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Israel’s attacks on Iran early Saturday destroyed air-defense systems set up to protect several critical oil and petrochemical refineries, as well as systems guarding a large gas field and a major port in southern Iran, according to three Iranian officials and three senior Israeli defense officials. The sites targeted by …

A 26-year-old man from Northern Ireland, who pretended to be a teenage girl on the internet to target thousands of girls in a wide-reaching online pedophilia case and who was convicted of manslaughter in the death of a 12-year-old girl in the United States, was sentenced in Britain on Friday …

Someone you probably have never heard of has managed to scare virtually all of corporate America — and Wall Street is creating a new cottage industry around the fear. Robby Starbuck, a former music television director, has turned his social media account into a weapon against corporate D.E.I. efforts, whipping …

A sweeping onion recall linked to an E. coli outbreak involving McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has prompted several other major fast-food chains to remove raw onions from their menu offerings. Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC and Burger King have stopped adding fresh onions to their signature items at certain locations. A …

By 2021, nearly 2,000 volunteers had answered the call to test an experimental Alzheimer’s drug known as BAN2401. For the drugmaker Eisai, the trial was a shot at a windfall — potentially billions of dollars — for defanging a disease that had confounded researchers for more than a century. To …

Tesla’s shares jumped 22 percent on Thursday — one of its best days in years — after it reported a big increase in profit for the third quarter. The company said it expected sales of cars to grow as much as 30 percent next year when it plans to introduce …

The days of airplane cabins hazy with cigarette smoke are long gone, but a reminder of that era is still visible inside commercial jets. Smoking has been banned on commercial flights in the United States for decades, but the Federal Aviation Administration is only just updating an outdated rule to …

Few things can change your perspective for the better more than being attacked from both sides of America’s culture war. If you think the left is uniquely intolerant, how do you process right-wing censorship? Or if you think the right is uniquely prone to political violence, how do you process …

Although college campuses are much quieter this fall than they were last spring, some of the anti-Israel language at some schools is frightening in its celebration of Hamas’s violence. What feels different is the repeated glorification of the Hamas massacre of more than 1,200 people last year on Oct. 7 …

Throughout American history, business leaders have been able to assume that an American president of either party would uphold the rule of law, defend property rights and respect the independence of the courts. Implicit in that assumption is a fundamental belief that the country’s ethos meant their enterprises and the …