Washington — President Trump said on Sunday that the U.S. Navy will begin blockading ships from entering or exiting the Strait of Hormuz and intercept vessels that have paid tolls to Iran, after ...

President Trump on Sunday announced that the U.S. military will begin blockading ships seeking to enter the Strait of Hormuz after weekend peace talks with Iran did not bring about a deal. “Effective ...

As the Supreme Court gears up for blockbuster arguments on President Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions this week, the justices still have a way to bypass deciding whether it is ...

Across cultures, early spring is a time to let loose and play pranks—but historians can’t agree on who invented the custom of April 1 fun. Dutch artist Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen's "Laughing Fool," ...

In December 1940, Germany’s high command moved from loose thinking to serious invasion planning against the Soviet Union, convinced the Red Army would collapse quickly under a massive border assault.

Broadway Melody of 1940 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). An uplifting little tale of backstage unselfishness among the hoofers is mounted with the same gorgeousness, but minus the bounce of Broadway-Melodies of ...

NFL teams may begin contract negotiations with pending free agents and are allowed to agree to terms on potential deals beginning Monday, March 9 at noon ET, when the NFL’s legal tampering period ...

Even as the church disappoints on the question of women's diaconate, contemporary women are producing serious work articulating female religious experience. Janet Rich Edwards, an epidemiologist at ...

This week we're back with one more week of "clip and save" recipes that have been lingering around in the Montgomery Advertiser's archives since 1940. A brief recap: These are recipes that were ...

An Editor at Large: Satire from columnist Gerry Baker detailing how the U.S. easily won the 2026 Battle of Greenland, but the consequences proved convulsive for all. Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. Reading it now, Paine’s words are a kind of portal back to the ...