eyes up, leaning her head back, and then looking to the camera. The second clip is a tight shot of Theron from the side. She then turns to the camera, making strong eye contact.

Why Fashion Suddenly Loves Older Women

Representation of women of a certain age has never been higher. What’s going on?

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