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How Malta Became a Tax Haven for Crocs and Other U.S. Companies

By: Jesse Drucker and Dylan Freedman
The Mediterranean archipelago is a hot destination for U.S. companies seeking to shield profits from income taxes.

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Why Congress Wants a Closer U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership

By: Robert Jimison
A proposal making its way through Congress would integrate the U.S. and Israeli defense and intelligence apparatuses more tightly. Some worry that it is a bad idea.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has engaged in a public campaign to appear less reliant on U.S. military aid as President Trump urges allies to contribute more meaningfully to their own defense.

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Suspected Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect

By: Dustin Volz
Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.

A water treatment plant in Georgia earlier this year. Officials have long warned that the nation’s roughly 150,000 water treatment systems are relatively easy targets for hackers.

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Blanche Defends Pirro but Says Trump Can Fire Her at Any Time

By: Devlin Barrett
The head of the Justice Department praised the U.S. attorney in Washington after her tense meeting with the president.

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, said that President Trump “has every right to be extraordinarily frustrated with the damage done to our national monuments in this city and elsewhere.”

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Trump Seeks a Boost for Hemp That Would Benefit a Top Aide’s Family

At the White House’s request, senators tucked a change sought by the hemp industry into a crucial spending bill. It would benefit the son-in-law of Susie Wiles, the president’s chief of staff.

Intoxicating hemp, which is less regulated than marijuana and alcohol, has gained popularity in recent years as a pain reliever and an alternative to other intoxicants.

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Climate Change Comes to Sesame Street

By: David Gelles
An episode this week focuses on the dangerous effects of warming, without mentioning climate change.
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U.S. and Japan Coordinated to Help Stabilize the Yen

By: Joe Rennison and Kiuko Notoya
U.S. and Japanese officials confirmed that the Treasury Department had moved last week to prop up the currency, which had been trading near four-decade lows.

President Trump confirmed that the Treasury Department had intervened to help stabilize the Japanese yen last week.

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Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal

By: Michael Gold, Andrew Duehren and Hari Raj
Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.

Todd Blanche speaking at the Capitol last month.

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‘Do You Think if I Had a Job I Would Have Gone?’

By: Ben Hubbard, Aida Alami and Sergey Ponomarev
Moroccan migrants described their despair at their economic future, explaining what propelled them across the border with Spain.

Migrants returning back to Morocco. Last week, between 50,000 and 60,000 people entered Ceuta, a small Spanish exclave in North Africa that shares a border with Morocco.

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New Round of Trump Threats and Pullbacks Raises Uncertainty in Mideast

By: Katie Rogers
Analysts and lawmakers are trying to divine whether Mr. Trump’s latest announcement means negotiations with Iran will truly get underway Monday or if the president is just working through unappealing options.

President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One on Sunday. He said that talks with Iran would begin on Monday and that there could be a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

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The War That Could Swallow the World

By: David French
Whatever is happening in Iran, it isn’t working.

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How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee

Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transformation.

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Trump, Paul Weiss and the Capitulation of Big Law: 5 Takeaways

The law firm Paul Weiss led the legal resistance against President Trump. Then it led a sudden retreat across the legal industry. A Times investigation examined how it caved to White House pressure.

Paul Weiss’s offices in Washington.

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Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About the Effect of the Iran War on Oil Prices, Munitions and More

By: Linda Qiu
The president misleadingly blamed the Biden administration’s weapons transfers to Ukraine for current concerns over munitions stockpiles, among other claims about the Iran war.

President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attending a dignified transfer last month for Army soldiers killed while deployed to Jordan last month.

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How Ukraine Is Making Inroads With MAGA and a Trump Ally, Laura Loomer

Ukraine and its supporters have invested years in trying to undo the skepticism of the country’s war effort harbored by President Trump’s MAGA movement and the president himself.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine with President Trump during the NATO summit in Ankara last month.

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In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear

By: Steven Erlanger
With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war.

A banner in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar featuring the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike at the start of the U.S.-Iran war.

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Trump Administration Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections

By: Scott Dance
The Biden administration took steps to shield workers from extreme temperatures. The Trump administration is taking a gentler approach with employers.

A delivery in Wilmington, N.C., this month. Heat is linked to hundreds of workplace deaths each year, but labor groups say the true toll is unknown because heat-related illnesses are not properly tracked or reported.

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Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts

The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.

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