Hundreds of migrants illegally crossing from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, into El Paso each day are running smack into what feels like a war zone: miles of triple-stack concertina wire and armed National Guard troops ordering them to return to Mexico. They wade in single file across the Rio Grande intent on turning themselves over to…
The crowd cheered. The pork was charred. And then someone shouted at former President Donald J. Trump, asking him to identify his biggest challenger in the 2024 Republican primary. “Don’t see him,” Mr. Trump replied. Mr. Trump signaled that he was looking past his leading rival, Ron DeSantis, on Saturday, as the two candidates converged…
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said Sunday that he had spoken with his Russian counterpart, Sergey V. Lavrov, to demand the release of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who has been imprisoned in Russia. In a rare call between the two men since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year,…
A rare and powerful winter storm sweeping the West Coast is battering areas unaccustomed to snow and wintry mix, bringing parts of Portland, Ore., to a halt before moving south toward California. The varied precipitation, ranging from rain to snow to graupel, a slushier version of snow, was met with a mix of distress and…
A powerful winter storm sweeping the West Coast walloped areas of the region unaccustomed to snow and wintry mix, paralyzing parts of Portland, Ore., before shifting south toward California. Forecasters in Oregon said the storm was continuing to “overperform” in terms of snowfall in areas of the state Thursday morning. On Wednesday, the storm produced…
In 1963, a geophysicist named John Tuzo Wilson proposed that the islands, which are covered with layers of volcanic stone, sit above a magma plume, which forms when rock from the deep mantle bubbles up and pools below the crust. This “hot spot” continually pushes toward the surface, sometimes bursting through the tectonic plate, melting…