Israel abandoned plans for a much broader counterstrike against Iran after diplomatic pressure from the United States and other foreign allies and because the brunt of an Iranian attack on Israeli soil had been thwarted, according to three senior Israeli officials. Israeli leaders initially discussed bombing several military targets across Iran, including near the Iranian…
When President Biden hung up, he had finally made the threat he had rejected for months: Israel must change course, he told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or the United States would. But as the conversation ended Thursday, aides to Mr. Biden said, the president had reason to hope that the message had gotten through and…
In important cases involving former President Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court has tried to put a certain distance between itself and politics. This fragile project does not appear to be a success. “If the court tries to stay out of the political fray, it fails miserably,” said Melissa Murray, a law professor at New…
In a meeting with President Biden on Tuesday, congressional leaders said they were optimistic about averting a partial government shutdown at the end of the week but had no plan to do so before Friday’s deadline. Speaker Mike Johnson, who is under intense pressure from Mr. Biden, Democrats and Senate Republicans to agree to a…
