By LEILY NIKOUNAZAR U.S. airstrikes targeting parts of southern Iran rattled Iranians’ nerves last week, they said in interviews, and destroyed key links between one province and the rest of the country. Marzieh, a resident of the port city of Bandar Abbas, said that she had heard from friends that the roads around the city had been “devastated.” Marzieh and other Iranians interviewed gave only their first names for fear of government reprisal. Overnight strikes damaged a tun

Premier Doug Ford of Ontario after a news conference in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, on Saturday, July 18, 2026. Out-of-control wildfires in Ontario continued to force evacuations and affect major cities in Canada and the United States on Saturday as the province’s leader made his first visit near the devastated area. (Cole Burston/The New York Times) By THE NEW YORK TIMES Wildfires in Canada have cast smoke across a swath of the country and the United States, polluting the

By MITRA TAJ Six people were killed and at least 20 were injured by an earthquake that hit the central highland region of Peru, authorities said Sunday. The quake struck in the Junín region, near the rural district of Chongos Bajos, at 9:24 p.m. Saturday, damaging or destroying dozens of houses and forcing about 300 people to take refuge in a sports stadium because of aftershocks, according to Peru’s National Institute of Civil Defense. The quake also damaged the town’s 16th-

People inspect the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike, which killed five, including three children, that targeted a residential apartment building in Gaza City, on July 18, 2026. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times) By AARON BOXERMAN, YAN ZHUAN, HARI RAJ and ERIC SCHMITT The U.S. military announced Sunday that another service member had been killed in action, bringing the number of American military personnel who have died in the conflict with Iran to 17, as the two sides edged

U.S. corporate earnings season gathers steam in the coming week as Alphabet (GOOGL.O), and Intel (INTC.O), are set to offer updates that could sway the market-leading AI ​trade amid high profit expectations and uncertainty over the Iran war. The S&P 500 (.SPX), skidded on Friday to post a weekly decline, dragged down by a ‌steep pullback in high-flying semiconductor shares. Still, the benchmark S&P 500 remained up about 9% in 2026, and stood 2% below its early June record hig

“Dead Man’s Wire” By ERIK PIEPENBURG ‘Hoagie’ It’s been a notably deep and deranged year for genre films that defy description. (I’m looking at you, “Buffet Infinity.”) I’m pleased to add to that list Matt Hewitt’s wackadoo creature feature comedy that will thrill fans of marauding little monster movies of the ’80s, chiefly “The Deadly Spawn” and “Ghoulies.” The critter here is Hoagie, a homunculus zygote that a suburban dad named Brendan Bean (Ryan Morley) finds in his trunk

LA FORTALEZA – La gobernadora Jenniffer Aydin González Colón informó a finales de la semana pasada que discutirá con el secretario de la Gobernación, Francisco Domenech Fernández, y la subsecretaria, Itza García, cómo atender la ampliación de la pesquisa del Panel sobre el Fiscal Especial Independiente (PFEI), sin afectar los trabajos de La Fortaleza. “De la misma forma discutiré próximamente con los dos funcionarios cómo mejor atender estos asuntos procurando que no se afect

POR CYBERNEWS EL CAPITOLIO – La senadora, Marissa ‘Marissita’ Jiménez, anunció el inicio de un proceso de evaluación para estudiar la viabilidad de colocar en Puerto Rico plantas desalinizadoras para convertir en agua potable. “La realidad es que tenemos que prepararnos para la llegada de eventos prolongados sin precipitación significativa. Los cambios naturales al ciclo climático, hace necesario evaluar alternativas que faciliten la producción de agua potable y así evitar in

A banner of President Donald Trump, on the Department of Justice building in Washington on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (Demetrius Freeman/The New York Times) By MAUREEN DOWD Ordinarily, I love stories of obsession: “Wuthering Heights,” “The Story of Adèle H.,” “Remembrance of Things Past,” “The Caine Mutiny,” “Fatal Attraction,” “The Good Wife,” “Moby-Dick” and the new Generation Z horror hit “Obsession.” My Netflix algorithm is trained to compulsively hunt for tales of compuls

An impromptu memorial for Joan Sebastián Guerrero at the intersection where he was fatally shot Monday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Biddeford, Maine, on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. The agent told his former wife that he was the person who fatally shot Guerrero and defended his actions to her, the ex-wife said. (Christopher Capozziello/The New York Times) By JENNA RUSSELL, POOJA SALHOTRA and JACEY FORTIN A federal immigration agent told his former wife that h